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The following is a list of fictional characters from the comic series '' The Boys'', created by
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and
Darick Robertson Darick W. Robertson is an American artist best known for his work as a comic book illustrator on series he co-created, notably ''Transmetropolitan'' (1997–2002) and ''The Boys (comics), The Boys'' (2006–2012; 2020). Robertson has illustrated ...
, and subsequent
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franchise developed by
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, consisting of a live-action adaptation, the
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''
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'', the
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'' The Boys Presents: Diabolical'', and the live-action spin-off series ''
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''.


Overview

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The Boys

The Boys are a
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team, created by Col. Greg Mallory to observe, record and sometimes liquidate Supes created by the mega conglomerate Vought. Ostensibly assembled to help prevent / avenge the immoral and illegal actions of the largely out of control "supe" community, they also seek to ensure that Vought lacks the stability or the platform to push for use of superhumans in
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. Over time the team's focus changed, due to Butcher's increased instability, from one of management / containment to the total elimination of all Supes. As Mallory notes in #55, 14 people were killed by the Boys from 1987 to 1995 and "nearly three times that number" between 1995 and 2002, when Butcher had gained more influence. This coincides with Mallory's belief in Issues #54–55 that in spite of the seductiveness of the concept of
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teams, the application of them can often go wrong as they try to justify their budgets and create their private conflicts. As a result, Mallory feels that the original concept for the team has gone awry, and would never have created the unit as it currently stands. The first iteration of the Boys was decommissioned after a disastrous confrontation with the Seven in 2001 that resulted in the deaths of Mallory's grandchildren. The unit was reformed a few years later – indicated in #1 to be soon after the 2004 Presidential election – and have carried on where they left off. Due to the fact that direct confrontation may be needed, all the members have enhanced strength and durability due to injections of
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, and all (with the exception of Hughie) show no restraint when on the attack – although they avoid killing when it complicates matters in most cases. Though they are not as powerful as the corrupt superheroes they fight, they compensate with their blue-collar grit, their willingness to fight dirty, their access to high military grade weaponry and explosives, and their lack of fear to kill if they deem it necessary. Thanks to Butcher, Frenchman and Mother's Milk's military backgrounds, the Boys also gained elite military combat and weapons training to make them even deadlier than were before. They also became master hand-to-hand combat specialists thanks to Mother's Milk's background as a former boxer.


Billy Butcher


Hughie Campbell


Mother's Milk


The Frenchman

First seen in issue #2, The Frenchman is one of the original Boys, and displays a penchant for extreme violence within a few frames of his first appearance. As his name suggests, he is French. His spoken French uses incorrect phrasing, though whether this is an intentional plot point is not yet known. He takes an immediate liking to "Petit Hughie." He and the Female are the 'muscles' of the team, and he is prone to violent outbursts (especially with any insults towards France and the French), although he can control them better than the Female. According to Mother's Milk, however, it is better for the rest of humanity in general if they are in the team rather than in the outside world. Like Billy and Mother's Milk, the Frenchman possesses military experience, particularly holding knowledge in ballistics, to the extent that Butcher defers to him on that matter. The Frenchman also possesses an incredibly strong sense of smell. When his sense of smell is first shown in the Glorious 5 Year Plan arc, a confused Hughie asks why Terror isn't sniffing around. To which Butcher replies "Frenchie has the better nose for it." Implying that The Frenchman's sense of smell is greater than that of a dog. The Frenchman appears to be quite shy and caring until someone provokes him, to which he will attack or even kill in a gruesome manner, for example, battering three American businessmen in a coffee shop for calling him a " Goddamn surrender monkey" and a " fucking cheese-eater." In #55, Mallory notes that cruelty to children makes Frenchie "livid," which renders him hard to control when such scenarios are encountered. In #37, his possible origin story is told, though it is also possible they are but delusions. Returning home from military service, he is welcomed by the residents of his native
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(who curiously refer to him as Frenchie), but soon learns that his lover has taken off with his childhood rival, Pierre. Renouncing violence, he refuses to confront Pierre. Months later, at a local festival that featured the sport of jousting on bicycles with baguettes while screaming exaggerated
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impression laughter, his father challenged Pierre to restore the family's honor. Pierre, fearing certain defeat, topples the challenger's bicycle with a stale croissant, killing him. Renouncing his newfound pacifism, the Frenchman exacts his revenge on Pierre and starts drifting from place to place, until he gets into a bar fight with an American and is seen in action by Billy, who promptly recruits him (remarking that he needs "a mad fucking cunt"). In the issue, nobody is sure how true most of this is. What is known is that Butcher had a folder on the Frenchman's membership in the
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; that, along with his characteristically British usage of the words "mum" and "wanker" and his hometown's name literally meaning "French-English," would suggest a British origin. The only reference to the truth of the Frenchman's tale is his vow to remain with The Boys "until the bitter end." He seems to have a fondness for the Female, bonding with her with playing games (like reverse-strip poker, paintball, scrabble,''The Boys'' #24 (2008) and snowball fights, which he always seems to lose) with her; this seems to have made progress, as he is the only one who can safely wake her. In #38, it was revealed he took on the task of 'humanizing' her, and was the first person to have actually treated her with kindness and civility. He also takes offense to when Butcher or Mallory refer to her as an it. In #16, he forced the New York
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to stop hiring the Female as a hitman. In an effort to stop the Female from killing for the mobs, he attempted to hold her back and was viewed as if she was about to attack; the Frenchman told her "I'd rather die than not be your friend, and if it has to be by your hand, so be it," to which the Female just sadly walked away. In #63, he loses his right arm in battle. He survives due to Vought-American medical treatment. After the events in Washington, he appears to have taken to wearing a Napoleonic hat with his jacket. In #69, while searching their HQ at the
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, the Frenchman hears something odd, and finds a high-yield bomb (left by Butcher) with a few seconds left on the timer. Knowing there is no chance to escape, he turns and expresses his love for The Female "from the first." He and The Female are killed in the subsequent explosion. / The Frenchman / Frenchie appears in the live-action television series adaptation, portrayed by
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. This version was brought into Mallory's services after being caught for bank robbery and aggravated assault on a Supe via "weaponized
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". He suffered abuse from his bipolar father, who once attempted to smother him with a
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duvet, kidnapped him while evading the police, and forced him to kneel in broken glass, all of which Frenchie attributes to a pathological need to follow someone, regardless of who they are.


The Female (of the Species)

is one of the earliest members of the Boys and the only woman of the group. First appearance is issue #2. She is known for her animalistic brutality (which even visibly shocks, yet impresses Butcher), and suffers from
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. When not working for the Boys, she used to do freelance work for the
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. She is in the habit of "explosively eviscerating" her victims and it is implied in issue #3 that she may be triggered to do so merely by someone touching her, possibly as a result of past trauma (even Vas, one of the more powerful Soviet supers, made the mistake and lost two fingers). This does not appear to apply to the Frenchman. She is shown to have a tendency for ripping off people's faces. In issue #16, the Frenchman states that she 'does these things because hecannot not do them'. Issue #24 states that she has continued killing, despite The Frenchman forcing the mob to back off. Issue #38 shows that, as an infant, she found her way into a pail of discarded Compound V waste, slaughtering scientists in the building, and eventually getting captured, only to escape years later, when Butcher and the original team of Boys rescue her and Frenchie adopts her. She is beaten into a coma by Stormfront in #31, but not before ripping out one of his eyes. She recovers in #34, much to Hughie's annoyance as she broke his arm when he reached for a bag of chocolate limes next to her bed. The Female also seems to be very fond of animals, as she freed Jamie the hamster out of his wrapping after he emerged from the Blarney Cock's anus and would subsequently take care of him during Hughie's hiatus from the team (resulting in him becoming morbidly obese), ostensibly as a deterrent to being subjected to the same treatment again. She had a particular bond with Terror, often shown tickling him or engaging in acts of play with him. She takes his death extremely hard, lying down next to Terror mournfully, after he is killed. The Female occasionally shows signs of responding to the Frenchman's treatment with moments of genuine human reactions. She smiles when enjoying her favorite candy; she chooses to restrain her murderous urges rather than hurt the Frenchman; and she speaks for the first time in Issue #66, due to her amusement over Hughie stealing Doc Peculiar's file on Queen Maeve for the purpose of masturbating to the photos contained inside. She is shown to be laughing, and has even spoken for the first time with the word "Ha!" During a meeting discussing how The Boys were going to stop Butcher, Hughie brings up the idea of including the Female, since she has not spoken for herself. The Frenchman disagrees, saying this would halt or even reverse her positive development and M.M. voices his opinion she deserves the opportunity to walk away more than anyone else. Hughie concurs, then tells the Female it is okay to stay behind. However, as the others start to walk out the door, she says to them "I hate mean people," the only time she has ever spoken a complete sentence. She then puts on her trench coat and walks with them. Hughie states that it is all four of them against Butcher. In #69, she and The Frenchman are killed when Butcher bombs The Boys' headquarters, the Flatiron Building. / The Female appears in the live-action television series adaptation, portrayed by
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as an adult and by Ai Bennett as a young girl. At a young age, she and her brother Kenji were captured and experimented on by a liberation army, who killed their parents. In the process, she gained super-strength and a healing factor that allows her to heal from fatal injuries, though she stopped speaking and learned
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along with her brother to communicate with each other. After Kenji's death, she teaches it to Frenchie. Despite choosing not to speak, she still dreams of being able to talk and sing as seen in season three. During season four, Kimiko pushes Frenchie away due to guilt of her past murders, as he does the same due to his own guilt. She is injected in the left leg by Dr. Sameer Shah's virus, causing Frenchie to amputate it before it can spread to the rest of her body. With the severed leg on ice, Kimiko's left leg grows back, and Frenchie is able to generate a dose of the virus from the leg. After Frenchie's failed relationship with Colin, which he ended due to guilt from having killed Colin's family in the past, Kimiko and Frenchie finally come to terms with their pasts and admit their romantic feelings for each other. Their happiness is short-lived as the Boys, with the exception of Annie and Butcher, are apprehended by Homelander's new regime after Butcher assassinates Victoria Neuman with his new supe powers. As Frenchie is led away after being brainwashed by Cate Dunlap, Kimiko speaks for the first time in the series screaming "No" as she is held back.


Lieutenant Colonel Mallory

The original team leader of the Boys, only appeared in the comics via mention or as operating from the shadows, until he was formally introduced in issue #49. An elderly man in his nineties (Compound V has slowed his aging), was an Ivy League graduate and a captain in World War II when his platoon was chosen as the test run for "supes" in combat. Due to the idiocy of
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, a
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platoon finds the camp when they spot the Avenging Squad's flying members who Soldier Boy had sent on an unauthorized reconnaissance flight (as part of the
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) and Mallory was the only survivor, spending the rest of the war in a POW camp. Issues #54 and #55 showed that he and his friend Rick Burnham joined the early
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after the war, wanting to do something about Vought-American Consolidated and their superhumans – though everyone else in the group considered this bizarre. He spent years watching the company on his own initiative until he made contact with the Legend, who gave him the backstory on Compound V and Jonah Vogelbaum. Mallory set up Vogelbaum to be kidnapped by Vought's rival so he could kill the man, only to find himself unable to; instead, he brought him into the CIA – the scientist's knowledge causing Burnham, then-director, to recognize VA as a threat – and had him make V for them (while ensuring he'd deliberately make V expensive so the CIA couldn't create a superhuman program). Mallory was the first test subject for the new V. Mallory had a team created to monitor, police, and liquidate "supes," but erred in hiring Butcher as his muscle; Butcher went on to hire the other members and slowly twist the team round to the way he wanted it. The two clashed on the issue of the Female, as he refused to simply treat her like a weapon as Butcher wanted (#38). Following the 9/11 attacks, he let himself be steered into blackmailing the Seven and this got his granddaughters murdered by the Lamplighter. Following the aftermath, the Lamplighter was given to Mallory to kill, as a peace gesture from the Seven; Butcher is left angry with him at the realization that the colonel never intended to let him kill Homelander. Afterward, Mallory went off to live in seclusion at Barbary Bay. Following the Boys' reformation, Mallory was a background figure; it is revealed that Mother's Milk was secretly in contact with him. During the Highland Hughie miniseries, it is revealed that Mallory went undercover (pretending to be a sympathetic English gentlemen) to watch Hughie as a favor for Mother's Milk, and to secretly steer him into conflict with mobsters to test him. He reveals himself to Hughie by giving him a number to contact. #52–55 had Hughie visit him to get the backstory on the Boys and warnings about Butcher's nature; Hughie took this on board but accused Mallory of being a monster himself, one that wanted to justify all the blood he'd spilt and messes he made, and that Mallory's "old bastard war veteran" personality was an act. At the end of #55, Mallory's house is broken into by someone (implied to be Butcher) to kill him. Mallory's last words are "So why don't you do me a favor and get it the Hell over with, mm?" A female version of Mallory named appears in the live-action television series adaptation and the spin-off series ''
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'' episode "Sick", portrayed by
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as an adult and Sarah Swire as a young adult. Mallory partially witnessed the abduction of Soldier Boy as a young operative, and has an acrimonious relationship with Frenchie after he failed to protect her grandchildren from being killed. She later takes custody of Ryan Butcher after the Boys take him away from Vought. In Season 4, Ryan, upon realizing that he may have to kill Homelander from Mallory, pushes her into a wall, unintentionally breaking her neck.


The Legend

First appearance is issue #7. The Legend, also called "Old Legend", is an as-yet-unnamed elderly man who, while not an official member of the Boys, works as their informant. He is a former comic editor and writer who worked for Vought-American's Victory Comics subsidiary, writing all the comics based on Vought's superheroes to "give people supes like they ''wanted'' supes to be". His work on superhero comics gives him incredible knowledge of them and Vought-American. While he hates "that comic-book crap", he lives under a comic book store surrounded by his work, with the store clerks occasionally serving as his live-in aides. The Legend has no family other than his two sons, both of whom are deceased. His elder son was killed in Vietnam as a result of faulty rifles produced by Vought-American (which ironically resemble the
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bullpup rifles). His son's death is the impetus for his association with Vought: to gather information in the hope he could one day assist in their destruction. It is also revealed in issue #54 that once Vought-American introduced the Homelander to the world in 1971, the Legend made a strategic move and got himself filmed at a memorial service for the air cav that his first son served in. Greg Mallory did not buy the fact that a Vought-American man felt guilty about what his company was doing. His second son is revealed in issue #22 to be the Teenage Kix member Blarney Cock, from whom he was estranged and was satisfied that Hughie killed him. He was produced by The Legend and Queen Maeve during a relationship that the two had together, which was confirmed in issue #57 when Hughie discover surveillance photos and transcripts of The Legend having sex with Queen Maeve. Unlike other heroes, the Legend has shown a certain fondness for Queen Maeve, serving as her confidant at times, and showing an almost fatherly approach during her encounter with the Boys after 9/11 and on Doc Peculiar's transcripts. Butcher has accused The Legend of developing feelings for Queen Maeve, which could set up dire consequences for both The Boys and The Seven. In issue #67, after informing Hughie of the death of
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, he is confronted by Butcher and dies when Butcher kicks him violently in the anus. Which is implied by the fact that the comic on the floor in front of him is called "Shitfoot". The Legend appears in the live-action television series adaptation, portrayed by
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. This version is the former Vice President of Hero Management at Vought before he was ousted prior to the series by Madelyn Stillwell and Stan Edgar. Additionally, the Legend sports a prosthetic left leg as a result of an incident that Butcher caused when busting Electroshock's prostitution ring. In addition, he claims to have been previously involved with several celebrities including but not limited to Big Chief Apache,
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, while having flings with
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. The Boys visit him for information on Soldier Boy where he even mentioned how he got disgusted with a movie he was in where he played a love interest to a then 19-year-old Cates. He tells them that he has given him his old suit and that he is going after Crimson Countess.


The Seven

The Seven are the world's premier superhero team, created by Vought-American through injecting perfected Compound V into the fetuses of women who "wouldn't be missed", resulting in superheroes significantly more powerful than any others. The Seven's members care little about their advertised ideals and are more concerned about
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rights. They have shown grave incompetence in the face of the serious crises they are supposedly meant to solve; during the
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, their efforts to land one of the hijacked planes resulted in the death of one member and the destruction of the
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, causing a significant
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setback for both the team and VA. To prevent
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, the team has a deal with the Boys that neither group will take action against the other, following an incident that saw Lamplighter kill Mallory's grandchildren and the Boys kill Lamplighter. The Seven, as interpreted within the television series, are considered by some reviewers to be a parody analogous to DC's
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. Darick Robertson acknowledged the parody, but made it clear that this is not the DC universe: "I didn't have any problem parodying them, because what I saw very clearly is how the Homelander isn't Superman, how Queen Maeve isn't Wonder Woman. What's really important to me is that anybody can put on a superhero costume, but that doesn't make you Superman."


The Homelander


Black Noir


Queen Maeve

Queen Maeve is a long-time member of the Seven; her powers include super-strength and invulnerability. It is suggested that Queen Maeve was more passionate about the Seven's mission than the other superheroes at one point, but found her spirit broken by the team's disastrous handling of the 9/11 attacks. It is also suggested that the 9/11 debacle is the source of her alcoholism. She harbors a great hatred of the Homelander and the rest of the Seven, leading her to help the Boys in their surveillance efforts by planting cameras in the team's headquarters. During the Homelander's attempted ''coup d'etat'' against the U.S. government, Starlight convinces Queen Maeve to leave the Seven with her. Homelander blocks them, intending to kill them for fun. Queen Maeve physically throws Starlight out of the Seven's headquarters and engages the Homelander in a futile battle. After her sword is revealed to be a metal prop, Queen Maeve is decapitated by the Homelander, who throws her head past Starlight during her escape. Maggie Shaw / Queen Maeve appears in the live-action television adaptation, portrayed by Dominique McElligott. She is named after
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, 1st-century Queen of
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and primary
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, the
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in
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. Her representation within the series is considered by at least one reviewer of the series to be analogous to DC's
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. Years prior to the series, this version temporarily entered a relationship with Homelander after joining the Seven before breaking up with him and entering a clandestine relationship with a lesbian woman named Elena, which also ended due in part to Maeve's unwillingness to come out and her concern over Vought's response to it. In the second season, Maeve rekindles her relationship with Elena, but Homelander discovers this and outs the former on live-television. In response, Maeve conspires with the Deep to blackmail Homelander into leaving her and Elena alone, but the latter breaks up with Maeve. Following this, Maeve helps the Boys defeat Stormfront and serves as an informant to their leader Billy Butcher until she is captured by Homelander and Black Noir. Eventually, she escapes to join Butcher and Soldier Boy in a failed attempt to kill Homelander, during which she loses an eye to him and loses her powers while stopping Soldier Boy from killing the Boys. Afterward, Vought claims she had sacrificed herself while Maeve goes into hiding to live with Elena. Additionally, McElligott voices the comic book version of Maeve in '' The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' episode "I'm Your Pusher" (which is set in the comics series' continuity).


