Top 10 Strongest Characters in The Boys (Comics) – Ranked by Power

Billy Butcher isn’t winning any fight on raw power alone, even with Compound V in his system. The temporary boost gives him enhanced strength and enough durability to take a hit, but he’s still well below the top-tier supes when it comes to sheer muscle.

What makes Butcher worth fearing is everything else — he’s cold, calculating, and has no problem doing what others won’t. Catch him off-guard in a straight brawl and he loses. Give him prep time and a grudge, and he becomes a problem for anyone on this list.

Soldier Boy’s reputation is bigger than his actual output. He leads Payback and carries himself like a legend, but his performance rarely backs that up. He’s physically stronger and tougher than Butcher, which earns him this spot, but he folds under real pressure.

He’s depicted as insecure, easily manipulated, and ultimately expendable — Butcher captures and kills him without too much trouble. He’s a step above the average supe, but nowhere near the level of the characters above him.

Kimiko is terrifying in close quarters. Her strength is well above a normal human’s, but the real issue for anyone fighting her is that she doesn’t stop. She tears through enemies with a kind of single-minded brutality that’s hard to prepare for, and her regeneration means that slowing her down is usually just buying time.

She’s not going to overpower someone like Homelander, but in a real street fight, most supes on this list would come out of it badly.

A-Train’s entire threat comes down to speed. He’s fast enough to kill someone before they even register he’s moved — running clean through a person is treated as routine for him.

The problem is that’s basically the extent of it. He doesn’t have the durability or brute strength to stay competitive if a fight drags on, and anyone who can neutralize his speed advantage has a real shot at beating him. He’s a one-trick weapon, but when that trick lands, it’s lethal.

Unlike most of The Boys, Mother’s Milk has actual super abilities in the comics, passed down through his mother after she was exposed to Compound V. That gives him enhanced strength, speed, durability, and heightened senses — and because it’s biological rather than injected, it’s consistent.

He doesn’t have the ceiling that characters higher on this list do, but he’s reliable, hard to put down, and keeps fighting when others are done. He’s been undersold in most discussions about the comics’ power scale.

He doesn’t get talked about enough. His strength is already solid, but the ability that puts him in this conversation is Carpo — a single word that switches on near-total invulnerability. While it’s active, most physical attacks just don’t work on him.

The catch is it’s not always running, and he’s not exactly the most disciplined fighter given his various habits. But when he does activate it, he becomes one of the hardest characters in the comics to actually deal with.

Maeve is one of the very few characters in the comics who can hold her ground against the top tier, at least for a stretch. Her strength and durability sit well above most supes, and she actually knows how to fight rather than just hitting hard and hoping.

She’s the one who takes Black Noir out of commission by exploiting his tree nut allergy, which shows she can think in a fight too. Homelander kills her in Issue #63, but the fact she was even in that confrontation says a lot about where she sits.

The comics version of Stormfront is male and considerably more dangerous than the show version. He’s one of Vought’s oldest successful experiments, which means decades of experience on top of already impressive physical stats — super strength, durability, flight, and lightning breath powerful enough to destroy vehicles and kill multiple people at once.

It took Butcher, Frenchie, Mother’s Milk, and Vas working together to finally put him down. He can’t touch the top two, but he’s clearly in a different category from everyone below him.

Homelander is the one everyone else is afraid of — and with good reason. He possesses super strength, flight, heat vision, and near-total durability. He becomes completely unhinged in the final arc, storms the White House, and kills the president. The U.S. military needed weapons specifically engineered to target supes just to deal with his army.

The only reason he isn’t first is that Vought created someone specifically to defeat him. Everything about Homelander’s arc was building toward the reveal that he was never actually the top of the hierarchy.

Black Noir is a clone of Homelander — engineered by Vought as a contingency in case Homelander ever went rogue. He has every power Homelander has, and according to Mother’s Milk, he can bench press a dozen Mack trucks.

The whole plot of Noir framing Homelander for atrocities was designed to push Homelander to break, so Noir would finally have a reason to act. When they do fight, Noir kills him. He’s then killed by Butcher shortly after, but the fight itself confirms what the whole series was building toward — Noir was built to be stronger, and he was.