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This article contains spoilers for the series finale of <\/strong>The Boys<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\nAfter five seasons of superhero insanity, The Boys wrapped up this week with the series finale, \u201cBlood and Bone.\u201d And as you might expect, not everyone made it out alive after the climactic showdown between Homelander (Antony Starr) and Billy Butcher (Karl Urban).<\/p>\n
\u2026But actually, now that we think about it, a surprising amount of characters did<\/em> make it out alive, despite the \u201cscorched earth\u201d promise that the dynamic duo made to each other back in the Season 3 premiere \u201cPayback\u201d \u2013 and reminded each other about during a face-off in the Oval Office. Yes, some of your faves kicked the bucket, but plenty of other good guys \u2013 and bad guys \u2013 lived to cause havoc another day.<\/p>\nWith that in mind, let\u2019s break down who lives, who dies, and to crib a phrase from the musical that helped make Daveed Diggs (aka Oh Father) a household name, who tells their story? Here are the final fates of all the major characters on The Boys, as of the closing moments of the final episode.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\nSoldier Boy (Jensen Ackles)<\/strong><\/h2>\nStatus: Alive<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/output><\/p>\n
Just to get this one out of the way, despite being a major part of the season, Soldier Boy does not appear in the series finale, either in the main episode proper or as part of a surprise end credits scene. In fact, there\u2019s no post-credits scene at all, so once you hit that Kripke scrap metal logo: ya done.<\/p>\n
What that means, though, is Soldier Boy, father of God, is not in Bogota snorting blow off hookers. Instead, when the final curtain closes, he is back in cryostasis. Or rather, that\u2019s where he is when Episode 7, \u201cThe Frenchman, The Female, and the Man Called Mother\u2019s Milk\u201d ends\u2026 Whether someone thawed him out before the end of the day is TBA.<\/p>\n
Unlike the fates of a lot of our characters, things are very<\/em> much up in the air with Soldier Boy. He\u2019ll be appearing in the already-filmed prequel series Vought Rising, which is set in the 1950s. But there\u2019s always a chance that the show is set in two timelines, like your Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, or to borrow from another Jensen Ackles show, The Winchesters, where in both cases someone in the present is telling an origin story in the past.<\/p>\nAs far as The Boys is concerned, though, Soldier Boy is alive, but very, very cold and asleep.<\/p>\n
The Gen V Kids<\/strong><\/h2>\nStatus: Alive, But Canceled<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/output><\/p>\n
After a lot of anticipation and an untimely cancellation announcement, the kids of Gen V exited their brief sojourn on The Boys by taking a truckful of refugees to Canada. That includes Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair), who did not<\/em> use her blood powers in the final battle against Homelander as foretold\/predicted by numerous fans. The female-presenting aspect of Jordan Li (London Thor) also returned and left for Canada. And proving that girls get it done, Emma Meyer (Lizze Broadway) also showed up to drop a bunch of profanities and drive the truck to safety.<\/p>\nUnaccounted for and unmentioned by name are the rest of the Gen V kids, who we\u2019re told are safe in hiding, already enjoying Tim Horton\u2019s north of the border. That likely includes Cate Dunlap (Maddie Phillips), Sam (Asa Germann), and presumably Marie\u2019s sister Annabeth (Keeya King), all of whom joined Starlight\u2019s (Erin Moriarty) resistance at the end of Gen V Season 2.<\/p>\n
But yeah, that\u2019s a wrap on the Gen V kids, unless they show up later in the VCU (Vought Cinematic Universe) as showrunner Eric Kripke has teased.<\/p>\n
Sister Sage (Susan Heyward)<\/strong><\/h2>\nStatus: Alive<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/output><\/p>\n
We got another live one! One of the first main characters to exit in the finale is Sister Sage, the insanely smart Supe who switched sides from The Seven to The Boys a few episodes back. She was working with Frenchie (Tomer Capone) to help juice up Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) in order to give her the same powers as Soldier Boy, but in the wake of Frenchie\u2019s death it seems like the experiment was a dud.<\/p>\n
\u2026Or maybe not. At the urging of Butcher, Sage taunts Kimiko, telling her she\u2019s useless and was basically a pet for Frenchie (among other things). Enraged, Kimiko blasts Sage with her uranium-infused, Compound V frying blast and gives Sage her fondest wish: to be a normal amount of smart. Or even better, as Sage says, \u201cI\u2019m fucking stupid like you guys! Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n
And while the rest of The Boys plan to break into the White House to stop Homelander before he kills most of America in a thought purge, Sage decides she\u2019s going to live out whatever time she has left by visiting Harry Potter World in Orlando. \u201cWands up, bitches! Sage out!\u201d she says, leaving her discarded Taco Bell behind.<\/p>\n
The last we see of Sage, she\u2019s walking away from the house The Boys are hiding out in, happily smiling to herself, finally having gotten rid of all the noise in her head.<\/p>\n
