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.

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 Starlight — and enthralled with his newfound powers — means it would make more sense for Starlight to kill A-Train. This would both be revenge for her ex-boyfriend Supersonic’s death and a way to protect Hughie from further derailing his already loose moral compass. Hughie’s gleeful reaction to his superpowers when the boys broke out the Captain America parody Soldier Boy from Russian prison proved that the character is on thin ice when it comes to his once higher moral standing. Thus, the now super-powered Hughie killing a weakened, aging A-Train could be the push that makes him as monstrous as any of the Seven.

In contrast, Starlight has constantly attempted to do the right thing, minimize damages, and turn the other cheek wherever possible, and the approach has gotten her nowhere. Cutting A-Train in on her plan to take down Homelander cost Supersonic his life. Saving A-Train’s life didn’t stop him from later betraying her, and giving A-Train the benefit of the doubt means it will now be next to impossible for Starlight to ever effectively plot Homelander’s downfall again now that his guard is up. Thus, Starlight killing A-Train in The Boys season 3 instead of Hughie would prove she knows the pragmatic power of violence when faced with foes like Homelander.

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