History Characters / TheBoys2019TheSeven

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Queen Maeve, she is another sultry redhead joining the Seven.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: To a degree. [[spoiler:His killing of Malory's grandchildren was accidental, and is something he's deeply ashamed about to the degree of offering himself up to Mallory. In the comics, Lamplighter has absolutely zero remorse for what he did]]

* DidntThinkThisThrough: When they get to the Seven tower he quips that his biometric scan will either work or he and Hughie will be immediately swarmed by Security when he tries.

* {{Expy}}: Of [[Franchise/GreenLantern Green Lantern]], possessing a similarly themed name, association with a lamp, and a green color motif. Though powers wise they are very different, with Lamplighter having PlayingWithFire powers while Green Lantern generates HardLight constructs.

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the TeamNormal as demonstrated by Batman and ComicBook/BlackPanther. He's the most "normal" of the group in that he chooses to fight with [[FightsLikeANormal bare fists and weapons]] and is responsible enough to not display any vices. It ends up making him ''more'' alien as opposed to humanizing him, due to his enigmatic and robotic nature and knowing that he's still capable enough to keep up with the rest of The Seven.

[[Characters/TheBoys2019TheBoys The Boys]] ([[Characters/TheBoys2019BillyButcher Billy Butcher]], [[Characters/TheBoys2019AssociatesOfTheBoys Associates of the Boys]]) | [[Characters/TheBoys2019Supes Supes]] ('''The Seven''', [[[Characters/TheBoys2019Homelander Homelander]], [[Characters/TheBoys2019Starlight Starlight]], [[Characters/TheBoys2019BlackNoir Black Noir]], [[Characters/TheBoys2019ATrain A-Train]], [[Characters/TheBoys2019TheDeep The Deep]], [[Characters/TheBoys2019Stormfront Stormfront]]], [[Characters/TheBoys2019SoldierBoy Soldier Boy]]) | [[Characters/TheBoys2019VoughtInternational Vought International]] | [[Characters/TheBoys2019GodolkinUniversity Godolkin University]] | [[Characters/TheBoys2019Other Others]]-]]]]]

See The Deep's character page ''[[Characters/TheBoys2019TheDeep here]]''.
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[[folder:Black Noir]]
See Black Noir's character page ''[[Characters/TheBoys2019BlackNoir here]]''.
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[[folder:Translucent]]
!!Translucent
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Alex Hassell

->''"My superpower ain't invisibility - it's reading people. Watching them when they think they're alone. I see people for who they really are."''

The Seven's invulnerable and quasi-invisible member.

* AchillesHeel: Translucent's power isn't actually to go invisible but turning his skin to various carbon-based compounds, including a metamaterial and diamond-like substance. Unfortunately, this makes him vulnerable to electricity. [[spoiler:Likewise he's only invulnerable from the outside. Not the inside.]]
* ActionDad: The second season reveals that he has a son named Maverick.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Looks like a normal guy unlike his comic counterpart Jack from Jupiter, who is a hairless, orange-skinned, noseless supposed "alien" wearing a pair of briefs and a cape.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Slightly. While he's undoubtedly a creepy pervert like his comic counterpart, he never displays Jack from Jupiter's racist tendencies.
* AdaptationalSeriousness: In the comics, Jack from Jupiter is mostly just a joke character who pretends to be an alien. Translucent however, is a legitimate threat and looks like a regular human to better fit with the more grounded tone of the show.
* AdaptationalSexuality: In the comics, Jack from Jupiter's favorite pastime is having group sex with pre-op transgender prostitutes. Translucent is married with a wife and a son and despite being a massive creep, doesn't show any significant interest in pre-op transgender people or in having weird sex parties.
* AlasPoorVillain: Hughie has this reaction after Starlight tells him that he was one of the less dickish members of the Seven, and had a son he often saw.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Even if he can turn his skin into carbon-based materials, that just means he's resistant against piercing weapons–it should ''not'' protect him from blunt-force trauma. Getting hit by Billy's car should've given him an extreme concussion at best.
* AssShove: [[spoiler:Frenchie shocks him into unconsciousness and then shoves a lump of Semtex into his anal cavity, reasoning his outsides are invulnerable but his insides aren't.]]
* BreakThemByTalking: Tries this with Hughie. [[spoiler:It backfires, literally.]]
* CanonForeigner: He's a completely new character for the prime series.
* ContrastingReplacementCharacter: He's an original character to the show, replacing the comic's Jack From Jupiter. However, while Jack is alien-looking, basically ignored by the media and generally just considered pathetic, Translucent actually seems somewhat respected.
* DirtyCoward: He talks a big game, but when the Boys find out his weakness, he's quick to sob, grovel, and sell out anyone if it means saving his own skin.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: In spite of being a jackass, he is said to have loved his son Maverick dearly. [[spoiler:Maverick clearly reciprocated those feelings, seeing as he was in the front row at his funeral.]]
* ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy: Did this unknowingly with his interview on Jimmy Fallon. Hughie catches that his skin turns into a carbon meta-material, giving him the idea to shock him due to carbon's highly conductive nature.
* {{Expy}}: Of Jack From Jupiter. Being a member of The Seven, has similar NighInvulnerable powers, and have their own, humorous moments relating to an AssShove.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: [[spoiler: No one ever never mentions him again throughout the series after his funeral in Season 2, not even his fellow members of The Seven.]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: He is described as a loner by Starlight, and isn't cared much about by his teammates. When he is missing only Homelander is concerned, and only because he views an attack on the Seven as an attack on him. A deleted scene shows Maeve and Homelander looking at his corpse and Homelander saying he prefers him this way.
* FullFrontalAssault: He can only turn his own body invisible, not his clothes. Anytime he is involved in heroics (or other violence), [[InvisibleStreaker he has to be naked]].
* HoistHeroOverHead: Does this to Hughie.
* HiddenDepths:
** Despite being a Grade A InvisibleJerkass, Translucent is shown to be really good with finances, keeping track of how much the Seven has made over the year, and how much people have made from pirating off from their merchandise.
** Hughie finds out that [[spoiler:Translucent is a dad, and not a bad one since he spends almost all his spare time with his son. He only learns this after he's dead]].
** He correctly predicts that the aloof and narcissistic Homelander will be personally concerned enough to come to save him after only a day, which potentially implies an understanding and appreciation between the two that Homelander doesn't seem to have with any of the other heroes except Queen Maeve and (to a lesser extent) Black Noir. It might have been interesting to see what sort of dynamic the two of them had, one-on-one.
* InformedAttribute: In-universe, he claims to be extremely skilled at reading people, making him good at gathering information along with his invisibility. In reality, he's so bad at reading people that it gets himself killed.
* InformedJudaism: According to a bar mitzvah photo featured at his [[spoiler:memorial]]. He wore a yarmulke.
* InvisibleJerkass: Translucent nearly kills Hughie when he won't tell him why he placed a bug in The Seven's boardroom before Billy intervenes.
* InvisibleStreaker: His clothes are unaffected by his powers, so he has to be completely naked to be undetectable.
* LikeCannotCutLike: The Boys think that it TakesOneToKillOne but when Butcher shoots him with a bullet made by Frenchie out of the same material as Translucent's hardened skin, it just bounces off instead of piercing through.
* LogicalWeakness:
** In order to become invisible and more durable, his skin forms into different carbon compounds to bend the light and protect him. [[spoiler:Carbon being conductive gives him a vulnerability to electricity, which Hughie takes advantage of.]]
** While his skin is unbreakable, [[spoiler:it comes with several openings in the form of orifices, such as the rectum.]]
* LudicrousGibs: [[spoiler:The bomb in his ass pretty much turns him into paint when Hughie detonates it.]]
* MaleFrontalNudity: We get to see everything when he turns visible inside the women's bathroom.
* ManipulativeBastard: He took his shot at this, but failed so miserably [[spoiler:it turned him into LudicrousGibs]].
* MythologyGag: His comic counterpart, Jack from Jupiter, can make himself invulnerable but the process makes him feel like being hit by 'ten thousand volts up his ass'. In the series, Translucent is naturally invulnerable, but is defeated by electrocuting him in the ass.
* NighInvulnerable: When invisible, he is borderline NighInvulnerable to blunt force damage and can shrug off damage that would be many times lethal to a normal human. He can laugh off Frenchie's specially modified .50 caliber sniper rounds fired from Butcher's gun at point-blank range. For comparison, one of the above two was enough to harm Starlight. He also shrugged off getting hit by a car hard enough to be sent flying and crater a wall.
* NonindicativeName: As Butcher points out, if he really were "translucent" then he would actually still be visible.
-->'''Butcher:''' "Translucent" doesn't even mean "invisible." It means "semi-transparent."
** In a more metaphorical way, [[IronicName his constant attempts to learn others' secrets and emotionally manipulate them]], which is only see-through in the sense that he's ''bad'' at it.
* ThePeepingTom: He uses his power to creep on women.
* PowerPerversionPotential: He hangs around the women's bathroom in The Seven's HQ.
* ReadingLips: He can and does do this.
* SherlockScan: He claims that this is his ''real'' ability -- he's extremely skilled at reading people and learning what makes them tick. [[spoiler:It doesn't work on Hughie, who promptly kills him.]]
* SmugSnake: He thinks that he's some sort of master manipulator, who has the ability to read people like books and easily manipulate them without effort. Believing that he knows exactly how people will act and rationalize themselves so that he can persuade them into doing whatever he wants. [[spoiler:When in reality he is a deluded pervert who has no real clue about what people are like, as he has no empathy for them and no ability to talk them into anything. This is emphasized greatly when Hughie kills him out of sheer rage for trying to convince him to let Translucent go.]]
* StarterVillain: The end of the first episode and much of the second revolve around Hughie and Butcher, shortly after their first meeting, running afoul of him, capturing and attempting to figure out a way to put him down as he tries to escape.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: To a degree. While he dies after [[spoiler:Hughie detonates the bomb in his ass]], it's ''nothing'' compared to in the comic book, where his counterpart Jack from Jupiter is blamed for the death of Butcher's dog Terror, and ends up [[spoiler:having his throat crushed while being repeatedly stabbed and slowly disemboweled by a grief-stricken Butcher. A process that a sadistic Butcher drags out for so long that Jack passes out from the pain, only to later wake up to him still being gutted.]]
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Jack From Jupiter in the comic book, whose spot on the team is directly replaced by Translucent on the show. They are both massive perverts who both have temporary invulnerability as their main power.
* SuperToughness: His skin is as hard as diamonds (when invisible), making him ImmuneToBullets among other things. He also withstands an amount of electricity that would kill or severely harm a normal person while invisible, as well.
* TooDumbToLive: You'd have to be a certain type of arrogant idiot to brag about what your superpower is and how it works, making it possible to exploit its logical weaknesses, which is made even worse by the fact Translucent does this in-front of people who have the fullest intention to kill him. [[spoiler:Also; thinking you can manipulate an emotionally unstable man, who just developed a strong hatred of you personally and Supes in general, and is possession of a trigger for a bomb inside your anus, is probably the surest way you can end up as a visceral modern art piece across the wall.]]
* VillainHasAPoint: Even though he fatally underestimated Hughie, Translucent was pretty accurate when he said that Hughie wasn't thinking straight and not 100% with The Boys. The problem was that he didn't expect Hughie to see through his feigned compassion and actually kill him.
* VillainsWantMercy: He offers to tell the Boys any of Vought's secrets he's learned over the years in exchange for his life.

