Characters / The Boys (2019): Supes

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Supes in General

• Adaptational Heroism: While still as hedonistic and depraved as the comic, the Supes don't just sit around collecting royalties and being little more than publicity figures with powers. They actually do help to stop crimes, even if the crimes are carefully selected by Vought for the maximum PR. Whereas in the comic, they were legally barred from actually doing any vigilante work. Even when Seasons 2 and 3 dial this trait back to be more in line with the comics, it's indicated that they do still fight crime, with Blue Hawk being accused of Police Brutality.
• Allegorical Character: The supes in the series are used as a critique of celebrity culture, namely the greed for fame, how their egos outpace their capabilities, and how their misdeeds are usually covered up through corporate intervention.
• The Ageless: A lot of them seem to either age slowly or not age at all. From what we've seen Stormfront and Soldier Boy have been around since the forties and still look the same as they did when their careers began with Stormfront outliving her daughter. With the exception. Payback who crossed paths with Grace Mallory as a young woman in the '80s all look the same in present day with the exception of Gunpowder who was a kid back then. Whether or not it's a blanket byproduct of Compound V like enhanced strength has not been explicitly revealed.
• Ambiguously Trained: Some Supes are trained to use their powers and have the discipline to match (like Black Noir, Eagle the Archer, Gunpowder, and Soldier Boy who have a proficiency with weapons) but a majority of the time, especially the Supes with powers like heat beams, shrinking, and freezing, their powers are either activated by accident or they are so dangerously powerful they don't consider collateral damage or to think to use their powers responsibly.
• Arc Villain: Homelander is the series' overarching villain, but each season has its own villainous supe that will pull double-duty with him for the position of the main antagonist, usually acting as The Heavy while Homelander is constrained in what he can do personally.
  • Season 1 has A-Train. He is crippled and reduced to a disposable lackey and occasional ally to the heroes.
  • Season 2 has Stormfront who is crippled and dying and commits suicide a few episodes into the next season.
  • Season 3 has Soldier Boy. By the end of the season, he is locked up the CIA, seemingly to be used as a weapon.
• Based on a Great Big Lie: They are marketed by Vought as proof of divine intervention, in reality, they are the aftermath of genetic experiments from Nazi Germany.
• Beware the Superman: This is basically the main theme of the series. Without many constraints on their behavior due to having superpowers, corporate backing and good publicity, superheroes just do pretty much whatever they want. The Boys want to stop it.
• Bread and Circuses: The only reason why the supes haven't been arrested or executed is that Vought is very good at glamorizing them and covering up their collateral damage.
• Celebrity Superhero: In this world, having powers gets you in touch with a massive publicity and sponsorship network. This has led most Supes, even the nicer ones, to become image-obsessed to the point of narcissism, and makes them out of touch with the people they're supposed to protect.
• Civvie Spandex: Some of their costumes incorporate street clothes. Also occurs as Supes can be seen using their powers in civilian clothes while spandex still plays a role in the overall setting.
• Clarke's Third Law: Their powers are seen as a sign from God or the next step in human evolution. But in actuality, they're products of Nazi science.
• Code Name: Supes either come up with their names themselves or have Vought assign them. Vought usually keeps trademarks on them.
• Cool, but Inefficient: Vigilantes with fantastical powers on top of superhuman abilities can save the day, but the series constantly features their drawbacks, such as the amount of Collateral Damage that they inflict, ultimately deciding that they really aren't worth it. Starlight gets ready to help people caught in a car wreck, but other people gathering to help and calling 911 is shown to be enough.
• Corporate-Sponsored Superhero: The more prolific Supes get brand deals, products in their name, and comic book/movie tie-ins. If any of them are sent into danger, it's usually in a situation where they can easily win and have their exploits publicized. This is most prominent with those working under Vought, who even design the costumes for them.
• Corrupt the Cutie: Some of them legitimately want to help people, but being underequipped to handle situations, facing the cynical and corporate side of their world, and the encouragement to engage in hedonism by their peers will drive even the more heroic Supes into becoming Jerkasses.
• Crime Fighting With Cash: Deconstructed by being mixed with Corporate-Sponsored Superhero. The heavy amounts of money and resources basically makes the heroes shills for capitalist America and they're naturally corrupted by it. As Reed Richards Is Useless is in play, it's clear that despite the amount of wealth they earn, very little is spent doing anything to fix real problems, so they're only spending money on heroics to make even more money later. Heroes without this (like Starlight prior to joining the Seven) are shown to be far more genuine in their heroics, only to be corrupted once Vought takes an interest and starts financing them.
• Crippling Overspecialization: Supes are often seen as very successful at simply "fighting the bad guys," and the show displays them as excelling in combat... and that's it really. Putting them in anything more complex, such as a hostage situation, will make them fumble things up one way or another. It may have something to do with the fact that Compound V was made with the priority of creating Super Soldiers in WWII.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: The series highlights everything flawed about superheroes as a concept. The bickering among themselves, the over-commercialization, the downplaying of collateral damage, the lack of interest in addressing "real" problems (except with their activities overseen by a corrupt MegaCorp), their Superhero Origin constantly being rewritten to appeal to certain demographic preconceptions compare to their actual backstories, and worst of all, people making excuses for all of the above.
• Decoy Backstory: Invoked example: The Seven and other supers are publicly given origins of the superhero they parody, e.g. Homelander is an alien who crash-landed on Earth and raised by farmers. In reality, they were almost all Raised in a Lab after they started showing superpowers as children, some with a nuke nearby ready to detonate in case of behavioral issues. It helps to explain why very few supers in this series are normal or well-adjusted.
• Destructive Saviour:
  • Hughie joins Billy's crusade after it becomes apparent that Robin's death was not an isolated incident and that Supes actually kill more people than anyone realizes. Standard protocol after an extremely public incident (like the plane full of passengers Homelander disabled and allowed to crash) is to cover up the whole thing before the press gets involved and word spreads as to how a Vought-sponsored superhero got civillians killed due to recklessness. Vought only allows for a small number of minor incidents to get out and will happily compensate the victims and/or their next of kin to keep appearances.
  • In Episode Six of Season 1, Billy takes Hughie to a meeting of A.C.D.S. (the Association of Collateral Damage Survivors), a support group comprised of people who have been seriously injured while being "saved" by a superhero, and members are comprised of a number of people who now need prosthetic limbs and/or use a wheelchair. The first person we hear speak mentions that although she appreciates being saved by Tech Knight, she stills resents the fact she was left with a paralyzing spine injury. The second speaker mentions that he was involved with Ice Princess, and when they were having sex, she climaxed, and her body temperature dropped to -346 degrees, castrating him in the process.
• Differently Powered Individual: Super-abled or "supe" for short.
• Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory: In-Universe, the origins of Supes were marketed to the public as humans who were born with powers (either given by God or evolution). In reality, they were born human and injected with Compound-V as infants, what powers they got was a genetic lottery.
• Hero with an F in Good: Supes, when they stop their corporate posturing, often do more harm than good when tasked with helping people. They may have ineffective flashy abilities, hold little experience in situations with people at risk, use their powers carelessly or any combination thereof.
• Holding Out for a Hero: Butcher makes note of this attitude being present in their world, with the prospect of a golden hero in the sky coming to save the day making people hopelessly idealistic.
• Idiot Hero: While Adaptational Intelligence is at full swing across the cast, various supes simply went from "outright moronic" to still "short-sighted and hot-tempered" dysfunctional levels of stupidity. To make it worse, almost all of them are thinking too high of themselves, being always cock-sure and fully convinced into being the smartest person in the room.
• Immune to Bullets: Many of the supes are easily able to shrug off casual weapons fire due to either Super-Toughness or a Healing Factor. The exact level of weaponry needed to kill such a supe is rarely defined, although killing Translucent was accomplished via an Ass Shove and some C-4. Though it should be noted that even an exceptionally strong supe in Black Noir is shown to have his skin pierced by bullets.
• Incompletely Trained: Supes are seen physically training and face other tests by Vought's labs and research. Unfortunately, their tests focus on experience in combat and are less about handling situations required to help people. This leads to situations like the butchering of Flight 37.
• Irony: Experimentation related to radiation was commonly used in comics as an origin story for superheroes and supervillains. Season 3 establishes that supes can have their powers removed through exposure to high levels of radiation, demonstrated from the blasts of an experimented-on Soldier Boy.
• Karma Houdini: Anything blatantly wrong that they do ends up covered up by Vought and excused with their publicity. The Boys have made assigning a Karma Houdini Warranty part of their mission.
• Kryptonite Factor:
