Madelyn Stillwell is one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside A-Train) of Season 1 of the Amazon series The Boys and a minor character in its spin-off series, The Boys Presents: Diabolical and Gen V.
She was one of the top-ranking executives within Vought International, a media conglomerate that owns The Seven. As a result, she worked closely with the Seven frequently.
As Vought's Senior Vice President of Hero Management, it was Madelyn Stillwell's job to manage Vought's vast assortment of individual superheroes and their respective teams, including principally the world's foremost, best and greatest superhero team, The Seven. It was also her job to ensure maximum power and profitability for the company – and that's a job she executes with ruthless efficiency. But her ambitions went beyond merely having superheroes fighting crime on America's streets; she desired to put them in the military, through a multi-billion-dollar government contract.
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Background[]
Stillwell would gain the position of Senior Vice President of Hero Management after "backstabbing" The Legend with the help of Stan Edgar.
In 2015, Madelyn is seen on tv proudly introducing A-Train as the newly drafted member of The Seven, as well as the first black superhero who joined the team.
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As one of the most important members of Vought International, Stillwell works closely with all of its Supes; most particularly, The Seven. Stillwell seemed to have a particular closeness with Homelander, being one of the only people at Vought capable of keeping him under control while acting as a maternal figure towards him, via letting him suckle on her large and heavy, milk-lactating breasts. She is a very manipulative and somewhat dishonest to both him and other people who work with or under her and is even implied to have sexual abused him when he was still a relatively young adolescent.
The relationship between the two developed further at the end of season one, with Homelander questioning Vought and its use of Compound V. He is angry to find out that Stillwell lied to him about the whereabouts of Becca Butcher and her child. In You Found Me, she is held hostage by Butcher in hopes of angering Homelander, he is undeterred, however and tries forcing her to stop lying about everything and answer his questions honestly. After she finally tells him the truth and admits to being afraid of him, Homelander smiles and gently holds Stillwell's face, before his gentleness turns to rage and he directs his heat vision into her eyes, burning through her face and killing her.
At Homelander's insistence, Doppelganger would impersonate Madelyn Stillwell following her death to satisfy Homelander's perverse urges. Then Homelander spontaneously snapped Doppelganger's neck, insisting that he needed no one.
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- Manipulation: to be added.
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- Madelyn Stillwell is loosely based on the character James Stillwell from the comics who also seems to have heavily inspired the character of her superior Stan Edgar.
- It is heavily implied that Madelyn had molested Homelander at a young age due to him seeing her as a motherly figure. This is likely true from the Diabolical episode "One Plus One Equals Two".
- Madelyn Stillwell marks the first character in The Boys to lose an eye (or both in her case) as Homelander lasers through them in the S1 finale, killing her.