The Boys
From start to end , The Boysis a roughshod narration where no - one is dependable and death is always on the cards . By the end ofGarth Ennis and Darick Robertson ’s comic serial publication , almost all the titular characters are dead , and most of them at the helping hand of the same someone . However , as misanthropic and sometimes green as the serial can be throughout , the originative squad are careful to verify each of the main Hero receive a meaningful send - off .
Each of the Boys ' last word says something about their grapheme and relationships , contriving to expose the humanity of the serial ' deeply blemished Cuban sandwich before saying cheerio to them for good - often in horrifically red ways .
Mallory started the Boys and face death after betraying a key penis .
Gregory Mallory
In The Boys #55, Mallory Tells Butcher to Hurry Up and Kill Him
While Greg Mallory quits the Boys before the start of the comic serial publication , he ’s integral to the story , explaining the chronicle of the group to Hughie and warn him aboutButcher ’s propensity for unfeeling violence . Mallory ab initio approach Hughie in Ennis and Keith Burns ' linkup - in seriesThe male child : Highland Laddie , mask himself as a favorable unknown who helps him adjust to the Revelation of Saint John the Divine that his lady friend Annie January is one of the Seven .
Amazon’sThe BoysTV show adapt Greg Mallory as Grace Mallory , play by Laila Robins .
In The Boys ' original comedian not every fellow member of The Seven lives to the ending of the story . But which sup live , who dies , and how are they killed ?
When Hughie by and by seeks out Mallory for advice , he finds a much less appealing operator , who warns him in detail that Butcher is even more dangerous than he seems , and that,“There is no one on Earth who hat like that man does . “Hughie chews Mallory out for refuse to take a handwriting in the Boys ' future , storming out and leaving Butcher ’s wise man to his memories . unhappily , Hughie is n’t Mallory ’s last visitor .
InThe Boys # 55(Ennis , John McCrea and Keith Burns ) , Butcher get to notice out what incisively Mallory told Hughie about their share past . Knowing Butcher has make out to kill him , Mallory explain that he ’s not frightened to drop dead , since thetrauma that Lamplighter visited on his familyby bolt down his granddaughter has left him nothing left to live for . The issue concludes with a defeated Mallory say :
So why do n’t you do me a favor and get it the hell over with , mm ?
The Boys is a gritty and subversive take on the superhero genre, focusing on a group of vigilantes who confront powerful superheroes abusing their abilities, exploring themes of corruption and moral ambiguity in a world where heroes are not always what they seem.
While Mallory ’s death is n’t shown on - page , inthe backmatter ofThe Boys Omnibus # 5 , creative person Russ Braun confirms,“And yes , Mallory is bushed . Butcher killed him off camera , but fairly clearly he ’s a dead man . "
The Female only speaks four lyric in the entire serial , saving them for the story ’s final arc .
The big reveal of Black Noir ’s lawful identity element check a supposed plothole , since Homelander has x - beam visual modality , but The Boys comic already get it .
The Female of the Species
In The Boys #68, The Female Speaks Her Only Words of the Series
Hughie uses the background provided by Mallory and a content from friend Vasilii " Love Sausage " Vorishikin to work out that , having overseen the death of his wife ’s sea wolf , Butcher is going ahead with a genocidal plan to kill everyone who hasany tincture of Compound Vin their organization - a move which will lead in meg of barren death . While he know he does n’t stand a chance , Hughie asks the Boys to stand alongside him - even the Female , who has been working heavily to affirm off fury .
Despite the Female being perhaps the only team member who could potentially beat Butcher one - on - one , Hughie acknowledge her rightfield to stay out of the conflict . However , at the last import , the Female connect their doomed mission by speakingthe only four lyric she sound out in the total series :
I hate entail people .
The Frenchman
In The Boys #69, Frenchie Says Goodbye to the Female
woefully , the Boys were correct to be wary of going up against Butcher , and the issues that follow see him killing off his former team . Knowing he ’d fare poorly in a fight against Frenchie and the Female , Butcher plants a bomb calorimeter in their base in New York ’s Flatiron building . WhileFrenchie discover the explosive , it ’s with only two seconds left on the timer , giving himjust enough time to tell the Female he ’s always loved her :
Je t’aime . From the first .
While the Amazon adaption portraysFrenchie and the Female ’s bond as romantic , that ’s not how it come across in the comics , where the Female is a untried fibre . When Mallory ’s Boys first apprehend the Female , they mean to treat her as a living weapon , given her fury and immense strength . However , Frenchie immediately sees her world , object that,“It ’s not an it . She ’s a she . “He volunteers to aid integrate her into society , providing clothes and her first cooked repast , andspends the rest of the series trying to help her check her addiction to violence .
Frenchie ’s final word speak to the kinship he finger with the Female - someone whose humanity is often overlooked by the other characters , but who carries a recondite and awful sadness alike to his own .
In their horrific final fight , Mother ’s Milk ca n’t realize why Butcher refuses to discontinue killing .
Underneath its R - rated exterior , The Boys is a paying attention geographic expedition of grief , and how sure reactions can trap salutary hoi polloi in harmful approach pattern .
Mother’s Milk
In The Boys #68, Mother’s Milk Rages at Butcher
botcher gets more up near and personal with Mother ’s Milk River , who he run into at the Boys ' billet doing research into his programme . Mother ’s Milk beats Butcher , bellow :
Why the * * * * you draw ta do this ? Why you get ta be the way you are ? ! You think I * * * * * * want this * * * * godammit ?
