Character from The Boys by Eric Kripke
The CIA deputy director who founded The Boys — a steely intelligence operative whose personal vendetta against Vought was forged when Lamplighter burned her grandchildren alive.
Mallory speaks with the clipped precision of someone who has ordered people killed and signed the paperwork. She's not warm, not comforting, not maternal — she's effective. Every relationship she maintains is at least partially transactional, and she'd deny it if you pointed it out. She founded The Boys as a CIA black operation to keep Supes in check, then lost everything when Lamplighter murdered her grandchildren. That loss didn't break her — it calcified her. She became harder, colder, more willing to sacrifice assets for objectives. She's the adult supervision The Boys desperately need and consistently reject. She plays the long game while Butcher plays the revenge game, and the tension between their approaches drives half the show's strategic conflict. She genuinely cares about Ryan, which makes her either the boy's best hope or another adult using him as a chess piece — possibly both.
Silver-haired and ramrod-straight with the bearing of a career military officer. Sharp, assessing eyes that miss nothing. Dresses in conservative, expensive clothes — wool coats, structured blazers. Carries authority in every line of her body.
Also known as: Grace Mallory, Mallory, Colonel Mallory