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Main Cast with Roles

• Karl Urban as William "Billy" Butcher ,the leader of the Boys and former SAS operative who distrusts all individuals with superpowers. He has a particular hatred towards Homelander, who he believes is responsible for the disappearance of his wife.
• Jack Quaid as Hugh "Hughie" Campbell ,a civilian member of the Boys who joins the group after his girlfriend Robin is killed by A-Train.
• Antony Starr as John / Homelander ,the extremely powerful leader of the Seven. Beneath his public image as a noble hero, he is narcissistic, sadistic, and cares little about the well-being of those he professes to protect.
• Erin Moriarty as Annie January / Starlight ,a light-emitting superhero and member of the Seven. One of the few superpowered individuals sincere in helping the public, she questions her loyalty to the Seven after learning of their true character.
• Dominique McElligott as Maggie Shaw / Queen Maeve ,a veteran member of the Seven with enhanced physical strength and durability. Although she once wanted to protect innocent lives, she has become disillusioned and suffers from burnout and post-traumatic stress disorder.
• Jessie T. Usher as Reggie Franklin / A-Train ,a speedster member of the Seven. He is determined to maintain his status as the fastest speedster, resulting in him becoming addicted to Compound V.
• Laz Alonso as Marvin T. "Mother's" Milk (MM) ,a member of the Boys responsible for organizing and planning their operations. Formerly a medic in the United States Marine Corps, he is motivated by his father working himself to death while attempting to bring Vought down.
• Chace Crawford as Kevin / The Deep ,a member of the Seven who possesses the ability to communicate with aquatic life and breathe underwater. He is looked down upon by the other members of the Seven due to his status as the group's token aquatic hero. Patton Oswalt voices his gills.
• Tomer Capon as Serge / Frenchie ,a member of the Boys and international arms trafficker skilled in munitions, ordnance, infiltration, and communications. After being coerced into joining to protect his criminal friends, he seeks redemption for his past crimes while battling Vought.
• Karen Fukuhara as Kimiko Miyashiro / The Female ,a mute member of the Boys with enhanced strength and regenerative healing. Involuntarily injected with Compound V as part of a scheme to create superpowered terrorists, she joins the Boys after they rescue her.
• Nathan Mitchell as Black Noir ,a silent member of the Seven who possesses superhuman strength and agility and conceals his physical appearance behind a dark costume.
• Elisabeth Shue as Madelyn Stillwell ,the charismatic, scheming vice-president of hero management at Vought International.
• Colby Minifie as Ashley Barrett ,a publicist for Vought International and later the company's vice-president.
• Simon Pegg as Hugh Campbell Sr ,Hughie's father. He cares deeply for his son, but does not believe Hughie has the confidence to stand up for himself. Pegg was the visual inspiration for Wee Hughie in the comic book series from which the series is drawn.

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Developer(s): Eric Kripke

Based On: The Boys by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson

Summary:A group of vigilantes sets out to take down corrupt superheroes who abuse their superpowers.SourceIMDB

Plot

The Boys is set in a universe where superpowered individuals are recognized as heroes by the general public and work for the powerful corporation Vought International, which markets and monetizes them. Outside of their heroic personas, most are arrogant and corrupt. The series primarily focuses on two groups: the Seven, Vought's premier superhero team, and the eponymous Boys, vigilantes looking to bring down Vought and its corrupt superheroes.

The Boys are led by Billy Butcher, who despises all superpowered people, and the Seven are led by the narcissistic and violent Homelander. At the start of the series, the Boys are joined by Hughie Campbell after a Seven member kills his girlfriend and the Seven are joined by Annie January, a young and hopeful heroine forced to face the truth about those she admires. Other members of the Seven include the burned-out Queen Maeve, drug-addicted A-Train, insecure the Deep, the mysterious Black Noir, and supremacist Stormfront. The Boys are rounded out by tactical planner Mother's Milk, weapons specialist Frenchie, and superpowered test subject Kimiko. Overseeing the Seven is Vought executive Madelyn Stillwell, who is later succeeded by publicist Ashley Barrett.

