Hughie's Supe Kill Does What Boys Season 1's Translucent Death Couldn't

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WARNING: Spoilers ahead for The Boys season 3, episode 4

After missing out initially in season 1, The Boys gives Hughie his iconic supe-killing moment from the original comics. When Jack Quaid's Hughie joined Billy Butcher's ragtag crew of supe-spankers in The Boys season 1, it didn't take long for the former retail employee to get blood on his hands… and face… and hair. Butcher and Frenchie had trapped the Seven's Translucent inside a cage and popped a stick of dynamite up his anus. Hughie then found himself on guard duty when Translucent escaped, and although the supe thought this innocent amateur wouldn't hit the detonator, hit the detonator he did. Hughie's first kill was igniting butt-dynamite and standing in horror while various chunks of Translucent rained down.

Hugh Campbell has been covered in guts on several occasions since, but the character checks off yet another «first» in The Boys season 3's «Glorious Five Year Plan.» On a mission to Russia to find a fabled weapon responsible for killing Soldier Boy, Hughie secretly injects himself with V-24 to gain temporary superpowers. A first chance to use them presents itself when a Russian soldier creeps up behind MM. Hughie teleports across the room, punches straight through the enemy's chest, apologizes for the inconvenience, then withdraws his bloodied fist from the dead soldier's body.

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This violently gory scene perfectly mirrors Hughie's very first kill from Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's The Boys comics books. Imbued with diluted Compound-V to level the playing field, Butcher's gang face off against Teenage Kix. Wee Hughie, not yet accustomed to his own strength, punches Blarney