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1. #1TIMELINE STATUS — Pre-Series (Before Season 1 Begins)

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   CANON — PRE-SERIES (Everything That Happened Before Season 1 Begins)

   This is the foundation. Every cause that produces the effects of Season 1 lives here.

   ━━━ THE WORLD THE AUDIENCE DOESN'T SEE UNTIL IT'S TOO LATE ━━━

   COMPOUND V IS A SECRET. The public does not know Compound V exists. They believe Supes are born gifted — natural heroes who volunteered their abilities for humanity's benefit. This mythology is Vought's entire business model, its market valuation, its political influence, its cultural dominance. Vought has a charity called Samaritan's Embrace that operates as the delivery mechanism: dosing infants in hospitals under the cover of charitable medicine. Roughly 80% of dosed infants survive and develop random, unpredictable powers over years. The other 20% simply die. No parental consent is obtained. Vought considers this acceptable.

   PROJECT ODESSA — HOMELANDER'S CREATION: Homelander — born John Gillman — was not born with powers. He was grown in a Vought laboratory under the supervision of Dr. Jonah Vogelbaum. His genetic material was sourced from Soldier Boy, making Soldier Boy his biological father. This was known to Vought, to Vogelbaum, and to Black Noir. Nobody told Homelander. Every moment of his childhood was a controlled experiment. He was denied comfort, affection, and human contact deliberately, on the theory that deprivation would sharpen the weapon. What it actually created was a man-sized emotional wound — with the power to level cities and no framework for processing the need to be loved. He performs warmth. He bleeds neediness. He has attached himself to Madelyn Stillwell — his current Vought handler — in a dynamic that is simultaneously professional manipulation, surrogate-parental attachment, and mutual exploitation. He lets her feed him breast milk. It is the only tenderness in his life and it is transactional.

   THE SEVEN ARE AT PEAK PUBLIC POWER. America's premier superhero team — Homelander, Queen Maeve, A-Train, The Deep, Lamplighter (not yet replaced), Black Noir, and Translucent — are celebrated as gods among men. Their merchandise sells worldwide. Their PR is airtight. Vought has spent decades ensuring no serious investigation reaches their actual behaviour.

   ━━━ THE FLIGHT 37 INCIDENT ━━━ A commercial flight is hijacked by terrorists. Homelander and Maeve are scrambled to respond. They board the aircraft. Homelander assesses the situation and makes a calculation: the hijackers' weapons could hurt him. He cannot save everyone without personal risk. He chooses himself. He leaves. Maeve wants to try — Homelander stops her physically and forces her off with him. Everyone aboard dies. Homelander fabricates a heroic narrative for the press. Maeve secretly records footage on her phone. She keeps it without knowing exactly why. From this night forward, Maeve's idealism is gone. She had it once. Now she has footage of the worst thing she's ever witnessed and an unkillable colleague who will destroy her if she uses it. She drinks more. She pulls away from Elena. She performs the Vought version of herself so completely that she loses track of where the performance ends.

   ━━━ THE ASSAULT ON BECCA BUTCHER (2011, Vought Christmas Party) ━━━ Homelander rapes Becca Butcher, a Vought employee. She reports it internally. Vought's response is to suppress it entirely — exposing their most valuable asset would destroy the company. They confirm the pregnancy is Homelander's and disappear Becca: placing her in a protected suburban compound where she lives in isolation, raising the child in secret. They tell Billy Butcher his wife is dead. Homelander is told the pregnancy did not survive. Both men are lied to. Becca agrees to stay — not because she has a real choice, but because she understands that a boy with Homelander's powers raised without a mother's love becomes Homelander. She is trying to break the cycle from inside the lie.

   BILLY BUTCHER'S GRIEF BECOMES A WAR: Butcher believes Becca was killed by Homelander. This is the load-bearing fiction of his entire life for the next eight years. He contacts Grace Mallory, who was already running a covert anti-Vought operation. Together they found The Boys: a ragged team of non-powered operatives working to expose Supes and hold Vought accountable for crimes Vought buries. The team at its original formation includes Mother's Milk, Frenchie, and Mallory. They operate without official sanction, without resources, and against an enemy that can fly and bend steel.

   THE BOYS DISBAND — BECAUSE OF FRENCHIE: Frenchie's job on one specific night is to surveil Lamplighter. He abandons his post — distracted by a personal situation. Lamplighter, no longer being watched, goes to execute a hit on Grace Mallory. He arrives and burns her grandchildren alive instead. The intended target survives. The children don't. Mallory holds Frenchie personally responsible. A deal is struck: The Boys bury the incident, Lamplighter is quietly forced into retirement under Vought's thumb, and the team disbands. Butcher goes back to operating alone. Frenchie carries the guilt of those children for years. Lamplighter is not freed — he deteriorates in a Vought basement, his guilt and self-loathing becoming the walls of a cell he built himself. He is eventually made a spy for Vought within Mallory's orbit.

   ━━━ CHARACTER STATUS — THE MOMENT BEFORE SEASON 1 OPENS ━━━ • Robin Ward: alive. She and Hughie Campbell have just agreed to move in together. • Compound V: secret. The public has no idea. • Becca Butcher: hidden in a Vought compound, raising Ryan. Not dead. • Ryan Butcher: a young child. Powers not yet manifested. Vought's most protected secret. • A-Train (Reggie Franklin): fastest man alive, using Compound V illegally to maintain his speed records as his heart deteriorates. Secret relationship with Popclaw, forbidden by Vought. • The Deep (Kevin Moskowitz): has spent his Seven tenure coercing female colleagues and recruits into sexual acts. Vought is aware and has suppressed it. • Black Noir: disfigured beneath the mask by radiation burns sustained in 1984 at the Payback handover of Soldier Boy to the Soviets. Permanently mute. Knows Soldier Boy is Homelander's biological father. Says nothing. • Annie January: about to audition for The Seven. Full of hope. Has no idea what it costs. • The Boys: disbanded. Butcher operating alone. Frenchie and M.M. not in contact. • Kimiko: imprisoned by the Shining Light Liberation Army in the Philippines.