A-Train

A-Train is a careless, juvenile, crude speedster, drug addict, and former member of Teenage Kix who was chosen to replace Mister Marathon, displays the most animosity towards Starlight, and accidentally killed Wee Hughie's girlfriend Robin.Herogasm #2 Amidst the Homelander's efforts to overthrow the U.S. government, A-Train is captured by Butcher, who presents him to Hughie. The latter initially proves doubtful until Butcher reveals A-Train feels little to no regret over Robin's death and Vought intends to victimize Starlight. Over A-Train's pleas, Hughie kills him. Reggie Franklin / A-Train appears in the live-action television series adaptation, portrayed by
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. This version is
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, in his early 30s, and became addicted to Compound V out of desperation to maintain his status as the world's fastest man. This leads to him accidentally killing Hughie's girlfriend Robin, as in the comics, along with his girlfriend and fellow ex-Teenage Kix member Charlotte after learning the Boys were blackmailing her. Due to his addiction threatening his place on the Seven, the Deep manipulates A-Train into joining the Church of the Collective with the promise of helping him rejoin the Seven. After learning that Stormfront is pressuring Vought CEO Stan Edgar to reinstate the Deep into the Seven over him, A-Train obtains information on her Nazi past for Hughie and Annie and regains his place on the Seven. A-Train then attempts to rebrand himself as an African-American superhero, but does so without care or depth. Nevertheless, A-Train kills fellow Supe Blue Hawk over the latter's use of excessive violence against several African-American individuals, including his brother Nathan. Furthermore, his addiction leaves him unable to use his speed, culminating in him suffering heart failure and receiving a heart transplant from Blue Hawk. A paralyzed Nathan later confronts A-Train over his selfishness. In season four, A-Train is shown to be subject to even further psychological harassment from Homelander, who has only begun becoming more and more unstable and thus even more malicious with his demands and degradations to him and the other members of the Seven. These factors all seemed to have caused A-Train to become less malicious and prideful, and caused him to develop a desire for redemption and to be a true hero after failing to reconcile with Nathan when he was seeing Nathan's sons. A-Train assists Mother's Milk by acting as his spy. After saving Butcher, Annie, and Mother's Milk from The Deep and Black Noir II, A-Train tries to get Ashley to flee with him only to decline. She does advise him to cut out the tracking chip in his arm. It was mentioned in a discussion between Homelander and Firecracker that A-Train is gone and so is his family. A-Train makes a guest appearance in the ''
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'' episode "God U.", portrayed again by Usher. In this series, it is revealed that he is an alumnus of Godolkin University and joined the Seven eight years prior.


The Deep

A long-time member of the Seven, The Deep is a black man dressed in a diving suit, who, despite lacking aquatic powers, is marketed by Vought-American as the "King of the Seas", whose suit is irremovable due to an Atlantean curse. Additionally, he is the most mature and civilized member of the group who often bears the brunt of the others' contempt, disregard, and racism, though he has engaged in their depraved acts. After refusing to join the Homelander's failed attack on the U.S. government, the Deep joins American Consolidated's group, "True", and adopts a new suit that features a large, cone-shaped hood resembling a Ku Klux Klan hood. Kevin Moskowitz / The Deep appears in the live-action TV series adaptation, portrayed by
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. This version is a
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man with fish-like traits, which he is insecure about, and the ability to hear the suffering of all sentient ocean life as they are eaten by humans, which he has had since childhood. When Starlight joins the Seven, the Deep pressures her to perform oral sex on him. When she can no longer keep her peace and discloses the incident on live television, Vought forces him to publicly apologize for the sexual misconduct they covered up for him over the years and reassign him to Sandusky, Ohio, where he is
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d by a
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via his gills. The following year, Church of the Collective members Eagle the Archer and Carol manipulate him into taking a hallucinogenic substance which causes him to believe that his gills (voiced by
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) are confronting him about the root of his sexual malfeasance - his abilities and the death of a
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he had been romantically involved with. Following this incident and his arranged marriage to Cassandra Schwartz, the Deep joins the Church, convinces A-Train to do so as well, and assists Maeve in securing blackmail material to use against Homelander in return for her vouching for his return to the Seven. However, he is denied and the Deep leaves the Church. A further year later, after the Deep rebuilt his reputation by writing an exposé about the Church, Homelander personally has him rejoin the Seven to spite Starlight after she is made co-captain of the Seven. Additionally, the Deep becomes the new head of Vought's Crime Analytics division and fires all but Anika for posting negative comments about Vought on social media. After the Deep engages in a sexual relationship with Ambrosius, an octopus he encountered at Herogasm, Cassandra leaves him when he attempts to make her join them. Homelander later sends the Deep to kill Lamar Bishop so Victoria Neuman can become Robert Singer's presidential campaign running mate. In season four, the Deep is taught how to stand up to Ashley by Sister Sage, Homelander's new ''de facto'' deputy on the Seven, who also fires him as the head of Crime Analytics but manipulates him into a sexual relationship. This strains Deep's relationship with Ambrosius, who he continues to secretly keep as a pet, to the point that he accidentally shatters Ambrosius' tank and regretfully lets her suffocate. After Homelander kicks Sister Sage out of the Seven, The Deep and Black Noir II, who develop a "
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", learn that Sister Sage has been sleeping with both of them. Crawford also voices The Deep in '' The Boys: Diabolical'' episode "BFFs". Crawford also appears as The Deep in ''
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'', in which his character is revealed as an alumnus of Godolkin University.


Jack from Jupiter

Jack from Jupiter is a member of the Seven. A supposed extraterrestrial, his powers are flight and the ability to make himself invulnerable by speaking a secret word. A heavy drug user (going so far to inject himself with drugs cut with Queen Maeve's vaginal mucus), he is inclined to let things run their course in the Seven. Jack gets along quite well with A-Train, going so far as to take the junior member under his wing during Herogasm. At times, Jack seems to act as the sole voice of reason in the group. In #49, he attempts to calm both Lamplighter during a meeting with the Boys and the Homelander shortly thereafter, when Lamplighter temporarily blinds the others and departs to trail Mallory; in #20, he tried to stop A-Train, who was angry about Starlight injuring him while repelling his rape attempt, from irritating the Homelander with complaints following a disastrous encounter with the Boys. Jack was highly critical of A-Train's attempt to rape her. This was not so much from any moral concerns, but rather from a prediction that she will be ejected from the Seven within a year in any case, darkly hinting that A-Train can do whatever he wants with her after that. Like The Deep, Jack is also irritated by his lower royalties compared to "the Big Three." He is capable of flight, and is usually seen transporting non-flying members of the Seven during their official functions. His main power is his ability to generate a red-toned forcefield around his body for a limited time by uttering a secret word, which is eventually revealed to be " Carpo". It is said that Jack is virtually indestructible while his forcefield is active, with Butcher claiming that "you couldn't get an anti-tank round through his skin", once his word is said. The duration of his forcefield is unknown. Outside of this power, Jack is one of the weakest members of the Seven, due to his strength and durability being no different from an ordinary person. During the
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, Jack fled the scene with Mister Marathon upon realizing that Homelander's plan of action would worsen the situation. Jack's abrupt action led Black Noir, the Lamplighter, and the Deep to be injured, thus removing over half the Seven from the unfolding attacks within seconds. Jack flew back long enough to allow Mister Marathon to board a hijacked plane with Homelander and Queen Maeve before fleeing again. Jack was dismissed from the Seven when Ms. Bradley of Vought-American publicly revealed that he had frequent relations with transgender prostitutes, in an attempt to escalate hostilities between The Boys and The Seven. The revelation severely damaged his reputation and ostracized him from both the team and VA. Shortly afterwards, the Boys discovered Terror dead in their office. At Doc Peculiar's, Billy Butcher confronted Jack on the assumption that he had killed Terror. Jack attempted to use his invulnerability power, but was brutally murdered by Billy with a
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while Butcher repeatedly asked him why he killed Terror. The comic book version of Jack from Jupiter makes a minor appearance in '' The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' episode "I'm Your Pusher" (which takes place in the comics series' continuity), voiced by
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.


Lamplighter

A former member of the Seven, the Lamplighter was turned over by the Seven to the Boys after the murders of Mallory's granddaughters to end their initial conflict. He is reanimated after his death and is hidden from view deep under the Seven's headquarters; he constantly soils himself, and the Seven take turns cleaning out his cell. His public story states that he took a hiatus from the team, with him being broadcast on national television after his reanimation with the rest of his team. He was then kept in the storage space he now "lives" in, the Homelander having him there as an "example" to the rest of the team for what happens to those who underestimate "The Boys." He is replaced by Starlight. Lamplighter's powers seem to mostly emanate from his torch-like device, which he can use to fly and emanate blinding light or destructive fires. He has greatly enhanced physical endurance, having survived being struck by the wing of a plane in mid-flight, although the collision's force did cave in his ribs and nearly punctured his lungs; after the incident, he required multiple medications to relieve the pain. In issue #66, it is revealed in a conversation with the Guy From Vought that the Lamplighter was found by the CIA after a search warrant was exercised on the Seven's former headquarters. Lamplighter appears in the second season of the live-action television series adaption, portrayed by
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. This version's powers are
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in nature, though he requires a source of fire. In the pilot episode, it is stated that he had retired from the Seven. In reality, Vought assigned him to work in the Sage Grove psychiatric hospital, which they were using as an underground testing site for Compound V, so he could prevent leaks. When Frenchie, Mother's Milk, and Kimiko infiltrate the facility in an attempt to discover Stormfront's connection to it, they encounter Lamplighter and accidentally cause a riot in their ensuing fight. The Boys save Lamplighter, who in turn keeps Stormfront from discovering them when she arrives later. He also confesses to accidentally killing Colonel Mallory's grandchildren eight years prior in an attempt to stop her from blackmailing him and resented Frenchie for not stopping him as Frenchie was assigned to tail him. Lamplighter allows the Boys to take him hostage and remove him from the facility. When Mallory arrives, he encourages her to kill him, but Frenchie persuades her not to. Later, Lamplighter is waiting to testify against Vought in the Supreme Court until he and Hughie learn that Annie was captured by Vought and leave to rescue her. While Lamplighter immolates himself in the process, his suicide helps Annie escape from her Supe-proof cell nonetheless.


Starlight


Stormfront

Stormfront (Klaus Risinger) is the most powerful member of Payback. His name and fictionalized backstory portrays him as a reincarnated
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. His name also references the well known Neo-Nazi website of the same name. Stormfront originally came to the United States from
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in 1938 with Jonah Vogelbaum as the only product of the Third Reich's V-Program. He was given a very powerful and unique version of Compound V as a member of the Hitler Youth. Vogelbaum saw Stormfront as a danger due to his deep belief in
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, and recommended that Vought-American destroy him. Instead, VA used genetic material taken from Stormfront as the basis for the experiments that would create the Homelander and Black Noir (who is also a clone of Homelander, making him a binary clone). Stormfront was shown to be an unrepentant racist and an enthusiastic supporter of Nazism. It was revealed that Stormfront destroyed the levees and caused widespread flooding in
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during
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, aiming to
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the city and to free up valuable real estate for VA. He treated his teammates in Payback with contempt, especially Soldier Boy. After slaughtering several Mafioso he sneered, "Italians. What the Fuhrer was thinking, I'll never know." He also referred to the Female as a "Mongrel" and "Untermensch" (subhuman). Stormfront was one of the most powerful superhumans next to the Homelander and Black Noir. He possessed superhuman strength, durability, flight, and the ability to exhale what appeared to be lightning bolts from his mouth. This "lightning" was powerful enough to burn humans alive and blow up the Boys' van. He also aged much more slowly than a normal human; in his 70s, he retained the appearance and vitality of a man half his age. He was far stronger than any of the individual members of the Boys, and able to easily overpower them. The Female, Mother's Milk and Billy Butcher were able to injure him during single combat, but it took the combined efforts of Butcher, Frenchie, Mother's Milk and Vas (each vocalizing the efforts of the
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,
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,
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and
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forces during
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) to put him down, kicking and curb-stomping him to death. A female version of Stormfront appears in the second season of the live-action television series adaptation, portrayed by
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. This version's real name is Clara Vought (
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Klara Risinger) who, despite her youthful looks and command of social media, was born in 1919. Additionally, she was Frederick Vought's first successful test subject for Compound V, supported Nazi Germany, and married Frederick before they moved to the United States to continue his work, where she gave birth to a daughter. In the 1970s, Risinger operated as the superhero Liberty before fading into obscurity after committing a racially-charged murder. In the present, following her daughter's death from old age, she resurfaces as Stormfront, joins the Seven, and enters a sexual relationship with Homelander following a difficult beginning. After Starlight and Hughie discover her origins from A-Train and leak it to the public, Stormfront attempts to take Homelander's son Ryan, only to lose an eye to the boy's mother Becca and her limbs to Ryan himself before being incarcerated in an undisclosed location. One year later, she has continued her relationship with Homelander from her hospital bed until she realizes his goals do not align with hers and her dreams will go unfulfilled. On Homelander's birthday, she commits suicide, which contributes to his deteriorating mental state. Stormfront will return in the
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-set prequel series ''
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'', with Cash reprising her role.


Minor members

* Mister Marathon: A former member of the Seven. After Jack from Jupiter removes him from the 9/11 crisis, Marathon apparently insists that Jack return and leave him behind so he could help. When it seemed Homelander would abandon the rescue attempt, Marathon convinces him to continue by saying that Vought-American will fire them if they give up. While carrying Marathon, Homelander tries to intercept the plane, but crashes through it instead, killing Marathon in the process. He is mentioned, but not shown, in the live-action television series. * Translucent: A perverted member of the Seven who possesses the ability to turn his skin into a carbon meta-material that bends light, granting him superhuman durability and invisibility, exclusive to the live-action television series, portrayed by
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. After he is captured by the Boys, Butcher and Frenchie interrogate him for information on A-Train, during which they deduce that his skin does not protect him from internal trauma and insert C-4 explosives into his rectum. Hughie later detonates them, killing Translucent. After finding his remains, Homelander holds a funeral for Translucent in the second season, claiming that he died fighting the fictional Supe terrorist El Diablo's cartel. Translucent was featured in the Adam Bourke cut of the film ''Dawn of the Seven'' where
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voiced him over the choice to have
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voice him. * Misty Tucker Gray / Firecracker: A member of the Seven exclusive to the live-action television series, portrayed by
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. She is an
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podcaster with spark-generating abilities who previously lost a pageant against Starlight when she was young and operating as "Sparkler" due to a false rumor that Starlight's mother Donna made Annie spread. Once Sister Sage joins The Seven, she decided Firecracker also needed to be recruited, and the visit to invite her in a convention led to a battle with The Boys in which Firecracker's associate Splinter was killed. Firecracker later romanced Homelander by using lactation inducers to exploit his fixation on breast milk. However, the substance begins to have an effect on her health. Despite this, she participates in Homelander's purge of Vought Tower, shooting one employee dead.


Godolkin University

Godolkin University is a Supe academy that was founded by Thomas Godolkin and appears in ''The Boys'' live-action TV series spin-off ''
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''.


Marie Moreau

Marie Moreau is a young Supe with hemokinesis, portrayed by
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as an adult and by Jaeda LeBlanc as a child. After her powers manifested during her first period, she accidentally killed her parents, straining her relationship with her sister Annabeth. Marie was subsequently sent to the Red River Institute until she turned 18, after which she enrolled at Godolkin University. During Sam and Cate's rampage on Godolkin University, Marie defeated some of the brainwashed students and those from the "Woods". As Cate tries to mind-control Jordan, Marie blows up her left arm as Homelander arrives. When Marie tries to say something, Homelander does the silence gesture and asks what Supe would attack her own kind. Before Marie can answer, Homelander fires his heat vision on her. Homelander later has Vought News Network blame Marie, Emma, Andre, and Jordan for the attack and have Cate and Sam praised for their bravery. When Marie awoke in a hospital room with no doors, the others are surprised that Marie had survived Homelander's heat vision attack.


Emma Meyer / Little Cricket

Emma Meyer is a Supe student at Godolkin University and Marie Moreau's roommate, portrayed by
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. As "Little Cricket", her powers allow her to shrink and grow in size, initially doing the former by purging and the latter by binging, before learning how to do it by feeling. She has created a prominent social media channel marketing her ability to shrink, and though it leads to her being well known at Godolkin, her internet fame also results in objectification, exploitation, and even ridicule by her peers. During Sam and Cate's rampage on Godolkin University, Emma tried to reason with Sam to no avail and discovered that she can size-shift at will. She and her friends are blamed for the attack by Homelander and are locked away in a hospital room with no doors.


Andre Anderson

Andre Anderson is a Supe student at Godolkin University and son of Polarity who shares his magnetism manipulation, portrayed by
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in season one. He would later discover that his father is dying from the side-effects of his powers. During Sam and Cate's rampage on Godolkin University, Andre managed to fight some of the students. He and his friends are blamed for the attack by Homelander and are locked away in a hospital room with no doors.


Cate Dunlap

Cate Dunlap is a Supe student at Godolkin University, portrayed by
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as an adult and by Violet Marino as a child. Due to her powers allowing her to control people's minds through skin contact, she must wear gloves when she is not using them. Additionally, she will suffer debilitating pain if she overuses her powers. After her powers manifested during her childhood and resulted in her little brother disappearing, her parents stopped touching her, made her wear gloves, and replaced her bedroom door with a fortified door. She is initially a part of the friend group that accepts Marie, along with her boyfriend Luke Riordan, but uses her mind control power to manipulate others and is revealed to have cheated on Luke with Andre even when the former was alive. She turns on the group when they do not join her and vengeful "Woods" inmates in attacking non-supes for mistreating them, resulting in Marie exploding Cate's left arm during the chaos. Nonetheless, she and Sam are credited with stopping the rampage, while the rest of the friend group is blamed for the attack by Homelander and locked away in a hospital room with no doors. In season four of ''The Boys'', Cate Dunlap appears at the Vought Expo with Sam and was seen when Homelander has the Seven badly beat up Cameron Coleman. She and Sam later partake in the apprehension of Frenchie and Kimiko where she brainwashes Frenchie into coming along quietly.


