24 Facts About Hughie Campbell

Hugh "Wee Hughie" Campbell is a fictional character and the protagonist of the comic book series The Boys and its spin-offs Herogasm and Highland Laddie, created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson and visually designed after Simon Pegg.

Hughie Campbell is a member of The Boys, a group of vigilantes led by Billy Butcher.

Hughie Campbell is portrayed by Jack Quaid in the television adaptation and resulting franchise, developed by Eric Kripke, with Simon Pegg portraying his father in the first, third and fourth seasons; while Pegg was originally attached to star in the series as Hughie Campbell, before development hell rendered him too old for the role, he would eventually voice the character in the animated anthology series The Boys Presents: Diabolical.

Hughie Campbell is able to reason out the murder of a young gay man by Swingwing, as well as the motive behind it; he is able to sort out the motivations of a Russian gangster enough to track her flight, even if he is too late to catch her; and he is able to piece together Butcher's ultimate plan where the rest of The Boys were unaware such a plan existed.

The other Supe is thrown at high speed into Robin, and both of them hit a nearby brick wall, instantly killing Robin and leaving Hughie Campbell holding her now severed hands and forearms.

Early on, Hughie Campbell's inexperience has resulted in him becoming hesitant in his actions.

Hughie Campbell would become gradually disgusted with Butcher's easy willingness to torture their enemies and the others' lack of caring about it.

The Highland Laddie miniseries had Hughie Campbell feeling discontent that, unlike Butcher, he isn't a hard man, but he seems incapable of being one.

Hughie Campbell makes Hughie listen to recorded conversations of them discussing Robin, hoping to convince him to murder A-Train.

Not wanting to spend the remainder of his life in prison, Billy tricks Hughie Campbell into believing he had murdered his parents, leading to Hughie Campbell beating him to death.

Six months later, Hughie Campbell arrives at the Brooklyn Bridge to leave his memorial to his fallen friends and to leave a final ultimatum for the Vought Guy and Vought-American going forward, inadvertently driving the Vought Guy insane.

Hughie Campbell is characterized as a fan of Billy Joel.

However, their relationship begins to be repaired after MM asserts that Hughie Campbell is Butcher's "canary", and after Hughie Campbell learns about the suicide of Butcher's brother Lenny, and his physical resemblance to him.

Hughie Campbell reaches a breaking point, but later learns to be more assertive and stands up to Butcher more.

In season three, Hughie Campbell finds out that Neuman is the head-popper when he witnesses her kill a childhood friend of hers from her days at Red River, a group home for orphaned Supes.

Hughie Campbell then joins Butcher in recruiting Soldier Boy to their cause after accidentally freeing him from Russian captivity.

Whilst on a mission to kill Soldier Boy's former Payback teammate Mindstorm, Hughie Campbell betrays Soldier Boy after he leaves a mesmerized Butcher for dead, and learning from The Legend that Soldier Boy's reputation as a war hero was just propaganda.

Mindstorm revives Butcher, who Hughie Campbell referred to as "family", though Soldier Boy beats him to death with his shield before Hughie Campbell can deliver on his promise to teleport him to safety.

Hughie Campbell learns about his father's stroke and reunites with his estranged mother.

Hughie Campbell secures Compound V from A-Train to help his dying father, however he and Kimiko face an ambush from the Shining Light but they survive and get away.

Hughie Campbell plays a critical role in this mission, navigating the dangers and complexities involved.

Hughie Campbell gets taken away but Annie uses her powers to fly off.

Hughie in the comics is a typical, average and regular male, possessing no superpowers or extraordinary abilities, until he is injected with a shot of Compound V The dosage applied to Wee Hughie is worth $19 billion, and gives him superhuman levels of strength and durability, the likes of which means he can casually injure and kill regular humans as well as some superhumans.

Hughie Campbell is intentionally drawn to resemble the British actor and writer Simon Pegg.