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| “ | Look, the point is, you hit me, I hit you back, and it never fucking ends. WarGames, Hughie. The only way to win is not to play. I thought I wanted this. Not for Zoe or... Edgar, but for me. You know, I just... I wanted to feel safe, and not like that scared fucking kid at Red River. But I don't feel safe, and I'm really fucking scared. And I'm not getting Zoe killed over this. This is the only way. | „ |
| ~ Victoria trying to make peace with The Boys. |
Victoria Neuman, born Nadia Khayat and also known as the Head Popper, is one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside Stan Edgar) of Amazon Prime’s The Boys franchise.
She was portrayed by Claudia Doumit as an adult and by Eliza Paszt as a child.
Her Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Her Heinous?[]
Season 2[]
- She assassinated Susan Raynor by exploding her head before she could reveal Vought's plans to The Boys.
- She massacred 14 people at the congressional hearing to preserve Vought's power. This even included people who had nothing to do with the trial like Shockwave and her own assistant, Lisa Concilia.
- She murdered the leader of Church of the Collective, Alastair Adana, probably because he knew she was a Supe, as he told her “you’re one of the good ones.”
Season 3[]
- When her former best friend Tony tracked her down and requests her to expose Red River's child abuse, she refused to do so out of fear of her past being brought to light. When Tony persisted, she murdered him and destroys his body to keep her past a secret.
- She formed an alliance with Homelander to advance her political career. In exchange for giving Homelander Ryan's location, she tasked him with killing the Vice President nominee, Lamar Bishop so she could seize his position.
- She injected her own daughter with Compound V to keep her safe. While it was for good intentions, the V caused Zoe immense pain and could've killed her.
Gen V[]
- When Dr. Edison Cardosa came to her to deliver the Supe virus, she agreed to take the virus and give him and his family witness protection. However, Neuman didn't hold up her end and murdered Cardosa, taking the virus.
Season 4[]
- She tasked her partner, Dr. Sameer Shah, with increasing the severity of the Supe virus by having him experiment on several farm animals.
- She joined Homelander and Sister Sage's conspiracy and agrees to be a political puppet for Vought. Through Victoria, they planned to assassinate President-Elect Robert Singer, imprison any opposition, and establish a pro-Supe administration in United States.
- Threatened Hughie that if he ever leaks her Red River files, she will kill everyone he ever loved.
- She murdered the FBSA Driver who was returning Stan Edgar to prison in order to free him.
- After Sister Sage was incapacitated due to MM shooting her, she convinced the billionaires to support Homelander by denouncing America's democratic principles. This will lead to Calhoun being inspired to be a puppet President to let Homelander do whatever he wants.
- Although she was willing to aid the Boys in defeating Homelander shortly before her death, this doesn’t make her redeemed as she only did that to protect her daughter as opposed to realizing the error of her ways.
- While her death at the hands of Butcher is horrifically brutal, it doesn't register her as a scapegoat given all the horrible things she's done throughout the show.
What Makes Her Inconsistent?[]
- She is a tragic character as she accidentally killed her parents as a child and it's implied she suffered abuse while in the Red River orphanage. Even after escaping her past, she was manipulated by Stan Edgar to protect Vought, and later cohered into being Homelander’s political puppet.
- She genuinely cares about several people:
- She deeply loves her daughter, Zoe. She turned Zoe into a Supe as a means of protecting her and her reason for betraying Homelander was due to him threatening to hurt Zoe.
- She was relieved to see her lover Sameer survived the V'd-up animals and was heartbroken when she thought he was killed.
- Despite having him arrested, she still cares for her adoptive father Stan Edgar, shown from when she saves him from a V’d up chicken and has him freed from prison.
- While they drifted apart over time and she was ultimately his murderer, she still cared about her childhood friend Tony, given how she was struggling to hold back tears after killing him.
- She has a level of affinity for Marie Moreau. She sympathised with her background of accidentally killing her parents with her powers to the point that she got Marie into Godolkin University and showed her how to use the blood powers effectively.
- Despite their friendship ending and them becoming enemies, she still retained a level of respect for Hughie Campbell. She lamented the fun times they had together, she offered her condolences when his dad passes away and despite being given several opportunities to kill him, she never did. When she wanted out of her plans with Homelander after he exposes her as a supe and threatens her and her daughter, she immediately turns to Hughie as the one person she can trust.
- She is On & Off, being willing to work with the Boys on two separate occasions to save her lover and her daughter respectively. She also never tried to double-cross them after their use expired.
- She has standards as she became incredibly agitated by a politician making misogynistic comments about abortion, to the point she imagined popping her own head out of frustration. She was also visibly shocked when Hughie told her that Homelander intended to introduce internment camps after taking power.
- She can be affable at times as she was willing to give Starlight some genuinely helpful advice on dealing with dual identities. She also seemed to get along with Sage at Tek Knight’s party and sympathised with her tragedy of being forced to let her grandmother die of illness despite having the knowledge to save her.
- Her death, while not unwarranted, is played for sympathy as she was ripped in half by super powered Billy Butcher after she had already agreed to help the Boys out of concern for her daughter’s safety. To make matters worse, Zoe is sent to the Red River orphanage following her death, the one place Neuman never wanted her to go.
Trivia[]
- Her comics counterpart Victor Neuman doesn't count as Inconsistently Heinous since he is a bumbling politician that never does anything to pass the heinous standard.
External Links[]
- Victoria Neuman on the Villains Wiki
- Victoria Neuman on the The Boys Wiki
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