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* BloodSplatteredInnocents: Happens to him twice in the first two episodes, first when A-Train pulverizes Robin right in front of him, marking his loss of innocence, and second when [[spoiler: he [[spoiler:he blows up Transluscent]], marking his transition into a hardened killer.
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** [[spoiler: This also extends to his relationship with his wife. In the comics, Billy was on his way to being a violent sociopath until he met Becky, whose influence caused him to move past his violent tendencies and start life as a civil man. In this series, Billy's violent and unstable tendencies remained even with his marriage to Becky. Becky was so scared that when she was pregnant with Homelander's child, she chose to go to Vought, fake her death, and live a new identity, rather than risk Billy's anger.]]
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* InterchangeableAsianCultures: She has a Japanese name, but flashbacks in Season 1 show that she's from an unnamed, wartorn country in Southeast Asia that seems to be based on Myanmar. Averted in Season 2, in which she is explicitly Japanese, and mentions a desire to want to go to Japan with her brother. Kenji is also mentioned as having been based in the Philippines, which would match the appearance of their location.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: [[spoiler:Considering that Becca claims Billy has always been rage-filled and violent, his poor social skills, and M.M.'s insistence that Hughie serves as Billy's conscience, it's implied that he may have some form of antisocial personality disorder.]]
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:According to Becca, he's always been full of rage and homicidally violent to the point that he's "one bad day from pounding someone to death in the parking lot"]].
** Season 2 elaborates on this. [[spoiler:His racism against Supes seems to be an extension of his inherently violent nature. Becca refuses to go with him because she's afraid he will do something bad to Ryan and destroy himself in pursuit of revenge, and implies it was inevitable that she would break up with him because she did not know how to save him from himself.]]
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: He steadily gets worse and worse as he puts getting revenge on all Supes above all else. [[spoiler:Season 2 reveals this is actually subverted. Becca reveals that Billy has always been like this so rather than getting worse, Becca's disappearance merely returned him to who he was.]]
* HisOwnWorstEnemy: [[spoiler:His own nature as an inherently violent person is what causes him to clash with his teammates so much, and drives Becca away since he is incapable of leaving the path of revenge.]]
* HisOwnWorstEnemy: [[spoiler:His own nature as an inherently violent person is what causes him to clash with his teammates so much, and drives Becca away since he is incapable of leaving the path of revenge.]]
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* NotSoSimilar: Like Butcher, he lost his lover to a Supe and starts walking down the path to vengeance for it. However, Starlight's influence convinces him not all Supes are bad and makes him reconsider what he really values in life. Butcher was not as lucky since he had no one but Mallory who was fed his hatred for her own agenda.
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* NotSoSimilar: Like Butcher, he lost his lover to a Supe and starts walking down the path to vengeance for it. However, Starlight's influence convinces him not all Supes are bad and makes him reconsider what he really values in life. Butcher was not as lucky since he had no one but Mallory who was fed his hatred for her own agenda. [[spoiler:Season 2 cements it as while Hughie was always known to be kind, Butcher is revealed to be violent at heart.]]
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* AccuserOfTheBrethren: Becomes this for the first part of the second season, being the only one not trusting Billy after his return. He changes his mind when Billy makes a huge sacrifice to save Hughie's life.
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[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: Frenchie, Kimiko, Billy Butcher, Mother's Milk and Hughie Campbell.]]
The titular group of anti-Superhero vigilantes.
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* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: The team is pretty dysfunctional on the show, whereas in the comics they were a cohesive unit who got along well and were pretty pleased to get back together when Butcher asked them.
* AdaptationalWimp: Aside from the Female, none of the other members have taken Compound V, so they [[BadassNormal rely more on cunning and skill to deal with supes]].
* AntiHeroTeam: They are not virtuous people.
* BadassNormal: With the exception of The Female, none of The Boys [[AdaptationalWimp have superpowers themselves and also don't even have the official CIA backing they had in the comics]]. Instead, they have to rely on their own smarts, skills, and willingness to play dirty to gain an edge on the Supes.
* CapeBusters: The modus operandi of the Boys.
* DavidVsGoliath: They're just a handful of men without government backing trying to take down not only amoral superhumans, but the MegaCorp pulling their strings and all the connections, money, and resources it has at its disposal.
* GuileHero: They rely on thorough planning, strategy, espionage, and cunning to overcome any threat that may come their way.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: [[spoiler:Thanks to their various screwups and Butcher's lack of cooperation with the government, the Boys lose the PR battle with Vought and become the most wanted criminals in America by the end of Season 1.]]
* UnscrupulousHero: They have a good goal, bringing down Vought and their apathetic or outright criminal Supes, but aren't afraid to use espionage, blackmail, and even murder to do so.
* VigilanteMan: The Boys, whose aim is to take down superheroes (they're mostly corrupt, even criminals, in the show).
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!!William "Billy" Butcher
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[[caption-width-right:300:''[[CatchPhrase "Diabolical."]]'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/KarlUrban
->''"Just remember who your friends and who your enemies are."''
A rough and caustic rogue superhero hunter, Billy Butcher serves as the ''de facto'' leader of The Boys.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: While his comic counterpart was no choirboy, he was pretty affable and liked by his teammates.
* AlliterativeName: '''B'''illy '''B'''utcher.
* AnimalMotif: Downplayed, when meeting Hughie for the first time there is a documentary on lions playing in the background, reflecting his authority over The Boys and his psychotic, predatory nature towards supes. Since a lion is the national animal of England, it serves as another reminder of his nationality.
* ArchEnemy: He hates all Supes with a passion, and he hates Homelander most of all for raping his wife. Unlike the case with Hughie and A-Train, Homelander never returns Billy's enmity and regards him with amusement.
* BadassBeard: He has quite the intimidating chin-wig. Given he was clean-shaven in the flashbacks with his wife, it likely doubles as a BeardOfSorrow.
* BadassLongcoat: Like his comic counterpart, Billy rocks one. Notably, he's the only one to keep it from the comics. It’s also noticeably shorter, only reaching about his knees instead of his ankles.
* BerserkButton:
** He does not like it if you suggest that the Supes are "gods" or in any way stand above other people.
** His wife is another one for him; when Hughie uses her as a [[ArmorPiercingQuestion question on Billy's motivation for hating Supes]], Billy is [[TranquilFury stunned, silent, and absolutely furious with Hughie]]. The fact that M.M. and Frenchie collectively shit a brick after hearing this also suggests this is a definitive red flag and a subject to be avoided like the plague.
* TheButcher: It's literally his last name.
* CountryMatters: He can hardly go a sentence without saying "cunt" or "twat".
* TheCorrupter: To Hughie, as he sees him as a valuable, like-minded ally in his quest against Homelander and tries to push him into following the path.
* CrusadingWidower: He wants to avenge the loss of his wife, Becca, by taking out Homelander and any other supe that crosses his path. [[spoiler:Although this is subverted when it turns out Becca is alive.]]
* DeathSeeker: There's heavy implications that Billy lost his will to live after Becca disappeared, with nothing left to live for except his hatred. [[spoiler:In the Season 1 finale, he initiates a SuicideAttack on Homelander with a smile on his face.]]