  • Seemingly, large levels of concentrated radiation can serve as this, as Soldier Boy's nuclear blasts can Depower Supes such as Kimiko by burning the Compound V out of their systems.
  • Other (typically non-lethal or less-fatal) cases of this boil down to Logical Weakness. Transluscent's invisibility relies on conductive carbon meta-material, making him vulnerable to electric shocks, those with electrical powers are theoretically susceptible to EMP blasts, and so on.
  • As enhanced humans, there are ways to use their Super-Senses against them. Vought has made use of sonic emitters to incapacitate unruly supes under their watch, blaring high-pitched frequencies to exploit their Super-Hearing. Their internals may also not be as protected as the rest of their body, letting their orifces become a weakpoint for some. Frenchie in particular comes up with improvised weapons to deliver inhalants into their system.
• Limited Wardrobe: With the exception of Annie, they mostly seem to only ever wear their supe outfits as part of their depiction as a corporate product. If they ever appear in street clothes, they're trying to go incognito (Maeve) or in an emotionally vulnerable state (A-Train and Deep).
• Locked Out of the Loop: Half of them, even the ones working under Vought, have no idea about Compound V and have often been led to believe that their powers were gifts they were born with, just like their audiences.
• Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex: Zig-zagged; it's shown that some Supes, despite most of them having super-strength to some degree, can have fulfilling and satisfying sexual relationships with baseline humans. The ones that don't or can't control their powers, however, usually end up killing or seriously maiming their sexual partner, such as Popclaw crushing her landlord's head when she orgasmed or the guy who got castrated when his partner's An Ice Person powers activated during orgasm and froze his penis.
• Nominal Hero: No matter what they do, be it accidental or deliberate abuse, they are still sold to the public as heroes and saviors. And everything contradicting that image being either covered-up or, more often, settled outside the court, gagging any dissent. The whole point of the operation run by the Boys is trying to expose as much as possible of this.
• Not Wearing Tights: Whenever Supes activate their powers out of uniform.
• Politically Incorrect Villain:
  • Ezekiel and the Believe Expo spread homophobic propaganda that is at least a decade past its expiration date, much to Hughie and Annie's disgust.
  • Homelander dismissively generalizes Arabs as "illiterate camel jockeys" and balks at the idea of recruiting a Daredevil-Esque blind superhero into the Seven because he doesn't want a "cripple" on the team. Additionally, Homelander's constant quips that Becca is raising Ryan to be a pussy or "like a girl" strongly indicate he's a misogynist.
  • Stormfront views non-powered humans with Condescending Compassion. When chasing Kimiko and her brother through an apartment building she kills a black family for no reason and calls Kimiko's brother a "yellow bastard" when she kills him. Her behavior dates back to the '30s when she was originally Frederick Vought's wife and his first successful test subject. In the '70s she was known as "Liberty", murdering a young black man she accused of robbery. It seems that Stormfront just mutates her ideas according to her time passing from a literal Nazi in the '30s to alt-right in modern times holding far-right white supremacist ideas and believes in the white genocide conspiracy theory.
  • Blue Hawk is a minor Supe with a police-based gimmick, who intentionally targets black neighborhoods and believes that black people are inherently predisposed to violence and crime.
• Powerful and Helpless: Despite their superhuman abilities, they're still at the beck and call of their corporate masters as they control their image, salary, and entire lives. Just ask Popclaw and Mesmer what happens when you get on their bad sides.
• Powerful, but Incompetent: They have superpowers but they pay little regard to collateral damage and have been known to cripple and maim people by recklessly trying to save them.
• Reed Richards Is Useless: Superheroes have existed in this world since the era of World War II, yet not much has changed with their introduction. This is shown with "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel playing in MM's car, which recaps history the exact same way we know it. Vought's projects are mostly self-serving, so anything that could change or improve the world as a whole is highly unlikely to happen.
• Required Secondary Power: Case-by-case this is played straight or outright averted depending on the character. Homelander for instance is a Flying Brick, but he needs leverage to lift something and so is unable to hold the weight of a plane while flying, whereas a typical Flying Brick has an unspoken ability to push off the air itself. Conversely, A-Train and other speedsters like Shockwave seem to have some kind of invulnerability when running to protect themselves, and no comment is made about where they get the energy from (A-Train says he has to eat 30,000 calories per day, but even that should be utterly insufficient). Meanwhile, Starlight's energy blasts require her to redirect nearby energy into herself to do it, so some are still obeying the laws of thermodynamics.
• Required Secondary Powers: Not all supes have these, making some of them losers in dead-end jobs with useless abilities. All the really active ones have them, keeping them from being easily taken down. For example, A-Train avoids being a Fragile Speedster, as he's strong enough to pull a train.
• Royally Screwed Up: Albeit not technical royalty, Vought's prime specimen and top team leaders share the same sociopathy and the same genetic tree. In Homelander's case, he actually does consider himself to be entitled to rulership over men, and in the season 3 finale, Ryan is implied to turn out just like his father and grandfather.
• Shockingly Expensive Bill: When Supes are enlisted to protect and help cities, they can get quite pricey. Stillwell tries to sell the mayor of Baltimore a hero called "Nubian Prince" for $300 million a year.
• Slave to PR: Mostly seen from those directly under Vought. Supes need to keep a clean image as best as they can, and they must sacrifice things in order to avoid risks of consequences like blackmail. Supes may not always listen, but Vought constantly advises them on how to approach the public with their image.
• Smug Super: Many Supes regard themselves as superior to regular humans with the powers and money that they possess. It can range from regular celebrity ego to full-blown Supe-supremacy.
• Straw Loser: Essentially, the depiction of the Supes is based on the idea of what would really happen if you gave super-powers to anyone at random. Most wouldn't know what to do with it, many would become hedonistic sellouts who abuse their powers, and the number of truly altruistic heroes who actually know what they're doing would be countable on one hand. Butcher sums it up in season 3 after his experience on V24, the superpowers don't make you become a bad person, its just most people suck so most would suck with them.
• Superpower Lottery: What powers they get is up to some unknown factor in each's genetic makeup. There are winners like Queen Maeve who is second only to bespoke supes like Homelander and Soldier Boy, and you get losers like Popclaw who has slight Super-Strength and the ability to sprout claws which isn't that different from holding a knife.
• Super Prototype: Stormfront and Soldier Boy are among the first people to ever get dosed with Compound V and survive the process, and are significantly stronger and better than any other supes that followed, including also being The Ageless, a trait not seen in others. Notably, their powers are also far less random and are applicable for Super Soldiers Vought originally wanted to make, rather than the Superpower Lottery started once dosing infants with V en masse.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Averted, and not just in isolated cases. It seems in this universe, superheroes aren't expected to not kill, so nobody seems to mind seeing Homelander eviscerate threats. When Supervillains start actually becoming a thing, they openly declare when they kill one without any effort to bring them in. Annie is seemingly the one exception, though this might be due to having been a genuine Cape prior to joining the Seven.
• Touched by Vorlons: Nobody knows where their powers came from, with some claiming that God Himself gave them. It's actually Vought that empowers them by injecting Compound V when they are babies.
• Tyke Bomb: Thanks to decades of experimentation, Vought knows that the most reliable way to make supes with Compound V is to use it on infants (it works on adults, but the process is risky and painful). This typically makes their abilities manifest around age nine, which is bad enough, but can manifest even in the infants themselves. Butcher uses one as an Equippable Ally, taking down a team of agents with its Eye Beams.
• Unskilled, but Strong: It's shown that most Supes have trained to use their powers largely so they can demonstrate their powers as a parlor trick, thus very few supes actually have real-world combat training while also being hamstrung by a number of physical or psychological constraints. Since most are looking to chase a celebrity status very few have actually had to deal with a superpowered enemy, and the average supe is still a major difficulty spike for a Badass Normal. Being the most powerful, Homelander generally sleepwalks through anything thrown at him and only finds some trouble with Soldier Boy, an empowered Butcher and a pissed off Queen Maeve who has spent months training to kill him.
• Villains With Good Publicity: Ironically, most "superheroes" are actually shades of this, with special mentions going to The 7. They're either outright monsters who hurt whoever they want with absolutely no consequences, or sellouts who just go along with the Status Quo. Still Vaught makes them look like Super Heroes and the world worships them for it.
  • Notable exceptions of this trope include: Starlight, Queen Maeve whenever she takes Starlight's encouragement to heart, and the four main Gen V kids.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: The more powerful and fantastic a Supe's powers are, the more likely they'll get picked up by Vought as a celebrity and all of the ego and money that comes with such status. Gecko, whose only power is regeneration, winds up being a human guinea pig, while Starlight's light blasts lands her a role on The Seven.

