Buster Beaver's Pizza Restaurant

―The titular character in the National Pizza Day advertisement

**Buster Beaver's Pizza Restaurant** is a family entertainment center and pizza restaurant chain.

## History

### Background

It is unknown when Buster Beaver's was established or how long it has existed as a business. While at least one location has existed, it is uncertain how many more exist if any although if they are being promoted by Vought International they likely have multiple locations.

It is styled as a family restaurant that serves pizza among other foods, also providing entertainment such as a ball pit and arcade games with chances to win prizes. It utilizes a cast of anthropomorphized animal mascots, led by the restaurant's namesake: Buster, a beaver in a cap and blue Hawaiian shirt over a white shirt with a pizza logo. Other characters include a black sheep, a stallion, a mare, a pig, a goat, a fox, and an eagle.

At one Buster Beaver's restaurant, sometime in the 1960s or 1970s, a then-9-year-old Earving hid in the ball pit after having paralyzed a kid named Lewis Frankel. Throughout his life, the business's mascots were a source of comfort for him during emotional turmoil even into his adult life and becoming the Supe known as Black Noir. Buster in particular came to serve as his voice of conscience.

By 2022, the branch where Noir's childhood incident happened has long since been closed down and stands abandoned, overgrown with plants and overtaken by dust and decay. He would still often go there to see his "friends," bringing them cans of beans to eat despite them never actually being eaten.

Learning of Soldier Boy's return, a terrified Black Noir once again visited the restaurant, and was greeted by the cast of characters who came out of hiding. Buster appears last and tells him to stop hiding from his problems, and that that they will be there for him to get him through this like they had previous traumas.

The animals (in Noir's imagination) then put on a play using painted wooden cutout props and dressing up in costumes as members of Payback: the horses as the TNT Twins, the goat as Mindstorm, the pig as Gunpowder, the fox as Crimson Countess, the sheep as Black Noir, and the eagle as Soldier Boy. They then reenacted Noir's two most traumatic memories with Soldier Boy. First was losing the role of Axel Foley in the 1984 film *Beverly Hills Cop* to the latter's interference, as well as Soldier Boy savagely beating him. Second, and worst of all, was the confrontation in Nicaragua which left him mutilated for life. Confronting these memories distressed the Supe greatly, but his friends comforted him and kept telling him to face his fears. Finally, no longer burying these events in his mind, he was convinced to return to the Seven Tower with the characters accompanying him.

## Trivia

* Buster's is heavily inspired by the real-life restaurant chain Chuck E. Cheese's, offering similar food and entertainment aimed at children with animal mascots.
* A commercial for the fictional restaurant was published on the Vought International YouTube channel on July 9, 2022. It also appears in Vought's news segment, *Seven on 7*.
	+ This commercial promotes a website; www.BusterBeaversPizza.com. Inputting this URL into a search engine takes you to *The Boys'* Prime Video landing page.
	+ This video's description also contains a double entendre, "eat the beav(er)," which is slang for cunnilingus.
* Buster has a pronounced stutter in Noir's hallucinations that seems absent in the chain's advertisement and is particularly pronounced whenever talking about Noir's worst traumas. This likely relates to Noir's own brain damage (which, among other things, can cause severe speech impediments) and his hesitancy to face or talk about his fears.
* It is possible that the incident where Noir paralyzed the kid was the reason that particular restaurant is closed down.
* The two little blue songbirds that appear do not seem to have their own plaques on the wall indicating their involvement in the business. Stan Edgar also appears as a monkey who is not among the franchise cast either.
* The horses seem to be paternal twins with heterochromia: a trait causing someone to have two different eye colors. The male's left eye is green while his right eye is blue, vice versa for the female.

## Gallery

Abandoned NYC Buster Beaver's Pizza RestaurantBlack Noir with his friendsNoir sitting alone, the building in obvious decay with light coming through holes in the roofBuster Beaver, the leader of the cast and face of the chainThe eagle, the head chefThe black sheep, the main cookThe horse twins waiter and waitress; note their alternating heterochromiaThe fox and goat, also waitersThe pig, possibly a waiter or kitchen hand