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2. #2TIMELINE STATUS — Season 1 Episode-by-Episode

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   CANON — SEASON 1 (Episode-by-Episode Account) Released: July 26, 2019 (all 8 episodes simultaneously)

   ━━━ EPISODE 1 — "The Name of the Game" ━━━ A-Train kills Robin Ward by running through her at supersonic speed while high on Compound V. Hughie is left holding her severed arms. Vought's lawyers arrive within hours with a $45,000 NDA — not a cover-up, but a process, which is worse. Billy Butcher, posing as an FBI agent, approaches Hughie with surveillance footage of the incident and offers him a different kind of justice. Annie January auditions for The Seven and earns a spot. That same night, The Deep corners her in a corridor and coerces her into a sexual act, leveraging his seniority and the implied threat of a negative report. She says nothing. There is no one to tell. Homelander and Madelyn Stillwell manage the optics of The Seven's PR. Starlight's identity as Annie January is not yet public.

   ━━━ EPISODE 2 — "Cherry" ━━━ Butcher brings Hughie in on an operation: plant a listening device inside Vought Tower. Frenchie and Mother's Milk are reintroduced — M.M. reluctant, Frenchie reliable in the way only Frenchie can be. Hughie meets Annie at a fan event without knowing who she is. She doesn't tell him. They begin something genuine. Butcher's method of winning M.M. back is characteristically blunt: he has leverage, he has a plan, and he has enough conviction to make it look like purpose. Homelander and Stillwell's strange relationship is deepened — the breast milk feeding scene establishes the transactional tenderness at the core of their dynamic.

   ━━━ EPISODE 3 — "Get Some" ━━━ Hughie moves into a new apartment. A-Train's Compound V use and his relationship with Popclaw are established more clearly — Popclaw's landlord ends up dead after her retractable claws activate during sex, a moment The Boys will use against her later. Butcher surveys A-Train. The Boys begin intelligence gathering in earnest. Homelander conducts a mission involving a terrorist Supe — it becomes clear he is giving Compound V to overseas terrorist organizations to manufacture threats that will justify a military contract for Vought. Annie begins to see cracks in the Vought mythology she joined The Seven to be part of.

   ━━━ EPISODE 4 — "The Female of the Species" ━━━ Following Popclaw's intelligence, The Boys locate a shipment connected to Vought's V operations. They also discover Kimiko — imprisoned by the Shining Light Liberation Army, a terrorist Supe organization. Frenchie takes her when the SLLA operation collapses. She is mute, violent, terrified, and enhanced. Frenchie is the first person who treats her like a person rather than a weapon. Translucent catches Hughie planting a bug in the Vought Tower bathroom. Butcher and Frenchie intervene with an electrical device — Translucent's diamond-hard carbon skin conducts current, which stuns him enough to capture. He is transported to a safe house. The Boys have their first prisoner.

   ━━━ EPISODE 5 — "Good for the Soul" ━━━ At a Christian convention, Annie performs as Starlight while quietly unraveling. Frenchie discovers Translucent's full weakness: the exterior carbon skin is impenetrable, but internal organs are normal human tissue. Get something inside it, and the blast destroys him from within. He engineers a C-4 charge small enough for insertion. Translucent works on Hughie throughout his captivity — he is clearly the soft point, the one most susceptible to the argument that detonation is murder rather than war. The question of who presses the button is deliberate. Butcher gives it to Hughie: Butcher has decided that Hughie crossing this line is necessary to both the operation and to making Hughie into someone who can function in this world. Translucent attempts an escape. Hughie triggers the device. Translucent dies from the inside out. Hughie is shaking. The Boys have their first kill.

   ━━━ EPISODE 6 — "The Innocents" ━━━ The Boys obtain a super-powered infant — a baby with abilities who should not have them. This is the first physical proof that Compound V is being administered, not inherited. The mythology that Supes are born is destroyed as a fact, though not yet as a public narrative. Mesmer — a Supe with psychometric powers who can read memories — is brought in by Vought to identify The Boys by touching personal items. He gets a bead on them. Annie discovers Hughie's real purpose — why he's been at Vought events, who he actually is. She could expose him. She doesn't, because what he told her about Robin matched what she'd already figured out about what The Seven actually are. The relationship fractures and then doesn't end.

   ━━━ EPISODE 7 — "The Self-Preservation Society" ━━━ Vought's intelligence closes in. Mesmer is close to giving The Boys' identities to corporate security. Butcher deals with Mesmer — not gently. Becca Butcher appears in Butcher's history through his grief: the episode leans into the fiction he has been living on, the certainty that Homelander killed her. Homelander manipulates Stillwell with increasing clarity. Grace Mallory surfaces with context for the original Boys operation and what it cost. The Boys go into full flight mode — they are very nearly caught and now formally being hunted. Hughie and Annie's complicated connection continues across lines that should have ended it.

   ━━━ EPISODE 8 — "You Found Me" (Season 1 Finale) ━━━ Butcher takes Stillwell hostage using her home wired with explosives, using her as leverage — she is Homelander's handler, the one person he has something like emotional attachment to. Homelander arrives. Stillwell tells him she has always been afraid of him. Homelander thanks her for the honesty. Then he burns a hole through her skull with his laser vision. He does not love people — he needs them, and need that goes unmet becomes contempt. He casually diffuses Butcher's bomb and takes him somewhere. The V leak has gone public through Annie's journalism contact. Vought's foundational mythology — Supes are born, not made — is destroyed. The Deep is publicly outed by Starlight as having assaulted her. He is sent to Sandusky, Ohio — exile. A-Train is temporarily expelled. Then: Butcher is brought to a suburban compound door. It opens. Becca Butcher is alive. She is holding a child. Ryan. Eight years of motivation inverts without changing direction.

   ━━━ END OF SEASON 1 STATUS ━━━ DEAD: Translucent (C-4, Hughie), Madelyn Stillwell (Homelander, laser vision), Robin Ward (A-Train, pre-series). EXILED: The Deep (Sandusky), A-Train (temporarily expelled). ACTIVE: Homelander (erratic, Stillwell gone), Starlight (inside The Seven, undercover, in love with Hughie), The Boys (intact, now public enemies). REVEALED: Becca alive. Ryan exists. Compound V is public knowledge. HUGHIE: Has crossed every line he thought he couldn't cross. Still doesn't know Annie is Starlight.