[[folder:Lamplighter]]
!!Lamplighter
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/ShawnAshmore

->''"So why didn't you stop me? Maybe you like watching people burn, too."''

A former member of the Seven now retired.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Much more willing to [[spoiler:work with The Boys than his comic counterpart.]]
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: To a degree. [[spoiler:His killing of Malory's grandchildren was accidental, and is something he's deeply ashamed about to the degree of offering himself up to Mallory. In the comics, Lamplighter has absolutely zero remorse for what he did]]
* AdaptationalSympathy: He's beyond horrified at the realization that it was [[spoiler:Mallory's grandchildren, not Mallory that he ended up burning alive. He's so broken by this that when confronted by Mallory, who in the comics brutally kills him, she actually feels some level of sympathy for the bastard.]]
* AdaptationDyeJob:
** Is blond in the comics, while brunet in the prime series.
** His superhero costume is dark green with yellow highlights here compare to the bright blue and yellow in the comics.
* ArchEnemy: Is this to Frenchie, since he was unable to stop him from burning Mallory's grandchildren. While Mallory believed that she could move on from the past, Frenchie swore revenge.
* AssassinationAttempt: Was actually trying to do this to [[spoiler:Mallory. Failed, but still got The Boys off of The Seven's trail years ago.]]
* TheAtoner: Somewhat, as he [[spoiler:follows The Boys after the events at Sage Grove and willingly holds himself at their mercy after they discuss their past encounter from years ago. He voices regret in what he did that night and personally kept the existence of The Boys from Vought.]]
* AwesomeButImpractical: Lamplighter's [[PlayingWithFire ability]], though powerful, has very limited utility outside KillItWithFire. For one, he's not shown to have the SuperToughness or SuperStrength of almost every single other supe. For another, while he can control the strength of his blasts, he can't put out his fires once they start. [[spoiler:His death even reveals that (barring his hands) ''he doesn't have resistance to his own flames''.]]
* BadassLongcoat: Wears one as part of his costume. [[ImpossiblyTackyClothes The Boys think]] [[NotSoBadassLongcoat otherwise]].
* CastingGag: Isn't it ironic that the pyrokinetic (false) superhero is played by the same actor who portrayed the [[ComicBook/{{Iceman|MarvelComics}} mutant who can manipulate ice]]? Counts double giving that Iceman battled against another villainous pyrokinesist in [[Film/XMenFilmSeries this saga]]. Even better, Lamplighter use a lighter for his power like Pyro does in ''Film/X2XMenUnited''.
* CoatHatMask: Coat, hood, and goggles, worn during his days before retirement.
* CollateralDamage: When his powers manifested, the first fire that he lit burned his entire house down. His father didn't care - he was just happy to see his son be a Supe.
* CompositeCharacter: Being the only member of The Seven whose superhero costume is seen as tacky brings mind of The Deep's costume from the comics.
* CruelMercy: [[spoiler:Living with the haunting memory of burning Mallory's grandchildren alive, Frenchie and Mallory leave him alive to live with his guilt, along with being able to use him in their plans.]]
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:He is tortured by the memory of mistakenly killing innocent children and is willing to let Mallory take revenge if The Boys allow it. Furthermore, he wants to end his life for being unable to make his father proud as a Supe.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: When they get to the Seven tower he quips that his biometric scan will either work or he and Hughie will be immediately swarmed by Security when he tries.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: [[spoiler:He burns himself alive in the conference room. In the comics, he was killed by Mallory as revenge for killing his grandchildren, only to be partially reanimated by the Compound V in his system.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Immolates himself in the Seven conference room. He intended to do it in front of his statue, but finds they've already replaced it with Starlight's.]]
* EthicalSlut: [[spoiler:He's hedonistic, as shown by his lighter reading "Titty Committee", his sexual history, and the fact that he spends his final day by forcing Hughie to watch porn parodies with him. He deeply regrets killing Mallory's grandchildren and he helps The Boys in their mission against Vought.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:He is willing to burn Sage Grove's subjects alive and was intending on killing Mallory in the past, but he draws the line at harming minors. He hesitates killing a patient who is only a teenager, and he honestly regrets the burning of Mallory's grandkids.]]
* {{Expy}}: Of [[Franchise/GreenLantern Green Lantern]], possessing a similarly themed name, association with a lamp, and a green color motif. Though powers wise they are very different, with Lamplighter having PlayingWithFire powers while Green Lantern generates HardLight constructs.
* FieryCoverup: [[spoiler:Is assigned to do this to Sage test subjects.]]
* HazyFeelTurn: [[spoiler:He heavily regrets killing Mallory's grandchildren and isn't pleased with his position in the Sage Grove facility. He eventually comes with the Boys to go along with their plans, even protecting them from Stormfront when she returns to the place. While willing to cooperate, he's also suicidal and needs to be kept from bailing on his planned testimony, and he doesn't regret his hedonism as a career SmugSuper.]]
* TheHedonist: He spends the day smoking and watching porn parodies with a reluctant and disgusted Hughie.
* HookersAndBlow: Two of his vices are smoking and having sex. Since he knows he's going to die once he testifies at the hearing, he decides to spend his remaining time watching porn parodies of The Seven and smoking.
* ICouldaBeenAContender: He laments having been retired by Vought, growing up as a child prodigy, and seeing how proud his father was when his powers manifested.
* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: The Boys laugh at his superhero outfit, thinking that it makes him look like a baton-twirling majorette.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: A lamp on the end of a staff. Granted, it was just for channeling his powers and not hitting people as far as we know. After leaving the Seven, he switches to using a small lighter for the same purpose.
* InTheHood: Wears a hood under a leather coat as his supe ensemble.
* JerkassFacade: [[spoiler:Taunts Frenchie over being unable to stop him from burning Mallory's grandchildren, claiming that he may also be as much of a pyromaniac as he is. He then drops it when admitting that he didn't mean to kill them.]]
* KillItWithFire: His go-to method of dealing with situations. [[spoiler:First it's an attempt to take Mallory out, then it's for getting rid of Sage Grove's patients when they are no longer of use to Vought. Finally, it's on ''[[DrivenToSuicide himself]]''.]]
* MovieSuperheroesWearBlack: He wears a darker, robe-like costume completed with a hood in the prime series, completed with a staff lamp. However, his costume gets made fun of by The Boys and Mallory for its tackiness.
* MurderByMistake: [[spoiler:The reason why he torched Mallory's grandchildren is because he intended to kill Mallory that night, aiming for her bed.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:His accidental killing of Mallory's grandchildren. While initially it's assumed that he killed them intentionally, it turns out that it was a tragic mistake that broke him mentally.]]
* NotWorthKilling: Though he managed to get The Boys to stop their investigation into Vought and The Seven, nothing ever came of The Seven knowing their existence. [[spoiler:When they meet him again, he makes this the reason as to why The Seven never retaliated. [[SubvertedTrope The truth is]] that he never told anyone.]]
* PlayingWithFire: He has the power of pyrokinesis, channeled through his staff (and later a lighter) that enabled him to throw fireballs alongside other uses of fire.
* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: [[spoiler:Offers this to Mallory when they cross paths again.]]
* PowerIncontinence: He recalls how his powers first manifested, when he burned his entire house down discovering them.
* {{Pyromaniac}}: [[spoiler:When Frenchie asks why he torched Mallory's grandchildren that night,]] he responds by saying that he "like[s] watching people burn." [[spoiler:[[JerkassFacade This is an act]], and he drops it when prompted further.]]
* ReassignedToAntarctica: Was moved from a frontlining celebrity Supe to [[spoiler:burning Vought's Compound V test subjects. He's not exactly happy with his job, and they're still keeping him in the dark about more of what they're planning.]]
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Averted. He is ''not'' immune to fire, [[spoiler:which allows him to easily [[DrivenToSuicide burn himself to death]]]].
* RetiredMonster: He's mentioned to have retired shortly before the start of the series and he murdered Grace Mallory's grandchildren. [[spoiler:As it turns out, killing Mallory's grandchildren was MurderByMistake on his part and he's truly haunted by it. That being said, he still doesn't regret his hedonism during his Supe career]].
* RuleThirtyFourCreatorReactions: InUniverse, before testifying against Vought he chooses to watch porn parodies of The Seven and forces Hughie to watch them with him. Unlike Lamplighter, Hughie and Starlight's mom are both uncomfortable and disturbed by them since they include Starlight as well.
* SelfImmolation: [[spoiler:How he disposes of himself]].
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Of course, [[spoiler:he still dies, however it's at a much later date, and by his own hand when he sets himself on fire. In the comics, Lamplighter is beaten and tortured to near-death by the Boys, before getting shot in the head by Mallory. He is then brought back to life by Vought as an emaciated, braindead zombie chained up in a Vought facility basement completely caked in his own excrement.]]
* WellDoneSonGuy: Ever since his powers manifested, he wanted to make his father proud with a Supe career. [[spoiler:His last words before he dies are regret in not being able to do so.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: He murdered Mallory's grandchildren when she and Billy got too close to Vought's secrets. [[spoiler: He wouldn't have done it if he knew that they were there.]]
* WouldNotHurtAChild: [[spoiler:When discussing killing a teenage test subject at Sage Grove with Stormfront, he clearly expresses his hesitation over the phone. This also foreshadows his real feelings about burning Mallory's grandchildren.]]
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[[folder:Mr. Marathon]]
!!Mr. Marathon
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[[caption-width-right:212:Mr. Marathon as he appears on a poster for ''Dawn of the Seven'']]

