The Boys Already Explained How Butcher & Hughie Can Keep Their Powers
Warning: Contains SPOILERS for The Boys season 3, episode 7!
Billy Butcher and Hughie Campbell's temporary powers are becoming more dangerous, but The Boys already explained how they can keep them permanently. After not giving Butcher and the Boys superpowers in the first two seasons, Prime Video's live-action adaptation of Garth Ennis' comics finally included them in season 3. This came after the discovery that Vought invented Temp-V, which can give anyone superpowers for 24 hours. Billy and Hughie have become increasingly fond of their powers, but now they pose a great to threat them.
Since Temp-V is still a developmental drug of Vought's, the all-powerful Supe company has not worked out all of the kinks just yet. Butcher and Hughie knew that it could be dangerous to use them, but The Boys season 3, episode 7 revealed they could be lethal. Starlight discovered Vought's research about Temp-V and learned that the superpower-giving drug proved to be lethal between someone's third and fifth doses. That sets up the possibility of Butcher and Hughie dying, as they have both used the drug at least three times. The episode even ends with Billy and Hughie setting out to get more, despite Starlight's warning to Butcher.
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The reveal that Temp-V is deadly after three to five doses means that either Butcher and Hughie will give up their abilities in the near future or that they are poised to die by remaining powerful. While it might seem that their deaths are right around the corner, The Boys already revealed how they can keep their powers on a permanent basis. One of the subplots of The Boys season 2 was that Vought was experimenting with a way to give
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