The Seven

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Payback

In General

Payback

Mallory: Fucking Payback. Each more ridiculous than the next.

• '90s Anti-Hero: They are clearly lined around this trope, with edgy, brutal and confrontational members (and not just as their marketing personalities) that "solve" problems by shooting or exploding people and causing massive collateral damage.
• Alternate Company Equivalent: They're basically The Boys' version of the Avengers.
• The Dog Bites Back: They sold out Soldier Boy to the Russians for the continuous abuse he put them through— even more than that, everyone save Gunpowder and Swatto (who was dead) personally turned on and ganged up together to take him down physically, each getting some attacks in, which eventually resulted in Black Noir's facial disfigurement and brain damage when Soldier Boy focused on him during his fight.
• Dwindling Party: Season 3 has Soldier Boy kill most of them off one by one after they've sold him out. By the end of episode 7, Black Noir is the only one left After Homelander kills Black Noir in the finale, they're all dead.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: Payback was once Vought's premier superhero team before the Seven. With the exception of Black Noir, by the present day all of Payback's have been reduced to convention appearances, theme park work, or presumed dead.
• Meaningful Name: Their name "Payback" takes on a whole new level when their biggest impact on the story comes from the time they took revenge on someone especially, their own leader, Soldier Boy; to get back at him for his abusive behavior.
• Mildly Military: They were brought in as a publicity stunt by Stan Edgar in order to get Supes in the military by showing them fight communists. Once they were in camp, all they did was show off their powers, seek attention, and carelessly use military equipment to impress the soldiers. After Swatto thoughtlessly attracted enemy soldiers, Payback killed their own allies because they never bothered to learn the identities of their teammates and they either hid from battle, killed anyone in a fit of bloodlust and panic, or (in Swatto's case) tried to retreat during the battle. Soldier Boy appeared to be the most competent but that was only because his attackers were resorting to close-range attacks than long-distance attacks. At least part of this was also to disguise the fact that the team were planning on betraying Solider Boy, physically subduing him and handing him over the the Russians, with no witnesses to their betrayal of him with Mallory rendered unconscious. Their incompetence is still clearly demonstrated, but at least some of their actions was to create enough chaos to plausibly get away with giving Soldier Boy his due Payback.
  Grace Mallory: Is this a joke? Supes aren't soldiers, they're undisciplined dipshits, untrained, untested, they do not belong in a warzone, they belong on That's Incredible!
• Moral Myopia: After the fight in Nicaragua, Payback only takes care of their own members, even though the only injured one is Black Noir (who they ignore) and there were over a hundred casualties. Crimson Countess stands out in particular, crying about Soldier Boy when there are dead bodies all around her. Given most of them betrayed him — and even physically subdued him as well — this was likely an overblown performance to deflect any suspicion on them for how the strongest Supe in the world somehow lost a fight against normal Russians.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Selling out Soldier Boy to be tortured for decades would be an unspeakably vile action and would surely count as them crossing a moral line out of personal dislike towards an ally but after the revelations in episode 7 it's not hard to see why once you see Black Noir's flashbacks depicting just how abusive and brutal Soldier Boy was.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Seems like the whole team is this. They were a famous team of superheroes, but the incident in Nicaragua showed that they are pretty much inept in actual combat. Swatto gave their location to the enemy by mindlessly flying around, the Crimson Countess is shown killing men that were on her side and Gunpowder's tactics consisted in just shooting a mounted Browning machine gun like a lunatic while his other teammates were cowering beside the jeep.
• Remember the New Guy?: Never mentioned in the first two seasons, despite the show namedropping other teams like G-Men and Teenage Kix, and featuring or referencing Payback members in the comics like Stormfront, Eagle the Archer, and Tek Knight. Seven on 7 reveals the team already existed as early as the eighties.
• Spanner in the Works: To Vought's plans of getting Supes into the military — while their initial outing was a failure due to incompetence, they also made a deal with the Soviets to sell out Soldier Boy and wiped out Mallory's team to disguise this as even more incompetence rather than deliberate betrayal. Zig-Zagged with the reveal that Stan Edgar gave them the greenlight to sell out Soldier Boy — while the plan meant more or less exactly as intended, they still fulfilled this role toward Mallory's team.
• Super Team: An array of different Supes whose popularity brings comparison between them and the Seven.
• Team Killer: Crimson Countess killed at least a couple of Mallory's men. Gunpowder and Black Noir also kill several men who aren't in fatigues and firing away from the camp. And that doesn't even touch on the plan set up against Soldier Boy, though in their defense, he had been asking for it.
• Team Member in the Adaptation: Inverted. Eagle, Stormfront, and Tek Knight aren't members of the team on the show. Played straight with Gunpowder and Black Noir.
• Two Girls to a Team: Crimson Countess and Tessa from the TNT Twins were the only girls.

Soldier Boy

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Gunpowder

Gunpowder

"If more people were armed, maybe I wouldn't have to save the day every time."

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Portrayed by: Sean Patrick Flanery (season 3), Joel Gagne (season 1), Gattlin Griffith (young)

Dubbed by: Jean-Philippe Puymartin (European French)

A retired Supe and former member of Payback, now a Second Amendment advocate, giving Vought support from the NRA.

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• Adaptational Modesty: He's a sexual deviant in the comic and there is no mention of his sex life in the series.
• Age Lift: A member of Teenage Kix in the comic, but played by middle-aged actors.
• Alternate Company Equivalent: His age, outfit, and prominent usage of guns makes him one to Judge Dredd.
• Asshole Victim: Is beaten to a pulp by a V-24 enhanced Butcher, then has his head bisected via lasers when Billy loses control of his powers. As Gunpowder was a Team Killer who already tried to murder Butcher beforehand, few tears were shed.
• Badass Bandolier: Invokes this by wearing two on his uniform.
• Bizarre and Improbable Ballistics: His power lets him ricochet bullets toward whatever he wants to hit. Hence his usage of firearms as opposed to physical fighting.
• Blood Knight: While fighting the Sandinistas, he uses a mounted machine gun and laughs like a maniac as he shoots anything that moves.
• Boring, but Practical: His power is his proficiency over firearms as his superior sight and accuracy are beyond a regular human. While this power appears mundane in comparison to Homelander, Translucent, and The Deep, he was able to back Butcher into a corner and would have killed him if Butcher hadn't used the car alarms to disorientate him. When Butcher came back for a rematch, he was able to beat him at close range and kill him with his eye beams by accident.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: It's implied that Gunpowder was under Mindstorm's control in Nicaragua as he was the only one who refused to betray Soldier Boy and was seen drinking a bottle of water from Mindstorm. According to Soldier Boy, Mindstorm's powers cause severe dehydration when the victim is under his control.
• Cool Helmet: Part of his superhero ensemble.
• Crippling Overspecialization: He's absolutely lethal with guns and firearms in general but useless in unarmed combat. Even without powers, chances are Butcher would've easily been able to beat him in a straight fight.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Butcher beats the ever-loving shit out of him after taking some Temp V, leading to Gunpowder's gruesome death.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Has a brief cameo in season 1 before becoming a supporting character in season 3.
• Everyone Has Standards: He is a crazy Gun Nut but Noir left him out of the plan to capture Soldier Boy since he wouldn't go against him even though he hated working for him.
• Gun Nut: His entire identity. As Mallory can attest, he's had a love of firearms and artillery for decades, getting visibly excited when he fire a machine gun at some guerillas.
• Hand Cannon: Pictured dual-wielding Desert Eagles at one point.
• Harmful to Minors:
  • He's reported to be creating a junior shooter program, in partnership with "the Vought Rifle Association" to introduce children to the Second Amendment.
  • Was on the receiving end of this when he was working with Soldier Boy, who beat him on a regular basis (Billy believes Soldier Boy also molested him, though Gunpowder denies this, even when Billy is beating the truth out of him).
• Improbable Aiming Skills: His stock in trade.
• Kent Brockman News: Appears on Vought News to argue his points, then gets appraised on Seven on 7 with Cameron Coleman.
• Locked Out of the Loop: He had no idea about the plan to leave Soldier Boy to the Russians during the operation in Nicaragua. Thankfully for the conspirators he was too busy shooting from a mounted turret to notice something was going on.
• Logical Weakness: He's a great shot thanks to his power, but he's not trained in close combat (Noir's flashback shows Payback's training drills amounting to Soldier Boy beating Gunpowder bloody), meaning that he's nearly helpless if an opponent gets close.
• Long-Range Fighter: Justified. Since his superpower gives him excellent sight and accuracy, his prefer fighting style is to shoot his opponents from a distance.
• Retired Monster: Downplayed. He's stated to be a retired superhero, but while it's no longer his job, he keeps his general Supe ensemble and is still active in some of Vought's other projects.
• Right-Wing Militia Fanatic: His Establishing Character Moment shows him preaching the evils of gun control, scapegoating George Soros and generally trying to instill irrational fears in his audience for the sake of helping the NRA get more customers.
• Shout-Out:
  • His attire and usage of firearms pegs are all references to Judge Dredd. Which is pretty hilarious, considering he's killed by Billy Butcher, whose actor played Dredd.
  • His talent with firearms and improbable ballistics is reminiscent of Deadshot.
• Stockholm Syndrome: The likely reason he was the only member of Payback who didn't turn on Soldier Boy, despite him regularly beating the shit out of him in practice.
• Superhero Packing Heat: His powerset, as indicated by his name and his argument for the Second Amendment.
• Team Member in the Adaptation: Gunpowder in the comics was a member of Teenage Kix and had no affiliation with Payback.
• Undying Loyalty: Surprisingly, despite Soldier Boy beating him to a bloody pulp during training, to the point he requested removal from his care, Gunpowder is left out of the plan to betray Soldier Boy because Black Noir knew he wouldn't do it.

