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Termite's exploding penis scene was just the start. Now, they're fighting with dildos.
If The Boys has taught us anything, it's that death can come in ways you'd never expect when superhumans are involved. Someone can die from an exploding penis, an anally-inserted bomb, and most recently, by the blunt force of a dildo. The fourth episode of The Boys' third season, titled "Glorious Five Year Plan," sets the stage for a superhuman use of sex toys as impressive as it is revolting.
In the episode, Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) and The Boys are more focused than ever on taking Homelander (Antony Starr) out, especially after faux Superman revealed his tyrannical God complex to a public that surprisingly loved it. To Butcher, the group’s best shot at killing the ostensibly invincible superhero is a secret weapon rumored to have been powerful enough to kill one of the strongest superheroes in The Boys universe, Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles). The only problem is the Russians, who supposedly used the weapon to kill Soldier Boy, took it and the All-American Supe’s body with them back to their motherland. Just as The Boys run into Kremlin dead-ends, Frenchie (Tomer Kapon) has a somewhat serendipitous reunion with his former Russian lover/crime boss Little Nina (Katia Winter), which Butcher views as their way behind the Iron Curtain to retrieve the Homelander killer weapon.
Nina’s willing to use her connections to lead them to the weapon, but first, the team has to do her a favor, and there’s only one thing a homicidal gangster needs help with: an assassination. To get close to the target, superhuman killer with a somewhat tender heart Kimiko Miyashiro (Karen Fukuhara) has to act like one of the target’s party girls coming to join his wild sex orgy. But this is The Boys we’re talking about, a universe where superheroes are so interwoven in every facet of society they’re promoting peace-generating soft drinks like Kendall Jenner and competing on reality TV shows for a chance to join the fake Avengers. Kimiko quickly learns superheroes are some people’s kink when the target unveils an armoire of superhero-inspired dildos that he plans to use on his gaggle of girls.
Unfortunately for the target, just as he’s about to insert a Starlight-esque phallus into one of the girl’s mouths, Kimiko beats him to it by shoving a dildo from the back of his neck through his mouth, killing him instantly. Even with only dildos at her disposal, the target’s guards stand no chance against Kimiko. First, one comes face to tip with the dildo when Kimiko rams one down his eye. Next, Kimiko smacks the other guard with a dildo heavy enough to knock a grown man backward before she pierces his chest with one of the dildos. She finishes off the final guard by throwing the Starlight dildo through the neck of another like a ninja star.
All in all, it takes a blood-soaked Kimiko 45 seconds and three dildos to end the lives of four grown men in a murder sequence gory enough to enter the ignominious pantheon of The Boys' ridiculous killings.
Before becoming the victim of phallic assault, the Russian target amassed his own Avengers of dildos. Seven dildos were shown on-screen; most of them looked like they were designed after the outfits of each member of The Seven. Although former The Seven superhero Translucent died in Season 1 after Hughie (Jack Quaid) detonated a bomb placed in his anus, it's hard not to think the ice sculpture of a dildo Kimiko breaks across the head of one of the guards wasn't directly inspired by The Boys' invisible crusader.
We don't need to guess which superheroes inspired some of the dildos in the target's arousal arsenal as he let us in on the names of certain ones. There was Homelander's Star-Spangled Banger, which looked like an American flag erection. There was Deep's Flounder Pounder, a dildo fit for an Aquaman. And then there was the Black Noir Silent Screamer, a dildo Kimiko proved could perfectly fit through the neck and eye of a grown man if that's what you're into.
Originally referred to simply as "The Female," Kimiko is a literal silent assassin who gained superhuman strength and regenerative powers after being forcibly injected with Compound V by Vought to create super terrorists for their superheroes to fight. She also became mute after her mother was killed. Kimiko was introduced into The Boys' universe in episode 4 of the first season when The Boys freed her from her the cage she was being kept in the basement of a grocery store where gangsters were peddling Compound V. Her sole motivation in life initially is to reunite with her long lost superhuman brother Kenji Miyashiro, which she does before Stormfront (Aya Cash) snaps his neck, killing him in front of her in Season 2.
The only person Kimiko genuinely connects with on The Boys is Frenchie, after he repeatedly saw the best in her and pleaded with Butcher not to abandon her as she had been in her past. He learns sign language to communicate with her and bonds with her over losing their mothers while also being treated as weapons instead of people.
Kimiko is played by actress Karen Fukuhara, who's no stranger to the superhero antics, appearing in 2016's Suicide Squad. She's also lent her voice to FX's animated sitcom Archer and Disney's animated anthology series Star Wars: Visions. If she keeps up her stellar work on The Boys, we'll see her do much more on-screen than killing people with dildos.