* FatalFlaw: His hatred for Supes and especially Homelander. [[spoiler:He finds decisive evidence against Vought's schemes, but does not give it to the CIA because they can't guarantee they'll prosecute Homelander. By the time he's convinced to cooperate, it's too late as the Supe terrorists have appeared, forcing the government to coverup Vought's crimes and sign the military bill to combat the new threat.]]
* FantasticRacism: He ''really'' hates Supes. While it is true that many Supes are corrupt, egotistical, or even downright evil, Billy paints them all with the same brush. He’s irrationally hostile and suspicious towards Kimiko and Starlight, who have done nothing to earn it other than having superpowers. He even shows a lack of concern over potentially harming [[spoiler: a super-abled baby]]. On the whole, Billy does not seem to see Supes as human, but rather as monsters who are evil by nature.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Downplayed, but Billy's bitter, [[{{Jerkass}} abrasive]] personality and myopic obsession with revenge are frequently criticized by his comrades, especially because of his tendency to leave them by the wayside as a result.
* FromCamouflageToCriminal: He's a former soldier, from the S.A.S. Special Forces in the British Army.
* GodIsEvil: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]], Butcher argues this to a Christian at the Believe Expo, saying that if God exists, he's cruel and hates humanity given how much suffering the world has.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: He steadily gets worse and worse as he puts getting revenge on all Supes above all else.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Tries to get [[spoiler:Mallory]] back in the game by claiming [[spoiler:she owes him for training him like a Howitzer, pointing him at Homelander and then quitting]]. When [[spoiler:Hughie]] tries the same reasoning to get [[spoiler:him to help rescue The Boys, Butcher blows him off.]]
* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Billy Butcher claims he's an FBIAgent at first when recruiting Hughie into the Boys. He later admits otherwise.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Billy Butcher wields a superpowered baby as a weapon by making it blast blue beams from its eyes at some security guards.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's foul-mouthed and manipulative, but fundamentally a good man who's trying to expose the Supes' crimes for what they are. He's also a FriendToAllChildren and frequently has PetTheDog moments.
* JerkassHasAPoint: At best he's a callous jerk but a lot of what he says can be pretty damn convincing;
** He shames a support group for not being angry at the supes for crippling and castrating them, proclaiming they have no self-respect when they forgive their attackers that quickly for such unforgivable acts.
** His biased views towards supes are justified as well since they are a legitimate threat when they aren't handled properly and their villainous acts require retribution, not lionisation.
** [[spoiler:He's right that Becca is still alive, not dead.]]
** [[spoiler: While his aggression towards Hughie is largely motivated by his bias towards Supes, he is right that Hughie is too deep into their war against Supes to get out now.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: He will say or do anything to get the results he wants. [[spoiler:When the proper authorities can't guarantee that Homelander will pay for his crimes if Billy hands over the information he's gathered, he refuses to hand over any of it. Then he lies to the Boys, claiming the government was too cowardly to act on any of the evidence, convincing them that their only option is to go after the supes themselves.]]
* MrFanservice: No matter how heavily his macho behavior is deconstructed, Karl Urban still looks damn good in those unbuttoned shirts and trenchcoats, and the show knows it. When they initially meet, Hughie mentions that he looks like he's starring in a porn version of The Matrix.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Butcher" is pretty descriptive.
* NervesOfSteel: Doesn't even raise an eyebrow at [[spoiler:Popclaw crushing the landlord's head with her thighs]] while the rest of the Boys react horrified or look away. And when finally confronting [[spoiler:Homelander at Stillwell's home]], the latter remarks Butcher is the only person he's met who knows what he can do yet doesn't fear him.
* NotSoDifferent: Just like Hughie, he lost his loved one to the direct actions of a member of the Seven. [[spoiler: To his knowledge.]]
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: [[spoiler: His bias towards Supes is fuelled by his need to kill Homelander for raping and murdering his wife. His single-minded pursuit of revenge has sacrificed all of his personal relationships and his morality. His hatred of Supes is matched by his Misotheism, as he sees God as a cruel, selfish figure who'd rather sacrifice his own son than take the initiative to fix Earth's problems.]]
* RealMenWearPink: He has encyclopedic knowledge on the Spice Girls. [[spoiler:This is because his wife Becca was a huge fan.]]
* RevengeBeforeReason: To Billy, all Supes are evil and he'll never be convinced otherwise. His pursuit to kill Homelander has cost him everything.
* SourOutsideSadInside: His gruff and unfriendly demeanor covers up the pain he feels from losing Becca. The support group leader pegs him as one of these on first sight.
* StealthHiBye: Butcher has an '''insane''' talent for getting into places he really shouldn't be, up to and including the office of the Deputy Director of the CIA (when she herself needs a keycard to unlock the door).
* TookALevelInJerkass: Given the flashbacks of him eight years ago, Billy was actually quite a decent fellow who was clearly a loving and caring husband to his wife. Losing Becca ''really'' made him a far more ruthless and callous man. [[TheCorrupter Mallory's influence didn't help matters.]]
* UnknownRival: He hates Homelander with a bitter passion for raping his wife. Homelander doesn't even know who he is without some detective work. [[spoiler:When the two finally meet, Homelander admits he's impressed by Billy's lack of fear, but he still refuses to take him seriously and spares him from death because he finds it more amusing to keep him alive for emotional torment.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: When Butcher decides to detonate the explosives even after [[spoiler:Stillwell's death, knowing full well that Stillwell's baby is nearby and definitely within the blast radius.]] Season 2 confirms that Homelander saved him, though Billy didn't expect him to and was willing to write it off as collateral in his AttemptedSuicide middle finger to Homelander.
* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Billy has a tendency to use "diabolical" to mean anything from "exceptionally sinister" to "unspeakably awesome."
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Hughie Campbell]]
!!Hugh "Hughie" Campbell
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Jack Quaid
->''"Just 'cause you fall on your ass doesn't mean you have to stay there."''
Originally a rather ordinary 20-something clerk at an electronics appliance store, the death of his girlfriend, Robin, at the hands of a superhero puts him on the path to join The Boys. He’s the main protagonist and POV character of the series.
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* AdaptationalIntelligence: His comic counterpart is TheEveryman. He's technically savvy on the show and generally much more capable. He's also a fan of superheroes, whereas his comic counterpart was barely even aware they existed until one killed his girlfriend.
* AdaptationalNationality: Scottish in the comics, American in the show.
* AmazonChaser: A turning point in his first date with Starlight comes when he tells her to stop pretending she's worse than him at bowling, and to stop trying to soft-pedal the fact that she can trivially outclass him physically. When she starts fully acknowledging her strength (and bowling skill, immediately bowling a strike) and asks if it bothers him that she could easily bench-press him, he seems more turned-on than anything else.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Throughout the series, Robin's death has left Hughie with a serious case of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), leaving him with auditory and visual hallucinations alluding to the event, spaces out at random intervals and possesses unresolved emotional anxiety that is only exacerbated by the fact that everyone around him is content to let the perpetrators get away with it. It only gets worse when [[spoiler:he kills Translucent]], though being around Starlight seems to keep him relatively together.