Crimson Countess

Crimson Countess

Portrayed by: Laurie Holden

A former member of Payback, currently a performer at Voughtland.

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• Adaptational Sympathy: The comic version of Countess was a craven, careerist supe who tried to kill Butcher's dog Terror. The show version suffered a dwindling career, genuinely loves animals, and captured Soldier Boy for the Soviets out of disgust for how he treated their teammates.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: She's Soldier Boy's girlfriend, rather than Mind-Droid's (or Mindstorm's).
• Age Lift: She's a younger woman in the comic, as Payback is a contemporary team.
• Alliterative Name: Crimson Countess.
• Ambiguous Situation: A supe called Countess is mentioned in the series premiere as the frontrunner to join The Seven. Whether it is Crimson Countess is unknown.
• Award-Bait Song: Post-Payback she is shown to have a small career singing epic tearjerking power ballads about her late lover Soldier Boy or endangered animals.
• Butt-Monkey: Her fairly sparse appearances are jam-packed with tremendous misfortune. Her most dignified appearance in the show was a flashback with her as part of a super team that got completely wrecked by a squad of regular soldiers. At least there she accomplished her secret goal, while every appearance in the present goes further and further with showing how far she's fallen and doling out abuse to her.
• Color Character: Crimson Countess.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: Neck snapped by Butcher in the comics, incinerated by Soldier Boy in the series.
• Domino Mask: She owns a red one.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: Her mention in the series premiere implies she's a younger supe with prospects to join The Seven. When she appears, she's an older woman with her best days behind her, and she's now a performer at Voughtland.
• Expy: To Scarlet Witch — her name and outfit are dead-ringers for Wanda's Iconic Outfit, and she has telekinetic powers with a red tinge in the same vein as Wanda.
• Logical Weakness: Has to make a pyramid out of her thumbs and index fingers to use her powers. The Boys routinely prevent her from doing just that.
• The Lost Lenore: Invoked. Vought mostly markets her as Soldier Boy's grieving widow, decades after his apparent death. It's all an act: she hated Soldier Boy and actively conspired to sell him out to Russia.
• Love-Interest Traitor: She sold out Soldier Boy to the Soviets because she (and the rest of Payback) hated him for his abusive, domineering and cruel behavior.
• Moral Myopia:
  • She barely reacts to mistakenly killing Contra soldiers, with a little embarrassment at the most. But when Soldier Boy apparently dies, she breaks down into hysterics, despite there being over a hundred needless casualties. Somewhat Justified in that the two were dating, so she was probably fairly close to him, while she barely knew everyone else killed (excluding Swatto).
  • In episode 5 of Season 3 it's all subverted when it's revealed that not only is she the one who sold out Soldier Boy to the Russians, she never loved him and always hated him, making her hysterical reaction just for maintaining the appearance, though this ultimately is zig-zagged with the later reveal in episode 7 that Soldier Boy was a nasty asshole to Payback and thus gave them all the reasons to hate him above all things.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Bizarrely enough, of Carole Baskin of Tiger King fame. She takes every possible opportunity to talk about chimpanzees and produce music videos of herself singing about them.
• Pet the Dog: For all her incompetence, deceitful actions, and disregard for reckless manslaughter, she does seem to be pleasant and respectful to (paying) fans of her. She tries to comfort Kimiko when she picks up on her muteness, and has a friendly chat with her Supe Porn Platinum client. She also loves chimpanzees and other apes—to an almost childish extent, considering her room is filled with chimp plushies and her latest song is wholly about the plight of chimpanzees.
  • In Black Noir's flashback, she quickly checks on Gunpowder once Soldier Boy stops beating him bloody and begs Ben to stop when he attacks Black Noir. She also deals the finishing blow to Soldier Boy in Nicaragua by forcing a mask on his face.
• Role-Ending Misdemeanor: In-Universe, according to Laurie Holden, Crimson Countess was fired for accidentally killing a mascot at Voughtland during her confrontation with Kimiko and Frenchie.
• Stripped to the Bone: The only thing left of Crimson Countess after being vaporized by Soldier Boy's Nuke 'em powers is her skeleton with burnt bits of her flesh still attached to it.
• Unknown Rival: Annie mentions her in passing in Season 1, believing that The Seven would have chosen Countess over her. They don't exactly have a rivalry, as it's more akin to actors auditioning for a part rather than directly competing in something.
• White-Dwarf Starlet: After Payback had been disbanded decades ago, she's currently demoted to being a resident show act at Voughtland, singing ballads, doing meet-and-greets, and using her deadly energy blasts for show effects. Episode 5 reveals that she also works as a camgirl, which means her career has tanked so hard she's no longer contractually obligated to pander to Moral Guardians.

Mindstorm

Mindstorm / Dan

Portrayed by: Ryan Blakely

A former member of Payback.

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• Adaptational Name Change: Was called Mind-Droid in the comics.
• Adaptational Skill: In the comics, he was a low-level telepath who could only tell if people were in a room and translate Swatto's buzzing. Here, he can put people in nightmare-induced comas.
• Awesome, yet Impractical: His mind scramble is strong but given he needs to make eye contact and he does not have a specifically durable body compared to most Supes he is kind of useless when the Sandinistas attack since it's a whole battalion with guns charging him.
• Badass Normal: Mindstorm has no superstrength, yet helped his pals fight Soldier Boy and even landed a punch on him.
• Beard of Sorrow: Has grown out a scruffy beard since becoming a recluse.
• Blessed with Suck: His telepathy is powerful to the point where he can hear the thoughts and search the memories of any person within a three-mile radius of himself through sheer concentration; however, at least partially due to his bipolar disorder, he lost control of it and couldn't be near other people without hearing all of their thoughts with no means to silence it. Soldier Boy even points this out:
  Soldier Boy: Mindstorm's a paranoid fuck. Hell, if you could hear everybody's shitty thoughts, you'd be too.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Soldier Boy tosses a knife into Mindstorm's eye, tackles and wraps his head in a burlap sack, before bashing his head in with the shield.
• Glass Cannon: Everything shown suggests that his power works equally on anyone, normal or super—he instantly disables a Temp V-empowered Butcher, and in Black Noir's flashback, it is shown that it was his power which actually took down Soldier Boy, giving Crimson Countess a chance to gas him. Likewise, in the present day Soldier Boy makes sure to blindfold him. However, it's then shown that he doesn't have Super-Toughness when he takes a throwing knife through his skull, meaning that while he could potentially One-Hit Kill anyone even among other Supes, he himself is as fragile as a normal person, or at least a lot closer to it than most Supes.
• The Hermit: He's off living in the wilderness away from society so he won't have to hear other people's thoughts.
• Hollywood Psych: Subverted. The Legend states he has bipolar disorder and takes prescription medication for it; Hughie and Butcher manage to find him by cross-referencing his public sightings with lithium refills.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: He agrees to bring back Butcher from his coma at Hughie's request, only to be viciously murdered by Soldier Boy.
• Pet the Dog: He is seen giving an injured Gunpowder water after the fight is over.
• Psychological Torment Zone: His most dangerous power involves trapping its victim in an endless nightmare. He only needs to make eye contact for it to work.
• Sanity Slippage: In the '80s, he was stable enough to operate on Vought's major hero team and pose for some photos with the rest of Payback. In modern times, hearing the voices of everyone around have made him an erratic hermit.
• Story-Breaker Power: With the reveal that Mindstorm can put anyone into a permanent coma that only he can reverse, potentially even Soldier Boy, one wonders why he wasn't ever used or suggested by anyone as a Hero Killer to reign in other Supes who are otherwise too powerful to stop, in particular, Homelander. Stillwell states that Homelander has survived every weapon on Earth, but what about a simple staring contest with Mindstorm? Possibly justified by Mindstorm's Sanity Slippage making him too unreliable for this. Although if Black Noir's animated flashback is any indication when Mindstorm did use his power on Soldier Boy, he appeared to actually resist it, requiring a powerful drug to be put under, indicating that stronger supes may be capable of fighting against it.
• Tranquil Fury: In Black Noir's flashback to his disfigurement, he wordlessly uses his powers to "scramble" Soldier Boy's mind after seeing what he did to his opponent.
• Weaksauce Weakness: His Mind Rape powers can be stopped by blindfolding him.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: Hughie manages to convince him to stand down by promising to protect him from Soldier Boy. Unfortunately for him, the second he lives up to his end of the bargain, Soldier Boy appears and knocks Hughie out, before brutally killing Mindstorm.

