- For the Amazon version of the character, see Grace Mallory.
Lieutenant-Colonel Gregory D. "Greg" Mallory is the overarching protagonist of the controversial comic book series The Boys. A WWII veteran, as well as the founder and original team leader of the Boys. Greg Mallory and Billy Butcher created the team to stop Vought-American's Supes from joining the United States Military, but after the loss of his grandchildren and Butcher snatching control of the team away from him, Mallory ultimately left.
History[]
After witnessing first-hand the poor discipline and incompetence of the Avenging Squad during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944 (which resulted in his entire platoon being wiped out), Greg Mallory developed a fierce hatred towards superheroes and made it his life-long mission to stop Vought-American from incorporating Supes into the United States Military. He thus joined the C.I.A., and would go on to recruit Billy Butcher after his wife Becky's death. Together, they founded the Boys, a C.I.A. black ops team meant to keep corrupt Supes in check. Mother's Milk, the Frenchman, and the Female were all eventually recruited.
During this time, Mallory and Butcher came into conflict more and more frequently over the direction of the team. Mallory became concerned on how Butcher showed sadistic satisfaction at the deaths of any Supe, even children who hadn't done anything wrong, simply seeing them as problems pre-emptively taken care of. He also took notice that at an increasing rate, whenever they were blackmailing a Supe, Butcher would ensure that they would crack from humiliation, forcing the Boys to kill the Supe in question. Butcher eventually convinced Mallory to blackmail the Seven with photographs of the Homelander committing atrocities, after this, Mallory considered the matter over and done with. This backfired, however, as Lamplighter followed Mallory to his hotel and, when he took his daughter Helena out for dinner, burned his grandchildren alive. As a peace offering, the Seven handed over Lamplighter, whom Mallory tortured and killed in revenge. Because Mallory's way of fighting Supes was unsatisfactory to him, and he had realized that the colonel never planned to help him kill the Homelander for what he did to Becky, Butcher used the Lamplighter incident to oust Mallory from the Boys, and threatened to bury him next to his granddaughters if he tried to stop him. Despite this warning, Mallory was able to stay in contact with Mother's Milk to monitor Butcher and the Boys. Due to his part in her children's death, Helena never spoke to her father again, fuelling Mallory's depression.
A few years after the Boys were rebuilt, Mallory eventually came into contact with the newest member of the Boys, Hughie Campbell, where he revealed everything, from how Vought-American and their Supes began, Butcher's origin and true goal, the formation of the Boys and Butcher's takeover. Despite the information, Hughie called Mallory out on pretending he didn't commit the same crimes the Boys have, and when he refuses to back down, Mallory grows respect for him. After Hughie leaves, Mallory is confronted by Butcher, who demands to know what he told Hughie, to which Mallory replies everything he could. Mallory explains that he doesn't care about living anymore, as his carelessness got his grandchildren murdered and his daughter never forgave him for it, and simply tells Butcher to get it over with, which he does.
Years later, when Hughie was trying to discover who had sent him Butcher's journal, Monkey questioned whether Mallory could have survived and done it, though Hughie shoots the idea down, knowing Butcher was too thorough at killing to let the colonel live, confirming Mallory was indeed dead.
Trivia[]
- Mallory is one of many characters to be gender-swapped for the Amazon series. Unlike in the comics, She was never outed from the Boys by Butcher, instead leaving willingly after Lamplighter killed her granddaughters, and even remains on civil terms with Butcher.