‘The Boys’ Creator: Why That Tragic Major Character Death “Had to Happen”

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[This story contains a major spoiler for the ending of The Boys season five, episode six, “Through the Heavens Fall”; and major spoilers from episode seven, “The Frenchman, the Female, and the Man They Call Mother’s Milk.”]

The Boys have lost one of their own.

At the end of the seventh episode of the fifth and final season of Prime Video’s action-comedy hit, Frenchie (Tomer Capone) sacrificed himself to protect his love, Kimiko Miyashiro (Karen Fukuhara) from the wrath of Homelander (Antony Starr). But Homelander zeroed in on Frenchie instead, who opened a hatch exposing himself to a fatal dose of radiation, and told the evil supe — “I bet you never danced a day in your life.”

We asked creator Eric Kripke about the decision to kill off a character who has been with the show from the very beginning.