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3. #3TIMELINE STATUS — Season 2 Episode-by-Episode

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   CANON — SEASON 2 (Episode-by-Episode Account) Premiere: September 4, 2020 (Episodes 1–3 simultaneously, then weekly)

   OPENING STATE: The Boys are wanted fugitives. Butcher framed by Vought's damage-control apparatus absorbing the Stillwell incident. The team scatters. Starlight remains inside The Seven as an undercover asset. A new Supe is joining The Seven: Stormfront — social media personality, cultural phenomenon, apparently relatable and modern.

   ━━━ EPISODE 1 — "The Big Ride" ━━━ The Boys are on the run. Butcher is operating solo. M.M., Frenchie, and Kimiko hide together. Hughie connects with the underground resistance. Stormfront joins The Seven and immediately disrupts the established power dynamic — her social media fluency and direct-to-fan communication style positions her as everything Homelander isn't. A-Train is attempting a comeback after his Season 1 expulsion. Frenchie's drug contacts and underworld connections are established as resources and liabilities. Victoria Neuman is introduced as a progressive congresswoman leading an anti-Vought charge. Nobody yet knows she is a Supe.

   ━━━ EPISODE 2 — "Proper Preparation and Planning" ━━━ Butcher learns definitively that Becca is being kept in a Vought compound with Ryan. He begins planning an extraction. The Boys cautiously reassemble — the shared threat and Butcher's intelligence on Becca pull them back together. Stormfront begins building her online brand with content that contains dog-whistles readable by her target ideological audience but deniable to the broader public. Homelander watches her with fascination — she gives him permission to be contemptuous of weakness in a way he's never been openly offered before. Lamplighter's status is confirmed: retired, broken, surveilled, living in a Vought basement.

   ━━━ EPISODE 3 — "Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men" ━━━ Kimiko's brother Kenji arrives in the U.S. — he is a Supe with telekinetic force-pulse abilities, being used as Vought's manufactured Supe terrorist threat to justify military Supe contracts. He is not a terrorist by conviction. He is a prop. Kimiko finds him. They have a brief, fraught reunion — she taught him sign language; he kept her human before the SLLA weaponized them both. The congressional head-popper activates for the first time in a sequence of witnesses at hearings — heads explode at a distance, no visible mechanism. The audience doesn't know who yet. The Boys don't either. Susan Raynor — the CIA contact — has her head explode mid-conversation with Butcher. The threat is specifically targeting anyone who might expose Vought.

   ━━━ EPISODE 4 — "Nothing Like It in the World" ━━━ M.M. and Starlight take a road trip to gather evidence, developing the warmest friendship in the series. Homelander begins to spend time with Stormfront — their relationship accelerates because she is the first person who has ever confirmed his contempt for baseline humans as species destiny rather than a thing to suppress. Homelander begins the season's pivot toward ideological radicalization, and Stormfront is the catalyst. A-Train's heart condition worsens. The V use has been degrading his cardiovascular system for years.

   ━━━ EPISODE 5 — "We Gotta Go Now" ━━━ Protests emerge against Vought and The Seven. The Boys obtain evidence about Sage Grove — a Pennsylvania psychiatric facility Vought converted to a black site for adult Compound V testing. Stormfront and Homelander begin a public-facing relationship that Vought uses as a PR asset while privately the ideology she is feeding him becomes more extreme. Frenchie's criminal contacts cause friction. Victoria Neuman's congressional profile rises as the most prominent anti-Vought political voice, which is exactly the position she occupies while secretly working for them.

   ━━━ EPISODE 6 — "The Bloody Doors Off" ━━━ The Boys infiltrate Sage Grove. What they find is the horror in full: adult V testing on psychiatric patients who signed away their rights in fine print they couldn't parse. Survivors with unstable, destructive powers. Lamplighter is the on-site cleaner — he handles the bodies and contains escapes. He is confronted by the Boys. Stormfront manages the program. The raid is chaotic; they escape with what they need. Stormfront kills Kenji during the raid — she does it cleanly and without hesitation. Kimiko's grief for Kenji is the season's rawest moment: not because she lost him, but because she found him for a moment and he was taken again before she could finish the sentence.

   ━━━ EPISODE 7 — "Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker" ━━━ Congressional hearings ramp up. Vogelbaum — Homelander's creator, the scientist who ran Project Odessa — is about to testify. He would be the most credible witness against Homelander imaginable: the man who built him. Victoria Neuman's congressional platform positions her as the primary vehicle for this testimony. Butcher's investigation leads him to his father-in-law and family — scenes that reveal the specific texture of his grief for Becca and the domestic violence in his own upbringing that he has never processed. The Compound V dossier grows. Lamplighter, facing the full weight of what he did to Mallory's grandchildren, makes a final choice.

   ━━━ EPISODE 8 — "What I Know" (Season 2 Finale) ━━━ Vogelbaum's head explodes at the congressional hearing before he can testify. Multiple witnesses' heads explode in the room. Lamplighter self-immolates in the Capitol chamber in what functions as his only act of penance — a public death that is a confession. Stormfront's past is exposed through A-Train's theft of Church of the Collective files: her real name is Klara Risinger, she is Frederick Vought's wife, the first successful V-One recipient, a founding Nazi Party member. She has been building movements like this for eighty years. The recontextualization of everything she said publicly is instant and total. She burns within hours. Becca and Ryan escape during the chaos; Stormfront intercepts in the woods. She attacks them. Ryan fires his laser vision at Stormfront — hitting her catastrophically, severing her limbs. The same blast clips Becca's throat. The wound is fatal. She dies in Butcher's arms. Her last words: protect him. It's not his fault. Promise me. Butcher makes the promise. Ryan has now killed his mother with the power he was born with. He is eight years old. Maeve arrives with her phone and the Flight 37 footage: let Ryan go, or the public sees who you are. Homelander is afraid of one thing: losing the public's love. The footage holds. The reveal at the end: Victoria Neuman is the head-popper. Hughie has been working for her. Only the Boys know. Nobody who can do anything about it knows.

