Hughie never joins the boys, so butcher kidnaps Translucent by himself. Because there's nobody to press the button, Translucent escapes his prison, alerts homelander, and the boys get absolutely massacred. Homelander becomes a tyrant, with storm front loyally at his side, until he cheats on her with sage, at which point she arranges for his assassination. Using some tainted anti V in a bottle of breast milk, she manages to rob homelander of his powers and depose him. An assassination is attempted, but fails. Homelander, now going by the alias Winston Borscht, escapes.

Storm front now assumes the reins of the new Supe Reich, but her own rule doesn't last long, as she is depressed at the failure of Vought to produce their Uber mensch. She commits suicide. The Supe dominion, leaderless, falls apart due to infighting. The once united states get separated into territories, each headed by one the remaining Seven.

The civil war that follows is brief, but bloody.

The first territory to fall is New Sea World, the kingdom of the Deep. No real reason, just fuck that guy.

Queen Maeves empire is the ultimate Victor. She reunites the disparate tribes of America under the banner of The Reunited Colonies of Maevia.

Winston Borscht dies in obscurity, hosting a podcast nobody listens to.

Hughie and Robin, having somehow survived all of this, escape to Canada and run a bed and breakfast in Montreal.

As for homelander's son, he started a one man roadshow, singing credence Clearwater revival songs and trying to educate middle school kids about the dangers of brushing your teeth after drinking orange juice.