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It ’s a Supes world , we ’re just living in it . In season 4 ofThe BoysonAmazon Prime Video , the fight between the vigilante grouping , Vought International , and superheroes who are anything but continue .
Megalomaniacal Homelander ( Antony Starr ) is conduct with a superhero - sized midlife crisis , and his declining , unhinged personality has run to more damage and wipeout than ever . The season ’s last episode sets things up not only for the last season ofThe Boysbut for the second season of spinoff seriesGen V , too .
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Homelander’s (rather, Sage’s) plans finally come to fruition
Through the time of year , Homelander clenched his tooth as Sage ( Susan Heyward ) assured him that her relocation were carefully calculated . furious that he was n’t seeing immediate issue , he fired her in the penultimate episode . Then , in a fit of frustration , he come out of the closet Victoria Neuman ( Claudia Doumit ) as a orphic Supe on live TV .
This betrayal leads Neuman to substantiate that she ’ll only ever be a puppet , and she makes an appeal to Hughie ( Jack Quaid ): She ’ll aid them in exchange for help her leave with her daughter . Hughie want to give her a chance , but the others are timid .
Meanwhile , an assassination attempt on Robert Singer ( Jim Beaver ) by a clever shapeshifter posing as Annie / Starlight ( Erin Moriarty ) , and a leaked video implicate Singer in an assassination plot of ground against Neuman , lead Sen. Calhoun ( David Andrews ) to be distinguish prexy . He has decided to declare soldierly law , deputizing Supes who will all report to Homelander , cede him newfound king and autonomy . The plan is to remove “ dangerous ” Starlight supporter from the administration and the street . “ America will be good again , ” Homelander declare .
It ’s what Sage had plan all along , she large tells Homelander . Why did she do it ? To see if she could , and because it was “ so fun . ” Apparently , she ’s just getting set forth . Now , it ’s time for Phase 2 .
While Homelander is on top of the world with a renewed sense of function , relevance , and business leader , a post - credits shot sees him learning that Soldier Boy ( Jensen Ackles ) is being keep alive in a chamber . How this will play into the story continue to be seen .
Billy Butcher (probably) isn’t going to die after all
The predominate trouble throughout the season was how Billy Butcher ( Karl Urban ) would outlive a terminal diagnosing . In an earlier episode , he divulge to Hughie that he read Compound vanadium mentation it might help , but it only made his symptoms speculative . This , however , was n’t the pillow slip . Butcher is now a Supe with the power to ravel out lethal snake - same creatures from his chest of drawers , like a deadly octopus that can kill multiple enemy at once .
He use this powerfulness to keep everyone else away while literally tearing Victoria in one-half . “ You ’re all fucking welcome , ” he declares with a smirk as he walk out of the storage warehouse leaving the others stunned , overlay in blood , and gaze at Victoria ’s bloody , dismembered body .
Why the transposition in Butcher ? Up until this point , he was sharpen on doing right by Becca ( Shantel VanSanten ) and pull through Ryan ( Cameron Crovetti ) from Homelander . But when he and Grace Mallory ( Laila Robins ) stage a putsch to convince Ryan to help them reject his father , it go horribly wrong .
Ryan is angered at the mere thought , not to refer being lured into a way and virtually threatened . He flip Grace against the wall , kill her instantly . The look in his eye as he peers at Butcher while walking away suggests Ryan is going down a dark path . Butcher has no choice but to go diabolic .
What happens in the end?
Through the season , The Boys have been trying their best to be one step ahead . With the help of a fed - up A - Train ( Jessie T. Usher ) , they stick useful data along the way . But they still are n’t secretive to making a difference .
In fact , they ’re even further away from cease Homelander . The plan have been exposed , A - Train has been outed as the leak , and he ’s on the run . despairing to keep open her own aliveness , Ashley ( Colby Minifie ) has accept Compound V.
The Boys disseminate , with plans to move on with new passports and identity until the rubble settle . But Frenchie ( Tomer Capone ) and Kimiko ( Karen Fukuhara ) are contact by Cate ( Maddie Phillips ) fromGen V , who , with her top executive of persuasion through touch , whispers something in Frenchie ’s ear .
ostensibly in a spell , he amaze into the back of a van with her . Kimiko , hold back byGen V’sSam ( Asa Germann ) wait on horrified , and for the first time ever , give tongue to a audio , yell “ no ! ” at the top of her lungs .
Hughie and Annie are stopped , too , but Annie ’s power have come back , and she shoots up into the air as Starlight before she can be conquer . MM ( Laz Alonso ) is attacked by Love Sausage ( Derek Johns ) in the airport bathroom . The plan to winnow out Starlight supporters has begin .
What’s next for The Boys?
The Boyshas been renewed for a fifth and final time of year . Through connections withGen V , which exists in a parallel timeline , there ’s more crossover potential for the two show .
What wedoknow by the remainder is that Butcher is a Supe ( and presumably so is Ashley ) but most importantly , he has the only unexpended bit of the anti - Supe computer virus left , baby-sit in a vial ready to go . Sister Sage has more plans for Homelander . With his newfound political power and host of blind devotee , they ’re the most dangerous duo ever on the show .
Frenchie may be ram to do something he does n’t want to do , and a Kimiko who speak could be even more deadly than a silent one . Starlight might have to press on her own while the status of Hughie and MM remains nameless . Firecracker ( Valorie Curry ) is the voice of the Supes , delivering tearful tidings reports about how Homelander is go to exchange the populace . With Homelander more irrational than ever , and with a bigger political program to open his vituperation , there ’s no tell what he might do .
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