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| “ | Got his doctorate from Munich. Ahead of his time in genetics. Such the rising young star that in 1939, Hitler appointed him chief physician at Dachau, where he enjoyed a ready supply of human subjects on which to test his earliest iterations of Compound V. For which we condemn in the strongest of possible terms. Early in '44, he felt the winds change, got spirited away to the Allies. When Oppenheimer was flailing with the bomb, Dr. Vought already had practical applications of Compound V tested in the field. Heroes like Soldier Boy, killing Germans by the dozen. So, Roosevelt pardoned him, and he became as Wonder Bread American as Disney and Edison. | „ |
| ~ Stan Edgar telling the truth about Fredrick to Homelander. |
Dr. Frederick Vought is one of the two overarching antagonists (alongside Thomas Godolkin) of Amazon Prime's The Boys franchise.
He is the respected and exceptionally accomplished founder of Vought International, who was actually a secret deceptive and immoral Nazi war criminal and the late husband of Stormfront, who was given the position of the head physician of Dachau due to his impressive knowledge in the field of genetics by Adolf Hitler himself, where he developed and created Compound V, which he used on various inmates that created the first superhumans. However, he fled to the United States after realizing that the German war effort was doomed, allowing the Allies to benefit from his creation and him to escape justice for his crimes. Founding the titular Vought International, where he and his successors help carry out his vision of upholding his Aryan ideology of cleansing the world of “inferior races”. However, even after his death, the foundation of Vought International would later become the powerful corporation it is today and also lead to the creation of The Seven and Homelander becoming the monster he is today.
Biography[]
Past[]
In the early 20th century, Frederick was a young geneticist who earned his medical degree in Munich. At some point, he joined the Nazi Party. By 1939, Adolf Hitler chose Frederick as the chief physician of the Dachau Concentration Camp. At the camp, he was given access to human subjects to test his early prototypes of a manufacturing chemical, Compound V. He later married Klara Risinger, who became the world's first successful subject of Compound V, and had a daughter named Chloe Vought. In World War II, Frederick lost faith in the Nazis ability to win the war and sided with the Allied forces. His Compound V serum led to the creation of the superhero Soldier Boy, who was able to defeat the Nazis, leading to the Allied's victory despite still having his Aryan ideology from them.
After being pardoned by President Roosevelt, Frederick went to found Vought International and later Godolkin University alongside Thomas Godolkin, and becoming an American institution. At some point, he wrote an autobiography, omitting his Nazi past.
He later passed away due to his old age.
Season 2[]
In the second season, when Homelander confronts Stan Edgar about hiring Stormfront (who is secretly Frederick's widow and hasn't aged as a result of the first Compound V injection) as a replacement for Translucent, Edgar asks him if he knows about the company's founder, Frederick. After giving him a summary of Frederick's past, including his history with the Nazis, Edgar explains that despite Homelander being a public superhero, Vought is not a superhero company but a pharmaceutical one, and that Compound V is the most valued asset within the company.
After Homelander and Stormfront enter a relationship, the latter reveals her previous marriage to Frederick and that Homelander is everything that Frederick dreamed of, in other words, his belief in a race of Aryan "Superheroes" that could combat the "threat" faced by other races, revealing that while Frederick defected to the Allies, he still upheld the white supremacist Nazi rhetoric Hitler imparted onto him, and his overall goal for creating the Supes was to create a White Supremacist Ideology society within America, revealing that Vought only feigned supporting the US so he could enact a plan that would turn the nation into a carbon copy of Nazi Germany.
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Trivia[]
- Frederick Vought is based on Jonah Vogelbaum's comic counterpart as the creator of Compound V, his German nationality and his ties to the Nazi Party.
