Characters / The Boys

Character Sheet for The Boys. For the Prime Video series, see here.

The Boys

In General

The titular group and the main protagonists of the series. They work together to keep "Superheroes" in their place whenever they commit unheroic acts.

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• Cape Busters: They are a group of CIA-affiliated Cape Busters. Unlike other groups, however, they actually have superpowers (albeit mainly super strength, to be able to fight on par with the resident "Superheroes").
• Empowered Badass Normal: Even before they were juiced up with the Super Serum Compound V, some of them were real bruisers.

Billy Butcher

"All right, boys. Let's give 'em a fuckin' spankin'."

The leader of the titular "Boys", an ex-CIA agent with a homicidal hatred for superheroes, especially Homelander, for raping his wife.

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• Affably Evil: While he becomes batshit and determined to kill everyone with a trace of Compound V in their bodies near the end of the series, this doesn't stop him from being cordial towards Hughie.
• All a Part of the Job: Besides wanting to take out The Homelander, this is the reason he joined, remained with, and reformed The Boys. Billy loves nothing more than getting an opportunity to maim or murder a superhero.
• And Then What?: Once the Homelander and Black Noir are dead, he gets back to work eliminating all supers, including his teammates.
• Badass Longcoat: Standard issue uniform for The Boys.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: He displays all the tendencies of a Sociopathic Hero, but Billy is very capable of empathy and kindness—he genuinely loved his mother and younger brother and, thanks to Becky, was willing to move past his violent tendencies and start life as a civil man. Though what happened to Becky was enough to drive him mad with rage against superheroes, he still displays a level of civility towards the rest of the Boys, especially Hughie, who he views as a little brother.
• Berserk Button: Superheroes, period. To the point where Billy was ready to assault Superduper because one of their members, the Klanker, accidentally called him a "fucking cunt" due to his Tourette's Syndrome. By the end, he's got to the point where he's decided to commit superhero genocide and killed off Mother's Milk, Frenchie and the Female just in case they try to stop him.
• Big Brother Instinct: He feels this towards Hughie... and for all his manipulation and lies, he was truly sincere about his friendship with him.
• Blood Knight: Long before he even heard of Mallory and/or Compound V, he loved nothing more than getting into a nasty row.
• Brits Love Tea: Butcher's partial to a nice cup of tea, and very keen on what he sees as the correct preparation.
  Butcher: "When you're done we can go in and you can have your girl make me a nice cuppa tea. Proper tea, Monkey. Not that shit with a fuckin' tampon string in it you Septics think is tea."
• Broken Tears: After killing Black Noir in Issue #65, effectively avenging Becky's rape and death, Billy breaks down in tears, admitting that she would hate him for what he's become.
• The Butcher: It's right in the name (the Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker miniseries makes clear it is his surname), demonstrating Billy is as ruthless as it gets.
• Combat Pragmatist: If he's not gone dangerously stupid with bloodlust, he'll usually find a practical way of dealing with opponents. Against the Female, he doubts he can survive a fight with her, so he booby traps the building she's in and blows her and Frenchie up. When Mallory tests him (an unpowered Butcher is to kill a bunch of young Supes with just a FN-FAL rifle), he does so - including against a Nigh-Invulnerable Supe (Billy kills him by first shooting him in his vulnerable eye and then when the Supe screams in pain, Billy shoots him through the mouth).
• Control Freak: Shows shades of this throughout the story, with it being the most apparent in the final arc. When he first gave Hughie the Compound V, he says that it's for his own good and makes his lack of permission seem like a minor oversight. Near the end it's revealed that he's been paying Hughie's landlord to masturbate onto his front door ever since Hughie ignored his recommendation to find a nicer apartment. When he acts like a Papa Wolf to Janine, one would assume it's because he's a Jerk with a Heart of Gold. Then he murders her mother in front of her with the implication that she'll be next if she keeps distracting M.M. from their crusade. And then there's the incident with Rayner, where he threatens to murder her and her entire family if she ever contacts a Supe behind his back again. When she tries to run away by putting Monkey in charge, he doesn't take it well to say the least.
• Country Matters: His favorite insult is the c-word.
• Crusading Widower: Practically the only reason why he's bothered to even stay alive: Find and kill the supe responsible for his beloved Becky's death.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Like you wouldn't fucking believe. Abusive dad, fighting in the Falklands, losing his wife via rape-induced pregnancy and premature birth of a super-fetus... Butcher has a Dark And Troubled LIFE.
• Death by Origin Story: His vendetta towards supes all started when his wife died from being unable to survive carrying the super-powered fetus she got impregnated with from Black Noir raping her.
• Death Seeker: In the final arc, he pretends to have murdered Hughie's parents to goad him into finishing Billy off.
• The Dreaded: If any supe know about him, let alone the rest of The Boys, they're afraid of him. Period.
• Empowered Badass Normal: He was a nightmare in combat to begin with - of the "brutalize and terrorize entire bars full of toughs into submission" level. A shot of Compound V simply enabled him to do the same to all but a handful of superhumans.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Billy's always up for violence and is pretty manipulative, but as shown in his encounter with Soldier Boy, he draws the line at phony veterans.
• Evil Brit: He's not purely evil. Though he is violent, unstable, and manipulative, he is very much capable of concern for his fellow man. However, this concern is largely kept to his closest allies. Everyone else means little to him, and he outright hates supers.
• Evil Counterpart: He eventually becomes this to Hughie. Both lost their significant others to supes, and both want to liberate the world from their corruption. But Butcher is steadfastly violent and cruel, eventually plotting genocide against all people with Compound V in them. Hughie refuses to follow Butcher's path and decides to do what he can to make the world a better place for everyone.
• Excrement Statement: The Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker miniseries ends with him urinating on the face of his father's corpse.
• Expy: He has a lot in common with The Punisher, which isn't too surprising given that The Punisher is one of Garth Ennis' favorite comic characters. Billy Butcher and Frank Castle have similar backstories and motivations for their chosen targets because of their losses, with Butcher wanting to kill all supes after his wife was raped and impregnated with a child she didn't survive being pregnant with being parallel to Frank Castle waging war on crime after criminals killed his family. It can also be considered a Deconstruction of the character as well considering how messed up in the head you'd have to be to do what they do.
• Face Death with Dignity:
  • After the G-Men discover that Hughie is a spy for The Boys, almost all their members gear up outside their mansion to kill them. Hughie, Frenchie, Mother's Milk, and the Female all march to what might be their last stand. Billy shakes his head and joins them, smiling and saying there are worse ways to die.
  • In Issue #71, after his plan to commit Supe genocide fails, Billy goads Hughie into killing him by believing he killed his family. Butcher smiles and thanks Hughie before he dies.
• Face–Heel Turn: Initially the Leader of the Boys, dedicated to keeping rogue superheroes in line, Butcher eventually declares total annihilation of all supers, including his own team. Then again, taking his Fantastic Racism and utter ruthlessness into account, chances are he never really was a Face to begin with.
• Fantastic Racism: He loathes superheroes to a horrifically intense degree, to the point that he bluntly dismisses Mother's Milk's query over the possibility of good super-powered beings existing and once the majority of the heroes in every corner of the world are dead, he decides to escalate his goals and kill everyone who has even a hint of Compound V in their system.
• Fate Worse than Death: He wants Hughie to give him a Mercy Kill after he's paralyzed. If he's not dead, then he'll serve the rest of his life behind bars, and given all the innocent people he's killed - everyone inside would be brutalizing him every day.
• Fauxreigner: Pretends to be American in case he needs to fool someone, although he admits his Yank accent is crap.
• Genocide from the Inside: His ultimate goal is to kill everyone who has been exposed to Compound V or has it in their system, even though it would mean killing all his closest friends (and himself) and millions of non-supes as well.
• Graceful Loser: Despite his desire to end the Superhuman threat once and for all, he accepts his failure calmly. He even set it up so that Hughie would have at least some chance of stopping him.
• Hell Has New Management: Hughie's final verdict of him:
  Starlight: What about the guy, the one in charge?
  Hughie: He's in Hell. Kickin' the fuck out o' the Devil.
• He Who Fights Monsters: Played with; he admits this about himself in Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker. Billy was well on his way to being a violent sociopath until he met his wife Becky. Once she died, Mallory set him back on the fast track to this by recruiting him into The Boys. This is eventually played straight, however, when it's revealed Butcher's planning to enact a Final Solution to everyone who's got Compound V, to the point where Hughie outright calls him a supervillain.
• Hidden Depths: The classic scene where the ruthless, homicidal, borderline psychotic bruiser offhandedly answers Hughie's semi-rhetorical question of what love is with an answer that utterly stuns everyone in earshot:
  Billy: It's about two people findin' each other.
  [blank stares and shocked silence from the rest of the Boys]
  Billy: What?
• Hypocrite:
  • Early on, Butcher insults the Teenage Kix by noting that they all look alike; however, this criticism applies to the Boys as well since they all wear leather jackets to better identify friends from foes.
  • Butcher hates superheroes but is friends with Love Sausage, who used to be a superhero. Hughie calls him out for this.
    Butcher: Well, you used to wet the bed, Hughie, but we still use you. Nobody's perfect.
• It Runs in the Family: It's all but stated that Billy is a high-functioning psychotic and that he inherited the trait from his father - the only difference being that Billy could be talked down by someone compassionate enough, while his father simply treated compassion as weakness. When intensely stressed, he literally dissociates from his actions and is incapable of controlling himself;
  Butcher: ...that feelin' I get sometimes, whenever I really fuckin' go for it. ...Like I'm somewhere else, watchin' it happen.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Comes off as this if you're feeling generous.
• Love Makes You Evil: The love he felt for Becky was genuine, and when he discovered what had happened to her, he was driven so far down the Despair Event Horizon that he was willing to kill and torture superheroes all for the sake of his revenge. Hughie discovers the depths of his pain once it's revealed Butcher plans to kill everyone who's been exposed to Compound V in any way, regardless of how much damage it would cause to the world.
• Main Character Final Boss: After the deaths of the Homelander and Black Noir, he becomes the Arc Villain of the final arc.
• Manipulative Bastard: He will say or do anything it takes to get the results he wants. He does seem to have genuine affection for Hughie, although that doesn't stop him from using him to his own advantage. Perhaps the most triumphant example is when he manipulates Hughie into admitting he's dating a superhero (something Billy already knew), and shows him the video of Starlight's "initiation" to the Seven, claiming he doesn't actually know what's on there.
• Meaningful Name: Billy Butcher. He well and truly lives up to it.
  • To drive the point home, his surname was originally supposed to be Savage.
• Morality Chain: His wife Becky.
• Morality Pet: Has a literal one in Terror. Hughie also qualifies as one; the only reason he fails to wipe out superhumans is because when Hughie almost falls off the Empire State Building, Billy reaches out to save him, causing both of them to fall in such a way that Butcher is unable to activate his bombs).
• Noble Bigot: Constantly mocks gay and transgender people, calls Americans "Septics" (Septic Tank = Yank), and (like many Brits) refers to Chinese food as "Chinky", but doesn't actually hate anyone based on who they are other than supers – after all, he's happy to work with the Japanese Female and African-American Mother's Milk. Despite his sociopathic tendencies, he has an easy charm that allows him to get on well with almost anyone. He actually despises Rayner because he sees her as racist toward Middle Easterners, and he's nothing but respectful when talking to a gay couple.
• Nominal Hero: He only does what he does to further his own plan to exact revenge on the Homelander and make life miserable for other supers, not out of any real loyalty for the CIA or anyone else. He even admits to Hughie that if there were someone else who could give him better means and opportunity to do so, he would be working for them instead.
• Not So Above It All: Every time another character like Hughie or Mallory wants to make a grandstanding speech over the people who killed their loved ones, Butcher lambastes them for wasting their time. But when the time comes that he gets to kill the one who raped his wife, Black Noir, he admits that despite lecturing others against doing it, he can't help but desire to do it too before finishing the job.
• "Not So Different" Remark: For all his talk about hating superheroes and what they do, as Hughie himself notes of his final plan to kill all those with Compound V in their system, he's ultimately no different from a supervillain.
  Hughie: The city's LEGO an' people are toys: you sound like a fuckin' supervillain...
• Politically Incorrect Hero: Mother's Milk claims otherwise, but he does have a habit of using homophobic slurs, which is first shown when he explains to Hughie the dark secrets of several superheroes whose comics are on display and refers to several of them as "poof" or "dyke".
• Shipper on Deck: 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.
• Silly Rabbit, Cynicism Is for Losers!: Thanks to the huge Trauma Conga Line he's been forced to endure throughout his entire life, Butcher's become a force to be reckoned with—to the point where he can go toe-to-toe against other supers and survive largely because he's just that good a tactician. And what ultimately ruins his plans to kill everyone in the world with Compound V? He tries to save Hughie from falling off the Empire State Building but in doing so is brought down along with him. Though both of them survive the fall due to a small platform right beneath them, Butcher becomes paralyzed from the neck down. Thanks to the genuine concern he has for his closest friend, Butcher ends up botching the Evil Plan he'd worked on for years.
• Sleeping with the Boss: He's sleeping with Rayner, though it's not so much a relationship as it is vitriolic, mutually self-imposed hatesex.
• The Sociopath: Although there are people he cares about, Butcher still comes across as this in several scenes. And as it turns out, even the people he considers friends aren't safe from him. This is most notably shown by how often he smiles while committing violence and bullying.
• Team Killer: He ends up killing Mallory, Vogelbaum, Mother's Milk, Frenchie and The Female. The only one he spares is Hughie.
• Tranquil Fury: Displays this when he goes off to murder Jack From Jupiter when he thinks Jack killed his dog Terror.
• Tragic Villain: What he becomes. See below.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Butcher is called in to brutally dispatch supes who've gotten out of control but does so because he despises the callous and sadistic crimes his prey partake in. Also, while his endgame is killing anyone with Compound V in their blood, he's doing so because he thinks the world will always be in turmoil with the Vought's program continuing.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: In Butcher's case, Played With. He wasn't exactly a nice guy early in his life. But he gradually became a better person when he met his wife, Becky. Then she got raped by Homelander, really Black Noir. And then she died when the child crawled out of her womb. He's implied to have Death Seeker tendencies, and in issue 65 after Black Noir and Homelander are dead, he admits, with tears in his eyes, that Becky would loathe what he has become.
• Would Hurt a Child: He has no problems with hurting and killing minors if they're supes. In his backstory, he even kills an infant supe after Becky suffered a Death by Childbirth.

Wee Hughie

"An' in the meantime, like, while I'm sittin' around agonizin' about stuff like this, the Butchers an' Mallorys an' Vought-Americans o' the world just get on' wit' it...!"

