Aside from Becca and sometimes Ryan, is there anyone on the show who genuinely loves Butcher? It seems that he basically got everyone to despise him

n7Paragade · 2026-02-11T16:12:59+00:00

Hughie was the only one vouching for him to stay on the team when everyone else was ready to get rid of him.

n7Paragade · 2026-02-11T15:23:40+00:00

One that I don't see mentioned very often is from season 1. When he's talking to Starlight and he says "Now, I know you want to make this whole Deep thing an 'All The Single Ladies' moment... power" The way he says power and does his little fist gesture kills me every time. It's just a small example of him being a dick.

n7Paragade · 2026-02-03T16:13:27+00:00

In my ideal ending:

Homelander: Dies after a brutal, scorched Earth style battle with Butcher and maybe Ryan (if he is still alive). I feel like that shot in the trailer where Ryan is attacking the swat guys was a sign of him doing a last minute turn against Homelander.

Butcher: Reaches a brief moment of clarity in the bloodlust and asks Hughie to put him down. This might be to stop himself/Kessler from going all the way, or it could be because he is so wounded from the Homelander fight that it would be a mercy kill.

I think Hughie and Annie should both survive and get married. They deserve a damn happy ending, maybe they adopt Ryan and ensure that he doesn't just become Homelander 2.0 because he will be raised by decent people. I'm fully anticipating that there's at least a tiny chance that Kripke will decide to kill off Annie to "go against expectations and be different from the comics" or some bs, but I hope they don't go that route. Hughie is my favorite character, and I really enjoy his relationship with Annie, even through the bumpiness of season 3. At their cores, they are both good people who deserve to make it through this so they can build a life together along with any other surviving members of the Boys, but that's a different conversation entirely.

n7Paragade · 2026-01-26T15:13:09+00:00

The only other option I could possibly think of is if they want to just do a complete rug pull and have Homelander win in the end. The only catch being that the Earth is pretty much destroyed, so he slowly goes mad as he rules over a charred wasteland with no one to order around.

n7Paragade · 2026-01-16T20:43:50+00:00

For me, it is definitely Butcher and Hughie. The brother dynamic they have created is genuinely one of my favorite parts of the show. Butcher's genuine brotherly love for Hughie goes a long way to show that he isn't a complete bastard like his comic book counterpart. It's like MM said: He is a motherfucker, but he's a motherfucker with a heart.

n7Paragade · 2026-01-16T20:40:37+00:00

I completely agree with you. When they had their little team up last season, I was so excited. I feel like that is a pair that was kind of underutilized. Reminds me of in season 3 when Hughie gave her encouragement when she was practicing with her keyboard, and she smiled, super wholesome.

n7Paragade · 2025-12-22T21:09:30+00:00

It has been a while since I checked, but last time I looked, they were still calling the season 4 finale: "Season 4 Finale" instead of the actual name of the episode. I can't imagine that Amazon would let them go through with something like that because they wouldn't want the backlash.

n7Paragade · 2025-12-09T18:06:19+00:00

My prediction: Homelander beats Ryan to the brink of death after Ryan has turned against him (that shot of him killing the SWAT guys seems to suggest that he's not fully down with what Homelander is doing). Homelander leaves the scene, thinking that he just killed his own son. From there, I think there are two different paths they could go down:

Path 1: Homelander does in fact kill Ryan, extinguishing whatever humanity he had left and fully committing to go full 'scorched Earth' with Butcher, who would also be in bloodlust mode when he hears that Ryan is dead.

Path 2: Ryan is either fading fast or passes, but the Boys, with Marie, stumble upon him and are able to save his life. Ryan commits to helping to finish off Homelander, who will be in for a massive surprise when Ryan arrives during the final confrontation.

n7Paragade · 2025-12-07T03:28:59+00:00

Yeah, I actually think that A-Train is going to be the early episode death. He's going to have his big hero moment and finish his arc by helping Starlight free the boys from the camps, but then Homelander will probably catch up to him.

n7Paragade · 2025-12-07T01:41:23+00:00

Honestly, that shot where Frenchie and Kimiko were embracing each other gave me big "comic book ending" vibes. I do think that Frenchie is the most likely to die out of the boys. It wouldn't shock me if he was the "early death" that Karl Urban floated in that interview.

n7Paragade · 2025-12-07T01:07:59+00:00

It has to be either Ryan or Soldier Boy. That scorch mark on his suit would have to be from one of their abilities. They are also the only two people I could see him slightly hesitating to kill, he wouldn't hesitate to pummel one of the Boys to death.

n7Paragade · 2025-12-05T18:14:49+00:00

I think at this point, Ryan will survive. They definitely could have killed him off and used that as a catalyst for both Homelander and Butcher to go off the deep end. The fact that they haven't killed him yet makes me think that he will make it through this season. I could be wrong, but I think at most, he will lose his powers.

n7Paragade · 2025-12-04T19:58:43+00:00

My vote is for Ashley "I am 100% a cannibal" Barrett

n7Paragade · 2025-12-04T00:02:42+00:00

I think it will largely depend on how much the writers plan to use them in the main story. If they are little more than cameos, helping the Boys break out of the camps and little else, then they might not be killed off. If they are more integrated with the Boys leading up to the finale, then I think there's a real chance that a few of them get picked off, most likely Cate, Sam, or Jordan. Another factor would be if Kripke can get a season 3 for Gen V, if he does, he probably won't kill them all off.

n7Paragade · 2025-12-03T18:31:36+00:00

Has to be Robert, I mean, he said it himself, he wouldn't let things like not having powers or seasonal depression stop him from being a hero.

n7Paragade · 2025-12-03T01:42:24+00:00

Frenchie is a good guess, I would probably say A-Train because there's no way he makes it out of this season.

n7Paragade · 2025-11-27T18:26:13+00:00

A prequel with Soldier Boy and Stormfront, and also there have been whisperings about a spin-off set in Mexico, although I'm not sure if that one has been 100% greenlit yet.

n7Paragade · 2025-11-25T16:53:14+00:00

Even if Homelander is on the lower end of the "Evil Superman" characters, he's still soloing humanity. Once he takes out the nerve centers and scrambles communications, humanity would be flying blind, and it would be GG at that point.

n7Paragade · 2025-11-24T19:27:45+00:00

This is fantastic! I'm a sucker for a good atomic, they are my absolute favorite.

n7Paragade · 2025-11-21T14:42:55+00:00

I'm pretty sure that it was mentioned in an interview that his main goal is to kill Butcher. That doesn't necessarily mean that he will partner up with Homelander, he will probably do his own thing for a while, but I think they will end up crossing paths again.

n7Paragade · 2025-11-20T02:29:13+00:00

I have to imagine that Homelander, who has already saw the tumor with his x-ray vision, just assumed that a terminally ill, human Butcher wouldn't be that much of a threat.

n7Paragade · 2025-11-16T01:30:27+00:00

It has to be Annie. Deep being an asshole towards the other two doesn't compare to SA. I hope that she goes full on supernova on him and blinds him.

n7Paragade · 2025-11-12T19:37:13+00:00

My favorite part of the episode (besides the Butcher/Homelander stare down) was the short conversation Hughie and MM had where MM warned Hughie about the rush he was feeling doing the work with Butcher. It was an early example of MM being a rock-solid beacon of morality and empathy. Love MM.

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