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After five seasons and what can only be described as a morally questionable fun time, The Deep came to a not-so-climactic end in The Boys finale.<\/p>\n

Gossip Girl’s Chace Crawford has been in The Boys<\/a> since season one, and he’s been consistently awful from the get-go. He assaulted Starlight, did unspeakable things to marine creatures, and then committed a cardinal sin: Starting a podcast.<\/p>\n

As season five of The Boys kicked off, the resounding desire was for Starlight to kill The Deep<\/a>. It would have been satisfying, but that’s not what happened.<\/p>\n

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Credit: Amazon Studios<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How does The Deep die in The Boys?<\/h2>\n

In The Boys’<\/a> season five finale, the crew walks in on The Deep crying (again) about Homelander and just being an all-around loser. Starlight steps up to the plate, using her flight powers to fly the fishy hero out of the White House.<\/p>\n

Soon enough, they crash land on a beach and blows are exchanged. Starlight gets in a few good shots, but so does The Deep. Finally, Starlight blasts him into the ocean.<\/p>\n

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Credit: Amazon Studios<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now, here’s where things get particularly crazy. As you might remember, a shark bearing a striking vocal resemblance to Samuel L. Jackson<\/a> banned The Deep from the ocean after the oil spill killed millions of fish in Alaska.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, the ban was real, and sea creatures circle The Deep before an octopus kills him. But The Deep is mega durable? He tanks bullets? How did a fleshy ocotopus even kill him?<\/p>\n

\"Credit:
Credit: Amazon Studios<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the surface, The Deep’s death might seem like the most annoying plot hole, but there’s actually a logical explanation for how he died. You see, the octopus tentacle came out of his mouth. Do I really have to spell this out? Thanks to The Boys’ previous demonstrations of orifice-based killing, we know certain areas of the human body are more, let’s say, accessible.<\/p>\n

Simply put: The tentacle went in his behind and out of his mouth. There. Happy?<\/p>\n

Though the death is wholly poetic, given The Deep’s long history of molesting sea animals, I can’t help but feel that Starlight should have burned him to ash.<\/p>\n

Justice for Annie!<\/p>\n

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Featured image credit: Amazon Studios<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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