Amazon Prime’s The Boys is heading into Season 5, and as the final season rolls in, it’s a good time to look at the cast of characters from the source material. The Boys by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson feature the same characters, but each of them has a fate that might differ from the live-action series. After all, there are many similarities, but also many differences between the two.
The fates of the characters in The Boys are important to understand where the characters could end up toward the end of Season 5, or if they manage to make it out alive. The most important characters will be the Seven and the Boys themselves, with each member of the warring factions found below.
Spoilers ahead for The Boys
10 Mother’s Milk
Has His Face Exploded With A Grenade, Then Smothered To Death By Butcher
- First Appearance: The Boys #2
- Last Appearance: The Boys #68
Upon discovering Billy Butcher’s ultimate plans beyond the point of vengeance on Homelander, Mother’s Milk tries to use his naturally enhanced strength to stop Butcher from hurting more people who don’t deserve it. Sadly, Butcher had already accounted for M.M.’s soft side and decided to sacrifice his own hand to detonate a grenade in Mother’s Milk’s face. The grenade blew off M.M.’s face, leaving him murmuring helplessly as Butcher finishes him off by smothering him.
9 Frenchie and Kimiko
Both Are Killed In An Explosion Caused By Butcher
- First Appearance: The Boys #2
- Last Appearance: The Boys #69
Returning to their base of operations, Frenchie found the remains of Mother’s Milk. Knowing that there was probably no stopping Butcher, especially with the loss of his arm, Frenchie elected to be the guy in the chair, and remained with Kimiko late into a restless night. Together, they heard a strange noise and lifted a curtain to discover a bundle of explosives with a charge 2 seconds away from detonation. Frenchie and Kimiko embrace, and Frenchie confesses that from the moment he met Kimiko, he loved her. The explosion was so powerful that it took out the building, killing Frenchie and Kimiko instantly.
8 Billy Butcher
Kills Homelander, The Boys, And Then Is Killed By Hughie
- First Appearance: The Boys #1
- Last Appearance: The Boys #71
There’s no one more diabolical than Billy Butcher. After his beloved dog Terror was killed by Jack from Jupiter, Butcher went further down the warpath that he started all those years ago after the death of his beloved Becky. After Becky was avenged and Homelander was killed at the White House, Butcher was unable to move on without setting in motion his ultimate antagonist plan which involved him killing the Boys and everyone with Compound V with an airborne virus. Hughie stopped Butcher and paralyzed him, only to be killed by Hughie soon after so he wouldn’t live his life in a cell without sensation in his body.
7 Hughie Campbell
Kills Butcher And Marries Starlight
- First Appearance: The Boys #1
- Last Appearance: The Boys: Dear Becky #8
Hughie has never had it easy. Despite a good relationship with his father, Hughie’s girlfriend, Robin, was killed by A-Train after the superhero ran into her on accident, causing her to be a spluttering red mist on his clothes. Hughie then worked closely with Butcher to eradicate the supes that deserved it, but the two came to blows when Butcher revealed his plan to kill everyone with Compound V in their system, effectively causing genocide. Hughie kills Butcher in a blind rage by stabbing him in the chest, and a decade later, marries Starlight in his hometown in Scotland.
6 Starlight
Survives And Marries Hughie
- First Appearance: The Boys #3
- Last Appearance: The Boys: Dear Becky #8
Starlight had been through a lot during her time as a superhero. Sexually assaulted by the Seven, and someone who Homelander wanted to brutally murder, Starlight managed to survive through it all, even if that was not always by Hughie’s side. By the end of The Boys, Starlight (Annie January) rekindled her love for Hughie and supported him after the death of his friends, and years later, she married him and moved to Scotland.
5 A-Train
Kidnapped By Butcher And Has His Head Kicked Off By Hughie
- First Appearance: The Boys #1
- Last Appearance: The Boys #63
A-Train is the catalyst for Hughie’s violent streak and entry into Butcher’s band of misfits and super-killers. A-Train murdered Hughie’s girlfriend by accidentally running into her, thus causing him to want total revenge. Butcher kidnaps A-Train and makes Hughie listen to a recording about the death of his girlfriend, Robin. Enraged, Hughie kicks A-Train in the head, and with Compound V in his veins, it causes his head to come clean off.
4 The Deep
Refuses To Aid In Homelander’s Coup And Then Joins A New Superhero Team Called Truth
- First Appearance: The Boys #4
- Last Appearance: The Boys #72
Deciding that he would have no part in Homelander’s evil regime over the United States, the Deep ran away from the Seven and instead waited out the mayhem until there was a victor. The Deep returned to a standard superhero life under the payroll of a rebranded Vought to become one of the members of Truth, a superhero team that seemed completely lackluster and had their outfits fitted like the KKK.
3 Queen Maeve
Killed By Homelander For Trying To Defend Starlight
- First Appearance: The Boys #3
- Last Appearance: The Boys #63
After years of substance abuse and a thorough lack of caring about the state of the world and the superheroes in it, Queen Maeve found hope again with Starlight’s attempt to stop Homelander’s insurrection. Queen Maeve threw Starlight out of the Seven’s headquarters to give her a head start against Homelander, all whilst she attempted to do battle with him to keep him back. Sadly, Queen Maeve’s sword was but a prop and one punch from Homelander sent Queen Maeve’s scalp flying, most likely killing her instantly.
2 Homelander
Killed By Black Noir After Invading The White House
- First Appearance: The Boys #1
- Last Appearance: The Boys #65
Blackmail photos and memories as clear as day in evidence but not in his mind, Homelander was driven to the brink of insanity through frequent blackouts where he would indulge in foul and evil behavior like eating babies and mutilating bodies. This essentially gaslit Homelander into thinking he was a villain, and so he decided to take an army of supes to the White House and kill the President. Yet, Homelander was brutally killed in a fistfight with Black Noir, who had been sent as a contingency to stop Homelander if he ever went rogue from Vought.
1 Black Noir
Revealed To Be A Homelander Clone, Killed By Butcher
- First Appearance: The Boys #1
- Last Appearance: The Boys #65
Black Noir ended up being the main villain of The Boys, as the entire villainous routine of Homelander was perpetrated by Black Noir. Black Noir reveals himself as a clone of Homelander, created by Vought as a contingency plan for if Homelander went rogue or evil. Black Noir was created for the sole purpose of killing Homelander, so he orchestrated it, putting a plan in motion to finally fulfill the sole purpose for which he was born. After a fight with the military and Homelander, Black Noir was weak enough for Butcher to pry his skull open with a crowbar and squish his brain.
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