Highlights

• The superheroes in The Boys, known as The Seven, are morally bankrupt individuals who prioritize themselves over the greater good.
• While some members of The Seven have impressive powers, they are ultimately flawed and vulnerable to defeat.
• The leader of The Seven, Homelander, is the most powerful but lacks the morality of a traditional superhero.

Superheroes are supposed to be the good guys who protect people from villains and represent the values that society upholds. Yet, that's not exactly the case with The Seven. In The Boys, the most powerful superhero team is largely made up of morally bankrupt individuals who primarily think of themselves, and not the good of the many.

There are a few notable exceptions in The Boys, but most of the team is rotten to the core. They have considerable special powers, though, which allow them to do whatever they want. And the more powerful the members of The Seven become, the more difficult it is for the titular boys to stop them.

Updated on December 24, 2023 by Jake Fillery: As fans eagerly await The Boys Season 4, it's a good time to see how far the show has come, and how many members of The Seven the show has been through. As fans might know, The Seven is the iconic superhero team in The Boys that features as this universe's Justice League/Avengers. Whilst super, they are far from heroes, and each of these members (bar one exception) has committed some fairly diabolical acts. However, with an abundance of powers, it cannot be denied that these are the strongest members of The Seven in The Boys.

10 Lamplighter

Notable Powers: Pyrokinesis

Lamplighter used to be a member of The Seven but was demoted for unknown reasons, but those reasons may be that Vought knew that Lamplighter was a blackmailed spy working for Billy Butcher and his team. Regardless of the blackmail, Lamplighter's powers are not too impressive, and neither is his costume.

Lamplighter focuses on pyrokinesis, allowing him to control fire with his very being. Lamplighter is known to bend fire to his will, expanding it, making it stronger, and using it to burn people to death. However, considering many heroes have great durability, this fire isn't going to do much, especially when he could potentially self-immolate.

9 Supersonic

Notable Powers: Sonic Clap, Superhuman Strength

Supersonic may not have been a member of The Seven for long, but his connection to Starlight and his willingness to do the right thing made him a memorable hero, even if it was short-lived. Supersonic looked up to Homelander, but little did he know that his idol would be a cynical murderer who would see his end. Supersonic doesn't have the most impressive set of powers, and audiences barely see him involved in any action.

As the winner of the American Hero reality show from Vought, Supersonic was able to join The Seven, even if it was short-lived. His ability to clap his hands together and create powerful and damaging sound waves is great for causing disturbances and area-of-effect damage to foes, but it's certainly no match to anyone who can just get out of the way, or make sure he can't clap his hands.

8 The Deep

Notable Powers: Aquatic Telepathy, Amphibious Physiology

The Deep has a very centered power, one that makes other superheroes laugh at him. The rest of The Seven doesn't take him seriously, something Starlight soon finds out after she joins the team. When Starlight threatens him, The Deep backs off, proving he's not on her level despite the fact that Starlight has barely joined the team while The Deep has been a part of The Seven for a while.

The Deep's powers have a limited scale and are mostly connected to water-oriented crime. The Deep can telepathically communicate with sea creatures as well as breathe underwater. Even though these powers can be impressive when used under the right circumstances, when The Deep tries to defeat The Seven members with them, he ultimately fails.

7 Translucent

Notable Powers: Invisibility, Indestructibility

The reason why Translucent ranks so low is that he didn't survive as long as other superheroes. Even his powers didn't help him when the Boys captured him and Hughie had him explode from the inside in one of the many macabre scenes of The Boys. Translucent can become invisible, but he has to be naked when he does so, which limits the use of the power to a certain degree.

In a fight between him, Hughie, and Butcher, Translucent initially has the upper hand, but it doesn't take Hughie long to figure out how to knock Translucent out; powers or no powers. In the end, his greatest advantage is having a seemingly impenetrable skin, but even that proves to fail when the Boys figure out a way to implant a bomb inside Translucent's body.

6 A-Train

Notable Powers: Super Speed

Unlike other members of The Seven, A-Train only has one major power. He's super fast, and considered the fastest man alive, just like the Flash. Even though he's stronger than other people, he's not on the same level as Homelander, for example, and seems to be afraid of him.