The newest member of the team, Hughie was an average guy living a relatively normal life with his girlfriend until she was accidentally killed by the superhero; A-Train, seeing potential in him, Butcher conscripted him against his will.

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• Atrocious Alias: When infiltrating the G-Men in the "We Gotta Go Now" arc, he's forced to use the codename Bagpipe.
• Berserk Button: Is easily angered by people abusing others (after learning the truth about the G Men he's the one to advocate fighting the G Men head-on and is willing to take on Malchemical in a battle to the death to protect Superduper from him).
• Butt-Monkey: The least fortunate of the main characters, particularly when the "We Gotta Go Now" arc has him forced to wear a ludicrous costume and use the absurd codename "Bagpipe" to infiltrate the G-Men and the Herogasm miniseries has him sexually assaulted by Black Noir.
• Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Intentionally designed to resemble Simon Pegg. Pegg himself would play Hughie's dad in the Prime Video adaptation, and then voice Hughie himself in The Boys: Diabolical.
• Dating Catwoman: Has no idea that Annie is Starlight and a member of The Seven. For a while, anyway. He doesn't take it well when he finds out.
• Death by Origin Story: The series starts with him being drafted into The Boys after his girlfriend Robin is killed by A-Train's carelessness.
• Double Standard: Rape, Male on Male: Explicitly pointed out by him—when he comes clean about being sexually assaulted by Black Noir, the group merely shows indifference due to the timing of the confession (after their office has been bombed), something he's woefully enraged by, as he found the experience genuinely traumatic.
• Family Relationship Switcheroo: It's heavily implied though never actually stated that Hughie's mentally handicapped "Auntie Mary" was actually his mother. Part of the implication is shared Butt-Monkey characteristics; the last time Hughie saw the poor woman was after she released a seventeen-foot-long tapeworm into the toilet, an experience that not only left Hughie unable to speak for an entire year, but permanently put her in assisted care.
• The Heart: He is the most emotional and compassionate of the team.
• Ignored Epiphany: Turns his back on Starlight and leaves her despite knowing that it's the wrong thing to do. He later changes his mind though.
• Kid Detective: The Highland Laddie miniseries establishes that he and his friends solved mysteries when they were children.
• The Mole: Goes undercover investigating G-Whiz. Butcher also later sends him to infiltrate Super Duper, while simultaneously trying to see if Hughie is actually a mole planted inside the Boys.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: Thanks to Compound V, he's very strong without having a muscular frame.
• Naïve Newcomer: Arrives naive; Butcher makes sure this doesn't last long. It is subverted later, as Butcher realizes that Hughie never actually became desensitized to the violence and retains an air of innocence and naivete due to never giving up his principles while retaining his integrity and in the end, Butcher realizes that this makes Hughie vastly more admirable than him.
• Potty Emergency: He has to take a dump when he and Butcher are confronting Tek-Knight and his inability to enter the restroom leads to him resorting to crapping on the floor of Tek-Knight's cave.
• Reluctant Warrior: Flip-flops between this and lashing out violently when facing Supes.
• Replacement Goldfish: He realizes that he is this for Butcher's younger brother Lenny, who had died in a car crash.
• Token Good Teammate: The nicest of The Boys and the most reluctant towards using violence on his enemies.
• Vengeance Feels Empty: When Butcher gives him the chance to kill A-Train in retribution for his careless slaughter of Robin, Hughie notably finds no satisfaction in doing so.

Mother's Milk

"Don't ask about the name."

A key member of the team, his nickname comes from his obsession with breastmilk. He's also the team's investigator and the one who helps keep the group together.

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• Afro Asskicker: Sports a righteous 'fro and is one bad muthafucka.
• Black Dude Dies First: This trope's in full effect, as he's the first active member of the Boys to die at Billy Butcher's hands.
• Death by Origin Story: His motivation for going against the supes and Vought-American is because of his mentally handicapped older brother dying from Compound V making his head swell while wearing a helmet and his father dying from overworking himself while trying to pursue a way to hold Vought-American accountable for their actions.
• Does Not Know His Own Strength: Decapitates an opponent in the ring when his inborn Compound-V-induced Super-Strength kicks in at just the wrong moment.
• Good Is Not Nice: At all. Well, if you're a Supe or his vile estranged wife. Otherwise, he's pleasant to be around.
• Killed Off for Real: Butcher kills him at the start of the final arc.
• Papa Wolf: Averted. He doesn't get the chance to go wild on the people who put his daughter in a porn film, Billy got there first.
  • He goes apeshit when he finds out Butcher orchestrated Hughie's encounter with Malchemical on the suspicion Hughie is a mole for Vought.
• Pet the Dog: He genuinely likes Hughie and they share a close friendship; he's notably MUCH more honest with Hughie than Butcher is, and as his reaction to Butcher manipulating Hughie shows, he really does care about the younger man's safety.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Compared to Butcher, Frenchman and The Female, Mother's Milk is actually rather nice to be around and actually goes about his missions in a calm, professional manner that surprisingly makes him come off looking like he should be the leader compared to Butcher who's just more into causing as much pain as possible to their targets.
• The Reliable One: Butcher specifically cites him as the guy holding the group together, he's the best investigator/detective of the group, and once Mallory is gone, the only sane one before Hughie is brought on.
• Scary Black Man: Comes off this way if you don't know him. He's actually the most even-tempered and reasonable member of the team. But he's utterly terrifying in battle.
• Team Dad: Let's face it; without this guy, the Boys would just fall apart. He's trusted as a voice of reason and is pretty much the only man in the comic (besides Hughie) Butcher considers a genuine friend. After his death at Butcher's hands, Hughie, Frenchie, and even the Female all mourn him; a testament to how much he meant to them.
• Weaksauce Weakness: His name? It's because he gets his V-powers from suckling on his mother's milk. He has to go back periodically or he not only loses them but starts starving.

The Frenchman

The demolitions expert of the team, and the Female's unofficial "handler".

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• Accent Slip-Up: At various points, he calls people "wanker" or "mum." This, coupled with his enrollment in the French Foreign Legion and his frequently inaccurate Gratuitous French, hints that he's actually a really crazy Brit.
• An Arm and a Leg: Loses his right forearm in the midst of a battle towards the end of the series.
• Ax-Crazy: Shares this trait to some degree with The Female. Which is a prime reason why they get along so well.
• Berserk Button: Disparage the French at your own risk.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Is completely nuts. He might even be delusional about his nationality.
• Dying Declaration of Love: To the Female, before Butcher's bomb explodes.
• Face Death with Dignity: When he realizes he's about to die, he simply tells the Female he loves her.
• Fauxreigner: It's heavily implied that he's not actually French (most probably some stripe of British).
• Flipping the Bird: His account of his origins in the 37th issue has him flip off his significant other Marie in retribution for her leaving him for another man.
• Gratuitous French: Spouts off word phrases in French that are only sometimes accurate. The French translation changes some of them to actually make sense.
• Goggles Do Nothing: He lowers them when in a fight, but otherwise they don't seem to serve a purpose.
  • Probably to keep blood from blinding him while fighting. Considering the massive amounts of the stuff flying about whenever the Female and him to their thing, he probably learned a while back that he didn't want to waste precious seconds wiping blood from his eyes when goggles would be much easier.
• Killed Off for Real: Although those two familiar bunches of floating balloons in the final scene hint that he and the Female may have survived.
• Nice Guy: He's quite genial and jovial most of the time. But if you're a supe, or insult the French in any way, you will be needing reconstructive surgery.
• Poirot Speak: He tends to mix English and French when speaking.
• Shame If Something Happened: How he gets the Mafia to cancel their current and future contracts with The Female.
• You Are a Credit to Your Race: Inverted: When an American tourist mocks him for being French with the usual "We Saved Your Ass in World War Two" routine, Frenchie sarcastically asks him which American general he served under. The American is just confused, so Frenchie lets him have it:
  Frenchie: "You invoke my country's history yet you do not even know your own. You are a disgrace to the United States. Fuck You".

The Female (of the Species)

The only female member of the team. A young girl with mutism and incredible fighting abilities.

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• Abusive Parents: Or rather, grossly neglectful. Her Asian Airhead mother, working as a secretary at a Japanese Vought-American-like company, was so oblivious to her pre-toddler's existence that she didn't even notice when her baby crawled away and accidentally fell into a tub of Compound V waste. The child was then held prisoner by the company to be experimented on (the Female's narration suspects they bought the mother off with a fashion magazine subscription).
• Ax-Crazy: To the point where she goes into withdrawal if she hasn't hurt someone in a while. That said, she struggles against her nature every second of every day, and Frenchie tries to help her avoid hurting anyone.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: A flashback shows that Frenchie first bonded with her by simply giving her proper food, clothing, and a room and just treating her with basic human decency. As a result, he's the only one who can wake her up without dying horribly.
• Born Unlucky: She once told Frenchie that some of her family members have suffered misfortune, and she is no different.
• Cute and Psycho: A small and adorable teenager... and a vicious killer was known for a predilection to rip off faces.
• Excrement Statement: The "Believe" arc has her get even with the boy who took her lollipop by hiding in a bunch of balloons held by the Frenchman and pissing into his ice cream cone when he comes by.
• Hates Being Touched: Vas apparently lost two fingers finding this one out.
• Horrifying the Horror: Even Butcher is visibly disturbed by how violent she is.
• Lightning Bruiser: Stronger and faster than the other Boys, and most superheroes as well.
• Little Miss Badass: She's a young girl who is very capable of beating the crap out of her enemies (or worse).
• Killed Off for Real: Although those two familiar bunches of floating balloons in the final scene hint that she and the Frenchman may have survived.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She's only a teenager, and diminutive in stature, but lethally strong, fast, and bloodthirsty.
• Psycho for Hire: Hires her skills to the mob so she can satisfy her need to kill people.
• Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: Said "basic skill" is not having the urge to kill at all times.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: After seeing Frenchie's arm getting lasered off, she can't deal with the fighting anymore and wants out of the Boys. Mother's Milk intended to release her out of pity, but she opts to stay with the group to help take down Billy Butcher. She (and The Frenchman) are later apparently blown up by a bomb planted in their headquarters by Butcher.
• The Silent Bob: Never says anything except in one very brief scene, but is nonetheless completely understood by the Frenchman.
• Sweet Tooth: She's shown to have a great love of sweets, but especially candy. In issue 34, she even literally broke Hughie's arm when he tried to eat some candy that belonged to her (breaking out of a coma to do so). It also takes Frenchie restraining her to keep her from killing a boy who takes her lollipop in the "Believe" arc.
• Tear Off Your Face: Frequently done to opponents in fistfights.

Greg D. Mallory

"I've been walking down this road since 1944. Kim and Kara died last week, do you really think that's what burned me out?"

Butcher's former CIA handler and the team's informant.

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• "Facing the Bullets" One-Liner: His final words have him accepting his imminent demise and demanding his killer get it over with already.
  Mallory: I'm ninety-one years old and it feels like twice that. My daughter never spoke to me again, and she's the only person I really care about. Even with all the things I got wrong, my life doesn't even qualify as a joke or a lie. It's nothing more than a lump of dogshit. (sips drink) So why don't you do me a favor and get it the hell over with, mm?
• Fatal Flaw: His self-righteousness. As Hughie points out at the end of their talk, Mallory still thinks of himself and everything he did with dignity and honor, never really acknowledging that he's really no different than someone like V.A. in dealing with people or like Butcher in brutality.
• Fauxreigner: When following Hughie back in Scotland after he leaves the Boys temporarily. Hughie notes however that he does a highly convincing English accent.
• Killed Off for Real: Late in the series, somebody, presumably Butcher, hunts him down and kills him off-panel.
• Older Than He Looks: For a ninety-one-year-old man, he looks to be in his fifties. Thanks to Compound V, of course.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: Not forever, but a very long time thanks to Compound V. Or at least until he's presumably killed by an off-panel assailant, implied to be Butcher.

The Legend

A former comic book editor. Now he owns a comic book shop and uses his inside knowledge and connections to provide Butcher and the others with intelligence.

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• Amazon Chaser: Hughie finds a bunch of photographs of him and Maeve in coitus, with Legend clearly enjoying himself tremendously.
• An Arm and a Leg: At some point in the past, both of his feet were severed from his body.
• Artificial Limbs: Has artificial feet.
• Dating Catwoman: Had sex and had a son with Queen Maeve. He continues to love her and tries to convince Billy to leave her out of his vendetta against Supes.
• Dirty Old Man: Hughie first meets him as he's getting a blowjob from a hooker.
• It's Personal: Wants to bring down Vought-American as revenge for his son, who was killed at Ia Drang in the Vietnam War because the M-20 assault rifle his unit was issued, provided by Vought-American, was a total piece of junk they spared every expense in making.
• Kavorka Man: A very short, balding and uncouth man who somehow managed to bed Queen Maeve.
• Mr. Exposition: He is very knowledgeable about Vought-American and the superhero industry and is a frequent source of information.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: The Legend is quite obviously a fictional version of Stan Lee. He even has a monologue that alludes to the famous feud between Lee and Jack Kirby on who really created the iconic Marvel characters of the 1960s.
• Offing the Offspring: Indirectly; he has Hughie kill Blarney Cock, his secret son with Maeve.
• Racist Grandma: He casually uses racial slurs directed at Asians during one of his conversations with Hughie.

Terror

Terror, mate!

Butcher's loyal attack dog.

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• Ambiguous Situation: Not long after Jack from Jupiter's social death, Terror is found dead (e.g. his body still outwardly intact with only blood leaking out of his mouth) in The Boy's office. On one hand, The Boys assume that Jack from Jupiter is responsible for Terror's death as a very short-sighted form of payback. On the other hand, a member of The Seven could've secretly killed Terror to frame Jack from Jupiter to prevent another situation like The Lamplighter. Possibility, Terror's death could be the cause of an unspecified asymptomatic illness at a very coincidental time.
• Animals Lack Attributes: Averted; he's drawn with a prominent scrotum.
• Black Comedy Rape: Mounts anything (or anyone) when Butcher gives him the go-ahead.
• Big Friendly Dog: Towards Butcher, at least. He also loves it when The Female rubs his belly.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: Butcher trained him to hump things on command, including Mister Muffykins-type dogs, cats, and Kessler.
• Morality Pet: To Butcher, who really goes off the rails when Terror is found dead, resulting in Jack from Jupiter's death.
• Urine Trouble: He pees on the Homelander's leg in issue 20.

The Seven

The World's "greatest heroes" according to the media and Vought-American, are composed of the most popular, powerful superhumans. They are the crown jewel of Vought's marketing empire.