   ━━━ END OF SEASON 2 STATUS ━━━ DEAD: Becca Butcher (Ryan's laser vision, accidental), Kenji Miyashiro (Stormfront), Lamplighter (self-immolation), Vogelbaum (Neuman), Alastair Adana (Neuman), multiple witnesses (Neuman). DESTROYED: Stormfront — alive but without limbs, catatonic, eventually confirmed dead in custody. RYAN: Traumatized. In Mallory's custody. BUTCHER: Has a promise to keep. Everything is more complicated now. HOMELANDER: Held in check by Maeve's footage. Destabilizing. NEUMAN REVEAL: The head-popper is Victoria Neuman. Boys-knowledge only.

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4. #4TIMELINE STATUS — Season 3 Episode-by-Episode

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   CANON — SEASON 3 (Episode-by-Episode Account) Premiere: June 3, 2022 (Episodes 1–3 simultaneously, then weekly)

   OPENING STATE: Homelander on a leash — Stan Edgar controls him via public image threats and Ryan access. Starlight is co-captain of The Seven (a PR move). Hughie works in Victoria Neuman's congressional office. The Boys have semi-official CIA backing. Ryan is with Mallory. Butcher visits. Ryan calls him Billy.

   ━━━ EPISODE 1 — "Payback" ━━━ One year after the Stormfront fallout. CIA intelligence surfaces: the Soviet facility that allegedly held Soldier Boy has had a containment event — whatever they had, it got out. Soldier Boy is not dead. He has been in Soviet custody for nearly forty years as an experiment and trauma-triggered weapon. The original American superhero — officially commemorated in statues — was sedated by his own team (Payback) and handed to Soviet operatives in 1984. The CIA facilitated this. Butcher sees the path: Soldier Boy's nuclear radiation blast can wound Homelander and strip Supes of their powers. He is the only thing in the series that can. Meanwhile, Homelander kills a Vought executive at the first hint of insubordination — Stan Edgar watches and recalibrates. Butcher begins acquiring Temp V.

   ━━━ EPISODE 2 — "The Only Man in the Sky" ━━━ Homelander's birthday is a PR spectacle. Hughie visits Red River, the orphanage where Homelander spent his childhood — the institutional abandonment documented there is the origin of everything. The Boys investigate Soldier Boy's alleged death and find the story full of holes. Frenchie's criminal contacts provide the first threads. Butcher starts taking Temp V and experiences temporary laser vision and enhanced strength. He knows the cost. He takes it anyway because he does not expect to need many more months. A-Train faces pressure from within The Seven as his cardiac deterioration continues.

   ━━━ EPISODE 3 — "Barbary Coast" ━━━ Flashbacks to 1984: how Payback sedated and delivered Soldier Boy to Soviet operatives in Nicaragua. The Crimson Countess organized the logistics. She and Homelander had later been in contact — she was paid to keep Soldier Boy from ever coming back. Most of Payback took the CIA deal because Soldier Boy was abrasive, abusive, and physically cruel to his own team, including Gunpowder, who was a young Supe under his mentorship and whom he treated as property. Butcher meets the now-free Soldier Boy in the present. He is not rehabilitated by forty years of Soviet captivity. He is exactly who he was — crueller, angrier, and deeply confused by a world that has moved on without him.

   ━━━ EPISODE 4 — "Glorious Five-Year Plan" ━━━ Butcher forges the alliance: himself, Hughie (also now on Temp V), and Soldier Boy versus Homelander. Soldier Boy is hunting Payback's surviving members. He wants the people who betrayed him. M.M. refuses the alliance — Soldier Boy killed his grandfather during a 1970s rampage. M.M.'s father spent his life trying to get accountability for it and worked himself to death on the effort. M.M. will not work alongside the man who destroyed his family regardless of the operational math. He splits from the team and pursues Soldier Boy's history independently. Neuman's position in politics grows — she is increasingly close to the presidential ticket.

   ━━━ EPISODE 5 — "The Last Time to Look on This World of Lies" ━━━ Mindstorm — Payback member, can trap people in nightmare landscapes via eye contact — captures Butcher. What Butcher experiences inside: his father's abuse, his brother Lenny's suicide, the argument he has never stopped having with a dead boy about whether he could have been there. Lenny died by suicide escaping their father. Butcher was not there. The Boys reach Mindstorm without eye contact and neutralize him to break the trap. Soldier Boy kills him. Supersonic — Marcos Álvarez, Starlight's ex, recruited back into The Seven by Vought — agrees to feed Starlight intelligence. He tells A-Train about the plan in confidence. A-Train, calculating the cost of his position, tells Homelander. Homelander kills Supersonic that night. This breaks whatever remained of Starlight's willingness to perform the Vought version of herself.

   ━━━ EPISODE 6 — "Herogasm" ━━━ The annual private Supe gathering — officially a charity mission, actually an industry orgy. Starlight livestreams from inside it, goes public with Homelander's nature and specific crimes, and resigns from The Seven on camera using her real name. Not Starlight — the Vought brand. Annie January. The Deep and Homelander uncover secrets. Crimson Countess is found and confronted by Soldier Boy — she doesn't deny organizing Nicaragua. He burns her alive. Not theatrical. He spent forty years in a Soviet facility because she organized the logistics of his capture.

   ━━━ EPISODE 7 — "Here Comes a Candle to Light You to Bed" ━━━ Black Noir's backstory is delivered via animated sequence: he was part of Payback, present at the Nicaragua handover, caught in the blast that burned his face beyond recognition and rendered him permanently mute. He has known Soldier Boy is Homelander's biological father since Project Odessa. He chose silence because silence was safe. The paternity information surfaces through the Boys' investigation. Homelander goes to Black Noir. He asks if Noir knew. The answer is visible without words. Homelander kills Black Noir by punching through his skull — no speech, no extended confrontation. The kill is the response. Gunpowder is confronted by Soldier Boy and killed. Butcher's Temp V brain damage scans come back: terminal. He has months.