Jordan Li

Jordan Li is a Supe gender-shifter, student at Godolkin University, and Professor Brinkerhoff's teaching assistant, portrayed by
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in their female form and by
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in their male form. While using their female form, Jordan possesses the ability to fire energy blasts. While using their male form, Jordan possesses super-strength and invulnerability. They initially share a rivalry with Marie Moreau before developing a relationship with her. Born male, Jordan has embraced their gender-shifting powers, which causes friction with their father and are dismissed by Ashley Barrett as "unmarketable" in more conservative markets. During Sam and Cate's rampage on Godolkin University, Jordan did fight some of the students in the "Woods". Cate tried to mind control Jordan only for Marie to blow up her arm upon Homelander's arrival. Jordan and their friends are blamed for the attack by Homelander and locked away in a hospital room with no doors.


Sam Riordan

Samuel "Sam" Riordan is a Supe student at Godolkin University with super-strength, the brother of Luke Riordan, and inmate of "the Woods", portrayed by
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as an adult and by Cameron Nicoll as a child. He is mentally disturbed and suffers from both
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and
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until he asks Cate to heal him, at the cost of his ability to feel emotion. He and Cate lead other inmates of the "Woods" to massacre non-supes, and though Marie, Jordan, Emma, and Andre stop them, the four are blamed for the attack by Homelander instead and locked away in a hospital room with no doors. Cate and Sam are hailed as the "Guardians of Godolkin". In season four of ''The Boys, Sam Riordan appears at the Vought Expo with Cate and was seen when Homelander has the Seven badly beat up Cameron Coleman. He and Cate later partake in the apprehension of Frenchie and Kimiko where he restrains Kimiko.


Indira Shetty

Indira Shetty is the
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of Godolkin University and former behavioral therapist who lacks powers and secretly runs a hidden asylum underneath the campus called "The Woods", portrayed by
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. She also had a hand in helping Cate to control her powers. Near the end of the season one, Cate mind-controlled Shetty into committing suicide by throat-slitting.


Professor Richard Brinkerhoff

Richard "Brink" Brinkerhoff is a
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at Godolkin University in charge of the Lamplighter School of Crimefighting, portrayed by
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. Jordan Li served as his teaching assistant. Brink also had an involvement with the "Woods". He was later killed by Luke Riordan. In season four of ''The Boys'',
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portrayed Coach Brink in Adam Bourke's movie ''Training A-Train''.


Polarity

Polarity is a superhero, alumnus and
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of Godolkin University, and father of Andre Anderson who possesses magnetism manipulation, portrayed by
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. In the season one finale, Polarity starts to suffer the side effects of his powers. While voicing his knowledge of the "Woods" to Andre, he makes plans to have Andre succeed him.


Luke Riordan / Golden Boy

Luke Riordan is a Supe upperclassman at Godolkin University who possesses pyrokinesis, portrayed by
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. While being marketed as Golden Boy, he became a promising recruit for the Seven, but learns his brother Sam was being held in a secret facility called "the Woods". He goes on a rampage, killing Professor Brink, attempting to kill Marie Moreau, and warning Andre Anderson before committing suicide via blowing himself up. Vought later covers up Luke's death, claiming a chronic drug dealer gave him bad drugs. Despite dying, Luke appears in flashbacks and visions had by Sam.


Justine Garcia

Justine Garcia is a student at Godolkin University's Crimson Countess School for the Performing Arts and Supe influencer with enhanced durability and a healing factor, portrayed by Maia Jae Bastidas. Justine works with Emma on a school project, getting the latter to reveal her purging habit behind her shrinking powers, which Justine exploits to gain more views on her own vlog channel to Emma's embarrassment. She is later fought and defeated by Jordan Li.


Social Media Jeff

Social Media Jeff is a student at Godolkin University and the school's social media manager, portrayed by Daniel Beirne. He was among the non-Supes killed during the rampage caused by the Supes from the "Woods", when Cate used her power to force him to blow himself up.


Maverick

Maverick is a Supe student and student advisor at Godolkin University and son of Translucent, portrayed by Charles Altow in ''The Boys'', portrayed by Curtis Legault in ''Gen V'' when visible, and voiced and motion-captured by
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in ''Gen V'' when invisible. In the season one finale, Maverick was mind-controlled by Cate to go on a rampage. He was defeated by Marie as Maverick turned visible.


Rufus

Rufus is a Supe student at Godolkin University who possesses telepathy, astral projection, and clairvoyance, portrayed by
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. In one of his harassments of Marie, she accidentally caused his penis to explode. Later, it is implied that he stole the Incredible Steve's penis to replace his own.


Minor students

* Liam: A Supe student at Godolkin University, portrayed by Robert Bazzochi who turns out to be a fan of Emma's social media channel. One night, he and Emma meet for a hook up. In his excitement, Liam asks Emma if she would shrink and hold onto his penis. Annoyed by his request, Emma agrees. Once she's shrunken herself, Liam has Emma climb onto his erect penis where she squeezes, strokes and slaps it. Liam is not seen in any episodes following. * The Incredible Steve: A Supe student at Godolkin University with a healing factor sufficient to reattach lost body parts, portrayed by Warren Scherer. * Harper: A rat-tailed Supe student at Godolkin University with enhanced durability and associate of Justine Garcia, portrayed by Jessica Clement. * Tyler Oppenheimer: A Supe student at Godolkin University and associate of Jordan Li with intangibility, portrayed by Siddharth Sharma. * Steve: A Supe student at Godolkin University with ice breath, portrayed by Adrian Pavone. * Dusty: A Supe student at Godolkin University with slowed aging, portrayed by Andy Walken. He is incinerated by Luke Riordan in one of Cate Dunlap's memories.


United States government

The Legend has stated that every
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since
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's administration (along with two-thirds of
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) have been owned to some extent by the military-industrial complex, who are desperate to keep Vought-American's superhumans out of national defense contracts for fear of being unable to compete. This makes the government extremely willing to back the Boys, and the team was originally authorized under President Bush and continued under
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. Ever since the 9/11 attacks, the government has been in a state of internal conflict, with the President watching for any treacherous move by the vice-president and both of them trying to place their own agents on each other's security details. In contrast to the real world, the events of
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saw the
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saved but the
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destroyed and
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invaded Pakistan in response, with Afghanistan being severely hit by "collateral damage" (deliberately). The public is unaware that the Bridge wasn't the intended target of
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. #51 reveals that America is, officially, assisting the Pakistani government – and secretly "pay ngthem to let us invade", both with money and by deliberately removing "undesirables" (claiming they're enemy combatants) and taking them to a prison camp in
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. Special forces are heavily used in Pakistan (and causing civilian deaths) and a large number of soldiers have been crippled by IEDs. Real-life political figures have also been included in the comic: Senator
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is a Vought-American man in 1944, but unlike in real life he ends up killed by a German attack in the
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(#52-3);
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spearheaded an investigation into VA after the disastrous Ia Drang massacre in Vietnam; VA felt the first President Bush would be their man in government, but Mallory states in ''Butcher, Baker'' #6 that Bush was actually lying and planned to keep them at arm's length; Bush and Clinton both oversaw The Boys; and in #62, Butcher advises that Rayner talk to Speaker of the House
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in the event he assassinates Newman, and in #66 Pelosi is the Acting-President of the United States until after the 2008 election.


Kessler

Howard "Monkey" Kessler is a
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analyst, later Rayner's successor as director, whom Butcher uses to acquire information. After becoming director, he attempts to hinder the Boys' work, only to be knocked out by a female paraplegic athlete he was interested in, blackmailed by Butcher, and sodomized by Terror. Joe Kessler appears in season four of ''The Boys'', portrayed by
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. He assists Butcher in obtaining Dr. Sameer Shah. At the time when Butcher learned from Sameer that the virus that would kill Homelander would go airborne, Butcher discovered that Kessler is a hallucination and that the real Kessler died in the War on Terror. A manifestation of the Compound-V-induced tumors slowly killing Butcher, Kessler claims to have saved him from Ezekiel by killing him whilst Butcher was unconscious and said that he would let him live if he promised to use the virus to carry out a genocide against Supes. Whilst attempting to force his hand by refusing to help during a fight against The Deep and Black Noir II and causing him to black out, Butcher only agrees to Kessler's deal after Ryan accidentally kills Mallory. Butcher then manages to assassinate Victoria Neuman using his tumors, which transformed into super-powered tendrils that emerged from his chest.


Susan L. Rayner

Susan L. Rayner is the
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. During the 1980s, she was a field officer in Afghanistan. She despises Butcher and vice versa, though is sexually involved with him. She's done many immoral things but considers they were for the greater good. She attempted to use Silver Kincaid as a mole within the G-Men, but withheld this information from the Boys when sending them in to investigate the team. Butcher threatened to kill her and her family if she ever put the team in danger like that again but later claimed this was an empty threat – as he was manipulating her in this second encounter, that may have been a lie. She decided to get out and quit the CIA to run for the US Senate, leaving Kessler as her replacement to get back at Butcher. In #51, Butcher met with her to give her information that could allow guided missiles to track supes, telling her to pass this on to the Air Force. In #62, following the death of Dakota Bob, Rayner finds herself frozen out of the new government by Vic's Vought-American "attack bitch": the CIA is de facto neutralized, and she's informed that she'll likely lose her job. She warns Butcher and also tells him she gave his file to
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; she also admits to feeling frightened, "the ground disappeared beneath my feet", by the fact she finds herself colluding with the Joint Chiefs to commit high treason, and is terrified when Butcher implies he may assassinate Vic. After #66, she has moved on from the CIA but has instructed Kessler to disband the Boys. She did not approve Kessler's nomination to become the full-time CIA director. Kessler would have his revenge, as later during a political rally, he embarrassed Rayner using audio taken from one of her many sexual encounters with Butcher, as well as chartering a small plane with the banner "Rayner is a whore" conducting a fly by. Twelve years later, in ''
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'', Rayner attempts to bring back supes, before being shut down by Hughie and Kessler using blackmail of her many war crimes. appears in the live-action television series, portrayed by
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. In a departure from the comics, Raynor is assassinated by Congresswoman Victoria K. "Vic" Neuman during the second season after the former deduced the latter's plans for a " coup".


President Robert "Dakota Bob" Shaefer

Robert "" Shaefer is the Republican
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, Shaefer is responsible for signing off on an order for the
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to monitor all superheroes – an order that ultimately results in the reformation of the Boys. He has a hatred of superheroes due to the threat they pose to the world. Issue #20 states he is a former
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executive, and "cold and hard as the Badlands themselves". Shaefer and Vic the Veep highlight that ''The Boys'' isn't about good versus evil so much as competence versus incompetence. Ennis said the character "was supposed to be the smart neocon – the guy who would quite happily sell off every public service he could, but who believed in very strong national security. Who would start a war, but the right war – going for the real home of the insurgency (this would of course create all manner of new problems, but that would be his starting point)." Shaefer was the Vice President under
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after a scandal took out the previous choice (implied to be
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). He ran for office after
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. Despite his loathing of "Vic the Veep", he was forced by the Republican Party to take him as vice president. He is said in ''Herogasm'' to have ordered the invasion of Pakistan instead of Afghanistan (which the CIA had asked for) after
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, and gave many private defense and reconstruction contracts to Halliburton and other companies, as well as having "sold off" most of the federal government. #51 reveals he has done highly immoral things to get the US into Pakistan. Mallory says in #55, as does VA in ''Herogasm'', that he is in the pocket of multiple corporate interests. He is unpopular by the time of the series for his policies and war record, but appears respected by Butcher because of his ironclad willingness to stick to his principles. Dakota Bob almost averts the bulk of the 9/11 attacks on the
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and
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by paying attention to intelligence warnings, putting
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on high alert and response teams at US airports, and having two of the hijacked planes immediately shot down and the third boarded at the airport. The fourth gets through after Vic incapacitates Shaefer and takes control, ordering NORAD to stand down, with the intent of allowing the Seven to intercept the fourth plane. This plan backfires disastrously; the Seven have no plan and no training (a result of VA withholding police and emergency training to avoid antagonizing normal police/fire/rescue organizations) and they cause the plane to crash into the Brooklyn Bridge instead. Shaefer is unable to prove that Vought-American are up to something, but keeps a close watch on Vought infiltration of the Secret Service; officially, the fourth plane was also shot down but too late. Despite all of the scheming and counter-scheming between the White House and Vought-American, Dakota Bob is killed in issue #60 by an angry wolverine. The Guy From Vought, while acknowledging that the turn of events is for the best, is left irritated and slightly disappointed that an expensive, and intricately planned paramilitary operation was preempted in such a way. Robert "Dakota Bob" Singer appears in the live-action television series adaptation, portrayed by
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. This version is a Democrat and the U.S. Secretary of Defense. Additionally, his surname was changed to serve as a deliberate reference to Beaver's character
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from
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television series ''
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''. In the third season, Singer campaigns to become
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with Victoria Neuman as his running mate following the assassination of her predecessor Lamar Bishop. In the fourth season, Singer figures out that Neuman is a Supe. After a failed assassination on him, Singer is later arrested when Sister Sage doctored some footage to make it look like that he called the hit on Neuman causing Steven Calhoun to be sworn in as the new President.


Vic the Veep

Victor K. "" Neuman is the
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under "Dakota Bob" Shaefer. It has been implied that he is mentally handicapped, and that his family are all Vought-American people; he himself was said in #6 to have been a former CEO for Vought-American. He appears to be only clever enough to be politically useful, learning his speeches
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and unable to perform everyday tasks without assistance. He is commonly recognized by his large
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and his constant blank facial expression. Ennis has said "Vic the Veep was meant to be the most grotesque parody of Bush, Jr. imaginable". Vic and his backers are suspected of trying to ensure the President would be in Florida during 9/11, leaving Vic in charge and able to have the Seven liberate the hijacked planes; when this failed, Dakota Bob is knocked unconscious with a fire extinguisher, he then orders the USAF to leave the last hijacked plane, leading to the destruction of the
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when the Seven failed. Nobody saw the assault, but Vic's Secret Service detail are suspected, having been infiltrated by Red River. Vought intends to assassinate the President as, knowing Vic would never win in an election, this is the only way for Vic to become president and bring in superhuman defense contracts. The President takes great care in selecting Vic's security detail, ensuring as few Red River agents are on it as possible. Thanks to Dakota Bob's accidental death after Vic released a wolverine (thinking it was his dog), Vic becomes President in #60. His Secret Service detail is replaced with Red River operatives and a Vought-American executive directs him in making policies, such as the de facto shutdown of all CIA operations and the makeup of his new Cabinet. Butcher openly refers to assassinating him in #62, but this is preempted when Homelander convinces most of the superheroes to launch a coup that they think is in the name of Vic and VA. Vic is murdered prior to issue #65 by Homelander, who has decapitated him. A female incarnation of Vic the Veep named Victoria "Vic" Neuman, also known as Nadia Khayat, appears in the live-action television series adaptation, portrayed primarily by
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while Elisa Paszt portrays her in flashbacks. Introduced in the second season, this version is initially described as a "young wunderkind congresswoman" inspired by
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. Publicly, she is a smart, charismatic, dedicated politician apparently looking to bring accountability against Vought. However, she is secretly a Supe capable of manipulating blood who works as an assassin to pave the way for her presidential campaign. Additionally, she was originally raised in the Red River adoption facility, a Vought-run orphanage for children with superhuman abilities, and Stan Edgar's secret adopted daughter. In the third season, she establishes the Federal Bureau of Superhuman Affairs and works closely with Hughie Campbell to control opposition and minimize damage to Vought by allowing the arrests of lower-tier Supes for comparatively minor offenses. As Hughie discovers her powers and secret history, Neuman betrays Edgar to help Homelander take over Vought in exchange for Compound V for her daughter Zoe and his help in becoming Robert Singer's running mate. Despite continuing to work with Homelander in season four, she comes to regret her actions and asks Hughie and the Boys to protect her daughter, but Butcher, having embraced the tumor inside him and his darker side, recovers from nearly dying, barges in, and rips Neuman in half with his newly gained tentacles, killing her in front of Zoe and to the shock of Hughie. Sister Sage uses doctored footage to make it look like that Singer called the hit causing Steven Calhoun to be sworn in as the new President. Neuman appears in the spin-off series ''
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'' first-season episode "Sick" (set between the third and fourth seasons of ''The Boys''), portrayed again by Doumit. While speaking at a Godolkin University town hall meeting, she meets and advises Marie Moreau, who possesses similar powers as her, before acquiring a sample of a "supe virus" created by Dr. Edison Cardosa, whom she kills to prevent him from spreading information on it.


Television-exclusive government members

* Lamar Bishop: A politician who appears exclusively in the live-action TV series adaption, portrayed by Graham Gauthier. He was meant to serve as Robert Singer's running mate during his presidential campaign. However, the Deep drowns Bishop in his swimming pool on Homelander's orders, leading to Victoria Neuman succeeding him. * Steven Calhoun: A senator who is exclusive to the live-action TV series adaption, portrayed by David Andrews. He was first seen in season one where he was blackmailed into allowing a bill that would allow the Supes to enlist in the U.S. Armed Forces after he had been tricked into making out with Doppelganger. In season four, Calhoun is now the Speaker of the House of Representatives and was among those attending Tek Knight's party. Following the death of Vice President-Elect Victoria Neuman and the arrest of President-Elect Robert Singer, Calhoun is sworn in as the new President of the United States and fully allies with Homelander. He later showed Homelander where the stasis pod containing Soldier Boy is being held.