In General

• Designer Babies: All of them, besides A-Train and Starlight, were born through vitro fertilization.
• Expy: Of the Justice League, and The Avengers to a lesser extent, being the world's most famous Super Team after all.
• Poor Communication Kills: One of the reasons The Seven perform so poorly is a failure to communicate. For example, part of the reason the 9/11 plane crash went as poorly as it did was that both Maeve and Homelander assumed the other had a plan and didn't bother to formulate one until after it was already too late.
• Unskilled, but Strong: They're powerful, but have very poor training when it comes to delicate matters.

The Homelander

"I can do whatever the fuck I want."

The leader of the Seven, a powerful Flying Brick and egomaniacal asshole created by Vought-American.

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Superman, with a side order of Captain America, though there's already a Cap equivalent in Soldier Boy.
• American Eagle: He's an all-American hero with the bald eagle as his Animal Motif.
• Ax-Crazy: Although he only became this way because he believed he had committed Black Noir's crimes.
• Big Bad Wannabe: He actually ends up becoming this, as Black Noir was revealed to be a clone of him and has framed Homelander for the things he did. Black Noir was also created to kill Homelander in case he went rogue.
• Beware the Superman: This guy has all the powers of Superman, but none of the heart, which is bad news if you find yourself in his crosshairs.
• Depraved Bisexual: Has sex with Soldier Boy every year under the pretense that it's a tryout for the Seven. When asked if it's gay, Homelander just laughs it off.
• The Dreaded: Except for James Stilwell, Billy Butcher, and Black Noir, everyone is terrified of Homelander.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: Hates not being let in on Vought-American’s bigger plans by Stillwell unless he's personally needed.
• Dumb Muscle: 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 notes this in his last encounter with Homelander, asks 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. Even Butcher gets in on this when Homelander rants that since he's all-powerful, he's entitled to "do whatever the fuck he wants" regardless of what others feel, unmovingly comparing his mindset to every known tyrant and despot in history and rhetorically asked that if he couldn't think anything better.
• Eats Babies: Although Black Noir was the actual culprit. Until the final showdown, everyone else believed Homelander did it—including Homelander himself.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • When Starlight finally calls him out for the Casting Couch stunt he, Noir, and A-Train pulled, he defends himself by asserting that he never actually raped her (his response to her asking him if he would have is notably, "Christ, no") as she could have simply refused the job and walked away. He also sexually exploited Soldier Boy and did a Bed Trick with Queen Maeve because he found it funny, but despite that, he still maintains he never raped anyone. Apparently, all types of jerkassery and sexual crimes are fine, but flat-out forcing himself on someone is a line he won't cross. Which is why Black Noir making him believe he had raped and murdered countless people essentially broke his mind and drove him insane. Remembering the photos Noir sent him made him nearly go into a panic attack in the middle of said conversation with Starlight.
  Homelander: There are things I remember and things I don't. The airliner: Yes. The family after Believe: Yes. Murdering the love of your life: No. The things I'm doing in those pictures: No, definitely not. I was shocked beyond belief when I saw those.
  • He also expresses contempt for the way Vought preys on religious people with their Believe event (a scam expo supposedly for Christian superheroes but really just to fleece religious superhero fans), and his most memorable evil deed is a twisted act of rebellion against being forced to attend and support this event.
• Eye Beams: He wouldn't be a proper evil Superman without them.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: He's a tall, muscular man with movie star good looks, but an utter bastard in every imaginable way.
• Fake Ultimate Hero: As the Muller family finds out, to their peril.
• Fallen Hero: He's a heartless psycho now but it's implied that he used to be a decent person until Black Noir gaslit him into insanity.
• Flying Brick: He can fly, has super-strength, is nearly indestructible, and shoots laser beams out of his eyes.
• Gaslighting: Courtesy of Black Noir. As Butcher states, Homelander "turned into a fuckin' psychopath by mistake".
• A God Am I: Before he casually kills a Christian family he was supposed to be taking to dinner by dropping their car from above the cloud layer, he tells them that God is imaginary, and that "the only man in the sky is me".
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: His completely ineffective attempts to stand up to his Vought handlers, especially when supporting Starlight, are so pathetic that you almost start to feel sorry for the guy.
• Irony:
  • He is the only member of the Seven not afraid of Black Noir. He is the only one who should have been, and he is actually killed by Black Noir.
  • When he murders the Muller family, he expresses Hollywood Atheist sentiments denigrating Christian faith and faith in general. When he finds out how Black Noir played him, he repeatedly takes the Lord's name in his shock, saying "Oh my God" over and over again.
  • When he delivers his infamous line "The only man in the sky is me" he appears on the very next page addressing an army of flying supers.
• It Gets Easier: Explored. Black Noir has led Homelander to believe that he has already committed countless atrocities, so Homelander is unable to understand why the crimes that he is now committing (like taking down an airliner, killing an entire family, and plotting to lay siege to the White House) are making him feel so sick and guilty ("Why can't I do the things I can do?")
• Jerkass: Just when you start to think that he might be a decent person and that Butcher was exaggerating about most supers being assholes, he coerces Starlight into oral sex with him, Black Noir, and A-Train when she joins the Seven. And aside from his fly-by cameo in the very first issue, this is the first thing this guy does.
• Kick the Dog: Ironically enough, he doesn't take this literally, as he lets Terror get away with urinating on his leg, but a lot of his interactions with other characters such as Butcher, Starlight, and Queen Maeve all count.
• Killed Offscreen: After he starts fighting Black Noir, the panels cut away to the scenes outside. The next time we see him, Black Noir is dragging what's left of his dismembered corpse.
• Lack of Empathy: Majorly; during the 9/11 incident, he doesn't even care that a plane will go down until Mr. Marathon points out that they'll probably get fired if they don't save it.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Underneath it all, he still has a molecular speck of a conscience, enough to be privately sickened (to the point of vomiting and uttering the trope word for word) by what he has become and started doing. Things are taken further in Issue #65 when it's revealed Black Noir gaslit Homelander into insanity so he could finally kill him, meaning he became a psychopathic monster for no reason.
• Nice Character, Mean Actor: Possibly the shining example in the series. Homelander is an expert at putting up an appealing front to mask his psychotic and megalomaniacal tendencies. It’s implied the front used to be genuine before Black Noir gaslit him into insanity.
• Pet the Dog: Sends Starlight away from the exploitative religious event she was forced to participate in and assures her he'll use his authority to cover for her. Despite the practical reasons (getting her away while he plans for a coup), the prelude to the act (taunting Starlight for her Casting Couch incident before recalling the evidence of him raping and murdering a family) indicate there's also some possible element of remorse. Before this, he also backs her up in an (admittedly failed) confrontation with Stillwell, in which both supers try to excuse themselves from taking part in the Believe scam.
• Politically Incorrect Villain:
  • After The Deep punches out the windshield on the plane they're trying to rescue on 9/11, he says: "Oh, fucking nigger!" Twice.
  • He also calls a Japanese supe who has gone off the rails a "slope" as he flies through his chest.
• Pragmatic Villainy: In one instance, he beats the crap out of A-Train for making sexual remarks to Starlight at a team meeting. Not out of concern for her feelings, but because a Vought-American guy was present, and he didn't want A-Train to make them look bad in front of the guy signing their paychecks.
• Raised in a Lab: Homelander was raised in a lab equipped with an atomic bomb as a failsafe (as befitting a Superman Substitute, the official story is that he'd been found and raised by a rural couple). Strangely enough, his upbringing isn't what eventually drove him off the deep end, that was his clone Black Noir gaslighting him into an official Face–Heel Turn solely to have a reason to kill him, justifying the clone's existence.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: They mean he's trying very hard not to incinerate you with laser vision, or that you're toast.
• Redemption Equals Death: Kind of. His last act is to attack Black Noir. He dies in the process, but Black Noir is left so weakened that he's barely a few steps away from death himself (with his arm ripped off, his gut cut open, and half his head missing). Homelander may have saved thousands of lives by mortally wounding Black Noir as much as he did, possibly even the world. Although considering that Black Noir was there specifically to kill him, it's more likely the opposite.
• Sanity Has Advantages: As strong as Homelander is, his mental issues allow multiple characters to play him like a fiddle, including Butcher, Stillwell, and Black Noir.
• Sanity Slippage: Heavily implied to be on the verge of a mental breakdown, as shown by his constant mood swings and the fact that he talks to his reflection in the mirror.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When the mission to prevent the plane crash during 9/11 quickly goes south, Homelander calmly utters "fuck this" and attempts to leave the passengers to their impending doom.
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: He decides to become an amoral Übermensch because he thinks he has already killed and raped innocent people, even though he has no memory of that happening. Turns out the reason he can't remember those things is that he didn't do them—it was Black Noir, his clone.
• Smug Super: The root of all his self-aggrandizing, homicidal, and sociopathic behavior. Homelander likes to play "Hot or Cold" by reading the subject's body temperature and heart rate while taunting them about the things he's done to them or their loved ones.
• The Sociopath: Ironically, he only becomes this because he believed he had committed the crimes that were actually done by Black Noir.
• Superman Substitute: With his power set and status as the leader of a superhero team based on the Justice League, he's essentially Superman with blond hair, a more patriotic costume, and much, much fewer scruples.
• Superpower Lottery: He's considered the strongest Supe on the planet, and for good reason.
• Übermensch: He really, really wants to be one, but unfortunately for him, his strength is all physical, and mentally he's a complete pushover.
• The Unfought: Despite being the big reason that drives Butcher's revenge actions throughout the comic, Butcher never fights Homelander mano-a-mano once the true Big Bad is revealed.
• Villainous Breakdown: Stillwell seems to instigate these the most with him.
• Villainous BSoD: Has an even bigger breakdown that turns into this after learning that Black Noir was the one who committed the atrocities that led to him believing he was beyond redemption and might as well be evil, meaning that every atrocity he committed was unnecessary.
• Villain Respect: In one of his few vaguely friendly interactions with Starlight, he expresses some admiration of her for not meekly going along with Stillwell's orders.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Like most of the world's supers, he is despicable, but thanks to Vought-American, he is able to maintain a good image. It’s implied that at least part of the image was genuine before Black Noir gaslit him into insanity.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: A lot of his motivation comes from wanting to prove himself to Stillwell and Vought, as much as he hates to admit it.
• Wearing a Flag on Your Head: Dresses in a red, white, and blue outfit with a Stars-and-Stripes-patterned cape.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Averted, actually. Homelander's quite insane but his godlike powers actually have little to do with it. Instead, most of his psychosis comes from his dysfunctional codependency on Vought to give him purpose and his clone Black Noir making him believe he's committed the most vile acts imaginable.
• World's Strongest Man: By a pretty hefty margin. In the finale, the military massacres all of the other Supers easily, but Black Noir (his physically-matched clone) can take the combined firepower of dozens of aircraft and Humvees with ease and only dies because he was already mortally wounded by Homelander. It's stated that even as a child, Vought had to keep a nuclear bomb next to him, as that's the only way they could kill him.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: It turns out that he only got to this point because of atrocities he thought he committed, believing that he was far beyond saving. In truth, Black Noir, who turns out to be his clone, committed several of these crimes (including the baby eating) in an attempt to get Homelander to the point where he could perform his purpose: to kill Homelander.
• Would Hit a Girl: He kills Queen Maeve.

Queen Maeve

"This is what being a fucking hero is, kid."

A founding member of the Seven. She was a cynical but well-intentioned hero before the disaster of 9/11, now she just spends her time drinking her life away and having sex with anybody she fancies.

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• The Alcoholic: The 9/11 disaster took a huge toll on her and she seemed to lose all the passion she once had for her job, turning to drink as a result. Now she doesn't care at all about world affairs "as long as she's got enough gin inside her".
• Alpha Bitch: Deconstructed. She comes off this way due to her overall demeanor and how she (initially) treats new recruit Starlight, but it later becomes apparent that she acts this way as a coping mechanism due to the ordeals she's gone through.
• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Wonder Woman.
• Bed Trick: Is the victim of one, at the hands of The Homelander and Black Noir, who are exact duplicates of each other.
• Breast Expansion: According to a look-through X-ray vision in issue 60, she has breast implants.
• Broken Bird: Implied to have been an idealist like Starlight before the 9/11 disaster and the Bed Trick she's subjected to with Black Noir at the hands of the Homelander, who she was in love with at the time.
• Cool Sword: Subverted. It looks cool, but it's actually just a prop, and when she tries to slice into Homelander's head with it, it shatters on impact.
• Deadpan Snarker: Makes a lot of sarcastic comments about Annie's naivety and the generally hedonistic and immoral nature of the setting's superheroes.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Slowly but surely.
• Defector from Decadence: With Starlight, or at least she tries to, before Homelander decapitates her.
• Empty Shell: "I just want to live inside myself."
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She may be one of the bad guys, but she genuinely does love the Legend and does feel bad when their son (Blarney Cock) is killed off.
• Grievous Harm with a Body: In her last stand against the Nigh-Invulnerable Homelander, she throws one of her very willing admirers at him like a javelin. This works about as well as you'd expect.
• The Hedonist: Sleeps with bodybuilders two at a time when she isn't downing gallons of alcohol.
• Heroic Sacrifice: She helped Starlight to escape from The Seven's HQ after Homelander shows up to kill them both just for kicks, doing her best to hold him off afterwards.
• Killed Offscreen: Decapitated off-panel by Homelander.
• The Mole: He's the source of info for The Boys.
• Named After Somebody Famous: A mythological Irish queen. Darick Robertson even sketched her with the same costume as the namesake before the more Wonder Woman-esque eventual outfit.
• Off with Her Head!: Homelander effortlessly punched her head off her shoulders.
• Really Gets Around: Aside from the multitude of faceless boy toys she regularly runs through, she's also had carnal relations with The Legend, The Homelander, Stormfront, and unwittingly, Black Noir.
• Revenge Porn Blackmail: The Seven took photos of her "audition" for the team, which they've used for years as blackmail in case she ever got ideas about challenging Homelander's leadership or quitting the team.
• Token Good Teammate: She's far kinder than the rest of the Seven, and genuinely regrets the events of 9/11.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Starlight. Maeve seemed to be on good terms with her, despite both of them openly stating that they don't like each other very much.
• Wonder Woman Wannabe: She is a rather obvious Wonder Woman expy, considering she is the Seven's most prominent female member and wears a costume consisting of a tiara, a pair of metallic bracelets, and a low-cut leotard with a crest shaped vaguely like a bird on the chest.

Black Noir

"Hheeehhhhnnnhhh..."

^{Unmasked (MAJOR SPOILERS)}

A mysterious silent hero clad in black and arguably the most feared member of the Seven.

