The Female (The Boys character)

The Boys and Herogasm (2006–2012)

The Female is one of the earliest members of the Boys and the only woman of the group, whose first appearance is in issue #2. She is known for her animalistic brutality (which even visibly shocks, yet impresses Butcher), and has selective mutism. When not working for the Boys, she used to do freelance work for the Mafia.^[3]

The Female has a reputation for "explosively eviscerating" her victims. In issue #3, it is implied that she may be triggered to attack when another person touches her, possibly as a result of past trauma. This does not appear to apply to the Frenchman. She is shown to have a tendency for ripping off people's faces. In issue #16, the Frenchman states that she 'does these things because [she] cannot not do them'. Issue #24 states that she has continued killing for hire, despite The Frenchman forcing the mob to back off. Issue #38 shows that, as an infant, she found her way into a pail of discarded waste attempts at recreating Compound V by a rival company to Vought-American, slaughtering scientists in the building and eventually being captured. She escaped years later, when Butcher and the original team of Boys rescued her. She is beaten into a coma by Stormfront in issue #31, but not before ripping out one of his eyes. She recovers in issue #34.

Despite her response to other humans, the Female is fond of and kind to animals. She freed Jamie the hamster out of his wrapping after he emerged from the Blarney Cock's anus and subsequently took care of him during Hughie's hiatus from the team (resulting in Jamie becoming morbidly obese), ostensibly as a deterrent to being subjected to the same treatment again. She had a particular bond with Butcher's English bulldog Terror, often tickling him or playing with him. The Female took his death extremely hard, lying down next to Terror mournfully after he is killed.^[4]

The Female occasionally shows signs of responding to the Frenchman's treatment with genuine human reaction. She smiles when enjoying her favorite candy; she chooses to restrain her murderous urges rather than hurt the Frenchman; and she speaks for the first time in issue #66, due to her amusement over Hughie stealing Doc Peculiar's file on Queen Maeve for the purpose of masturbating to the photos contained inside. She laughed, and spoke for the first time with the word "Ha!"

During a meeting of the Boys discussing how to stop Butcher, Hughie suggests including the Female, since she has not spoken for herself. The Frenchman disagrees, saying this would halt or even reverse her positive development, and Mother's Milk voices his opinion that she deserves the opportunity to walk away more than anyone else. Hughie concurs, then tells the Female it is okay to stay behind. However, as the others start to walk out the door, she says to them, "I hate mean people," the only time she has ever spoken a complete sentence. She then puts on her trench coat and walks with them.

In issue #69, she and The Frenchman are killed when Butcher bombs The Boys' headquarters, the Flatiron Building.^[5]

Dear Becky (2020)

Set twelve years after Butcher's and the Female's deaths, Dear Becky sees Hughie being sent Butcher's diary by an unknown individual, leading him to confront his past actions and killing Butcher. Hughie reads through the diary which delves into Butcher's moral justifications and darker work with Boys (including the Female) prior to Hughie's own recruitment, including when the Female had tortured and cut out the tongue of a child (a parody of Billy Batson / Captain Marvel) to prevent them from ever being able to return to their Supe form.

The Boys (2019–present)

In the streaming television series adaptation, Karen Fukuhara portrays the character,^[6] renamed "Kimiko Miyashiro",^[7] with Momona Tamada and Ai Bennett portraying her as a child.

In the series, Kimono was captured by the terrorist organization known as the Shining Light Liberation Army at a young age, forced into joining after soldiers killed their parents, going mute after being made to kill another girl, and communicating with her brother using sign language. As an adult, she was then experimented on with Compound V along with her brother Kenji in the first season, in the process gaining super-strength and a healing factor that allows her to heal from fatal injuries, before joining up with the Boys. After Kenji's death in the second season, she teaches the language to Frenchie, with whom she falls in love. Despite choosing not to speak, she still dreams of being able to talk and sing, as seen in the third season.

During the fourth season, Kimiko pushes Frenchie away due to guilt of her past murders, and he does the same due to his own guilt. She is injected in the left leg by Dr. Sameer Shah's virus, causing Frenchie to amputate it before it can spread to the rest of her body. With the severed leg on ice, Kimiko's left leg grows back, and Frenchie is able to generate a dose of the virus from the leg. Kimiko and Frenchie eventually come to terms with their pasts and admit their romantic feelings for each other. Their happiness is short-lived as the Boys, with the exception of Annie and Butcher, are apprehended by Homelander's new regime after Butcher assassinates Victoria Neuman with his new supe powers. As Frenchie is brainwashed and kidnapped by Cate Dunlap, Kimiko speaks for the first time in the series, screaming "no" as she is held back.^[8] In the fifth season, Kimiko reunites with Frenchie, declaring her love for him aloud, and the two have sex, with Kimiko talking about wanting to have children.^[9]

Death Battle! (2020)

In the 2020 Amazon Prime Video-sponsored The Boys promotional episodes of Death Battle!, the Female is depicted via archive footage of Karen Fukuhara from the series' first season as Death Battle! hosts Wiz & Boomstick discuss the Boys and the Seven with Black Noir, prior to the Seven's simulated battle royale.^[10][11]