A former member of the Seven and their first speedster.

* AlliterativeName: '''M'''ister '''M'''arathon.
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: The image that we briefly see of his design gives him a costume with the letter "M" at the center of it.
* {{Expy}}: To ''ComicBook/TheFlash'', even having a costume with a cowl unlike the other speedsters.
* TheGhost: There's a [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gdyckbt1.png glimpse]] of him in a ''[[ShowWithinAShow Dawn of the Seven]]'' storyboard and the movie's poster, as well as mentions from Ashley and Lamplighter, but he doesn't appear in-person.
* LegacyCharacter: Not his name, but his role as a [[SuperSpeed speedster]] on The Seven. A-Train and Shockwave eventually took his place.
* NonIndicativeName: A marathon, while a race, is more a test of endurance than speed.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Possibly. He's killed on 9/11 in the comic in the incident that serves as the basis of the Flight 37 incident. The show seems to hint he simply got slow and was replaced, probably by A-Train. ''[[ShowWithinAShow Seven on 7 with Cameron Coleman]]'' later reveals he is alive and apparently still active is some form, having had a race against A-Train that was canceled.
* SuperSpeed: His name and A-Train and Shockwave replacing him describe him as this.

!Later Members
[[folder:A-Train]]
See A-Train's character page ''[[Characters/TheBoys2019ATrain here]]''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Starlight]]
See Starlight's character page ''[[Characters/TheBoys2019Starlight here]]''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Stormfront]]
See Stormfront's character page ''[[Characters/TheBoys2019Stormfront here]]''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Shockwave]]
!!Shockwave
->'''Portrayed by:''' Mishka Thébaud
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Another Supe with the power of super-speed.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Rivals A-Train in speed, and while he loses their public match, it's only because A-Train was [[FantasticDrug abusing Compound V to enhance his powers]]. Brief glimpses of his exploits in Season 2 show him improving his speed, and [[spoiler:he eventually takes a spot on The Seven]].
* AmbiguousInnocence: Shockwave comes across as one of the more stable and sincere Supes, but whether or not this is an accurate reflection of his character or simply reflecting the fact that WeHardlyKnewYe is unclear.
* CoolShades: Like A-Train's.
* {{Expy}}: Of ''ComicBook/TheFlash''. A speedster with a lightning-themed costume. His status as a SuperiorSuccessor to A-Train specifically makes him possibly this to Wally West, the third and most powerful incarnation of the Flash.
* FlatCharacter: There's no information on this guy that isn't tied into his rivalry with A-Train.
* TheGenericGuy: He's a speedster. That's all there is to him. He may be one of the top speedsters in the world, but having super speed isn't exactly a rare ability for Supes.
* {{Irony}}: Shockwave, with his great speed, is initially ''not'' fast enough to produce a proper shock wave[[labelnote:Definition]]A disturbance from when something moves faster than the local speed of sound.[[/labelnote]]. His speed as seen in "Get Some" was 342 m/s, just one short of being as fast as the speed of sound in dry air at 343 m/s.
* OrangeBlueContrast: He wears an orange costume against A-Train's blue one. It's especially clear in their race in "Get Some".
* TheRival: To A-Train, though how much of this is just for publicity is unclear. He ''does'' give a smug smirk when [[spoiler:he replaces A-Train on the Seven]].
* SuperSpeed: Similar to A-Train.
* YourHeadAsplode: [[spoiler:Along with Vogelbaum and numerous others, at the Congressional hearing on Compound-V, by Victoria Neuman.]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:As mentioned above, his tenure in the Seven is cut short too soon.]]

[[folder:Supersonic]]
!!Supersonic / Drummer Boy / Alex
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/MilesGastonVillanueva, Creator/LucaOriel (Drummer Boy)

Formerly the Young Americans member Drummer Boy and Annie's ex-boyfriend.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Supersonic is a very attractive man, unlike his comics counterpart Drummer Boy, who is a skinny blonde kid in a domino mask and a garish costume, wielding an actual drum.
* AdaptationalBadass: He actually helps Hughie and Annie, unlike his comic counterpart, who appeared exactly once, being caught cheating on Starlight with a nun-themed Supe.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the comics. Alex's only appearance was as Drummer Boy. And his only notable appearance is when he is caught cheating on Annie with another member of the Young Americans. Here, he is supportive of Annie even at the risk of his own safety.
* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul:
** In the comics, Drummer Boy and Starlight are actually still together at the start (or at least, that's what Starlight thinks), only to permanently split on bad terms after Starlight catches him having sex with a fellow member of the Young Americans. In the show, Supersonic and Annie broke up long ago, and they're on genuinely friendly terms.
** In the comics, he never interacts with Homelander or Hughie.
* AdaptationNameChange: An in-universe rename, as he appears in season 3 having been rebranded as Supersonic.
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* AmicableExes: Him and Annie used to date, but they're still on pretty good terms. So much so he's willing to be part of the Seven even after Annie tells him what they're really like, solely so Annie will have at least one friendly face to look to.
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:His corpse is missing an arm, and his right leg has been torn off his body with the other visibly damaged.]]
* AscendedExtra: He's seldom seen in the comic, with his biggest appearance being a brief scene where Annie walks in on him cheating on her.
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: The state of his body after Homelander kills him is ''beyond'' horrific. His left arm and right leg seem to have been ripped off, he's got severe burns from Homelander's heat vision and his face has been ''caved in'', presumably by a punch from Homelander]].
* BoyBand: Used to be part of Super-Sweet, a band reminiscent of Music/BackstreetBoys and Music/NSync.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:What Homelander did to him wasn't pretty. One of his legs is severed from the thigh down and his face is completely caved in with his jaw visibly hanging off what's left of his head.]]
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: According to him, his grandmother didn't approve of him dating Starlight because of interracial reasons.
* DeathByAdaptation: Unlike the comics, [[spoiler:he dies in Season Three as an example by Homelander]].
* DisposableWoman: [[spoiler: A RareMaleExample. He exists solely to give some further insight into Annie's past, becomes a major blow to her current boyfriend Hughie's self-esteem, then gets brutally KilledOffscreen by Homelander to show that Homelander isn't playing around anymore. Homelander even shows Annie his horrifically disfigured corpse to intimidate her.]]
* FacialHorror: [[spoiler: When Homelander shows Annie his corpse, his face is quite literally caved in with a mush of gore hanging off what's left of his head. The behind the scenes photos are even worse, with part of his cheekbone sticking out through his cheek and parts of his skull poking through what used to be his eye socket]].
* FormerChildStar: After his pop-stardom as Drummer Boy, he supposedly fell victim to the typical pitfalls of teen celebrities. Rebranding himself as Supersonic is at least partly a way for him to make a clean break with his past.
* AFriendInNeed: He joins the Seven, even after Annie warns him of what it is like, to look out for Annie. [[spoiler:Too bad he's killed off the following episode.]]
* HiddenDepths:
** According to him, he had to deal with systematic racism during his rise as a superhero.
** He's also initially implied to be a little smug, and probably interested in getting back together with his ex Starlight, making Hughie dislike him. However, as it turns out [[spoiler:he is pretty humble, really ''is'' just friends with Annie, genuinely likes Hughie and risks everything to help the two of them against Homelander, even though it gets him killed]].
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: [[spoiler:Trusts A-Train with the plan, believing that the disgraced speedster may be willing to make a HeelFaceTurn. Instead, A-Train rats him out to Homelander, leading to his death.]]
* JustFriends: With Annie in present-day. While Hughie is quite jealous initially, it turns out him and Starlight really are just good friends and allies, and that Alex likes Hughie and has no issue with him dating Starlight.
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:We only learn what happened to him when Homelander shows Starlight his maimed carcass.]]
* NiceGuy: He doesn't show any signs of being a BitchInSheepsClothing and is much friendlier than most of the other Supes on the show, he even joined the Seven to look out for Annie. [[spoiler:His kindness, unfortunately, leads to him being [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter betrayed by A-Train]] and killed by Homelander.]]
* OldFlame: For Annie, being her ex-boyfriend from her time in the Young Americans.
* OldShame: In universe, he considers his hit song "You Got Your License To Drive (Me Crazy)" to be this. When he has to perform it again for the first time in years, it becomes clear why, since it's explicitly about a sixteen year old girl who has just passed her driving test.
* PrimaryColorChampion: He wears a costume that's red, blue, and white, and unlike most of The Seven, he's a genuine superhero.
* RaceLift: In the comics, he is a Caucasian blond man, while here he is Latino and has dark hair.
* ShockwaveClap: One of his listed powers, although we never see him use it [[spoiler:before Homelander kills him]]. They are, however seen in his music video "Rock My Kiss".
* SuicideByPills: [[spoiler:Combined with NeverSuicide. Vought covers his actual cause of death with a fake story about a drug overdose.]]
* SuperStrength: His other power.
* TargetedToHurtTheHero: Homelander goes after him to hurt Annie.
* TeenIdol: Was a member of a supe BoyBand, and is still popular with prepubescent girls.
* TimeShiftedActor: Luca Oriel plays him as a teenager while Miles Gaston Villanueva plays him as an adult.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler:A genuinely kindhearted and supportive guy who's brutally murdered by Homelander in an attempt to cow Starlight into submission.]]
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: In-universe, his BoyBand's main hit is riffed with references to celebrity couples of the time that have broken up since. To make it worse, the lyrics reference the singer's crush being 16, so he cannot sing it in the modern day without sounding creepy.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:By blindly trusting A-Train with Annie's and Queen Maeve's secret plans, he makes a deadly mistake. A-Train rats them out to Homelander, which leads to Annie being constantly humiliated, the kidnapping of Queen Maeve and his own death]].
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:He doesn't last long in the Seven before Homelander discovers he's working with Starlight against him and turns him into a pile of entrails.]]
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!!Firecracker
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* CanonForeigner: She was created specifically for the show.
* GuestFighter: Firecracker became a new Operator on January for both Modern Warfare III and Call of Duty: Warzone, before even making her debute in the show.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Queen Maeve, she is another sultry redhead joining the Seven.
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!!Sister Sage