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Batman. Or more accurately, Bizarro, given his true nature as a clone of the Homelander.
• Always a Bigger Fish: Is even stronger than the Homelander, because he was created to kill him.
• Ax-Crazy: During The Reveal, he freely admits that he enjoyed committing the atrocities that he used to gaslight Homelander.
• Batman Parody: 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). 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 the other superheroes (especially Homelander and himself) if they ever went rogue, tendency to be Beneath Notice, and is cunning enough to implement a long-term Batman Gambit to gaslight Homelander into becoming a threat and practically manipulated both Vought-America and The Boys into conflict with neither side being the wiser till it was too late.
• Bed Trick: One of the first clues that he's a clone of the Homelander is when the Homelander convinces him to switch out when he's screwing Maeve, citing their similar builds.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: Even the other members of The Seven are scared of him, excluding Homelander, obviously. And Queen Maeve.
• Big Bad: He's the TRUE main villain of the superhero subplot, having gaslit Homelander into insanity by framing him for various atrocities. He's also the one who raped Butcher's wife, sparking Butcher's homicidal crusade against the hero community. Even after he dies and Butcher takes the role of the main villain, Noir's influence still remains.
• Body Horror: After his fight with the Homelander, he has his intestines hanging out, is missing about a quarter of his head, has a thoroughly scorched lower half of his body, and is missing a lot of flesh on his left arm. He's still laughing.
• Conflict Killer: The revelation that he is the true rapist and murderer of Billy Butcher's wife unites Butcher and the Homelander against him, although the former hauls butt out rather than trying to intervene when he and the latter start going at it.
• Corrupted Contingency: Black Noir is a clone of Homelander, created to stop the latter if he were to go rogue. Unfortunately, Black Noir grew bored with waiting for a reason to take Homelander out and decided to engineer the scenario he was designed to prevent by committing a spree of horrible crimes and gaslighting Homelander into thinking he was the one who committed them. This resulted in Homelander further embracing his already cruel and depraved nature, escalating to him leading an attempted coup. However, despite everything he did to frame and corrupt Homelander, Vought-American never does give him the order, showing if there ever was a line, Homelander either never crossed it in their eyes, or they did not actually care.
• Department of Redundancy Department: Noir means 'Black' in French. In other words, his name is basically "Black Black".
• Didn't Think This Through: Vought thought that Homelander was too powerful so they created a contingency, but they didn’t consider that creating an even more powerful clone as said contingency might be a stupid way to go. This is especially apparent when they basically left him to his own devices aside from never letting him fulfill his life’s purpose, leading to him going insane. Predictably it made things MUCH MUCH worse.
• Eats Babies: He literally ate a baby and took photos of himself doing it to convince everyone it was actually Homelander who committed the depraved act.
• Evil Laugh: when he finally reveals himself to Homelander and Butcher and speaks, he is constantly laughing, literally up until the second Butcher opens his skull up with a crowbar.
• The Faceless: His costume consists of a black full-body suit with a completely blank facial mask, giving this effect.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Black Noir is even more powerful than the Homelander and far stronger than Butcher, though he remains on the sidelines for much of the plot, happy to have taken the actions to drive both insane while he watches their direct villainy move the plot.
• Hate Sink: The worst acts of evil everyone believes to be committed by the Homelander were actually his doing. He's murdered, raped, and even eaten babies all just so he could do the one thing he was created to do. There's nothing even pitiable about him, he's just pure evil on wheels.
• Laughing Mad: Is a constantly Giggling Villain once The Reveal occurs.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: Threatens Starlight when she refuses to accept her new makeover and origin. Also kills Homelander, which was his very purpose.
• No Love for the Wicked: Over the course of the story, he forces Starlight into oral sex, shoves his thumb up Hughie’s ass, pulls a Bed Trick on Maeve, and rapes Becky. Starlight, however, notes that he doesn’t show much pleasure in sex acts. His only real pleasures come in humiliating and screwing over others.
• No One Could Survive That!: Despite everyone's expectations, or lack thereof, he managed to survive falling at terminal velocity during the group's botched plane rescue.
• Powerful, but Incompetent: 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 reveals himself at the end to be the most cunning member of the Seven with his scheme that manipulated both Butcher and the Homelander. He is also even stronger than Homelander, can break his jaw in one punch and kill him, but he has still been visibly mutilated by his inferior prototype after the battle.
• Perpetual Smiler: He’s shown to sport a near-permanent Slasher Smile under his mask. It only disappears after Butcher pries his brainpan open with a crowbar and pulls his brain out with his bare hands.
• The Quiet One: Until his final big reveal, he only spoke in one instance, and that's when he was at Herogasm and shoved his thumb up Wee Hughie's ass, saying "Good soldier, good soldier" after catching him.
• The Reveal: He's a Homelander clone, and behind most of his atrocities, including raping Butcher's wife. Worse: The fact that Homelander thought he was doing those deeds himself and couldn't remember it wreaked such havoc with his brain that he, as Butcher put it, basically turned into "a complete fucking psychopath by mistake". Oh, and the entire reason for his existence is that he's the only supe with the power to end The Homelander. Not being permitted to do so whenever he had the opportunity is what made him completely insane.
• Sanity Slippage: Being forbidden from fulfilling his life's purpose for an unclear amount of time despite being so close eventually drove Black Noir completely insane, to the point of utter depravity.
• The Stoic: In nearly every instance he appears in, he's completely calm and quiet to an extremely unnerving degree, never visibly reacting to anything that occurs around him. A-Train notes that he never gave any kind of physical reaction when Starlight gave him head.
  • Not So Stoic: However, when he finally reveals himself to Homelander, he just can't contain himself and giggles without end as he describes how he framed Homelander, describing every atrocity he committed with a massive smile across his face. He literally doesn't stop giggling until Homelander's dead, his own body is all but destroyed, and when Butcher kills him.
• Tyke Bomb: He was created for the sole purpose of terminating Homelander should Homelander ever go rogue. Homelander never fully crossed the line, though, and Black Noir ended up going mad from spending decades pretending to be Homelander's friend while being unable to fulfill his sole objective in life. So, he took it upon himself to start gaslighting Homelander to drive him over the edge so that Vought-American would finally give him the go-ahead to take Homelander out.
• Unfulfilled Purpose Misery: Created in order to take out the Homelander if he grew uncontrollable. When that didn't happen, he started taking steps to ensure the Homelander would become a liability and finally be able to fulfill his purpose.
• Walking Spoiler: Anything beyond "he's a mysterious Batman Expy" is a big spoiler, considering his role as being the one behind Homelander's evil and Butcher's quest of revenge against the Supes.
• Who Watches the Watchmen?: Similar to Batman, he watches the other heroes for signs of instability and makes contingency plans (including for himself) in case Vought-American needs to dispose of one of their useless superheroes. Unfortunately, being indoctrinated to concentrate on finding corruption in Homelander, and then wasting decades waiting for The Paragon to snap drove him to insanity first, and he intentionally framed Homelander as a supervillain (and accidentally turned him evil for real) just so he could finally fulfill his purpose.
• Worf Had the Flu: After his victory over Homelander, he has lost a chunk of his body and his sanity. As a result, Butcher and the military can now beat him.

The Deep

The most "useful" member of the team

A super dressed in a diver's helmet and suit.

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• Believing Their Own Lies: Appears to either be this or an extreme version of Kayfabe. When alone in the HQ of The Seven with A-Train, A-Train asks him a question and he begins answering with something that relates to the background of the Victory Comics character based on him, namely that he can never remove his helmet due to "the Atlantean curse".
• Beware the Silly Ones: While he may look ridiculous, he is set off by Jack from Jupiter using the N-word in front of him in the "Big Ride" arc and slaps him in the face hard enough to draw blood when Jack proceeds to address him using another racial slur.
• Butt-Monkey: He is largely regarded as a joke supe in-universe.
• Captain Fishman: Subverted. The Deep is very clearly themed after Aquaman and Namor, as he is an aquatic-themed super (he wears an old-school diving helmet at all times) with the moniker "King of the Deep". But the work actually shows how most of this is just marketing. In terms of his abilities, while he has Super-Strength and Super-Toughness, he never shows any ocean-specific abilities like Super Swimming Skills, Super Not-Drowning Skills, or Speaks Fluent Animal, and he even has the ability of Flight. This is made even more apparent when American Consolidated makes a new team after the fall of The Seven and he is rebranded into a completely different hero with zero aquatic theming. Also, while The Deep is treated by his team as the Butt-Monkey and a Joke Character, he's actually more of the Only Sane Man because he's the Token Good Teammate (relatively speaking). That pragmatism is why he ends up being the Sole Survivor of The Seven.
• Enemy Mine: Suggests the Boys and the Seven do this after they're set up to wipe each other out. Everyone around him treats him like an idiot for it.
• The Faceless: His face is almost always covered up by his old-timey diving helmet.
• Flat Character: Has the least screen time and characterization of all The Seven, as likely commentary on Aquaman's (lack of) relevance in the grand scheme of things.
• Harmless Villain: He's never actually shown to do anything particularly villainous, and when The Homelander puts his Evil Plan into motion, he decides the best course of action is to get out and have nothing to do with it. As a result, he's the only member of the Seven (besides Starlight) who doesn't get killed.
• Negated Moment of Awesome: When he tries rising dramatically out of a polluted harbor, a used condom clings to his helmet.
• Only Sane Man: He's a hedonist but a lot more sane than the rest of his teammates. He’s also smart enough to take a copy of his contract and pay attention to his finances, making sure he has either a job or savings to fall back on when Homelander’s coup inevitably fails.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: When he's rebranded at the end of the series, his costume resembles a klansman hood and robes. Since he's African-American, this is likely not of his own volition.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Facing the impeding war with The Boys courtesy of the Homelander he left The Seven's HQ, advising A-Train to take his copy of the Seven's merchandising contract and lay low.
• Sole Survivor: By the end of the series, he's the only member of the Seven who is still alive.
• Super-Strength: Powerful enough to effortlessly punch out the windshield of a jumbo jet (with decidedly less than optimal results), and bitchslap Jack From Jupiter across the room when he mouths off.
• Token Good Teammate: He's done dubious things (he dropped a fellow hero in the bay with a hammerhead shark after the guy said he'd have sex with anything with a pulse) but is still less of an asshole than the others for the most part (though he was willing to allow Starlight to be raped).
• Token Minority: "The least black black man on the planet" as described by Jack from Jupiter.

Jack From Jupiter

"Carpo!"

A super with an alien-like appearance.

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• Achilles' Heel: He needs to vocally utter the word, "Carpo", to become nigh-invulnerable. By preventing him from speaking, he can't use his powers as seen when Butcher comes to kill him in retaliation for "allegedly" killing his dog.
• Adapted Out: Not present in the TV show, replaced with Canon Foreigner Translucent.
• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Martian Manhunter in that he has the appearance of a bald and vaguely humanoid alien and wears little besides a cape, boots, and shorts, with one trait of Shazam! (namely, his powers being activated by saying a certain word).
• Ambiguously Human: He's distinctly inhuman in appearance, and his whole character is that of an alien from Jupiter, but given the fact that Supes are all artificially made on Earth using Compound V, this means Jack is not an alien, but rather someone whose appearance either mutated or was forcibly changed to look like an alien.
• Asshole Victim: Whether or not he was the one who killed Terror is a Riddle for the Ages, But the fact that he's still a racist and transphobic Psychopathic Manchild makes it hard to feel any sympathy when Butcher comes to rip him apart.
• Ass Shove: He described the feeling of his powers to getting a 10,000-volt cable up his ass, and has a fetish of receiving anal sex from pre-op transgender prostitutes.
• Bald of Evil: An arrogant, childish, and utterly loathsome troll of a man without a stand of hair on his head.
• Big "NO!": He yells a huge "NO!" upon seeing his Dark Secret of receiving anal sex by anal sex from pre-op transgender prostitutes being released on the news.
• Blessed with Suck: Becomes effectively invulnerable once he says his magic word, but compares the feeling to getting a 10,000-volt cable up his ass.
• By the Power of Grayskull!: He supposedly becomes invulnerable when he says the word "Carpo" and emits a glowing field when he does, but we never actually see how effective it is.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: He is slowly eviscerated by Butcher, wielding a big assed Bowie knife. Extremely slowly.
• Fauxreigner: As seen in The Boys: Diabolical, Jack from Jupiter tends to speak with a British accent in public, including the use of stereotypical slang as a way to further sell his "alien" image. In truth, Jack speaks with a New Yorker accent.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: The rest of the Seven, being as selfish as Jack himself, see him as unimportant. Even A-Train, who spends a lot of time with him, has little attachment to him and barely cares when Butcher killed him.
• The Hedonist: Likes to shoot heroin cut with Queen Maeve's vaginal mucus.
• Mistaken for Aliens: Invoked as part of his backstory by Vought-America, as he's actually a Compound-V mutated superhuman.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: When he says his magic word, becomes completely invulnerable. So when Billy kills him, he has to choke him with one hand so he can't talk and stab him with the other.
• Only Sane Man: Tries to talk A-Train and The Lamplighter out of doing stupid things, to varying degrees of success.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: He's usually the sane one when trying to talk A-Train and The Lamplighter from doing stupid things that would jeopardize The Seven, but when his Dark Secret of liking to be anally penetrated from pre-op transgender prostitutes is exposed on TV, he's more than willingly to call out for The Boys' blood regardless of the consequences.
• Riddle for the Ages: Did he kill Terror in retaliation, or was it one of his teammates in order to get rid of him through Butcher as to not risk a repeat with The Lamplighter?
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He uses transphobic slurs about the transgender prostitutes he has penetrated him anally as well as the one he is accused of killing and addresses Shout Out and The Deep using racial slurs during his meltdown at facing expulsion from the Seven in the Big Ride arc.
• Pragmatic Villainy: He opposes the antics of A-Train and Lamplighter because they're doing it in a way that's stupid and reckless rather than because of a conscience (he tells A-Train he can rape Starlight after she leaves the team).
• Psychopathic Manchild: Like A-Train, he's an overgrown fratboy who only cares about getting high and laid.
• Small Name, Big Ego: For all his talk, the higher-ups at Vought don't really consider him all that important due to his lack of star appeal and major powers. Hell, they consider The Deep more valuable than him.
• Those Two Guys: With A-Train, who become viewpoint characters during Herogasm.
• Trans Chaser: He is depicted as one of the most hedonistic members of the Seven, and is revealed to frequent Dr. Peculiar's high-class brothel and hire transgender prostitutes. The Boys even discover a video of him shouting transphobic slurs to the prostitutes mid-coitus.

A-Train

"Can't stop the A-Train!"

A hero with the ability to run super fast. He's also responsible for the death of Hughie's girlfriend.

