Warning: Mild spoilers abound.
At this point in The Boys, it’s almost futile to keep track of its ever-increasing body count (although some have tried — there’s a whole Wiki page and Subreddit dedicated to it).
But now, with the series finishing up its fifth and final season, fans are busy theorizing and placing bets on who’s going to make it out of Vought Tower alive. The show’s latest episode, “The Frenchman, the Female, and the Man Called Mother’s Milk,” brought with it the usual string of dead civilians caught in the Supes’ crossfire (plus… whatever Sheline and Dogknott were doing with their anus-sniffing), but it also gave us one of the biggest deaths of the series so far.
And, for those of us still grieving, it looks like we’ll need to buck up real soon because the series finale is gearing up to be an apocalyptic bloodbath. Over the course of the show’s press run, showrunner Eric Kripke has delighted in dropping hints about who’s dying when on the series. “No victory comes without sacrifice,” he told Polygon. “Heading into the final battle, carrying loss but still having to move ahead felt very appropriate.”
But while this season may have some of the most memorable deaths of the series, the four previous seasons all brought their A-game when it came to doling out the strangest, messiest, and, not surprisingly, most ass-related death scenes (rest in peace, Translucent). So to celebrate (or commemorate?) how The Boys is wrapping things up, we’re revisiting all of the times the show grossed us out with just how… creative it could be when it needed to kill off some characters.
Spoilers ahead, of course
All of The Deep’s Aquatic Friends
Before we dive deep (haha, get it?) into the human deaths of the series, let’s bow our heads for the dolphin, the whale, the octopi, and allll the fish that have met their fates on The Boys. Episode 4 of Season 1 gave us a steamrolled dolphin, who was just moments away from driving off to freedom; if only The Deep (Chace Crawford) hadn’t slammed so hard on the brakes. Lucy the Whale was rammed to death by a speedboat in Episode 3 of Season 2. The Deep ate Timothy the Octopus alive in Episode 3 of Season 3, despite the two being pretty tight. The hero also murdered his octopus lover, Ambrosius (Tilda Swinton) in Episode 7 of Season 4, but at least he’s there with her as she draws her last breath. And finally, Episode 6 of Season 5 ended with a devastating oil spill thanks to a punctured Vought pipeline, killing 1.4 billion sea creatures in the process (as The Deep put it, this was the “Fish Holocaust”).
Death by Ass Bomb
How do you kill a man with impenetrable skin? By sticking dynamite up his rectum, of course. In Episode 2 of Season 1, the Boys kidnap Translucent (Alex Hassell), one of the world’s strongest invisible men (he’s also a huge perv, but most Supes are in The Boys). Thanks to Frenchie (Tomer Capone), the group eventually figures out that, while Translucent’s skin may be rock-hard, his guts are just as soft and gooey as the rest of us. They knock him out, plant the explosive, and leave Hughie (Jack Quaid), the then-newest and most freaked out member of the Boys, to hit the detonator’s big red button.
A Tiny Man Crawling Into A Penis
There’s nothing wrong with a little size kink, but in Episode 1 of Season 3, things get out of hand when Termite (Brett Geddes) shrinks down to climb into his boyfriend Peter’s penis hole (a sentence I never thought I’d have to write). The Supe, still on a cocaine high, gets busy rubbing the inner linings of his lover’s dick to get him going; however, when he can’t hold in a sneeze, Termite accidentally morphs back to his normal size — while still in Peter’s penis. Peter’s lower half immediately explodes, leaving Termite covered in his boyfriend’s gunk.
The Herogasm Massacre
There’s no denying that “Herogasm” is The Boys’ grossest episode. I mean, it’s in the name — in the world of The Boys, Herogasm is a yearly sex party hosted by and for Supes, which means that the orgy involves a lot of power play (pun intended). But beyond the heroes ramming ice dicks up each other and shooting explosive loads, everything gets much bloodier when Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles) accidentally lets loose a radioactive energy blast. The explosion nearly kills most of the sex party attendees, leaving the few remaining survivors to pick out bits and pieces of their dead Herogasm mates off the floor.
Vought on Ice
Those poor figure skaters. What starts off as the skating group, Vought on Ice, doing a rehearsal run of the hit holiday track, “Let’s Put the Christ Back in Christmas,” turns into a bloodbath when Homelander (Antony Starr) begins shooting laser beams out of his eyes. One of the beams splits the ice skater playing Queen Maeve in half, causing the remaining performers to scramble off the ice in panic. The Homelander ice skater slices through the Starlight ice skater’s hand, while the Jesus ice skater accidentally cuts a production assistant’s throat with his skate blade. It’s bloody, it’s messy, but according to Vought, this was all just an electric fire.
A Super-Racer Ran Through Me
Although The Boys’ fifth season has given us a number of great deaths (including Love Sausage getting strangled by his own love sausage and an eel worming its way into Adam Bourke’s ass), the funniest sequence so far has to be Mister Marathon (Jared Padalecki) running through some of Hollywood’s biggest comedians. As the high-speed Supe tries to go up against Soldier Boy, the latter figures out that he can slow the former down by putting some… obstacles in his way. Soldier Boy then proceeds to put Mister Marathon’s friends — Seth Rogen, Kumail Nanjiani, Will Forte, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, and Craig Robinson, all playing themselves — in strategic locations for the Supe to run through them. By the end, Mister Marathon’s covered in guts, but at least he’s man enough to hold Seth Rogen in his arms before the comedian kicks the bucket.
