The Boys

by Eric Kripke

81 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Billy Butcher — A foul-mouthed, ruthlessly pragmatic ex-CIA operative who leads a ragtag crew against the most powerful beings on Earth — driven by a vendetta so cons
• Hughie Campbell — A mild-mannered electronics store clerk turned reluctant vigilante — the moral compass of The Boys who keeps getting blood on his hands while trying t
• Frenchie — A brilliant, haunted weapons specialist and self-taught chemist who builds the tools that let powerless humans fight gods — carrying a guilt so heavy
• Kimiko Miyashiro — A former captive of a terrorist cell who was forcibly injected with Compound V — now the team's most lethal fighter, communicating through sign langua
• Mother's Milk — The disciplined, morally grounded ex-Marine who holds The Boys together — a man whose obsessive need for justice stems from Vought destroying his fami
• Homelander — America's greatest superhero is a narcissistic, emotionally stunted god-child raised in a lab — smiling for cameras while privately capable of inciner
• Starlight — A devout, small-town superhero who joined The Seven believing she could save the world — then discovered the institution she idolized was rotten to it
• Queen Maeve — Once the most beloved superheroine in the world, now a bitter alcoholic going through the motions of heroism — hiding her sexuality, her conscience, a
• A-Train — The fastest man alive, addicted to Compound V and desperate to stay relevant — a Supe who keeps choosing self-preservation over conscience until the c
• The Deep — An aquatic Supe with the power to talk to sea creatures and the emotional depth of a kiddie pool — a serial predator and pathetic narcissist whose att
• Black Noir — The silent, masked enforcer of The Seven — a traumatized, brain-damaged Supe who follows orders without question, communicates through violence, and h
• Stormfront — The first Supe ever made — a literal Nazi hiding behind a millennial girlboss persona, using social media savvy and plasma powers to push white suprem
• Translucent — A Seven member whose carbon-metamaterial skin renders him invisible and nearly indestructible — a voyeuristic creep who used his powers for exactly wh
• Lamplighter — A disgraced former Seven member who traded his heroic fire powers for a guilt-haunted existence at Sage Grove — the man who accidentally murdered Mall
• Stan Edgar — The CEO of Vought International who treats the most powerful being on Earth like a misbehaving employee — a corporate mastermind whose calm contempt f
• Madelyn Stillwell — Vought's senior VP who managed The Seven — the woman who kept Homelander on his leash through maternal manipulation until he realized the leash was an
• Ashley Barrett — Vought's perpetually terrified CEO who clawed her way to the top through sheer sycophancy — pulling out her own hair from stress while spinning genoci
• Victoria Neuman — America's most progressive congresswoman is secretly a Supe who can pop people's heads like grapes — playing both sides of the war between Vought and
• Robert Singer — A career politician trying to rein in Vought through legislation — the well-meaning bureaucrat who doesn't realize his running mate can pop his head l
• Soldier Boy — America's original superhero — a World War II legend frozen in time, thawed out as a weapon against Homelander, only to reveal that the Greatest Gener
• Ryan Butcher — The only naturally born Supe in existence — a child torn between a murderous biological father and a violent stepfather, whose power to level cities i
• Becca Butcher — Billy Butcher's wife who was raped by Homelander and secretly raised their Supe son in isolation — a woman who chose her child over her husband and pa
• Grace Mallory — The CIA deputy director who founded The Boys — a steely intelligence operative whose personal vendetta against Vought was forged when Lamplighter burn
• The Legend — Vought's retired VP of Hero Management who knows where all the bodies are buried — because he buried most of them — now trading secrets from his memor
• Kenji Miyashiro — Kimiko's brother, a telekinetic Supe conscripted by the Shining Light Liberation Army — killed by Stormfront before he and his sister could be reunite
• Robin Ward — Hughie's girlfriend whose death — obliterated by A-Train running through her — is the inciting incident that transforms a meek electronics clerk into
• Crimson Countess — A former Payback member and Soldier Boy's ex-girlfriend who helped betray him to the Russians — reduced to performing at Voughtland for birthday parti
• Gunpowder — A gun-toting Supe and former Payback sidekick who Soldier Boy physically abused — now a right-wing media darling and Second Amendment spokesperson hid
• Mindstorm — A Payback telepath who can trap anyone in an endless nightmare with eye contact — a paranoid recluse hiding in the woods from Soldier Boy's vengeance.
• Swatto — A Payback member with insect-like wings and a tragically low IQ — killed during the botched Nicaragua mission that led to Soldier Boy's capture.