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->'''Portrayed by:''' Susan Heyward

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* AlliterativeName: '''S'''ister '''S'''age.

* CanonForeigner: She was created specifically for the show.

* FacialHorror [[spoiler: When Homelander shows Annie his corpse, his face is quite literally caved in with a mush of gore hanging off what's left of his head. The behind the scenes photos are even worse, with part of his cheekbone sticking out through his cheek and parts of his skull poking through what used to be his eye socket]].

* HiddenDepths: According to him, he had to deal with systematic racism during his rise as a superhero.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: [[spoiler: Trusts A-Train with the plan, believing that the disgraced speedster may be willing to make a HeelFaceTurn. Instead, A-Train rats him out to Homelander, leading to his death.]]

* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: We only learn what happened to him when Homelander shows Starlight his maimed carcass.]]

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler: By blindly trusting A-Train with Annie's and Queen Maeve's secret plans, he makes a deadly mistake. A-Train rats them out to Homelander, which leads to Annie being constantly humiliated, the kidnapping of Queen Maeve and his own death]].
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler: He doesn't last long in the Seven before Homelander discovers he's working with Starlight against him and turns him into a pile of entrails.]]

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* SparedByTheAdaptation: Of course, [[spoiler:he still dies, however it's at a much later date, and by his own hand when he sets himself on fire. In the comics, Lamplighter is beaten and tortured to near-death by the Boys, before getting shot in the head by Mallory. He is then brought back to life by Vought as an emaciated, braindead zombie chained up in a Vought facility basement completely caked in his own excrement.

[[Characters/TheBoys2019TheBoys The Boys]] ([[Characters/TheBoys2019BillyButcher Billy Butcher]], [[Characters/TheBoys2019AssociatesOfTheBoys Associates of the Boys]]) | [[Characters/TheBoys2019Supes Supes]] ('''The Seven''', [[[Characters/TheBoys2019Homelander Homelander]], [[Characters/TheBoys2019Starlight Starlight]], [[Characters/TheBoys2019BlackNoir Black Noir]], [[Characters/TheBoys2019ATrain A-Train]], [[Characters/TheBoys2019Stormfront Stormfront]]], [[Characters/TheBoys2019SoldierBoy Soldier Boy]]) | [[Characters/TheBoys2019VoughtInternational Vought International]] | [[Characters/TheBoys2019GodolkinUniversity Godolkin University]] | [[Characters/TheBoys2019Other Others]]-]]]]]

!!The Deep / Kevin Moskowitz
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/ChaceCrawford
->'''[[ItMakesSenseInContext Gills voiced by]]:''' Creator/PattonOswalt

->''"I swear to God, they only call me when there's trouble at a dock. Or a river, or a lake, canal. A jetty. Fucking idiots, I could be doing so much more. But no, Vought just wants me to make my big pretty dives into the water and flash my fucking biceps for Instagram."''

The "King of the Sea" and the least-respected member of The Seven.

