8 Most Shocking Moments We Couldn’t Believe From The Boys

Featuring civilian obliterations, superhero orgies, and sea creature carnage, The Boys is arguably the most outrageous series currently streaming. In this feature, we’re counting down its all-time most extreme, sickening, and downright perverse moments.

Prime Video’s satirical superhero show premiered July 26, 2019, and surprised viewers unaware with its graphic source material. In this world, superheroes are just as flawed as the rest of us - in fact, most of them are much worse. And with great power comes even greater carnage.

To celebrate T he Boys season 4 ’s release on June 13, 2024, here are the eight most shocking moments we couldn’t believe. And for those who were wondering, Antony Starr revealed who wins in a Homelander vs Superman fight .

A-Train kills Hughie’s girlfriend

The first scene in The Boys is also one of its most shocking. When the world’s fastest man A-Train speeds obliviously down a busy street - and directly through a pedestrian - it sets the tone for the rest of the series.

It also leaves a nasty lasting image: Hughie holding his girlfriend’s disembodied hand while the rest of her lies scattered across the road. The traumatic event whips Hughie into action and motivates him to get revenge on uncaring, arrogant Supes everywhere.

Homelander kills everyone

Homelander is the most bloodthirsty Supe in the whole series, but he takes it to a new level during season 2. When the public who previously cheered for him attend an anti-Homelander rally en masse, the man himself shows up to try and smooth things over.

His words have the opposite effect, chanting “You don't speak for us." Enraged, Homelander unleashes his laser vision and cuts thousands of protestors in half. It’s a distressing sight, but Homelander escapes with no damage to his reputation, and for one reason: the entire sequence is a fantasy playing out in his unhinged mind.

Blindspot gets deafened

Blindspot, as his name suggests, is a blind superhero who relies on enhanced hearing to beat up bad guys. He’s positioned as a prospective member of the prestigious Seven in order to fill the gap left by The Deep. That is until he meets Homelander and has his entire life ruined.

In order to expose Blindspot’s weaknesses, and exemplify why he shouldn’t be on the team, Homelander smacks Blindspot on his ears, rupturing his ear drums beyond repair. As a result, Blindspot is rendered both blind and deaf. As for Homelander? He doesn’t care a bit.

Termite enlarges himself

The Boys has always been gratuitous with the nudity, but season 3 got extra graphic with Termite. This is a shrinking superhero able to minimize himself down to the size of a bug, and what he does with that power made viewers wince. After snorting copious lines of coke, Termite shrinks down and climbs inside another man's penis. We even get a full shot of him walking through the shaft in amazement.

However, Termite didn’t prepare for what the coke might do to his own passages; he sneezes violently and suddenly grows to full size, while still inside of the man. The resulting explosion turns him into meaty red paste.

The courtroom massacre

Where Homelander’s protestor attack is entirely imaginary, the courtroom massacre is very real, and one of the biggest scenes of mass death in The Boys . It takes place during a court hearing that could spell the end for Vought - but not if Victoria Neuman has anything to do with it.

Without warning, she uses her telekinetic power to pop people’s heads like soup-filled balloons. First one, then another, until almost the entire room is completely headless. High-ranking politicians aren’t safe. What’s worse is that no one knows who’s doing it, with Neuman convincingly acting shocked. As if that wasn’t enough, though, the entire scene is also broadcast on live TV, spreading fear across the world.

The whale gets gutted

Where The Boys usually reserves its violence for people, season 2 shows that not even sea creatures are safe. During a dramatic boat chase with Hughie and his team en route to get revenge against supes, The Deep shows up to stop them. To do so, he summons a whale from the ocean as a sort of organic blockade.

That doesn’t stop the boat, however. Its driver speeds up and rams directly into the poor mammal, bursting straight through its flesh and landing inside its wet, stinking carcass. It’s not CGI either. Production actually made a full, life-sized whale for the scene.

The Deep eats Timothy

Season 3 expands on The Deep’s kinship with undersea wildlife, and takes it in an unnerving direction. We’re introduced to Timothy, an octopus who The Deep has a weirdly romantic relationship with. It’s all implied, of course. Timothy can’t talk, but The Deep can communicate with him telepathically.

That doesn’t make it any less heartbreaking when, during a meal, Homelander makes The Deep eat him. Watching the tentacles of his best friend/cephalopod partner slowly slide into his mouth as he bites down and winces is gross on multiple levels.

Herogasm

Perhaps the most shocking sequence in The Boys so far, Herogasm is the name given to a massive, no-holds-barred Supe orgy that goes down in season 3, episode 6. According to the rules of the 70th Annual Herogasm there are strictly no cameras, attendees must sign an NDA, and above all, everyone must be DTF. There’s a man with a retractable penis, excessive bodily fluids, and copious full frontal nudity.

The frivolity turns macabre however when Soldier Boy shows up and fights Homelander one-on-one, which results in a massive explosion that kills almost everyone. Herogasm is lewd, gory, and vulgar, making it impossible to forget.