In perhaps the serial ' most persistent minute , Butcher replies :
I know . I know . You ’re the in force mate a * * * * like me could go for for . I do n’t deserve to * * * * * * have it off you .
bumbler then reveals he ’s have a grenade , which he thrust into Mother ’s Milk River ’s facial expression , wound him enough that Butcher can then stifle him to death . It ’s a trulyhorrifying terminal for Mother ’s Milk , who considered Butcher a near friend after Butcher helped deliver his girl when she was a baby . deplorably , asThe Boysgradually crap clean , Butcher is able to totally disconnect his violent behaviour from his emotion and ethical motive , allowing him to obliterate MM without hesitation .
In many way , Mother ’s Milk River is the character worst - served by the serial publication . Despite being introduced as a family man urgently endeavor to raisehis rapidly aging daughter(a result of her own Compound V ) , he end the story without a reconciliation with his child , who was traumatized by Butcher murdering her mother ( which she believed to be at Mother ’s Milk ’s asking . ) MM ’s moral and methodical nature make it clear how irredeemable Butcher really is , but at the cost of afford his own story an implausibly bleak conclusion .
stumbler drive Hughie into a homicidal passion by revealing he kill his parents …
The Boys is famous for its disdain for superheroes , but the ideas that delineate the franchise really began with the original Homelander , Skull .
Billy Butcher
In The Boys #71, Butcher Thanks Hughie
gratefully , Butcher ’s genocidal plan is finally stop over by Hughie , who he admits he always hoped would take on the line of work his little brother used to swear out and stop him from doing something terrible . When Hughie tries to assail Butcher , they both fall out of a skyscraper windowpane because Butcher is ineffectual to stop himself from trying to write his friend . The landing place badly hurt Hughie ’s leg whileleaving Butcher totally paralyse . In reply , the Boys ' former leader tries to convince Hughie to kill him , rather than permit him spend the residuum of his spirit in prison house .
slaughterer finally drives Hughie into a rage by claiming to have killed his parents(a prevarication , as Hughie later come across ) , describing their home in intense detail before fixing Hughie with his most evil grin and say :
see at me . * * * * * * look at me . You screw I done it .
convert , Hughie stabs him with a piece of alloy in a fury , fulfilling Butcher ’s indirect request . Butcher thanks him for the accidental murder with a satisfied smile , with his last give-and-take being :
Nice one , spouse .
Homelander sees himself as the greatest major power in the world , but The Boys disagree , and uses his destruction to humiliate and denigrate him .
Hughie Campbell
The Boys Gives Hughie 3 Different ‘Last Words’ Moments
As the only survivor of the Boys , Hughie really has three instances that qualify as last words . The first come in Ennis , Robertson and Richard P. Clark’sThe boy # 72 . Having fill over Butcher ’s job police the world ’s continue Supes , Hughie reconnects with Annie January , suggesting that after their bitter break - up in Central Park , the rebuilt Brooklyn Bridge can be their young ' place , ' saying :
I thought it might make a courteous new post for us . Well , you sleep with . We had the park , but … it ’s mayhap a teensy-weensy bit deplorable for us now .
The couple then embrace in an echo of the moment fromThe Boys # 1whereHughie ’s girl Robin was kill by A - geartrain , but this time ending in a kiss . The Brooklyn Bridge is a major metaphor in the comic series , representing the legal injury that the careless enjoyment of power can do to innocent people . It ’s also the web site of Hughie ’s tribute to the Boys , writing their initial in setting concrete .
However , The Boyslater returned in Ennis and Russ Braun’sDear Becky- a 2020 miniseries acting as an epilog to the independent series , and set over a decennium after its last . In that series , Hughie and Annie have moved back to Scotland , with Hughie repeatedly delay their hymeneals . Finding Butcher ’s honest-to-goodness diary to his married woman Becky reserve Hughie tofinally work on the going of the Boysand what they signify to him , and the miniseries ends with his wedlock to Annie , with Hughie exclaiming” … Jings . “on come across his married woman arrive for their wedding ( an expression of surprise in Scottish vernacular . )
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However , Dear Becky ’s last scene watch Hughie indite a letter of the alphabet to Becky , explicate his final idea about Butcher . While not spoken dialogue , The Boys ' story end with a finis - up of Hughie ’s message in a bottle , telling Becky that while Butcher tried his best to become a behemoth after her death , her memory kept alive a degree of morality that made it possible to block him , writing :
You were with him all the means .
The whole point of Homelander is that there ’s no - one in the world of The Boys who can contain a candle to him , but there is one " superhuman " he respects .
Will Amazon’s TV Show Have the Same Last Words?
Major Changes Mean the Show Is Likely to Go Its Own Way
Those are the last words of each member ofThe Boysin the original comics , with the majority of the squad kill as part ofButcher ’s final plan to kill every last Supe . DespiteThe Boys ' flaws and love of excess , Ennis is one of the most talented writers in comics , and each quality ’s final word of honor strike like a truck for rooter who have spent lashings of issues in their company .
Due to the changes to Amazon ’s TV series , it ’s likely thatThe Boyswill get different final sentiments in the adaptation , but the comics depart behind an improbably high-pitched bar for them to reach .
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The Boys is a farinaceous and seditious take on the superhero genre , focusing on a grouping of vigilantes who confront potent superheroes abusing their abilities , exploring theme of corruption and moral ambiguity in a world where heroes are not always what they seem .
