The Boys: Why Starlight Should Kill [SPOILER]
Warning: SPOILERS for The Boys season 3.
Now that Supersonic is dead, Starlight should be the one to kill A-Train instead of Hughie in The Boys season 3. While Homelander is the worst villain in the world of The Boys, A-Train is sneakily proving to be one of the show’s most reprehensible antagonists. Driven by insecurity and petty cruelty, the amoral A-Train has never meaningfully redeemed himself since the first episode introduced him by having the character casually kill Hughie’s girlfriend.
Where The Deep’s Scientology-spoofing season 2 subplot saw the callous character attempt to access his humanity — with mixed results — the equally evil A-Train has never made up for his misdeeds. Instead, he’s only gotten worse as the series has progressed, culminating in his decision to sell out Starlight and Supersonic to Homelander. This decision means The Boys season 3 should let Starlight kill off A-Train instead of leaving him to his comic-book fate.
Related: Does Homelander Die In The Boys Comics (& How)?
While Hughie killed A-Train’s comic counterpart, it makes more thematic sense for Starlight to now be the one to do the deed. A-Train snitching on her and Supersonic’s plan got Supersonic brutally murdered by Homelander, meaning the character has now directly or indirectly killed both Hughie and Starlight’s former love interests. The MCU parodies of The Boys season 3 see the series depict death as a messy, gruesome inevitability rather than anything honorable or redemptive, which would make it all the more fitting for the once-innocent Starlight to kill A-Train after saving his life back in season 1 of the show.
Homelander was always destined to die at Butcher’s hands, but the fact that Hughie is now in a relationship with
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