Swatto

Swatto

"Fuck, fuck, fuck!"

Portrayed by: Joel Labelle

A former member of Payback.

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• Dirty Coward: Was more than happy to show off to the soldiers at Mallory's camp, but when his showing off leads to the camp being found and attacked by the Sandinistas, he immediately tries to fly away.
• Flat Character: He dies in his second appearance and is only remembered by Mallory. He is surprisingly absent from Black Noir's flashbacks, although it's possible he simply wasn't present for the first incident and was already dead when Payback turned on Soldier Boy.
• Lethally Stupid: Him showing off his flight gets the camp attacked by the Sandinistas, killing many people on his side in the chaos. Even though he wasn't in any actual danger due to collaborating with the Russians to capture Soldier Boy, he still tries to run away and gets killed during the chaos.
• Ludicrous Gibs: Only a few chunks are left of him after he gets hit with a rocket-propelled grenade.
• The Millstone: He exposes the camp and runs away rather than fight.
• Too Dumb to Live: He shows off for the soldiers in Mallory's camp by flying and hovering over the tree-line and continues to do so several times, even after Mallory warns him that he'll lead the Sandinistas right to them. Predictably, this is exactly what ends up happening and when Swatto tries to flee from the skirmish he's shot out of the air by an enemy rocket launcher. However in episode 5, it's implied he attracted them on purpose so the Russians could capture Soldier Boy, unfortunately, he still tries to run away instead of sticking with his team.

The TNT Twins

Tommy and Tessa

"TNT! Detonate!"

Portrayed by: Jack Doolan (Tommy), Kristin Booth (Tessa)

Twin former members of Payback.

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• Brother–Sister Team: Presumably given they are referred to as twins.
• Canon Foreigner: They didn't have a counterpart in the comics.
• Corrupted Character Copy: Of the Wonder Twins-style Brother–Sister Team duos (in-practice, due to being members of the Marvel parody team they appear to be inspired by Northstar and Arora or the Fenris twins). Neither can use their powers without the other, requiring they hold hands and use it in tandem, but while those duos tend to be close siblings, Tommy and Tessa apparently can't stand one-another and their close relationship is incredibly toxic and uncomfortably intimate.
• The Dividual: People don't tend to refer to one or the other, but consider the two practically one person. They live together, and its stated at one point that neither can get solo bookings for conventions because nobody wants to see only one of them.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • When Gunpower goes on a shooting spree, Tommy tries to stop him from shooting their own men.
  • When The Deep arrives to the mansion, the first thing Tommy does is say that he always believed that Starlight's accusations were false and Deep was just doing "innocent flirting". Tessa rolls her eyes at her brother and calls him pathetic.
  • In Black Noir's flashback, the TNT Twins are shown to be just as disgusted by Soldier Boy's beatdown of Noir as the rest of the team and loudly beg him to stop. They later fight alongside him and Mindstorm to stop Soldier Boy for good. Tommy also tells Mindstorm to scramble Soldier Boy's brain after he nearly kills Earving.
    Tommy: Get him, Mindstorm! Scramble his fuckin' brains.
• Incest Subtext: A downplayed version, as we never really see the two engage in any sex onscreen, but the two have an uncomfortably intimate and toxic relationship, as they are the hosts of Herogasm, an event where Supes of all kinds engage in an orgy, and the sexy outfits both of them wear can certainly feel uncomfortable once you remember they are siblings.
• Irony: Despite being named after the explosive, they did the least amount of damage and Tommy was trying to stop Gunpowder as he went into a frenzy with the machine gun.
• Jaded Washout/White-Dwarf Starlet: Used to be part of the "prime American superhero team" in the '80s, but in modern times, their biggest deal is doing a celebrity appearance... for the opening of a local mall in the middle of nowhere. It seems they do nothing much beyond such stunts, trying to cash on their former status. What makes them stand out further is self-awareness about their status as "has-beens".
• The Load: They do nothing to help the fight against the Sandinistas, although at least this means they weren't committing collateral damage. Soldier Boy remarks later that the two weren't even able to aim properly and would regularly miss their marks.
• Meaningful Name: Both their names begin with the letter T and their superhero name appears to be T and T.
• No Body Left Behind: Unlike Crimson Countess, both Tommy and Tessa's bodies were vaporized into oblivion by Soldier Boy's Nuke 'em powers.
• Theme Twin Naming: Both their names start with T.
• Villain Forgot to Level Grind: They haven't used their power in years and thus out of practice. Tommy tried to warn Tessa but they ended up trying to use to kill Soldier Boy, only for sparks to come out of their hands. That combined with Soldier Boy's new Power Nullifier abilities.
• Virile Stallion: Invoked in Black Noir's animated flashback of Payback, where he sees the TNT Twins as a pair of horses. The TNT Twins were the hosts of Herogasm and were obsessed with hedonism and sexual pleasure.
• Wonder Twin Powers: They can use their lightning powers only when they hold each other's hands.

Black Noir

Black Noir

Portrayed by: Fritzy-Klevans Destine

See Black Noir's character page here.

Teenage Kix

In General

A youth-themed superhero team counting A-Train, Popclaw, and Mesmer among their alumni.

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• Super Team: One that, as the name suggests, houses young superheroes.

Popclaw

Charlotte / Popclaw

Portrayed by: Brittany Allen

A former member of Teenage Kix and A-Train's girlfriend. She's also a Compound V addict.

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• Accidental Murder: She accidentally murders her landlord by crushing his head with her pelvis, while he's giving her oral sex, when she's lost control during climax.
• Adaptational Sexuality: The comics' version was a closeted lesbian. The TV version appears to be straight.
• Age Lift: She was a member of Teenage Kix in the comics, while in the series she's a former member and thus already an adult.
• Ascended Extra: While the show considerably fleshes out the Supes, Popclaw gets the biggest boost in importance out of any of them in Season 1.
• Blade Below the Shoulder: Type II. She's named after her retractable arm blades.
• Former Child Star: As a teenager, she used to be a rising star in both the superhero and film world until her reputation for partying and drug abuse came out and ruined her career. She still works as an actor, but only in D-list movies.
• Killed Off for Real: Is killed by A-Train via him injecting her with four needles of heroin.
• Lighter and Softer: Her comic version is mostly known for being an extreme sexual deviant, and for constantly mutilating herself for pleasure using her claws.
• Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex: Gender flipped. As Popclaw's landlord finds out, it can be very difficult to control super strength during sex, especially when the Supe in question is high on Compound V.
• Ms. Fanservice: She's a very attractive woman. In-Universe, her superhero films seem to be tawdry revenge tales with her as a sexy Anti-Hero and she keeps several naked pictures of herself framed on her walls. And she's been making sex videos of herself and A-Train for a fairly long time, for... archiving.
• My God, What Have I Done?: She's absolutely mortified for what she did to her landlord by mistake while high on V.
• Never Suicide: A-Train murders her by jamming in four needles loaded with heroin into each of her arms to make it looked like she overdosed. Starlight gets a look at the autopsy report and notes only an idiot would believe it was suicide since it's impossible she jammed needles into both arms simultaneously with enough force to break the bones.
• Nice Girl: She's one of a handful of Supes that isn't an egotistical jackass, and the worst thing about her personality is that her drug abuse makes her violent and unpredictable when she's under the influence.
• Nice to the Waiter: Related to the above, she's quite pleasant and hospitable to Hughie and Marvin when they fake being telecom installers to get into her apartment.
• Out with a Bang: Popclaw is shown getting oral sex from her landlord then accidentally crushes his head with her thighs while losing control of herself.
• Recovered Addict: She quit her V addiction. She relapses after A-train pretends he is completely single on TV.
• Secret Relationship: With A-Train, much to her chagrin.
• Super Team: Was under one called "Teenage Kix" with A-Train.
• Token Good Teammate: Among the whole crop of Supes, she's one of a very small few who's not utterly vile and is even shown some sympathy by the Supe-hating Boys. It doesn't save her from Homelander's wrath through A-Train as a proxy.
• Thousand-Yard Stare: She has one after she accidentally kills her landlord. After letting out a rather horrific scream, all she can do is stare blankly at the corpse until The Boys arrive.
• Wolverine Claws: Which pop out from her wrists. They're portrayed as not too different from simply carrying a knife.
• Wolverine Wannabe: A Supe from Vought's superhero projects and formerly a member of Teenage Kix whose set of abilities includes sharp appendages protruding from her arms and a sort of Berserk Mode when high on Compound V. She is famed as an anti-hero in-universe.
• You Don't Look Like You: Her comic counterpart had a punk/goth/Lisbeth Salander look, while her show version is a lot more mainstream as a crime fighter and otherwise.
• Your Head Asplode: Popclaw accidentally crushes that of her landlord's while he gives her oral sex, with his brain shown getting squirted out.