Vought-American

American Consolidated, formerly Vought American Consolidated (V.A.C.), or simply Vought-American, embodied by The Guy From Vought, is the series' main antagonist. It is a large
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which owns the Seven, several smaller superhero teams, and their related franchises, and a fictionalised version of the real-life
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company, imagining an
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to reality in which they had pivoted to focus on developing superheroes. Since
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, Vought-American has sought to incorporate superheroes into national defense. Its first product for the military was a fighter plane that was rushed into production to replace the P-51 Mustang; it was discovered that a fatal design flaw killed more Allied pilots than it did the enemy. Although the use of the atom bomb removed the need for the plane, it revealed a tendency by Vought-American to release flawed products; its next major product was an assault rifle, but due to cutting costs on the manufacturing, the rifles resulted in a massacre in Vietnam when they failed to protect the soldiers they were issued to (they proved to be more useful as posts to mount their heads). With the debut of the Seven and the subsequent monopoly of superhumans, VA is in a position to upend the traditional military-industrial complex making heroes into super-powered soldiers. Their current agreement with the American government is arranged so heroes will not possess any actual police powers or interfere with any government service. As a result, heroes are not given any police or rescue training, so they will not be seen as competition. This has created a number of problems from the beginning: heroes sent to support World War II troops are given no military training and cause the deaths of themselves and the soldiers they were sent to help when they inadvertently lead the enemy to the camp; heroes are unable to provide much help in an actual emergency and are relegated to minor support work that looks good on camera. The worst example is during 9/11. The Seven try to stop the terrorists on a passenger plane, but do not understand the tactical or physical challenges involved in entering a plane during flight. They end up sending the fractured plane into the Brooklyn Bridge. Unable to get the contracts by semi-legal means, they attempted the overthrow of the
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with a force of
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; manipulating reaction to
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; and intend to assassinate the
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. VA controls both Victory Comics, which whitewashes the exploits of the real-life superheroes; and Red River, a private military company with covert agents in the
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. At the meeting between the Boys and the Seven, Red River operatives used
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on a
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squad that had been assigned as backup. This allowed a naked Homelander to enter the scene and massacre the soldiers. The Boys later came across the grisly scene. After the superhuman attack on Washington, Vought-American is the subject of a congressional hearing, and has rebranded itself as American Consolidated in the correct belief that people will get distracted and forget who they are when the dust settles. The revelations of Compound V's ineffectiveness and the true nature (and eventual
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) of the so-called 'heroes' the company was so proud of have effectively crippled Vought American/American Consolidated, leaving them with one last failed product as the Guy From Vought finally breaks under the pressure. In the live-action television series, Vought-American was founded by German scientist and first CEO, Frederick Vought. Sometime after the Cold War, Vought was rebranded as Vought International, which is described as primarily being a pharmaceutical company and defense contractor as opposed to a "superhero company" with significant comics, film, sports magazines, television shows like ''Avenue V'', television channels like Vought News Network (or VNN for short) and Vought Kids, video games, music production branches, streaming services like Vought+, non-profit organizations like Toys for Voughts, award shows, medical companies, housing like the Red River Institute which house orphaned Supes, food chains like Vought-a-Burger and Planet Vought Casino & Resort, and the Voughtland amusement park franchise all serving to market the Seven, among other superhero teams.


The Guy From Vought

The Guy From Vought, also known as Mr. Vought-America(n) or simply the Vought Guy, is Vought-American's major presence in the series, regularly sitting in on the Seven's meetings. His name, , while first mentioned in #29, is not confirmed until #63. He is the most prominent normal human antagonist, orchestrating the near-coup of the Russian government, ordering and overseeing the massacre of the G-Teams, ordering Payback to ambush the Boys, and involved in the planned takeover of the
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. The Guy From Vought is a high-functioning
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and is practically the embodiment of VA, aiming to make a profit at the expense of others, suffering no remorse for any action. He is highly methodical and considers nothing is unimportant during planning. He also freely admits in #40 that Vought-American are gambling that Homelander will be controllable until they've won, and if he's not they can only "try not to be there at the time". Two major developments occur by sheer accident: the death of VA's CEO by a heart attack in #34, and the President being killed by a rabid animal in #60. When the latter happens, the Guy From Vought said he felt "cheated". ''Herogasm'' #4 mentions he had come up under Vought's recently deceased CEO Mr. Edgar, and #29 has Vought minutes from 1989 mentioning Stillwell as a "keen" young man working in then-executive Edgar's office. His calm exterior is in contrast to the superhero teams he oversees: he never shows any concern in the Seven's meetings or around the Homelander, despite their powers, nor around Russian mob boss Little Nina. He is also utterly ruthless: after ordering the slaughter of every member of the G-Men to prevent the truth of Godolkin's activities getting out (which he'd previously covered up), he then arranges for Pre-Wiz, the children Godolkin was training and sexually abusing, to be kidnapped, locked into a large crate and finally dropped from an aircraft over the sea.''The Boys'' #30 Epilogue. Dynamite Entertainment. Each of these acts are carried out by different groups of Red River operatives, as he thought that even Red River personnel might find the outright murder of children to be too much. Jack from Jupiter considers the Guy From Vought to be worse than the Seven, and has said he used to have nightmares about the sort of things the executive might have had done; Homelander has shown signs of wanting to kill him, but always stops himself and seemed genuinely scared of him (or the true power he wields) in ''Herogasm'' #5. In #34, the CEO of Vought-American named Mr. Edgar dies and it seemed possible that the Guy From Vought would take his place. Instead, by #39, the Guy From Vought allows another generic executive to become CEO, acting as a puppet to maintain his independence and influence affairs behind the scenes, indicating that he has been the true head of Vought for years. The Guy From Vought also takes on Jess Bradley as a protégé and confidant. By #61, he seems to have an unguarded moment and admits he feels he can relax around her. During Homelander's attempted '' coup d'etat'' against the
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, the Guy From Vought becomes aware that the superhero had tricked the Boys and VA into a conflict. The Guy From Vought offers medical care to a wounded Frenchman and tries to make a deal with Billy Butcher, finally formally introducing himself as "James Stillwell" and asking the Boys to take a backseat role while they tried to clean up their "own shit"; Butcher refuses. After watching the events of Butcher's informational leak onto the World Wide Web, he is confronted by Homelander, who wishes to kill him. The Guy From Vought keeps calm in front of the insane superhuman, to the point that Homelander declares he may have finally met a real superhuman. The Guy From Vought states he was never impressed by Homelander, and regards Homelander's actions and use of his abilities to be unoriginal and unimpressive. After expressing a wish to commit suicide to spare himself Homelander's histrionics, Homelander tells him to keep watching and leaves. In #66, he believes the company can survive the superhuman attack on Washington as they were genuinely uninvolved, growing superhumans as weapons "is disturbing but not yet illegal", and most of the other revelations about them can be shrugged off; he cites
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, saying the general public reaction to such things is to say "the world works the way I always suspected". However, he knows they could not survive the revelation that they had tried to kill the President. When the Boys release everything they have on VA and the superheroes, the Guy From Vought uses Jess Bradley as a scapegoat; his plan all along was to blame everything on her. He meets with Hughie, who reveals the existence of the V-bombs and threatens to use them if VA approaches any country in the world about weaponizing superheroes. The Guy From Vought meets with his subordinates before seeing the newest superhero team, wearing all-white costumes (some with white-pointed hoods) and going by the name of TRUE. The Guy From Vought seems to realize that Compound V cannot supersede human nature (he notes the erection of one member of the new team, the telltale signs of drug withdrawal in another), laments that Compound V is a "bad product" and appears to start suffering a nervous breakdown in the final issue. The Guy From Vought is last seen in the epilogue series, ''Dear Becky'', wandering around a pineapple plantation, quoting
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and repeatedly muttering about good products and bad products, having lost his mind. Two characters based on the Guy From Vought appear in the live-action television series adaptation: * A female character partially based on the Guy From Vought named Madelyn Stillwell primarily appears in the first season, portrayed by
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. She is a single mother to an infant son named Teddy, the Senior Vice President of Hero Management at Vought, and in a relationship with Homelander. By the first-season finale, Madelyn is murdered by Homelander for keeping secrets from him, with Butcher later being accused due to his use of an explosive device in a failed attempt to kill Homelander. As of the second and third seasons, Ashley Barrett goes on to replace Madelyn while Teddy was taken in by Vought's Red River orphanage respectively. In '' The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' episode "One Plus One Equals Two", which takes place years prior to the main series, Madelyn (also voiced by Shue) is revealed to have been sexually manipulating Homelander since he was a teenager. * A
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character named Stanford "Stan" Edgar (after , the unseen
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of Vought-American who is later stated to have died of a heart attack in issue #34 of the comic series), is primarily portrayed by
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while Justiin Davis portrays him in flashbacks. In addition to being Vought's CEO, he is also the adopted father of Congresswoman Victoria K. "Vic" Neuman. In the second season, he originally intended to have Madelyn Stillwell succeed him until he learns of her death and rehires Ashley Barrett to take her place. He also recruits Stormfront to take Translucent's place in the Seven until her Nazi past is publicly leaked. In the third season, Edgar attempts to transition Vought back to being a pharmaceutical company through the development of V-24, a temporary version of Compound V. After Victoria exposes his illegal activities, Edgar privately expresses admiration for her actions while publicly taking a temporary leave of absence despite knowing Homelander put her up to it, calling him "bad product". During season four, Edgar was shown to be incarcerated in a Pennsylvania prison when M.M. approached him with a deal to get pardoned in exchange for the virus that Neuman confiscated. Upon arrival at Edgar's old house, they run into Neuman and her group alongside some Compound V-enhanced farm animals (which was the result of Compound V getting into the water supply) that were the results of an experiment done by Sameer Shah. After the farm animals were killed upon eating a corpse that was riddled with the virus and Shah apparently dead, M.M. had Edgar returned to prison due to a lack of the virus. On the way back to Edgar's prison, the driver of Edgar's car was killed when Neuman caught up to them as she confronts her adoptive father. Esposito also voices Edgar in '' The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' episode "One Plus One Equals Two".


Jess Bradley

Jessica A. "Jess" Bradley is a senior VA officer and an intelligent career-climber who works to become closer to the Guy From Vought, with her efforts seeing her becoming his confidant and protégé. Over time, their relationship grows stronger, with Bradley appearing to develop feelings for him while the Guy From Vought markets her as being vital to VA's future. However, she also grows concerned about VA's management over their Supes, being the first and only executive to speak up about the victims of the Supes' actions. After the Homelander's coup is thwarted, the Guy From Vought betrays Bradley by making her VA's scapegoat while appearing at Congress as a whistleblower. Her subsequent realization of this leads to her having a breakdown and pulling her hair out. The comic book Jess Bradley cameos in '' The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' episode "I'm Your Pusher", voiced by
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(credited as "PR Type"). Two characters based on Jess Bradley appear in the live-action television series adaptation: * A character based on Bradley named Ashley J. Barrett is introduced in the first season, portrayed by
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. Introduced in the first season, she serves as Vought International's new publicist and Director of Talent Relations until Starlight publicly comments on being sexually assaulted by the Deep, leading to Vought's Senior Vice President of Hero Management Madelyn Stillwell firing Barrett. In the second season, following Stillwell's death, Homelander has Ashley hired as her replacement so he can use her as a figurehead and to spy on Stan Edgar. In the third season, following Edgar's leave of absence, Ashley takes his place as the CEO of Vought while continuing to serve under Homelander. Throughout her appearances, Ashley displays a tendency to pull out her hair under stress, which she later turns into a fetish and culminates in her wearing a wig. In season four, Ashley continues to break down mentally as Homelander solidifies his grasp of Vought, turning her into a "mascot" for Vought when Sister Sage is named the CEO. However, she finds an ally in A-Train as they both begin to conspire against Homelander. When she is targeted for execution by the Seven, Ashley steals Compound V from Homelander's secret stash and injects herself with it. Minifie also voices Ashley in the animated spin-off series '' The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' episode "Boyd in 3D" and makes guest appearances in the live-action spin-off series ''
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''. * A supe incarnation of the character named Jessica "Sage" Bradley is introduced in the fourth season, portrayed by
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. Possessing super-intelligence that makes her "The Smartest Person on Earth" as well as a regenerating brain, Sage used to be a member of Teenage Kix as Whitney until she was kicked out, Vought adding an unwanted "Sister" to her later supe title as "Sister Sage" in an attempt at marketing her more to
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. In a later point of life, Sage was approached at her apartment by Homelander who offered her a better life as his confidante and second-in-command, being brought into the Seven where she helped Homelander plan a supe coup of the human race, offered Firecracker a spot on the Seven to incite dissent amongst superhero supporters for Homelander to then solve, taking over from Ashley as the unofficial CEO of Vought (making Ashley a "mascot"), which teaching Deep how to stand up to Ashley, unwittingly ending up sleeping with him while she had briefly lobotomised herself (her healing factor restoring her mind to working order by morning) to relax. After recovering from the bullet wound to her head caused by M.M., Sage finds out that Homelander and Firecracker killed Webweaver. When confronted on her knowledge that A-Train was the leak, Sage is kicked out of the Seven by Homelander and to be lucky that she's not being removed in a bucket. Sage states that he'll regret getting rid of her. As she leaves, The Deep and Black Noir II figure out that Sage has been sleeping with both of them. Sister Sage later visited Homelander to show him the news where she sent doctored footage that Singer called the hit on Neuman and gives him her phone so that he can speak to Calhoun.


Jonah Vogelbaum

Jonah Vogelbaum is a Jewish scientist at Vought-American who was responsible for creating Compound V for the Nazis until he took it and his only-living test subject Stormfront to the United States. It is here where he started to work for Vought-American and using Compound V to create superheroes. Greg Mallory later had Jonah work with the C.I.A. and inject members of the Boys with Compound V as well. When Mallory ordered Billy Butcher to eliminate Jonah, Billy spared him instead and had him work on a way to exterminate anyone with Compound V in them. Once this was done, Billy killed Jonah so that his work can be undone. Three characters based on Jonah Vogelbaum appear in the live-action television series adaptation: * Jonah Vogelbaum, portrayed by
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, is depicted as the CSO of Vought International and Homelander's creator. Sometime after he retired, Vogelbaum has bred some German Retrievers. He is visited by Homelander who demands the truth about Becca Butcher and the latter's baby. Vogelbaum apologizes for his actions, though Homelander thinks otherwise. When Homelander confronts Billy Butcher and Madelyn Stillwell, he claims to have returned to Vogelbaum and "squeezed the truth" out of him. Homelander later claims that Vogelbaum was paralyzed in an accident. Mallory visits Vogelbaum who is recuperating in a wheelchair asking him to speak against Vought. After intimidating Vogelbaum upon arriving at his house, Butcher brings him to a congressional hearing against Vought. Vogelbaum is among those secretly assassinated by Congresswoman Victoria K. "Vic" Neuman. * In the second season, Vogelbaum's comic-book role as the creator of Compound V is adapted as German scientist and founder of Vought International . He was the husband of Stormfront who created Compound V for the Nazis before defecting to the Allies. As mentioned above, Frederick founded Vought International and became its first CEO. * In the fourth season, Vogelbaum's comic-book role as the Vought scientist responsible for creating the signal/virus capable of wiping out all supes from the face of the Earth, whose death is faked by
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so he can continue developing it in secret, is adapted as Sameer Shah, portrayed by
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. Operating outside of Stan Edgar's abandoned farm, Sameer had done experiments with Compound V, Temp V, and the virus that Victoria confiscated from Edison Cardosa. During an experiment with a hamster, some of the Compound V got into the water table and infected the local farm animals making them dangerous enough to kill some of his hired help. The Boys, Stan Edgar, and Victoria Neuman found him taking refuge in a barn. Using the corpse of one of the hired help, the virus infected the Compound V-empowered animals that fed off it and killed them. While Sameer was supposedly killed during the attack, Butcher faked his death by severing one of his legs so that Butcher and Joe Kessler can have Sameer replicate the virus in order to target even Homelander. Butcher would later learn from Sameer that a virus strong enough to kill Homelander would go airborne and kill every other Supes including the ones that he knows. After developing the virus under Frenchie and Kimiko's supervillain while making use of a crutch, Sameer had broken his chains and injected the virus into Kimiko's left leg as Sammer escapes and Frenchie amputates the infected leg. With the infected leg on ice and Kimiko's left leg slowly growing back, Butcher knows that the virus works as he instructs Frenchie to finish the job. Sameer seemingly later reconnected with Victoria after Victoria revealed she knows what happened to Sameer in a phone call with Hughie.


