History Recap / TheBoysS03E02TheOnlyManInTheSky

* BullyingADragon: Someone in the audience at Homelander's birthday yells "Hey, Homelander, your fucking Nazi died!". The reason this isn't TooDumbToLive is because Vought's been so good at covering up his sociopathy.

* HollywoodAtheist: Homelander reveals he doesn't actually believe in God (although a part of his public image is supposedly being a devout Christian and minister) while "talking down" a suicidal young woman, saying it's only him up there in the sky. This is right before he makes her jump, instead of saving her.

** Gunpowder looks like Judge Dredd from ''Film/Dredd'', where he was played by Billy Butcher's actor.

* AnalogyBackfire: When Homelander starts making Christian references to Chloe, the teen he's supposed to talk out of committing suicide on a ledge of a tall building, the girl points out she's Jewish and has no idea what he's talking about. Though Homelander likely doesn't care.

* VillainHasAPoint: Homelander's speech in the end was mostly him ranting and self-aggrandizing, but he's not wrong with how Vought tried to control him as well as society as a whole.

* CreepyChild: Teddy Stillwell has grown up a bit, and repeatedly freaks Hughie out by teleporting right next to him while never saying a word. Then, head down, Teddy points at Hughie on the TV.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Edgar appears to have a genuine loving relationship with Neuman and her daughter.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: After bouncing off a column, then a pipe, then passing through two panes of tempered glass, then bouncing off another column, there's no way a bullet from a handgun could be dangerous to Butcher. Hell, it probably couldn't even get through the second pane of glass, maybe not even the first.

** The suicidal girls tells Homelander that she's gonna jump. But after Homelander's rant following the news on Stormfront's suicide, she changed her mind but Homelander pushed her.

* KilledOffScreen: Stormfront commits suicide in her hospital bed, but the audience as well as Ashley and Homelander only find out after the fact as a giant news announcements.

* MusicAgeDissonance: Supersonic's biggest hit is a song called ''License to Drive'', about being attracted to a girl who just turned 16. ''Yeah.'' Supposedly he originally sung it in his late teens/early 20s, where it was still inappropriate but it's so much worse now that he's in his late 20s and still singing it.

* OffTheRails: Homelander goes off book and on an epic SuperSupremacist rant in the middle of his birthday celebration, shocking everyone.
* OhCrap: Ashley gets several, thanks to Homelander. She knows he's going to respond poorly to Stormfront's suicide, and that it happens in the middle of a rescue just makes the situation worse. Then he goes on a SuperSupremacist rant ''on live tv'', startling everyone in the audience, disgusting Edgar, and scaring Starlight and Ashley.

** A-Train heavy-handed attempt to rebrand himself and focus around his African ancestry is a not-so-subtle jab toward Disney's massive marketing campaign around ''Film/BlackPanther2018'', where they were trying to up-sell a superhero movie as the biggest social event of the decade and the most relevant thing, but mostly just blatantly targeting African-American demographic.

** The people on tv chanting "Stormfront was right" are carrying tiki torches, like the alt-right neo-nazis the night before the deadly rally in Charlottesville.

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Averted; Gunpowder does exactly that to utcher.

* BadassBandolier: Gunpowder invokes this by wearing two on his uniform.

* ImprobableAimingSkills: Gunpowder's stock in trade.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: InUniverse, Neuman mistakes Hughie's cut hand and missing work for another problem, possibly depression or drug abuse.

* KickTheDog: While already [[SuicideIsShameful insensitive and cruel]] towards a suicidal girl, when Homelander finds out that Stormfront committed suicide, he then ''forces'' the poor girl to jump.