* ApologeticAttacker: When forced to shoot someone in self defense he screams “Sorry! I’m sorry!”
* ArchEnemy: To A-Train. After A-Train literally pulverized Hughie's girlfriend, Hughie began to loathe him with a passion and joined up with Butcher to take down the Vought and the Seven. After A-Train kills his own girlfirend Popclaw because of the mess Hughie and the Boys have been making for the Seven, the feeling becomes very mutual.
* AudienceSurrogate: Hughie is the audience POV character for entering the world of the series.
* BerserkButton: Demeaning him for his youthful looks by calling him a kid or a lad really gets under his skin. [[spoiler:Tellingly, Translucent patronising Hughie tilts him enough to detonate the bomb in the invisible superhero's arsehole.]] His father babying him his entire life seems to be the root cause of it.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Translucent managed to manipulate Hughie into letting him go, Hughie responded by [[spoiler:triggering the bomb in Translucent's anus]].
** He manages to be intimidating enough to blackmail Ezekiel even though the evidence was destroyed.
** When A-Train [[spoiler:takes Hughie's dad hostage, Hughie walks into the trap and distracts him with Compound V long enough for Kimiko to get the drop on him.]]
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: Happens to him twice in the first two episodes, first when A-Train pulverizes Robin right in front of him, marking his loss of innocence, and second when [[spoiler: he blows up Transluscent]], marking his transition into a hardened killer.
* ExtremeDoormat: He is repeatedly called out for being one in Episode 1. By Robin, who had to ask ''him'' out on a first date, by his father, and by Butcher. This changes with time.
* {{Foil}}:
** To Billy. Both Hughie and Billy are set on the path of revenge because they lost a loved one to a superhero, it's so obvious that even Billy seems to view Hughie as a younger, more naive version of himself in a way. However, the big difference between them is that Hughie eventually wants to move forward with his life and [[VengeanceFeelsEmpty stop trying to avenge a dead woman that won't know or care]], whilst Billy is still completely devoted to taking down the supes.
** To A-Train. Hughie is a middle-class tech salesman, while A-Train is a famous super-athlete. Both men have killed people, but while A-Train put the blame on his victim to rationalize his kill (presumably because this is something he's likely to do again), Hughie came to terms with what he did and avoids killing anyone else. Both also have super girlfriends, but while A-Train hides his relationship with Popclaw out of cowardice and yields to Vought’s demands about their love, Hughie isn't the least bit ashamed of dating Starlight and furiously goes against Butcher for threatening her.
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler: What Hughie temporarily becomes after Butcher kills Lucy and the Boys are forced to flee into the sewers. He’s completely numb to the possibility of dying at the hands of the Seven. When Homelander sees him and threatens to kill both Hughie and Annie, if the latter doesn’t kill Hughie first, Hughie outright (albeit wordlessly) tells her to kill him. It’s Hughie’s look of relief in that moment that sells it.]]
* FreakOut: He's prone to anxiety attacks.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: [[spoiler: In stark contrast to everyone else, his sexual relationship with Annie is wholesome and mutually pleasurable]].
* {{Hypocrite}}: Hughie is a man who intentionally participates in murder or torture with the intention of getting to A-Train who, while an uncaring asshole to the affair, didn’t mean to kill Robin. [[spoiler:Though A-Train very much did deserve it for, among other things, helping terrorist groups (including ISIS) get superpowers so Vought could market superheros to the military. Not that Hughie knew that for most of the season.]] To his credit, Hughie realizes the contradiction between his values and actions, and decides to not to go down the path of vengeance like Billy.
* InLoveWithTheMark: His initial interactions with Starlight are before he knows she's the new member of The Seven, but once he is informed he agrees to exploit his connection with her to help The Boys gain information to use. Despite this, he is reluctant to abuse her trust and develops genuine feelings for her.
* MissingMom: Hughie's mother deoesn't appear to be in the picture, given his dad's prominent presence.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Hughie has this reaction upon discovering [[spoiler:that Translucent has a son and he left the boy fatherless.]]
* NiceGuy: Aside from his feelings on A-Train getting away with killing Robin, Hughie doesn't seem to hold any bitterness towards supes. He plays the good cop when they capture Translucent and [[spoiler:resuscitates A-Train when his heart stops]].
* NotSoSimilar: Like Butcher, he lost his lover to a Supe and starts walking down the path to vengeance for it. However, Starlight's influence convinces him not all Supes are bad and makes him reconsider what he really values in life. Butcher was not as lucky since he had no one but Mallory who was fed his hatred for her own agenda.
* RageBreakingPoint: [[spoiler:He eventually gets fed up of Supes walking around like untouchable gods when Translucent tries talking down to him smug as ever, and murders him in a fit of rage.]]
* WorkplaceAcquiredAbilities: His job in a tech store proves useful a number of times:
** He knows carbon is a conductor [[spoiler:and therefore that Translucent is vulnerable to electric shocks]].
** He knows how to use RF shielding foil to cloak a tracking device.
** He knows how to quickly install malware onto someone's laptop to remotely access their webcam.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mother's Milk]]
!!Mother's Milk / Marvin T. Milk
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-> '''Portrayed by:''' Laz Alonzo
->''"If I'm gonna make a difference, I just feel more comfortable doing it on a smaller scale. I'm a motherfucker with a heart."''
A family man who works at a juvenile corrections facility, Mother’s Milk has medical skills and often serves as a voice of reason.
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* ActionDad: He has a daughter named Janine, and makes it clear that he wants to prioritize her and her safety than Billy's crusade.
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Inverted. His family situation is much better than in the comic, where he is divorced and his ex-wife is a drug addict, while his daughter is involved with many unsavory things.
* CombatMedic: He mentions having been this.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Is much more irritable and prone to snapping at his teammates, though not quite to Jerkass levels.
* FromCamouflageToCriminal: He's an ex-Marine corpsman.
* HappilyMarried: By all indications he is a loving and dedicated family man, and the biggest problem he has with his wife is keeping her in the dark about working with The Boys. Even after she finds out, most of her anger is directed at Billy for dragging him into this.
* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: Nickname; Mother's Milk. Actual surname; Milk.
* TheLancer: He's essentially Billy's right-hand man, but is always the first to stand up to Billy if something goes wrong.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: Is OnlyKnownByHisNickname in the comic. His first name is mentioned once inseason 1: Marvin. Season 2 reveals Milk is actually his last name, and gives him the middle initial T.
* NWordPrivileges: Averted. He works in a correctional facility and pointedly doesn't allow even his African-American charges to use the N-word.
-->'''M.M.:''' What else does it mean? Come on, spit it out.\\
'''Inmate:''' Means that we're disrespecting all the other niggas--\\
'''M.M.:''' Excuse ''me!?''\\
'''Inmate:''' All our fellow brothers in the unit.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Mother's Milk is always called this except once when his wife calls him Marvin. He's sometimes called MM for short.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He works at a juvenile facility where he regularly breaks up fights. He’s also the most moral member of the group next to Hughie.
