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Season 1

Season 2

Season 1

The beginning

Hughie Campbell is a salesman who is in a happy relationship with a woman called Robin. Unfortunately, a speedster called A-Train runs her down and quite literally leaves her in a splattered mess.

Billy Butcher’s mission

Hughie is understandably distraught after learning the FBI is not actually working on a special task force to help him. He meets Billy Butcher, who claims to be with the FBI but is actually a vigilante. After learning this, Hughie decides to sign an NDA in order to protect himself. ..

He’s on a mission to bring Supes to justice given all the terrible deeds they commit, which are all conveniently forgotten, covered up or paid off.

With Butcher and Frenchie on board, the team is able to take down a supes.

Vought, a company responsible for managing superheroes, is looking for a new Lamplighter. Annie aka. Starlight is chosen to be part of The Seven and becomes their new Lamplighter. ..

The true face of Vought

She soon meets The Deep, who turns out to be her childhood hero. Only, she’s forced into committing sexual favors in exchange for keeping her place on the team. Homelander is the de facto leader but his godlike powers make him basically do whatever he wants. Although he’s managed by a woman called Madelyn Stillwell, it’s just a front. No one can really control Homelander. ..

Hughie has been given a top mission from Billy Butcher, which sees him infiltrate Vought under the pretence of signing his NDA. In doing so, he’s to leave a bug under the table so they can record audio evidence of The Seven being absolute dirt bags.

Hughie drops the bug in the bathroom. Unfortunately, Translucent (another Seven member with the power of invisibility) spots him and follows him back to the electronic store he works in. Butcher shows up, uttering his iconic “well, well, well, if it aint the invisible c*nt” line and electrocuting Hughie. ..

Translucent’s death

Hughie eventually kills him by placing a bomb up Translucent’s ass. With him gone, they turn their attention to A-Train. Now, A-Train happens to be addicted to a strange chemical known as Compound V, which he takes before a big race against a fellow speedster. ..

Annie becomes disillusioned with life in The Seven, realizing that a lot of what they do is not actually sincere crime-fighting but staged for social media likes and attention. Hughie befriends Annie, and the two get closer together. ..

Speaking of which, Starlight eventually speaks up about her sexual assault, calling out The Deep by name. With public opinion turning on him, The Deep is demoted out of The Seven and forced to move over to Ohio. After years of silence, Starlight finally speaks up about her sexual assault, calling out The Deep by name. This causes public opinion to turn against him and he is demoted from the Seven. He is forced to move to Ohio. ..

Compound V

A-Train and his crew are back with new blood. A-Train’s relationship with a D-list Supe known as Popclaw stems from their relationship during the early days of A-Train’s career. Popclaw took the drug and in her absence, killed her landlord.

The Butcher is recording all of this and uses the footage as blackmail to find out more about Compound V. Specifically, the spot A-Train picks up gear. When A-Train finds out, he kills Popclaw, notices footage of Frenchie and sends Black Noir, a silent but deadly hero on The Seven, to kill Frenchie. However, Frenchie is saved by the strange silent woman he’s freed from a cage earlier in the season who happens to have regenerative powers so she isn’t actually killed, despite Black Noir winning this fight.

Now, one of Vought’s big plans here is to get their superheroes into the military, but a lot of the politicians are against it. There’s a really shocking and quite chilling scene here involving Homelander and Queen Maeve, who fly up to “save” a plane, only for Homelander to let them all die instead. ..

The real superhero origin story

Hughie blackmailed Ezekiel, a preacher from the Believe Expo, to get information about Compound V. He learned that the compound is being used on babies to turn them into Supes. It turns out that all heroes were actually made this way, with Homelander’s “all-American” story a complete fabrication. He was born and raised in a lab, with a super-creepy relationship with Madelyn, who’s more of a mother to him.

The Boys work out that Kimiko is being used as a Supe terrorist to force the military into submission. Unfortunately, Butcher and the gang get there too late and Homelander enters the military, leading to more gruesome deaths. It’s here we learn Homelander was behind this whole coup, working without Madelyn knowing. ..

In the wake of all this drama, Homelander learns the identity of Butcher and the boys. Starlight is also shown footage of Hughie and told that he’s been using her this whole time to get dirt on The Seven.

When she confronts Hughie about it, he agrees with her that he likes her, but also reveals that he really does like her. ..

Starlight VS A-Train

Starlight saves Hughie and the boys from Vought’s goons, leading to an intriguing fight between Starlight and A-Train. However, A-Train’s drugtaking catches up to him and he begins having a heart attack. Hughie is not prepared to let him die though, despite what happened to Robin, and calls in an ambulance. Butcher watches from the shadows. ..

Butcher is angry with Homelander for 8 years because he believes that he could have prevented the rape and murder. He wants to avenge Becca’s death by taking down Homelander.

A shocking reveal

The truth is, Homelander didn’t kill Becca. He’s actually been keeping her in secret raising his son. Just prior to this, Butcher decides to use Madelyn as collateral to try and leverage a deal and get back at Homelander but he lasers her in the face instead.

Season 2

Laying Low

Butcher has been released from prison and is on the loose. The police are hot on his heels, but they can’t catch up to him. The boys have to find a way to clear their names and protect themselves.

