The Butcher

The Butcher is a villain on WordGirl and is voiced by former series head writer and co-devloper Jack D. Ferraiolo. His specialty is meat-related crimes, and he has the ability to produce copious amounts of any kind of meat by simply calling it out. (Though this power is nullified by tofu.)

"The Butcher" is dressed as a butcher normally would be, but he also very frequently butchers the English language (much to the irritation of WordGirl.) Initially, WordGirl had difficulty with this villain and could not figure out how to overcome his meat-attacks. She consulted her friend and ally Professor Boxleitner (who shortly after was transformed into Dr. Two-Brains by an experiment gone horribly wrong) and while consulting him realized that Captain Huggy Face and his colossal hunger was the key. Since then, Huggy has generally been in charge of handling the meat attacks, devouring astounding amounts of meat and thus rendering the attacks ineffective. Since this, Huggy has occasionally failed, especially if he, WordGirl, or both are distracted--such as in the episode Meat with a Side of Cute, when they could not resist staring at Li'l Mittens.

The Butcher has displayed a desire to correct his deficiencies in English, but the furthest he has gotten is improving his enunciation. After finding that there was more to language-improvement than just that, he seems to have dropped the more careful style of speaking.

Although The Butcher is quite large and somewhat imposing, it appears he has a soft-spot in his heart. He is sensitive about various subjects, fell in love at first sight with one of Lady Redundant Woman's duplicates, and doted on his kitten sidekick Li'l Mittens (and subsequently began to panic and even shed tears when the feline disappeared.) Although his age is unknown, it's presumed that he's between 20 to 30 years of age.

First appearances
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