* OrderVersusChaos: He is a very orderly person that feels most comfortable when things are by-the-book and go according to plan. This puts him into constant conflict with Frenchie who is chaotic and impulsive.
* SuperOCD: Frenchie points out that anything that's messed up, whether it be teens with no direction in life or the ice cream in a tub that's partly scooped out, ends up irking him something nasty, driving him to set those kids straight and ''finish that ice cream.'' This is how Frenchie gets him on board to help the mentally messed-up Female.
* TokenReligiousTeammate: He’s an Episcopalian Christian, while the rest of the team is secular.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Frenchie]]
!!Frenchie / Serge
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Tomer Kapon
->''"I know a little about a lot of things. I'm a gunrunner by trade, but, as you can see, I've developed a certain niche."''
A multi-talented criminal and former associate of Butcher’s, Frenchie provides expertise on drugs, weapons, and break-ins.
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* AbusiveParents: His dad kidnapped him as a young boy and was physically abusive, putting out cigarettes on his body. Frenchie also claims his father once tried to smother Frenchie with a ''Franchise/HelloKitty'' duvet when Frenchie was only 10.
%%** In a weirdly horrifying twist, when he is trying to reason with Kimiko in their second meeting and explain to her how he understands her trauma, he relates the story of his father's abuse, and tells her he kept trying to escape ''and return to his mother''. What exactly his father did to him is left vague aside from the cigarette burns, but the fact that his father's treatment of his was so horrible he kept trying to return to the woman ''who had already attempted to smother'' him rather than stay paints a picture.
* TheAce: Frenchie is talented at pretty much every kind of criminal endeavor, whether it's producing drugs, smuggling weapons, breaking and entering, or lying to authorities. He's so good at the latter that he pretty flawlessly fools ''Homelander'', who is a LivingLieDetector due to his SuperSenses.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: He's pretty bonkers in the comic. He's far more grounded in the show, though he is still certifiably insane.
* AmazonChaser: His taste in women seems to tend toward the violent.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Has a girlfriend in Season 1, and plenty of ShipTease with Kimiko, but also kisses Hughie on the lips [[spoiler: when he and Starlight expose the truth about Compound V.]]
* TheAtoner: One of his conversations with Hughie implies that he feels quite guilty about his past as a hit man. He later tells Mother’s Milk that he feels Kimiko makes him a better person, implying this is part of his motivation for helping her.
* CloudCuckoolander: There's something very ''off'' about Frenchie from his frighteningly lethal skillset to his attempts to befriend Hughie by telling him horrifying stories from his childhood.
* CrazyPrepared: He's got at least 34 addresses and 12 aliases.
* JackOfAllTrades: As Hughie mentions, he functions as a gunrunner, chemist, interrogator, engineer, and door-kicker as needed. Frenchie himself claims to know "a little about a lot."
* MasterOfUnlocking: With the right tool he can pick any lock.
* NoodleIncident: Frenchie was supposed to tail Lamplighter and keep track of his location one night, but he didn't and Lamplighter ended up burning Mallory's grandchildren. Marvin blames Frenchie for whatever happened that night but Frenchie maintains his innocence, and two have remained on bad terms ever since.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His real name isn't known. It worth noting that his nationality might not actually be known. In the comics, it's never confirmed but strongly implied Frenchie is British and his accent and entire persona is... not exactly faked, but isn't real, either. The show is playing with this by casting an Israeli actor in the role, especially as his accent and pronunciation occasionally slips, which could just be the actor, or could be very much in character.
* OrderVersusChaos: He is chaotic, impulsive, and follows his gut. This puts him into constant conflict with Mother's Milk who likes it when everything is orderly and everyone sticks to the plan (which Frenchie seems to be allergic to doing).
* RealMenCanCook: Amusingly, one French stereotype he does exhibit is mastery of baking pastries in episode 7. ''He's good enough to coach Kimiko.''
* TheSmartGuy: He's the most intelligent member of the group, with the widest skill-set.
* TheSpook: Nobody knows who this guy really is. Even Vought's crime analytics department can't figure out his true identity, and basically refer to him as "that man."
* TheStoner: Is a master drug cook and psychedelics enthusiast. When Hughie is freaking out about keeping Translucent as a prisoner, Frenchie offers him an LSD/MDMA cocktail to calm his nerves.
* VoiceForTheVoiceless: Once he and Kimiko become close, he's able to read her gestures and expressions in order to translate to the group what she is thinking or trying to communicate.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kimiko]]
!!Kimiko Miyashiro / The Female
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/KarenFukuhara
->''"..."''
A mute young woman found locked up in the basement of an Asian crime syndicate, years of horrific experimentation have given her super-human abilities. She is freed by The Boys, and eventually joins them.
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* AbsurdlySharpClaws: Sharp enough to cut through Black Noir seemingly armoured suit.
* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: She was accidentally exposed to compound V as a baby and taken prisoner by some scientists in the comics. The show [[DarkAndTroubledPast gives a different backstory to her]].
* AdaptationalLateAppearance: The Boys first meet her halfway during the show, whereas she was involved with the group in the past (long before Hughie) in the comics.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Once Frenchie breaks through to her, she seems to become significantly more mellow than in the comics. While still extremely dangerous and unstable, she does not appear to have an involuntary compulsion to kill people, and acts more personable towards the rest of the group.
* AffectionateNickname: Frenchie calls her ''mon cœur''[[note]]my heart[[/note]].
* AgonyOfTheFeet: Black Noir stabs her in the foot to pin her down.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: She's a danger to everyone except Frenchie, who is implied to be the first person to treat her with kindness. After she flees and Frenchie gets attacked by Black Noir in an alley, Kimiko intervenes and saves his life.
* CuteMute: Deadly, yet cute as a button, and hasn't said a word since the start of her dark and troubled existence.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Along with her brother, [[spoiler:she was a child soldier, kidnapped by a terrorist organisation called the Shining Light Liberation Army... Then she was pumped full of experimental drugs against her will in order to become a super terrorist]].
* DisneyDeath: It looks likes Black Noir killed her in the alley but then Frenchie witnesses her HealingFactor kicking in.
* TheDreaded: When the Boys first find Kimiko, she's being held prisoner by armed human traffickers in solitary confinement. She kills everyone in the room when they let her loose, the Boys are then forced to lock ''themselves'' into the cell they had just released ''her'' from to survive, and the last of her captors ''immediately'' shoots himself after seeing she had escaped her cell.
* GuttedLikeAFish: [[spoiler: Black Noir]] cuts her entire torso open, which only disables her for at most a few minutes before her HealingFactor kicks in.
* HeroicSacrifice: Nearly dies holding off a Supe who was after Frenchie.
* HealingFactor: Kimiko turns out to have one, as shown in the wake of her fight with Black Noir after he stabbed and slashed her multiple times. A-Train also finds out the hard way that he can't kill her, smashing her head at super speed to no avail. However, tranquilizers can disable her.
* HiddenDepths: Once she's mellowed out she's capable of following instructions like a valid part of the team, whether it's the exact method of beating batter in making French pastries to [[spoiler:acting as Hughie's backup and breaking A-Train's leg with a pipe at the right time.]]