Mesmer

Mesmer / Charles

Portrayed by: Haley Joel Osment

A former child television star who played an underage psychic policeman.

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• Actor Allusion: Of course they'd cast Haley Joel Osment as someone whose main claims to fame were when they were a kid.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: The moment Billy catches up to him in the bathroom, Mesmer tries to offer help in regards to the whereabouts of Becca. This later turns into a frantic plea of I Have a Family the moment he allows Billy to reciprocate his mind.
• Asshole Victim: Butcher turns Mesmer into a bludgeoning stack after the latter tries to spare himself by stating he has a daughter. He might have been sympathetic, had it not been for the fact that he ratted out the Boys to Homelander and Vought to begin with. Despite this, his death can come across as somewhat pitiable.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Initially seems like a supe who cares about his family more than fame, but after The Boys cut a deal with him to allow him visitation with his daughter, Mesmer then goes to Homelander with dirt. On the way there, he dismisses a call from child services about him being allowed to see his daughter, proving that deep down he really does care more about fame than his family and doing good.
• Canon Foreigner: He doesn't exist in the comics.
• Department of Child Disservices: Averted. Mesmer lost custody of his daughter three years ago but he appears to be well-adjusted and desperate to see her again. However, Child Services is completely in the right because Mesmer - when offered - chooses a chance at fame over their call about visitation rights.
• Dirty Mind-Reading: Mesmer learns a female fan of his wants to do something amorous with him due to his mind-reading power. He replies that he'd been thinking the same thing.
• Disappeared Dad: After getting info from a stock broker, he got convicted of insider trading and lost the right to see his daughter. He hasn't seen her in years and she doesn't really remember him, calls him Charles, and walks away without saying goodbye.
• Former Child Star: He makes a living signing DVDs of his television show where he played an underage psychic policeman.
• I Have a Family: Mesmer tells Butcher that he has a daughter, but to no avail.
• Jaded Washout: His only claim to fame is a television show he was in as a child. Vought had some plans for him but dropped him after he used his powers to do insider trading. Since then he's been riding his fading popularity all the way to the bottom and lost custody of his daughter.
• Oh, Crap!: Mesmer reads Butcher's mind and realizing to his horror of what he will do to him.
• Non-Action Guy: His powers are purely mental, and he didn't get even a shred of the Super-Strength or Super-Toughness all the other Supes tend to have.
• Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: He tries to expose the existence of The Boys to Homelander in an attempt to get into good graces with Vought. He gets nothing in return save for the stealing of his phone, and not even any protection in case any word of his betrayal gets out. This also means his brutal death at Billy's hands.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He's the one who exposes the Boys to Vought, turning them into public enemy #1.
• Telepath: He reads minds.
• White-Collar Crime: He was blacklisted by Vought for brushing his hand against a Wall Street Stockbroker, reading his mind, and using the information for insider trading.

A-Train

Reggie Franklin/A-Train

See A-Train's character page here.

Other Superheroes

Ezekiel

Ezekiel

Portrayed by: Shaun Benson

A prominent figure from the Believe Expo that promotes Supes and Vought with a connection to religious ideals.

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• Armoured Closet Gay: Ezekiel, it turns out, is a closeted gay man who has secret trysts with men while publicly touting his conservative Christian beliefs, saying homosexuality can be cured by prayer.
• Blasphemous Boast: At the Believe Expo, he gives a speech referring to his ability to stretch, Homelander's Flight and A-Train's Super-Speed in the same sentence in regards to Jesus walking on water. Equating Jesus's literal divinity to basic superpowers is blasphemous; this plays into the show's theme of superheroes seeing themselves as and being treated like gods, despite being incredibly flawed humans.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: After his initial plan to blackmail Ezekiel with a video of the latter having sex with men falls through, Hughie instead claims to have had sex with Ezekiel himself. Apparently, Ezekiel has sex with many random men, so he assumes it's possible Hughie was one of them.
• Chekhov's Gunman: In episode one, Hughie and Butcher pass Ezekiel sitting on a couch, using his stretch powers to have a threesome with two men. In episode six, Hughie successfully blackmails Ezekiel to give him information by saying he has evidence of them having sex, after his phone short circuits inside the baptismal pool Homelander dunked him in, and can't show the original footage.
• Composite Character: He is a combination of Oh Father (prominent religious superhero with ties to Believe) and Reacher Dick (a supe with stretchy powers and a sketchy double life).
• Corrupted Character Copy: While he has powers similar to Mister Fantastic, beyond that they're basically complete opposites. Ezekiel is a charismatic religious leader and hypocrite, while Reed Richards is an Absent-Minded Professor of pure science.
• Depraved Homosexual: Despite his Cure Your Gays speeches and beliefs, he secretly engages in orgies with men and even uses his powers during these orgies. The October Seven on 7 short strongly implies he abuses men too due to him being under investigation for sexual misconduct.
• Hypocrite: Ezekiel, a conservative Christian superhero with "Capes for Christ" who claims homosexuality can be cured by prayer, is himself attracted to men and secretly has sex with them.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: Based on the October Seven on 7 short, Ezekiel has been subject to a public investigation under Hughie's watch at the FBSA for accusations of sexual misconduct, this following him only getting a warning not to preach Cure Your Gays beliefs from Hughie following his blackmail attempt.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He spreads homophobic propaganda in a time when homosexuality is becoming accepted by the public, much to Hughie and Starlight's disgust.
• Really Gets Around: Hughie manages to blackmail Ezekiel to give him information on Vought and The Seven, by saying he has evidence of them having sex, and will have someone else release it if he doesn't communicate with his contact at a certain time. It's not true, but the implication that Ezekiel has slept with so many men that he can't remember an individual is what allows Hughie to get the information he needs.
• Rubber Man: He has stretching powers.

Doppelganger

Doppelganger

Portrayed by: Dan Darin Zanco, Elisabeth Shue (Madelyn Stillwell form)

A Super working under Vought.

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• Canon Foreigner: They don't exist in the comics.
• Character Death: Killed by Homelander while shapeshifted to look like him.
• Dead Person Impersonation: Impersonates Stillwell for Homelander's fantasies.
• Fan Disservice: We are treated to Doppelganger transforming from an attractive female to an unattractive male during sex with the Senator, while naked.
• Non-Human Non-Binary: Doppelganger, a shapeshifter, is gender fluid, going by they, their or them. Fittingly, they're able to go from female to male form at will.
• Overheating: Assuming a form for too long begins to hurt them, and they involuntarily return to their true form shortly afterward. They require a short Cooldown in their original form before changing again.
• Power Incontinence: Claims that staying in a specific form for too long is painful, which forces them to shift back to their default form.
• Power Perversion Potential: Their powers are used for disguise and blackmailing under sexual encounters. Homelander later has them fulfill his fantasies, appearing as Stillwell.
• Replacement Goldfish: Homelander has them shapeshift into Stillwell after her death in Season 1.
• Satellite Character: Perhaps appropriately for a shapeshifter, they don't seem to have much in the way of a personality on their own.
• Saying Too Much: After assuming Homelander's form they were doing fine by talking him up until they (accurately) started talking about how much Homelander drew strength from the attention and praise of others. Unbeknownst to them, that happened to be a Berserk Button for him.
• Shapeshifter Default Form: The male figure that we see seems to be their regular form, shown when they can't keep their shapeshifted disguise for long and strain from upholding their image of Stillwell.
• Shapeshifters Do It for a Change: Fittingly, the only shapeshifting Supe identifies as non-binary and is shown to have no problems with seduction as either gender.
• Shapeshifting Squick: What Vought has them enact with the senator.
• Transformation Sequence: Doppelganger transforms from female to male during sex with the Senator (though the latter is unaware, as he's been blindfolded). Also happens involuntarily when they watch a movie with Homelander and state that they cannot keep a form for long.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Doppelganger has this power, being able to assume other forms and impersonate people perfectly by doing so. It seems to have a limit for how long it can be held, however.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Shows up in all of three episodes, in a tertiary role. It's hard to get much of a handle on their personality, as a result.
• Yes-Man: Acts like this toward Homelander, in Stillwell's form and in Homelander's own. It's unclear if they have a thing for saying what people want to hear, sincere respect/attraction for Homelander, or if they're just terrified.

