The Boys Season 5 Power Rankings: Every Surviving Member of the Seven, From Weakest to Strongest
Homelander’s brutality has turned The Seven into a revolving door, and the team rarely lives up to its name. With Starlight and Queen Maeve gone and Vought scrambling to paper over the cracks, the lineup keeps shrinking—and the danger keeps climbing.
The Seven has always been a revolving door, and Season 5 keeps the hinges squeaking. Homelander either terrifies people into leaving or straight-up removes them from the equation, so the team almost never has a full seven. Fair warning: light goes out for multiple capes in Season 5, Episodes 1-6. Spoilers ahead.
How we got here (and who is already gone)
Plenty of former headliners are off the board: Translucent, Lamplighter, Stormfront, Supersonic, and the original Black Noir are dead. Starlight and Queen Maeve walked after reassessing which side they were on. Season 5 continues that churn, and the show is quietly trimming its bench overall, which leaves Homelander with fewer and fewer allies. Not that he needs many at this point.
Season 5 body count and where the roster stands now
Across the first six episodes this year, three members of The Seven don’t make it out: A-Train (who technically went off the reservation at the end of Season 4), Firecracker (asked the wrong questions at the wrong time), and Black Noir II (his payback plan for The Deep blows up in his face). After those exits, the lineup sits at five if you count Oh-Father, who’s treated like a member even though the show never stamps it as official. Expect that number to keep dropping before the finale. Power buys a little plot armor, but nobody is truly safe in this war between Homelander and The Boys.
Who’s strongest now? Here’s how the remaining Five stack up
- 5) The Deep
The only original left standing besides Homelander, and somehow still the most expendable. Communicating with and commanding sea life could be terrifying in the right hands; in The Deep’s hands, it’s mostly wasted potential. He’s average in a straight fight — we’ve seen Starlight and Butcher handle him — and if someone can’t beat him 1-on-1, they can usually outthink him. Not exactly the guy you want watching your six unless you’re a dolphin. - 4) Oh-Father
Is he officially on The Seven or just Homelander’s favorite guest star? The show never says. Functionally, though, he’s in the room for strategy sessions and gets key errands in the master plan, which matters because a preacher with a platform is its own kind of superpower. He’s more savvy than The Deep and, as we see in Episode 6, his sonic scream nearly puts Starlight down. Away from the water, he’s a bigger headache than The Deep. That said, Hughie outfoxes him, which caps his rank just below Sister Sage. - 3) Sister Sage
Rarely fights because she usually doesn’t have to. Being the smartest person on Earth lets her tilt the table before anyone realizes there’s a game on. She does slip in Episode 6 — a reminder that even perfect plans have weak seams — and the two biggest wildcards, Soldier Boy and Homelander, are exactly the types who can bulldoze past careful design. If it turns out she’s been running a longer con, she jumps up this list. If Homelander decides she crossed him, she’s in real danger. She knows that, which is probably why she’s always three moves ahead. - 2) Soldier Boy
One of the heaviest hitters in this universe. Before handing over the V1 serum, he basically admitted he thinks junior has the edge, and he doesn’t have flight or heat vision — two of Homelander’s scariest toys. But Soldier Boy’s radiation blasts are a cheat code: they can scrub powers off other supes, even ones juiced on V1. In raw strength, he and Homelander felt roughly even pre-boost. Soldier Boy already has a lifetime of serum in his system, so the gap may not be massive, but we won’t really know until the next two episodes line them up. - 1) Homelander
He’s the most dangerous member by miles — physically and politically — which is why he runs the place. Best case if you cross him, your career is ash. Worst case, you end up like Supersonic or Firecracker. And that was before he took V1. With that upgrade, there are very few people who can even make him sweat, and only one of them is currently on the team. The truth is he barely needs The Seven anymore. He’s even presenting himself as the U.S. President now, which takes his reach way beyond Vought’s boardroom.
Bottom line: the headcount is five for the moment, maybe four if Oh-Father’s membership card is just for show. I wouldn’t bet on it staying that high. Who do you think gets bumped — or blasted — next?