* AchillesHeel: His gills are necessary for him to breathe underwater, but they're also vulnerable to damage. When [[spoiler:A-Train]] punches him right in the gills at the start of their fight in Season 3, the Deep doubles over ''instantly''.
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: He was already full of himself but in Season 3 his ego goes into overdrive, having convinced himself that he's Homelander's new favorite while unaware that he's only back in the Seven as a way to annoy Starlight.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: The Deep's comic costume is an embarrassingly goofy mishmash of a cape, a vintage diving helmet, and unflattering shorts. His appearance in the show is far more in line with what you'd expect a charismatic superhero to look like.
* AdaptationalJerkass: ''Oh boy''. In the comics, The Deep is the least bad member of The Seven and never really does anything bad. Here, he's a neurotic sexual predator.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: In the comics, Deep is a stoic guy that barely talks or does anything, virtually the opposite of Kevin, who is both a huge creep as well as unbelievably insecure and neurotic.
* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: Deep in the comics is a FlyingBrick who got assigned the gimmick of sea-guy. In the show, he's got gills, can talk to sea animals, and can't fly.
* AdaptationalVillainy: He went from being little more than the team's joke member to being the one who coerced Starlight into giving him a blowjob (and did the same to other women), whereas in the comics the Deep wasn't involved and was actually the only member of the Seven who ''didn't'' harass or bully Starlight in any way.
* AdaptationalWimp: The comics version of The Deep lacks any aquatic powers, is instead almost as strong as Homelander and can fly.
* AesopAmnesia: He never seems to remember that his sad backstory doesn't excuse his treatment of women and overall sexual deviancy and every opportunity he's given to learn and improve himself ends up squandered.
* AlasPoorVillain: Zigzagged. He's a rapist, sycophant, and an-all around asshole, but the huge number of ordeals and tortures he endures from so many people around him eventually becomes so disproportionate and out of hand that it will actually end up making you feel bad for him. Of course, it doesn't take long before he starts acting like a jerk again and reminds the audience why they hate him.
* AllForNothing: Despite all of his efforts in Season 2 [[spoiler:working in the Church of the Collective in order to get back into the Seven, A-Train is chosen over him instead, much to the Deep's surprise and dismay]].
** Subverted at the beginning of Season 3 as [[spoiler:his experiences with the Church of the Collective allow him to spin a narrative that he was a true victim of the Church, reclaiming his popularity and being brought back into The Seven. Then double subverted when the team is effectively disbanded by the end of the season]].
* AmbiguouslyJewish: His surname, Moskowitz, is of Ashkenazi origin.
* ApparentlyHumanMerfolk: The Deep appears completely human at first, but is later shown to be one, with gills on his torso.
* ArrangedMarriage:The Church of the Collective plan to rehabilitate his image is to marry him to one of their members, a woman named Cassandra. At first, she appears as a compassionate woman, but soon proves to be an ambitious and controlling woman with her own agenda. Despite being a terrible person, she does a good job at rehabilitating Kevin's image, until he ends up alienating her too, like all the women in his life.
* AscendedExtra: Had the least page time in the comics, with not a single story with him in an active role. He's a lot more prominent in the show, with his own ongoing, largely separate storyline in season 2.
* AwfulWeddedLife: At the end of season two he marries a woman named Cassandra. The Deep complains to Alastair Adana that his wife is a "weirdo who gives terrible blowjobs". Season 3 explores their marriage, exposing Cassandra as a greedy, cruel and controlling woman who forces The Deep to endure all kind of humiliations at the cost of getting back in the Seven instead helping him grow as a person. Their sexual life is not rainbows and unicorns either. The Deep's idea of having intimate relationships in order to get closer to his wife is to engage in a three-way sexual experiences with octopuses. Cassandra feels completely humiliated by his demands and decides to finally divorce him by the end of Season 3.
* BaldOfEvil: [[spoiler:In the final episode of Season 1, he shaves his head in a fit of depression. In Season 2, his hair is slowly growing back and appears as a long buzz cut.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In Season 3 he finally gets his wish of getting back in the Seven. Just as Homelander is growing more unstable with each day, and looking for a convenient punching bag whenever he feels stressed out.
* TheBeastmaster: Just like Aquaman, he can command sea creatures. Unlike Aquaman, he's [[PowerfulButIncompetent absolutely terrible at using them sensibly]].
* BestialityIsDepraved: Given that The Deep can speak to sea creatures (like dolphins), he's the butt of cruel jokes by Homelander and A-Train who both say he has sex with them. Judging by his side of the conversation he has with a dolphin he attempts to rescue, there may be a grain of truth to the jokes. Further vindicated when he throws some dirty talk at his octopus friend Timothy, to the annoyance of his wife (especially since he is having sex with her ''at that very moment''). [[spoiler: Finally outright confirmed in Herogasm when Starlight catches him getting sucked off by an octopus.]]
* BewareTheSillyOnes:
** While he isn’t the sharpest tool in the Vought shed, and also likely the least powerful member of the Seven, he isn’t harmless. It’s just that he lacks any strategic and tactical competence to use his powers effectively. His admission that he once repeatedly dreamt about drowning A-Train to death and the fact that he almost caught The Boys by commanding sharks to attack their boat and a whale to block their path is a reminder of how dangerous he could be.
** He's a sexual predator that has abused several women throughout his career.
** In Season 1, we see him easily knock out two thugs with a few punches. This shows that he’s actually quite strong by human standards, it’s just that he’s weak in comparison to most other Supes.
** In the Season 3 finale, he gets another chance to show how dangerous his powers can be when [[spoiler: he uses his ability to breathe underwater to ambush VP candidate Lamar Bishop in the pool and drown him.]]
* BlackComedyAnimalCruelty:
** Not on him so much (the dolphin was the one who wanted him to do sex stuff to it), but the dolphin and lobster he attempted to rescue both ended up dead on his watch.
** In Season 2, a whale he brings in to stop The Boys gets fatally rammed by their speedboat!
** A VERY dark example in Season 3; he is forced by Homelander (possibly tipped off by his wife) [[spoiler:to eat an octopus friend of his from his aquarium who he looks at during sex]].
---> "He's praying."
** The Deep eventually goes full bestiality when he gets a blowjob from an octopus at Herogasm, and later tries to rope it into a threesome with his sham wife.
* BrickJoke: In Season 1, he was trying to write his memoir ''Deeper'' but was having trouble actually putting down words. In Season 3 it's finally been published and he's peddling it for all it's worth, yet secretly admits to Homelander it's been ghostwritten.
* BrokenBird: He compares his treatment of Starlight to how he was treated when he first joined the team, saying it's just how the hierarchy works. With his love of marine life being his only redeeming feature, it's possible that he was a genuinely good guy before joining the Seven.
* BrokenPedestal: To use Starlight's own words, she "had a school girl crush on" The Deep. To say she was shocked, upset, and angered that he forced her to give him a blowjob is an understatement. When the Deep gets reinstated, Starlight nearly blacks out from fear and rage.
* BodyHorror: The gills in his torso are, at very least, unsettling to look at. The Deep suffers from body image issues because of them.
* BoobsAndButtPose: No matter how embarrassing or cringey it was, this is how he introduces himself after it is announced he won the competition show 'American Hero'.
* ButtMonkey: While at first accomplished by ordinary standards (being a handsome, successful, and widely-beloved crime-fighter and celebrity), he was always this to the rest of the Seven. Starlight says that the others see him as a joke ("you're just the fish guy"), and he isn't seen being given any respect by them. He appears to be by far the weakest of the team as well; Starlight can shoot light, shrug off .50 caliber bullets, bench press a car, and so on, Maeve can stop a speeding semi-truck effortlessly, A-Train can run at supersonic speeds and has the RequiredSecondaryPowers for that to work, Translucent can become both (almost) invincible and invisible, Black Noir is strong/fast enough to flatten Kimiko, and Homelander is an outright PhysicalGod. The Deep? He has slightly superhuman strength (enough to NeckLift a guy, make another back-flip by punching him, and punch out an A-Train who's not using his speed, and that's about it), can breathe underwater, can swim well, and... can talk to sea creatures.
** He can't even use those powers efficiently, (see CoolButStupid below) and the animals he tries to save end up getting killed. [[spoiler:So far the only time he looked threatening using his powers was in ''WesternAnimation/TheBoysDiabolical'', when he interrogated a drug dealer with a shark and let the animal eat him alive. But in the very same episode, he's defeated by a girl with [[DungFu the power to control poop]], in a sewer, surrounded by black water, and that gets called a better power than his. In Season 3, he gets into a fight with A-Train who isn't using his super speed, and only manages to ''tie''.]] No wonder no one respects him.
* CaptainFishman: His whole deal is his SuperNotDrowningSkills and that he can talk to sea-life. Because of how specific his power-set is (and for marketing reasons), The Deep is often stuck with water-related crime fighting and resents it a little.
* TheChewToy: He suffers a deserved series of humiliations and failures almost straight from the start. Homelander even uses an action figure of him as target practice.
* ChurchOfHappyology: In Season 2, he joins the Church of the Collective after a few sessions meant to better himself. In reality, he was just trying to weasel his way back into the Seven. [[spoiler:It didn't work.]]
* CoolButStupid: The only way to sum up how he uses powers, best seen when he chases the Boys in the ocean. Despite having a massive advantage thanks to the school of sharks and a sperm whale at his command, he squanders it all when instead of making use of their speed and mass to capsize their boat and leave them at his mercy, he orders the whale against all common sense to cut off the Boys' escape route by ''beaching herself'' in front of their destination so he can pose for nonexistent cameras. Even if Butcher wasn't crazy to ram the whale at top speed, the Deep never bothered to think that since the whale is now immobile and therefore useless, the Boys could just, you know, turn the boat and slightly alter their path so they would land on the coast anyways, where they would have the overwhelming advantage against him in both numbers and power.
* CompositeCharacter: His name and ocean theme are all he really has in common with his comics counterpart, with his characterization as a sleazy, cowardly sexual predator being far more reminiscent of the comic's version of A-Train.
* CruelMercy: After the fact came to light that The Deep had sexually assaulted Starlight, and countless other women, he's spared any jail time, and is still a member of The Seven. However, he's [[spoiler:exiled from [[TheBigRottenApple New York City]] and [[ReassignedToAntarctica assigned to patrol Sandusky, Ohio, a peaceful and relatively crime free town,]] and given a meager daily allowance.]] His main tasks are to attend local business openings and roller coaster inaugurations as well as [[spoiler:put up with whatever vitriol the locals throw at him.]] When the military allows supes to volunteer, The Deep asks his handler how soon can he can join the Navy and [[spoiler:get out of Sandusky, only to be told that for the time being, he's not allowed to go anywhere else.]]
* TheDitz: Definitely the dimmest bulb in the show, compounded by his inability to understand other people's feelings. In the beginning of Season 3 he bumps into Homelander who is obviously pissed off yet manages to say some fake platitudes in-between grinding his teeth. Rather than take this as a sign that he should run as far away as possible, the Deep instead thinks Homelander honestly likes him.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: He dislikes seafood which, given the nature of his powers, is quite justified. Even when presented with an already dead lobster, he's uncomfortable and quietly asks for some bread before reluctantly giving in to appease Homelander. [[invoked]][[spoiler: This gets even worse when he's presented with a live octopus (that he considers a friend) and ordered to eat it. Could be FridgeBrilliance, depending on how ambiguous his Jewishness is: lobster and octopus aren't kosher.]]
* DoomMagnet: Sea creatures have a tendency to suffer horrible deaths when he's around, several them because he was trying to save them in the first place.
* DrowningMySorrows: He's coping with his HumiliationConga in Season 1 by turning into an alcoholic, but he drops the habit once he joins the Church of the Collective.
