Frenchie's "Origin Story" fulfilled a more overall storytelling function.
The Boys #37's text advises the reader not to fix too much attention on Frenchie's story's "canonicity" or "truth." Rather, as Butcher advises Hughie at the conclusion of the story: "Last line's bit that counts, mate." This follows Frenchie's flight from his story, which he finished by declaring he was now with the Boys "to the bitter end." Of course, Frenchie's ultimate sad fate—betrayed and slain by Billy Butcher himself—in the last arc of the series makes this particularly painful.
The Boys #37 leaves it up for interpretation whether Frenchie actually believes the account he gave or not. Independent of Frenchie's story, the series does establish him as a veteran of the French overseas Legion, a special branch of the French Armed Forces open to overseas recruits. Mothers Milk also said that Frenchie suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, implying that he might have created his "Frenchie" persona as either a conscious escape or a delusion brought on by great pain.
Frenchie Calls Butcher "Monsieur Charcuter" - Clearly Not Really French
Frenchie is presented throughout The Boys as an amazing delight to be around, not only as a really useful team player. Though he is fierce in a fight, he treats people kindly, especially the Female of the Species and the newest team member, Wee Hughie. He also treats others respectfully. The most famous instance is that Frenchie constantly addresses Billy Butcher as "Monsieur Charcuter," or, roughly speaking, "Mr. Butcher." But the translational roughness hides the discrepancies in who Frenchie purports to be.
The Boys makes it really clear that Frenchie is not French, and the given moniker for Butcher reminds us of that constantly. Readers observed early and frequently over the course of The Boys that Frenchie spoke broken and inaccurate French, implying either that there was something more to the character or that the producers of the series lacked proper care in their translations. In one of the most ridiculous problems in the series, The Boys #37 at last tackled this uncertainty. Though it did not prove unequivocally that Frenchie was not French, it at least supported this interpretation of the book.
For "Boys," Frenchie's True History Still Mystery
Frenchie informs Hughie, in The Boys #37, it's time he told his origin story. This is a story bursting with overt French tropes, all of which gently confirm his non-French background. Frenchie said that he returned home from a battle to his small French town of Franglais only to discover that his childhood rival had taken the woman he intended to marry. This was when he was a younger man. Frenchie thus grows lazy and further disconnected from his community.
But the moment soon arrived for action. Frenchie's father stood up to the man who took her true love by challenging him to baguette joist on bicycles, setting off a sequence of progressively ridiculous events. As the reader and Wee Hughie rapidly realize in The Boys #37, everything about this origin story is clearly invented. At times provocative, its patchwork of incongruous – and in The Boys patented way – data about France rapidly provide the best proof that Frenchie's actual background remains a total mystery to the spectator. Among the noteworthy examples: As Frenchie often does, he names his community "Franglais," which is really the term used when someone combines French and English words. Second, including his parents, everyone in his purported hometown nicknamed him Frenchie; which is somewhat strange given how French everyone around him is likewise. The facts don't make sense, and the whole narrative is full of ridiculous preconceptions usually connected with the French people. Though the reason he has taken on a French identity is never discussed, it is evident The Boys' Frenchie has more levels that the reader cannot access.
The Complex Character Analysis of Frenchie The Boys
Frenchie was always among The Boys' more quixotic characters, throughout. Characters in The Boys wore their emotions and ideas on their sleeves, or harbours terrible secrets that surfaced at the worst of times. Frenchie seems to live in both these worlds and create his own original route. One of the most open-ended aspects of The Boys still remains their actual source, which fuels ongoing conjecture among die-hard fans about the influence of the character in the narrative.
Based on the same-named comic series, Eric Kripke developed the superhero/dark humor satire series The Boys. Set in a "what-if" universe honoring superheroes as gods and celebrities with few consequences for their deeds. One group of vigilantes, commanded by a vengeance-obsessed guy called Billy Butcher, will counter these super-charged "heroes" to reveal them for what they are, though.