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• Afraid of Their Own Strength: When Starlight suggests that he perform a certain task super fast, he begrudgingly admits that his control of his own speed is very limited and that he'd only make a mess of it if he tried.
• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Wally West's version of The Flash, given his status as the second speedster on the Seven and previously being part of what is ostensibly an adolescent superhero team.
• Arch-Enemy: To Hughie. He killed his previous girlfriend by accident (and didn't care) and attempted to rape his current one. It's little wonder Hughie called him a fucking cunt when goaded into prank-calling the Seven and ended up killing him personally once Butcher gave him the chance, as well as some extra goading via recordings.
• Asshole Victim: Downplayed. A-Train is often belittled and threatened by Homelander for every chance the latter gets, making his contempt for the younger supe very, very clear. Given A-Train's personality, though, it's hard to say he doesn't have it coming.
• Attempted Rape: Tried to get his way with Starlight. Got temporarily blinded in one eye by his troubles.
• Character Catchphrase: "Can't stop the A-Train—!"
• Corrupt the Cutie: "Cutie" may be stretching it to an absurd degree, but through The Boys' Bugs we do learn he realized the magnitude of his mistake that led to Robin's death and felt extreme guilt over it. Unfortunately, he took his concerns to the rest of the Seven, who quickly convinced him to trivialize the incident, redirect blame, and laugh it off.
• Dirty Coward: On multiple occasions:
  • After he fails to rape Starlight outright and gets one of his retinas temporarily fried, his response is to whine at Homelander about it as soon as the latter walks into the room as if he's the victim. Starlight calls him out on it before Homelander, presumably playing off his standards with outright rape, shoots him down completely.
  • When he stumbles upon Homelander having a Villainous Breakdown, he immediately runs away as fast as he can and pretends he never saw it.
  • When he and Hughie meet again he's reduced to begging for his life and sobbing. It doesn't save him.
• Fragile Speedster: The classic example of a character with Super-Speed who can dish it out but can't take it. Butcher beats and abducts him without any apparent trouble at all.
• Hate Sink: He’s more like a childish self-serving fratbro in all the worst ways and is never given a sympathetic or endearing moment.
• Jerkass: Even by Seven standards, which is saying a lot. At least the others can put on a friendly face when they're in action, but A-Train can't even pretend to care, as shown by his behavior after causing the death of Hughie's girlfriend.
• Lack of Empathy: Almost to the point of sociopathy.
• Mundane Utility: Subverted. While A-Train could use his Super-Speed to perform a menial job very quickly, he admits that he'll only make a mess of things due to his very limited control over his own speed.
• Never My Fault: Double Subverted in a recording regarding his accidental murder of Hughie's girlfriend. At first, he feels genuinely guilty about it, but it's not long before just brushes it off as nothing.
• Off with His Head!: Hughie, who already hated A-Train for killing his former girlfriend, kicked his head off after hearing him talking about his "scouting" of Starlight in a recording.
• Out of Focus: For being the super who destroyed Hughie's life, he really doesn't do a whole lot. Most of his infrequent appearances consist of him being up on the Seven's satellite HQ saying or doing something jerkish, and he only really leaves it two times, once for Herogasm and once to try and lay low, only to get himself captured by Butcher.
• Psychopathic Manchild: He's the most crude and juvenile member of the Seven, and he comes off like an overgrown schoolyard bully with the way he openly humiliates Starlight.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: As he struggles to rape Starlight, he literally shouts out that he's above consequences of the virtue of being a "motherfucking superhero".
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Seeing the writing on the walls with the impending war with The Boys courtesy of the Homelander he left The Seven's HQ, saying "I am gonna check into the Mandarin, chill for a couple weeks."
• Smug Super: His Fatal Flaw. If he didn't have superpowers he'd be an obnoxious but ultimately harmless prat.
• The Speedster: A-Train's main power is Super-Speed. His lack of control over it leads to tragic results on Hughie's part.
• Those Two Guys: With Jack from Jupiter, who become viewpoint characters during Herogasm.
• Unknown Rival: Despite ruining Hughie's life several times over, he doesn't even know who he is. He ends up learning the hard way right before Hughie kicks his head off his shoulders.

Starlight

She learned to never meet your heroes.

• Alternate Company Equivalent: A mix of Supergirl (blonde novice superheroine capable of flight) and Little Miss Sunshine from Image's Wild Guard (blond superheroine with light-based powers and themed after a celestial body).
• Blinded by the Light: She can produce a very bright light.
• Break the Cutie: From her audition with the Seven onwards, Annie really suffers from having her once optimistic worldview shatter from being exposed to how corrupt and depraved the superheroes truly are.
• Broken Pedestal: Greatly admired the Seven, the Homelander in particular - until about five minutes after she became a member and found out what they were really like.
• Casting Couch: She had to give Homelander, A-Train, and Black Noir blowjobs before they'd allow her on the team.
• Crisis of Faith: Seeing what The Seven (and the rest of the supes) are really like, Starlight begins to seriously doubt there's any kind of benevolent God paying attention to what's going on. By Dear Becky she's given up on the idea entirely.
• Foster Kid: Became one as an infant when an early manifestation of her powers permanently blinded her birth parents.
• Good Wears White: Starlight dresses in white and is one of the few genuinely nice characters in the story.
• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Being religious, she doesn't swear. When she has to quote someone else swearing, she spells the bad words out. Over time, however, she gets rid of this part of her character as she hangs around Hughie and the rest of the cast.
• Light Is Good: She has light-based powers and is unambiguously a good person.
• Ms. Fanservice: Is often naked, and not always in horrific situations.
• The Pollyanna: Has an unreasonably upbeat outlook on life for all of a few pages. Then she meets Homelander, A-Train, and Black Noir. It's all downhill from there.
• Promiscuity After Rape:
  • Lampshaded. Starlight was initially a pure and innocent superhero, but her PR team decided to spice up her backstory by saying she was raped and that the trauma made her "dark and sexual". Deconstructed when Starlight reveals that she is in fact a rape survivor and that the experience didn't make her horny at all.
  • It should be noted that Starlight was sexually coerced in her first appearance and eventually became sexually active, but the story doesn't make any connection between the two events and her sexual side seems reserved solely for Hughie.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift:
  • When she first joins the Seven, she wears the same superhero outfit she wore during her time in the Young Americans; a knee-length, conservative white Minidress of Power with no cleavage and a star on the chest.
  • After a short while, she is forced to exchange it for something more "camera-friendly" and starts wearing a variant of her outfit that turns the dress into a Stripperific Leotard of Power with cleavage, gloves and boots.
  • After Vought-American tries to "reboot" her image with a backstory involving her being raped and make her wear a skimpy bikini barely qualifying as "clothing", she puts her foot down and, after Queen Maeve gets the other Seven members to back off, goes back to the original dress.

The Lamplighter

"Ugh, he soiled himself again."

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Hal Jordan, particularly in that he wears a domino mask and his power comes from an object that produces light. His resurrection as a mindless zombie who constantly shits himself is almost certainly a reference to Hal Jordan coming back from the dead at the start of Geoff Johns' run on Green Lantern.
• Asshole Victim: The Seven had no real qualms about handing him over to the Boys so Mallory could get his revenge, and given what he was like and what he did, it's hard to feel sympathy for him.
• Ax-Crazy: Had major rage issues, resulting in him killing Mallory's grandchildren and laughing about it afterwards.
• Blinded by the Light: Could create a blinding light with his torch.
• Bullying a Dragon: When The Boys start blackmailing The Seven, Lamplighter took it upon himself to intimidate them into leaving Vought and The Seven alone. He did so by burning Mallory's grandkids alive but all he did was force The Boys and The Seven to agree to a ceasefire. He was also handed over to The Boys by The Seven as a show of good faith and so Mallory could avenge his grandkids.
• Came Back Wrong: 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.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: On the giving and receiving ends. He burn Mallory's grandchildren to death as a means to intimidate The Boys, and after being handed over to them as a "peace offering", The Lamplighter gets a brutal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown that not only leaves his face horrifically bruised with most of his teeth gone and one eye swollen shut, but is shot in the head by Mallory himself and his corpse thrown out of the plane and into the freezing cold.
• Evil Laugh: Queen Mauve describes him as laughing like a hyena after coming back from killing Mallory's grandchildren. Unfortunately for him, that'll be the last laugh he'll utter.
• Take That!: While Garth Ennis isn't too fond of superheroes in general, he has gone on record as Green Lantern being one particular superhero he especially doesn't care for, and it shows with Lamplighter being the one member of the Seven aside from The Deep and Mister Marathon with the least amount of focus, getting killed prior to the events of the comic and being revived as a zombie prone to soiling himself.
• Tears of Fear: As Mallory drags him to his fate, Lamplighter can be seeing crying out of his one good eye out of either pain or sheer terror.
• Too Dumb to Live: You'd think this fuckwit would have some dim understanding that undermining the fragile peace between Vought and the CIA (doing so by murdering the granddaughters of the leader of a task-force made specifically for dealing with superheroes) would be an epically bad idea. But he didn't, and he predictably (and gruesomely) paid for it with his life.
• Villainous Breakdown: Did not take the news that The Boys were going to blackmail The Seven over their 9/11 rescue catastrophe well at all, so he murdered Mallory's granddaughters as revenge.
• Would Hurt a Child: Killed Mallory's granddaughters.

Mister Marathon

He died "heroically" in the field.

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Barry Allen, mainly in being the predecessor to the current speedster on a team that's a stand-in for the Justice League.
• Legacy Character: Not his name, but his role as a speedster on The Seven. A-Train later took his place.
• Non-Indicative Name: A marathon, while a race, is more a test of endurance than speed.
• Only Sane Man: During the 9/11 incident, he rightfully pointed out to the Homelander that Vought would probably fire them if they failed to save the plane.
• Your Head Asplode: His head was annihilated when the Homelander tried to level the plane they were trying to save by smashing into the tail.

Vought-American

James Stillwell

The initially unnamed Vought-American executive.

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• Big Bad: He is the main human villian of the series.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: As the head of VA's super business, he frequently enables their domestic and violent behavior and even arranges the deaths of several people.
• Dissonant Serenity: Is completely calm at all times. Even when he's being threatened with dismemberment by the Homelander. Queen Maeve perfectly lampshades it with this quote from a flashback in issue 50 following the murder of Mallory's grandkids by Lamplighter:
  Queen Maeve: He walked in, sat down, told us to tell him all of it. Told us. He's calm, he's polite, he's... He said "everything's going to be all right". The way he said it, it was like a bus conductor announcing the final solution.
• The Dreaded: He's so coolly confident and utterly unshakeable that he even intimidates the mightiest beings walking (or flying over) the Earth. Jack From Jupiter admits that the Vought exec gives him nightmares.
• Driven to Madness: When Hughie tries to find the person who sent him the diary in the sequel series, one of the people he checks up on is Stillwell. It turns out he's been keeping to himself and living a relatively good life on a tropical island, but the impact of losing everything had left him a babbling madman who does nothing but constant speak on economics and product.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Just barely. Stillwell's only real virtue is his Pragmatic Villainy as he will never do anything immoral if there is no reason to do so. While this is based purely on his steadfastness to logic and efficiency, it does mean that the number of times he'll do something really bad is very few as the necessity to do something very awful is rare. Even when Stillwell has to order that something horrible be done it will be done quickly with little fuss so when he has to, say, have people killed, it's quick, relatively painless and the target often never realizes what's about to happen. He will also make sure to keep his employees on good behavior because it avoids problems. He flat out mentions that they shouldn't hire outright psychopaths in order to avoid unnecessary bloodshed, destruction, and problems.
• Faux Affably Evil: Remains polite to a T in all his interactions with others although it's just his natural and professional demeanor. The only people with whom he seems to be sincerely friendly with are the prostitute at the bar during Herogasm and Jess Bradley but it's actually another manipulation in both cases.
• Freudian Excuse: Possibly; a Vought-American document mentions that he cheered at his father's funeral.
• Karma Houdini: Never faces justice or punishment of any kind for all his crimes, however his last appearance in the comics shows him having some sort of nervous breakdown over the realization that superheroes will never be marketable again and are essentially "a bad product". Fully averted in Dear Becky which shows he got some comeuppance due to losing everything: he isn't dead, but he's gone from the unshakable CEO of VA to a pineapple-, economics-obsessed madman.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Stillwell lives and breathes this trope. He personally tries to stick to logic and efficiency as much as possible. He's not petty and very much The Stoic while handling matters as detached as possible. While this means he has no ethical limits on what he would do to achieve his goals, he will never do anything illegal or immoral if there isn't any reason to do so and he won't take things personally nor be spiteful by indulging in revenge.
  • Is willing to terminate the G-Men when it becomes clear that Godolkin's antics will inevitably get exposed while doing it quickly and efficiently with the G-Men barely having any time to suffer.
  • Recommends not using a Psycho for Hire as such operatives tend to be unpredictable while causing needless death and destruction.
  • He offers the Frenchman medical treatment to show Butcher that he's serious about making a deal.
  • Having a means to kill the Homelander quickly and discretely without collateral the damage or death caused by a nuke. While he may not have put that failsafe into practice it was clear that he was onboard as something like a nuke would cause tremendous problems and backlash.
  • Does whatever he can to keep Homelander in check so as to avoid bad PR and threats to Vought America.
• Pyrrhic Victory: Stillwell and (more or less) his corporation survive the proceedings relatively unscathed, but the uselessness of the superhero process is implied to have broken him.
• Repeat What You Just Said: When Jimmy The One accidentally spills the beans about Homelander's plan to take over the government going into effect.
• Sanity Slippage: His last appearance in the comics shows that the superhero process being rendered unprofitable is pushing him over the edge. By the time Hughie tracks him down in Dear Becky, it's revealed Stillwell has completely lost his mind, having spent the last ten years planting pineapples over and over while quoting Milton Friedman and babbling about economics and product.
• The Sociopath: Stillwell is more or less a representation of what a high functioning sociopath would be like in a corporate setting. While he shows very little emotion and seems to hold no attachment to anyone (he supposedly cheered at his father's funeral, had no problems eliminating people which included children, and developed a relationship with his subordinate just so he could use and manipulate her as a scapegoat should things go wrong) everything he does is to do his job well and advance his company aims. Furthermore, while there seems to be no limit to what he will do to advance his or Vought's agenda, he is never petty and would not do anything immoral if there was a more efficient method in hand.
• The Stoic: His heart rate stays completely normal, even when the most physically powerful being on the planet (and a complete homicidal psychopath) threatens to dismember him.
• The Unfettered: To a degree so frightening that it disturbs even the members of The Seven, who could obliterate him with no effort.
  Homelander: Still eighty over sixty. You're about to be torn limb from limb, and you're completely calm. I think I've finally met a superhuman...
• Villainous Breakdown: When he finally realizes that Superheros are no longer profitable after Homelander's failed coup, he actually grows a sad face and has to lean on a window to stay propped up from falling down. Considering that he's been emotionless and calm for the entire series up to this point, it's actually a major breakdown for him.
  Stillwell: Bad product.
• Villainous Rescue: Ends up saving The Boys from the G-Men, though in this case he just happened to be making his move.
• Would Hurt a Child: Orders the deaths of John Godolkin's most recent Pre-Wiz team after he and the G-Men are massacred.

