Summary
- Season 4 of The Boys promises explosive action with new and returning supes, setting up the biggest showdown yet.
- Homelander’s power struggle and trial take center stage, while Ryan’s emergence as a powerful supe adds a new dynamic.
- Intriguing new characters like Firecracker and Sister Sage join the fray, adding layers to the conflict and alliances within The Seven.
The Boys season 4 is shaping up to be the most explosive season yet, with numerous supes returning, and new powered people joining the fight. The Amazon original series is based on the popular comics by Garh Ennis and Darick Robertson, which was adapted for TV by Eric Kripke. The show has received rave reviews over the previous three seasons, as well as inspiring an exciting spin-off series, Gen V, that created just as much buzz as the original.
The Boys has always been a show that flaunts a brilliant and powerful cast of heroes and villains, but season 4 appears to be gearing up to be the biggest yet. While several supes met their end in the preceding seasons of the show, there are still a lot of supes for The Boys to fight against. And while people like Hughie and Billy Butcher have had temporary V to even the playing field with their powerful opponents, there are a lot of supes ready to bring them and the rest of the humans down to size.
14 Homelander
Homelander is the leader of the world’s most powerful superhero team, and ahead of season 4, one of the most divisive figures in America. At the end of season 3, Homelander murders a man whose only crime was protesting against him in a New York City street. Now, his devout supporters are in direct conflict with the people who view supes as dangerous and out of control. Homelander is often the center of the show, and season 4 looks to be shaping up in a similar way with his trial and struggle for power in the middle of everything.
13 Ryan Butcher
Ryan Butcher was raised by his biological mother, Becca Butcher, in a secret compound for most of his life. After his mother’s accidental death, Ryan chose to be with Billy Butcher, Becca’s husband, but Billy pushed him away to protect him. Unfortunately, as Ryan needed comfort and affection with his mothers recent passing, his biological father, Homelander, stepped in to claim him as his own. Ryan is a confused young boy, simply looking for love and acceptance where he can get it, but he is also shaping up to be one of the most powerful supes in the show.
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12 Starlight
Starlight has always aspired to be a hero, and from a young age, she used her gift to help others and make a difference. Eventually, she was able to join the most elite hero team in the world, The Seven, but she quickly learned that the heroes were not always that heroic. Over the last few seasons, she has gotten close to Hughie, who she formed a romantic relationship with, and made a vocal effort to fight the corruption within The Seven and Vought. For many, she is the face of the rebellion against the supes, and Homelander’s primary rival.
11 Kimiko Miyashiro
Kimiko Miyashiro has been a largely mysterious character for most of the show, appearing as a mute girl with powers that The Boys took in. She formed a close relationship with Frenchie, and has saved her friends on many occasions. Kimiko has super strength, a powerful healing factor, and super agility and endurance. She returns alongside Starlight and The Boys to take down the supes and Vought, expose their secrets to the world, and break free from a system that encourages supes to do as they please, at whatever expense to the rest of humanity.
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10 Firecracker
Firecracker is one of the new supes joining The Boys in season 4. It appears that she is a replacement for Starlight in The Seven as she has a southern background, and is being used to build a wholesome middle American image of a hero. However, she has yet to reveal more about her background, or how she operates as a hero, but judging by what Homelander wants the supes to become, in terms of “wrathful gods,” it appears that Firecracker will not be nearly so sweet and kind as Starlight was.
9 Sister Sage
Sister Sage, aka, Jessica Bradley, is another new hero joining The Seven in season 4. Her characters name is a reference to the comics where one character with the same name worked in Vought as the personal assistant to the CEO James Stillwell. This version of the character was always willing to bend the rules and do what she needed to in order to climb the ladder in the company. However, in the series, very little is known about the character so far. Despite this, she appears to have a great influence on Homelander, who she appears to advise.
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8 Black Noir
Black Noir was one of the core members of The Seven when it first began. However, the hero inside the mask cannot be the same person that occupied the role before. Homelander learned about Black Noir’s knowledge of his father, Soldier Boy, and the fact that he was still alive. In a fit of rage, Homelander savagely murdered Black Noir, and walked away from the corpse. Black Noir does not have a healing factor capable of surviving such an attack, so the character inside the suit must be someone new in season 4, which has yet to be revealed.
7 The Deep
The Deep is one of the more controversial supes in The Seven, having faced intense accusations about his moral character. However, it appears that he is firmly back in the club as Homelander leads his supes into a new age. The Deep has a lot of resentment, but he is not always great at placing these emotions into the right outlet, or directing them where they would best be suited. However, Homelander has tried and tested The Deep on several occasions to ensure he will remain loyal and faithful to him, which is likely why he keeps him around.
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6 A-Train
Likewise, A-Train has been a controversial figure on the elite hero team, but through his actions, he has shown Homelander that he is more scared of him, than he is capable of leaving his life of fame and riches behind. A-Train still looks conflicted in the trailer for The Boys season 4, but thus far, he remains a faithful underling to Homelander who will turn in traitors for the chance of being in the good graces of his leader. A-Train could become a pivotal part of overthrowing Homelander, but until he grows a backbone, he remains firmly in his shadow.
5 Cate Dunlap
Cate was one of the main characters in Gen V before she turned on her friends and revealed her true colors as a pawn to villains like Dean Indira Shetty. Cate struggled to find love and affection at home, so she leaped at the opportunity to build a close relationship with Shetty. However, Shetty used her as a tool to control the minds of others, including her boyfriend and other close friends, and further her own evil purposes of trying to rid the world of supes for good. Cate now joins the cast of The Boys alongside Homelander’s other supes.
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4 Sam Riordan
Sam is the brother of Luke Riordan, the top student at Godolkin University, and a shoe in to join The Seven. However, while Luke enjoyed his spotlight, Sam struggled with compound V and frequently had hallucinations. These visions combined with his super strength make Sam an extreme threat. However, while he was freed from imprisonment and experiments by Emma Myers, he finds ideas of supes rising up and taking over too enticing, and swaps sides to align with Cate, and now in The Boys season 4, Homelander, in an effort to find his place and never suffer captivity again.
3 Ezekiel
Ezekiel was a minor antagonist in The Boys season 1, as a supe who espoused Christian ideals, while also indulging in very anti-Christian behaviors. Ezekiel, like many of his supe peers, indulges whatever whims he sees fit, while trying to create a very different image of himself to the rest of the world. However, in season 4, it looks as though his secrets will no longer remain private, as he goes head-to-head with Billy Butcher. Ezekiel’s stretching powers may make him agile and capable of covering larger distances in a fight, but he also has a fatal flaw.
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2 Victoria Neuman
Victoria Neuman is a high ranking political figure who hopes to enter the White House as Bob Singer’s Vice President. While the pair discuss and debate issues about powered people, Neuman is actively hiding a secret about her own gift which she has yet to publicly disclose. Like Marie Moreau of Gen V, she can control blood, and frequently uses her power to blow up peoples’ heads with her mind. However, her powers are much more versatile, and she clearly has secret plans for what she hopes to do with the supe population as she procured the supe virus.
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