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Strongest The Boys Characters

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A power ranking of the strongest The Boys characters judged strictly on what the Prime Video series and Gen V put on screen, with comic feats set aside. Entries span the Seven, Payback, Godolkin University students and the Sage Grove test subjects, so raw physical output sits next to blood control, head-popping and Compound V stripping. The top belongs to the few who have taken a direct hit from someone else on this list and kept going, a much shorter group than the roster suggests.

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How the opening order was chosen

The opening order is the order I added the items in. Every ballot moves the ranking from there.

The sane way to order this is by what each supe has actually done to another supe on camera, which pushes durability and kill potential above utility powers like invisibility or aquatic control. The argument at the top is whether Homelander's raw output beats powers that ignore durability entirely, since Soldier Boy and Victoria Neuman both won their biggest fights by bypassing invulnerability rather than out-hitting it.

Homelander is first on the 2 ballots cast so far.

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1
Homelander

Flight, heat vision and skin nothing on screen has cracked make him Vought's flagship and the ceiling every other entry gets measured against. Soldier Boy is the only opponent to visibly wound him, blasting him at Herogasm badly enough that he broke off and flew away.

2
Butcher with V24

Temp V handed Butcher roughly a day of Homelander's toolkit, bulletproof skin and yellow heat vision he used to burn Gunpowder's face off in season 3. Every dose cut months off his life, which is the trade that drove most of what he did that year.

3
Soldier Boy

Vought's World War II frontman came back from a Russian lab able to fire a radioactive blast that permanently strips Compound V from anyone it hits. He beat Mindstorm to death with his shield in season 3, and the same blast cost Queen Maeve her powers in that season's finale.

=4
Marie Moreau

Hemokinesis gives Marie control of blood at the cellular level, letting her pull it from a body, harden it into a blade or stop a heart without touching anyone. The power first surfaced when she was a child and killed both her parents, which is how Vought placed her at Godolkin University.

=4
Stormfront

Born Klara Risinger in 1919, she was the first successful Compound V subject, injected by her husband Frederick Vought, and spent decades operating as the racist Vought hero Liberty. Ryan's heat vision took her limbs and burned her face in the season 2 finale.

6
A-Train

Marketed as the fastest man alive, A-Train killed Hughie's girlfriend Robin on impact in the pilot simply by running through her. Compound V wrecked his heart, so he ran Blue Hawk to death in season 3 and then took that man's heart in a transplant.

7
Butcher with tentacles

Terminal V damage mutated into something else entirely, tentacles that erupt from Butcher's chest and consume supes on contact. They tore Victoria Neuman in half in the season 4 finale, turning a man who spent four seasons hating supes into the deadliest one in the room.

=8
Queen Maeve

Maeve traded punches with Homelander and held her own, then tackled Soldier Boy through a Vought Tower window to absorb his blast in the season 3 finale. She survived it blinded in one eye and permanently depowered, with Homelander left believing she had died.

=8
Ryan

Homelander's son inherited the full set, flight, super strength and the heat vision that killed his mother Becca by accident in the season 2 finale. He tore a man apart during a staged rescue in season 4, on camera, without meaning to.

10
Victoria Neuman

Head-popping is the cleanest kill in this universe, and Neuman rode it from a congressional seat onto a winning presidential ticket without anyone tying the bodies to her. Butcher's chest tentacles caught her in the season 4 finale and tore her in half before she could use it.

11
Black Noir

Silent, masked and a Payback alumnus, Noir helped hand Soldier Boy to the Russians in 1984, then survived the beating he took when the man came back for revenge. Homelander killed him in the season 3 finale, punching through his torso once Noir admitted he knew who Homelander's father was.

12
Golden Boy

Luke Riordan ranked first at Godolkin University and was Vought's front-runner for a seat in the Seven, able to sheathe himself in flame, fly and throw fire at will. He killed Professor Brinkerhoff and then detonated himself in midair at the end of the Gen V pilot.

13
Starlight

Annie January pulls current from anything wired nearby and converts it into blasts of light strong enough to blind and burn. She helped put Stormfront down in the season 2 finale, then beat Firecracker bloody on live television in the season 4 premiere.

14
Sam Riordan

Golden Boy's younger brother tests as the stronger of the two, which is why Vought locked him in the Woods instead of building a brand around him. Sam tears people apart barehanded and shrugs off structural damage, though his hallucinations make him the least predictable heavy in Gen V.

15
Cindy

Sage Grove turned Cindy into an adult Compound V test subject, and she left the facility by imploding a guard who shot at her. Steel doors crumpled behind her on the way out, and nobody working that hospital had an answer for her at all.

16
Cate Dunlap

Skin contact lets Cate push a command straight into anyone's mind, and refusing is not an option. She told her brother to run away when they were children and he was never found, and she used the same power at Godolkin to unlock the Woods and turn the test subjects loose.

17
The Deep

Kevin Moskowitz breathes underwater, swims at speed and talks to marine life, a power set close to useless in the fights this show actually stages. Vought keeps him in the Seven for the brand, and every scrap he gets into on dry land is staged as comedy.

18
Lamplighter

Pyrokinesis let Lamplighter torch targets on command, and he burned Grace Mallory's grandchildren alive in an attack that had been meant for her. Guilt over that killed him in season 2, when he set himself on fire inside Vought Tower.

19
Sister Sage

Billed as the smartest person on the planet, Sage has no combat ability whatsoever and lobotomizes herself just to switch the noise off, healing the damage afterward. She drew up Homelander's political takeover, and he still put a blade through her skull to remind her who was in charge.

20
Mindstorm

Eye contact was all Mindstorm needed to lock a target inside a permanent nightmare, which is where Butcher ended up until Soldier Boy forced him to undo it. Another Payback member with a place on Soldier Boy's revenge list, he died with his head caved in by that shield.

21
Translucent

His carbon skin bent light around him and turned away bullets, making him the hardest member of the Seven to touch despite having no offensive power at all. Hughie killed him in the second episode of the series with a bomb, because the skin only protected the outside.

22
Termite

Shrinking to insect scale is a genuine offensive power here, because Termite can enter a body and then expand. He killed his own partner in the season 3 premiere by sneezing while inside him, and was taken down by Butcher, Frenchie and Kimiko minutes later.

23
Andre Anderson

Magnetism ran in the family, and Andre used it to crash trucks together and keep a falling helicopter in the air. Chance Perdomo died in March 2024 and Amazon chose not to recast, so Gen V season 2 wrote the character out of the story instead.

24
Polarity

Andre's father works magnetic metal with far more precision than his son ever managed, pinning a person in place or peeling a car open. Years of heavy use damaged his brain, and Gen V keeps showing him losing words and control at the worst possible moments.

25
Jordan Li

Two bodies, two power sets: the male form is close to invulnerable, while the female form fires concussive energy blasts and moves faster. Jordan sat second in Godolkin's rankings behind Luke Riordan and made no secret of resenting it.

26
Kimiko Miyashiro

Her healing factor closes wounds that would end anyone else, and it comes paired with the strength to tear a grown man apart barehanded. Shining Light made her a supe as a child, and she was in the pile that finally brought Stormfront down in the season 2 finale.

27
Love Sausage

A Sage Grove test subject with prehensile, elongating genitals, he wrapped them around Mother's Milk's neck in season 2 and nearly choked him out in front of Frenchie and Kimiko. The show keeps him a Vought captive rather than the ally he is in the comics.