All The New Supes In The Boys Season 5 Premiere And Their Superpowers

Through the years, Amazon Prime’s superhero satire series, “The Boys”, has introduced its own set of bizarre, demented and downright disgusting supes and their suitable superpowers as a form of pastiche of established heroes of DC and Marvel comics. And even though the majority of them don’t even serve much narrative purpose aside from catering to edgy adolescent humor, fans tend to eagerly wait for new seasons to drop to find out what new hideous supes spawned from the minds of the series creators. While skimping somewhat on the degeneracy part, the premiere of the final season of “The Boys”, has introduced nearly half a dozen new supes with varying, outlandish skills.

Spoilers Ahead

In the first episode, Butcher concocts an unconventional plan to get entry into the Freedom Camp, as he seeks help from one of his former associates, the Worm. As his name suggests, Worm literally has the ability to dig through ground by voraciously eating soil, and excreting it at the same time. While the Worm seems to be a pastiche of DC’s supervillain, the Mole, or Marvel villain, Mole Man, the character is a more scathing satirical jab at Amazon Prime’s another successful IP, Jack Reacher. The Worm is introduced to the audience as the writer of Reacher, a popular fictional character in “The Boys” universe who shares the trait of having significant physical prowess similar to the protagonist of Lee Child’s novel series. Similar to the makers of “Reacher” tv series, the Worm has a hard time with nailing the conclusion of his narrative. As Vought has resorted to AI to churn out new propagandist contents for movies and series, the Worm has been laid off along with other writers, which is partially the reason for him agreeing to join Butcher. 

While the Worm belongs to the bizarre and goofy variant of supes, Oh-Father, the evangelical fanatic supe is of the disturbing and powerful kind. Even though Oh-Father appeared in the series for the first time in the ongoing final season, a mention of his heinous exploits of sexually assaulting minors was made way back in the third season. However, thanks to Vought’s relentless propaganda machine, Oh-Father’s crimes were eventually absolved and forgotten, and at present he is in Vought’s good grace and also VP Ashley’s husband. Oh-Father is the current chief of Samaritan’s Embrace Ministries, a position he has held since former chief, Ezekiel’s death. Like popular evangelical preachers, Oh-Father uses the gift of gab coupled with gimmicky stage tricks, and his natural charisma to manipulate mass according to his will. Coming to his powers, it appears Oh-Father can emit sonic screams which can cause mind manipulation and hallucination – as hinted when even Homelander momentarily experiences a vision of Stillwell. It appears Oh-Father is a parody of DC’s Silver Banshee and Marvel’s Purple Man. The character has the potential to leave a significant impact on the narrative solely due to the fact he has power to cause mass hysteria, which can prove beneficial to Homelander’s quest of asserting complete dominance. 

A member of Vought’s youth superhero team, Teenage Kix, Rock Hard possesses rock and ground generated physiology, and is considered to be physically as durable as Homelander himself. This makes him the perfect candidate for the Boys to test the anti-supe virus. Aside from a near impenetrable physique, Rock Hard’s bodily fluid is made up of molten lava, making him quite a formidable figure all around. However, despite having such immense capabilities, Rock Hard wasted his potential by indulging in self-destructive, hedonistic behaviors, and finally meets a gruesome end after Frenchie unleashes the virus in Kix Crib. Rock Hard must be a parody of Marvel’s the Thing, or DC’s Stone Boy.

A member of Teenage Kix, Countess Crow has powers to communicate with ravens, and possibly with other birds as well. As her conversation with MM suggests, Countess Crow might be the only member of her team who has not given up on her conscience and has some sense of morality. Forced by Vought to pander to the brainless supe fans, Countess Crow was stuck in a position she wanted to escape from, and finally got the chance to return to her family when MM secretly freed her. Her two raven companions are cheekily named after actor Russell Crowe and filmmaker Cameron Crowe. Countess Crowe is inspired from DC’s Raven and James O’Barr’s Crow. 

The current leader of Teenage Kix, Jetstreak is introduced as an total douchebag who is assigned by Vought to add levity to Homelander’s heinous actions in Flight 37 video along with his team member, Sheline. Jetstreak has the powers to fly at superspeed, and possibly has super strength as well. He dies after getting infected by the anti-supe virus which Frenchie unleashes in his team’s lair. 

The only member in the current iteration of Teenage Kix who is alive and still a part of the team is Sheline, who possesses feline-like instincts, sharpened claws on her hands and has super strength to go toe to toe with the likes of Kimiko. The character is an obvious parody of DC’s Catwoman and Cheetah.