The Butcher

"Let's have a party, there's a full moon in the sky! It's the hour of the wolf and I don't want to die!"

### Alternate Names

Cleaverhand, Black Apron, The Executioner

### Weakness

Getting Knocked Over

**The** **Butcher** is the boss of Chapter 5: Deviance.

## Appearance

The Butcher is a horrifying hunched-over hulk of a man who is covered in the blood of others. He has a missing arm, replaced by a blade that is a mix between a meat clever and the head of an ax, and carries around a claw attached to his chain on the other. He also has a thieves star tattooed on both of his deltoids.

He wears a very small amount of clothing, as he wears an all-black outfit consisting of a studded mask in the style of an executioner's hood, an apron covered in blood, and a pair of leather pants with a matching pair of boots.

## Personality

He is completely silent, making it hard to gauge his actual personality, though it is clear he is a perverted sadist who has a fetish for BDSM, and an enjoyment of roleplaying as a butcher, with his subs being pigs and other livestock animals.

## Description

He is the boss of The Club, first being seen whipping somebody behind a glass screen while the protagonists confront Mikhail for his betrayal, and after the conversation with Mikhail is over, the Butcher will begin to break the screen while the lights flicker on and off as Gimps enter the room through an unknown entrance, and after the screen is finally broken, Mikhail will escape and the battle against him will begin.

## Background

He is owner of, and/or the "Star Performer" of Club Caviar, the setting of Chapter 5: Deviance, and is also shown to be a presumably high-ranking member of the Bratva, given how he possesses tattoos of the Thieves Star, a design associated with Russia's criminal underworld, on his body.

## Enemy Behavior

The Butcher will mainly try and chase after any player character, and either preform his claw & chain attack, or when in proper range, preform two different melee attacks with his cleaver hand, a mighty overhead chop that can cause player characters to become stunned for a split second, or a simple jab.

When he hits anybody with his claw & chain, he will reel them in and then preform either of his two melee attacks, this move will affect either the gimps in his arena or any Pigman unfortunate enough to wander into it's path. This claw and chain attack cannot be escaped unless he is knocked over by another player character.

When being pummeled on the ground, he is able to counter attack, which is indicated by him raising his cleaver hand to preform a jab that knocks the aggressor off of him.

## Strategy

Unlike every other boss in the game, the Butcher is uniquely vulnerable to being knocked down like most common enemies, and thus is vulnerable to ground punches, this weakness can be exploited in multiple ways, like throwing the Gimps or other enemies in his arena at him, which instantly knocks him to the ground.

The most dangerous weapon in the Butcher's arsenal when fighting him solo is his claw & chain, as there isn't any way whatsoever for you to escape it should you find yourself caught by it, also, you should avoid senselessly killing the Gimps that surround you in his boss battle, as you both use them to knock him down, and he will also become immobilized while reeling them in when he hits them with his claw and chain, allowing you to score some free hits off of him.

## Gallery

The Butcher's likeness on a sign.The Butcher and Sergei.The Butcher, preforming his chain attack.The Butcher's jab attack.The Butcher, preparing to preform his counter attack on Boris.The Butcher's chop attack, and the split second of stun from being in close range.A Pigman, under the influence of Rose Kennedy, stomping on The Butcher.
## Trivia

* He might be inspired to a degree by Leatherface from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, as they are both hulking figures who wear masks and aprons and are also referred to as butchers, with Leatherface being a literal one, while The Butcher is roleplaying as one.
* He also might be inspired by the Scrake enemy from the *Killing Floor* series of games, as he wears an apron and also possesses a bladed weapon replacing one of his arms, the only difference is that Scrakes have chainsaws in place of their arms and the Butcher has a blade that looks like a mix between an ax and a meat cleaver.
* He can be affected by a Pigman's stomping attack if Rose Kennedy's special effect is used on them, but not the Gimps in his arena's grounded headbutts, as they will not preform it on him due to being merely interactive audience members who do not participate in the boss battle.
* He is given the title of "Boss" in the game's files, suggesting that he was one of the first boss characters to be created and added into the game.
* There are unused sprites of him being injured and kneeling down while talking with an angry expression on his face, suggesting that he was originally meant to speak to the player after being defeated, much like the Tyrant.
* He is one of the only four bosses where the player characters get to use firearms in their battle, the other three being the Tyrant, Masha the Bear, and the Prison Governor.
* His hook attack might be a reference to the famous harpoon attack of Scorpion from Mortal Kombat, as it functions in almost an identical manner.
* Interestingly, he is depicted as using the claw-on-a-chain he carries around as a whip on one of his subs in the background before he fights the player characters, while in his battle, he does no such thing, and simply uses it as a grappling hook.

## References

1. ↑ https://motherrussiableeds.fandom.com/wiki/The\_Claw!
2. ↑ https://motherrussiableeds.fandom.com/wiki/File:Butcher\_Originally\_Named\_Boss.png
3. ↑ https://motherrussiableeds.fandom.com/wiki/File:Butcher\_Speaking.png