The Boys: Hughie's Powers in the Comics, Explained
In the Amazon Prime series The Boys, Hughie Campbell (Jack Quaid), is armed only with his wits, but in the comics, Hughie has superpowers of his own, which he might finally get in The Boys season 3. As a member of The Boys' eponymous team, Wee Hughie keeps twisted heroes in check. In the TV series, he does this only using his smarts and engineering skills he acquired from working in an electronics store. In his first mission with The Boys, he figures out the invisible supe Translucent's weakness to electricity and successfully blocks the signal of the tracking chip that would alert other Supes of his location. He is collaborative and able to think on his feet in the life-threatening situations The Boys often find themselves in, but is very much still an average person.
In Garth Ennis' original comics, however, Hughie and The Boys have an entirely different strategy. Instead of relying only on weapons and carefully thought-out strategies, The Boys enhance themselves to be able to take on Supes in hand-to-hand combat. Billy Butcher, the team's founder, injects each member with Compound V, the drug responsible for the creation of the Supes. Compound V gives The Boys superhuman abilities to give them a fighting chance even against the Seven, a dark parody of the Justice League made up of the most powerful Supes around. Hughie joins the team after his girlfriend Robin was mistakenly killed by A-Train, a member of the Seven with super-speed, but is unaware of The Boys' use of Compound V.
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On his first mission with The Boys in the comics, Hughie is tasked with monitoring the depraved secret activities of the Teenage Kix, a young group of superheroes, and is accompanied
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