‘The Boys’ Actor Shawn Ashmore Tells Us Who Would Win a

This week on “The Boys,” we lastly received to see the “hero” Lamplighter in motion, and together with all that violence there was little doubt additionally somewhat familiarity for lots of viewers. That’s as a result of he’s performed by Shawn Ashmore, greatest identified for starring as Bobby Drake — AKA Iceman — within the “X-Men” film franchise.

Lamplighter has the flexibility to govern hearth, which he makes use of within the newest episode the Amazon Prime Video collection to do plenty of uh, actually dangerous issues (together with, in flashback, to Colonel Mallory’s grandchildren). And after all, Iceman (as his superhero code title suggests) has the ability to govern ice. So they’ve precise reverse energy units, which brings us to probably the most urgent query: Which of Ashmore’s elemental-based super-beings would win in the event that they needed to combat it out?

For the reply, we turned to the professional himself:

“Look, honestly, I think that Iceman would win,” Ashmore instructed TheWrap. “I believe that he would. But I’ll say this, I believe Lamplighter would combat dirtier. So perhaps that offers Lamplighter the sting, I’m undecided. Just sheer talents and powers although, I believe that Iceman would win. But perhaps Lamplighter can be sneaky and maybe win.”

We’re inclined to aspect with Ashmore on this one. After all, so far as we all know, Lamplighter wants an open flame so as to use his powers, however Iceman can actually simply create stable ice from moisture within the air, flip his entire physique into ice, and even pull off some high-speed journey by creating what quantities to a frozen conveyor belt in entrance of him. Plus, in contrast to Lamplighter, Iceman is only a very nice man and we’d form of want he win, on precept.

Then once more, Ashmore is right that Lamplighter would most positively cheat. And as “The Boys” makes clear many times, that, plus being backed by a megacorp with countless funding and political connections, tends to work virtually each time.