• Marie Moreau — A Godolkin University student who can control blood — her own and others' — desperate to become the first Black woman in The Seven while uncovering th
• Jordan Li — A top-ranked Godolkin student who shifts between male and female forms — each with different powers — navigating identity politics in a world that can
• Andre Anderson — A Godolkin legacy student with magnetic powers and the pressure of living up to his famous Supe father — charming and well-meaning but in over his hea
• Emma Meyer — A Godolkin student who can shrink to tiny size by purging — her eating disorder literally weaponized by Compound V in the show's most pointed metaphor
• Cate Dunlap — A Godolkin student whose touch allows her to control minds — a power so invasive she wears gloves at all times, and a person so damaged by Vought's ex
• Sam Riordan — A Supe with super strength and invulnerability who was imprisoned in The Woods and experimented on — freed by his friends but increasingly unstable, h
• Dean Shetty — Godolkin University's dean who runs The Woods experimentation program — a human woman driven by anti-Supe hatred after her family was killed in collat
• Firecracker — A right-wing conspiracy theorist and minor Supe elevated to The Seven by Homelander — weaponizing populist rage and misinformation with the platform o
• Sister Sage — The smartest person on the planet — a Supe whose superintelligence is both her greatest power and her deepest curse, because she can see exactly how e
• Black Noir II — The replacement Black Noir — a new Supe put in the old suit after Homelander killed the original, desperate to prove himself while wearing a dead man'
• Supersonic — A charming, earnest Supe and Starlight's ex-boyfriend who joined The Seven hoping to help her fight Homelander — murdered within days for the crime of
• Blue Hawk — A racist Supe who patrols Black neighborhoods with excessive force — the show's most explicit metaphor for police brutality, wrapped in a star-spangle
• Doppelganger — A shapeshifting Supe used by Vought for espionage and seduction — killed by Homelander for the unforgivable sin of seeing him at his most vulnerable.
• Mesmer — A washed-up telepath and former children's TV star who can read memories through touch — sold out The Boys to Homelander and paid for it with his face
• Tek Knight — A billionaire Supe with no actual powers who compensates with technology and money — think Batman if Batman was a sexual deviant with a brain tumor de
• Cindy — A Sage Grove patient with telekinetic crushing powers who escaped during The Boys' raid — a walking weapon Vought created and lost control of.
• Love Sausage — A Russian Supe with superhuman durability and a prehensile appendage of legendary proportions — escaped from Sage Grove during The Boys' raid.
• Ezekiel — An evangelical Supe preacher with elastic stretching powers who publicly condemns homosexuality while privately practicing it — Vought's pet hypocrite
• Popclaw — A-Train's girlfriend, a Supe with retractable claws who got addicted to Compound V alongside him — killed by A-Train on Homelander's orders to tie up
• Termite — A Supe who can shrink to microscopic size — demonstrated in the show's most infamous scene, which involves a urethra and an involuntary sneeze.
• Donna January — Starlight's mother who injected her infant daughter with Compound V to make her a superhero — a stage mom whose love is inseparable from her ambition.
• Little Nina — A Russian crime boss from Frenchie's past who runs a brutal criminal empire — the debt Frenchie can never fully repay and the darkness he can never fu
• Dr. Jonah Vogelbaum — The Vought scientist who raised Homelander from infancy in a sterile laboratory — the closest thing America's most dangerous Supe ever had to a father
• Gecko — A Supe with regenerative powers who sells the experience of cutting off his limbs to fetishists — the gig economy of superheroism taken to its most de
• Shockwave — A rival speedster brought in to replace A-Train — killed by Victoria Neuman's head-popping during the congressional hearing, proving no one is safe.
• Naqib — A Supe terrorist operating in the Middle East — proof that Compound V didn't just create American heroes, it created a global superpowered arms race.
• Blindspot — A blind Supe with enhanced hearing who auditioned for The Seven — until Homelander shattered his eardrums during the audition to demonstrate that he a
• Eagle the Archer — A Hawkeye parody and The Seven hopeful who never quite makes the team — perpetually on the bench, perpetually auditioning, perpetually irrelevant.
• TNT Twins — Former Payback members and twin Supes who can generate explosions when they touch — now washed-up has-beens hosting Herogasm in their Vermont estate.
• Elena — Queen Maeve's girlfriend who became collateral damage in Vought's PR machine — her relationship commodified into 'Brave Maeve' merchandise against her
• Janine — MM's young daughter — the reason he keeps trying to leave The Boys and the reason he keeps coming back, because someone has to make the world safe for