Jess Bradley

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• Even Evil Has Standards: Expresses sympathy towards people like Hughie after learning their circumstances and why they joined.
• Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: A personal variation: When Stillwell testifies she was the one responsible for the whole program going south, Bradley has a two-page flashback to key moments since she joined Vought and realizes too late how from day one, Stillwell has been setting her up to be the fall person.
• Office Romance: Jess thinks this is in play when Stillwell does things like order Team Titanic to protect her. He mentors her, shows her some Hidden Depths, and they even sleep together. It turns out it was all a ploy to get her to take the fall.
• Only Sane Man: Was the first person in years since 9/11 to even suggest that it might not be worth training Black Noir to fly a plane because of his unpredictable nature. Also points out that they fail to properly compensate the people who get hurt by superheroes, which creates more people like The Boys.
• Promoted to Scapegoat: It turns out the entire reason Stillwell promoted her and brought her in the know about the Superhero division is to make her a scapegoat should any serious fallback occur to the company, which occurs after Homelander's failed coup.
• Unwitting Pawn: To Stillwell and his plan for making her take the blame for the supers' rebellion.
• Villainous Breakdown: The last moment we see of her in the comic, is realizing how Stillwell played her for a fool and she is going to take all the public blame towards the company after Homelander's coup. All she can do is rip her hair out and scream.

United States Government

Robert "Dakota Bob" Shaefer

The President of the United States at the beginning of the series.

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• Facial Horror: Gets his face clawed off by a wolverine.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: His status as an intelligent but very corrupt Republican politician who used to work with Halliburton suggests him to be essentially "what if Dick Cheney were President instead of George Bush?"
• President Evil: An interestingly downplayed case. Dakota Bob is shown to be rather cruel and heartless—he was willing to blow apart the hijacked planes on 9/11 at a moment's notice, he casually uses offensive terms, and he's noted to have a history with Halliburton. At the same time, though, he's a good politician and has good instincts for what he thinks will get the job done—essentially, being "as hard and cold as the badlands" doesn't prevent him from making the right decisions to keep his nation safe.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: He never interacts with the team on panel, but he certainly comes off as cool, competent, courageous, conscientious and principled, if ruthless and reactionary. Not only was he informed of the 9/11 attacks, he personally gave the order for fighters to shoot down the airliners. Then Vic intervened.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: His solution to the problem the real life US has with bombing/attacking Pakistan is solved by him bribing the Pakistani government into letting the US do whatever it wants.
• Take That!: Is essentially everything Bush wasn't (in the series, George W. Bush somehow managed to decapitate himself with a chainsaw before he could get elected).

Susan L. Rayner

The director of the CIA.

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• Convicted by Public Opinion: Hughie screws up her campaign by playing a recording of her having sex with Butcher.
• Establishing Character Moment: Why Butcher hates her; their first meeting was November 1st, 2001, and she appeared euphoric at the news of airstrikes in Pakistan - and a lot of them were "accidentally" hitting targets in Afghanistan. He knew that the CIA had spent much of The '80s there, financing, arming and teaching the locals to fight Dirty Communists - and some of those locals would later become the Taliban.^note She later shows actual remorse for this, not only admitting that she had personally visited those areas, but had been more relieved than euphoric at the news, as she knew that she had given weapons and training to some despicable people. She also admits that much of the CIA is deeply racist, simply because seeing foreigners as human instead of "faraway brown people" would make it harder to kill them.
• Slap-Slap-Kiss: With Butcher. Except the "Kiss" part is vigorous and colorfully worded hate-sex.

Kessler, A.K.A "Monkey"

Rayner's liaison with Billy. Absolutely nothing goes right for him... not that he doesn't deserve it.

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• Attempted Rape: He tries to assault a paraplegic former athlete. She starts kicking his ass and then Butcher intervenes.
• Butt-Monkey: Being nicknamed "Monkey" could be seen as a unintentional Lampshade Hanging. Then he became this literally, after being raped by Terror under Butcher's command.
  • Then there's where he got the nickname in the first place. Which is to say, getting skull-fucked in both ears by monkeys.
• Fetish: He seems to have a thing for female paraplegics.
• Groin Attack: The typical way he's greeted by Butcher, frequently enough that it eventually renders him impotent.
• Jerkass Has a Point: In 'Dear Becky', he drops his usual jerkassedry when Hugie reveals he has Butcher's diary and warns that Hughie needs to keep it secret or it could be weaponized by the Trump administration.
• Mugging the Monster: His paraplegic fetish comes to a head when he tries to force himself on a "helpless" paralympic athlete. Monkey then learns the hard way that a paralympic athlete is still an olympic athlete.
• Slimeball: A thoroughly sleazy, unlikable, repellent slime of a man. Though ironically, he's one of the few characters to get anything close to a happy ending.
• Tyrant Takes the Helm: After Rayner leaves the CIA to focus on her political career, Kessler takes over and decides that the Boys will now be addressing more than just expense accounts. It lasts for just one visit, after which he is rescued from a well-deserved beating by Butcher who restores the status quo.

Victor K. "Vic the Veep" Neuman

"Mah fellow 'Mirkins... ah want mah dicky suck."

The former CEO of Vought-American and Dakota Bob's (possibly) mentally-handicapped vice-president, to his chagrin. Vic is little more than a puppet for Vought American, and strongly pushes their goal of involving superheroes in national defense.

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• The Ditz: He is described as having an IQ that is barely in the double digits, can't even put on a condom without someone else doing it for him, and playing fetch with his dog is beyond his mental capacity.
• Manchild: He's obsessed with sex and superheroes, and is incapable of doing even the simplest everyday tasks on his own.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Try mixing Arnold Schwarzenegger's face with Dan Quayle's personality, George W. Bush's speech pattern, then run a railroad spike through their head, and you have Vic.
• Off with His Head!: Dies in the Homelander's massacre of the White House, with Homelander ripping off his head... and then having sex with it.
• Really Gets Around: He has a massive libido and can't keep it in his pants, with Vought allowing him a yearly participation in Herogasm. He also frequently visits brothels and has a regular provision of prostitutes on a daily basis.
• Take That!: Ennis himself has stated that Vic is meant to be "the most grotesque parody of Bush, Jr. possible".

Teenage Kix

A young adult hero team created with a more "edgy" image to attract a more mature audience.

In General

• Blackmail: The Boys blackmail the entire team with incriminating photos.
• Darker and Edgier: Their public image. They are one of the two big teenage superhero teams, the other being Young Americans, who are said to be more clean-cut and popular with religious and conservative groups. Teenage Kix, on the other hand, are said to have a rougher image.
• Depraved Bisexual: While the male members of the team are all seen screwing women, they also have sex with each other... without the others knowing.
• Establishing Character Moment: For the team as a whole, they are introduced having an orgy where they have sex with prostitutes and run around changing partners. It shows how depraved a group of superhero kids could actually be. Popclaw sits out of the action in favor of watching and directing as several prostitutes perform sexual acts on each other, and is later seen inflicting self-harm.
• Expy: Of the 90's version of Teen Titans.
• The Hedonist: All of them, which made the above mentioned blackmail easier. Of all of them, Popclaw is probably the least depraved.

Big Game

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• Hidden Depths: Actually shows some degree of tactical ability and is mentioned to have served in the ROTC... not that it helps him.

Shout Out

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• Fingore: Butcher rips his thumb out in a fight.
• Gay Panic: In-Universe: Comes up when Butcher releases blackmail pics of the team, which include him giving oral sex to a fellow team member.
• Groin Attack: He is on the receiving end. When he attacks Butcher, Butcher responds by grabbing his balls, with one hand and lifting him up.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: Hates Irish people. Unfortunately, he has Blarney Cock as a teammate.
• The Scapegoat: He is booted from the team to save all of them from the fallout of the blackmail. Billy explains it had to be him: the others all stay on because you can't lose the one girl (so not Popclaw), Jetstreak and Big Game were photographed with an extremely rich and extremely lawsuit-happy heiress, firing Blarney Cock or Whack Job means the other would leave (a quarter of the team), losing Gunpowder means losing NRA sponsorships, and Dogknott, as Billy puts it, was apparently a better lay than Shout Out.
• Twofer Token Minority: Black and gay (well, bi, but the public doesn't know that).

Dogknott

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• Atrocious Alias: His codename may as well be Canine Penis.
• Wolf Man: Looks vaguely doglike.

Popclaw

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of X23 and/or Scandal Savage.
• Butch Lesbian: Spends her night at the brothel watching the prostitutes having sex with each other.
• Self-Harm: Is shown to cut herself with her own claws.
• The Smurfette Principle: She is the only female member and acted as a voice of reason when the blackmail came out.
• Wolverine Claws: Surgically implanted in her forearms and come out the sides of her wrists.
• Wolverine Wannabe: Popclaw appears to be a Gender Flipped version of Wolverine or rather X-23, which is even more prominent in the TV series. She possesses a single retractable claw on each arm.

Blarney Cock

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• Ass Shove: Uses his own pet hamster as a buttplug.
• Atrocious Alias: Regardless of "cock" being intended in the sense of a male bird, it's not a very good idea to have a slang word for the male genitals as part of your codename.
• Back from the Dead: He is killed by Hughie in his first appearance, only to be revived a few issues later.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Hughie accidentally kills him by punching him through the chest. As noted in Back from the Dead, the asshole doesn't stay down.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: He's racist. Unfortunately, he has Shout Out as a teammate.
• Secret Legacy: He is the biological son of Queen Maeve and The Legend, who sent him off to an Irish orphanage, probably to avoid scandal. Whether he knows this is never addressed

Whack Job

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• Bait the Dog: Uses his powers to do tricks for terminally ill children just so he can steal painkillers from them.
• Shock and Awe: Is shown to have electricity-based powers.
• Those Two Guys: With Blarney Cock.

Gunpowder

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: Not of a Marvel or DC superhero, as with most of the other "Supes", but of Judge Dredd.
• Ass Shove: One photo shows a prostitute lubing up his gun. We find out where it's going later.
• Gun Nut: One of the reasons he couldn't have been fired is all his NRA sponsorships.
• Squick: In-Universe: His teammates are rather disgusted that he likes having his gun shoved up his ass then licking his shit off it.

Jetstreak

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: Possibly of Bart Allen, being a speedster associated with a superhero team ostensibly composed of adolescents and retroactively established as the third iconic speed-themed superhero in the setting after Mister Marathon and A-Train.
• Groin Attack: He gets kneed in the groin by the Frenchman.

Payback

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

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: They are a clear representation of Marvel Comics' most iconic superhero team The Avengers.
• Always Second Best: The main thing about them is that they are a second rate team, perpetually living in the shadow of The Seven. Vought-American considers them disposable.
• Legacy Character: An early version of them with many of the same superhero characters existed in the 1940s and was Vought-American's earliest attempt at selling supers to the military.
  • Epic Fail: The original incarnation of the team were all killed, along with the soldiers they were supposed to aid, in the sole military operation they took part in.

Stormfront

"You dare to lay your mongrel hands on me? I will end you!"

A former Nazi supervillain and currently a member of Payback as its de-facto leader.

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of The Mighty Thor (Flying Brick with lightning-based powers) and Shazam! (has a similar appearance).
• Breath Weapon: Can exhale a stream of something between blue fire and lightning.
• Chocolate Baby: The cover of the 57th issue shows Maeve holding a black newborn (and a martini), with Stormfront next to her and clearly not happy about it.
• Eye Scream: He loses an eye to The Female during their brawl in issue 31. Two issues later, Butcher throws broken glass into the other eye.
• Groin Attack: Mother's Milk crushes his crotch in issue 32.
• Hate Sink: Hard-to-like heroes are a dime a dozen, but even then, Stormfront stands out as lacking literally any good qualities. He's a cowardly bully, irritatingly smug, incredibly racist, a giant asshole even to his teammates, surprisingly crap in a fight, and murders minorities for fun and profit. He exists so that the audience can be abundantly happy when he gets his ass beaten into the ground.
• Heel–Face Turn: Not at all in the actual comic, but he is mentioned during Herogasm to have served as a villain in the past (since, y'know, made by actual Nazis). Of course, given the nature of the superhero business in The Boys, this was no doubt a pretty lateral move.
• Jerkass: Aside from his racism, he's still a colossal asshole. Even when Soldier Boy was awarded leadership fair and square, Stormfront still acted like he was in charge.
• Meaningful Name: A neo-Nazi with lightning powers who happens to share his name with a notorious white supremacist Internet forum.
• Nightmare Fetishist: The 33rd issue has Mind-Droid claim that he masturbates to Holocaust documentaries, but this may have been sarcastic.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He was a member of Hitler Youth, so it's pretty obvious that he's a vile bigot. Hell, he refers to The Female and Mother's Milk using racial slurs and calls the former "Fotze" (the German equivalent to the c-word).
• Super Prototype: Played with. Turns out he was the first super and was such a success that the vast majority of the Supers after him are far weaker. But with the process already perfected with Stormfront, it wasn't hard to improve on that albeit it's expensive - Homelander and Black Noir are actually superior clones of him.
• Undignified Death: Got curbstomped to death, in true skinhead fashion, after Butcher and co. decided to re-enact WWII. See The Worf Effect bellow.
• Those Wacky Nazis: Downplayed due to his incredible strength, but the fact that he advertises his Nazi background so blatantly while being advertised as a superhero is pretty silly in itself.
• The Worf Effect: He's built up as a Supe nearly on The Homelander's level, but despite being a formidable foe in terms of raw power he is never entirely successful in his attempts to fight the Boys, winding up with several pyrrhic victories and stalemates in rapid succession before they overcome him. He Curb Stomps The Female when first introduced... only to flee the scene in horror when she injures one of his eyes, likely due to the Nazi attitude towards the disabled. He beats Mother's Milk bloody and breaks his arm, but breaks off his attack when Mother's Milk crushes his testicles. Butcher is overwhelmed in a straight-up, one on one fight, but drives Stormfront off by throwing broken glass in his eyes, once again preventing Stormfront from actually winning a bout or encounter with the group in any way. And his raw power doesn't mean a damn thing when The Boys purposefully re-enact WWII: the Brits (Butcher) slow him down long enough for the Americans (Mother's Milk) to blindside him, which in turn gives the French (The Frenchman) a free shot, followed by the Russians (Vas the Love Sausage) blasting in and delivering the blow that takes him down. Thus softened up, the Allies indulge in a good-old fashioned group bludgeoning.

