The Boys Season 1: 9 Questions In Desperate Need Of Answers
5. The Female: How Did She End Up In A Basement?
When The Boys first introduces The Female to audiences, she is locked up in the basement of a store and stumbled across by the titular Boys. When Frenchie sets her free, thinking she is a normal human imprisoned by traffickers, she charges at her captors, tearing their insides out and giving them all a rather gruesome end. This is when the group discovers that she is obviously a supe.
Later in the series, when introduced to Mesmer, The Female’s memories give away some small aspects of her backstory. She’s shown to be fighting alongside some form of terrorist paramilitary group in what looks to be the jungles of a foreign land. We also see short, shaky-cam, bursts of her running and fighting; possibly the point when she was being captured.
So how did such a super-human killing machine find herself imprisoned in a shop? Where did a foreign supe get her powers? Who were the group she was fighting with and are they currently looking for her? Being a selective mute, The Female gives very little away throughout Season One. Here’s hoping she’s a little more talkative as the show goes on, seeing as her character is peppered in such mystery.