The Guy from Vought

The Guy from Vought is a fictional character in the comic book series The Boys and the resulting franchise who is an executive officer (and unofficial CEO) of the defense contractor/pharmaceutical company Vought-American Consolidated (V.A.C.). The company publicly owns superhero team the Seven, several smaller teams and their related franchises, and privately is responsible for the creation and distribution of the superpower-inducing drug Compound V. The overarching antagonist in the series, whom Homelander often unsuccessfully seeks to impress/cause to fear him, the Guy from Vought, is a sociopath and the practical embodiment of VA (his legal name, James Stillwell, only revealed at the conclusion of The Bloody Doors Off), working only in the corporate interest, including orchestrating/ordering: the near-coup of the Russian government, the massacre of the G-Men teams, Payback's ambush of the Boys, and the takeover of the White House via idiotic puppet ruler U.S. Vice President Vic the Veep. In the Amazon Prime Video streaming television adaptation, the Guy from Vought was adapted as two different characters: Madelyn Stillwell, portrayed by Elisabeth Shue, and Stan Edgar, portrayed by Giancarlo Esposito and Justiin Davis, and named for the Guy from Vought's boss in the comic book series, with the latter character adapting the vast majority of the Guy from Vought's role, and referred to in the second season as "The Man From Vought"; Shue and Esposito also play the characters in the spin-off series The Boys Presents: Diabolical and Gen V.