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: She has a Japanese name, but flashbacks in Season 1 show that she's from an unnamed, wartorn country in Southeast Asia that seems to be based on Myanmar. Averted in Season 2, in which she is explicitly Japanese, and mentions a desire to want to go to Japan with her brother.
* ItsPersonal: Regards Stormfront as her ArchNemesis after she [[spoiler:kills Kimiko's brother]].
* LivingMacguffin: She's living proof of Vought's schemes, so both sides want to capture her very badly.
* MoralityPet: Frenchie views her as this, claiming that she makes him a better person.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: Kimiko. In the comics, she was known only as The Female (of the Species).
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After Frenchie lets her out of her cage she immediately starts slaughtering the gangsters who imprisoned her. She then escapes the lair and seeks out the woman who trafficked her, who she proceeds to maul into LudicrousGibs.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Kimiko looks quite pretty after she combs her hair and puts on clean clothes.
* SuperStrength: She is strong enough to punch holes in people.
* TerroristsWithoutACause: The [[spoiler:“Shining Light Liberation Army” that she and her brother were forcibly recruited into is not a real organization, and the show discusses nothing about their ideology or goals. Their name is an apparent allusion to the Shining Path, a real far-left terrorist group in Peru.]]
* TheSpeechless: She's been mute since the day she was kidnapped.
* WorfHadTheFlu: After the black bag operatives tranq her to bring her in, they keep her separate from Frenchie and Milk and pump her full of more sedatives via IV, so she's useless to the team even after they break her out.
[[/folder]]
!The Boys
[[folder:General Tropes]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: Frenchie, Kimiko, Billy Butcher, Mother's Milk and Hughie Campbell.]]
The titular group of anti-Superhero vigilantes.
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* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: The team is pretty dysfunctional on the show, whereas in the comics they were a cohesive unit who got along well and were pretty pleased to get back together when Butcher asked them.
* AdaptationalWimp: Aside from the Female, none of the other members have taken Compound V, so they [[BadassNormal rely more on cunning and skill to deal with supes]].
* AntiHeroTeam: They are not virtuous people.
* BadassNormal: With the exception of The Female, none of The Boys [[AdaptationalWimp have superpowers themselves and also don't even have the official CIA backing they had in the comics]]. Instead, they have to rely on their own smarts, skills, and willingness to play dirty to gain an edge on the Supes.
* CapeBusters: The modus operandi of the Boys.
* DavidVsGoliath: They're just a handful of men without government backing trying to take down not only amoral superhumans, but the MegaCorp pulling their strings and all the connections, money, and resources it has at its disposal.
* GuileHero: They rely on thorough planning, strategy, espionage, and cunning to overcome any threat that may come their way.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: [[spoiler:Thanks to their various screwups and Butcher's lack of cooperation with the government, the Boys lose the PR battle with Vought and become the most wanted criminals in America by the end of Season 1.]]
* UnscrupulousHero: They have a good goal, bringing down Vought and their apathetic or outright criminal Supes, but aren't afraid to use espionage, blackmail, and even murder to do so.
* VigilanteMan: The Boys, whose aim is to take down superheroes (they're mostly corrupt, even criminals, in the show).
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Billy Butcher]]
!!William "Billy" Butcher
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[[caption-width-right:300:''[[CatchPhrase "Diabolical."]]'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/KarlUrban
->''"Just remember who your friends and who your enemies are."''
A rough and caustic rogue superhero hunter, Billy Butcher serves as the ''de facto'' leader of The Boys.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: While his comic counterpart was no choirboy, he was pretty affable and liked by his teammates.
* AlliterativeName: '''B'''illy '''B'''utcher.
* AnimalMotif: Downplayed, when meeting Hughie for the first time there is a documentary on lions playing in the background, reflecting his authority over The Boys and his psychotic, predatory nature towards supes. Since a lion is the national animal of England, it serves as another reminder of his nationality.
* ArchEnemy: He hates all Supes with a passion, and he hates Homelander most of all for raping his wife. Unlike the case with Hughie and A-Train, Homelander never returns Billy's enmity and regards him with amusement.
* BadassBeard: He has quite the intimidating chin-wig. Given he was clean-shaven in the flashbacks with his wife, it likely doubles as a BeardOfSorrow.
* BadassLongcoat: Like his comic counterpart, Billy rocks one. Notably, he's the only one to keep it from the comics. It’s also noticeably shorter, only reaching about his knees instead of his ankles.
* BerserkButton:
** He does not like it if you suggest that the Supes are "gods" or in any way stand above other people.
** His wife is another one for him; when Hughie uses her as a [[ArmorPiercingQuestion question on Billy's motivation for hating Supes]], Billy is [[TranquilFury stunned, silent, and absolutely furious with Hughie]]. The fact that M.M. and Frenchie collectively shit a brick after hearing this also suggests this is a definitive red flag and a subject to be avoided like the plague.
* TheButcher: It's literally his last name.
* CountryMatters: He can hardly go a sentence without saying "cunt" or "twat".
* TheCorrupter: To Hughie, as he sees him as a valuable, like-minded ally in his quest against Homelander and tries to push him into following the path.
* CrusadingWidower: He wants to avenge the loss of his wife, Becca, by taking out Homelander and any other supe that crosses his path. [[spoiler:Although this is subverted when it turns out Becca is alive.]]
* DeathSeeker: There's heavy implications that Billy lost his will to live after Becca disappeared, with nothing left to live for except his hatred. [[spoiler:In the Season 1 finale, he initiates a SuicideAttack on Homelander with a smile on his face.]]
* FatalFlaw: His hatred for Supes and especially Homelander. [[spoiler:He finds decisive evidence against Vought's schemes, but does not give it to the CIA because they can't guarantee they'll prosecute Homelander. By the time he's convinced to cooperate, it's too late as the Supe terrorists have appeared, forcing the government to coverup Vought's crimes and sign the military bill to combat the new threat.]]
* FantasticRacism: He ''really'' hates Supes. While it is true that many Supes are corrupt, egotistical, or even downright evil, Billy paints them all with the same brush. He’s irrationally hostile and suspicious towards Kimiko and Starlight, who have done nothing to earn it other than having superpowers. He even shows a lack of concern over potentially harming [[spoiler: a super-abled baby]]. On the whole, Billy does not seem to see Supes as human, but rather as monsters who are evil by nature.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Downplayed, but Billy's bitter, [[{{Jerkass}} abrasive]] personality and myopic obsession with revenge are frequently criticized by his comrades, especially because of his tendency to leave them by the wayside as a result.
* FromCamouflageToCriminal: He's a former soldier, from the S.A.S. Special Forces in the British Army.
* GodIsEvil: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]], Butcher argues this to a Christian at the Believe Expo, saying that if God exists, he's cruel and hates humanity given how much suffering the world has.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: He steadily gets worse and worse as he puts getting revenge on all Supes above all else.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Tries to get [[spoiler:Mallory]] back in the game by claiming [[spoiler:she owes him for training him like a Howitzer, pointing him at Homelander and then quitting]]. When [[spoiler:Hughie]] tries the same reasoning to get [[spoiler:him to help rescue The Boys, Butcher blows him off.]]
* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Billy Butcher claims he's an FBIAgent at first when recruiting Hughie into the Boys. He later admits otherwise.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Billy Butcher wields a superpowered baby as a weapon by making it blast blue beams from its eyes at some security guards.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's foul-mouthed and manipulative, but fundamentally a good man who's trying to expose the Supes' crimes for what they are. He's also a FriendToAllChildren and frequently has PetTheDog moments.
* JerkassHasAPoint: At best he's a callous jerk but a lot of what he says can be pretty damn convincing;
** He shames a support group for not being angry at the supes for crippling and castrating them, proclaiming they have no self-respect when they forgive their attackers that quickly for such unforgivable acts.
** His biased views towards supes are justified as well since they are a legitimate threat when they aren't handled properly and their villainous acts require retribution, not lionisation.
** [[spoiler:He's right that Becca is still alive, not dead.]]
** [[spoiler: While his aggression towards Hughie is largely motivated by his bias towards Supes, he is right that Hughie is too deep into their war against Supes to get out now.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: He will say or do anything to get the results he wants. [[spoiler:When the proper authorities can't guarantee that Homelander will pay for his crimes if Billy hands over the information he's gathered, he refuses to hand over any of it. Then he lies to the Boys, claiming the government was too cowardly to act on any of the evidence, convincing them that their only option is to go after the supes themselves.]]
* MrFanservice: No matter how heavily his macho behavior is deconstructed, Karl Urban still looks damn good in those unbuttoned shirts and trenchcoats, and the show knows it. When they initially meet, Hughie mentions that he looks like he's starring in a porn version of The Matrix.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Butcher" is pretty descriptive.
* NervesOfSteel: Doesn't even raise an eyebrow at [[spoiler:Popclaw crushing the landlord's head with her thighs]] while the rest of the Boys react horrified or look away. And when finally confronting [[spoiler:Homelander at Stillwell's home]], the latter remarks Butcher is the only person he's met who knows what he can do yet doesn't fear him.
* NotSoDifferent: Just like Hughie, he lost his loved one to the direct actions of a member of the Seven. [[spoiler: To his knowledge.]]
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: [[spoiler: His bias towards Supes is fuelled by his need to kill Homelander for raping and murdering his wife. His single-minded pursuit of revenge has sacrificed all of his personal relationships and his morality. His hatred of Supes is matched by his Misotheism, as he sees God as a cruel, selfish figure who'd rather sacrifice his own son than take the initiative to fix Earth's problems.]]
* RealMenWearPink: He has encyclopedic knowledge on the Spice Girls. [[spoiler:This is because his wife Becca was a huge fan.]]
* RevengeBeforeReason: To Billy, all Supes are evil and he'll never be convinced otherwise. His pursuit to kill Homelander has cost him everything.
* SourOutsideSadInside: His gruff and unfriendly demeanor covers up the pain he feels from losing Becca. The support group leader pegs him as one of these on first sight.
* StealthHiBye: Butcher has an '''insane''' talent for getting into places he really shouldn't be, up to and including the office of the Deputy Director of the CIA (when she herself needs a keycard to unlock the door).
* TookALevelInJerkass: Given the flashbacks of him eight years ago, Billy was actually quite a decent fellow who was clearly a loving and caring husband to his wife. Losing Becca ''really'' made him a far more ruthless and callous man. [[TheCorrupter Mallory's influence didn't help matters.]]
* UnknownRival: He hates Homelander with a bitter passion for raping his wife. Homelander doesn't even know who he is without some detective work. [[spoiler:When the two finally meet, Homelander admits he's impressed by Billy's lack of fear, but he still refuses to take him seriously and spares him from death because he finds it more amusing to keep him alive for emotional torment.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: When Butcher decides to detonate the explosives even after [[spoiler:Stillwell's death, knowing full well that Stillwell's baby is nearby and definitely within the blast radius.]] Season 2 confirms that Homelander saved him, though Billy didn't expect him to and was willing to write it off as collateral in his AttemptedSuicide middle finger to Homelander.
* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Billy has a tendency to use "diabolical" to mean anything from "exceptionally sinister" to "unspeakably awesome."
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Hughie Campbell]]
!!Hugh "Hughie" Campbell
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Jack Quaid
->''"Just 'cause you fall on your ass doesn't mean you have to stay there."''
Originally a rather ordinary 20-something clerk at an electronics appliance store, the death of his girlfriend, Robin, at the hands of a superhero puts him on the path to join The Boys. He’s the main protagonist and POV character of the series.
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* AdaptationalIntelligence: His comic counterpart is TheEveryman. He's technically savvy on the show and generally much more capable. He's also a fan of superheroes, whereas his comic counterpart was barely even aware they existed until one killed his girlfriend.
* AdaptationalNationality: Scottish in the comics, American in the show.
* AmazonChaser: A turning point in his first date with Starlight comes when he tells her to stop pretending she's worse than him at bowling, and to stop trying to soft-pedal the fact that she can trivially outclass him physically. When she starts fully acknowledging her strength (and bowling skill, immediately bowling a strike) and asks if it bothers him that she could easily bench-press him, he seems more turned-on than anything else.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Throughout the series, Robin's death has left Hughie with a serious case of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), leaving him with auditory and visual hallucinations alluding to the event, spaces out at random intervals and possesses unresolved emotional anxiety that is only exacerbated by the fact that everyone around him is content to let the perpetrators get away with it. It only gets worse when [[spoiler:he kills Translucent]], though being around Starlight seems to keep him relatively together.
* ApologeticAttacker: When forced to shoot someone in self defense he screams “Sorry! I’m sorry!”
* ArchEnemy: To A-Train. After A-Train literally pulverized Hughie's girlfriend, Hughie began to loathe him with a passion and joined up with Butcher to take down the Vought and the Seven. After A-Train kills his own girlfirend Popclaw because of the mess Hughie and the Boys have been making for the Seven, the feeling becomes very mutual.
* AudienceSurrogate: Hughie is the audience POV character for entering the world of the series.
* BerserkButton: Demeaning him for his youthful looks by calling him a kid or a lad really gets under his skin. [[spoiler:Tellingly, Translucent patronising Hughie tilts him enough to detonate the bomb in the invisible superhero's arsehole.]] His father babying him his entire life seems to be the root cause of it.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Translucent managed to manipulate Hughie into letting him go, Hughie responded by [[spoiler:triggering the bomb in Translucent's anus]].
** He manages to be intimidating enough to blackmail Ezekiel even though the evidence was destroyed.
** When A-Train [[spoiler:takes Hughie's dad hostage, Hughie walks into the trap and distracts him with Compound V long enough for Kimiko to get the drop on him.]]
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: Happens to him twice in the first two episodes, first when A-Train pulverizes Robin right in front of him, marking his loss of innocence, and second when [[spoiler: he blows up Transluscent]], marking his transition into a hardened killer.
* ExtremeDoormat: He is repeatedly called out for being one in Episode 1. By Robin, who had to ask ''him'' out on a first date, by his father, and by Butcher. This changes with time.