Soldier Boy

A "supersoldier" and "war hero" that fights with a shield, and the supposed leader of Payback.

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: He's essentially Captain America if he were a pants-wetting coward rather than a genuine military hero.
• And This Is for...: Yells out a different state every time he does a Shield Bash.
• Believing Their Own Lies: A strong contender for most naive B-list super in the series. He appears totally sold on the Kayfabe despite the obvious amorality of his peers. Exhibit A: Attends the Herogasm orgy where Homelander manipulates him into a sexual encounter every year. Soldier Boy fervently believes that his "worthiness" is being tested, and that one day he'll get to join the Seven.
• Bring My Brown Pants: He quickly wets himself before any real fighting starts, and prominently does this on the cover of the 33rd issue.
• Butt-Monkey: In spades. He gets manipulated into having sex with the Homelander every year, is treated like garbage by everyone except Eagle the Archer and Tek Knight, has his authority undermined by Stormfront, has his nose bitten off by Butcher, loses his nose when Terror steals it, gets captured by Billy, and is then tortured to death by Billy. Unsurprisingly, Garth Ennis is on record as hating Captain America.
• Dirty Coward: ZigZagged. On the one hand, the cover of an issue had him wet himself with fear. On the other, he isn't particularly cowardly per se when he actually appears in the story; he tries to put up a fight with Butcher, but greatly overestimates his own abilities.
• Fake Ultimate Hero: Clearly meant to be a icon of patriotism and justice and a model soldier. However, he's too insecure and cowardly in private and thus nobody in the hero community respects him.
• Legacy Character: He seems to have been at least the third person to hold the mantle. Naturally, the official company line is that it was all the same guy, since otherwise Soldier Boy loses his "fought in the war" cred.
• Nasal Trauma: Butcher bites his nose off in issue 32. While he holds onto it, he ends up losing it in the next issue when Butcher's dog Terror eats it.
• Phony Veteran: Soldier Boy's story that Vought spun out for the public is that he's an immortal soldier that fought in World War 2. It isn't true in the slightest, and he's likely a regular person with basic training added with a Compound V boost to fans go the mantle. Butcher, even though he's a terrible person, is disgusted by S.B as he's an insult to the actual men who did serve and died in World War 2.
• Super-Soldier: Played With. While he does have powers, he isn't a soldier and is quickly defeated by Butcher.
• Take That!: To Captain America, whom Garth Ennis greatly dislikes due to his belief that he presents a sanitized, cheapened version of real history.
  Butcher: You never fought in the war, you cunt. An' you're a fuckin' insult to the lads that did.
• Token Good Teammate: He is a huge coward, but unlike many of the other Supes, he doesn't really do anything outright evil.
• Wearing a Flag on Your Head: Wouldn't be much of a Captain America expy without wearing a costume influenced by the American flag.

Tek-Knight

A tech-based superhero that uses a technologically based suit of exo-armor to fight crime. He also has a brain tumor that causes him to want to have sex with anyone and anything.

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: Mostly of Batman (non-powered, having a secret lair beneath his mansion, a butler and a Robin-like sidekick) with some Iron Man (wears Powered Armor, and is a member of a team based on the Avengers) thrown in.
• Armoured Closet Gay: Possibly subverted, though it's hinted at in his first appearance. Even though he frequently feels the urge have sex with men (at least when he catches a glimpse of their behinds) and is said to be homophobic, he also feels the same urge around animals and even inanimate objects, making it unclear just how much the brain tumor affects his behavior and whether or not he really is secretly attracted to men or if just anything he can stick his penis inside will do the trick.
• Bad Liar: Denies being Tek-Knight, even when his power suit is badly hidden under a tiger skin.
• Batman Parody: He's essentially a mash-up of Iron Man and Batman, with the most notable traits borrowed from the Dark Knight being that his secret lair is located under his mansion, he has a Robin-like sidekick named Laddio and used to have a butler.
• Bestiality Is Depraved: One of his transgressions is buggering his niece's pet chinchilla to death.
• Dating Catwoman: He establishes at one point to have pursued a relationship with sometimes-enemy/sometimes-ally Talon. A three-way between him, her and his first sidekick Swingwing (specifically, Tek-Knight was receiving a blowjob from Talon while Swingwing penetrated her from the back) is what he blames his habit of forcing himself onto every man, animal and inanimate object he sees on.
• Dying Dream: Believes himself to have saved the world by fucking a giant asteroid to pieces before it could hit Earth, due to the brain tumor.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: For all his jerkassery, he does save a woman and her baby from a pile of falling bricks, taking it to his own head instead.
• Extreme Omnisexual: 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, he thinks he is fucking a giant asteroid before it can destroy the Earth.
• Get Out!: Tek-Knight went to a therapist for help for his condition. The therapist left momentarily to book subsequent appointments, leaving his coffee cup behind. When returning, TK is forced to admit in the seconds the therapist was gone, he fucked the coffee cup. The therapist tells him to leave and never come back.
• I Call Him "Mr. Happy": The display in his power suit refers to his penis as "relief tube".
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's an asshole but he does have some redeeming traits (he commits a heroic sacrifice, sends his ward away so that he won't hurt him etc.) He may have been one of the very few genuinely heroic superheroes in the series, with his worst flaw being something that was completely out of his control.
• My God, What Have I Done?: After nearly raping Laddio, with Laddio being completely unaware, Tek-Knight breaks down over what he almost did.
• Pet the Dog: In addition to what's listed above, he is mentioned during Herogasm to have been one of the few members of Payback to have been nice to Soldier Boy.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: Is said to hate gay people (according to a gay man who met him; though he is never actually seen around any gay people in his appearances). It’s unknown if this was actually something deep-seated, or if he was over-compensating for the urges his tumor was giving him.
• Powered Armor: Unlike most other supes, he's never been boosted by Compound V, so he has to rely on hi-tech armor.
• Punny Name: A riff on the TEC-9 semi-automatic pistol.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: Tek-Knight's butler, Thomas, decides to quit his job and leave Tek-Knight after he apparently raped Thomas in his left ear.

Laddio

Tek-Knight's second Kid Sidekick.

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Robin, being the young sidekick to a Batman Parody.
• The Ditz: Even Tek-Knight claims he's an idiot.
• The Hero's Journey: Tek-Knight sends him on one, telling him it is so he can become a better crimefighter. It's really to get his young sidekick away from Tek-Knight.
• Innocent Fanservice Guy: Starts doing yoga stretches in front of Tek-Knight, who quickly sends him away before he ends up raping him.
• Kid Sidekick: To Tek-Knight (though the previous Laddio, Swingwing, was shown to have kept the moniker until at least young adulthood).
• Legacy Character: Is the second known Laddio, after Swingwing. At least, in the present; there was another Laddio in the original Payback team in the 1940s.

Crimson Countess

A heroine that uses (supposedly) magical energy to fight crime.

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Scarlet Witch, right down to wearing a red costume that's revealing. She is even implied to be a couple with Mind-Droid, like how the Scarlet Witch was in love with The Vision
• Battle Couple: Subverted: apparently she and Mind-Droid might be together (as their inspirations are), but she tried to leave Payback to join the Seven without him.
• Fan Disservice: Her breast is shown slipping out of her top, but after she has been killed.
• Hand Blast: One of her powers.
• Kick the Dog: A literal case; tries to kill Terror. Granted, he bit her in the arm first, but it was still unnecessary.
• Too Dumb to Live: Even the Homelander knew better than to attack Butcher's dog. He strangles her to death for this.

Mind-Droid

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of The Vision in that he pretends to be a sentient robot. For good measure, he is implied to be a couple with the Scarlet Witch's representation the Crimson Countess.
• Fan Disservice: He is shown without pants in the Herogasm miniseries, with bolts where his testicles and the tip of his penis should be. It's rather unsettling.
• Ridiculously Human Robots: Subverted, as he's actually a human (not that Butcher cares when he beheads him). Strangely, he is depicted with cyborg genitals in the Herogasm mini-series.
• Useless Useful Spell: He can detect other people's presence and their surface thoughts, but it doesn't get any more accurate than "they're in this room".

Swatto

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Ant-Man, being an insect-themed supe who frequently appears while incredibly small.
• The Unintelligible: Never says anything except "BZZZZZZ!", to Soldier Boy's dismay. Mind-Droid is able to translate for him though.

Eagle The Archer

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Hawkeye (given that he is an archery-themed hero) and Hawkman (bird motif).
• Domestic Abuser: Beat his girlfriend into a coma.
• The Mole: Served as one to Butcher in exchange for Butcher keeping quiet about his girlfriend beating.
• Posthumous Character: Never appears on screen (except for the 1945 version), and is dead by the time of the story.

The G-Men Franchise

In General

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• Expy: Of the X-Men, especially given that their cover story is being a bunch of super-powered runaways and outcasts who have been taken in by a man whose surname begins with the same letter as the one used in their team name.
• Flipping the Bird: The cover of the 26th issue shows them giving each other the finger.
• West Coast Team: Since founding the original G-Men team, Godolkin went on to found several spinoff teams, such as G-Style, G-Force and G-Brit as well as preparatory teams like G-Wiz (for young adults) and Pre-Wiz (for kids). Might be intended as a reference to the many X-Men comics that have been around, such as X-Men, X-Factor, etc.

John Godolkin

The founder of the G-Men franchise and the leader of the team.

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: He's based off of X-Men founder and leader Charles Xavier, albeit neither bald nor wheelchair-bound.
• Bait the Dog: Even though he essentially runs a whole franchise of superhero teams, each having horrible and unlikable members, Godolkin himself doesn't stand out as particularly evil, if a bit eccentric, and even seems genuinely fond of the G-Men. Then it turns out that he has been building his teams by kidnapping children and essentially brainwashing them into total devotion towards him and the other G-Men. And just for good measure, he is also a pedophile who molests his recruits at a young age and even gets older recruits to join in.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Has built a public image of the G-Men as social outcasts and former orphans and himself as their loving adoptive parent who helps them use their powers for good. Underneath it all, he is just a sexual predator who molests the children he kidnaps and damages them for life. Did we mention that he's making a ton of money along the way?
• Cold Ham: Never raises his voice, but speaks in a very formal and dramatic way.
• Hate Sink: Hard-to-like heroes are a dime a dozen, but even then, Godolkin stands out as a serial rapist that brainwashes his victims to be rapists themselves.
• He Knows Too Much: Godolkin has no problem in ordering the death of his "beloved" students if there's a risk for his dark secret of being exposed.
• I Love the Dead: He wishes his dead students could come back to life, even after witnessing what happened to Nubia.
• Mundane Made Awesome: Gives a long, flowery speech about the virtues of brunch.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Gets petulant when Vought tells him that they won't let him revive Silver Kincaid as was done with Nubia in spite of their repeatedly explaining why resurrecting dead supes is a stupid and unethical thing to do.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: He is a serial child rapist and easily one of the worst "Heroes" because of this.
• The Sociopath: Beneath his kindly facade lies a cold and hateful person who only values others if they're useful to him.
• Too Dumb to Live: Ignores both the increasing irritation Vought has with his antics, and the entirely logical point that kidnapping more people makes it harder to cover things up.

Silver Kincaid

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: She is a representation of Jean Grey.
• Driven to Suicide: Killing Nubia under Goldokin's orders was too much for her. That, and the prospect of becoming a spy for the government against her team.
• The Mole: Was going to be one within the G-Men for Rayner, but killed herself before anything could come of it.
• Prematurely Grey-Haired: Her hair became silver when she was eight due to trauma from a horse ride gone awry.

Five-Oh

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: He is the comic's equivalent to Cyclops.
• Jerkass: He's a dick to just about everybody.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Is highly misogynistic, speaking ill of Silver Kincaid after her death by calling her a "prick-teasing bitch". He is also extremely racist because he seems to intensely despise the members of G-Coast and G-Style mostly for being black.

Coldsnap

A G-Man with ice powers.

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Iceman, since he's an ice-themed member of the team of X-Men expies.
• An Ice Person: Has some sort of unseen ice powers.
• Nice Guy: Even Critter (who's an asshole to everyone) genuinely likes him.
• Only Sane Man: The only member of the G-Men to question his role in maintaining the group's status quo.
• Power Incontinence: Tries to use his powers to chill up a beer for Critter, only to freeze it solid.

Critter

A G-Man covered in hair.

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of The Beast, being vaguely animal-like and covered in fur.
• Blessed with Suck: His condition (being covered in long hairs from head to toe) apparently requires him to wear boxing gloves, which aren't too handy when he needs more dexterity.
• Only Sane Man: Is the only member of the team to directly tell Godolkin that maybe they should stop kidnapping children, since the more people are added the harder it is to maintain the facade.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He is constantly using homophobic slurs against Divine and Flamer and he mocks members of G-Coast and G-Style for basically being black stereotypes incarnate.

Groundhawk

"GONNA!!!"

A G-Man with hammers for hands.

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• Ax-Crazy: He's very violent and ill-tempered.
• Alternate Company Equivalent: He is the Wolverine stand-in and also wears a mask similar to Hawkman.
• Catchphrase: "Gonna!"
• Crippling Overspecialization: Seriously, are those hammer hands of his good for anything at all?
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Implied to have one, not unlike his inspiration.
• One-Word Vocabulary: "Gonna! Gonna... GONNA!" .
• Take That!: Wolverine is Ennis's least favorite superhero (which is saying something, considering he isn't a fan of superhero comics as a whole), so this Expy of him is naturally depicted as a blithering idiot.
• The Unintelligible: Only says his Catchphrase.
• Wolverine Claws: Averted, his forearms have been replaced with hammers.
• Wolverine Wannabe: A decidedly unflattering example in that this pastiche of Wolverine has hammers for hands rather than retractable adamantium claws and is an idiot unable to say anything besides "Gonna".

Europo

A teleporting G-Man.

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: Is blatantly based off of Nightcrawler due to having a demonic appearance as well as teleportation powers. He even has an inverted color scheme of having crimson skin and a blue costume instead of the other way around
• Amazing Technicolor Population: He has scarlet skin.
• Character Tic: Elongates the vowel sounds of random words. See below.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Talks about how Silver Kincaid "Shaaaaaaaved her genitals!"...at her funeral.
• Supreme Chef: Apparently has a fantastic secret recipe for Eggs Benedict.
• Teleport Spam: Not spammy enough, though.

Nubia

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Storm, being a black woman with weather powers.
• Black Girl Dies First: The first named black member of the G-Men, and the first one within the plotline to have died (despite it being in the past).
• Came Back Wrong: As an Empty Shell with a death wish.
• Death Seeker: All she says is "Kill me".
• Token Minority: The only black member of the G-Men.