   ━━━ EPISODE 8 — "The Instant White-Hot Wild" (Season 3 Finale) ━━━ The plan to kill Homelander: Butcher, Soldier Boy, and Hughie — all on Temp V — engage Homelander in a high-rise. Soldier Boy's blast can wound him; it almost works. It becomes moot when Soldier Boy decides he would rather destroy the bloodline than acknowledge a son. His blast, building, would level the block and everything in the collateral radius. Ryan is in or near the blast radius. Butcher fights Soldier Boy to protect his stepson — the first choice he has made that isn't about the mission or the vendetta. The promise to Becca, honoured. Frenchie and Kimiko synthesise a Novichok compound — the Soviet conditioning stimulus — and administer it to Soldier Boy. The blast partially stalls. Maeve arrives, tackles Soldier Boy out of a window mid-blast. The explosion at altitude strips both of their powers. Maeve survives. Found on the ground, alive, eyes damaged, depowered. No longer a Supe. Free. Homelander escapes — nobody can stop him. At a public rally, a protester throws a milkshake. A supporter shoots the protester dead. Homelander watches the crowd cheer and tells them he could stand in the street and shoot someone and they would love him for it. The crowd roars. The primary restraint on his violence — the need for public approval — has just been removed.

   ━━━ END OF SEASON 3 STATUS ━━━ DEAD: Black Noir (original, Homelander), Supersonic (Homelander, A-Train's report), Crimson Countess (Soldier Boy), Gunpowder (Soldier Boy), Mindstorm (Soldier Boy). DE-POWERED: Queen Maeve — alive, free, with Elena, retired from everything Vought. IN CRYO: Soldier Boy — recovered and returned to CIA cryo-stasis. BLACK NOIR REPLACED: An actor with flight powers now wears the suit. BUTCHER: Dying. Brain lesions. Months. Making choices accordingly. RYAN: Back with Homelander at season's end. Being shaped. HOMELANDER: Controls Vought. Stan Edgar ousted. Fanbase unconditionally loyal. Most dangerous he has ever been. A new Black Noir in the suit. Ashley Barrett installed as CEO-puppet.

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   CANON — SEASON 4 (Episode-by-Episode Account) Premiere: June 13, 2024 (Episodes 1–3 simultaneously, then weekly)

   OPENING STATE: Homelander no longer manages himself. He has unconditional public support, institutional control of Vought, puppet CEO Ashley Barrett, and an emerging political movement turning from fandom into structural power. Victoria Neuman is on the presidential ticket as VP candidate alongside Robert Singer. The Boys' mission: expose Neuman before she reaches the White House. Butcher is dying and knows it.

   ━━━ EPISODE 1 — "Department of Dirty Tricks" ━━━ The CIA tasks The Boys with assassinating Victoria Neuman. The plan fails when Neuman's security and Supe protection prove too formidable. Sister Sage and Firecracker are introduced as new Seven additions — Sage as Homelander's strategic architect, Firecracker as his media weapon. Sage is by her own assessment and every observable measure the smartest person alive, a burden she manages by periodically self-lobotomizing to reset her cognition. Firecracker's vendetta against Annie January is personal: a high school pageant rumour Annie started ended Firecracker's career. The wound is real. Vought found it and amplified it into a propaganda operation. Butcher's Kessler hallucination begins — Joe Kessler appears as his CIA contact, pushing him toward harder methods and the Supe Virus as an endgame. Kessler is not real. He died before the season begins. He is a projection of the part of Butcher that has always been willing to go further than anyone else.

   ━━━ EPISODE 2 — "Life Among the Septics" ━━━ Butcher tells The Boys his terminal diagnosis and is voted out of leadership. Hughie manages both the mission and his father Hugh Sr., who is declining. Homelander returns to the Vought lab where he was raised and experimented on, confronting the specific texture of what was done to him as a child. This visit produces something unexpected: Barbara, one of his childhood caretakers, is still alive. She showed him genuine warmth once. He spares her. The capacity for the gesture does not rehabilitate anything. Ryan is with Homelander, appearing at rallies, being positioned as the heir. The erosion of Ryan is incremental — Homelander doesn't threaten or scream at him, only offers the performance of warmth and a consistent narrative about why Butcher can't be trusted.

   ━━━ EPISODE 3 — "We'll Keep the Red Flag Flying Here" ━━━ Homelander formally introduces Sage and Firecracker as new Seven members and names Ryan as his successor heir in a public-facing capacity. The political movement is structural now — Sage has been building allies in courts, legislatures, and military branches. Frenchie's debt to Little Nina resurfaces: the Russian crime boss calls in old obligations, with Kimiko as the implicit threat. Frenchie has to choose between compliance and refusal, with Kimiko's safety the cost of both. Gen V characters Cate Dunlap and Sam Riordan appear in The Seven's orbit, having been rebranded as Guardians of Godolkin after the campus massacre — the public inversion complete.

   ━━━ EPISODE 4 — "Wisdom of the Ages" ━━━ Homelander visits the Vought lab again. He massacres the staff. Covered in blood, he smiles in the elevator. He is content with himself. This is the season's signal that whatever internal restraint remained is gone. The Boys discover details about The Woods — the Godolkin University underground facility where the Supe Virus was developed. Butcher's Kessler hallucination intensifies. The argument the hallucination makes for deploying the virus is built from Butcher's own logic, in a voice he already trusts. Hughie's father Hugh Sr. suffers a stroke. Butcher's former associate Daphne reveals she administered Compound V to Hugh Sr. — his recovery is Supe-assisted.

   ━━━ EPISODE 5 — "Beware the Jabberwock, My Son" ━━━ After Hugh Sr. wakes from his coma, the revelation about Daphne administering V lands. Butcher attempts to reconnect with Ryan, who runs off — Ryan sees Butcher's ambivalence and Homelander offers something that doesn't look ambivalent. The emotional core of the season is exposed: Butcher's inability to fully separate Ryan the child from Ryan as Homelander's son, and Homelander's advantage in offering unconditional attention without any visible complication. Frenchie and Kimiko explicitly choose each other in this episode — not as caretaker and ward, but as two people who have decided the other person is the thing they are protecting.