* DumbassHasAPoint: [[spoiler:His plan to use Black Noir as bait to lure Soldier Boy in so Vought can capture or kill him is actually a good idea. It only isn't put into motion because Homelander killed Noir a few minutes earlier unbeknownst to everyone else.]]
* DumbMuscle: What he amounts to, even with the ability to control sea life -- Deep is just so ''stupid'' that he never considers using his powers in ways beyond brute force. Complimenting this is that his only powers that don't relate to the ocean are SuperStrength and enhanced durability.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: As awful as he is, the Deep genuinely cares about marine life and considers them his friends. This is exemplified in season 3 when [[spoiler:Homelander forces him to eat his octopus friend, Timothy, even as the Deep practically ''begs'' for his life]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Deep is shocked when Homelander asks him to [[spoiler:kill the running vice president and make it look like an accident]] as he says this is a tantamount to treason. He's also very disturbed by animal cruelty. Specifically mistreatment of aquatic life. This is justified because he can literally hear their thoughts.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: [[spoiler:He shaves his head bald at the end of Season 1 once he loses everything, but it slowly starts growing back in Season 2 as he resists every attempt to change himself. He's back to his initial hairstyle in Season 3 to show that he's made no progess and has stayed the same douchebag he's always been.]]
* {{Expy}}: Of ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}, being a water based hero that can communicate telepathically with sea life, who is also regarded as somewhat useless (alluding to the [[DeadHorseTrope long disused meme]] of Aquaman's [[ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman extreme situational prowess]]).
* ExtremeOmnisexual: Humans and maritime life, and if he can have a ménage-a-trois with both, even better.
* FailureHero: Anytime he does try to do the right thing, it goes hilariously wrong. Take for instance his rescue of the dolphin and the lobster.
* FairWeatherFriend: When Alistair tells the Deep and A-Train that they're both suspects in leaking vital information to the press, Deep immediately accuses A-Train. Alistair then reassures him that this actually worked in their favour and would guarantee re-entry back into The Seven, at which point the Deep offers A-Train a high-five...only for Alistair to say that The Seven just wants A-Train back.
* FanDisservice: His ass appears in two infamous situations; when he is about to mouth-rape Annie and in the third season, where Annie catches him getting a blow job from an octopus.
* FatalFlaw: [[NeverMyFault Inability to own up to his mistakes]] and {{Pride}}. A large part of the reason the Deep gets screwed over so much by everyone is that he can't acknowledge his flaws and thus tends to just brush off other's issues with his behavior. When he is finally faced with the consequences of his choices, he's too self-centered to change.
* {{Foil}}: To Homelander. Both are narcissist sex offenders and psychopathic {{Man Child}}ren who suffer humiliations in a way of another, but they are also very different from each other as characters. Homelander is the most powerful and important member of the Seven, being both the leader and the mascot for Vought, whereas the Deep is the weakest and least valuable member of the team. The Deep is mostly a harmless ButtMonkey most of the time, but Homelander just becomes more and more unhinged with each humiliation he suffers, cementing his status as KnightOfCerebus with each season. The Deep is shown to be a fairly muscular man, yet he is a very weak Supe, whereas Homelander is LeanAndMean, but otherwise WorldsStrongestMan. They both wear pads under their costumes, The Deep for fanservice, and Homelander to make himself look more physically imposing than he is.
* FormFittingWardrobe: While hardly the only male in the Seven wearing a fit superhero costume, Kevin's costume stands out the most as is clear that its purpose is to accentuate Deep's status as MrFanservice.
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:His [[ItMakesSenseInContext drug-induced journey of enlightenment has him argue with his gills]] about why he sexually harasses and assaults women; because he has his own insecurities about his body and dehumanizes and humiliates women before they can humiliate him first. He also talks about how his powers meant that he could hear aquatic animals begging for their lives since he was only 9 years old.]]
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Let it be made clear that there are practically ''zero'' people who think that his past abuse and perceived uselessnes is justification for everything he has done to all the women he's subjected to SexualExtortion. Starlight, in particular, is absolutely livid upon learning of his lack of respect among the Seven, since he had used his supposedly high rank to pull a CastingCouch.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: He's the least effective member of the Seven, with the show playing up Aquaman's perceived uselessness as Homelander seems to use him the least when it comes to his plans. Compared to their powers and marketing, he's essentially a nobody, and when Starlight [[spoiler:reveals what [[CastingCouch he did to her]] at the Believe Expo, Vought easily severs ties.]]
* GracefulInTheirElement: When The Deep is in the ocean, he can be an effective hero as he was able to summon hundreds of fish to attack The Boys and he would have succeeded in capturing them if he thought through his plan more effectively. The main problem is that very few criminals or wrongdoers operate in the ocean, he didn't arrange back up or try to summon The Seven ''before'' handling The Boys, and he didn't think Butcher would be crazy enough to skewer the whale with a boat. Had he brought in backup, he would have captured them with a divide and conquer strategy, driving The Boys on to land and then ambushing them with another Supe or with a private army from Vought International.
* GreenAndMean: His costume is mostly green, and while not the worst of The Seven, he's still a self-centered asshole.\
* HandsomeLech: Kevin is one of the most handsome men alive, getting the attention even of someone such as Starlight, and his role in the team is to be MrFanservice. On surface level, he seems like a charming, well meaning person who just happens to enjoy the attention he receives from his female audience, in reality, he always screws every chance he has to properly be with a woman by harassing, humiliating, and assaulting most of the women he encounters.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: While in general, his powers are [[ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman extremely situational]], his ability to talk to all marine life actually has its uses in [[BoringYetPractical intelligence gathering]] to the point where he dismisses Vought's entire intelligence section once he takes command of it because he makes them completely redundant. His ability to breathe underwater and swim to any depths also allow him to recover stuff from the sea that would otherwise be unrecoverable, such as Translucent's remains or a camera containing the footage of the Flight 37 incident.
* HiddenDepths: He can communicate with sea creatures and genuinely really cares about how badly they're treated. He even tries to rescue a dolphin and then a lobster, [[spoiler:though both attempts end abysmally]]. Despite his teammates' mockery, his ability to scour the oceans turns up plot-critical stuff at least once a season (Translucent's body in season 1 and the camera from Flight 37 in season 2).
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:He recruits A-Train into the Church of the Collective. When Edgar decides to take back one of the Church's Supes into the Seven, he chooses A-Train, which never would have happened if the Deep didn't recruit him.]]
* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: [[spoiler:Thanks to the MushroomSamba described below, he begins working through his insecurities in his hallucinogenic state.]]
* HourglassPlot: The Deep starts Season 3 being in a stable marriage with Cassandra, his reputation is rebuilt among women and feminists, is a best-seller author with a movie adaptation of his book, and is constantly invited on popular talk shows. He ends the season with his wife leaving him after being fed up with his behaviour, she writes a book about all the abuse she aparently suffered at his hands, destroying his reputation in the process, again.
* HumiliationConga: He suffers a rather severe (and karmic) one during the first season. Stillwell rejects and mocks his request to do something more substantive and meaningful with his fame. He then attempts to rescue a dolphin from an abusive captivity, but it dies horribly, and the incident becomes a media scandal. After his [[spoiler:rape of Starlight is revealed, he is ReassignedToAntarctica, being sent to "guard" the calm and largely crime-free town of Sandusky, Ohio]]. There, he's scorned by the townsfolk, given a minuscule allowance by Vought, is relegated to publicity stunts like opening water park attractions, accidentally kills a lobster he wanted to save, and is [[spoiler:abused by a fangirl]]. By the end of the season, he's on the verge of a mental breakdown.
* {{Hypocrite}}: While the Deep does appear to genuinely care about the environment (or at least oceanic animals), he drives [[HummerDinger a gas guzzling Hummer]], one of the least environmentally friendly cars in existence. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking This is the least terrible thing about him]].
** In a commercial, he complains about polluting the ocean, only to burn said trash, polluting the air.
* IAmAMonster: How he feels by Season 2 with a combination of his powers and past actions, though there were apparently other cases of this in his past. [[spoiler:His gills are a point of insecurity for him and his ability to hear aquatic animals begging for their lives throughout his childhood unnerved him. With the reveal that Compound V made him into what he is, he delves into this a lot more.]]
* IdiotHero: He's far from the brightest Supe on the block. He makes countless impulsive, naïve and outright foolish decisions throughout the show which are all documented here. Even his attempts to do genuine good for the sealife he's supposed to protect invariably go awry due to his stupidity. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking He can't even properly space the title of his own memoir!]]
* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: The Deep's stupidity is evident to everyone around him. If one were to ask the Deep himself though, he would say he has a "formidable intellect." '''[[LargeHam FORMIDABLE INTELLECT]]'''! Lampshaded by A-Train.
-->'''A-Train:''' You’re a joke and you’re so dumb, you don’t even know it.
* IgnoredEpiphany: As noted under FreudianExcuse, [[spoiler: his hallucinatory vision quest does lead to him recognizing his predatory behaviour towards women and the roots of its cause. His attempts to actually cease this behaviour only goes as far as trying to boost his own self-esteem however, as the remainder of the season proves he's still as self-centered and narcissistic as he was when he started.]]
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: He's a selfish, egotistical sex offender who's such a pathetic punching bag that the audience would end up feeling bad for him because he never succeeds in getting what he wants no matter how hard he tries. Not only does he always fail to save any aquatic life (to the point where he unintentionally gets them killed), but he utterly fails to get back into the Seven.
* InnocentBlueEyes: The Deep has big blue eyes like Homelander, is a handsome man and his immature behaviour make him come out somewhat naive. It get subverted once you realize he is a sex offender too stupid for his own good.
* {{Irony}}:
** After so many efforts, he finally gets back into the Seven in Season 3... only for the team to effectively disband.
** He has a rather hairy chest, which wouldn't be helpful in any water sport.
* IronicName:
** There is nothing very deep... about the Deep. Every time something happens to him that might teach him to grow as a person, he ignores the Aesop and returns to his shallow self, caring just for his own image.
** The fact his real name is Kevin. Everyone who has a little bit of knowledge about kevinism, knows that people with this name tend to be unfairly seen by the society (the german one especially) as unintelligent persons prone to attention-seeking behaviour. The problem with Kevin is that he really embodies the negative reputation of the name.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He's not quite as bad as Homelander or A-Train in this regard, but it isn't saying much since he's still a self-centered jerk who sees all humans besides himself as not worth caring about. [[spoiler:When he sees all the heads exploding on TV, the Deep is more concerned with his own safety. Even ''A-Train'' had the decency to look appalled at the carnage, which says a lot about how little the Deep thinks of others. Considering how he was mistreated by The Seven and felt betrayed when he lost his position in Vought, he likely didn't care because he believed there was a form of justice involved.]] In Season 3, he makes his attempts to makes amends to Starlight about himself, bragging to her about self-forgiveness and trying to bribe her into sweeping things under the rug.
* LackOfEmpathy: An interesting example because he is capable of empathy, but towards sea creatures only. When it comes to fellow humans, the Deep gives absolutely no fucks as shown by the large number of women he's sexually assaulted and then forgot about.
