Shapeshifter Supe

Shapeshifter Supe was an unnamed Supe tasked with assassinating Robert Singer and a minor antagonist in the fourth season of the The Boys TV show. They are introduced as a woman in captivity who is freed by The Boys, however, they quickly escape and reveal themself to be a shapeshifter Supe. Later on, they shapeshift into Annie January to replace her and steal information from Hughie Campbell. 
==The Boys: Season 4==
=== "The Insider" ===
The Shapeshifter Supe meets with Sister Sage disguised as a "Shady Man" while secretly being photographed by A-Train. Sage criticizes the Shapeshifter and says he smells like alcohol. The Shapeshifter is defensive and claims he got to the meeting as fast as he could. Sage gives the Shapeshifter blue folders and orders him to do his job. A-Train suspects this Shady Man is going to assassinate President-elect Robert Singer so that Victoria Neuman can take control of the government. Butcher, Hughie, and Annie infiltrate the Shapeshifter's apartment and find Secret Service files detailing Singer's presidential rally. The trio hear a thud and find a woman inside a closet. The woman thanks them for rescuing her. Annie helps her up and comments that the woman's skin temperature is above normal. The woman then uses a hidden knife to slash Hughie's right hand before running off. The Boys give chase as the Shapeshifter bumps into an elderly woman. She touches the elderly woman's arm and steals a robe as she continues running. The Boys chase her down a flight of stairs while the Shapeshifter begins tearing off her skin to unveil her new disguise. The Shapeshifter finishes her disguise of the elderly woman and exits the building. The Boys follow but the Shapeshifter disappears into the crowd outside.
Following The Boys' fight with The Deep and Black Noir II, The Shapeshifter tracks them down to a bar. She disguises herself as "Karen" and gets a selfie with Annie. When Annie got up to go the restroom, the Shapeshifter ambushed her and incapacitated her with an anesthetic gas. She kidnapped Annie, took her to an abandoned building and shackled her to the floor. The Shapeshifter impersonates Annie and meets back up with The Boys. As Annie, the Shapeshifter hears The Boys' plans to use the virus on Neuman. The Shapeshifter later meets up with Hughie. Hughie reveals he talked with Victoria and failed to convince her to turn against Homelander. The Shapeshifter wears the Starlight costume except her boots and seduces Hughie. As Hughie sleeps and she gets out of bed naked, the Shapeshifter steals his laptop.
=== "Assassination Run" ===
Shapeshifter Supe will appear in this episode.
==Powers and Abilities==
===Powers===
*Shapeshifting: Shapeshifter possesses the ability to transform into anyone they make physical contact with. During transformation, the Shapeshifter sheds the skin of their previous disguise before assuming a new one.
**Memory Absorption: Instead of reading through memories, Shapeshifter appears to gain the memories of anyone who's form they take. They were able to learn of Hughie and Annie's "Step-by-step" conversation, as well as the password to their safe.
**Regenerative Healing Factor: Shapeshifters apparently recovers more quickly than humans, since they lose a lot of blood during the transformation, but without any negative effects.
*Superhuman Strength: Shapeshifter possesses superhuman strength, which makes them stronger than humans and some Supes. They are able to easily rip apart their own skin. They also were able to subdue Starlight while sedating her.
*Superhuman Durability: Shapeshifter possesses superhuman durability, which makes them more durable than humans and some Supes. They are completely bulletproof.
*Superhuman Hearing: Shapeshifter possesses superhuman hearing, allowing them to hear better than humans. Like all Supes, they can hear higher frequencies that humans cannot.Bob in First Day: "Did you know Supes have a wider range of hearing than us? Like dogs."
==Weaknesses==
===Biological===
*Skin-Shedding: Unlike some other shapeshifters encountered by The Boys, this Supe has to shed their skin in order to change their physical appearance, taking longer than is required by those who can morph their body shape and transform their physical features almost instantaneously without having to go through such a messy and drawn-out process.
*Physical Contact Requirement: They are required to make constant physical contact with the exact person their impersonating in order to maintain their physical form, otherwise it starts to deteriorate over time. This requires them to keep the person alive in order to use them for prepose of being to be able to remain in their physical form.
*High Frequencies: Due to being a Supe, the Shapeshifter is susceptible to high frequencies. When a high frequency is playing, it can induce immense pain and temporarily neutralize them.
==Relationships==
===Allies===
*Vought International
**Sister Sage - Contractor
===Enemies===
*The Boys
**Billy Butcher
**Annie January - Hostage and Killer
**Hughie Campbell - Rape Victim
**Mother's Milk
**Kimiko Miyashiro
**Frenchie
*Robert Singer - Target
===Victims===
*Four CIA Agents - (Intentional; eviscerated; self-defense)
==Trivia==
*Unlike Doppelganger, whose ability to mimic is limited to only physical and voice replicating, the unidentified Shapeshifter Supe is able to replicate the victim's memory, much like Marvel's Skrulls.
*This Supe is likely a parody of Marvel Comics, Husk, a mutant and a member of the X-men, who has the power to alter her body’s physical matter into anything she wants by shedding her skin, typically by ripping it off with her hands. The exact same way the Shapeshifting Supe’s power work when they change shape.
*The unidentified shapeshifter changes into another form in the same way shapeshifters from Eric Kripke's previous work, Supernatural do. Additionally, eye "flare" is also nod to the shapeshifters from the Supernatural.
==References==
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