Gunter Van Ellis (Ivan Sherry)<\/strong><\/h2>\nStatus: Dead<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/output><\/p>\n
Our first death of the episode, and it\u2019s a character we\u2019ve never seen before. While Homelander is attempting to make himself the new god of America, Oh Father explains that they all really work for the billionaires \u2013 including Van Ellis. The black-clad, black baseball hat-wearing billionaire certainly is reminiscent of the way a particular billionaire and Cybertruck<\/u> purveyor dressed way back at the beginning of the second Trump administration, and his talk about white fertility rates and interest in space clinches it: he\u2019s supposed to be Tim Cook, CEO of Apple.<\/p>\n
Just kidding, it\u2019s an Elon Musk stand-in, and while Oh Father isn\u2019t looking, Homelander flies him into space and leaves him there. RIP, classic TV character Gunter Van Ellis.<\/p>\n
Oh Father (Daveed Diggs)<\/strong><\/h2>\nStatus: Dead<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/output><\/p>\n
Once The Boys breach The White House, Hughie (Jack Quaid) and Mother\u2019s Milk (Laz Alonso) lure the preacher Oh Father away from Butcher with a pretty good Butcher impersonation. And while he gets a few good licks in thanks to his sonic scream, Chekhov’s Ball Gag comes into play.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the episode, over wine and dinner, President Ashley Barrett (Colby Minifie) gifted her husband, Oh Father, a ball gag so strong he won\u2019t be able to break it with his scream. So while Oh Father approaches Hughie and is about to blast him to smithereens, MM jumps behind the Supe and puts the ball gag on. The sonic scream blows back into Oh Father, making his head explode. Whoops, maybe not such a great present after all, Ashley!<\/p>\n
The Deep (Chace Crawford)<\/strong><\/h2>\nStatus: Dead<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/output><\/p>\n
While MM and Hughie are fighting Oh Father, and Butcher and Kimiko take on Homelander in the Oval Office, Annie is fighting The Deep on the beach. She even tries to reason with the aquatic Supe, telling him to \u201ctake some responsibility for yourself,\u201d to which The Deep yells a very Luke to Darth Vader \u201cNooooo!\u201d<\/p>\n
Instead, they fight, and Annie knocks The Deep into the ocean. Which normally would be a miscalculation on her part, except in last week\u2019s episode, Xander (Samuel L. Jackson) told The Deep that if he put one tiny toe in the water, he would die for his role in the oil pipeline fish holocaust that led to the death of 1.4 billion fish. And sure enough, they come for him, and take him out not just for March 15 (the day of the fish holocaust), but specifically for Ambrosius (Tilda Swinton).<\/p>\n
If you don\u2019t recall, though the \u201cpreviously on\u201d helps here, Ambrosius was The Deep\u2019s octopus lover, whom he jilted, betrayed, and ultimately killed. \u201cSay her name,\u201d shout the fish as they surround him, with an enormous octopus tentacle piercing the back of The Deep\u2019s head, ripping his jaw off and killing him.<\/p>\n
\u201cHuh,\u201d says Annie, confused as she watches him die.<\/p>\n
Frenchie (Tomer Capone)<\/strong><\/h2>\nStatus: Still Dead<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/output><\/p>\n
Though he died distracting Homelander in last week\u2019s episode, everyone\u2019s favorite fighting Frenchman returns for one last scare this week. While Homelander\u2019s son Ryan (Cameron Crovetti) returns to help hold back Homelander, and Butcher holds the baddie from the other side, Kimiko finds herself unable to generate the rage she needs to make the Compound V frying blast.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s when Frenchie returns in a vision Kimiko has. She explains she\u2019s not angry, just sad. To which Ghost Frenchie answers, \u201cRage is not what makes you strong. It has never been mon coeur\u2026 It has always been yours.\u201d<\/p>\n
In case you don\u2019t speak Frenchie, first of all, he\u2019s dead and this is all in Kimiko\u2019s head; there are no ghosts, and no Supe manipulation going on here. Just a good ol\u2019 pep talk from the imaginary Frenchie who lives in Kimiko\u2019s mind. And second, he\u2019s telling her that he\u2019s not the one with the heart, she is\u2026 Specifically working against what Sage told her earlier in the episode.<\/p>\n
In any case, before we get too far afield: Frenchie\u2019s dead and loving it.<\/p>\n
Homelander (Antony Starr)<\/strong><\/h2>\nStatus: So Very Dead, Like, 100% Dead<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/output><\/p>\n
In one of the most satisfying death scenes ever filmed, Kimiko does<\/em> blast Homelander, Butcher and Ryan (more on the latter two in a second), taking away their powers. Homelander tries to use his heat vision, but can\u2019t. Then he tries to fly but instead does little bunny hops.<\/p>\nSmiling, Butcher proceeds to beat the crap out of the now completely human Homelander, until he\u2019s bleeding and crying on the floor of the Oval Office while the entire world watches on a TV feed. He begs Butcher to spare his life. But, of course, Butcher only wants justice for his wife, Becca (Shantel VanSanten), who was raped by Homelander and impregnated with Ryan, essentially motivating the events of the entire series.<\/p>\n