* {{Foil}}:
** To Billy. Both Hughie and Billy are set on the path of revenge because they lost a loved one to a superhero, it's so obvious that even Billy seems to view Hughie as a younger, more naive version of himself in a way. However, the big difference between them is that Hughie eventually wants to move forward with his life and [[VengeanceFeelsEmpty stop trying to avenge a dead woman that won't know or care]], whilst Billy is still completely devoted to taking down the supes.
** To A-Train. Hughie is a middle-class tech salesman, while A-Train is a famous super-athlete. Both men have killed people, but while A-Train put the blame on his victim to rationalize his kill (presumably because this is something he's likely to do again), Hughie came to terms with what he did and avoids killing anyone else. Both also have super girlfriends, but while A-Train hides his relationship with Popclaw out of cowardice and yields to Vought’s demands about their love, Hughie isn't the least bit ashamed of dating Starlight and furiously goes against Butcher for threatening her.
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler: What Hughie temporarily becomes after Butcher kills Lucy and the Boys are forced to flee into the sewers. He’s completely numb to the possibility of dying at the hands of the Seven. When Homelander sees him and threatens to kill both Hughie and Annie, if the latter doesn’t kill Hughie first, Hughie outright (albeit wordlessly) tells her to kill him. It’s Hughie’s look of relief in that moment that sells it.]]
* FreakOut: He's prone to anxiety attacks.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: [[spoiler: In stark contrast to everyone else, his sexual relationship with Annie is wholesome and mutually pleasurable]].
* {{Hypocrite}}: Hughie is a man who intentionally participates in murder or torture with the intention of getting to A-Train who, while an uncaring asshole to the affair, didn’t mean to kill Robin. [[spoiler:Though A-Train very much did deserve it for, among other things, helping terrorist groups (including ISIS) get superpowers so Vought could market superheros to the military. Not that Hughie knew that for most of the season.]] To his credit, Hughie realizes the contradiction between his values and actions, and decides to not to go down the path of vengeance like Billy.
* InLoveWithTheMark: His initial interactions with Starlight are before he knows she's the new member of The Seven, but once he is informed he agrees to exploit his connection with her to help The Boys gain information to use. Despite this, he is reluctant to abuse her trust and develops genuine feelings for her.
* MissingMom: Hughie's mother deoesn't appear to be in the picture, given his dad's prominent presence.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Hughie has this reaction upon discovering [[spoiler:that Translucent has a son and he left the boy fatherless.]]
* NiceGuy: Aside from his feelings on A-Train getting away with killing Robin, Hughie doesn't seem to hold any bitterness towards supes. He plays the good cop when they capture Translucent and [[spoiler:resuscitates A-Train when his heart stops]].
* NotSoSimilar: Like Butcher, he lost his lover to a Supe and starts walking down the path to vengeance for it. However, Starlight's influence convinces him not all Supes are bad and makes him reconsider what he really values in life. Butcher was not as lucky since he had no one but Mallory who was fed his hatred for her own agenda.
* RageBreakingPoint: [[spoiler:He eventually gets fed up of Supes walking around like untouchable gods when Translucent tries talking down to him smug as ever, and murders him in a fit of rage.]]
* WorkplaceAcquiredAbilities: His job in a tech store proves useful a number of times:
** He knows carbon is a conductor [[spoiler:and therefore that Translucent is vulnerable to electric shocks]].
** He knows how to use RF shielding foil to cloak a tracking device.
** He knows how to quickly install malware onto someone's laptop to remotely access their webcam.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mother's Milk]]
!!Mother's Milk / Marvin T. Milk
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-> '''Portrayed by:''' Laz Alonzo
->''"If I'm gonna make a difference, I just feel more comfortable doing it on a smaller scale. I'm a motherfucker with a heart."''
A family man who works at a juvenile corrections facility, Mother’s Milk has medical skills and often serves as a voice of reason.
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* ActionDad: He has a daughter named Janine, and makes it clear that he wants to prioritize her and her safety than Billy's crusade.
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Inverted. His family situation is much better than in the comic, where he is divorced and his ex-wife is a drug addict, while his daughter is involved with many unsavory things.
* CombatMedic: He mentions having been this.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Is much more irritable and prone to snapping at his teammates, though not quite to Jerkass levels.
* FromCamouflageToCriminal: He's an ex-Marine corpsman.
* HappilyMarried: By all indications he is a loving and dedicated family man, and the biggest problem he has with his wife is keeping her in the dark about working with The Boys. Even after she finds out, most of her anger is directed at Billy for dragging him into this.
* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: Nickname; Mother's Milk. Actual surname; Milk.
* TheLancer: He's essentially Billy's right-hand man, but is always the first to stand up to Billy if something goes wrong.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: Is OnlyKnownByHisNickname in the comic. His first name is mentioned once inseason 1: Marvin. Season 2 reveals Milk is actually his last name, and gives him the middle initial T.
* NWordPrivileges: Averted. He works in a correctional facility and pointedly doesn't allow even his African-American charges to use the N-word.
-->'''M.M.:''' What else does it mean? Come on, spit it out.\\
'''Inmate:''' Means that we're disrespecting all the other niggas--\\
'''M.M.:''' Excuse ''me!?''\\
'''Inmate:''' All our fellow brothers in the unit.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Mother's Milk is always called this except once when his wife calls him Marvin. He's sometimes called MM for short.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He works at a juvenile facility where he regularly breaks up fights. He’s also the most moral member of the group next to Hughie.
* OrderVersusChaos: He is a very orderly person that feels most comfortable when things are by-the-book and go according to plan. This puts him into constant conflict with Frenchie who is chaotic and impulsive.
* SuperOCD: Frenchie points out that anything that's messed up, whether it be teens with no direction in life or the ice cream in a tub that's partly scooped out, ends up irking him something nasty, driving him to set those kids straight and ''finish that ice cream.'' This is how Frenchie gets him on board to help the mentally messed-up Female.
* TokenReligiousTeammate: He’s an Episcopalian Christian, while the rest of the team is secular.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Frenchie]]
!!Frenchie / Serge
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Tomer Kapon
->''"I know a little about a lot of things. I'm a gunrunner by trade, but, as you can see, I've developed a certain niche."''
A multi-talented criminal and former associate of Butcher’s, Frenchie provides expertise on drugs, weapons, and break-ins.
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* AbusiveParents: His dad kidnapped him as a young boy and was physically abusive, putting out cigarettes on his body. Frenchie also claims his father once tried to smother Frenchie with a ''Franchise/HelloKitty'' duvet when Frenchie was only 10.
%%** In a weirdly horrifying twist, when he is trying to reason with Kimiko in their second meeting and explain to her how he understands her trauma, he relates the story of his father's abuse, and tells her he kept trying to escape ''and return to his mother''. What exactly his father did to him is left vague aside from the cigarette burns, but the fact that his father's treatment of his was so horrible he kept trying to return to the woman ''who had already attempted to smother'' him rather than stay paints a picture.
