Who’s gone for good after The Boys season 3 finale showdown?

polygon.com:

Amazon Prime Video’s The Boyswrapped up its third season on July 8 with typical bluster, bombast, and gore. Prime Video actually released the finale episode Thursday night, allowing fans to get an early start on all the discourse on Homelander’s (Antony Starr) latest sociopathic turn and spitballing theories about who’s actually dead after the big showdown at Vought Tower.

[Ed. note: This post goes into detail about the end of season 3 of The Boys. Consider joining Soldier Boy in his deep freeze if you don’t want to be spoiled.]

Now that the dust has settled and Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles) is back in the hands of the Russians — though not before making some crass joke about Jane Wyman that reintroduced the Oscar winner to the masses — it’s time to go over the body count. Every season has one, but this latest installment claimed a member of the Seven, a politician, and maybe even the Boys’ hopes of stopping Homelander.

For much of the first two seasons, Black Noir seemed almost as invulnerable as Homelander. He was certainly as threatening, at times — an immovable murder machine who terrorized the Boys and any member of the Seven who might be plotting against Homelander. In the season 2 finale, he was seemingly taken out by Queen Maeve (Dominique McElligott) and an Almond Joy (thereby irrefutably proving its status as the worst candy bar, no matter what Starlight says). But Black Noir was back in action at the start of season 3, and we eventually learned more about his backstory: Before he was Black Noir, he was Irving (Nathan Mitchell), a member of Payback, the superhero team led by Soldier Boy.

After being freed from some Winter Soldier-like deep freeze, Soldier Boy was out for revenge against his old team, who