History Webcomic / ChoppingBlock

* ImAHumanitarian: One of Butch's most frequent reasons for murder, probably coming in third behind "they were annoying" and "why not?"

* TooDumbToLive: Everyone, including Butch. (Case in point: the "[[http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20010117.html final episode]].")

%%* AerosolFlamethrower: [[http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20010706.html For an audition.]]
%%* AloneWithThePsycho: Many strips are positioned as such.

%%* AndShowItToYou: Butch tries this sometimes, but the victims usually don't live long enough to see it.
* AssholeVictim: Butch likes to kill these, although he'll target anyone who draws his attention. (Among other things, he specifically targets registered sex offenders.)

%%* AxCrazy

%%* CannibalismSuperpower: [[http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20000912.html Butch doesn't have one, even if he thinks he does]].

%%* DeadGuyPuppet: Giving Creator/JimHenson [[http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20010724.html the funeral he would have wanted]].

%%* EatsBabies: [[http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20011106.html Raw bar.]]

%%* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Reginald.

* EveryoneHatesMimes: [[http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20020116.html Butch kills mimes even after meeting his quota.]]
%%** [[http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20090216.html Sic semper mimeus]]

* FailedASpotCheck: [[http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20020628.html This cop.]]

* GroinAttack: [[http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20020808.html One strip]] has Butch work in an adult movie theater, where he raises a pair of shears as he spots Pee-Wee Herman jerking it, the implication being that he's about to punish him for publicly masturbating by cutting his dick off.

%%* NotSoStoic: Even Royal Guards [[http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20030327.html aren't immune.]]

* {{Acrofatic}}: Butch veers between this and just plain fat.

* TheBrute: Nearly six and a half feet tall, and SuperStrength to match.

%%* CheekCopy: With someone else's butt, and not much else of them.

%%* EveryoneHatesMimes: [[http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20020116.html Butch kills them even after meeting his quota.]]

* {{Expy}}: Depending on the situation, Butch can take the place of any famed serial killed, real or fictional, though his general appearance is a clear riff on Jason's.
** [[http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20001003.html He once performed a]] MirrorRoutine with Jason.

%%* GroinAttack: [[http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20020808.html Wanker Patrol.]]

* HearingVoices: Evenly split between Mom and Satan.

%%* MeaningfulName: Butch R. Mann
%%* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Essentially, Butch's five word credo.

%%* OffWithHisHead: Very often.

* PsychopathicManchild: Butch can be this, depending on the joke. In particular, his mutilation of corpses has been compared to [[KidsPreferBoxes a child playing with a box]].

%%* TeensAreMonsters: Well, when that teen is Butch...

%%* VillainProtagonist: Butch

%%* DoingItForTheArt: [[http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20010504.html Butch and his creator both.]]

* * SimilarlyNamedWorks: A source of confusion InUniverse. In [[http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20020107.html one strip,]] Butch reads ''Hannibal'' by Pliney the Younger (as in General Hannibal, the guy who attacked Rome), musing that the WarElephants and battles are cool and all, but all the time wondering where the part where Hannibal eats a man's brain is. He was looking for ''Literature/{{Hannibal}},'' the sequel to ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs,'' which had come out a couple of years before the strip started.

%%* NamesTheSame: [[http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20020107.html Hannibal.]]

* ExpressiveMask: The eyeholes in Butch's mask mimic actual eyes, especially when he's happy.