"Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker" is a pretty hectic episode, in which many things happen and several people come to an unsavory end. Starlight is very nearly one of these people, as Black Noir ambushes her in Vought Tower and the two fight it out in the Seven's headquarters. As one might assume, Starlight's light powers are no match for Black Noir's unrelenting attack. After a beatdown for the ages, he soon has his hands on her throat, and is just about to finish his deadly job when Queen Maeve interrupts the scene — and handily dispatches the black-clad assassin by force-feeding him an Almond Joy.
It's extremely on-brand for The Boys to have one of its most fearsome supes unceremoniously fall victim to a severe tree-nut allergy. Still, perhaps the most shocking thing in the scene is the fact that Black Noir is partially unmasked, and it turns out that this version of the character is a Black man, played by Nathan Mitchell.
On its face, there's nothing strange about this. However, what it does mean is that his origin story is considerably different than it was in the comics — wherein he was eventually revealed to be a clone of Homelander.