Minor members

* Vought Troopers: Vought foot soldiers who make minor appearances in the comic series and '' The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' animated series. * Brewster: The Guy From Vought's scapegoat who becomes the new CEO in issue #39. * Seth Reed: A public relations
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at Vought International who appears exclusively in the live-action TV series adaptation, portrayed by Malcolm Barrett. Following a date with the Supe Ice Princess, he was accidentally frozen, lost his penis, and joined a support group for individuals who were harmed by Supes. * Evan Lambert: A public relations writer who works with Seth Reed at Vought International who appears exclusively in the live-action TV series adaptation, portrayed by
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. He is killed by The Deep in the season four finale after being told to state that he is smart like Homelander. * Doug Friedman: A
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and assistant at Vought International who appears exclusively in the live-action TV series adaption, portrayed by Bruce Novakowski. He offers Hughie a $40,000.00 settlement after what A-Train accidentally did to Robin. In the season four finale, Doug is killed by Firecracker. * Courtenay Fortney: A
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at Vought International who appears exclusively in the live-action TV series adaptation and the spin-off series ''
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'', portrayed by
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. * Anika: A member of Vought International's Crime Analytics department who appears exclusively in the live-action TV series adaptation, portrayed by Ana Sani. In season four, Anika was killed by Homelander's heat vision when she was a suspected mole much to the dismay of Sister Sage who commented that they could've gotten more information out of her. * "Also Ashley": The
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of Ashley Barrett with the same first name and a member of Vought who appears in the live-action TV series adaptation and ''Gen V'', portrayed by Sabrina Saudin. In the season four finale, Also Ashley is killed by Black Noir II, thinking that she was Ashley Barrett as he doesn't know Ashley's name. * Barbara: The head of Crime Analytics who appears exclusively in the live-action series adaption, portrayed by Imali Perera. When The Deep returned to the Seven, Homelander persuaded the board of directors to have Barbara resign and replace her with The Deep. * Bill Marsh: A member of Vought International's
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who appears exclusively the live-action TV series adaption, portrayed by Doug Macleod. Marsh is one of many names seen on Ashley's list to be killed. * Pat Willis: A member of Vought International's board of directors who appears exclusively in the live-action TV series adaption, portrayed by Glenn McDonald. Willis is also featured of the list of targets needed to be killed by The Seven. * Maureen Nohrenberg: A member of Vought International's board of directors who appears exclusively in the live-action TV series adaption, portrayed by Vania Giusto. Nohrenberg is also seen on the list provided by Ashley of Vought members needing to be killed. * Barbara Findley: A scientist and project director of Vought International who appears exclusively in the live-action TV series adaption, portrayed by
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. She was one of the scientists who conducted experiments on a younger Homelander. Years later, Homelander returned to the same laboratory and had Barbara return after killing two of the scientists present. Barbara arrived and stated that what they did to Homelander was under the orders of Jonah Vogelbaum and Stan Edgar while stating that Homelander could've have the opportunity to massacre them during those days as he didn't want to disappoint Vought International. Homelander then proceeds to tell Barbara why a room in this laboratory was called the "bad room". Barbara was then seen in a mortified state and trapped in the "bad room" with the massacred staff as Homelander leaves. Her fate after that is unknown. ** Martin: A scientist and deputy project director of Vought International who appears exclusively in the live-action TV series adaption, portrayed by Murray Furrow. Martin worked as the second-in-command to Barbara Findlay. During Homelander's early days, Martin once caught Homelander masturbating and insulted him. Years later, Homelander returned to the same laboratory and makes him masturbate in fromt his co-workers after burning Frank alive. Impatient with the ejaculating not occurring during that time, Homelander fired his heat vision at Martin's groin by the time Barbara arrived. His corpse was thrown in the same "bad room" that he placed Barbara in alongside the corpses of everyone present. ** Frank: A scientist at Vought International who appears exclusively in the live-action TV series adaption, portrayed by Mark Charles-Cowling. He worked under Barbara Findlay and was among the scientists that conducted experiments on a younger Homelander. At one point, he played waste basketball where he increased the temperature of the oven that was used in one of the experiments on Homelander. Years later, Homelander returned to the same laboratory and had Frank enter the same oven where Homelander burned him alive. * Superbrain: The head of Vought International's Vought-doption Center and a Supe with an enlarged head and psychic powers who appears exclusively in ''The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' episode "Laser Baby's Day Out", voiced by Fred Tatasciore. After learning that Vought scientist Simon snuck out "Laser Baby", Superbrain tries to kill him only to be killed by Laser Baby. * Denis Fletcher: An employee of the Vought-controlled Red River Assisted Living for the Gifted Child who appears exclusively in ''The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' episode "An Animated Short Where Pissed-Off Supes Kill Their Parents", voiced by Eugene Mirman. * and : Celebrity Vought scientists, voiced by Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon respectively. In ''The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' episode "Boyd in 3D", they develop an experimental Compound-V infused facial cream called Envision with the intention of allowing users to reshape their bodies into their ideal selves as part of Stan Edgar's plan to transition Vought away from Supes and back to their pharmaceutical and military-focused roots. After hiring #Boyd Doone, Boyd Doone as a product tester, his head explodes from using excess cream. Vik also appears in the live-action TV series adaptation episode "Herogasm", with Nanjiani reprising his role. * Gary: A receptionist who appears exclusively in ''The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' episode "John and Sun-Hee", voiced by Andy Samberg.


Other superhero groups

In the universe of ''The Boys'', superheroes, also known as "Supes", get their powers from the drug Compound V, which was first created by Nazi scientists in the 1930s and which has since entered the gene pool due to defense contractor Vought-American's (VA) complacency on numerous occasions. VA has close ties to, directly owns, and created several supes and supe teams. The vast majority of supes in the series are portrayed as narcissism, narcissistic, hedonism, hedonistic, and psychopathy, psychopathic, committing numerous crimes against civilians and each other due in part to their upbringings and mental illnesses as well as out of a belief that their social privilege allows them to do whatever they want without consequences. Additionally, several heroes are portrayed as not being trained in counter-terrorism, Urban warfare tactics, police procedure, or rescue operations to avoid the wrath of the police and military whom they would effectively replace. Nonetheless, many are careful not to direct their actions towards VA.


Young Americans

The Young Americans is a teenage supe team with ties to the Young Republicans and Christians, Christian youth groups such as Capes for Jesus Christ, Christ, among other conservative organizations. While they publicly appear clean-cut and patriotism, patriotic, they kept their questionable habits secret until Starlight left the group to join the Seven.


Drummer Boy

Drummer Boy is a conservative Christian member who was identified as the leader in issue #6 and was involved with Starlight before she caught him having sex with Holy Mary. Alex / Drummer Boy appears in the live-action television series adaptation, portrayed by Miles Gaston Villanueva as an adult and Luca Oriel as a teenager. This version is a former pop music star and Starlight's childhood friend and ex-boyfriend who rebranded himself to Supersonic. After being mentioned in the first season, he debuts in the third season as a contestant on the reality show ''American Hero''. While competing for a spot on the Seven, he displays an amicable rapport with Starlight. After winning, she tries to convince him to decline due to Homelander's unstable nature, but Alex refuses in the hopes of protecting her. He briefly joins the Seven and takes part in Starlight's plot to stand up to Homelander, but is killed off-screen by him after A-Train sells him out to Homelander as a traitor. His death is later covered up and Spin (propaganda), spun as a drug overdose.


Minor Young Americans members

* The Standard: A Supe who can fly and was elected as the group's original leader.The Boys – Highland Laddie #4 (2010). Dynamite Entertainment. In ''The Boys'' episode "Department of Dirty Tricks", the Standard was among the 25 possible candidates for the Seven. * General Issue: A Supe who normally wears camouflage pants and a white tank top with a Vietnam War era green army jacket and also goes simply by the General. * Holy Mary: A Supe who dresses in a nun's habit and fishnet stockings and becomes romantically involved with Drummer Boy. In ''The Boys'' episode "Department of Dirty Trick", the Standard was among the 25 possible candidates for the Seven.


Fantastico

Fantastico is a group of four heroes who appear in Herogasm #3.''Herogasm'' #3. Dynamite Enterainment. They are a parody of Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four. * Doofer: A Supe who resembles a humanoid assembly of metal bricks and appears to suffer a fatal drug overdose during Herogasm when he was actually struck in the head by a crowbar wielded by Billy Butcher. * Reacher Dick: A Supe with elasticity. * Invisi-Lass: An invisible Supe who can also fly. In ''The Boys'' episode "Department of Dirty Tricks", Invisi-Lass was among the 25 possible candidates for the Seven. * An unnamed pyrokinetic Supe


Teenage Kix

A teenage Supe group with a rebellious, Generation Y image that previously included A-Train and frequently go to brothels to celebrate their victories. They are a parody of DC Comics' Teen Titans.


Popclaw

Popclaw is a supe with retractable claws, which she uses to practice Self-harm, self mutilation in the comics. Charlotte / Popclaw appears in the live-action TV series adaptation, portrayed by Brittany Allen. This version is A-Train's girlfriend who shares his addiction to Compound V and was once a celebrity actress whose career was ruined by the paparazzi, leading to her getting work in D-list films where she worked in ''Terminal Beauty'' with Billy Zane. After she accidentally kills her landlord, the Boys blackmail her into spying on the Seven for them, leading to A-Train murdering her on Homelander's orders.


Blarney Cock

Martin Nurse / Blarney Cock is an Irish supe, the Legend and Queen Maeve's son, and best friend of Whack Job who, along with the latter, is known for stealing painkillers from children's hospitals to support their drug habits. Additionally, he possesses a taped hamster in his anus and was sent to Ireland, where he was adopted by a local family, following his birth. In issue #6, he is accidentally killed by Wee Hughie. In later issues, Blarney Cock is later resurrected and goes on rampage to get his hamster back until Wee Hughie kills him once more.


Gunpowder

Gunpowder is a fire-breathing member of Teenage Kix who brings an National Rifle Association, NRA sponsorship into the fold. Gunpowder appears in the live-action TV series adaptation, portrayed by Sean Patrick Flanery in the present and Gattlin Griffith in flashbacks. This version is a member of Payback and the former sidekick of the abusive
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who possesses several firearms and expert marksmanship instead of the comics incarnation's fire breath. Butcher finds and interrogates Gunpowder for Soldier Boy's whereabouts, but the latter drives him off. After taking V24 to temporarily grant himself superpowers, Butcher successfully overpowers and interrogates Gunpowder, who reveals everything he knows before Butcher kills him with his newfound super-strength and laser vision. Because of what happened to Gunpowder, Vought got rid of the sidekicks by season four.


Minor Teenage Kix members

* Big Game: The bisexual leader of the group who is implied by Butcher to be able to keep the rest of the group in line; has sex with women, Shout Out, and DogKnott; and one of several Supes who does not know how to use his abilities from a tactical standpoint. In ''The Boys'' episode "Department of Dirty Tricks", Big Game was among the 25 possible candidates for the Seven. * DogKnott: A dog-esque supe who wears clothes due to his self-esteem issues, possesses sharp claws, and can jump up to 20 feet. In ''The Boys'' episode "Department of Dirty Tricks", a photo of a more human DogKnott (portrayed by Zach McGowan) appears when Ashley and the Seven were discussing possible recruits for the Seven out of the 25 possible recruits. The Deep claimed that he oral sex, ate out a dog. * Hyperion: A Supe with superhuman intuition, divine femininity, and fireproof hair who was a former member of Teenage Kix. Her picture appeared in ''The Boys'' episode "Department of Dirty Tricks" when the Seven were going through possible recruits for the Seven. Ashley called her a "slutty cum rag". * Whack Job: An electrokinetic supe who dresses in punk subculture, punk attire and close friend of Blarney Cock. * Shout-Out: A bisexual
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Supe with flight and electrokinesis who is thought publicly to be gay and despises Blarney Cock. Due to the Boys, he resigns from the team after Coming out, announcing his homosexuality, but later joins Teenage Kix to fight the Boys after Homelander reveals the perpetrators, only to lose his thumbs to Butcher. In ''The Boys'' episode "Department of Dirty Tricks", Shout-Out was among the 25 possible candidates of the Seven. * Charles / Mesmer: A Supe who possesses tactile telepathy and appears exclusively in the live-action TV series adaptation, portrayed by Haley Joel Osment. As a child actor, he played a fictionalized version of himself in the police procedural drama ''The Mesmerizer''. Having fallen from grace after allegedly using his power for insider trading, he makes money from attending and holding autograph signings at superhero conventions. Mother's Milk and Frenchie request his assistance in uncovering Kimiko's background in exchange for visits with his estranged daughter, during which they learn about Vought's plan to create superpowered terrorists. Afterward, Mesmer betrays the Boys to Homelander to restore his standing as a superhero. In retaliation, Butcher kills Mesmer in a public restroom.


Payback

Payback is a successor to "The Avenging Squad", which was created in the 1940s and intended for use against Nazi Germany only for them to be killed during the
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. In 1950, Vought created a second incarnation called "Crimefighters Incorporated" and used them as stepping stones for future superheroes like the Homelander. However, they are eliminated by the Boys, which Garth Ennis stated was "because they don't know what they're doing with the (considerable) resources they command". Payback is loosely based on the Avengers (comics), Avengers.


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The Tek-Knight

The Tek-Knight is one of the founding members of Payback. He is a satire of wealthy non-powered playboy superheroes, such as Marvel Comics' Iron Man and Batman from DC Comics. Prior to his association with Payback, he previously led a group known as the Maverikz (who in turn were savagely beaten by The Boys in issue #31). The current incarnation of the Tek-Knight is actually the third person to hold the identity. Two prior incarnations of the Tek-Knight, originally called Steel Knight, were introduced in Issues 52 to 54, as well as prior versions of sidekick Laddio. Mallory says they revamped his "franchise" later. Issue #9 gives his name as Robert Vernon. The Tek-Knight is a vastly different hero from his predecessors, which were portrayed as super-strong heroes with a helm and a jet pack. Having not received a dose of Compound V, the Tek-Knight instead has a technologically advanced suit, with which he operates. The abilities of the suit are not fully described. Despite possessing the ability to fly, the Tek-Knight also makes use of several vehicles and operates out of a cave based headquarters. The Tek-Knight is one of the few heroes that is shown to have a boy sidekick, named Laddio. The current Laddio is actually the fourth to hold the name, as the first two were active before Payback was formed and the third would go on to pursue a solo career as the hero Swingwing. The Tek-Knight also is shown to have an associate called the Talon, who switches back and forth between ally and adversary. The Tek-Knight was one of the few heroes to never engage the Boys' attention, as he never did anything depraved or morally wrong like many other "Heroes". Butcher describes him as boring, and seemed to be a genuinely nice person, though highly homophobic. Soldier Boy states in ''Herogasm'' that he was one of the only members in Payback to be nice to him. The Tek-Knight's career would end after a murder of a young gay man that was being investigated by the Boys coincided with the growth of a brain tumor "the size of a fist", which caused an overpowering desire to have sex with anything. This would cause him to dismiss Laddio; upon realizing his compulsion was causing him to consider sex with his young ward, he immediately acted to remove the temptation and avoid any chance of his acting on it. Though he was cleared of having anything to do with the murder by Butcher and company, his butler would later release details about the Tek-Knight's sexual compulsions, leaving him being dubbed in the press as the "Homo Hero" and would be dismissed from Payback. He would die shortly afterward, when a wheelbarrow full of bricks landed on his head while he was saving a mother and child from being crushed by it. In his head, the Tek-Knight died a hero, as he hallucinated himself saving the world by having sex with a meteorite. Robert Vernon / Tek Knight appears in the live-action TV series adaptation's spinoff series ''
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'', portrayed by Derek Wilson (actor), Derek Wilson. This version is an alumnus of Godolkin University who is unaffiliated with Payback, and comes from a wealthy family whose ancestors were slave hunters. Vernon possesses observation and deduction-based powers, and serves as the host of a Vought+ TV series called ''The Whole Truth with Tek Knight'', which he uses to help Vought hide scandals. Additionally, he has a tendency to stick his penis into varying holes due to a terminal brain tumor, and in season 4 of the main series it is revealed that he has a sex dungeon in his mansion, where he holds captive his sidekick Laddio and plays sex games with Ashley Barrett as well as having a lot of similarities with musician/actor Sean Combs, Sean "Diddy" Combs because they have similar parties to one another. Vernon also has a butler named Elijah who has taken care of him since childhood when his parents were killed. In "Department of Dirty Tricks", Tek Knight was among the 25 possible candidates for The Seven. In later episodes, Hughie attempted to get close to him while disguised as masked Webweaver only to get kidnapped and abused in the dungeon by Tek Knight and Ashley. Already suspicious of his identity due to his deduction powers, Tek Knight asks what Webweaver's safeword is and Hughie doesn't know, after which Tek Knight rips off the Webweaver mask and he recognizes him as Hughie. Starlight and Kimiko then come to Hughie's rescue. After Starlight and Kimiko transfer Tek Knight's money to three different left-wing political organizations as blackmail to get him to reveal information, he states that Homelander wants to make use of his prisons and doesn't know any other information about it. Elijah appears and strangles Tek Knight to death which he enjoys. Hughie, Starlight, and Kimiko leave as Elijah states that the safeword that Tek Knight wanted out of Webweaver was "Zendaya".


Swatto

Swatto is a member of Payback and successor to two incarnations of "The Buzzer" who can fly via a pair of retractable insect wings. While he is incapable of traditional speech, his teammate Mind Droid is able to translate his buzzing. Butcher kills Swatto with a pickaxe in issue #33. He is a parody of Marvel Comics' Ant-Man. Swatto appears in flashbacks depicted in the live-action television series' third season, portrayed by Joel Labelle. This version is capable of speech. During the Cold War, he joined Payback on a mission to Nicaragua as part of a joint venture between Vought and the CIA. All throughout, Swatto ignores Grace Mallory's orders to stop publicly using his powers, leading to the camp being discovered and attacked by Communist and Nicaraguan forces. Swatto panics and tries to flee, but is killed by an Surface-to-air missile, anti-aircraft missile.


Mind Droid

Mind Droid is a member of Payback who masquerades as an "telepathic Android (robot), android", possesses a jetpack, and succeeded a Supe named ManBot. He is later decapitated by Butcher in issue #33. A character based on Mind Droid named Mindstorm appears in the live-action television series adaptation, portrayed by Ryan Blakely. This version does not pass himself off as an android, possesses mind control, the ability to read the thoughts of everyone within a three-mile radius of himself, and can trap people in their own minds, forcing them to relive their own nightmares until they die of dehydration. Following a failed mission in Nicaragua and selling out his leader Soldier Boy to the Russians in 1984, Mindstorm became a recluse in the present due to his powers. While being hunted by Soldier Boy, Butcher, and Hughie, Mindstorm uses his powers on Butcher. Hughie, having become disillusioned with Soldier Boy due to his fabricated origin story, begs Mindstorm to free Butcher, promising to teleport him to safety in exchange. However, Soldier Boy kills Mindstorm after the latter reveals Homelander is Soldier Boy's biological son.


Crimson Countess

Crimson Countess is a member of Payback who possesses heat-related powers, is involved with teammate Mind Droid, and hinted at having an affair with team leader Stormfront before she is killed by Butcher for attacking his dog Terror. Additionally, she is the third individual to hold the mantle, with the first having died during the Battle of the Bulge during WWII and the second having impersonated the first to star in propaganda films following the war. Crimson Countess appears in the live-action television series adaptation, portrayed by Laurie Holden. This version can produce fireballs, which are activated by holding her fingers together, pretended to be romantically involved with Payback's leader Soldier Boy for media purposes despite hating him, and owns a chimpanzee sanctuary called Chimp County. In 1984, she and Payback partook in a failed mission in Nicaragua, during which they sold out Soldier Boy to the Russians on Vought's behalf. At one point, Crimson Countess starred in the Cold War film ''Crimson'' with #Groundhawk, Groundhawk. In the present, she continues to work for Vought, performing at Voughtland, and as a cam girl. When Frenchie and Kimiko try to interrogate her, Countess escapes, accidentally killing a Homelander mascot in the process. She is later captured by the Boys during her broadcast on SuperPorn.com to SirCumsALot779 (the user name of the fictional version of
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) so they can form an alliance with Soldier Boy. After mentioning that everyone in Payback hated her, Crimson Countess is killed by the energy unleashed by Soldier Boy.