Divine

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: Is most likely a stand-in for Angel, given his religion-related codename.
• Camp Gay: He has feminine mannerisms, keeps up with his appearance and is implied to be in a relationship with Flamer.
• Deadpan Snarker: Pretty much anything he has to say to Critter results in this.

Flamer

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: Possibly of Sunfire, considering he's the one with fire powers.
• Burn Scars, Burning Powers: Implied, seeing how he is covered in scars.
• Straight Gay: It is implied that he and Divine are lovers, but unlike Divine, Flamer doesn't demonstrate any stereotypes.

Superduper

A group of young, oddball supers said to come from the future; in reality, the group is mostly used as a dumping ground for supers with powers that make them too difficult to market on their own or with any of the bigger teams.

In General

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: Their fake backstory of being from the distant future suggests that they might be representations of The Legion of Super-Heroes.
• Foil: To the rest of the Supes. Their powers aren't great, a few may be disabled, and they don't have a lot of wins under their belts. Despite all of that, they make a choice to be happy and do good where they can, compared to pretty much every other hero (except Starlight) who despite all their powers and prestige, are miserable, self serving bastards who only care about themselves. Considering Superduper would have every legitimate reason to be angry and selfish but aren't, it shows how pathetic Homelander and the rest really are.
• Nice Guy: Unlike almost all other supers that appear, the members of Superduper are genuinely caring and well-intentioned, if rather ineffectual, especially in the violent Crapsack World of the comic.
• Power Incontinence: One of the reasons many of the members aren't considered as marketable as other supers is their inability to control their powers, which can kick in or stop working seemingly at random.
• Silly Rabbit, Cynicism Is for Losers!: With how crappy their powers are and how laughable their lot in life is, these kids would have every reason to be miserable and bitter towards the world. They instead focus on doing what they can, regardless of their success, and still find happiness in supporting each other and doing good.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: The members desperately want to be heroes and genuinely think they're doing a valuable service to their community and even help out with some local things, but their group is mostly just used by Vought-American to keep young supers that are difficult to place anywhere else. That said, a few of the members are aware of how limited and downright useless their abilities are, but they're still genuinely happy being a team and want to do what they can despite their limitations.

Auntie Sis

The de facto leader of Superduper.

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• Did Not Think This Through: She underestimated how horrible Malchemical is when she threatened to report his behavior to Vought-American in order to curb his attitude. He responded by tricking her into revealing what she's most afraid of and tried to rape her.
• Mama Bear: Subverted. Malchemical immediately gets on her bad side when he does nothing but treat the rest of the team like shit, but there's not much she can do against a guy who can shapeshift into anything.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Unlike most heroes, she genuinely cares about her charges and wants what is best for them.
• Team Mom: Pretty much the only thing holding the group together, but she doesn't seem bitter about it.

Bobby Badoing

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: Possibly of Bouncing Boy, since he's overweight and bounces like a ball.
• Big Eater: Constantly eating something, likely due to his powers.
• Blessed with Suck: His powers and size give him rolls of fat so big he can't even pee without the others lifting them.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Has the ability to be really fat and... bounce.

Black Hole

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: Possibly of Matter-Eater Lad, given his power of being able to eat anything.
• Big Eater: Tries and fails at this when he eats an entire serving of ice cream, spoon, container and all.
• Extreme Omnivore: This seems to be his power, but if that's the case, it doesn't work very well—his attempt to eat a plastic spoon resulted in him nearly choking to death when it got caught in his throat.
• Power Incontinence: After his mishap eating ice cream with his powers, he's out of commission for the rest of The Innocents arc.

Klanker

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: Possibly of the Metal Men (turning into metal objects), and of Ferro Lad (Legion of Super-Heroes member who can turn into metal) with a bit of Stone Boy (being unable to move when in his transformed state).
• Character Tic: Has Tourette's Syndrome, which makes him spontaneously blurt out "Fuckingcunt". Luckily, the other team members know it's not on purpose and don't mind.
• Cluster F-Bomb: Due to his Tourette's Syndrome.
• Involuntary Shapeshifter: He doesn't seem to have complete control of his powers and sometimes transforms randomly when he gets excited.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: He can turn into random useless metal objects.

Kid Camo

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Chameleon Boy, at least in having powers that enable some form of disguise.
• Chameleon Camouflage: His (surprisingly cool) power is the ability to take a liquid shape and perfectly blend into his environment. Unfortunately, he has trouble assuming his real form afterwards and stays liquid for a while.
• Flat Character: Has the least interaction out of all of Superduper.

Ladyfold

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• Blessed with Suck: In her own opinion, and rightfully so: "Powers? What kind of power is this, for goodness' sake? I mean what happens, do I just keep going until once a month I'm producing some kind of menstrual sausage—?"
  • To be clear, she becomes incredibly powerful and indestructible on level with the highest ranking heroes... but only during her cycle.

Stoolshadow

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Phantom Girl, as she has the power of intangibility. She also looks a lot like Raven from the Teen Titans.
• Forgetful Jones: It's implied the numerous head and facial injuries she's received from walking into walls has affected her short term memory as she repeatedly has trouble remembering things, such as the words at the end of sentences. Luckily, the other team members are able to fill in the gaps.
• Power Incontinence: Constantly walks into walls, assuming she has control over her phasing powers at the time.

Malchemical

A malicious, shapeshifting super assigned to Superduper as punishment.

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Metamorpho, being a shape-shifter whose default form is a mish-mash of incongruous colors and uses a codename that's a portmanteau that begins with the letter M.
• Attempted Rape: He tries to force the female members of Superduper to fellate him. Fortunately for them he's stopped by Hughie and Butcher.
• Bed Trick: He was sent to Superduper after he had sex with the girlfriend of a member of his previous team having shapeshifted into said team member.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Burned alive by Butcher while in gaseous form and reduced to an unrecognizable charred corpse. If anyone deserved it, it was him.
• Depraved Bisexual: He's mainly raped or attempted to rape women, but threatens to rape Wee Hughie to death when the latter tries to confront him for his abuse towards Superduper.
• Humanshifting: Can shapeshift into and impersonate other people.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: His shapeshifting makes him practically invincible in a straight-up fistfight, due to him being able to take on multiple forms and even become intangible by turning into a gas. Too bad he apparently forgot that gas is flammable.
• Intangible Man: Can turn into gas. It's ironically what gets him killed when facing Butcher and a lighter.
• Jerkass: An unpleasant bully through and through, he regularly mocks the team for their disabilities. And that's before getting into him freely admitting that raping the other members of SuperDuper (many of whom are underage) was 'The first place [his] mind went'.
• Kill It with Fire: Butcher flicks a lighter while he's gaseous. Cue instant Cruel and Unusual Death.
• Manipulative Bastard: Got kicked out of Team Titanic for impersonating the leader and having sex with his girlfriend.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: As if being a misogynist rapist wasn't enough, he also openly insults Superduper for most of their members having mental disabilities, even going so far as to use the R-word when referring to them.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: His transfer to Superduper is basically punishment for committing rape by deception on his team's leader's girlfriend.
• Smug Super: Nearly on The Homelander's level of smugness, being sure that his shapeshifting makes him invincible. He delivers Hughie a Curb-Stomp Battle before his brief, and fatal, encounter wih Butcher.
• Token Evil Teammate: He is the only truly evil member of Superduper. It's even pointed out how incongruous it is to have a mean-spirited hardass like him made the leader of a team of young heroes with special needs and not-so-impressive abilities.
• Transformation Horror: Can take on some pretty damn disturbing shapes.

Other Characters

Janine

Mother's Milk's daughter.

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• Bratty Teenage Daughter: Hangs out with gangbangers apparently just to piss off her father.
• Freudian Excuse: She attributes her unruliness to being distressed at her parents splitting up, as well as trying to cope with her body reaching adulthood at an accelerated rate in spite of still being a child.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Behaves like a very promiscuous college-aged girl, and despite looking like one she is actually 12.
• Younger Than They Look: She's only 12 despite looking to be in at least her late teens.

"Little" Nina Namenko

A diminutive Russian mob boss who works with James Stillwell.

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• Added Alliterative Appeal: Nina Namenko.
• Does Not Like Men: She has a deep distrust for men because of issues with her father.
• The Napoleon: She may be the size of an eight-year-old, but is ruthless enough to lead a criminal organization.
• Mafiya: A leader of the Russian mob.

Swingwing

An independent tech-based hero and formerly Tek-Knight's first Kid Sidekick.

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Nightwing, being the Batman Parody's first sidekick all grown up and being active independently. The resemblance was far closer when he first appeared on-panel, but he abruptly became a blond in the next issue.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Pretends to support gay rights but is actually homophobic.
• Heel–Face Door-Slam: After Hughie and Butcher learn the truth behind why he pushed a gay man off a roof, Butcher orders him to spy on other supers for him as punishment, and it seems like he'll clean up his act... Only for Hughie to reveal he was Killed Offscreen when his jetpack malfunctioned, because Butcher sabotaged it. He actually survived the fall since he landed in water... Only to get crushed to death by the Staten Island Ferry.
• Historical In-Joke: Him being adored by the Gay community and also being extremely homophobic is a twisted reference to Nightwing's status as one of DC's sexiest male characters and being a fan-favorite among female and gay readers.
• Nice Character, Mean Actor: Big time. Though "Mean Actor" is a bit of an understatement, considering when Swingwing was actually "mean" he pushed a young gay man off of a roof who had confessed his love to him.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He only pretends to support gay rights for PR purposes and is so homophobic that he actually shoves a man off a building for confessing his attraction towards him.

Vasily "Vas" Vorishkin, "The Love Sausage"

A Russian super who works with Butcher and the others.

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• Chummy Commies: Supports a communist politician and is one of the genuinely nicest guys in the comic.
• Fingore: Lost a few fingers some time before the events of the comic when touching The Female.
• Gag Penis: He has a gigantic penis, to the point that his dick almost reaches his knee when flaccid.
• Gargle Blaster: Makes his own alcohol with freaking brake fluid. It actually works as a poison antidote; in Vas' own words, "This shit could probably kill AIDS virus."
• Husky Russkie: Big, bearded, broken English, loves a good drink, and a proud old commie.
• Large Ham: He's very boisterous and dramatic.
• Made of Iron: The guy took a lot of punishment before going down.
• Nice Guy: He's probably one of the most genial and friendly people in the entire comic, to the point that even Butcher is fond of him, despite being a former Supe. Sadly it doesn't stops Butcher from killing him in his quest to exterminate all Compound V users.
• No Historical Figures Were Harmed: Appropriately for an elderly Communist, he looks a lot like Karl Marx as an over-the-hill superhero.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: His absurdly hammy and jovial side makes people forget how dangerous he really is, which can have deadly results, seeing as he used to be a badass soviet superhero.
• Super-Strength: His apparent powerset, being strong enough to sucker-punch Stormfront.
• Token Heroic Orc: Aside from Starlight, he's the only truly heroic superhero in the series, and the only one who seems to be mentally well-adjusted. The fact that he wasn't created by Vought-American may have something to do with it.
• Weaksauce Weakness: The biggest drawback of having an enormous member is that he is immobilized once fully erect, to the point that he is unable to continue helping Hughie due to getting a hard-on after walking into a room full of strippers.

Fantastico

A team of four supers: Reacher Dick, Invisi-Lass, The Doofer and an unnamed Human Torch expy.

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• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Reacher Dick is mentioned by Oh Father to have helped an old lady across the street only so he could pickpocket her wallet.
• A Dick in Name: Reacher Dick is shown to be a right bastard. Aside from the aforementioned pickpocketing of an old woman, he also shows very little concern over his teammate Doofer dying of a drug overdose, only berating him for not listening to him when he told him to slow down on the drugs.
• The Fantastic Faux: They are an obvious expy of The Fantastic Four. Reacher Dick appears to be Mr. Fantastic with Plastic Man's personality.
• Invisible Streaker: Invisi-Lass, an expy of Sue Storm who always stays invisible; all that's visible of her is a mask, stockings, heels and underwear. She is apparently fond of going topless.
• The Worm That Walks: The Doofer (an expy of The Thing) is apparently a living pile of bricks or a person covered in them.

Agent Michael Lucero

A Secret Service agent and member of Vic the Veep's protection detail.

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• Butt-Monkey: He gets shot and in a flashback is shown recoiling at being forced to help Vic the Veep put a condom on.
• My Country, Right or Wrong: Joined the Secret Service to protect the president and serve his country, but the time spent with Vic the Veep is really getting to him.

Uncle Dreams

An aging super who appears in Herogasm.

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• Deconstruction: Might be intended to be one of older superheroes such as members of the Justice Society of America who stay fit despite having been around for decades. Unlike those guys, Uncle Dreams has not aged well (and neither has his political views), walks around with an oxygen tank and can't even keep his bladder in check.
• Expy: Possibly of the Golden Age Sandman.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: Has trouble remembering if he spent his heydays fighting "the niggers or the Nazis" and briefly mentions owning "one of them big Klan hats".
• Potty Failure: He couldn't hold in his bladder during his speech.
• Racist Grandma: He's a racist old man.
• Scatterbrained Senior: If anything of him has aged well, it certainly isn't his mind.
• Sub-Par Supremacist: He is an open white supremacist, yet is also a frail old man plagued by dementia and incontinence.

Oh Father

"Yeah yeah, let he who is without sin suck my dick."

The leader and mentor of Sidekick Twelve, and the defacto head of "Believe", the superhero (and Vought-American) religious organization.

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• Bald of Evil: Has a totally clean head and rapes his young charges.
• In the Hood: Often wears a gold hood as part of his "holy" ensemble.
• Ludicrous Gibs: What becomes of him when he is hit by the missiles targeting the Compound V.
• Pedophile Priest: Implied by The Homelander that he rapes his wards, the Sidekick Twelve.
• Scary Black Man: He's black and proves to be very intimidating when he wants to be.
• Villainous Breakdown: When he is confronted by the media asking for a statement on the leaked medical documents that confirm he rapes his sidekicks, he backhands the reporter on live television.

Doc Peculiar

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Doctor Strange, mainly in his codename being "Doctor" put in front of a synonym for "weird" and dwelling in a strange mansion.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": It's implied that Doc Peculiar isn't his actual codename and that it's what he's called because no one knows his actual name due to never hearing him speak.
• The Silent Bob: Expresses himself exclusively with weird hand gestures and strange facial expressions.

Team Titanic

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Teen Titans (member the Starlike in particular is a clear stand-in for Starfire). They seem to be mostly based on the 80s version, though they've gone to seed since then.
• Former Child Star: It's noted that they used to be a big deal when they were younger, but nowadays, they're mostly regarded as a joke and see their mission as a way to get back into the spotlight.
• Quirky Mini Boss Squad: They get hired to protect Sitwell and Bradley.