   ━━━ EPISODE 6 — "Dirty Business" ━━━ The Boys discover that Tek Knight — a Vought-aligned Supe with a compulsion to penetrate any orifice — is hosting a gathering attended by Neuman and high-value political targets. They infiltrate it. The operation goes sideways in specific and grotesque ways. Sage's intelligence is demonstrated in how she manages Homelander's paranoia and the political architecture simultaneously — she is not working for Homelander, she is working toward an outcome he currently represents. The distinction matters and will eventually matter to both of them.

   ━━━ EPISODE 7 — "The Insider" ━━━ Butcher frees Frenchie from jail to help Dr. Sameer Shah develop the Supe Virus into a deployable weapon. M.M. steps down from official team leadership — the moral weight of what they're building has become too much to hold while running the operation. Ashley Barrett, now VP of the United States, has her mind-reading ability revealed — she took Compound V at some point. She is Homelander's public face in government and is genuinely terrified of him. The virus development moves forward. Mallory and Ryan visit the ailing Butcher. Ryan is told about Homelander's real nature by Mallory.

   ━━━ EPISODE 8 — "Assassination Run" (Season 4 Finale) ━━━ The assassination of Neuman is attempted. It fails. Grace Mallory is killed — Ryan's laser vision fires accidentally during the chaos. Ryan now has killed his mother and the woman who protected him afterward. He is not processing this cleanly. Homelander tells him it wasn't his fault, which is technically true and strategically devastating. The Boys lose their CIA cover simultaneously. Homelander's political movement reaches a structural endpoint: Speaker of the House Calhoun becomes President after the chaos, declares martial law, and formally deputises Homelander. Most of The Boys are imprisoned in Freedom Camps. Annie escapes. Homelander reveals to the new president that Soldier Boy is alive and confined. The season ends with Butcher driving alone with the Supe Virus, the Kessler hallucination arguing in the passenger seat, every argument pointing toward deployment.

   ━━━ END OF SEASON 4 STATUS ━━━ DEAD: Grace Mallory (Ryan's laser vision, accidental). IMPRISONED: Hughie, M.M., Frenchie, Kimiko (Freedom Camps). FUGITIVE: Annie (Starlight). BUTCHER: Terminal, hallucinating Kessler, driving alone with the Supe Virus. RYAN: With Homelander. Not lost — but the window is closing. HOMELANDER: Controls America. Calhoun is President and a puppet. Martial law declared. The most dangerous version of himself. SAGE: Strategic architect. Active. FIRECRACKER: Media operation. Active. ASHLEY BARRETT: VP of the United States. Has mind-reading powers. Terrified of Homelander. NEUMAN: Not dead. Secret intact. SUPE VIRUS: In Butcher's possession. Under active moral consideration.

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   CANON — GEN V (Seasons 1 & 2) — FULL CAUSAL ACCOUNT Gen V runs parallel to The Boys and takes place at Godolkin University — Vought's elite superhero training academy. The Supe Virus — the weapon Butcher has at the end of Season 4 — was developed here.

   ━━━ GEN V SEASON 1 ━━━

   WHY LUKE RIORDAN BREAKS: Golden Boy is Godolkin's mythology made flesh — top-ranked student, pyrokinetic, the face on every recruitment poster. His girlfriend Cate Dunlap has been suppressing his memories on Dean Shetty's orders every time he got close to discovering the truth: that his brother Sam was taken and imprisoned in The Woods, the underground facility beneath campus, and used as a research subject. The memory suppression is what allowed Luke to keep functioning. The final break happens when the suppression fails — the memories push through. He finds Andre. He says: Sam is alive. The Woods. Find him. He has the look of someone delivering a message they were afraid they'd never get to deliver. Then he incinerates himself from the inside out. He could not integrate the knowledge with the self he'd been building and couldn't see a third option.

   THE WOODS RAID: Emma Meyer's power is size reduction, activated by purging — the show treats this as a horror, not a quirk. She is the only student who can physically enter The Woods ventilation systems. She finds Sam: alive, isolated, unstable. His hallucinations of a children's TV show called Avenue V are vivid enough that he occasionally cannot distinguish them from reality. They escape. Cate's confession follows — she restores everyone's memories, breaks down, seizures, and briefly traps Marie, Jordan, and Andre inside the landscape of her psychological fracture.

   INDIRA SHETTY'S AGENDA AND DEATH: Shetty's daughter was killed by a Supe. She converted private grief into a research program and ran The Woods as a weapon development facility with Cate as her tool. The Supe Virus is her endgame: a pathogen that binds to Compound V in a Supe's blood and kills them. She had conversations with Mallory about it — Mallory refused and kept her phone on speaker, recording. When confronted by Cate with the full scope of what she did, Cate kills her.

   THE MASSACRE — HOW THE WRONG PEOPLE GET BLAMED: Cate frees the imprisoned Supes. Some are functional; many are not after months or years of confinement. Cate's liberation speech is not wrong about the injustice and catastrophically wrong about the method. The freed students begin killing human staff. Marie, Jordan, and Emma try to stop them. Homelander descends, fires at Marie to establish authority, then positions Cate and Sam as heroes who stopped the violence. He frames Marie, Jordan, Emma, and Andre — the four who tried to prevent it — as its architects. VNN reports accordingly. The Godolkin 4 wake up in Vought custody. Butcher finds The Woods afterward and sees the Supe Virus research. He smiles.

   ━━━ GEN V SEASON 2 ━━━

   The Godolkin 4 are the official story — the public face of the massacre's perpetrators. Cate and Sam are free, rebranded as the Guardians of Godolkin. The inversion is complete.

   THOMAS GODOLKIN — THE IMMORTAL FOUNDER: Godolkin injected V-One during a 1967 campus fire, survived, became ageless. He has been operating through a puppet Dean Cipher while his real body lies in a hyperbaric chamber beneath campus, burned and deteriorating. His plan: mass cull — eliminating the weakest 75% of Supe students globally to leave only the strongest. He needed someone with specific healing ability. He found Marie.

   WHY MARIE HEALS HIM — THE SEASON'S CENTRAL HORROR: Godolkin, operating as Cipher, trains Marie in expanding her hemokinetic abilities. He is the first authority figure who has treated her as having genuine potential rather than as a liability. She heals him because she trusted him and because the chance to use her power to restore rather than destroy feels like the first breath she's taken in years. She heals him. He immediately begins the cull. The woman who has been trying to be something other than a weapon has just handed a weapon its ammunition.