The first season depicts the initial conflict between the Boys and the Seven, which is motivated by Butcher believing Homelander caused his wife's disappearance. While Homelander and Stillwell conspire to receive government support for superheroes, the Boys attempt to stop them by uncovering Vought's secrets. Initially unaware of each other's affiliations, Hughie and Annie muddle the conflict when they enter into a relationship, despite Butcher's distrust of her.SourceWikipedia

The Boys Season 1 All Episodes

Epsiode	Title	Director	Writer
S1-Ep1	The Name of the Game	Dan Trachtenberg	Eric Kripke

Hughie Campbell suffers mental trauma after his girlfriend Robin is killed in a high-velocity impact with celebrity superhero A-Train. Lawyers offer a $45,000 settlement, which Hughie hesitates to accept. Aspiring superhero Annie January auditions as "Starlight" and is accepted to join the superhero group The Seven following the Lamplighter's retirement. Arriving at the Seven’s headquarters, she is greeted by the Deep, who blackmails her into performing oral sex on him.Vigilante Billy Butcher offers Hughie a chance to expose superhero corruption, taking him to a secret "Supes Club" to show him security footage of A-Train laughing about Robin's death. Butcher asks Hughie to take the settlement money and to secretly place a bug at Seven Tower, but Hughie initially refuses. In Central Park, Annie meets Hughie by happenstance and they motivate each other to stand up for themselves and face their challenges. Hughie plants the bug, but Translucent discovers it and confronts him. Butcher arrives and helps Hughie incapacitate Translucent. Elsewhere, Homelander destroys the Mayor of Baltimore's plane while in flight, killing all passengers, in response to the Mayor's attempt to blackmail Vought.

S1-Ep2

Cherry

Matt Shakman

Eric Kripke

Butcher and Hughie take Translucent to former partner Frenchie, who makes a meta-bullet to pierce the hero's diamond-hard skin, but it fails to kill him. Butcher turns to CIA Dept. Director Susan Raynor for the "Mallory files", but she refuses. Vought VP Madelyn Stillwell tells Homelander about evidence Deep found incriminating him for the plane crash, so she handles it while he talks to Deep. While working with the Deep, Starlight promises to kill him if he tries to sexually assault her again. Stillwell uses shapeshifting Supe Doppelganger to blackmail Senator Calhoun into allowing a vote that could enable Vought to contract superheroes to the military. Annie stops a rape, unaware she is being recorded. Her agent, Ashley, reprimands her potentially causing negative exposure and legal implications. While Homelander searches for Translucent, Frenchie decides to place C-4 explosives in Translucent's colon, who fearfully reveals A-Train was with his girlfriend Popclaw before he killed Robin. The Boys learn Homelander is nearby, so they cannot risk killing Translucent with an explosion. While Frenchie and Butcher create a distraction elsewhere with another explosion, Translucent escapes and convinces Hughie to let him go. However, Hughie changes his mind and detonates the C-4, killing Translucent..

S1-Ep3

Get Some

Philip Sgriccia

George Mastras

Hughie moves out after telling his father how he truly feels. Starlight gains positive publicity for stopping the rape, but subsequently learns Stillwell wants her to wear a revealing costume. She declines, but Stillwell forces her to or else she will lose her job. Butcher brings in his former friend, Mother's Milk, to run surveillance on Popclaw. Hughie installs spyware on her computer, and they learn that A-Train takes a performance-enhancing substance called Compound V. Butcher wants to expose them before supes can be allowed into the United States Armed Forces, but requires a vial of Compound V from A-Train's upcoming race with another speedster, Shockwave. Beforehand, Hughie meets Annie and invites her to lunch, where they open up to each other. A-Train secretly uses Compound V to win and publicly announces he is single, breaking his promise to Popclaw to make their relationship public. With MM deducing Popclaw swiped some vials, the Boys find her heartbroken, high, and in the midst of killing her landlord during hyper-charged sex. Butcher uses this to blackmail Popclaw as an informant. At Vought headquarters, Homelander presents Translucent's remains to Stillwell along with Butcher's message, "COMING FOR YOU".

S1-Ep4

The Female of the Species

Frederick E.O. Toye

Craig Rosenberg

Following Popclaw's tip, the Boys find a Triad hideout holding an imprisoned Japanese woman called "the Female", whom Frenchie frees. After she kills her guards and runs off, MM finds evidence she was a test subject. When Hughie meets Starlight, Butcher has him bug her phone. With their Compound V supply compromised, A-Train has Popclaw go into hiding while he searches for the Female. Stillwell sends Homelander and Queen Maeve to save a hijacked airliner. After he accidentally destroys the controls however, Homelander abandons the plane and its passengers, forcing Maeve to leave with him before she can rescue them. After the Female kills a woman associated with her captors, Frenchie tracks her to Penn Station. He makes a momentary connection with her, but loses her in the crowd just as A-Train arrives and tries to kill her. Frenchie attracts a crowd to distract A-Train, allowing the Female to escape. The Boys corner her, but she attacks them before Butcher uses knockout gas. Stillwell is pleased to see Homelander use the airliner tragedy to push for militarized supes, rousing the crowd with a heartfelt speech, while Maeve grieves for those she and Homelander allowed to die.

