History Characters / TheBoys

[[folder:Robert "Dakota Bob" Schafer]]

* TheChick: She is the only female member and acted as a voice of reason when the blackmail came out.
** DarkChick: Despite this, she does nothing to discourage the team's bad behavior beforehand.

[[folder:Group in General]]

* {{Expy}}: He has a lot in common with ComicBook/ThePunisher, which isn't too suprising given that The Punisher is one of Creator/GarthEnnis' favorite comic characters. Billy Butcher and Frank Castle have similar back stories and motivations for their chosen targets because of their losses, with Butcher wanting to kill all supes after his wife was raped and impregnated with a child she didn't survive being pregnant with being parallel to Frank Castle waging war on crime after criminals killed his family. [[spoiler:It can also be considered a Deconstruction of the character as well considering how messed up in the head you'd have to be to do what they do.]]

-->'''Billy:''' What?

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Of ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} and ComicBook/SubMariner, if only in being the token sea-themed hero.

* ButtMonkey: He is largely regarded as a joke supe.

* FlatCharacter: Has the least screen time and characterization of all The Seven. Probably Ennis commenting on ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'s (lack of) relevance in the grand scheme of things.

* TokenGoodTeammate: He is a bit of a coward, but unlike many of the other Supes, he doesn't really do anything outright evil.

* PoisonousFriend: [[spoiler:When he begins to suspect Hughie of being a spy for The Seven after catching him with Annie outside the Flatiron, he immediately hatches a plan to keep Hughie [[LockedOutOfTheLoop out of the way]] by sending him to monitor Superduper after Malchemical joins their ranks.]]

* GagPenis: He has a gigantic penis, to the point that his dick almost reaches his knee when flaccid.

* TakeThat: While Garth Ennis isn't too fond of superheroes in general, he has gone on record as Green Lantern being one particular superhero he especially doesn't care for, and it shows with Lamplighter being the one member of the Seven aside from The Deep and Mister Marathon with the least amount of focus, getting killed prior to the events of the comic and being revived as a zombie prone to soiling himself.

[[folder: James Stillwell]]

* AngryBlackMan: Has strong elements of this, handed down from his father, who died trying to expose Vought-American's diabolical practices. His father's crusade is the main reason he joined the Boys.

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: He's racist. Unfortunately, he has [[AngryBlackMan Shout Out]] as a teammate.

* BatmanParody: His status as the member of the Seven who's a dark, brooding vigilante clad in a black costume makes him an overt pastiche of the Caped Crusader. At one point, Vought executives are even trying to get him to fly a plane like the Batwing to satisfy the merchandising. In addition, ''Herogasm'' reveals that one of the villains he fights is named Sexface, a riff on how many of Batman's enemies have a MeaningfulName (e.g., Clayface, Two-Face, the Ventriloquist's dummy Scarface).

** After a short while, she is forced to exchange it for something more [[MsFanservice "camera-friendly"]] and starts wearing a variant of her outfit that turns the dress into a {{Stripperific}} LeotardOfPower with AbsoluteCleavage, gloves and boots.

* BatmanParody: His status as the member of the Seven who's a dark, brooding vigilante clad in a black costume makes him an overt pastiche of the Caped Crusader. At one point, Vought executives are even trying to get him to fly a plane like the Batwing to satisfy the merchandising. In addition, ''Herogasm'' reveals that one of the villains he fights is named Sexface, a riff on how many of Batman's enemies have a NameFaceName (e.g., Clayface, Two-Face, the Ventriloquist's dummy Scarface).

* {{Expy}}: He has a lot in common with The Punisher, which isn't too suprising given that The Punisher is one of Garth Ennis' favorite comic characters. Billy Butcher and Frank Castle have similar back stories and motivations for their chosen targets because of their losses, with Butcher wanting to kill all supes after his wife was raped and impregnated with a child she didn't survive being pregnant with being parallel to Frank Castle waging war on crime after criminals killed his family. [[spoiler:It can also be considered a Deconstruction of the character as well considering how messed up in the head you'd have to be to do what they do.]]

* PyrrhicVillainy: [[spoiler:Stillwell and (more or less) his corporation survive the proceedings relatively unscathed, but the uselessness of the superhero process is implied to have broken him.]]

* HateSink: Even though it turns out he didn’t [[spoiler:rape Butcher’s wife or do any of the horrid things Black Noir framed him for]] he’s still an abusive racist, sexist, hypocritical, narcissistic, sociopathic self involved, controlling bully with no likable or redeemable qualities whatsoever. He’s the representative of everything wrong with Supes throughout the comic’s run, kicking the dog when ever possible and when he thinks he did those things he doesn’t remember, it causes him to double down rather than have a HeelRealization.

Another hero team composed of less powerful heroes officially led by the "war hero" Soldier Boy, but unofficially led former-Nazi supervillain Stormfront.

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Mostly of Franchise/{{Batman}} (non-powered, having a secret lair beneath his mansion, a butler and a Robin-like sidekick) with some ComicBook/IronMan (wears PoweredArmor) thrown in.

* ConflictKiller: The revelation that he is [[spoiler:the true murderer of Billy Butcher's wife]] unites [[spoiler:Butcher and the Homelander]] against him, although the former hauls butt out rather than trying to intervene when he and the latter start going at it.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Vought thought that Homelander was too powerful so they created a contingency, but they didn’t consider that creating an even more powerful clone as said contingency might be a stupid way to go. Predictably it made things MUCH MUCH worse.

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Of ''Comicbook/TeenTitans'' (member Regina Dentata in particular is a clear stand-in for Starfire). They seem to be mostly based on the 80s version, though they've gone to seed since then.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:Facing the impeding war with The Boys courtesy of the Homelander]] he left the The Seven's HQ, saying "I am gonna check into the Mandarin, chill for a couple weeks."

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:Facing the impeding war with The Boys courtesy of the Homelander he left the The Seven's HQ, advising A-Train to take his copy of the Seven's merchandising contract and lay low.]]

** After the G-Men discover that Hughie is a mole, practically all their members gear up to kill the Boys. Hughie, Frenchie, Mother's Milk, and the Female all march to what might be their deaths, with Butcher the last to join them. Billy shakes his head and smiles, saying there are worst ways to go out.
** In Issue #71, [[spoiler: after his plan to commit genocide fails, Billy goads Hughie into killing him by believing he killed his family. Butcher smiles and thanks Hughie before he dies.]]

* PhonyVeteran: Soldier Boy's story that Vought spun out for the public is that he's an immortal soldier that fought in World War 2, with the title becoming a secret mantle passed on from one person to another. It isn't true in the slightest, and he's likely a regular person with basic training added with a Compound V boost to assist Soldier Boy in fights. Butcher, even though he's a terrible person, is disgusted by S.B as he's an insult to the actual men who did serve and died in World War 2.

* ItsPersonal: Wants to bring down Vought-American as revenge for his son, who was killed in the Vietnam War because the M-20 assault rifle his unit was issued, provided by Vought-American, was a total piece of junk they spared every expense in making.