Eagle the Archer

Eagle the Archer is a member of Payback who is stated to have "got coked off his tits", beat his girlfriend into a coma, and was blackmailed by Butcher in exchange for information on his teammates. Eagle the Archer appears in the live-action TV series adaptation, portrayed by Langston Kerman. This version is unaffiliated with Payback. In his early life, he fought criminals, but innocent lives were lost whenever he ran out of arrows, which eventually led to him joining the Church of the Collective. After the Deep is arrested, Eagle bails him out and helps him join the church as well. However, Eagle is later accused of betraying the church when he refuses to cease contact with his mother. In response, the Church anonymously uploads a sexually compromising video of Eagle to the internet, publicly embarrassing him. As of the web series ''Seven on 7'', Eagle is reported to have abandoned his role as a superhero to rebrand himself as a rapper.


TNT Twins

The TNT Twins, consisting of Tommy and Tessa TNT, are members of Payback capable of shooting electricity while holding hands exclusive to the live-action television series adaptation, portrayed by Jack Doolan (actor), Jack Doolan and Kristin Booth respectively. Following a failed mission in Nicaragua and selling out their leader Soldier Boy to the Russians in 1984, the TNT Twins became the hosts of the annual Herogasm event in the present. After the Boys and Soldier Boy find them, with the latter seeking revenge on the twins, they claim that Black Noir sold him out and attempt to defend themselves with their powers only to produce sputtering sparks due to not using them for years. Following this, Soldier Boy accidentally releases an energy blast that kills the twins and most of the Herogasm attendees while wounding the rest.


G-Men

The G-Men are Vought-American's most profitable and popular team founded and led by John Godolkin and based in the G-Mansion who are marketed as downtrodden outcast (person), outcasts, orphans, and runaway (dependent), runaways. In reality, they are a sex cult consisting of orphans who Godolkin kidnapped, injected with Compound V on a weekly basis, and bribed to make them obedient to him. As a result, most of the G-Men grew up to become mentally unable, recklessly hedonistic adults who often get in trouble with the authorities and enjoy sexually-depraved escapades with each other. While Godolkin established a working relationship with VA, he and the G-Men largely operate independently. Eventually however, VA deems Godolkin and his various "G-Teams" liabilities to public relations, ordered their Red River operatives to kill them, and spun their deaths as them having died in battle against the Mirith'rai. The G-Men are parodies of Marvel Comics' X-Men and DC Comics' Doom Patrol. In addition to the primary team, the G-Men also consists of the following sub-groups: G-Force, the G-Brits, the G-Nomads, the African American teams G-Coast and G-Style, and G-Wiz.''The Boys'' #23. Dynamite Entertainment. Moreover, Godolkin attempted to form a preschool team called Pre-Wiz before Vought thwarted him and had them loaded into a crate and dropped off the coast of Ireland.


John Godolkin

John Godolkin is the team's founder, depicted as an unrepentant pedophile and kidnapping, kidnapper. Incidentally it is implied that he may have been similarly abused by his own father.''The Boys'' #28. Dynamite Entertainment. He appears to have no powers, unlike his students. This leads to G-Men like Five-Oh, the team's field leader, being irritated by Godolkin when he professes to be one of "them" while being oppressed by "humanity" as part of a speech he gave to several G-men during a brunch one evening.''The Boys'' #26. Dynamite Entertainment. Even though the G-Men despise Godolkin and think of him as a pathetic joke, they are paradoxically utterly loyal to him to a fanatical degree, despite Godolkin exploiting and abusing them for almost their entire lives. For example, Five-Oh, who privately mocks and detests Godolkin, is seen dying on behalf of his honor when they are massacred.''The Boys'' #29. Dynamite Entertainment. In addition Randall, who has an otherwise rebellious streak, unquestioningly carries out unspoken orders to kill Hughie. John Godolkin is only tolerated by Vought because his team, the G-Men, and their spin-offs have proven to be the most bankable superhero team owned by the company. However, John Godolkin's disturbing obsession with kidnapping more potential new members and endlessly expanding the G-Men franchise (despite how impossible it was to continue such a criminal operation without getting exposed to the public) as well as reanimating his "children" into soulless zombies eventually leads to Vought becoming more concerned with his perversions and mental instability, which causes them to terminate the entire group. Godolkin's has a penchant for obtuse and dramatic speeches and could be accused of being intentionally pretentious. The content of his speeches tend to characterize non-superhumans as cruel oppressors of the G-Men and their kind. Godolkin professes to "love all his children" yet will callously order their deaths if any of them threaten to reveal the G-Men's dark secrets. At the same time, he desperately wants any deceased G-Men to be resurrected (as V can do); he continues to want this even after seeing the mental state of Nubia, much to the concern and disgust of both the G-Men and Vought. He is a dark pastiche of X-Men leader Professor X.


Five-Oh

Five-Oh is a stoic, curt, and fiercely loyal Supe and an apparent leading member of the G-Men who wears a uniform and helmet reminiscent of a motorcycle cop and goggles that leak "energy beams".''The Boys'' #27. Dynamite Entertainment. He displays ire towards Silver Kincaid and a friendship with Cold Snap. He is a parody of Cyclops (Marvel Comics), Cyclops.


Cold Snap

Cold Snap is a Supe who possesses temperature manipulation, was a founding member of the G-Men, and serves as the leader of the sub-group G-Force. He is genuinely nice to most of his teammates, is well-liked by them, and openly questions the G-Men's practices, though he is also overeager and naïve. He is a parody of Iceman (Marvel Comics), Iceman. Cold Snap appears in the live-action TV series adaptation, portrayed by Shaun Mazzococca. This version is a lower-tier Supe charged with domestic abuse by the Federal Bureau of Superhuman Affairs (FBSA) and is among the Supes attending the TNT Twins' Herogasm event.


Silver Kincaid

Grace Wilhelm / Silver Kincaid is a Supe who possess gravity and pressure-based powers and a founding member of the G-Men who killed Nubia, among other "off-message" Supes, for Vought. After killing Nubia and growing desperate over the state of the G-Men, Kincaid reached out to the CIA. Susan Rayner attempts to make her a spy, which further destabilizes Kincaid's mental state and eventually leads to her suffering a breakdown that causes her to mentally regress to when Godolkin kidnapped her and publicly commit suicide. Silver Kincaid appears in the live-action television series adaptation episode "Barbary Coast", portrayed by Jasmin Husain. While competing on the reality show ''American Hero'' for a spot on the Seven, she is chosen by Starlight, but Ashley Barrett and Homelander reject Kincaid for being Muslim and the latter chooses the Deep to return to the Seven instead.


Nubia

Nubia is a member of the G-Men with thunder and lightning-based powers who was killed by Silver Kincaid and reanimated as a semi-conscious zombie who repeatedly says "kill me". Due to her losing most of her mental faculties and bodily functions, other G-Men such as Luckless and Pusspuss were forced to become her personal caregivers. Nubia was later killed once more when the G-Teams were massacred by the Red River operatives. She is a parody of Storm (Marvel Comics), Storm. Nubia appears in the animated TV series '' The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' episode "Nubian vs Nubian", voiced by Aisha Tyler. An African-American woman who masquerades as a Nubians, Nubian superhero with help from Vought, she marries the similarly themed Nubian Prince and they have a daughter named Maya. Eight years later, the Nubians begin filing for divorce due to a lack of passion in their relationship outside of fighting. Maya attempts to "The Parent Trap (franchise), parent trap" them back together, but they continue fighting, leading Maya to sign their divorce papers herself and blackmail them into getting her a pony.


Critter

Critter is a homophobic, racist, and irritable Supe with a tall Bigfoot, Sasquatch-like appearance who wears an Elizabethan collar around his neck, trunks, and boxing gloves on his hands to keep from scratching. He confronts Godolkin over his recruitment methods before he is killed by Vought's Red River operatives. He is a parody of Beast (Marvel Comics), Beast.


Groundhawk

Groundhawk is a temperamental, mindless, feral Supe with sledgehammers for hands who can only say "gonna!...gonna!" It wasn't mentioned if the sledgehammers came with his powers. Because of his sledgehammer hands, Groundhawk has to receive assistance in eating and drinking. He is a parody of Wolverine (character), Wolverine. ''The Boys'' co-creator Darick Robertson picked Groundhawk as his favorite of the new characters introduced, calling him "utterly ridiculous". Groundhawk appears in the animated TV series '' The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' episode "Nubian vs Nubian", voiced by John DiMaggio. This version is employed by Vought as a "nemesis" for new heroes who can speak in full sentences. Due to his involvement in her parents Nubia and Nubian Prince getting married and having her, their daughter Maya blackmails Groundhawk into helping her stop their impending divorce. However, Maya's parents beat Groundhawk into unconsciousness. ''Seven on 7'' revealed that Groundhawk has been checked into Vought's Global Wellness Center to combat his alcoholism. In ''The Boys'' episode "Department of Dirty Tricks", Groundhawk was listed as one of the 25 possible candidates for the Seven.


Minor G-Men members

* The Divine: A flamboyant, gay Supe who constantly faces rude remarks from the others and possess limited telepathic abilities and flight. He is a parody of Warren Worthington III, Angel. In ''The Boys'' episode "Department of Dirty Tricks", the Divine is among the 25 possible candidates for the Seven.


G-Style

G-Style is an African-American sister team of the G-Men. They consist of the following members: * King Helmet: The leader of G-Style who wears a Roman-style helmet. * The Reptilian: A scaly member of G-Style. * Born Free: A member of G-Style who wears a leonine helmet. * Pit Stop: A member of G-Style who wears sunglasses and a miner helmet. * 2-Kool: A member of G-Style. * An unnamed female member.


G-Coast

G-Coast is another African-American sister team of the G-Men. They consist of the following members: * Emellkay: The leader of G-Coast. * Homefry: * 5x5: * Four unnamed members.


G-Force

G-Force is a sister team of the G-Men consisting of the following members: * The Flamer: An openly-gay, heavily-scarred Supe with pyrokinesis who is in a relationship with the Divine. * Europo: A purple-skinned, demonic, and comedic Supe with teleportation and enhanced strength. He is a parody of Nightcrawler (character), Nightcrawler. In ''The Boys'' episode "Department of Dirty Secrets", Europo was among the 25 possible candidates for the Seven. * Stacker: A taciturn member made of a shiny, dark-coloured metal. He is a parody of Colossus (character), Colossus. In ''The Boys'' episode "Department of Dirty Secrets", Stacker was among the 25 possible candidates for the Seven. * Pusspuss: A female feline member. * Luckless: A Supe with red hair, dark black skin, and a white stripe down her face. In ''The Boys'' episode "Department of Dirty Secrets", Luckless was among the 25 possible candidates for the Seven.


Pre-Wiz

Pre-Wiz is a preschooler branch of the G-Men consisting of the following members: * Cat O'Mite: A supe dressed in a cat-themed costume. * Baby Blue: * Wispo: * Five unnamed members


G-Wiz

G-Wiz is a spin-off group based in a fraternity house down the road from the G-Mansion who spend most of their time throwing parties, watching pornographic movies, and doing prank calls on the other Supes. Due to Godolkin raising them, they are sexually confused and unaware of appropriate boundaries and limits. After Hughie infiltrates them as "Bagpipe", the Boys kill most of G-Wiz and interrogate Dime-Bag until Europo kills him. G-Wiz consists of the following members: * Randall / Buzz Cut * Cory / Pinwheel: A gray-skinned Supe with psychic powers. In ''The Boys'' episode "Department of Dirty Trucks", Pinwheel was among the 25 possible candidates for the Seven. * Jamal / Dime-Bag: A Supe who reluctantly reveals Godolkin's secrets to the Boys before he is killed by Europo. * Matthew Verbin / Jetlag: A narcissistic Supe who can manipulate time to make it 3:00 p.m., but cannot go more than twelve hours forward and never back in time to change events. He jumps seven hours into the future to escape an ambush arranged by the Boys, only to be confronted and killed by a waiting Butcher. * Weezer / Airburst: A Supe who wears an aviator hat and flight goggles. In ''The Boys'' episode "Department of Dirty Tricks'', Airburst was among the 25 possible candidates for the Seven. * Blowchowski / Discharge: A Supe who can produce acidic vomit and engages in several forms of sexually perverted play with the other members. In the live-action TV series adaptation episode "The Bloody Doors Off", Discharge appears as one of Vought's test subjects held within the Sage Grove psychiatric hospital. When the Boys and Lamplighter accidentally cause a riot, Discharge attacks the latter before Kimiko kills him with his own acidic vomit. * The Dude With No Name: A Supe with a metal arm and leg whose face is covered in bandages following an "initiation" involving shaving a snow leopard that went horribly awry and left him brain dead. Following the massacre of the G-Men and their branches, the Dude with No Name was later killed by Vought where they put him out of his misery.


Paralactic

Paralactic is cybernetically-enhanced team of formerly disabled heroes that Frenchie refers as "The Six Million Dollar Man, The Six Million Dollar Heroes" and described by Ennis as "a '90s-style cyberpunk outfit, with lots of prosthetic limbs and biomechanical organs and attachments."''The Boys'' #61. Dynamite Entertainment. The team consists of: * Trojan * Astroglide * Lady Arklite: In ''The Boys'' episode "Department of Dirty Tricks", Lady Arklite was among the 25 possible candidates for the Seven. * Strap-on * Stopcock * Truncheon


Team Titanic

Team Titanic, as described by Ennis, is "a team of grown-up sidekicks" who were created by Vought-American to appeal to the teenage market, though they disband and reorganize them every few years. Based in Cleveland and living in "Star Tower", the team has consisted of: * Jimmy the One - The leader of Team Titanic. In ''The Boys'' episode "Department of Dirty Tricks", Jimmy the One was among the 25 possible candidates for the Seven. * Country Mama * Dry-Hump * Earl Mulch * Gumchum * Muzzeltov * Regina Dentata * Snaffletwat * Starlike Additionally, Malchemical was formerly part of the team until he was reassigned to Super Duper as punishment for using his shapeshifting abilities to trick Starlike into having sex with him.


Children of Stormfront

The Children of Stormfront is a group of Continental Germanic mythology, Continental Germanic and Slavic paganism, Slavic mythology-themed superheroes put together by Vought-American who, despite their name, are not biologically related to Stormfront. Featured in ''
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'', the group consists of the following members: * Vikor: The Vikings, Viking-themed leader who can fly, possesses super-strength, enhanced durability, and a healing factor. He is killed by Butcher. * Norska: A Viking-themed member and Vikor's wife. While it was claimed that she died in battle, Butcher states that she died falling down a flight of stairs and broke her neck while she was drunk. * Skandia: A telepathic member who later dies of a morphine overdose. * Three unnamed members who were killed by the Female.


Element Force

Element Force is a group of element-based superheroes who operate in Denver, Colorado and consist of: * Airhorn * Divot * Flameburner * Freeflow


Maverikz

The Maverikz are a C-list superhero group that was originally led by Tek Knight before he left to found Payback.


Other superheroes

The following superheroes are not affiliated with the above groups:


Oh Father

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superhero, preacher, and pedophile who can fly and possesses enhanced strength, is based in a mega-church, and is assisted by 12 children called the Sidekicks Twelve. The Homelander recruits him to help Vought-American introduce Supes to the US military by setting up a meeting with supes who the Homelander can trust. However, Oh Father and several flight-capable supes are killed by the U.S. Air Force via missiles configured to home in on Compound V-infused targets. A character loosely based on Oh Father named appears in the live-action television adaptation, portrayed by Shaun Benson. He is a closeted gay, elastic, Christian Supe who publicly denounces homosexuality. Upon discovering his secret, the Boys blackmail him into giving them information on Compound V. Ezekiel later helps out Firecracker's debut broadcast as a member of the Seven and fights Butcher, who blacks out and allows the tumor inside him to tear Ezekiel to shreds.


Sidekick Twelve

The Sidekick Twelve is a group of children led by Oh Father. They consist of: * Baxter * Beeboy * Beegirl * E-Ros * Fishboy * Flameboy: A pyrokinetic sidekick of Oh Father. * Imp * Pigeon * Sadgirl * Stepchild * Ultra Lass * Zippy: An electrokinetic sidekick of Oh Father.


"PG"

"PG" is a Supe with flight ability who attended the Herogasm event.


Shehemoth

Shehemoth is a blue-skinned muscular Supe with a hunch. She attended the Herogasm event. During Homelander's attack on the White House, Shehemoth was killed by the military's rockets. In the ''Gen V'' episode "The Whole Truth", Tek Knight did a story on her where it was claimed that she killed the man that she was dating with rumors claiming that this was a frame-up plot by someone.


Webweaver

Patrick Whitehall / Webweaver is a spider-themed Supe with web-generating abilities. The Legend called him a "thwipster". Webweaver appeared in season 4 of ''The Boys'', portrayed by Dan Mousseau. M.M. had to persuade him to lend his suit to them so that Hughie can infiltrate Tek Knight's party. Homelander and Firecracker would later confront Webweaver who admits his interactions with Butcher as he keeps emitting webs from the hole above his butt as a side effect of being nervous. Homelander then kills Webweaver by ripping him apart. He is directly inspired by the Marvel Comics, Marvel character Spider-Man.


Other minor superheroes

* Incineron: Incineron was a Supe who was mentioned in the first issue. Not much is known about him. In ''The Boys'' episode "Department of Dirty Tricks", Incineron was among the 25 possible candidates for the Seven. * Lord Horus: Lord Horus was a Supe. Not much was known about him except for the fact that he was killed by the Boys offscreen. In ''The Boys'' episode "Department of Dirty Tricks", Lord Horus was among the 25 possible candidates for the Seven.


