Summary
- Not all superheroes in The Boys are created equal; some have unique weaknesses that make them vulnerable.
- Love Sausage may have prehensile genitalia, but he's not as powerful as his comic book counterpart.
- Characters like Swatto, Ezekiel, and Firecracker have powers, but are easily overpowered by the more formidable supes.
Unsurprisingly, for a show involving characters with practically every superhuman ability under the sun, The Boys features some of the most formidable fictional faces in recent memory. Antony Starr's chief antagonist, Homelander, is arguably modern television's most powerful villain, demonstrating a terrifying array of powers that render him virtually omnipotent.
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The Seven's members are not the only powerful Supes in Amazon Prime Video's The Boys.
However, not all heroes are born equal in Eric Kripke's depraved and ruthless adaptation of of Garth Ennis' comic series. While some supes possess a unique weakness that renders them vulnerable to attack, the show has featured many superpowered characters whose Achilles' heel stems from the simple fact that they are just as mortal as the average human being.
10 Love Sausage
Former Resident Of The Sage Grove Center
- Superpower: Prehensile genitalia
While his comic book counterpart is considerably more powerful than the live-action version seen in The Boys, Amazon's take on Love Sausage is one of the less formidable supes that Butcher and co. Come into contact with.
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Love Sausage is an unforgettable Supe in Amazon Prime Video's The Boys, but the character is quite different in the comics.
While he nearly manages to throttle Mother's Milk with his tentacle-like genitals, Kimiko is still able to knock Love Sausage unconscious with no more than a knuckle duster when the pair cross paths in Season 2. It's also worth noting that he is last seen holding his burnt genitalia in the aftermath of Soldier Boy blasting Herogasm to kingdom come, meaning that he may have been stripped of his powers and left with nothing but an extraordinarily impractical sexual organ.
9 Swatto
Payback's Airborne Representative
- Superpower: Retractable wings
A member of the Soldier Boy-led team Payback, Swatto's time on The Boys was so limited that viewers could be forgiven for forgetting this minor supporting character from Season 3. However, minimal screen-time aside, this bumbling superhero did little to demonstrate any daunting powers of note besides his ability to fly.
In his brief on-screen bow, Swatto's most notable involvement in proceedings was giving away the position of Grace Mallory's base to hostile forces and precipitating a massacre in 1984. He was last seen miserably failing to outmaneuver a missile, before being blown to bloody smithereens.
8 Ezekiel
The Former Face Of Capes For Christ
- Superpower: Elasticity
Before getting turned into a ruptured meat balloon in Season 4's "Wisdom of the Ages", Ezekiel was not exactly known for being a particularly dangerous supe, despite his super strength. Blessed with powers of elasticity, the hypocritical preacher came across as a parody version of Mr. Fantastic.
While his abilities made him a tough opponent for a regular human being, Ezekiel's final appearance also revealed an inherent vulnerability in his power. Butcher was able to freeze his limbs with a fire extinguisher, allowing him to shatter Ezekiel's appendages into rubble.
7 Firecracker
The Seven's Resident Conspiracy Theorist
- Superpower: Spark creation
If Firecracker's superpowers matched her ability to rally hordes of bigots and basement dwellers, she'd likely give Homelander a run for his money. Unfortunately for the new Season 4 arrival, her powers appear to be limited to the extremely underwhelming ability to generate sparks with a click of her fingers.
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The Seven added two members in The Boys' season four debut, and the most controversial new addition is this hilarious satire of modern politics.
In her two fights on the show to date, Firecracker has been knocked unconscious by Billy Butcher, and brutally rag-dolled by Annie January on live television. Politically speaking, she's an incredibly dangerous individual, but in terms of physicality, Valorie Curry's charge is one of the weakest Compound V powers seen on The Boys.
6 Splinter
A Pinkeye-Afflicted Conspiracy Theorist
- Superpower: Self-replication
Turning in one of the most repulsive sequences in recent memory, Splinter made quite an impression in his short time on The Boys. The Firecracker-obsessed supe possessed the ability to "splinter" off into multiple identical versions of himself, allowing him to create a small army of clones to provide strength in numbers.