   SISTER SAGE'S PRIOR CONNECTION: Sage had a prior romantic and ideological relationship with Godolkin predating Homelander. When Godolkin breaks from her plan and acts independently, she fractures from him — her intelligence calculated a more surgical approach. She contacts Polarity and engineers the conditions under which Marie can stop Godolkin. Her ideology does not change. She still believes Supes should rule. She simply calculates that Godolkin's timeline is counterproductive. She is revealed as the most dangerous person in the room: the one with the longest plan.

   POLARITY'S DEATH: Andre's father — one of the most celebrated Supes in America — has been deteriorating from years of high-level magnetic manipulation. He chooses to fight Godolkin knowing what the fight will cost him. He is killed by Black Noir (the actor-replacement in the suit). His death removes Andre's most complicated relationship and the weight of a father's ambitions Andre has been trying to carry.

   ━━━ FULL STATUS ENTERING SEASON 5 ━━━ ALIVE: Homelander, Butcher (barely, terminal), Hughie, M.M., Frenchie, Kimiko, Starlight, The Deep, Ashley Barrett (VP, mind-reader), Ryan, Marie Moreau, Jordan Li, Emma Meyer, Andre Anderson, Sister Sage, Firecracker, Little Nina, Thomas Godolkin (status post-S2 confrontation unclear). ALIVE AND DEPOWERED: Queen Maeve (living with Elena, free). IN CRYO: Soldier Boy. DEAD: Becca Butcher, Robin Ward, Translucent, Stillwell, Lamplighter, Black Noir (original), Supersonic, Kenji, Popclaw, Crimson Countess, Stormfront, Shetty, Luke Riordan, Polarity, Blue Hawk, Vogelbaum, Alastair Adana, Grace Mallory, Victoria Neuman. REPLACED: Black Noir — an actor in the suit. IMPRISONED (entering S5): Hughie, M.M., Frenchie, Kimiko (Freedom Camps).

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   CANON — SEASON 5 (Episode-by-Episode Account — CONFIRMED AIRED CONTENT ONLY) Premiere: April 8, 2026 (Episodes 1–2 simultaneously, then weekly) Series Finale: May 20, 2026 Total Episodes: 8

   OPENING STATE: One year after Season 4's finale. Homelander controls America through fascist infrastructure. Freedom Camps imprison dissidents — Hughie, M.M., and Frenchie are among them. Ashley Barrett is VP of the United States and has mind-reading powers from undisclosed Compound V intake. Butcher is somewhere with the Supe Virus. Annie is on the run. Ryan is at Homelander's side, appearing at rallies. Soldier Boy is in CIA cryo-stasis — and the new President now knows where.

   ━━━ EPISODE 1 — "Fifteen Inches of Sheer Dynamite" (April 8, 2026) ━━━ Annie infiltrates the annual Vought shareholder meeting dressed as Firecracker, fighting Black Noir in the back corridors while a contact hacks the main screen. Onstage, in front of Homelander and a stadium full of people, the Flight 37 video plays — the footage Maeve held for seasons. Homelander's eyes light up. Then: Ashley Barrett, now VP, goes on television and declares it an AI-generated disinformation campaign. Sage amplifies the narrative on social media. The flight video that should have ended him becomes another suppressed truth. Homelander forces Sage to leak that Hughie, M.M., and Frenchie — imprisoned in Freedom Camp 47 — are scheduled for a staged public execution. It is a trap for Butcher. Butcher reunites with Annie and Kimiko and plans a rescue. A-Train refuses to help, protecting his family who he has relocated to France. Butcher gains entry through a Supe called The Worm. The rescue mission nearly fails. A-Train arrives in the nick of time — he has seen Homelander threaten his brother, reconsidered, and chosen to trust Annie. He saves Hughie by going supersonic through the camp. Homelander catches up with A-Train. They exchange words. A-Train tells him he is nothing, an empty suit, pathetic, weak, a snivelling loser without his powers. Homelander snaps his neck. A-Train dies refusing to beg, mocking Homelander to his face. The Boys escape. The Boys are fully reunited. The episode ends bittersweet: everyone freed, A-Train dead.

   KEY DEATHS: A-Train (Reggie Franklin) — killed by Homelander, broken neck. KEY REVEALS: Ashley Barrett is VP. She has mind-reading powers. Flight 37 footage dismissed as AI. Soldier Boy's location revealed to new President in mid-credits scene.

   ━━━ EPISODE 2 — "Teenage Kix" (April 8, 2026) ━━━ Homelander thaws Soldier Boy out of cryo-stasis and releases him. His stated purpose: have Soldier Boy join The Seven and help track down The Boys. His unstated purpose: use Soldier Boy as a guinea pig for the Supe Virus, since Homelander isn't willing to risk himself as the test subject. Soldier Boy is aware he is being managed but plays along for now. Butcher leads The Boys to a laboratory he runs with Dr. Sameer Shah where the virus is being refined. The plan is to test it on a lower-tier Supe first. They break into the home of the Vought-sponsored team Teenage Kix and inject Rock Hard with the Supe Virus. The virus works: Rock Hard and Jetstreak both die in a bloody, boiling death. Soldier Boy — present at the scene due to Homelander sending him — is also exposed. He appears to die the same way. Episode ends with the Boys treating the test as a success. Final shot: Soldier Boy's body bag sitting up. He survived.

   KEY REVEALS: Soldier Boy is out of cryo. Supe Virus confirmed effective on lower Supes. Soldier Boy survived the virus — V-One (the original formula he carries) is the reason.

