The Boys had a really great finale to end what I would otherwise consider to be a rather uneven season. Crazy plot twists and Homelander’s sprawling power grab made it a must-see episode and raised the stakes heading into season 5, its final season.

But the show also did something I very much hated, they killed off what I would consider the show’s second-best character. Spoilers follow.

That would be Claudia Doumit’s Victoria Neuman, a staple of the show who wildly surpassed her source material variant, one that had a big crossover part in Gen V and has been key to the storyline for years now.

Right when it seemed like she had reached the apex of her redemption arc, turning on Homelander and his plan to make her president (after he exposed her as a supe on live TV), the seemingly invincible head-exploder gets torn apart by Butcher, newly taken over by his Jeffrey Dean Morgan parasite that twists her in half with tentacles that erupt from his body.

Even in a show that often does shocking, brutal deaths, I did not like this one. It did not feel good. Doumit has been an incredible addition to the show, a more compelling character than I would argue all of The Boys at this point in the series and her arc has been fascinating to watch. I only call her the second-best character because well, I mean, how are you ever going to top Antony Starr’s Homelander?

Doumit seems to be taking it in stride, better even than her coworkers like Starlight’s Erin Moriarty. Here’s video of them chatting about her death. This is also how I learned she’s Australian.