While this is going on, Homelander’s Compound V plan is called into question by Vought CEO Stan Edgar. He gives Homelander a stern talking to but because of the military contracts The Seven have secured, and how much money they’re making off this, everything stays as it is for now.

Annie begins working undercover from within The Seven, feeding back information to Hughie. With A-Train alive but comatose, and Translucent gone, The Seven need new blood. That falls to Stormfront to pick up the numbers.

Enter Stormfront

After the death of Translucent, Stormfront needs all the PR they can get to cover up their tracks.

Becca has finally been able to free her son from the Vought compound. However, she is now faced with the fact that Butcher has also been freed and is living with her. The two of them have a tense relationship, as Becca is not happy that Butcher has been given a second chance.

Butcher does show up to try and bust Becca out, but given she wants to leave with her son, Billy realizes this is going to be impossible, given how important he is to Vought. The plan is abandoned and instead the boys meet their newest CIA contact, Grace Mallory. She’s actually the original founder of the boys; the one who has been responsible for bringing them all together. ..

Kimiko’s brother

The Supe terrorist is revealed to be Kimiko’s brother, who the boys manage to bring in to their ranks.

Annie’s work pays off and she manages to smuggle a sample of Compound V out. A-Train wakes up from his coma and tries to blackmail her when he finds out but of course, she has dirt on him too. Namely him killing Popclaw. A-Train gives up, and Annie leaks the Compound V to the media.

With the help of local law enforcement, The Seven are able to save their friend and brother from a life of piracy. This allows the public to forget about the larger issue at hand and focus on the smaller one.

Rolling in The Deep

With The Deep back in the fold, the Church of the Collective must come up with a plan to stop him before he destroys everything. But as things heat up, they realize that their only hope may be someone they never expected to see again: Butcher.

With the boys surrounded, Homelander forces Starlight to kill Hughie to show she’s not a traitor. Kimiko’s brother drops a train on Homelander though, leaving it up to Stormfront to stop things. She’s even more insane than Homelander, wrecking an entire apartment building and killing Kimiko’s brother in a pretty brutal scene.

All the memes

The public opinion in favour of Stormfront is based on footage of Homelander surfacing and causing civilian deaths. After a gnarly dream sequence in which Homelander slaughtering thousands of people with his laser eyes, he bites his tongue and manages to save face. In fact, Stormfront helps Homelander swing his persona around and he goes back to being loved by the masses.

The boys and Annie find out that Stormfront was once known as Liberty back in the 60’s. She’s a massive racist, doesn’t age, and is actually a Nazi too. So yeah, she’s worse than Homelander. Not only that but she also has a secret facility full of different Supes with powers. Stormfront is trying to stabilize Compound V so she can use it on adults rather than babies but the results have been… unpredictable to say the least.

Lamplighter’s last light-up

Lamplighter, who had retired from Supergirl at the start of the first episode, has now agreed to testify against Vought at the upcoming Congressional hearing. ..

In a season-long mystery, Lamplighter kills himself before revealing his true identity to the Chief science officer. Butcher must testify in order to clear his name.

A Supe with the powers to explode heads (something we witnessed earlier in the season courtesy of Butcher’s previous CIA contact being murdered) manages to stop the whole hearing and it’s cancelled.

The two-Supe power-trip

Stormfront and Homelander end up in a Supe relationship, and together they take off with Becca’s son. Becca pleads with Butcher for help, who ends up striking a deal with Stan Edgar. In exchange for leading Homelander away from his son, Edgar can swoop in and take the kid. That way, he and Becca can ride off into the sunset, Homelander can be stopped temporarily and the child can be saved.

Annie and Hughie are given help from an unlikely source, A-Train! He’s been kicked off The Seven thanks to Stormfront’s racism. They’re not a team, obviously, but he helps them leak her Nazi photos.

Public opinion turns against Stormfront, leading to our big fight at the end of the season. Starlight, Queen Maeve and Kimiko attack Stormfront in a 3-on-1 beatdown.

The final fight

Becca’s son, who has been unable to use his dormant powers all season long, completely destroys her and leaves the diabolical villain a toasty mess on the floor. Unfortunately Becca is killed too but before she dies, urges Butcher to raise her son and make him one of the good guys.

Homelander is understandably unhappy when he finds out. Queen Maeve shows up and manages to blackmail Homelander into submission, with footage of him forcing her into submission for fear of outing her sexuality and secret relationship. This leads to a very uneasy stalemate between Homelander and Starlight/Maeve. ..

Setting up season 3

Homelander’s son is taken away by the CIA and raised while Mallory is reinstated and the boys are officially not wanted anymore. They’re free to head home and see their families, with Frenchie and Kimiko starting what appears to be a romance. Likewise, Annie and Hughie get closer too. ..

A-Train is reinstated to The Seven, but takes The Deep’s place. Meanwhile, the head exploding Supe? Well, it turns out that’s actually Congresswoman Victorian Neuman! If that wasn’t enough, Hughie is now working for her too.

So that’s the entire story of The Boys from Season 1 up to the end of Season 2 in a nutshell. There’s a lot more going on here – including lots of individual fights and crazy moments – but hopefully this is enough to get you up to speed in time for Season 3! ..

The Boy’s story was interesting, and we learned some important details about him. However, we may have missed some crucial details in this recap. Let us know in the comments below!