The following is a list of fictional characters from the comic-book series The Boys, created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, and subsequent media franchise developed by Eric Kripke, consisting of a live-action series adaptation, the web series Seven on 7, the animated anthology series The Boys Presents: Diabolical, and the live-action spin-off series Gen V.

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Main cast Character Portrayed by The Boys Gen V Vought Rising 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 1 William "Billy" Butcher Karl Urban colspan="5" colspan="2" Hugh "Hughie" Campbell Jack Quaid colspan="5" colspan="3" John Gillman / Homelander Antony Starr colspan="5" Annie January / Starlight Erin Moriarty colspan="5" Maggie Shaw / Queen Maeve Dominique McElligott colspan="3" colspan="5" Reggie Franklin / A-Train Jessie T. Usher colspan="5" colspan="2" Marvin T. "Mother's" Milk / M.M. Laz Alonso colspan="5" colspan="3" Kevin Kohler / The Deep Chace Crawford colspan="5" colspan="2" Serge Emilien Les Saintes / Frenchie Tomer Capone colspan="5" Kimiko Miyashiro / The Female Karen Fukuhara colspan="5" Earving / Black Noir Nathan Mitchell colspan="3" colspan="5" Justin / Black Noir II colspan="3" colspan="2" Madelyn Stillwell Elisabeth Shue colspan="2" colspan="2" colspan="2" Ashley Barrett Colby Minifie colspan="4" colspan="2" Clara Vought / Stormfront Aya Cash colspan="2" Nadia Khayat / Victoria Neuman Claudia Doumit colspan="2" Ben / Soldier Boy Jensen Ackles colspan="2" Ryan Butcher Cameron Crovetti colspan="2" colspan="2" colspan="3" Jessica "Sage" Bradley / Sister Sage Susan Heyward colspan="3" colspan="2" Misty Tucker Gray / Firecracker Valorie Curry colspan="3" colspan="2" Joe Kessler Jeffrey Dean Morgan colspan="3" colspan="3" Aaron / Oh Father Daveed Diggs colspan="4" colspan="3" Marie Moreau Jaz Sinclair colspan="2" colspan="2" colspan="2" Andre Anderson Chance Perdomo colspan="3" Emma Meyer / Little Cricket Lizze Broadway colspan="3" colspan="2" Cate Dunlap Maddie Phillips colspan="3" colspan="2" Jordan Li London Thor colspan="3" colspan="2" Derek Luh colspan="5" colspan="2" Sam Riordan Asa Germann colspan="3" colspan="2" Indira Shetty Shelley Conn colspan="5" colspan="2" Polarity Sean Patrick Thomas colspan="5" Cipher Hamish Linklater colspan="6" Robbie / Bombsight Mason Dye colspan="4" colspan="2" Torpedo Will Hochman colspan="7" Private Angel Elizabeth Posey colspan="7"