Locations

• New York City — The gleaming, propaganda-soaked megacity where Vought International runs its superhero empire — equal parts corporate playground and surveillance stat
• Vought Tower — The golden headquarters of Vought International and The Seven — a gleaming corporate fortress where press conferences happen above and murders happen
• The Flatiron — The Boys' clandestine base of operations — a dingy electronics store basement where the world's most wanted vigilantes plan their war against superpow
• Godolkin University — America's only college for superheroes — an elite campus where young Supes compete for a spot on The Seven, unaware that the school is experimenting o
• Sage Grove Center — A Vought-run psychiatric facility that's actually a Compound V testing ground — where inconvenient Supes are drugged, studied, and occasionally let lo
• Red River Institute — A Vought-funded orphanage for unwanted V-babies — where children injected with Compound V by their parents are warehoused until they're useful or forg
• The Woods — A secret underground laboratory beneath Godolkin University where students are experimented on — the school-to-lab pipeline that proves Vought's cruel
• Voughtland — Vought's superhero theme park — a garish celebration of corporate heroism where washed-up Supes perform for birthday parties and the gift shops sell f
• Washington D.C. — The political battleground where Vought's lobbyists and Victoria Neuman's head-popping intersect — a city where legislation is the weapon and Supes ar
• The Compound — The isolated suburban house where Vought hid Becca and Ryan Butcher — a picture-perfect prison designed to raise a god-child in captivity.
• Herogasm Estate — The TNT Twins' Vermont estate where Supes gather annually for Herogasm — nominally a charity retreat, actually the world's most exclusive and depraved
• VNN Studio — Vought News Network's broadcast studio — the propaganda machine's production floor, where news is manufactured to serve corporate interests.
• Mallory's Safehouse — Grace Mallory's off-the-books CIA safehouse — where classified meetings happen and Ryan Butcher is hidden from Homelander.
• Elmira Adult Rehabilitation Center — A maximum-security facility where Supes are incarcerated — one of the few places designed to hold superpowered criminals, though 'designed' is doing h

Items

• Compound V — The mutagenic substance that creates superheroes — a Nazi-developed serum that Vought has been secretly injecting into babies for decades, turning pha
• Temp V — A temporary version of Compound V that grants 24-hour superpowers — with the minor side effect of fatal brain lesions if you use it more than a few ti
• The Supe Virus — A bioweapon designed to kill Supes — the ultimate anti-Supe weapon, developed from Vought's own research and capable of ending the superpowered era if
• Soldier Boy's Shield — A star-emblazoned battle shield carried by America's first superhero — a Captain America parody prop that became a genuine weapon in the hands of a fr
• Butcher's Crowbar — Billy Butcher's weapon of choice — a simple steel crowbar that a powerless human uses against gods, because Butcher's entire philosophy is bringing a
• Frenchie's Arsenal — The custom anti-Supe weapons kit built by Frenchie — nerve agents, sedatives, explosives, and chemical compounds specifically engineered to hurt being

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