History Characters / TheBoys

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Of ComicBook/WallyWest's version of Franchise/TheFlash, given his status as the second speedster on the Seven and previously being part of what is ostensibly an adolescent superhero team.

* BadassNormal: He has no actual powers and wears hi-tech armor to fight. Not badass enough to beat the Female, though.

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Of [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Hal Jordan]], particularly in that he wears a domino mask and his power comes from an object that produces light.

* OneWordVocabulary: "Gonna! ''Gonna...'' GONNA!"

* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Possibly subverted, seeing how he is covered in scars.

* BadassNormal: He has no actual powers and wears hi-tech armor to fight. Not badass enough to beat the Female, though.

[[folder: In General]]

* CameBackWrong: Returned as a braindead zombie prone to constantly soiling himself. Currently locked up somewhere in The Seven's HQ, where the other supers take turns cleaning his mess while he repeatedly tries to light his lamp using his own feces.

* {{Fetish}}: [[spoiler:He has a thing for receiving anal sex from pre-op transgender prostitutes.]]

* OedipusComplex: He relies on his mother's breast milk to survive. It seems that this resulted in him developing an obsession with lactation sex as he sucks the nipple of a hooker he sleeps with for some time. His childhood photos also show him staring eagerly at his mom's breasts.

* BoobsOfSteel: Though a panel in X-ray vision (in Issue 60) shows that they're implants.

* AnythingThatMoves: Thanks to a tumor "the size of a fist" in his brain, he feels the urge to have sex with the closest thing to him. All it takes is him briefly thinking about it and he loses all restraint, with the exception of fighting the urge to rape Laddio. Even things that don't move, such as a cup of coffee, and in his final moments, [[spoiler: he thinks he is fucking a giant asteroid before it can destroy the Earth.]]

* CoolSword: [[spoiler:Subverted. It's a prop, and does absolutely nothing when she tries to slice into Homelander's head with it.]]

* ShipperOnDeck: [[spoiler:Subverted. When he first sees Hughie with a woman, he's rather ecstatic and quietly cheers him on...then he sees that the woman is Starlight, he gets a ''very'' conflicted look on his face.]]

* SuperSpeed: His main power. His lack of control over it leads to tragic results on Hughie's part.

* LetsGetDangerous: Threatens Starlight when she refuses to accept her new makeover and origin.

* WorfHadTheFlu: [[spoiler:After his victory over Homelander, he has lost a chunk of his body and his sanity. As a result, Butcher and the military ca nnow beat him.]]

* PowerfulButIncompetent: Played with, as he is the most powerful supe on the planet and seemingly too stupid to be taught how to fly a plane but [[spoiler:reveals himself at the end to be the most cunning member of the Seven with his scheme that manipulated both Butcher and the Homelander]].

* 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 codename ending with "face" (e.g., Clayface, Two-Face, the Ventriloquist's dummy Scarface). [[spoiler:Even though he's later revealed to be an {{Expy}} of Bizarro due to his status as Homelander's clone, he still fits within this trope due to him being a contingency to Homelander if he ever went rogue, tendency to be BeneathNotice, and is smart enough to implement a long-term BatmanGambit to gaslight Homelander into becoming a threat.]]

* DumbMuscle: He's not stereotypically stupid, seeming average in most respects, but he's impulsive and short-tempered, and has little going for him as a villain other than pure strength. Stilwell [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech notes this]] in his last encounter with Homelander, asking him if he has done a ''single'' thing with his massive power that any idiot couldn't have in the same circumstances. Homelander just starts cursing at him.

* 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 codename ending with "face" (e.g., Clayface, Two-Face, the Ventriloquist's dummy Scarface).

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Noir means 'Black' in French. In other words, his name is essentially "Black Black".

** DarkChick: Despite this, she does nothing to discourage the team's bad behavior beforehand.

* PapaWolf: Averted. He doesn't get the chance to go OverprotectiveDad on [[spoiler:the people who put his daughter in a porn film]], Billy got there first.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: He was "in the act" during his introduction.
* {{Fetish}}: He seems to have a thing for female paraplegics, which leads to the events described above.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Masturbates with [[BiggerIsBetterInBed a vibrator that almost looks as big as her]] almost whenever she has a free moment.

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Intentionally designed to resemble Creator/SimonPegg.

* PowerArmor: Unlike most other supes, he's never been boosted by Compound V, so he has to rely on hi-tech armor.

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