Television-exclusive superheroes

* Nubian Prince: An African American Supe who masquerades as his namesake with help from Vought, portrayed by an uncredited actor in the live-action TV series adaptation and voiced by Don Cheadle in ''The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' episode "Nubian vs. Nubian". Eight years prior to the latter series, Nubian Prince and the similarly themed superhero Nubia get married and have a daughter named Maya. In the present, the Nubians begin filing for divorce in spite of Maya's failed attempt at getting them back together. * Doppelgänger: A shapeshifting Supe and operative of Vought who appears exclusively in ''The Boys'' live-action TV series adaptation, portrayed by Dan Darin-Zanco. In the first season, Madelyn Stillwell tasks him with assuming the form of a young woman to seduce and capture Senator Calhoun for not allowing Supes to join the military, then blackmail him into sponsoring a bill to militarize Supes. In the second season, Doppelgänger meets with Homelander and uses his powers to fulfill the latter's sexual fantasies before Homelander kills him for trying to exploit his narcissism. * Shockwave: A speedster who appears exclusively in ''The Boys'' live-action TV series adaptation, portrayed by Mishka Thébaud. In the first season, he competes against and loses to A-Train in a foot race due to the latter's use of Compound V. In the second season, when A-Train is put on a medical leave and suffers heart palpitations due to his Compound-V addiction, Shockwave is approached by Vought to potentially join the Seven and take over the "A-Train" title and branding rights before he is killed by Congresswoman Victoria Neuman during a congressional hearing against the company. * Blindspot: A blind Supe with superhuman hearing, portrayed by Chris Mark. In ''The Boys'' live-action TV series adaptation, Ashley Barrett recommends him for the Seven as a replacement for Translucent, but Homelander grievously injures Blindspot by clapping his ears as the former refuses to allow disabled individuals into the Seven. In the
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'', Blindspot is implied to have died from these injuries with Vought devising a cover story stating that he had been on a mission to Argentina. He is a parody of Marvel Comics' Daredevil (Marvel Comics character), Daredevil. * Gecko: An ex-superhero with superhuman regeneration who appears exclusively in ''The Boys'' live-action TV series adaptation, portrayed by David W. Thompson. After retiring as a superhero, Gecko became a technician at Vought International while secretly engaging in S&M acts and using his powers to become a body broker. Starlight finds out about the latter and uses it to blackmail Gecko into procuring Compound V for her. * Termite: A Supe with the ability to shrink who appears exclusively in ''The Boys'' live-action TV series adaptation, portrayed by Brett Geddes. Following a CGI cameo in the first season, the Boys shadow him in the third season as he has sex with and accidentally kills his boyfriend after unintentionally returning to his normal size while inside his boyfriend's genitals. Upon discovering them, Termite attempts to kill the Boys before Butcher puts the miniature Termite in a bag of cocaine, causing him to overdose. To Butcher's anger, Termite is hospitalized instead of arrested because of Vought and Termite's contract with Terminix. Following this, Termite attends Herogasm, during which he is wounded by Soldier Boy's energy blast, trapped in his miniaturized state, and accidentally stepped on by Homelander. He is a parody of Marvel Comics' Ant-Man. * Moonshadow: An African-American superhero who appears exclusively in ''The Boys'' live-action TV series adaptation episode "Barbary Coast", portrayed by Abigail Whitney. She competes for a spot in the Seven in the reality show ''American Hero'' in which she becomes a finalist before losing to Supersonic and the Deep. * Blue Hawk: A New Jersey-based Supe who appears exclusively in ''The Boys'' live-action adaptation, portrayed by Nick Wechsler (actor), Nick Wechsler. Due to his use of excessive force against African-American individuals, A-Train and Ashley Barrett arrange for him to issue a public apology. However, Blue Hawk and several of the attendees incite a violent confrontation, resulting in innocents being injured and A-Train's brother being paralyzed. While attending Herogasm, Blue Hawk survives Soldier Boy's inadvertent attack before he is killed by A-Train. After A-Train suffers heart failure, Blue Hawk's heart is transplanted into him while Vought covers up the latter's death. * Big Chief Apache: A Native American Supe who appears exclusively in ''The Boys'' live-action TV series portrayed by Austin Jones. He starred in different anti-littering public service announcements and had a history with #The Legend, The Legend where they attended the premiere of ''Marathon Man (film), Marathon Man'' with
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as mentioned in "The Last Time to Look into the World of Lies". Footage of his anti-litter PSA was seen in "Beware the Jabberwock, My Son". * Wrangler: A Supe with a nutjob reputation. His picture appeared in ''The Boys'' episode "Department of Dirty Tricks" when the Seven were going through possible recruits for the Seven. Ashley Barrett stated that Vought's San Antonio office had to cover up the deaths of the migrants he caused. As Homelander states that he likes Wrangler, Ashley reiterates her nutjob comment with the Deep agreeing with her on it. * Splinter: A multiplying Supe who appears exclusively in ''The Boys'' live-action TV series adaption, portrayed by Rob Benedict. He can multiply which wrecks his clothes enough to render him naked. He is a friend of Firecracker friend zone, with unrequited feelings towards her and secretly does butt-sucking activities with his clones. When Sister Sage gave Firecracker an audition to take out Mother's Milk, Frenchie, and the Female upon luring them into a trap, Splinter helped Firecracker in trying to kill them which ultimately affected a neighboring bat mitzvah. Billy Butcher joined the battle against Splinter's clones. When Butcher killed Splinter Prime, one of the clones stated to Firecracker that they still love her before they all fell dead. * Great Wide Wonder: A Supe who can fly at supersonic speed and appears exclusively in ''The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' animated series episode "I'm Your Pusher" (which takes place in the comic series' continuity), voiced by Michael Cera. In retaliation for him taking female college students into Earth's orbit to have sex before leaving them in space, Butcher threatens the Great Wide Wonder's drug dealer OD into spiking his heroin enema with a chemical Frenchie developed to make the former lose control and kill himself along with Ironcast. * Ironcast: An overweight Supe with super-strength and skin made of iron who appears exclusively in ''The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' animated series episode "I'm Your Pusher" (which takes place in the comic series' continuity), voiced by
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. The Boys target him in retaliation for him drinking terminally ill children's blood to treat his erectile dysfunction. While participating in a public event celebrating the Great Wide Wonder, Ironcast is killed by him while he was affected by spiked heroin.


Other characters


Robin

Robin Mawhinney is Hughie's girlfriend who is indirectly killed by A-Train. Robin Ward appears in the live-action television series, portrayed by Jess Salgueiro. This version was directly killed by A-Train, who unknowingly ran through her while on Compound V.


Rebecca Saunders

Rebecca Joanne "Becky" Saunders is Butcher's deceased wife and a social worker in 1980s London who was capable of convincing him to control his violent urges.''Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker'' #3 (2011). Dynamite Entertainment.Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker #6 (2011). Dynamite Entertainment. After being raped by Black Noir dressed as the Homelander,Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker #5 (2011). Dynamite Entertainment.''The Boys'' #65 (2012). Dynamite Entertainment. she eventually dies giving birth to a Supe baby.''Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker'' #4 (2011). Dynamite Entertainment. Rebecca "Becca" Saunders Butcher appears in the live-action television series, portrayed by Shantel VanSanten. This version was Vought International's Senior Director of Digital Marketing who disappeared after she was coerced by Homelander into having sex with him. Butcher believed that Homelander killed her while Jonah Vogelbaum claimed to Homelander that Becca died giving birth, with the child drowning in its mother's blood. In the first-season finale, it is revealed that Becca is alive and caring for Homelander's son, Ryan. In the second season, it is further revealed that Becca lives in a gated community-esque compound run by Vought International after coming to them when she learned she had become pregnant with Ryan and is reluctant to leave due to how Butcher would react to him. After Homelander and Stormfront take Ryan, Becca asks for Butcher's help in saving her son, but is accidentally killed by Ryan in his attempt to save her from Stormfront. Becca later appears as Butcher's hallucinations and even interacted with the hallucination of Joe Kessler.


Love Sausage

Vasili "Vas" Vorishikin / The Love Sausage is an altruistic Russian communist; ex-police officer, tank commander, and superhero; and current owner of a bar in Moscow with a foot-long, super-strong, and durable Human penis, penis. Additionally, he used to be part of the Glorious Five Year Plan, a team of five government owned superheroes that also included the Tractor, Purge, Red Banner, and Collectivo while the Soviet Union was active. On friendly terms with the Boys, he bonds with Hughie and assists them against Stormfront until he is stated to have been killed. A character loosely based on Love Sausage appears in the live-action television adaptation, portrayed by Andrew Jackson (actor), Andrew Jackson in the second season and Derek Johns in the third and fourth seasons. Introduced in the episode "The Bloody Doors Off", this version is a test subject of Compound V held at Vought's Sage Grove psychiatric hospital who gained a prehensile penis that can stretch to incredible lengths. Following the hospital's rebranding as a wellness center in the
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''Seven on 7 with Cameron Coleman'', Love Sausage returns in the third-season episode "Herogasm" as a participant in the titular event, during which he survives Soldier Boy's inadvertent attack, though his penis is burnt. In the season four finale, his penis has fully healed as he assists the Vought Troopers in apprehending M.M. at the airport.


Super-Duper

Super-Duper is a group of low-powered, and in some cases, mentally challenged, teens who function as a support group for disabled individuals living in a group home. In describing the atypical characters, Ennis states, "They're unique in the world of the Boys in that they actually are heroes – they believe in truth and justice, they fight to make the world a better place and ask nothing in return. They are, in short, a million miles from the scumbag supes we've seen up 'til now." They are a loose satire of the Legion of Super-Heroes. * Malchemical: The team's atypical new leader with shapeshifting powers who was removed from Team Titanic and assigned to Super-Duper. In ''The Boys'' episode "Department of Dirty Tricks", Malchemical was among the 25 Supe candidates for the Seven. * Auntie Sis: A member of Super-Duper and their true leader, who the others look to for what they should be doing. * Ladyfold: A member of Super-Duper whose powers are related to her Menstruation, periods. * Stool Shadow: A member of Super-Duper who assumes that she can go intangible. * Kid Camo: A member of Super-Duper who can perform liquid camouflage. * Klanker: A member of Super-Duper able to transform into an anvil, who has Tourette's syndrome. * Black Hole: A member of Super-Duper able to consume anything through his mouth, who chokes on a spoon before being saved by Hughie. * Bobbie Badoing: A member of Super-Duper with an indestructible round body, which he uses to bounce off of anything.


Dr. Peculiar

Dr. Peculiar is an information trader whose parents injected him with Compound V when he was young granting him unknown abilities. In ''The Boys'' episode "Department of Dirty Tricks", Dr. Peculiar was among the 25 possible candidates for the Seven.


Talon

Talon is a superhero with retractable carbon nails. While as a supervillain, she was an enemy of Tek Knight and Swingwing. She has also done some hero work. Talon's picture is seen in ''The Boys'' episode "Department of Dirty Tricks" when the Seven were going through possible recruits for the Seven and is said to come from the Redlands where she is 1/8 Navajo. In addition, she is a social media influencer on Instagram and V and starred in ''Heat of the Knight'' with Tek Knight as well as having different pilots that never took off. Ashley states that Talon is big on social media and suggests her as a recruit only for The Deep to call her a "butterface".


Terror

Terror is Billy Butcher's durable pet bulldog who he is violently protective of and has been trained to fornicate with anything on his command. He is later killed by Jack from Jupiter. After being alluded to in the first season of the live-action television series adaptation, Terror appears in the second season living with Butcher's drug dealer aunt. Additionally, the comic book version of Terror appears in '' The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' animated series episode "I'm Your Pusher".


Proinsias

Proinsias Cassidy is an Irish bartender, former vampire, and drinking buddy of Billy Butcher who runs an Irish pub called "The Grassy Knoll" in New York City and was introduced in ''Preacher (comics), Preacher''. Proinsias appears in AMC (TV channel), AMC's unrelated TV series adaptation of ''Preacher (TV series), Preacher'' and GraphicAudio's 2020 Radio drama, audio play series of ''The Boys (comics)#Audiobook series, The Boys'', portrayed by Joe Gilgun and voiced by Michael John Casey respectively.


Little Nina

Little Nina is a diminutive Russian mafia crime boss allied with Vought American who is tasked with creating more supes on their behalf and has a penchant for vibrators. She plans to stage a coup against the Russian government, but is betrayed by Vought and killed by Butcher after he replaces one of her vibrators with an explosive. "Little Nina" Namenko appears in the live-action television series adaptation, portrayed by Katia Winter. This version is of normal height, married to her primary enforcer Yevgenny, and was Frenchie's former employer and lover.


Mr. and Mrs. Campbell

Alexander Fergus and Daphne Margaret Campbell, also known simply as Mr. and Mrs. Campbell are Wee Hughie's adoptive parents who raised him in the semi-idyllic Scottish seaside town of Auchterladle. Introduced in ''Highland Laddie'', Billy Butcher later secretly meets with and befriends them to acquire enough information about them to trick Hughie into thinking he had murdered them in the hopes that Hughie will kill Butcher in turn. As of the epilogue series ''Dear Becky'', which is set twelve years after the main series, Mr. and Mrs. Campbell have died. Hugh Campbell Sr. appears in the live-action television series adaptation, portrayed by Simon Pegg, the original facial likeness reference for Wee Hughie. Daphne Campbell, his estranged wife and Hughie's mother, is mentioned as having abandoned the pair when Hughie was a child, with Hughie's love of Billy Joel stemming from his childhood memories of her. She later showed up in person in season four where she was portrayed by Rosemarie DeWitt. Unlike the comics, the Campbells are depicted as being Hughie's biological parents. When Hugh Sr. came down with a stroke, Hughie planned to use Compound V on his dad only to change his mind. Daphne used the Compound V that Hughie dropped on Hugh Sr. instead. Even though it enabled Hugh Sr. to recuperate, he started to have memory failure and uncontrollable powers which killed some of the staff and patients. Hughie was able to talk him down and had to euthanize him with some chemicals. Before dying, Hugh Sr. admitted that he always wanted to go to Paris. His ashes were secretly scattered in front of one of the hotels where ''Maid in Manhattan'' was filmed.


Sam and Connie Butcher

Sam and Connie Butcher are Billy and Lenny's parents. Sam was an alcoholic who physically abused Connie and favored Billy over Lenny, who he also abused due to how similar he believed Lenny was to Connie, which caused Billy to resent Sam. After an incident that left Connie partially blind, Billy nearly kills Sam before eventually leaving to join the Royal Marines. Connie eventually leaves Sam and remarries while Sam is left to die alone. Butcher's parents appear in the live-action adaptation, portrayed by John Noble and Lesley Nicol (actress), Lesley Nicol in the present respectively while Brendan Murray and Adrianna Prosser portray them in flashbacks. This version of the couple are still together during the events of the main series. After Sam is diagnosed with cancer, he and Connie fly to New York to tell Butcher, who attacks his father. She later meets with Butcher, telling him she sought to give him closure.


Lenny Butcher

Lenny Butcher is Billy's younger brother and the son of Sam and Connie Butcher. Lenny was one of the few people able to calm Billy when he went berserk before the former was killed by a bus before the events of the comic series. Lenny Butcher appears in the live-action TV series adaptation, portrayed by Jack Fulton as a teenager and Bruno Rudolf as a child. This version bears a resemblance to Hughie, committed suicide years prior to the series due to constant abuse from his father, and appears in Billy's hallucinations.


Todd

Todd is an avid bespectacled fan of superheroes who idolizes Queen Maeve in particular, always referring to her as "my lady" and serving as a part of her harem of Casual dating, casual lovers at Vought Tower. When the Homelander elects to execute Maeve ahead of enacting his coup, Todd obliviously offers to protect Maeve from the "gone bad" Homelander. She throws Todd directly at the Homelander, with the former declaring himself a willing "human shield" in her honor before he is killed. Todd appears in the live-action TV series adaptation, portrayed by Matthew Gorman. This version became Monique's boyfriend and Janine's step-father following the former's separation from Mother's Milk and idolizes Homelander following his birthday rant, to the point where Todd attends pro-Homelander rallies and believes everything Homelander says. He is killed by Black Noir II after being told to do so by Homelander.


Monique

Monique Wallis is MM's ex-wife, Janine's mother, and a drug addict incapable of raising the prematurely-ageing Janine properly. Monique appears in the live-action TV series adaptation, portrayed by Alvina August in the first season and Frances Turner in the third. This version is not a drug addict. Additionally, she disagrees with MM working with Butcher due to the danger it puts on their lives. In the third season, Monique begins seeing Todd while maintaining a healthy co-parenting relationship with MM. Though she breaks up with Todd by season 4 for trying to indoctrinate Janine, Monique asks MM to ensure Todd's safety, which goes awry when the Seven kill him. Monique still has feelings for MM and convinces him to join her and Janine in Belize when he tells them to escape there, though he backs out when the situation gets worse.


Janine

Janine Wallis is M.M. and Monique's young daughter. After being raised by M.M. alone due to her mother's drug addiction, Janine becomes rebellious and resentful of her father due to the Compound V passed genetically to her from him and her grandmother resulting in her prematurely aging (although she appears to be a 16–17-year-old teenager physically, she is actually 12-years-old chronologically), showing him great disrespect while regarding Butcher with affection, calling him "Uncle Billy." Sometime later, having been absent due to helping Butcher with the Boys, M.M. discovers that in an act of rebellion, his ex-wife had convinced the underage Janine to star in a pornographic film together with her. Before he can leave the Boys to confront his ex-wife over Janine, M.M. then gets a call from his daughter, who tells him that she was not in her right mind, and has run away from her mother, and wants to be left alone until she is well enough to call him. However, he tracks her down easily, and she reveals that Butcher murdered the producers and cast of the adult film, including brutally murdering Janine's mother in front of her. His final words, meant both as a warning and as a threat, were for Janine to leave M.M. alone; Janine expresses surprise at M.M.'s ignorance of Butcher's actions, having assumed he had been acting on M.M's orders, and M.M. assures her he will talk to Butcher. Janine Milk appears in the live-action TV series adaptation, portrayed by Nalini Ingrita in the first two seasons and Liyou Abere in the third season. This version has a close relationship with her father and has not taken Compound V, though she has taken on her father's anger issues and beaten up classmates in school, to the dismay of both her parents.


Television-exclusive characters


Laser Baby

"Laser Baby" is a character exclusive to the live-action television adaptation episode "Good for the Soul" and the ''Diabolical'' animated series episode "Laser Baby's Day Out", with her vocal effects provided by Jenny Yokobori in the latter. The live-action version makes a minor appearance while the animated version was trained by Vought International scientist Simon to control her powers in the hopes that she will be adopted. After learning that she is going to be euthanized by Superbrain for failing every test she was given, Simon escapes with her, intending to adopt her himself.


