In the season premiere of The Boys season 4, The Seven have some choices to make. After the events of season 3, there are openings on the team, and a whole lot of candidates to choose from.
As Homelander, A-Train, The Deep, and (replacement) Black Noir look on, Vought’s Ashley Barrett presents 25 options for them to choose from. Ultimately, the team goes with two new original characters for the show — Sister Sage and Firecracker.
We’re not going to go too much into them, because you’ll meet them this season. Instead, let’s meet the rejects.
A few have slides pulled onto the screen with (occasionally quite funny) details, like past credits on Vought TV shows and movies, but the rest of the 25 candidates are just listed by name. We’ve dug into the comics a bit to give you more info on those, since their names being mentioned on the show confirms their existence in the show’s universe. We’ve organized them by in-universe team affiliation, since some are listed.
Talon
Ashley’s top choice on “pure social” bona fides, Talon is a supe influencer with over 23 million followers on Instagram and V, Vought’s social media platform. She has “retractable carbon steel nail plates,” and her other listed skills are “lock picking,” “acrobatics” (which she likely picked up in her training at the Cirque du Vought Academy), and “1/8 Navajo.” She appeared in Tek Knight’s Heat of the Knight, and a bunch of pilots that weren’t ordered: Claws of Justice, Talon: Night Huntress, C.L.A.W.S., and Claw Force.
In the comics, she’s a Catwoman parody who is associated with Tek Knight — sometimes adversarially, sometimes not.
Hyperion
Runner-up on season 15 of Vought’s Next Top Supermodel and runner-up (to Homelander) for Sexiest Supe Alive, Hyperion is rejected by Ashley for being a “slutty cumrag.” (Her words! Don’t shoot the messenger.) Her resume boasts appearances on 2 Hot 2 Handle, Street Heat, Dirty Diaries: Reno, and Dirty Diaries: Mazatlan. Her special skills are super intuition, divine
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