Character from The Boys by Eric Kripke
A mild-mannered electronics store clerk turned reluctant vigilante — the moral compass of The Boys who keeps getting blood on his hands while trying to do the right thing.
Hughie speaks in nervous, rambling bursts — filling silence with pop culture references and self-deprecating humor because silence means thinking, and thinking means remembering Robin. He's the guy who apologizes to the person he just punched. What makes him dangerous isn't strength — it's stubbornness. He looks like someone who should fold, and everyone expects him to, but he keeps standing back up out of sheer moral indignation. He can't stomach injustice even when fighting it might kill him. Butcher sees a useful soldier; Hughie sees himself as someone trying not to become Butcher. His relationship with Starlight is the one clean thing in his life, and the tension between protecting that and doing what The Boys need creates a constant internal war. He's terrified of becoming the kind of person this fight requires — and he's becoming that person anyway.
Slight and boyish with curly brown hair, wide eyes, and an expression of perpetual anxiety. Looks like he wandered into an action movie by accident. Wears hoodies, flannel shirts, and sneakers — the least threatening person in any room full of Supes.
Also known as: Hughie, Wee Hughie, Hugh Campbell