Unfortunately, Splinter's replicas had no powers of increased strength or durability, meaning that they were relatively easy to overpower and kill for seasoned supe fighters like the Boys. They were also weakened by their dependence on a hive mind - by driving a crowbar through his skull, Butcher proved that if "Splinter Prime" dies, all of his clones die with him.
5 Gecko
Annie's Childhood Friend
- Superpower: Regenerative abilities
Considering his apparent lack of susceptibility to pain, it might seem unreasonable to label David Thompson's Gecko as one of The Boys' least powerful supes. Possessing the ability to regrow any severed body part, the sadomasochistic sex worker is functionally immune to physical damage.
However, while he may be impossible to kill by all appearances, the unassuming Gecko isn't a formidable individual in the slightest. His lack of enhanced strength means that he can't do much to anyone besides bleeding copiously all over them, allowing Annie to blackmail him with no fear of retribution in Season 2.
4 Sister Sage
The Smartest Woman In The World
- Superpower: Super intelligence
By her own admission, Jessica "Sister Sage" Bradley is a particularly weak superhero. Homelander's new Chief Strategist may be the smartest woman in the world, but she possesses no other superpowers of note. Susan Heyward's Season 4 arrival is no tougher or stronger than the average human being; this is a supe that any one of the Boys could physically overpower.
Fortunately for the former Teenage Kix alum, Sage's preternatural intellect has steered her away from danger to this ppint. However, while she may possess a regenerative brain, in theory, there's nothing to prevent a supe-loathing individual like Billy Butcher from offing the Seven's latest devious addition.
3 Doppelgänger
The Boys' Answer To Mystique
- Superpower: Shapeshifting
There's no shame in getting one's neck broken by Homelander, but the genderfluid Doppelgänger was still a notably weak face among the line-up of superheroes on The Boys. Owning the ability to perfectly replicate the appearance of any individual, the superhuman chameleon found themselves playing Madelyn Stillwell in a twisted sexual fantasy with Antony Starr's lead antagonist.
Apart from possessing the stomach to perform whatever nauseating (often sexual) objective they were tasked with, the superpowered buck stopped with Doppelgänger's shape-changing abilities. While nothing would have saved them from an almost unstoppable being like Homelander, they demonstrated nothing but the power to horrify viewers with debauched antics before duly bowing out.
2 The TNT Twins
Herogasm's Depraved Hosts
- Superpower: Energy generation
By the time Season 3's "Herogasm" rolled around, the TNT Twins had lost any semblance of what little power they ever had. The former Payback members were able to generate bursts of powerful energy by making physical contact with one another, meaning that even at the height of their powers, one was useless without the other.
Compounding matters, years of substance abuse and a dysfunctional relationship between the pair meant that the Twins' powers atrophied over time. By the time Soldier Boy came knocking, their powers had weakened to the point that they were only able to muster a pathetic spark of energy before being incinerated by their vengeful pursuer.
1 Mesmer
The Duplicitous Former Child Actor
- Superpower: Telepathy
The former child star of The Mesmerizer, Mesmer was undoubtedly the weakest superhero ever seen on The Boys. While his telepathic abilities were a useful attribute, Haley Joel Osment's spineless charge was as feebly impotent as he was cowardly.
After he betrayed the Boys to Homelander in Season 1, Mesmer's complete lack of power was summed up in savage fashion when Butcher caught up with him. Despite being no more than a regular human, Karl Urban's foul-mouthed charge was able to gleefully cave his head in with the assistance of a bathroom sink. Offering about as much resistance as a block of butter to a hot knife, there's not a single thing the hapless Mesmer could do to stop him.
The Boys
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- 2019 - 2026-00-00
- Showrunner
- Eric Kripke
- Directors
- Erin Moriarty, Karen Fukuhara, Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Eric Kripke
