All 8 Retro Vought Supes Revealed By The Boys Season 5

Caution: spoilers ahead for The Boys season 5, episode 6.

The Boys picked up the thread in 2019, but Vought itself has been around a lot longer, predating the likes of Stan Edgar and Homelander by decades. Born out of World War II and the super-soldier experiments of side-swapping scientist Frederick Vought, the company he spawned stretches from the 1940s to the present day of The Boys‘ timeline. While Vought’s company history has occasionally been explored via flashbacks, the franchise will delve fully into the past with upcoming prequel spinoff Vought Rising.

Regular Compound-V either slows the aging process or has no impact at all, but as explained by The Boys season 5, anyone injected with Frederick Vought’s original formula (helpfully named V-One) will never age. That means we’ll be getting Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy and Aya Cash as Stormfront reprising their roles from The Boys in Vought Rising.

As The Boys‘ final episode draws closer and the future becomes the 1950s, it’s no surprise to see season 5 introduce a host of classic Vought supes. Some of these vintage faces will appear in 2027’s highly anticipated prequel, while others simply reinforce the idea that Vought Rising will be set in a very different, very colorful era of superheroes compared to the main show.

Bombsight

One of the most prominent of Vought’s retro supes throughout The Boys season 5, Bombsight began as the MacGuffin in possession of V-One before finally making his presence felt in episode 6, played by Stranger Things actor Mason Dye.

Dye’s Bombsight is slated to star in Vought Rising alongside Jensen Ackles and Aya Cash, so his cameo role in The Boys serves as a brief taster of things to come. In terms of his powers, Bombsight possesses an impressive level of super strength, to the point where Butcher and MM partly deduced it was Bombsight who swiped the V-One simply due to the damage done by his punch. Bombsight also boasts the ability of high-speed flight, which plays into his fighter pilot persona and makes him a formidable combatant almost on par with Soldier Boy.

Speaking of which, Bombsight and Soldier Boy seemingly shared a fierce rivalry back in their day. Whatever they might’ve feuded over, the two supes also harbor a degree of mutual respect, demonstrated by the deal they struck over the V-One and Soldier Boy honoring his word by blasting Bombsight with radiation. The romance between Bombsight and Golden Geisha gives Vought Rising another potential storyline. The main show revealed their connection was strong enough that Bombsight would have spent eternity with his “Goldie,” so the spinoff now has an opportunity to chronicle how this star-crossed relationship began.

It’s a curious thing that The Boys has essentially shown the end of Bombsight’s story, the loss of his powers, before going back to the beginning and exploring his life as a supe.

Golden Geisha

Evidently one of Vought’s second or third-generation supes due to the absence of V-One in her veins, Golden Geisha was an active Vought employee during the ’70s. She possesses a relatively unique power, creating a small, bubble-like shield around herself, but said shield apparently requires Golden Geisha to be awake and focused in order to maintain it, giving the power rather limited application in real-life scenarios. This may be why Goldie is better known for her cinematic exploits, the likes of which The Legend has etched in his memory.

Played by Naoko Mori in this part of The Boys‘ timeline, Golden Geisha already feels like a fascinating figure thanks to the sweet relationship she developed with Kimiko. Certainly more human than most Vought supes, Golden Geisha comes across almost like the Queen Maeve of her era, who became a supe with the best of intentions before gradually being worn down and demoralized by the company she represented.

Golden Geisha was first mentioned back in The Boys season 3, when The Legend recalled sharing a night of passion with her and the Godfather himself, Marlon Brando.

Hot Flash

Not the first pyrokinetic seen in The Boys, but the first to enjoy daily bingo sessions, Hot Flash is a resident at the Vought residential home seen in season 5, episode 6. The actor playing Hot Flash in The Boys season 5 was Sharon McFarlane, and despite her years, the character put up a respectable fight against a not-completely-trying Kimiko. Presumably gets very busy heating residents’ hot water bottles each evening.

Big Chief Apache

A parody of how classic TV shows portrayed Native American characters, “Big Chief Apache” is the method-acting peak of Vought’s knack for cultural appropriation. Big Chief starred in a 1973 series called “Injun Engine #9,” a procedural about a Native American helping out local firefighters and reinforcing stereotypes along the way. The actor now resides in Vought Villages alongside the likes of Hot Flash and Golden Geisha, but still dons his headdress and carries a tomahawk. Just in case.

Despite still being handy with an axe, getting rapidly knocked down by MM positions Big Chief as one of Vought’s lower-level supes, and it’s not even clear from the Vought Villages fight scene what his powers actually are. Derek Boyes was the actor taking one for the team as The Boys‘ older Big Chief Apache, while Daniel Falk played the younger version seen in his cringe-worthy TV series.

The Guy With The Balls

The Ball guy looking confident in The Boys. — The Ball guy looking confident in The Boys

The spiritual predecessor to Love Sausage, one classic supe living in Vought Villages has been revealed to possess an elastic scrotum. And because this is The Boys, he wields that scrotum like a medieval weapon, of course. It’s a neat party trick, but the plum-slinger found himself easily put down by a reluctant Billy Butcher.

Butcher’s line, “This one’s for you, M” acted as a nod to The Boys‘ long-running gag of letting MM handle the supes with gross powers, the trend that led to his ongoing rivalry with Mr. Sausage.

Quinn

Featured in The Boys season 5’s “King of Hell” episode, Quinn was one of the earliest Compound-V test subjects alongside Soldier Boy, and got dosed with Frederick Vought’s V-One. A major problem with that initial formula was its lack of reliability, and Quinn was a good example of what happens when V-One goes wrong. The ex-soldier became a melted labyrinth of creeping vines stretched across Fort Harmony and its grounds, sat in one place for decades and killing anyone unlucky enough to come near.

Quinn’s ability involved using his vines to eject airborne spores that increased aggression within any human or supe nearby, typically leading to the intruders killing each other. Only those with a Frenchie-level tolerance for illicit substances would be immune to Quinn’s mental manipulation.

Little is known about his life pre-supe, but Soldier Boy laments how Quinn was once a truly heroic soldier, and far more worthy of admiration than himself. The weight of killing Quinn took an emotional toll on the usually selfish Soldier Boy, suggesting they were once brothers in arms on the battlefield.

Private Angel

Earlier in The Boys season 5, back when Sister Sage first uncovered that V-One was responsible for Soldier Boy’s immunity to the supe virus, she mentioned Private Angel as being among the first batch who survived Frederick Vought’s trials and emerged as a successful subject. While Private Angel hasn’t made an in-person appearance during The Boys season 5, she has been announced among the main characters for Vought Rising, and will be played in the spinoff by Elizabeth Posey. Her powers remain unknown, and the same goes for her status in The Boys‘ present day.

Torpedo

Sister Sage also cited Torpedo as one of those first V-One supes, and he’ll also debut in Vought Rising, played by Will Hochman. As is the case with Private Angel, Torpedo’s power set remains unclear, but being dosed with V-One means he could potentially be alive during The Boys‘ final season.