In episode 5, we get more backstory when she, drunk, looks for a hookup and consolation in her ex, Elena.

However, in episode 4, when she fails to rescue a hijacked plane, she is psychologically broken. In episode 3, its revealed that Maeve and Homelander used to date one another, and there is still some lingering affection from the latter. As she is about to subdue the final criminal, Homelander comes in and receives all the credit. In the first episode, Maeve successfully stops an armored truck and the men inside. Throughout Season 1 of the TV show, Maeve is typically shown at Homelander's side.

It was a miraculous save that was in the national spotlight for weeks. Homelander states in season two of the show that he had known Maeve the longest and that’s how the two had grown so close prior to the show’s events.Įarly in her superhero career, Maeve saved a school bus from falling off a bridge with her bare hands, breaking every bone in her right arm. Embracing the image that Vought demanded she accept meant abandoning the truths – and even some of the people – she held dear.ĭisillusioned and cynical, she's now a shell of the determined idealist she once was, although she is regaining some of what she once was when she came to the aid of The Boys against Stormfront and Homelander.īefore Queen Maeve is first shown on screen, it is learned throughout the seasons and extra show content that Maeve had been a student at Vought’s “Hero College” and was then drafted into the Seven as its second member, which Homelander was the first. But to reach such astonishing heights, she's had to make sacrifices along the way.

She is a former superhero and member of The Seven.Īs a warrior, a feminist, a humanitarian, and second most powerful member of The Seven, Queen Maeve is the ultimate role model for little girls all over the world. Queen Maeve (real name Margaret 'Maggie' Shaw) is a major antagonist-turned-anti-hero of the Amazon series The Boys, serving as a major antagonist in Season 1, and a supporting anti-hero in both Season 2 and Season 3. But you can fucking fly.' -Queen Maeve to Starlight 'The first time your prissy ass showed up at the tower, crying in that bathroom, you saved me. Dominique McElligott For the Dynamite version of the character, see Queen Maeve/Comics.

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