That's why he murders his own girlfriend rather than risking The Seven and Vought learning about what he'd done. A-Train's speed is impressive and helps him win a race against another speedster, but it doesn't change the fact that A-Train boosts his powers by taking drugs. That makes him more prone to failure than most of The Seven. A-Train's use of performance-enhancing drugs has left him slower than usual, considering the risk of his heart exploding, so he can't perform as the fastest man alive as best as he would like. Sadly, this doesn't mean his position is up for competition, meaning Love Sausage isn't getting on the team.

5 Starlight

Notable Powers: Energy Manipulation, Superhuman Strength

Starlight is the one member of The Seven who has genuinely good intentions and wants to help people. Unfortunately for her, she's not the most powerful member of the team, so she has to work with others to influence The Seven from the inside and stop her villainous co-members from committing evil. As her superhero name suggests, Starlight can absorb electricity and send it out in a blast of light.

That's enough to blind her opponents temporarily or knock them out. She's also stronger and less likely to get hurt than others. She's not as proficient in handling her powers as older superheroes, though, and her morals also keep her from using her full strength against others. That said, she was able to stop A-Train from hurting Hughie, but, on the other hand, needed Queen Maeve's help to deal with Black Noir. That proves that Starlight is powerful, but not the strongest member of The Seven.

4 Black Noir

Notable Powers: Pain Suppressants, Master Martial Artist

The most silent member of The Seven, Black Noir is both deadly and dangerous. He doesn't shy away from killing people and has no moral qualms about it, unlike Queen Maeve. He has an impressive list of powers, including superhuman strength, speed, agility, durability, reflexes, hearing... and, of course, he also heals faster than normal, non-enhanced people.

Yet, despite all his powers, the protagonists manage to dispose of him by using his one significant weakness: an allergy to nuts. Queen Maeve forces him to eat it to help Starlight escape when Black Noir attacks her. The strategy works, and Black Noir ends up catatonic. Considering the relative ease with which Queen Maeve disposes of him, Black Noir is clearly not the strongest member of The Seven when it comes to powers or smarts, and this Batman spoof's story is not over yet.

3 Queen Maeve

Notable Powers: Superhuman Strength, Superhuman Reflexes

For this ranking, it's best to count Queen Maeve before she loses her powers in Soldier Boy's de-powering blast. In many ways, Queen Maeve has powers similar to those of Homelander, the team's leader. She's super strong, almost impossible to hurt, lightning-fast, and has superhuman reflexes and senses. Homelander overpowers her, though, and, as such, Queen Maeve does her best to stay out of his way and not antagonize him even though she doesn't always agree with him.

Additionally, Queen Maeve is unable to fly like Homelander, which stops her from saving the passengers in the plane that Homelander willingly allows to crash. Queen Maeve's powers are actually quite similar to Wonder Woman's, but she's not quite on the same power level as the Amazon princess.

2 Stormfront

Notable Powers: Lightning Creation, Immortality

If it wasn't for the fact that Stormfront was (thankfully) defeated in season two, she could very well have become the most powerful member of The Seven. She has decades of experience, having been born in 1919, and can send out powerful plasma blasts, levitate, and even use telekinesis.

Other than that, Stormfront also has the usual array of superhero skills, such as super strength, durability, and the healing factor. However, as the second season's finale proved, even the best powers aren't enough when multiple characters join forces to put a stop to them.

1 Homelander

Notable Powers: Flight, Heat Vision, Superhuman Strength

Homelander is the leader of The Seven and also the only one who doesn't initially reveal to Starlight how corrupted when she first joins the team. However, Homelander is just as bad as the rest of his team, if not worse, especially with each new season of the show. He has many powers at his disposal. He can fly, is ridiculously strong, has super hearing and smell, can see throughout almost everything (with one exception being zinc), and, if all that wasn't enough, he also has laser eyes that he repeatedly uses to melt people.

Homelander is supposed to be a version of Superman, and both of them are easily the most powerful heroes in their respective teams and universes. The major difference is that Homelander lacks Superman's morals and only pretends to be the good guy, something that viewers see repeatedly throughout The Boys.