Donna January

Donna January is Starlight's emotionally abusive mother, portrayed by Ann Cusack. She initially supports of her daughter's dreams of joining the Seven for her own financial gain until Annie cuts her off upon learning the truth behind her powers. She is based on Starlight's unnamed mother from the comics. In season two, Donna goes on the run after being rescued from Vought. In season four, Donna finally answers Annie's calls where she is advised to continue laying low. While confronting Annie about the abortion that Firecracker exposed about her, Donna commented that Hughie saved Annie's Starlight outfit.


Cherie

Cherie is Frenchie's former criminal partner, a weapons specialist, and occasional ally of the Boys, portrayed by Jordana Lajoie. In addition to providing the Boys with weapons and supplies, she also serves as Frenchie's confidant and occasional romantic partner before their relationship becomes strained when Cherie provides Kimiko with assassination jobs.


Nathan Franklin

Nathan Franklin is A-Train's older brother and coach, portrayed by Christian Keyes. He tries to push A-Train to become the fastest superhero in the world without using Compound V. In the third season, Nathan is hospitalized and paralyzed amidst an attempt by A-Train and Ashley Barrett to make Blue Hawk issue a public apology to Trenton, New Jersey's African-American community. Upon learning A-Train killed Blue Hawk, Nathan's relationship with his brother becomes strained. When A-Train talked with his nephews in season four, Nathan ruined their conversation by mentioning about how the rescues he did in the film were done with post-production work as A-Train still tried to mend his relationship with a departing Nathan who also told his kids not to hang around him.


Elena

Elena is Queen Maeve's ex-girlfriend whom she still has feelings for, portrayed by Nicola Correia-Damude.


Ryan Butcher

Ryan Butcher is the young son of Homelander and Becca Butcher exclusive to the live-action television adaptation, portrayed by Parker Corno in the first season and Cameron Crovetti in the second, third, and fourth seasons. Ryan's conception was Pregnancy from rape, due to Homelander raping his mother. He lives a sheltered life with Becca at the behest of Vought until Homelander learns of his existence and begins visiting him. Ryan is initially reluctant to be with his father, who pushes him to use his powers, but warms up to him after learning the truth about his life. Ryan is subsequently taken by Homelander and Stormfront before he is rescued by the Boys, during which he accidentally kills Becca while fighting off and maiming Stormfront. Following this, Ryan is placed in Mallory's custody and placed in hiding. Despite forming a bond with Butcher, Ryan's relationship becomes strained after Butcher accuses him of killing Becca, which Ryan starts to resent him for. With Congresswoman Victoria Neuman's help, Homelander finds and successfully wins back Ryan, going on to protect him from Soldier Boy and killing a protester who throws a water bottle at Ryan. During season four, Homelander works to make Ryan a better hero even when Ryan accidentally kills the actor portraying the villain of his debut rescue. Ryan, who still cares for Butcher, sneaks out to visit him and notices Butcher's terminal illness. This strains his relationship with Homelander after the latter begins to notice. Though Homelander promises his son more freedoms, wary of his own upraising in a lab by scientists who aimed to control him, Ryan begins to use them to publicly stand up to his father, denouncing the ''Avenue V Christmas Special'' and its propaganda message during its live broadcast. When Homelander finds a picture of Butcher and Becca in Ryan's possession, Ryan runs away when Homelander threatens him with violence. He and meets up with Mallory and Butcher, the latter on his deathbed. When Mallory reveals the truth behind Ryan's conception and Homelander's other atrocities despite Butcher's protests, Ryan lashes out and accidentally kills her when she pressures him to join her and he runs away, not knowing who to trust. This pushes Butcher to embrace the tumor inside him and become symbiosis, symbiotic with it. Ryan is based on the unnamed infant son of Black Noir and Becky Saunders who Butcher beat to death in the comic series.


Kenji Miyashiro

Kenji Miyashiro is Kimiko's younger brother and a Supe with telekinetic abilities, portrayed by Abraham Lim (actor), Abraham Lim. Years prior, he was kidnapped by the Shining Light Liberation Army and successfully indoctrinated into joining them. In the present, he travels to the U.S. to commit terrorist acts in response to Vought's work in other countries and tries to convince Kimiko to join him before he is pursued by the Boys and Seven and killed by Stormfront.


Adam Bourke

Adam Bourke is a film director, portrayed by P.J. Byrne. Throughout the second and third seasons of ''The Boys'' live-action series adaptation, he is hired by Vought to helm a film about the Seven called ''Dawn of the Seven''. After Stormfront's Nazi past is leaked and her subsequent expulsion from the Seven, he spends the next year overseeing re-shoots carried out by Tony Gilroy and eventually releases the "Bourke Cut" of the film. In the live-action spin-off series ''
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'', Bourke became an acting teacher at Godolkin University after reportedly showing his penis to Minka Kelly. In season four of ''The Boys'', Adam directs the film ''Training A-Train''. When Ryan sees Adam making P.A. Bonnie uncomfortable, he orders Adam to apologize to him which isn't good enough. At Homelander's suggestion, Ryan has P.A. Bonnie repeatedly slap Adam.


Church of the Collective

The Church of the Collective is a cult that recruit celebrities to help spread their message and appears exclusively in the live-action television adaptation. The group is a satire of the controversial, real-life religious organization Church of Scientology. Its known members are: * Alastair Adana: The chairman of the church, portrayed by Goran Višnjić. He works with the Deep and later A-Train rehabilitate their reputations and helps the latter rejoin the Seven before Adana is killed by Congresswoman Victoria Neuman, with the church covering up his death by stating that he is on sabbatical. Billy Zane portrayed Alastair Adana in the film ''Not Without My Dolphin''. * Carol Mannheim: A minor member of the church, portrayed by Jessica Hecht. When Eagle the Archer brought the Deep to the Church, Carol became his therapist and has him undergo an arranged marriage. * Cassandra Schwartz: A ruthless and manipulative anthropology professor at Vassar University and member of the church, portrayed by Katy Breier. After being chosen by Carol for an arranged marriage to the Deep and his return to the Seven, Schwartz becomes his agent before leaving and publicly disavowing the Deep for suggesting they have a threesome with an octopus. Following this, she writes an exposé about their relationship and receives a book and film deal based on it.


Judy Atkinson

Judy Atkinson is Billy Butcher's aunt, Terror's caretaker, and drug dealer, portrayed by Barbara Gordon.


Jay

Jay is Frenchie and Cherie's best friend and former partner who is stated to have died of an overdose, portrayed by Michael Ayres.


Cindy

Cindy is a telekinetic Supe, portrayed by Ess Hödlmoser. She first appears in the second season of the live-action TV series adaptation as a test subject at the Sage Grove psychiatric hospital, where Vought has been working to stabilize Compound V in adults. After the Boys infiltrate the facility and fight Lamplighter, they inadvertently release Cindy, who in turn frees her fellow patients to go on a rampage. Despite being incapacitated by Stormfront, Cindy survives and successfully escapes the facility where she was last seen being picked up by a passing driver. As of the
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'', Black Noir was dispatched by Vought to find Cindy. In the season four finale, Vought has obtained Cindy's services as she assists the Vought Troopers in intercepting Hughie and Starlight on the road. Though Hughie was apprehended, Starlight got away.


Cameron Coleman

Cameron Coleman is a television host for the Vought News Network and host of ''
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'' and ''The Cameron Coleman Hour'', portrayed by Matthew Edison. During season four, Cameron hosted the Vought Expo with the Deep which revealed the upcoming Vought movies and TV shows. The Deep did state to Cameron that he will sleep with his wife. Cameron was later framed for leaking the footage of Firecracker to M.M. as Homelander has the Seven kill him. Before he starts, The Deep tells Cameron that he's still going to sleep with his wife. Vought covered up his death stating that Cameron is taking a sabbatical as Firecracker takes on his hosting duty. Then Vought did another cover-up by revealing that Cameron was found dead from a brain aneurysm allegedly caused by the flu vaccine.


Edison Cardosa

Dr. Edison Cardosa is a therapist for a secret facility called "the Woods", located underneath Godolkin University, who appears in ''
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'', portrayed by Marco Pigossi.


Other television-exclusive characters

* Teddy Stillwell: The son of Madelyn Stillwell who appears exclusively in the live-action TV series adaptation, portrayed by uncredited infant and child actors. As Homelander was killing his mother during the first-season finale, Teddy developed teleportation and was later found seventeen miles away from the blast site during the second season. In the third season, Teddy has become a toddler and was taken in by the Vought-controlled Red River orphanage. * Zoe Neuman: The daughter of Victoria Neuman and adopted granddaughter of Stan Edgar who appears exclusively in the live-action TV series adaption, portrayed by Olivia Morandin. After receiving Compound V from Homelander, Victoria injects Zoe with it which she gained the ability to produce four tendrils from her mouth lined with sharp teeth. Following her mother's death, Zoe was placed in Red River Institute. * Yevgenny: Little Nina's husband and primary mob enforcer who appears exclusively in the live-action TV series adaption, portrayed by Tyler Williams. He kidnaps Kimiko and Frenchie on Nina's orders, but is later killed by the former. * Buster Beaver: The mascot of "Buster Beaver's Pizza Restaurant" who appears exclusively in the live-action TV series adaption, voiced by Eric Bauza. Beaver, alongside his fellow animal mascots from the restaurant, appear as Black Noir's imaginary friends through the latter's life to help him come to terms with his traumatic memories. After Homelander killed Black Noir, he hallucinated seeing Buster and his friends telling him that they are proud of him. ** Buster Beaver's Friends: The unnamed friends of Buster Beaver who re-enact Black Noir's life. They consist of a black sheep (voiced by Fritzy-Klevans Destine) who portrayed a younger Black Noir, a bald eagle (voiced by Jensen Ackles) who portrayed Soldier Boy, a meerkat (voiced by
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) who portrayed Stan Edgar, a red fox (voiced by Laurie Holden) who portrayed Crimson Countess, two horses (voiced by Jack Booth (actor), Jack Booth and Kristin Holden) who portrayed the TNT Twins, a pig (voiced by Gattlin Griffith) who portrayed Gunpowder, a sheep (voiced by Ryan Blakely) who portrayed Mindstorm, and two birds (voiced by Grey DeLisle). When Black Noir was killed by Homelander, they appear to Black Noir one final time to tell him that they are proud of him. * Colin Hauser: A man who appears exclusively in the live-action TV series adaption, portrayed by Elliot Knight. He is from the same narcotics anonymous group as Frenchie who is a member of the Starlighters. While he took a liking to Frenchie, their relationship was strained when Frenchie, out of guilt, revealed that he killed Colin's family members on Little Nina's orders. * Ambrosius: The secret pet octopus of the Deep who appears exclusively in season four of the live-action TV series adaption, voiced by Tilda Swinton. While arguing with the Deep that Sister Sage is using him, the Deep accidentally breaks Ambrosius' tank and he regrettably lets her suffocate. * Elijah: A butler of Tek Knight who is exclusive to the live-action TV series adaption, portrayed by Tyrone Benskin. He has raised Tek Knight since his parents were killed and has a mixed relationship with him. After Tek Knight mentioned to Hughie about how Homelander wants to make use of his prisons after Starlight and the Female transferred some of his money to three organizations, Elijah appeared and started to strangle Tek Knight to death which he starts to enjoy. He allows them to leave while stating that he and Laddio will make it look like an accident. Before Hughie leaves, Elijah states that the code word that Tek Knight was expecting from Webweaver was "Zendaya". * Simon: A former Vought International scientist who appears exclusively in ''The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' animated series episode "Laser Baby's Day Out", voiced by Ben Schwartz. He originally worked in Vought International's Vought-doption Center under Superbrain, testing babies that were given Compound V. After growing attached to a "Laser Baby" and learning she was going to be euthanized, Simon escapes with and adopts her. * Barb: The head nurse of the Red River Assisted Living for the Gifted Child center who appears exclusively in ''The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' animated series episode "An Animated Short Where Pissed-Off Supes Kill Their Parents", voiced by Frances Conroy. * Ghost: A translucent, intangible, and naked Supe who appears exclusively in ''The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' animated series episode "An Animated Short Where Pissed-Off Supes Kill Their Parents", voiced by Asjha Cooper. After being abandoned at the Red River orphanage by her parents and learning their powers are not natural, she joins forces with other Supe teens to take revenge on their parents. After killing her dad, Homelander kills her allies, forcing Ghost to retreat while tearfully telling her spiteful mother that she'll be back for her someday. * Mo-Slo: An athlete who became extremely slow and appears exclusively in ''The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' animated series episode "An Animated Short Where Pissed-Off Supes Kill Their Parents", voiced by Caleb McLaughlin. * Boombox: A muscular man with a speaker for a head that can only play "Only Wanna Be with You" by Hootie & the Blowfish who appears exclusively in ''The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' animated series episode "An Animated Short Where Pissed-Off Supes Kill Their Parents". * Fang: A teenage girl who grew long sharp teeth that can almost bite through anything and appears exclusively in ''The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' animated series episode "An Animated Short Where Pissed-Off Supes Kill Their Parents", voiced by Grey DeLisle, Grey Griffin. * Kingdom: A teenage Punk subculture, punk who can turn into animals, but ends up with its mind as well, and appears exclusively in ''The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' animated series episode "An Animated Short Where Pissed-Off Supes Kill Their Parents", voiced by Parker Simmons. * Aqua Agua: A boy who was turned into a sentient body of water colored like the Flag of Mexico and appears exclusively in ''The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' animated series episode "An Animated Short Where Pissed-Off Supes Kill Their Parents", voiced by Xolo Maridueña. * Big: A deformed giant who appears exclusively in ''The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' animated series episode "An Animated Short Where Pissed-Off Supes Kill Their Parents", voiced by Parker Simmons. * Human Tongue: A best friend of Big's whose body was turned into a giant tongue and appears exclusively in ''The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' animated series episode "An Animated Short Where Pissed-Off Supes Kill Their Parents". * Picante Balls: A teenage boy with testicles that can melt anything who appears exclusively in ''The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' animated series episode "An Animated Short Where Pissed-Off Supes Kill Their Parents". * Ranch Dressing Cum Squirter: A boy who ejaculates ranch dressing instead of semen and appears exclusively in ''The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' animated series episodes "An Animated Short Where Pissed-Off Supes Kill Their Parents" and "I'm Your Pusher" (which takes place in the comic book continuity). * Boobie-Face: A man born with female breasts where his eyes should be that appears exclusively in ''The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' animated series episode "An Animated Short Where Pissed-Off Supes Kill Their Parents", voiced by Kevin Smith. He was raised by a sadistic mother. * Flashback: A teenage boy with retrocognition who appears exclusively in ''The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' animated series episode "An Animated Short Where Pissed-Off Supes Kill Their Parents". * Papers: A teenage boy who can telekinetically control his namesake and appears exclusively in ''The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' animated series episode "An Animated Short Where Pissed-Off Supes Kill Their Parents", voiced by Justin Roiland. * The Narrator: A metafictional, wheelchair-bound boy with dwarfism and namesake powers who appears exclusively in the animated series episode "An Animated Short Where Pissed-Off Supes Kill Their Parents", voiced by Christian Slater. * OD: A drug dealer who works directly with Supes and appears exclusively in ''The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' animated series episode "I'm Your Pusher", voiced by Kieran Culkin. Billy Butcher blackmails him into spiking the Great Wide Wonder's heroin to make the Supe kill himself during an event held by the Seven in exchange for not turning him over to the police. * Boyd Doone: A Vought product tester who appears exclusively in ''The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' animated series episode "Boyd in 3D", voiced by Eliot Glazer. After using an experimental Vought transformation cream, he projects a reality where he successfully seduces his next-door-neighbor Cherry and they go on to have a relationship together. While his head in the original reality explodes from using too much cream, his fantasy continues on. * Cherry Sinclair: A neighbor of Boyd's who appears exclusively in ''The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' animated series episode "Boyd in 3D", voiced by Nasim Pedrad. In Boyd's fantasy, he and Cherry enter a relationship and become famous influencers, during which she uses Vought's experimental transformation cream to give herself feline features. * Sky: A teenage girl who appears exclusively in ''The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' animated series episode "BFFs", voiced by Awkwafina. After ingesting Compound V she had stolen from a local drug dealer, she awakes to find that her feces has attained sentience and named itself Areola before it is arrested by the Deep for Vought to study. Sky mounts a rescue attempt, during which she discovers she can manipulate excrement while fighting the Deep. ** Areola: Sky's sentient feces who appears in ''The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' animated series episode "BFFs", voiced by Awkwafina. * Maya: The daughter of superheroes Nubia and the Nubian Prince who appears exclusively in ''The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' animated series episode "Nubian vs Nubian", voiced by Somali Rose. As her parents prepare to file for divorce, Maya seeks to "The Parent Trap (franchise), parent trap" them back together by blackmailing their old Vought-sponsored nemesis, Groundhawk, into pretending to kidnap her. After the plan fails, Maya signs her parents' divorce forms for them and blackmails them into getting her a pony. * John: An elderly Vought janitor who appears exclusively in ''The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' animated series episode "John and Sun-Hee", voiced by Randall Duk Kim. * Sun-Hee: John's terminally ill, elderly wife who appears exclusively in ''The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' animated series episode "John and Sun-Hee", voiced by Youn Yuh-jung. John injects her with Compound V in an effort to cure her terminal pancreatic cancer, only to unintentionally give her and her cancer superpowers, with the latter becoming a separate monstrous being. John attempts to run away with her, but she leaves to fight her superpowered cancer. * Pancreatic Cancer Monster: The pancreatic cancer of Sun-Hee who appears in ''The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' animated series episode "John and Sun-Hee". When Sun-Hee was given Compound V, her terminal pancreatic cancer was affected, separated from her, and became a floating monster that ate anything. The episode ends with Sun-Hee and the Pancreated Cancer Monster fighting each other. * Tiffany Meyer: The mother of Emma Meyer and former host of the Vought Shopping Network who appears exclusively in the live-action spin-off series ''
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'', portrayed by Rayisa Kondracki. * Kayla and Paul Li: Jordan Li's parents who appear exclusively in the live-action spin-off series ''Gen V'', portrayed by Laura Kai Chen and Peter Kim respectively. * Mrs. Dunlap: Cate's mother who appears exclusively in the live-action spin-off series ''Gen V'', portrayed by Samantha Espie.


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