About halfway through Season 4 of The Boys, [Carrie Bradshaw voice] I began to wonder: is this the deadliest season yet? Sure, Victoria Neuman (Claudia Doumit) popped a whole bunch of heads in Season 2. And going back to Season 1, Homelander (Antony Starr) murdered a plane full of human beings. But in Season 4, the deaths seemed to be coming more fast and furious than ever before.
So how about it, particularly with “Season Four Finale” (previously titled “Assassination Run”) streaming on Prime Video? The answer is: no, Season 4 is not the deadliest season of The Boys ever — and as it turns out, it’s not even close.
I’d like to claim I painstakingly sifted through four seasons of The Boys to bring you the answer here, the fine folks at the Fandom Wiki have already done the hard work. While they do indeed have a beat-by-beat breakdown of every single death over the course of 32 episodes, here’s the raw kill count for each season:
- Season 1: 182
- Season 2: 127
- Season 3: 235
- Season 4: 154
So not only is Season 4 not the deadliest season of the series but it’s actually beaten by Season 1 — and is 81 deaths short of the all-time record, Season 3. Except there’s a little caveat here because the numbers seem to be inflated. On the Wiki, for Season 3, they count the 111 Contras killed by Russian soldiers mentioned in “Barbary Coast.” They also include 20 drug dealers Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles) says he killed.
Not to besmirch the good name of The Boys Fandom Wiki, but I don’t think people only mentioning they killed people counts as deaths on the show. With that in mind, I did sift through the listings, and excised anything that was notated as “mentioned only.” Here are the revised kill counts:
- Season 1: 177
- Season 2: 114
- Season 3: 93
- Season 4: 120
In a wild twist, once you remove everything that happened off-screen like people’s parents dying years earlier of natural causes, Season 3 plummets hardcore down the list to the bottom. And in fact, Season 1 becomes the deadliest season by a landslide. Meanwhile, I personally feel much better because Season 4 is the second deadliest season when it comes to on-screen deaths.
As for the deadliest character on the show? No surprise here. Stormfront (Aya Cash) comes in number two with 68 kills; but Homelander takes the cake, having murdered 189 people… Most of them not of natural causes.
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