Get the tissues out
It is actually criminal and evil that we all have to wait until 2026 for The Boys’ final season to come out on Amazon Prime. It’s cruel and it’s evil – especially after that cliffhanger with Soldier Boy and a very rogue and violent Butcher twist. Everything is absolutely not well in the world of The Boys, and most of us are absolutely hankering after the conclusion. 2026 is far too long to wait if you’re impatient like me. Luckily, The Boys was a comic book series before it was a TV show and we already know how things end in the comics. The show doesn’t always follow the comics, but here is how The Boys ends in the comics for those who want a clue on how the TV show might follow suit!
Warning: Major potential spoilers ahead.
What happens to Homelander and the supes?
Just like he’s already doing in the show, Homelander gets more and more deranged. He’s having dangerous blackouts and then is sent pictures of horrific acts he doesn’t remember doing – and the ones he can remember are already kinda horrific as we well know. Homelander goes even further off the deep end and commands an army of supes to storm the White House and kill the president. The US military sees it coming and uses supe targeting weapons to annihilate the full army in retaliation.
Butcher tries to confront Homelander, but it’s revealed that after all the revenge quest to get Homelander for raping his wife – Homelander didn’t do it. It was Black Noir – and weirder still, Black Noir unmasked is a full Homelander clone. A powerful one designed to shut Homelander down if he went too rogue. Noir is the one in all the photographs of Homelander doing things he doesn’t remember. They fight and Noir kills Homelander.
Butcher chases him down and wipes him out. The only remaining members of The Seven are The Deep and Starlight.
What happens to The Boys?
Despite the fact Vought are thwarted and Homelander gone, Butcher goes off on a genocidal rampage and attempts to wipe out ANYONE with Compound V in their system. There is some V in the food system, which means there’d be countless non supe casualties and Butcher doesn’t care.
He murders all of the Boys except Hughie, so that they can’t stop him. Yep, how The Boys ends in comics sees Frenchie, MM and Kimiko all killed by Butcher. Hughie and Butcher fight as Hughie tries to stop him and the two end up falling off the Empire State Building. Butcher begs Hughie to kill him, and he eventually does.
Hughie and Starlight pay tribute to the fallen Boys and have a happy ending.
Obviously, the TV show will likely go a different way than the comics. There are characters who have arcs that don’t even exist in the comics – like Ashley. And the Black Noir TV show arc is completely different. But this is a good teaser of what might happen. Honestly, kind of hope it doesn’t – it’s too bleak.