* TheAce: Frenchie is talented at pretty much every kind of criminal endeavor, whether it's producing drugs, smuggling weapons, breaking and entering, or lying to authorities. He's so good at the latter that he pretty flawlessly fools ''Homelander'', who is a LivingLieDetector due to his SuperSenses.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: He's pretty bonkers in the comic. He's far more grounded in the show, though he is still certifiably insane.
* AmazonChaser: His taste in women seems to tend toward the violent.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Has a girlfriend in Season 1, and plenty of ShipTease with Kimiko, but also kisses Hughie on the lips [[spoiler: when he and Starlight expose the truth about Compound V.]]
* TheAtoner: One of his conversations with Hughie implies that he feels quite guilty about his past as a hit man. He later tells Mother’s Milk that he feels Kimiko makes him a better person, implying this is part of his motivation for helping her.
* CloudCuckoolander: There's something very ''off'' about Frenchie from his frighteningly lethal skillset to his attempts to befriend Hughie by telling him horrifying stories from his childhood.
* CrazyPrepared: He's got at least 34 addresses and 12 aliases.
* JackOfAllTrades: As Hughie mentions, he functions as a gunrunner, chemist, interrogator, engineer, and door-kicker as needed. Frenchie himself claims to know "a little about a lot."
* MasterOfUnlocking: With the right tool he can pick any lock.
* NoodleIncident: Frenchie was supposed to tail Lamplighter and keep track of his location one night, but he didn't and Lamplighter ended up burning Mallory's grandchildren. Marvin blames Frenchie for whatever happened that night but Frenchie maintains his innocence, and two have remained on bad terms ever since.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His real name isn't known. It worth noting that his nationality might not actually be known. In the comics, it's never confirmed but strongly implied Frenchie is British and his accent and entire persona is... not exactly faked, but isn't real, either. The show is playing with this by casting an Israeli actor in the role, especially as his accent and pronunciation occasionally slips, which could just be the actor, or could be very much in character.
* OrderVersusChaos: He is chaotic, impulsive, and follows his gut. This puts him into constant conflict with Mother's Milk who likes it when everything is orderly and everyone sticks to the plan (which Frenchie seems to be allergic to doing).
* RealMenCanCook: Amusingly, one French stereotype he does exhibit is mastery of baking pastries in episode 7. ''He's good enough to coach Kimiko.''
* TheSmartGuy: He's the most intelligent member of the group, with the widest skill-set.
* TheSpook: Nobody knows who this guy really is. Even Vought's crime analytics department can't figure out his true identity, and basically refer to him as "that man."
* TheStoner: Is a master drug cook and psychedelics enthusiast. When Hughie is freaking out about keeping Translucent as a prisoner, Frenchie offers him an LSD/MDMA cocktail to calm his nerves.
* VoiceForTheVoiceless: Once he and Kimiko become close, he's able to read her gestures and expressions in order to translate to the group what she is thinking or trying to communicate.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kimiko]]
!!Kimiko Miyashiro / The Female
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/KarenFukuhara
->''"..."''
A mute young woman found locked up in the basement of an Asian crime syndicate, years of horrific experimentation have given her super-human abilities. She is freed by The Boys, and eventually joins them.
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* AbsurdlySharpClaws: Sharp enough to cut through Black Noir seemingly armoured suit.
* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: She was accidentally exposed to compound V as a baby and taken prisoner by some scientists in the comics. The show [[DarkAndTroubledPast gives a different backstory to her]].
* AdaptationalLateAppearance: The Boys first meet her halfway during the show, whereas she was involved with the group in the past (long before Hughie) in the comics.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Once Frenchie breaks through to her, she seems to become significantly more mellow than in the comics. While still extremely dangerous and unstable, she does not appear to have an involuntary compulsion to kill people, and acts more personable towards the rest of the group.
* AffectionateNickname: Frenchie calls her ''mon cœur''[[note]]my heart[[/note]].
* AgonyOfTheFeet: Black Noir stabs her in the foot to pin her down.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: She's a danger to everyone except Frenchie, who is implied to be the first person to treat her with kindness. After she flees and Frenchie gets attacked by Black Noir in an alley, Kimiko intervenes and saves his life.
* CuteMute: Deadly, yet cute as a button, and hasn't said a word since the start of her dark and troubled existence.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Along with her brother, [[spoiler:she was a child soldier, kidnapped by a terrorist organisation called the Shining Light Liberation Army... Then she was pumped full of experimental drugs against her will in order to become a super terrorist]].
* DisneyDeath: It looks likes Black Noir killed her in the alley but then Frenchie witnesses her HealingFactor kicking in.
* TheDreaded: When the Boys first find Kimiko, she's being held prisoner by armed human traffickers in solitary confinement. She kills everyone in the room when they let her loose, the Boys are then forced to lock ''themselves'' into the cell they had just released ''her'' from to survive, and the last of her captors ''immediately'' shoots himself after seeing she had escaped her cell.
* GuttedLikeAFish: [[spoiler: Black Noir]] cuts her entire torso open, which only disables her for at most a few minutes before her HealingFactor kicks in.
* HeroicSacrifice: Nearly dies holding off a Supe who was after Frenchie.
* HealingFactor: Kimiko turns out to have one, as shown in the wake of her fight with Black Noir after he stabbed and slashed her multiple times. A-Train also finds out the hard way that he can't kill her, smashing her head at super speed to no avail. However, tranquilizers can disable her.
* HiddenDepths: Once she's mellowed out she's capable of following instructions like a valid part of the team, whether it's the exact method of beating batter in making French pastries to [[spoiler:acting as Hughie's backup and breaking A-Train's leg with a pipe at the right time.]]
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: She has a Japanese name, but flashbacks in Season 1 show that she's from an unnamed, wartorn country in Southeast Asia that seems to be based on Myanmar. Averted in Season 2, in which she is explicitly Japanese, and mentions a desire to want to go to Japan with her brother.
* ItsPersonal: Regards Stormfront as her ArchNemesis after she [[spoiler:kills Kimiko's brother]].
* LivingMacguffin: She's living proof of Vought's schemes, so both sides want to capture her very badly.
* MoralityPet: Frenchie views her as this, claiming that she makes him a better person.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: Kimiko. In the comics, she was known only as The Female (of the Species).
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After Frenchie lets her out of her cage she immediately starts slaughtering the gangsters who imprisoned her. She then escapes the lair and seeks out the woman who trafficked her, who she proceeds to maul into LudicrousGibs.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Kimiko looks quite pretty after she combs her hair and puts on clean clothes.
* SuperStrength: She is strong enough to punch holes in people.
* TerroristsWithoutACause: The [[spoiler:“Shining Light Liberation Army” that she and her brother were forcibly recruited into is not a real organization, and the show discusses nothing about their ideology or goals. Their name is an apparent allusion to the Shining Path, a real far-left terrorist group in Peru.]]
* TheSpeechless: She's been mute since the day she was kidnapped.
* WorfHadTheFlu: After the black bag operatives tranq her to bring her in, they keep her separate from Frenchie and Milk and pump her full of more sedatives via IV, so she's useless to the team even after they break her out.
[[/folder]]