* LaserGuidedKarma:
** He sexually assaulted Starlight, making her give him oral sex. Later on, he [[spoiler:is sexually abused himself during a one-night-stand with a psycho fan, who shoves her hands into his gills (something quite painful for him) after he repeatedly asks her to stop]]. Later still, in order to satisfy Homelander, the Deep has to put something in his mouth he doesn't want: [[spoiler:his friend Timothy the octopus, who he has to eat alive as it begs for a quick death]].
** The Deep is later set up with a sham wife to help clean up his image. He complains that she gives bad blowjobs, and she is complicit in his torture.
** When Alistair addresses both the Deep and A-Train regarding some leaked information, the Deep is quick to distance himself from A-Train. Then it turns out A-Train just got accepted back into the Seven, but the Deep is still stuck in career limbo.
** By Season 3, the Deep is a {{Deconstruction}} of this trope, as he has terrible things happen to him so many times that starts becoming excessive, with [[spoiler:him being forced to eat his octopus friend Timothy alive]] reaching KickTheDog territory due to how mean spirited it is.
* LethallyStupid: [[spoiler:In Season 2, he tries to rejoin The Seven by capturing The Boys by himself. However, he vastly underestimated Butcher's ruthlessness during this attempt. He tries to force them on to land by using sharks to damage their boat and then he uses Lucy the whale to block the exit, believing Butcher wouldn't be brave enough to take on a member of The Seven and harm a whale. Except, Butcher just rams her with the boat and kills her, causing The Deep to fall deeper into his depression and develop survivor's guilt for getting Lucy killed. The Deep was operating under the belief that The Boys would act like comical goons who would give up at the sight of him.]]
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: It says a lot about the overall moral fiber of the Seven that a serial rapist is ''still'' far from the worst member of the crew, but actually was (before the good-natured Starlight joined the team) the least dangerous one with (as far as the viewer can tell) the lowest body count.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Season 2 reveals that he was unaware that his powers came from Compound V, told that he was born with a gift.
* LogicalWeakness: When they fight in the hallway in the third season, A-Train knocks him on his ass with a punch to the gills.
* ManChild: The Deep, is absolutely incapable to think for himself, waits for others to take decisions for him, has the emotional intelligence of a gullible child, and believes everything he is told.
* MeaninglessMeaningfulWords: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvh2nlqpTYw&t=1s Deep thoughts with The Deep]]'' are a collection of youtube videos starring The Deep giving his deepest thoughts about the meaning of things. Several "gems" include: "You have my permission to love", "Real eyes realize real lies", "What if we stopped offering thoughts and prayers, and instead offered prayers and thoughts?".
* MeaningfulName: The name 'Kevin' has Irish roots and it means 'handsome'. The Deep is a handsome young man who got into the Seven because his physical appearance was all that matters to Vought. His role as a hero is to be objectified as MrFanservice on Instagram.
* MiseryBuildsCharacter: Thoroughly subverted. After suffering a massive HumiliationConga in season 1, the Deep joins the Church of the Collective, gains insight into why he acts the way he does, and looks like he's ready to make amends for what he's done. Then he stays the same selfish douche he's always been that everyone loves to hate, and ends the season in the same exact position he started in, the same exact mentality, and still clinging onto the selfish goal of getting back into the Seven.
* MoralityPet: His one redeeming quality is his compassion for marine animals.
* MrFanservice: Since his powers only make him really useful in combatting water-adjacent crime, his main role on the team boils down to looking pretty on social media. He even uses booty pads.
* MushroomSamba: [[spoiler:In season 2 Eagle the Archer (in the interest of getting him to join his cult), slips Deep a mickey that has him working through his body issues via a hallucination of his gills talking to him]].
* MusclesAreMeaningless: The most visibly muscular member of The Seven, but is a pathetically bad fighter.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Season 2 sees him go through regret for his actions and attempts to make amends, though most of the process is motivated through the chance to rejoin the Seven.
* NatureHero: He wants to be this for ocean life, but Vought won't let him (and even makes him shill for a [[BlandNameProduct SeaWorld knockoff]]).
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Despite spending most of his time being just a LethallyStupid IneffectualSympatheticVillain, the Deep shows by the end of Season 3 that under a threatening commanding figure like Homelander, he can [[spoiler:execute a flawless political assasination during the night, leave no clues behind and make it look like a drowning accident]].
* NutritionalNightmare: It's amazing he has as good a figure as he does considering he loves munching down on junk food whenever he's eating on-screen.
* PermaStubble: Subverted. Kevin does sports a nice trimmed stubble, but instead of being the grimm badass anti-hero that comes with the trope, he is a pathetic ButtMonkey whose all moments of badassery are sabotaged by his own stupidity.
* ProfessionalButtKisser: He becomes Homelander's unofficial cock-holster in Season 3 with some tips from his wife on how to gargle his balls. Considering that [[spoiler:Homelander just forced him to eat his own octopus friend alive]], it highlights how pathetic he really is.
* RaceLift: He's black in the comics but white in the show. Compare with A-Train, who is the opposite case.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Everyone thinks he's a massive piece of shit after he's exposed as a SerialRapist, leading Edgar to conclude that he's permanently soiled goods that Vought won't touch with a ten-foot pole lest it starts a PR shitstorm they don't need on top of everything else.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: [[spoiler:After being exposed for sexually assaulting Starlight (among other women), The Deep is forced to make a public apology and demoted to working in Sandusky, Ohio.]]
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: He needs these to deal with the ocean water temperature and pressure. It's implied he has dived all the way down to the Mariana Trench, the deepest point on Earth, which indicates he has the physiology necessary to survive being in water barely above freezing and immense pressure at over a ''thousand times'' that of standard atmospheric pressure.[[labelnote:Reference]]The Mariana Trench has an average PSI, or Pounds per Square Inch of 16,000. Considering the human body can withstand 50 PSI of pressure in a sudden impact, or up to 400 PSI over a slow sustained increase, The Deep would need to be capable of withstanding force at least 40 times that of a normal human in a best case scenario of sustained force, or as high as 320 times in the worst case of immediate pressure.[[/labelnote]]
* SecondaryColorNemesis: His costume is colored green, unlike the other members of the Seven. While almost everyone in the group is some degree of scum, it does set him apart as a more personal enemy to Starlight, who wears yellow and white.
* SerialRapist: He extorts oral sex from Starlight, and Stillwell reveals this is far from the first time he's pulled a stunt like this.
* SexualKarma: [[spoiler:Unlike Hughie, The Deep's sex life is never portrayed a good light. He has a [[SerialRapist history of forcing women to give him oral sex]] for being their hero and when he's finally punished for his actions, he's [[KarmicRape the one who gets sexually abused]] when a woman refuses to stop putting her fingers in his gills, despite telling her how painful the act is to him. In Season 2 he is in an ArrangedMarriage with a clingy wife that is [[LousyLoversAreLosers bad at giving oral sex]] according to him. His tryst with an octopus is the one time he's ever shown having consensual sex.]]
* SleevesAreForWimps: Not that he is not a wimp, but he has to show his biceps, if he can't show his torso because of his gills.
* SpannerInTheWorks: He of all people serves as this in season 2. [[spoiler:By recruiting A-Train into the Church of the Collective, he put the latter in a prime position to steal data on Stormfront's past stored in the Church's private archives and release it to the public. This leads to her downfall and slows down Vought's complete takeover of the US government.]]
* StepfordSmiler: He's become one after he's brought back into the Seven in season 3. He is trapped in an awful marriage and having to deal with Homelander bullying him, he makes fake smiles.
* StrawLoser: The Deep is consistently portrayed as the least powerful and competent of The Seven. Futher more he is easily one of the biggest [[ButtMonkey targets for misfortune]] in the story, which is both portrayed was deserved ''and'' PlayedForLaughs.
* TherapyIsForTheWeak: He rejects Eagle and Carol's attempts to have him better himself, though their odd behavior as members of the Church of the Collective also probably has something to do with it.
* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: {{Discussed}}. The Deep complains that The Seven only send him in for things in or around water. It turns out that the rest think he's pathetic and a joke, to his annoyance.
* TrappedInVillainy: Homelander makes it clear that he will kill him if he doesn't obey his orders, including [[spoiler:assassinating a politician]].
* TraumaCongaLine: [[spoiler:After Starlight hints that someone in The Seven assaulted her, everyone involved pretty much knows it's The Deep. It's outright stated there are other women, and with Starlight having unlocked the door, it's only a matter of time before one of them kicks it open. He is forced by Stillwell to make a public apology, then take a sabbatical from The Seven and get reassigned to Sandusky, Ohio. As Sandusky is lacking in violent crime, he's pretty much limited to water park openings. He meets a hot groupie and takes her back to his apartment for some playtime, and she rapes him while jamming her fingers in his gills (which ''hurts''). When super-powered terrorists come to light, he's convinced he's finally going to get to come back and help out the Navy with dolphin-related secret projects, only to be told that's not going to happen. He tries to buy a lobster as a pet, only for the meat counter attendant to stab it in the head, thinking he wanted it for dinner. The last we see of The Deep, he's giving himself a TraumaticHaircut while repeatedly calling himself stupid. May or may not be enough to make you start feeling sorry for the guy.]]
* TraumaticHaircut: He gives himself one after being [[DateRape raped by a girl]].
* TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot: A really egregious example in Season 2. He gets news at roughly the same time as the rest of the Seven that the Boys are harboring a Supe terrorist in the Atlantic Ocean and manages to find them first. The issue? He was over ''700 km'' (about 430 miles) away in Sandusky, Ohio while the Seven were right by the coast in New York City, yet not only did he somehow cross that vast distance in an instant and outpace Homelander and A-Train but had the extra time to go around and find some local marine animals to do his bidding (although it might be possible that he was actually at the Church of the Collective, which could have a location near a coastline, or taken advantage of the city's location on Lake Erie to get to Buffalo and take the Erie Canal to the Hudson, though that would be a challenge for someone of his limited intellect).
* {{Unperson}}: Vought is seen downplaying his presence in the Seven by Season 2, much to his dismay.
* VillainousUnderdog: The Deep is the least respected member of The Seven due to his abilities only being useful for water-based missions. Due to his ability to speak to aquatic animals, he's forced to stand by as he hears the animals being killed and beg for rescue from their captivity. Even worse, he's forced to support companies that pollute the seas and harm aquatic life. None of that excuses the fact that he's been sexually assaulting women.
* VillainousBSOD: Completely breaks down at the end of the first season, leading to [[spoiler:him impulsively shaving his head in front of a mirror while crying and cursing at himself]].
* WeaksauceWeakness: His gills. [[spoiler:Getting "gill-punched" by A-Train once is enough for Deep to double over in pain.]]
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: The Deep is an ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} {{expy}}, and rides very much on the "Aquaman is lame" memes. He is regularly dismissed by Homelander for talking to fish, and later shown in therapy venting his insecurities.
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See Black Noir's character page ''[[Characters/TheBoys2019BlackNoir here]]''.
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!!Translucent
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/translucent_tb2019.jpg]][[caption-width-right:300:''[[AchillesHeel "No, I don't actually vanish. My skin turns into this carbon meta-material that bends the light. Like an invisibility cloak."]]'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Alex Hassell