Eagle the Archer

Eagle the Archer

Portrayed by: Langston Kerman

An archery-based superhero who finds The Deep at rock-bottom and offers to help him out.

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• Accidental Misnaming: Subject to this, as The Deep can't remember who he is despite apparently meeting him several times before at public events.
• Adaptational Heroism: Downplayed, since he's a recruiter for a cult. But, it's telling that the worst blackmail material the Church of the Collective could dig up on him involves him engaging in roleplay with a former partner, whilst in the comics Eagle beat his girlfriend into a coma.
• Ascended Extra: Named, but his modern version never appears in the comic.
• Awesome, but Impractical: A super-archer despite guns being available in the present day, taking it to battle against people armed with Tec-9's. It's a point of contention for him; his Improbable Aiming Skills make him highly effective with them, but the fact arrows are much larger than bullets limits how many he can carry.
• Casual Kink: He was into roleplay with a former partner.
• Church of Happyology: A member of the Church of the Collective who gets The Deep involved.
• Dreadful Musician: Implied given that A-Train mentions in Season 3 that Eagle had a rap career that wasn't as successful as his main occupation.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: He's a cult recruiter, but he leaves the Collective once they tell him to cut his mother out of his life.
• Fights Like a Normal: As a Supe, he's on Compound V but doesn't show any outward signs of mutation, and is known for his archery skills.
• Higher Understanding Through Drugs: He doses The Deep's drink in a successful effort to force introspection upon him. It can probably be safely assumed, given how he encourages him to ride it out, that he's done this himself.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: Explicitly, he claims to have super-aim, so he never misses a shot.
• Nice Guy: Unlike every other supe that isn't Annie or Maeve on a good day, Eagle the Archer doesn't show any signs of being a villainous prick. He legitimately just wants to help.
• Persona Non Grata: He leaves the Collective near the end of Season 2, after which the church makes sure to humiliate him and make their members remove him from memory.
• Stepford Smiler: A bit, as he still feels pained about bungling a hostage situation but is nudged by Carol to keep on with his story about his epiphany.
• The Straight and Arrow Path: His weapon of choice. Deconstructed, as he took it to a Hostage Situation against people armed with machine pistols and could only carry so many arrows in his quiver, leading to many lives lost.
• There Are No Therapists: Zig-Zagged, given that he brings Carol in to help The Deep. While taught that therapy is actually self-destructive, he was provided a way to face and cope with his inner conflicts, though in a questionable manner.
• Trademark Favorite Food: He and everyone else under the Church of the Collective are obsessed with Fresca for some reason.
• Unperson: When he falls out of favor with the Church of the Collective, they choose to never acknowledge him when he's excommunicated.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: His super-aim and use of archery make him an effective fighter, but it's impractical in the modern day where guns are available. It's to the point where even he calls it into question. Carol made him think otherwise, but for the wrong reasons.

Blindspot

Blindspot

Portrayed by: Chris Mark

A blind superhero and one of Ashley's candidates for the Seven.

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• Canon Foreigner: Blindspot is an entirely new character created for the show, being a parody of Daredevil. He has no counterpart in the comics. Though he does share the name a character with a similar skillset.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: An acrobatic martial artist outside of his Disability Superpower.
• Disability-Negating Superpower: His super-hearing lets him more than make up for his blindness.
• Disability Superpower: Blind, but with enhanced Super-Senses to make him a skilled fighter.
• Domino Mask: One that shields his eyes.
• Ear Ache: Homelander busts his eardrums open, leaving him screaming and writhing on the ground with blood spilling out of his ears.
• Fate Worse than Death: If Blindspot somehow survived Homelander destroying his ears, he's now both blind and deaf, meaning he now has no way to interact with his surroundings except touch. He will have to spend the rest of his life in complete darkness and silence.
• Hero-Worshipper: Like many others, he's eager to meet Homelander.
• Irisless Eye Mask Of Mystery: Justified since he doesn't use his pupils.
• Logical Weakness: As Homelander decides to give an open demonstration of, should something happen that affects his super-hearing, he's basically a blind guy and open target.
• Super-Senses: Super-hearing. Great for sensing the world around him. Not so great when he's hit by a loud enough noise or force to destroy his eardrums.
• Token Minority: Ashley eagerly defines him as a differently-abled superhero, which would do wonders for representation amongst audiences. Homelander isn't very interested in having a "cripple" on the team; however, and makes this clear by blowing out Blindspot's eardrums.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: We last see him collapsed on the floor in a pool of blood thanks to Homelander, and we don't find out about what happens to him after his rejection.
  • A later Vought news bulletin reports Blindspot missing during a very important mission in Argentina. The Newscaster gave thoughts and prayers towards his safe return. Either he later died from his traumatic and severe injuries, or Vought quietly "retired" him to prevent further complications. In either case he is most likely dead.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: What Homelander believes. His main superpower is his super-hearing, and when he gets his eardrums blown out, Homelander brushes him off as becoming "just another useless fucking blind guy."

Gecko

Gecko / Matthew Culbert

Portrayed by: David W. Thompson

A Supe working in Vought's labs and an old acquaintance of Annie during her Capes for Christ days. He's the key to her and Hughie's plan.——

• Animal Theme Naming: Named after geckos, he can regenerate parts of his body just as they can for their tails.
• An Arm and a Leg: Gets his limbs lopped off for his customers.
• Blackmail:
  • Annie records a video of an S&M session of his.
  • He returns the favor by threatening to reveal that she was the one looking to seal a sample of Compound V, should she ever threaten him again.
• Bondage Is Bad: A former family-values superhero making a stint as an S&M prostitute would not make for pretty headlines. Additionally, he's part of Vought's real business as a pharmaceutical company and keeping Compound V under wraps.
• Canon Foreigner: Doesn't exist in the comic.
• Corrupted Character Copy: Could be seen as a reference to snarky self-regenerating antiheroes like Lobo or Deadpool, which is ironic as both Deadpool and Lobo are poster boys for the '90s Anti-Hero trope while Gecko's public image is that of a God-fearing and unmanly noncombatant.
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Another case of Averting this in the show, as Vought uses his Healing Factor to test various creations on a live human subject. His powers also give him opportunities as an S&M prostitute on the side.
• Ethical Slut: He's an S&M prostitute who lets clients chop off his limbs, other than that, he's amiable with Annie and he keeps it professional at work. He's part of Vought's labs but as the subject they experiment on.
• Eye Scream: He's last seen sporting an eyepatch thanks to tests for an eye-cleaning product. Since he doesn't regenerate his eye back as quickly as he normally would, it's implied the shampoo is still affecting it.
• Fetish: Provides this for his customers with the use of his Healing Factor.
• Figure It Out Yourself: He forcibly hands Annie a vial of Compound V while she's in the middle of going through public appearances. When she wants to talk about getting it later and that she has no pockets to hide it, Gecko forces her to deal with it on her own.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: Exploited by himself and Vought. His powers put him into harmful situations for some sort of gain.
• Groin Attack: One of the offers he makes to his clients.
• Harmless Villain: He isn't aggressive, destructive or antagonistic like many other Supes, and the only thing putting him at odds with The Boys is the fact that he willingly works with Vought and their real business. Annie easily blackmails him into smuggling a sample of Compound V over. Furthermore, the December Seven on 7 short reveals he was easily imprisoned after Vought threw him under the bus for his part in leaking Compound V.
• Healing Factor: Like his namesake animal, he can regenerate parts of his body even if they've been separated from him.
• Hooker with a Heart of Gold: At first, he's genuinely happy to see Starlight and congratulates her on being part of The Seven, he makes sure to prevent any messes while working, and he behaves like a professional despite clearly being in pain. He is part of Vought but as their test subject due to his healing factor and he has every right to be angry at Starlight.
• Major Injury Underreaction: His power is a healing factor, he can regenerate any part of his body once it is cut off. However, he isn't immune to pain as he's shown flinching and recoiling when his client is chopping his arm off.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Not himself properly, but he's a prostitute working for clients with amputation fetishes who certainly qualify.
• Power Perversion Potential: He uses his regenerative powers to fulfil more extreme BDSM fantasies for clients.
• Put on a Prison Bus: The December Seven on 7 short states that his helping Starlight and side gig in S&M was found out by Vought and they subsequently threw him under the bus to be imprisoned for his part.
• Required Secondary Power: He can have his limbs removed and they can grow back just as quickly, however, it's shown to be a painful process as he can still feel pain.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Through him, Annie and The Boys get a sample of Compound V.
• Sympathy for the Devil: Though he's working for Vought and keeping their projects secret, Annie voices sympathy for what he's put through at the company labs, but he wants no part of it.
• We Used to Be Friends: After reminiscing about their days at Bible Camp and Capes for Christ, Annie blackmails him into getting a sample of Compound V from the 67th floor. Gecko laments their friendship, and when Annie tries to express sympathy for his time at Vought, he tells her that he wants nothing to do with her after giving her the sample. The December Seven on 7 short later claims he tried to reveal her blackmail attempt after he was found out to no avail as a sign of how far apart they've drifted.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: His gimmick is regeneration, and only that. With no combat capabilities or flashy way to sell him, he doesn't have a career like his peer, Annie. Downplayed, as it at least grants other practical uses for him and Vought.
• With Great Power Comes Great Perks: His regenerative abilities are either used by Vought for testing or with his side "business".