S1-Ep5

Good for the Soul

Stefan Schwartz

Anne Cofell Saunders

At the "Believe Expo", Starlight is quietly directed to push the Vought agenda while Butcher has Hughie meet Ezekiel, the Expo host and their next lead. Maeve feels guilty for letting the airliner crash and visits her former girlfriend Elena, but leaves before explaining herself fully. Butcher takes time to talk with Rachel, his sister-in-law, over putting a tombstone to his wife Becca. A-Train kills Popclaw for betraying him and finds surveillance footage of Frenchie. Once Ezekiel is alone, Hughie extorts him for information about Compound V. Homelander rallies the crowd with an impromptu hardline speech. Starlight breaks script to speak candidly on Christianity, her sexual assault, and the compromises she made for her corporate employer. Hughie later comforts her and sympathizes with her plight by telling her about Robin's death. Butcher and MM discover Vought is using Compound V on infants to manufacture supes. Frenchie discovers Seven member Black Noir is looking for him. Attempting to escape, he is told to leave the Female behind, but releases her out of sympathy. She seemingly dies protecting him from Black Noir, but she awakens as her wounds immediately heal.

S1-Ep6

The Innocents

Jennifer Phang

Rebecca Sonnenshine

Now informed, the Boys know Vought has used super charities to smuggle Compound V disguised as vaccines and make super-babies since 1971. Annie learns that Ashley was fired, and Stillwell demands she comply with her designed image. Annie refuses, remarking that firing her after reporting a sexual assault would hurt Vought. Aware it was Deep, Stillwell has him apologize publicly and transfers him to Sandusky, Ohio, for a sabbatical. Butcher brings Hughie to a superhuman survivors' support group, but leaves after yelling at them for doing nothing to get justice. Butcher later tells Hughie that Homelander raped his wife, who went missing shortly afterward. Frenchie and MM get help from Mesmer, a telepath, to see into the Female's mind, learning her name is Kimiko and that she was kidnapped by the Shining Light Liberation Army terrorist group. They also learn that Vought is making Compound V boosted terrorists to push their agenda for militarizing supes. Butcher tells Raynor, but when she refuses to target Homelander, he calls off the deal. Mesmer gives Homelander surveillance photos of the Boys. Butcher finds out about Hughie and Annie, warning him not to fraternize with the enemy and threatens to tell her about Translucent.

S1-Ep7

The Self-Preservation Society

Dan Attias

Craig Rosenberg & Ellie Monahan

Hughie and Annie have sex and he agrees to introduce her to his father. Deep finds his transfer to Sandusky dull and is sexually assaulted by a fan. Homelander holds a meeting to discuss Hughie killing Translucent, extorting Ezekiel, and A-Train killing Robin. He accuses Starlight of co-conspiracy, but Maeve defends her. When A-Train calls Hughie, claiming he is holding his dad hostage, the Boys realize Mesmer betrayed them, for which Butcher later murders him. Hughie obtains Compound V to distract A-Train and allow Kimiko to cripple him. Homelander asks Vought scientist Dr. Jonah Vogelbaum about Becca, who informs him she was pregnant with his child, but claims both died and Vought covered it up. Questioning the revelation's timing, Vogelbaum expresses regret raising him in a lab, calling Homelander his "greatest failure". Butcher asks Raynor to protect Hughie and MM's families in exchange for evidence. As Raynor charges Stillwell and Vought, she learns of the superhuman terrorist "Naqib". Annie confronts Hughie, who explains Vought's use of Compound V before Butcher arrives to exfil him and shoots her.

S1-Ep8

You Found Me

Eric Kripke

Anne Cofell Saunders & Rebecca Sonnenshine

The Pentagon classifies Compound V as a controlled substance and the Boys as fugitives while Annie confronts her mother. Deep learns Stillwell has denied his return to the Seven and suffers an emotional breakdown. Angry at being racially profiled while out of costume, an injured A-Train rebounds to Compound V. Butcher takes Hughie to Colonel Grace Mallory, who refuses participation, but informs them about Stillwell and warns Hughie about Butcher's desire for vengeance. Hughie leaves to ask for Annie's help, but she refuses out of distrust. Seeing her old self in her, Maeve opens up to Starlight, asking her to be herself. Homelander confesses to Stillwell that he secretly made the super-terrorists and they have sex. At a black site, Hughie helps Frenchie and MM free Kimiko. Starlight rescues them and when A-Train arrives, she and Hughie fight him until the speedster suffers a heart attack. Hughie applies CPR, but Starlight takes over so he can escape. Butcher takes Stillwell hostage and fits her with explosives to bait Homelander. After revealing he tortured Vogelbaum for the truth about Becca, Homelander kills Stillwell himself, saves Butcher from his suicidal explosion, and shows him where Becca has been secretly raising Homelander's son.

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