The Boys Season 5 Just Rewrote The Power Rankings: The 7 Strongest Supes After Episodes 1–2

Two episodes into The Boys Season 5 and it already feels like we are on a collision course: the Boys vs. Homelander, finally. That makes now a good time to take stock of who is actually the most dangerous person in this universe. The pecking order has shifted a lot thanks to people dying, losing powers, or quietly getting stronger. And yes, some folks have flat-out new abilities. Looking at you, Butcher.

Spoilers ahead for The Boys Season 5, Episodes 1 and 2, plus Gen V Season 2.

A few quick status updates before we rank: Stormfront is out of the game, Queen Maeve is alive but depowered and off the board, and Victoria Neuman is now dead. On top of that, A-Train dies in the Season 5 premiere. So the current heavy-hitter list looks very different than it did a couple seasons ago.

The power board right now

1. Starlight
   Starlight has come a long way from her Season 1 self. She can fly now, her energy manipulation hits harder and cleaner, and she is more durable. The big headline: in the Season 5 premiere, she actually disarms Homelander mid-fight. I do not think she wins a straight-up 1v1 against him yet, but the fact that she can knock him off balance matters. Also, she is more ruthless this year, which makes everything else she does land with more force.
2. Cindy
   Cindy is not a front-and-center character, but she is terrifying when she shows up. Her telekinesis can crush bodies and objects from a distance — we see it when prisoners try to bolt from Vought's so-called freedom camps. That is also the reason Starlight bailed at the end of Season 4. The catch: Cindy seems to need her hands to focus her ability, which leaves openings for someone like Butcher or Marie. She can take a hit, but she does not have the baked-in near-invincibility of Homelander and his kid.
3. Ryan Butcher
   The first naturally born supe has the same raw template as his dad: flight, heat vision, hard to injure, and scary strength he does not fully control yet. The inexperience is the limiter right now — he is not at Butcher, Soldier Boy, or Homelander's level in a fight. But if Ryan keeps leveling up, he is one of the few with a real shot at surpassing Homelander. He is already one of the biggest threats to him because they share the same skill set.
4. Billy Butcher
   Butcher was a problem for supes even before Compound V. Now that he is juiced, he is bulletproof, more durable, and insanely strong and fast. The wild card: the tendrils that fire out of his abdomen. They give him range, crowd control, and kill potential from a distance. That edge helps against someone like Cindy, and he uses those tendrils to take out Victoria Neuman — who used to be one of the strongest players on the board. He is not on Homelander's tier, but he is way up the food chain now.
5. Soldier Boy
   He is basically the prototype that led to Homelander — his genetic material is the blueprint. As a product of the original Compound V, he does not age, which even Homelander cannot boast. In combat he checks all the boxes: speed, strength, resilience. No lasers, but his radiation blasts are brutal at both short and long range. He is almost impossible to put down; he even survived the supe virus and had to be put on ice to neutralize him. Homelander is a notch stronger, and there is only one person who might beat Soldier Boy outright — that matchup is untested and would be razor close.
6. Marie Moreau
   After Gen V Season 2, Marie belongs in the absolute top tier. Blood manipulation was always nasty, but she levels it up: she can heal people and even bring them back from the dead, which is insanely rare and game-changing in a fight even if it is not a direct strike. Offensively, she can mess with the blood inside your body — ask Victoria Neuman — and she can weaponize blood externally, too. She is physically tough, but her raw muscle is not quite Soldier Boy or Homelander. Still, her control over blood can likely stop either of them cold. Like Homelander, she is a Project Odessa baby, which explains why her ceiling is so high. Is she stronger than Homelander yet? Maybe not today, but you can see the path.
7. Homelander
   He is still the apex predator. The Boys keep throwing plans at him and he keeps ripping through them. He is nearly invulnerable, monstrously strong, and blazing fast — the Season 5 premiere even has him keeping pace with A-Train. If brute force somehow is not enough, his heat vision erases problems fast. Then add the non-power power: influence over the U.S. government and Vought, plus the smartest supe alive — Sister Sage — in his corner. The only realistic checks on him right now are Marie's specific skill set or Ryan growing into his. And honestly, given how unstable he is, his biggest threat might be... himself.

Bottom line: the hierarchy has changed, but the target at the top remains the same. If the first two episodes are the warm-up, the rest of this season is going to get loud.