Recurring cast Character Portrayed by The Boys Gen V Vought Rising 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 1 Hugh Campbell Sr. Simon Pegg colspan="4" Translucent Alex Hassell colspan="7" Ezekiel Shaun Benson colspan="2" colspan="2" Donna January Ann Cusack colspan="2" colspan="2" colspan="4" Robin Ward Jess Salgueiro colspan="7" Susan Raynor Jennifer Esposito colspan="6" Cherie Jordana Lajoie colspan="2" colspan="2" colspan="4" Shockwave Mishka Thébaud colspan="6" Seth Reed Malcolm Barrett colspan="3" colspan="2" Nathan Franklin Christian Keyes colspan="2" colspan="3" Charlotte / Popclaw Brittany Allen colspan="7" Becca Butcher Shantel VanSanten colspan="2" colspan="4" Stan Edgar Giancarlo Esposito colspan="2" Eagle the Archer Langston Kerman colspan="2" Carol Mannheim Jessica Hecht colspan="6" Kenji Miyashiro Abraham Lim colspan="6" Elena Nicola Correia-Damude colspan="5" Grace Mallory Laila Robins colspan="2" colspan="2" Cassandra Schwartz Katy Breier colspan="2" colspan="5" Lamplighter Shawn Ashmore colspan="6" Alastair Adana Goran Višnjić colspan="6" Alex / Supersonic Miles Gaston Villanueva colspan="2" colspan="5" Cameron Coleman Matthew Edison colspan="2" colspan="2" colspan="2" Monique Frances Turner colspan="2" colspan="3" Robert "Dakota Bob" Singer Jim Beaver colspan="2" colspan="2" colspan="3" Todd Matthew Gorman colspan="2" colspan="4" Janine Milk Liyou Abere colspan="2" colspan="2" colspan="3" Crimson Countess Laurie Holden colspan="2" colspan="5" Lenny Butcher Jack Fulton colspan="2" colspan="5" Also Ashley Sabrina Saudin colspan="2" colspan="2" "Little" Nina Namenko Katia Winter colspan="2" colspan="4" Tommy TNT Jack Doolan colspan="2" colspan="5" Tessa TNT Kristin Booth colspan="2" colspan="5" Blue Hawk Nick Wechsler colspan="2" colspan="5" Mindstorm Ryan Blakely colspan="2" colspan="5" Gunpowder Gattlin Griffith colspan="2" colspan="5" Yevgenny Tyler Williams colspan="2" colspan="5" Ambrosius Tilda Swinton colspan="3" colspan="4" Daphne Campbell Rosemarie DeWitt colspan="3" colspan="4" Colin Hauser Elliot Knight colspan="3" colspan="4" Zoe Neuman Olivia Morandin colspan="2" Himself Will Ferrell colspan="3" colspan="4" Robert Vernon / Tek Knight Derek Wilson colspan="3" colspan="2" Dr. Sameer Shah Omid Abtahi colspan="3" colspan="3" The Worm Ely Henry colspan="4" colspan="3" Sheline Emma Elle Paterson colspan="4" colspan="3" Luke Riordan / Golden Boy Patrick Schwarzenegger colspan="5" colspan="2" Rufus McCurdy Alexander Calvert colspan="5" colspan="2" Justine Garcia Maia Jae Bastidas colspan="5" colspan="2" Social Media Jeff Daniel Beirne colspan="5" colspan="2" Liam Robert Bazzocchi colspan="5" colspan="2" Maverick Nicholas Hamilton colspan="2" Dr. Edison Cardosa Marco Pigossi colspan="5" colspan="2" Harper Jessica Clement colspan="5" colspan="2" Tyler Oppenheimer Siddharth Sharma colspan="5" colspan="2" Kathy Louise Kerr colspan="5" colspan="2" Kyle Jameson Kraemer colspan="5" colspan="2" Thomas Godolkin Ethan Slater colspan="6" Student Life Stacey Stacey McGunnigle colspan="6" Black Hole Wyatt Dorion colspan="6" Vikor Tait Fletcher colspan="6" Greg Stephen Kalyn colspan="6" Ally / Bushmaster Georgie Murphy colspan="6" Annabeth Moreau Keeya King colspan="5"

The Boys The Boys is a CIA black ops team created by Col. Greg Mallory to observe, record, and sometimes liquidate Supes created by the mega-conglomerate Vought. Ostensibly assembled to help prevent and avenge the immoral and illegal actions of the largely out-of-control "Supe" community, they also seek to ensure that Vought lacks the stability or the platform to push for the use of superhumans in national defense. Due to Billy Butcher's increased instability, the team's focus gradually changed from one of management and containment to the total elimination of all Supes. As Mallory notes in issue #55, 14 people were killed by the Boys from 1987 to 1995 and "nearly three times that number" between 1995 and 2002, after Butcher gained more influence. This coincides with Mallory's belief in issues #54–55 that despite the seductiveness of the concept of special forces teams, the application of them can often go wrong as they try to justify their budgets and create their private conflicts. As a result, Mallory feels that the original concept for the team has gone awry and would never have created the unit as it currently stands.

The first iteration of the Boys was decommissioned after a disastrous confrontation with the Seven in 2001 that resulted in the deaths of Mallory's grandchildren. The unit was reformed a few years later – indicated in issue #1 to be soon after the 2004 Presidential election – and has carried on where they left off. All the members have enhanced strength and durability due to being exposed to Compound V before birth, or ingesting/getting it injected later on in life. While this does not make them as powerful as the mightiest of the corrupt superheroes they fight, it allows them to take on most 'Supes' head-on and carry through.

