The Boys returned for a triumphant and explosive second season in 2020, bringing even more bloody superhero mayhem as Billy Butcher, Hughie, and the gang continued to try to take down Homelander, The Seven, and Vought International. Fans were delighted to more action, more graphic violence, and more frightening abuses of power from new characters than ever before.
With so much going on, certain inconsistencies began to materialize in the plot, the character development, and the inherent logic of the series' storytelling. It's only after the dust has settled, Homelander's eyes have returned to a natural hue, and Season 3 has been announced that fans can look back over Season 2 and critique all the things that didn't make sense.
10 Everyone Continuing To Trust Billy Butcher
As in Season 1, Karl Urban's Billy Butcher continues to be a charming and scruffy rogue, whose ability to mollify any aggression directed his way with a punch or a toothy grin has allowed him to remain relevant far longer than he should have. After all, Billy has failed to deliver on every promise he's ever made.
While Hughie may not be the most effective leader, as soon as Billy comes back everyone assumes he's the best one to help them take down Homelander and Vought, and they continue to trust him despite the fact that he in large part brings nothing but a horrible track record to the table.
9 Hughie And Starlight's Relationship
Coming off of the turbulence of Season 1, where Hughie had lied to Starlight about his mission to use her to infiltrate Vought, Starlight was rightly upset. Yet they begin secretly communicating again, with Hughie not even taking the proper safety precautions, without which Starlight could get killed by Homelander.
Still not thinking of her safety, he has her be the real hero and do all the fieldwork to obtain a Compound V sample through a highly suspicious contact, and in the end she still wants to rekindle their romance when he's demonstrated on numerous occasions he'll put her at risk.
8 Ryan's Relationship With Homelander
Homelander enjoys the benefits of family life whenever he visits his son Ryan, pretending for a moment that he's a normal father just trying to connect with his normal son. Except that Homelander is a predatory supe trying to manipulate his son into transferring his affections from his mother to him.
Ryan spends the majority of Season 2 being -rightly- suspicious of The Seven's leader until, for some reason, he starts thinking that Homelander's the next Superman and wants to fly off and see the world.
7 The Supes At Sage Grove Center
Halfway through the series Billy Butcher and the gang investigate the mysterious Sage Grove Center, a psychiatric facility that houses Supes. Vought is administering Compound V to adults and seeing if they become heroes or psychopaths as a direct result of taking the drug past infancy when it's normally distributed.
The efficacy of the facility is questionable because there is all manner of extremely powerful supes being held in simple cells, nowhere near as technologically advanced as the one where Starlight is imprisoned in Episode 7, yet Lamplighter is the only supe able to use his powers. They don't fight back until they're out in the hallways and using their minds to crushing people.
6 The Deep Getting So Deep With The Church Of The Collective
The Deep has never come across as particularly bright, but after drinking the Fresca of the Church of the Collective, he seems to lose all critical and analytical faculties. He signs over his bank account and his free will to a religious organization that might as well be a cult.
To make matters worse he consents to an arranged marriage to a woman who may or may not be a plant or hired actress, and then eventually loses all chances of being in The Seven. The Collective kicked out the person who initially signed him up for questioning their principles, so if a die-hard believer was exiled, that should have made Deep think.
5 The Communication Between Frenchie and Kimiko
Frenchie and Kimiko's relationship takes many twists and turns throughout Season 2, leaving fans to wonder if the two would ever return to the closeness they achieved in Season 1. After Frenchie redeems himself in Kimiko's eyes, they begin a tentative friendship again.
For some reason, even after being around each other for months, they're still no closer to communicating effectively than they were when they first met. At one point Kimiko pantomimes a gun and Frenchie acknowledges he understands, as though it's a great hurdle to overcome. Why is no one using something to write on?
4 The Lack Of Security At Vought Tower
When Hughie gets inspired to break into Vought Tower and save Starlight from her imprisonment, he recruits Lamplighter to help him. Lamplighter explains that it's incredibly difficult to get into the tower and that Hughie would need him anyway to gain entry, yet the "super-secret" entrance is directly off the street.
Not only are they able to slip into a lower part of the building without sounding any alarm, Lamplighter still has clearance to the tower. Why would his badge still be effective? They moved his statue out of the board room, so why would his badge still give him access to it?
3 Lamplighter's Burn Out
After Hughie and Lamplighter gain access to Vought Tower and enter the board room, Lamplighter sees that his statue has been removed from The Seven line up. This triggers an extreme emotional reaction with him, and one minute he's commenting on it to Hughie, and the next he's lit himself on fire.
This sudden act of self-immolation seems odd, since he was a star witness at a Congressional hearing, and didn't want to go to Vought Tower in the first place. Did he have suicidal ideation before he set himself on fire, or was it something he felt compelled to do once he was in the tower?
2 Homelander Getting Away With A Tarnished Image
Season 2's version of Homelander is even more cruel and vindictive than in Season 1. Anthony Starr, who once walked a duality with the character, more often than not portrays him as a barely contained homicidal maniac. He could get away with being despicable in Season 1 because his image was scandal-free. But, in Season 2, his questionable behavior is put on full display.
He appears very brusque with fans and crowds, and after dating Stormfront, takes risks of acting salaciously in public (their kiss got no backlash). Even after he has to admit that he dated a Nazi once Stormfront is exposed, he doesn't seem to be any less liked according to the public.
1 Vought Getting Away Scott Free
For two seasons now, Vought Intentional has gotten away with creating superheroes in laboratories, and even after the information is made public, they still aren't slapped with any regulations. The one Congressional hearing that's drummed up goes horribly awry.
The corporation has experimented on US citizens, made weapons of mass destruction, and sold Compound V to America's enemies and yet it all gets swept under the rug. There seems to be absolutely no federal oversight at all.
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