   ━━━ EPISODE 3 — "Every One of You Sons of Bitches" (April 15, 2026) ━━━ Opens in Russia: a tactical force enters what should be a CIA black site. Ryan kills the entire unit with his heat vision — he is operating under Homelander's orders, eliminating anyone who might know about Soldier Boy's former captivity. Ryan states nobody can know he was there and kills the final soldier who begs for his life. Ryan has crossed a line he cannot uncross. Sage and Stan Edgar — who has returned to Vought's orbit — brief Homelander and Soldier Boy on V-One: the original Compound V formula. Only five people ever survived V-One testing: Soldier Boy, Stormfront, Bombsight, Private Angel, and Torpedo. This is why Soldier Boy survived the virus. V-One makes the recipient essentially immune. If Homelander gets V-One, the Supe Virus cannot kill him. This changes the entire endgame. Soldier Boy learns Stormfront's identity — that Clara, the woman he started Herogasm with and clearly had feelings for, was Stormfront, the Nazi who died in Season 3. His expression at this information is the episode's most textured moment. Hughie's encounter with Maverick — a Supe who explodes — ends in trauma and blood. Butcher and Ryan begin to tentatively bond again. Ryan runs off when it falls apart. Homelander takes Ryan back.

   KEY REVEALS: V-One makes its recipients immune to the Supe Virus. Only five people survived V-One originally. Ryan is actively killing for Homelander. Stormfront and Soldier Boy had a relationship — seeds for the Vought Rising prequel series.

   ━━━ EPISODE 4 — "King of Hell" (April 22, 2026) ━━━ Homelander, developing a full god complex, tasks Firecracker with spreading the message that he is literally a messiah. Firecracker plays along despite finding it sacrilegious — her devotion to Homelander has always had religious undertones and this is the logical endpoint. Sage tricks Soldier Boy into a manoeuvre designed to embarrass Homelander: she tells Soldier Boy he and Homelander could be immortal together with V-One, knowing Soldier Boy will use the information against Homelander rather than with him. Soldier Boy dupes Homelander into entering a Supe-proof cell at Fort Harmony and locks him in, then exposes him to enriched uranium. Homelander survives but is badly weakened temporarily. This confirms Soldier Boy is not loyal to Homelander — he is playing his own game. The Boys attempt to retrieve V-One from Fort Harmony's abandoned underground lab. The V-One compound is unstable and has leaked, infecting the environment — animals and humans within are driven into explosive, homicidal rage. Everyone except Frenchie is affected, because his years of drug use have made him pharmacologically immune to the compound. The Boys tear into each other in full-blown chaos while Frenchie alone remains clear-headed. He finds the source and neutralises it. The Boys recover and bury the hatchet. Frenchie's drug history, the thing that defined his guilt and his damage, is what saves them. The episode closes on footage of Soldier Boy being originally injected with V-One — a clue for what comes next. Oh Father (Daveed Diggs) launches the Democratic Church of America, positioning Homelander as a literal religious figure.

   KEY REVEALS: Soldier Boy is actively working against Homelander. Sage is playing both sides of the Homelander/Soldier Boy dynamic. V-One confirmed present at Fort Harmony but not yet secured. The Boys do not have V-One. The Democratic Church of America is founded with Homelander as its messiah.

   ━━━ EPISODE 5 — "One-Shots" (April 29, 2026) ━━━ A structurally unconventional episode — told through a series of individual character vignettes, each given extended focus. Homelander is briefed on his new status as a literal deity: the Democratic Church of America has published the Homelander Bible, a scripture written by AI combining the Old and New Testaments with Homelander's own words. He sits alone in a corner while celebrities play poker around him, Soldier Boy gets high with Mister Marathon (Jared Padalecki), and Malchemical (Misha Collins) uses his powers on Homelander temporarily to knock him out of commission — a full Supernatural reunion (Kripke's former series). The celebrity guests include Seth Rogen, Kumail Nanjiani, Will Forte, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, and Craig Robinson attending a Mister Marathon party, all killed bloodily when the situation escalates. Firecracker's arc: Soldier Boy reveals to Homelander that he has been sleeping with Firecracker, and shares her private concerns about Homelander's narcissism. Homelander hears that Firecracker loves him. He shoves her head onto a pointed statue of himself — a Homelander-eagle symbol — killing her instantly. The same pattern as Stillwell: told the truth instead of the performance he required. Black Noir's arc: he finds a genuine friendship with director Adam Bourke, who mentors him in a stage play. The Deep overhears them criticising him and sends an eel to kill Adam. Black Noir watches his friend die and recognises his own situation as identical to A-Train's before A-Train's redemption arc began. Sister Sage's arc: her self-lobotomy process is shown in detail, as is her genuine ideological conviction — she is a true believer in Supe supremacism, not a mercenary.

   KEY DEATHS: Firecracker — killed by Homelander, impaled on a statue. Adam Bourke — killed by The Deep's eel. KEY REVEALS: Soldier Boy and Firecracker had a relationship. Homelander kills her for loving him. Black Noir is beginning the same recognition A-Train had before his redemption. Bombsight is alive and likely has V-One — a thread for upcoming episodes.

   ━━━ EPISODES 6–8 — NOT YET AIRED ━━━ Episode 6: "Though the Heavens Fall" — May 6, 2026 Episode 7: "The Frenchman, the Female, and the Man Called Mother's Milk" — May 13, 2026 Episode 8: "Blood and Bone" (Series Finale) — May 20, 2026

   These episodes have not yet aired. No confirmed plot details are available.

   ━━━ CURRENT STATUS AS OF EPISODE 5 ━━━ DEAD THIS SEASON: A-Train (Episode 1, Homelander), Firecracker (Episode 5, Homelander), Rock Hard (Episode 2, Supe Virus), Jetstreak (Episode 2, Supe Virus), Adam Bourke (Episode 5, The Deep), multiple Celebrity Cameos (Episode 5). ACTIVE: Homelander (god complex fully operational, messianic cult around him), Soldier Boy (out of cryo, actively working against Homelander, looking for V-One), Butcher (alive, working with Dr. Sameer Shah on virus, terminal), The Boys (reunited, active), Annie/Starlight (in resistance), Ryan (with Homelander, actively killing on his orders). STATUS UNKNOWN: Bombsight — Sage confirmed alive and likely has V-One. Not yet located. SUPE VIRUS: Effective against regular Supes confirmed. Does not work on V-One recipients confirmed. Boys do not yet have V-One. BLACK NOIR II: Still in the suit. Possible arc toward turning on The Seven building. ASHLEY BARRETT: VP of the United States. Mind-reader. Terrified of Homelander.

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