When fighting powerful opponents, the Boys compensate for the power gap with their access to high military-grade weaponry and explosives, and their fearlessness to kill as necessary. (Aside from Hughie, none of the Boys show restraint when fighting, although they will attempt to avoid killing when it complicates matters.) Due to Butcher's, Frenchman's, and Mother's Milk's military backgrounds, the Boys also gained elite military combat and weapons training to make them a deadlier team, along with becoming masterful hand-to-hand combat specialists, due to Mother's Milk's background as a former boxer.

Billy Butcher

Hughie Campbell

Mother's Milk

The Frenchman

The Female (of the Species)

Lieutenant Colonel Mallory The original team leader of the Boys, , only appeared in the comics via mention or as operating from the shadows until his formal introduction in issue #49.

An elderly man actually in his late nineties, was an Ivy League graduate and a captain in World War II. During the Battle of the Bulge, his platoon was chosen as the test run for 'Supes' in combat. While Mallory could see the potential of 'Supe' soldiers (especially after seeing two of them raise a 40-tons M4 Sherman from the ground barehandedly), he was also aghast at their lack of training and respect for established military chain-of-command and procedures. Indeed, hours later a Waffen-SS platoon found their camp when they spotted the flying 'Supes' Soldier Boy had sent on an unauthorized reconnaissance flight. Mallory was the only survivor of the attack, and he spent the rest of the war in a POW camp.The Boys #52. Dynamite Entertainment.

Issues #54 and #55 revealed that Mallory and his friend Rick Burnham joined the early CIA after the war, wanting to do something about Vought-American Consolidated and their superhumans. Mallory spent years watching Vought on his own initiative until he made contact with the Legend, who gave him the backstory on Compound V and Jonah Vogelbaum. Mallory set up Vogelbaum to be kidnapped by Vought's rival to kill Vogelbaum, but Mallory was unable to commit. Instead, Mallory brought Vogelbaum to the CIA and forced him to make Compound V at an enormous expense, deliberately stopping the CIA from affording to make its own superhuman program. Mallory was the first test subject for the new Compound V. This is also the reason he is still alive at the time of the main story: Compound V has slowed his ageing and despite being over ninety years old, he still has the bearing, fitness and vitality of a man in his fifties (even though he admits to Hughie when they meet that he feels every of these years and it feels to him like he's slowly mummifying alive).The Boys #53. Dynamite Entertainment.

Mallory created a team to monitor, police, and liquidate 'Supes,' but erred in hiring Butcher as his muscle; Butcher went on to hire the other members and slowly tweaked the team into a different model than Mallory intended. The two clashed on the issue of the Female, as Mallory refused to simply treat her like a weapon as Butcher wanted. Following the 9/11 attacks, Mallory let himself be steered into blackmailing the Seven, which led to Lamplighter murdering Mallory's two granddaughters. As a peace gesture from the Seven, Lamplighter was given to Mallory to kill. Afterward, Mallory went off to live in seclusion at Barbary Bay.The Boys #53. Dynamite Entertainment.The Boys #54. Dynamite Entertainment.

Following the Boys' reformation, Mallory was a background figure; it is revealed that Mother's Milk was secretly in contact with him. During the Highland Hughie miniseries, it is revealed that Mallory went undercover as a sympathetic English gentleman to watch Hughie as a favor for Mother's Milk and to secretly steer him into conflict with mobsters as a test. Mallory reveals himself to Hughie by giving him a number to contact.The Boys #47. Dynamite Entertainment. Later, Hughie visited him to get the backstory on the Boys.The Boys #52. Dynamite Entertainment. Mallory offered warnings about Butcher's nature; Hughie took this on board but accused Mallory of being a monster himself, wanting to justify his actions and the messes he made. After Hughie left, Mallory's house was broken into by someone (implied to be Butcher) to kill him. Mallory's last words are "So why don't you do me a favor and get it the Hell over with, mm?"The Boys #57. Dynamite Entertainment.