The Boys just pulled a "Glenn and the Dumpster" moment (Spoilers Season 5, Episode 3)

At no point did I think he was dead or going to die. I didn't even think the viewers were supposed to think that, just Starlight.

It evidently wasn't immediately clear since Starlight, the girl STANDING IN THE ROOM with a direct line of sight to Hughie, didn't see it.

> He should have died why ? I initially thought the same, but he's a natural supe, from the most powerful supe, with *assumed* regenerative powers. There's no logic to him dying from a simple assault, no matter how grotesque it is. If Homelander had pulverized his cranium, and spread the resultant goo over a piece of toast and ate it, then *maybe* his character should have been "dead". But the scene as displayed, was a plain old beat down. I'm looking forward to seeing how the writers use that as psychological ammunition going forward.

Yeah. The small shudder he makes ruined what I thought was a WILD character death. I couldn’t believe they were gonna kill Ryan off was sorta excited to see what they would do with that as it would be so against trope.

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Oh wait, did we not tell you? V1 makes you immortal. You may end up burnt and limbless like Stormfront but you definitely won't die unless it's by your own hand - er, tongue. At this point I'm just rolling with the ridiculousness. Turn into the skid, and all that. Let's see how far off the rails this whole thing can go!

Y'all have talked about this woman's appearance ***to death***. Please find some new material. Holy F***.

No this is just a media thing in general. It's far easier to start something and have a great concept that gets people interested than to execute an entire narrative that is cohesive from beginning to end. It's why many series in all of media across literature, to tv to films can grab attention but fall apart later or have a period in the middle that drags. Way too many people don't understand that it's not even about writer competency. Creativity just isn't something you flip on and off. The best writers on Earth have produced duds. In a more commoditized form like tv where you tell them "you have this deadline to produce this much story" you are going to put even more of a variable where they are likely to not come up with some brilliant move that makes everything work if it even could. The Boys is even funnier because it's a comic book adaptation where like 99% of it is just gratuitous violence and sexually humiliating super hero parodies for the writers entertainment with a light throughline that most became relevant at the very end of the story. The fact that the Boys actually had managed to tell a story through 5 seasons (even if season 3 dragged a bit because they couldn't kill the big bad right away) is kind of a miracle.

true should have slimed frenchie long before, Kimiko was good shut. I reckon them dying in the first episode would had been a better pace for the show than A-Train, which was considerably a larger death.