So Butcher does what any man in his right mind would do: shoves a crowbar through Homelander\u2019s head, and then pries the top of his head off, spilling his brains all over the President\u2019s office. And yeah, there\u2019s no coming back from this. It\u2019s the ultimate humiliation for a Supe who previously obliterated the scant self-esteem of The Deep earlier in the hour for being, in his eyes, less than nothing. Now, Homelander is nothing, as well, a human who has completely debased himself in the eyes of the world. Not a god, not a man; just a worm (no offense to the talented comedy writer and director Worm played by Ely Henry, who does not appear in this episode).<\/p>\n
Ashley Barrett (Colby Minifie)<\/strong><\/h2>\nStatus: Alive<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/output><\/p>\n
After stepping up and saving The Boys from a trap in the White House, Ashley has reunited with the psychic Back Ashley (aka the mutant growth on the back of her head). She stops short of helping them get to where Homelander is, and instead gives vague directions while getting herself to safety. When Homelander is dead, Ashley does her media thing, lying during a press briefing that Homelander went rogue and a group of individuals working at her directive took him down. In addition, she definitively states she is not quitting her job as President\u2026<\/p>\n
\u2026Which we then smash cut to a news report that Ashley was unanimously impeached and immediately removed from office. \u201cSo ends the scandal-plagued tenure of America\u2019s first female President,\u201d intones the reporter, adding insult to injury.<\/p>\n
While we don\u2019t find out what\u2019s next for Ashley, there are some options for her if she wants to return to her old job at Vought, which we\u2019ll get to in a second.<\/p>\n
Terror<\/strong><\/h2>\nStatus: Dead<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/output><\/p>\n
So sorry, did you order the punch in the gut? You may notice that after Homelander is killed there are still 20 minutes left in the episode, never a good sign. And the bad times begin with Butcher getting told off by Ryan, who rejects his offer to run away together because Butcher still isn\u2019t a good man.<\/p>\n
Saddened, Butcher heads to his room to talk to his beloved bulldog Terror\u2026 But Terror is dead. Now, in the comics by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, a character called Jack From Jupiter kills Terror, ending a tentative truce between The Boys and The Seven and beginning the comic book series\u2019 endgame. In the show, Terror almost died eating chocolate a few episodes back, but there was no chocolate eating going on in this episode.<\/p>\n
Instead, Terror just died, likely of natural causes or old age. It\u2019s enough to drive Butcher to go scorched earth for real by using the Supe virus. But as for Terror, it seems like he was just an old dog whose time had come.<\/p>\n
Stan Edgar (Giancarlo Esposito)<\/strong><\/h2>\nStatus: Alive<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/output><\/p>\n
While The Boys continue to chill out after their victory over Homelander, one hiccup arrives in the form of Stan Edgar, who has returned to his old office as interim CEO of Vought. Stan\u2019s speech on TV is the usual mix of pretending to be disturbed about recent events and promising the company will have a renewed focus going forward. But also, this is exactly what Stan told Mother\u2019s Milk earlier this season, that even if they beat Homelander, or release the Supe virus\u2026 Well, the machine must still be fed, and companies must still grow.<\/p>\n
The spice must flow, and Stan Edgar is back in charge of Vought to figure out what the next iteration of Homelander, Supes, maybe even his own Supe virus looks like. Basically: the neverending fight continues.<\/p>\n
And to loop back to what we said earlier, depending on how things continue in the VCU, perhaps there\u2019s a place for Ashley Barrett, by Stan\u2019s side?<\/p>\n
Billy Butcher (Karl Urban)<\/strong><\/h2>\nStatus: Dead<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/output><\/p>\n
In a surprising twist, Billy Butcher does not<\/em> slowly and painfully die of the cancer that was previously wracking his body\u2026 Perhaps the Compound V that gave him super-cancer, followed by Kimiko\u2019s irradiation, cured him? Instead, Hughie kills him.<\/p>\nOr to explain this a little better, Butcher takes the Supe virus to Vought Tower, and puts it into the sprinkler system \u2013 a plan he hatched with Frenchie. Once the office opens for the day, he\u2019ll press a trigger and release the virus, spreading it through the building and then the world in a matter of days. That\u2019s game over for all Supes, everywhere.<\/p>\n
After Hughie unsuccessfully tries to convince Butcher not to do it, they fight. Butcher, of course, overpowers Hughie, and is about to release the virus when he once again, as he has previously in the series, sees Hughie as his brother. His hand eases off the trigger\u2026 And Hughie shoots him.<\/p>\n
To be fair to Hughie, he likely didn\u2019t see Butcher having second thoughts, and instead thought Butcher, like Homelander, would never stop unless he stopped him. Hughie holds Butcher\u2019s hand as he dies, sunlight slowly pouring through the window of The Seven conference room as a new day dawns.<\/p>\n
The final bit of Butcher in the episode? The Boys hold a funeral for him, with his epitaph reading, \u201cOi, fuck off you cunts.\u201d Not quite \u201cShe saved the world. A lot,\u201d a la Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but it\u2019ll do.<\/p>\n