->''"My superpower ain't invisibility - it's reading people. Watching them when they think they're alone. I see people for who they really are."''

The Seven's invulnerable and quasi-invisible member.
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* MeaninglessMeaningfulWords: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvh2nlqpTYw&t=1s Deep thoughts with The Deep]] are a collection of youtube videos starring The
Deep giving his deepest thoughts about the meaning of things. Several "gems" include: "You have my permission to love", "Real eyes realize real lies", "What if we stopped offering thoughts and prayers, and instead offered prayers and thoughts?".

* ArrangedMarriage: This is part of the Church of the Collective's plan to rehabilitate his image, or so they say.

* GreenAndMean: His costume is mostly green, and while not the worst of The Seven, he's still a self-centered asshole.

* ManChild: The Deep, is absolutely incapable to think for himself, waits for others to take decisions for him, his emotional intelligence is bellow the one of a baby, and believes everything he is told.

* TooDumbToLive: You'd have to be a certain type of arrogant idiot to brag about what your superpower is and how it works, making it possible to exploit its logical weaknesses, which is made even worse by the fact Translucent does this in-front of people who have the fullest intention to kill him. [[spoiler:Also; thinking you can manipulate an emotionally unstable man, who just developed a strong hatred of you personally and Supes in general, and is possession of a trigger for a bomb up your asslu, is probably the surest way you can end up as a visceral modern art piece across the wall.]]

* ArtifactTitle: Ever since Translucent gets killed, they have harder and harder time maintaining their numbers at seven. And every time new member is added, they get killed or at least "retired". Eventually they struggle to even have ''six'' members at a given time. [[spoiler:By the end of Season 3, they only have 3 members left.]]

** Subverted at the beginning of Season 3 as [[spoiler:his experiences with the Church of the Collective allow him to spin a narrative that he was a true victim of the Church, reclaiming his popularity and being brought back into The Seven.]].
* AmbiguouslyJewish: His surname, Moskowitz, is of Ashkenazi origin.[[note]]Has anyone in the show mockingly called him "Gefilte Fish"?[[/note]]

* ChurchOfHappyology: In Season 2, he joins the Church of the Collective after a few sessions meant to better himself. In reality, he was just trying to weasel his way back into the Seven. [[Spoiler: It didn't work.]]

* CruelMercy: After the fact came to light that The Deep had sexually assaulted Starlight, and countless other women, he's spared any jail time, and is still a member of The Seven. However, he's [[spoiler:exiled from [[TheBigRottenApple New York City]] and [[ReassignedToAntarctica assigned to patrol Sandusky, Ohio, a peaceful and relatively crime free town,]] and given a meager weekly allowance.]] His main tasks are to attend local business openings and roller coaster inaugurations as well as [[spoiler:put up with whatever vitriol the locals throw at him.]] When the military allows supes to volunteer, The Deep asks his handler how soon can he can join the Navy and [[spoiler:get out of Sandusky, only to be told that for the time being, he's not allowed to go anywhere else.]]

* DoesNotLikeSpam: He dislikes seafood which, given the nature of his powers, is quite justified. Even when presented with an already dead lobster, he's uncomfortable and quietly asks for some bread before reluctantly giving in to appease Homelander. [[spoiler: This gets even worse when he's presented with a live octopus (that he considers a friend) and ordered to eat it.]]
** Could be FridgeBrilliance, depending on how ambiguous his Jewishness is: lobster and octopus aren't kosher!

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Deep is shocked when Homelander asks him to [[spoiler: kill the running vice president and make it look like an accident]] as he says this is a tantamount to treason. He’s also very disturbed by animal cruelty. Specifically mistreatment of aquatic life. This is justified because he can literally hear their thoughts.

** By Season 3, the Deep is a {{Deconstruction}} of this trope, as he has terrible things happen to him so many times that starts becoming excessive, with [[spoiler:him being forced to eat his octopus friend Timothy alive]] transcending KickTheSonOfABitch and reaching KickTheDog territory due to how mean spirited it is.

* TraumaCongaLine: [[spoiler:After Starlight hints that someone in The Seven assaulted her, everyone involved pretty much knows it's The Deep. It's outright stated there are other women, and with Starlight having unlocked the door, it's only a matter of time before one of them kicks it open. He is forced by Stillwell to make a public apology, then take a sabbatical from The Seven and get reassigned to Sandusky, Ohio. As Sandusky is lacking in violent crime, he's pretty much limited to water park openings. He meets a hot groupie and takes her back to his apartment for some playtime, and she rapes him while jamming her fingers in his gills (which ''hurts''). When super-powered terrorists come to light, he's convinced he's finally going to get to come back and help out the Navy with dolphin-related secret projects, only to be told "ain't gonna happen." He tries to buy a lobster as a pet, only for the meat counter attendant to stab it in the head, thinking he wanted it for dinner. The last we see of The Deep, he's giving himself a TraumaticHaircut while repeatedly calling himself stupid. May or may not be enough to make you start feeling sorry for the guy.]]

* AdaptationalSexuality: In the comics, Jack from Jupiter's favorite pastime is having group sex with pre-op transgender prostitutes. Translucent is married with a wife and a son and despite being a massive creep, doesn't show any significant interest in transgender people or in having weird sex parties.

* ChurchOfHappyology: In Season 2, he joins the Church of the Collective after a few sessions meant to better himself.

* SuperStrength: She's implied to be about the only Supe who can match Homelander in this department. Proven in the Season 2 finale, [[spoiler: where she utterly demolishes Stormfront in a fistfight. This is later proven true in the Season 3 finale, where she manages to be the first character on-screen to make Homelander BLEED.]].

[[Characters/TheBoys2019TheBoys The Boys]] ([[Characters/TheBoys2019BillyButcher Billy Butcher]], [[Characters/TheBoys2019AssociatesOfTheBoys Associates of the Boys]]) | [[Characters/TheBoys2019Supes Supes]] ('''The Seven''', [[[Characters/TheBoys2019Homelander Homelander]], [[Characters/TheBoys2019Starlight Starlight]], [[Characters/TheBoys2019BlackNoir Black Noir]], [[Characters/TheBoys2019ATrain A-Train]], [[Characters/TheBoys2019Stormfront Stormfront]]], [[Characters/TheBoys2019SoldierBoy Soldier Boy]]) | [[Characters/TheBoys2019VoughtInternational Vought International]] | [[Characters/TheBoys2019Other Others]]-]]]]]

* WomenAreWiser: Queen Maeve and Annie/Starlight are so far the only members who have a moral compass, are genuinely good people and are disgusted with the rest of the Supes misusing their position. [[spoiler: And while Stormfront's moral compass is basically non-existent, she's an incredibly intelligent SocialExpert that runs circles around Homelander with a fraction of the resources]].