The Nubians

Nubian Prince / Gerald and Nubia Taylor

Voiced by: Don Cheadle (Nubian Prince) and Aisha Tyler (Nubia)

Married supes stationed in Atlanta.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: Nubia has black hair rather than silver or white.
• Arranged Marriage: Vought engineered his Meet Cute with Nubia and them becoming a couple for marketing-purposes. It's implied that it wasn't all fake in the beginning, but the cracks are really starting to show in the present.
• Battle Couple: Deconstructed. The only reason they're together is that they're both aroused by beating people up and mistook it for love.
• Casting Gag: Nubian Prince, a parody of a Marvel superhero is voiced by an actor famous for playing another Marvel superhero.
• Dark and Troubled Past: The Nubian alludes to some childhood trauma that no one will give him time to work through.
• Electric Black Guy: Being an expy of Storm, her main powers are shooting purple electricity.
• Expy: Of Black Panther and Storm, who were similarly married.
• Fake Nationality: Invoked. Nubian Prince puts on a vague African accent as a supe, but he's actually from Bakersfield, CA.
• Flying Brick: Essentially their powers are flying and being strong enough to fight Groundhawk and Nubia having Shock and Awe powers.
• Good Parents: To Maya, despite the state of their marriage.
• Groin Attack: She accidentally attacks his with her thunderclap ability when they're on the job.
• In Love with Your Carnage: Deconstructed. Him and Nubia only get along when they beat the shit out of others, but outside of that they're a terrible couple and can barely stand to be around each other.
• Sadist: It's implied that they get turned on by brutally beating people, judging by how they have sex with Nubia after they nearly kill Groundhawk.
• Shockingly Expensive Bill: The mayor of Baltimore is not exactly happy that it costs $300 million to hire Nubian Prince.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Nubia in the comics was brought Back from the Dead and little more than a braindead zombie, shuffling around the G-Men's mansion while begging people to put her out of her misery. Nubia in the series is alive and, apart from her failing marriage, seems to be doing well for herself.
• Super Couple: Invoked Echoing their inspirations, who were briefly married in the comics, Nubian Prince and Nubia are a couple.
• Team Member in the Adaptation: Inverted. Nubia's membership in the G-Men goes unmentioned.
• Token Minority: Vought emphasizes Nubian Price's popularity for this as part of their advertising.

Groundhawk

Groundhawk

Voiced by: John DiMaggio (Diabolical)

A Chicago-based supe with addiction issues.

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• Adaptational Intelligence: For starters, in the comics, he was a blithering idiot who could only say his catchphrase "Gonna!", while Diabolical shows that this version of him is able to talk normally.
• The Alcoholic: Like his Marvel Comic inspiration, though played realistically as it gets him in trouble as he has been in and out of wellness centers for five times.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: Hawks.
• Anatomy Arsenal: His hands have been replaced with hammers.
• Being Good Sucks: He tries to help Maya with her parents divorce but ends up being brutalised by both of them, with the ending either implying that he was hospitalised or killed by the Nubians.
• Blessed with Suck: His powers makes basic everyday things like urinating difficult and dangerous.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Famously short-tempered.
• Informed Attribute: He's said to be short-statured, but when he shows up fighting Nubian Prince, he towers over him.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's a grouchy drunk but unlike many superheroes, this seems to be the worst of his crimes. He's decently nice to Maya, tries to help her understand the hard truths about her family, and is concerned when he accidentally drops her.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Despite his grouchiness, he was right to say that the Nubians were better off getting a divorce than forcing themselves to stay together for Maya's sake.
• Mean Character, Nice Actor: He portrays a rogue opposite the Nubians, but it is just a role he plays and is a lot more personable in person.
• Mistaken for Pedophile: Attempts to defy this by telling people that he's not one, pointing out how he doesn't even have fingers. Played straight when Nubian Prince mishears his daughter.
• Uncertain Doom: It's never made clear if Groundhawk survived the assault from the Nubians or if he was killed by the couple after being mistaken for a pedophile who abducted their daughter. The Vought News Network states that he had checked into rehab for the 5th time for his alcoholism, implying that he survived the attack or it hasn't happened yet.
• Wolverine Wannabe: He's heavily based off Wolverine, to the degree that everything in his Seven On 7 report could be about old Logan, from the wild hair, to the drinking, to the short temper and short stature.

Silver Kincaid

Portrayed by: Jasmin Husain.

A contestant on the reality show American Hero, who is trying out for a spot on the Seven as the first Muslim member. Though she was Starlight's first pick, Homelander went over Starlight's head and recruited The Deep instead.

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• The Ace: She's got the highest rescue stats of any of her competitors and she's a UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) ambassador.
• Adaptational Nationality: American in the comics, English in the show.
• Color Character: Silver Kincaid.
• Handshake Refusal: Ignores Hughie when he greets her.
• Mind over Matter: Her powers include telekinesis.
• Telepathy: One of her listed superpowers. It implied that this is part of the reason she was rejected from The Seven. With Homelander not wanting her to read his brain and discover what he's up to.
• Twofer Token Minority: A Muslim woman from England.

Termite

Portrayed by: Brett Geddes

A supe with the power to shrink himself. Hughie sends Butcher, Frenchie and Kimiko to investigate him on the behalf of the recently created FBSA (Federal Bureau of Superhuman Affairs).

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• Accidental Murder: He sneezes and accidentally regrows himself while inside his partner's genitals, severing the man in half and horrifying Termite.
• Asshole Victim: Considering what he tried to do to Frenchie after he saw him with his dead lover, he's not one to be missed after Homelander steps on him while in his tiny form.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: While shrunken down, he's killed by Homelander when the latter needlessly and mercilessly steps on him when he arrives to investigate the scene.
• Depraved Bisexual: He has a cameo in season 1 jumping into a woman's vagina, then in season 3 crawls up a man's dick hole, and accidentally kills him. And he's noted to be one of the multitude of morally corrupt supes in the series.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Briefly seen in season 1 diving into a vagina.
• Expy: Of Ant-Man, another size-shifting superhero with an insect-themed name minus the heroics. And his habit with killing lovers by regrowing inside them referencing the joke fans made for how Ant-Man could beat Thanos.
• Finishing Stomp: While begging for help, he's killed by Homelander after the latter steps on him as he's shrunken down.
• Full-Frontal Assault: Attacks Frenchie and Kimiko while completely naked.
• Knockout Ambush: Butcher stops Termite by making him fall into a plastic bag full of cocaine while he was preparing to enter Frenchie's mouth, which instantly makes Termite overdose.
• Mundane Utility: Is shown mostly using his power for fetishistic reasons.
• Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex: He enters a man's penis through the urethra for sexual reasons, but loses control of his powers when he sneezes... the result are not pretty.
• Power Perversion Potential: He generally uses his size-shifting powers for lewd purposes, such as diving into a woman's vagina on more than one occassion and banging a Barbie doll. He also went inside another man's penis, but he lost control of his power and accidentally killed said partner.
• Resized Vocals: When he shrinks himself, his voice rises to a helium squeak - making some of his more profane lines even funnier in the process.
• Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing: Typically, small pants he wears when shrunken down, immediately gets ripped apart when he changes back to normal.
• Sizeshifter: His main power is the ability to shrink himself.
• Squashed Flat: While shrunken down, he's crushed to a small puddle of blood by Homelander's boot.
• Super-Strength: Considering how he easily throws Frenchie around the room even while being very tiny indicates that he has this as well.

Blue Hawk

Blue Hawk

"I do not see color. I only see crime."

Portrayed by: Nick Wechsler

"You know, it's actually racist to call somebody racist."

A police-themed supe. Specifically, the bad cop variety.

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• Allegorical Character: He's the embodiment of police brutality and his costume resembles a motorcycle police officer's uniform. While Blue Hawk insists that his actions aren't racially motivated, he displays police brutality by revealing that he's quick to anger, relies on lying to save himself from the consequences of his actions, and has no qualms using his powers on unarmed black civilians. He's also believed to be based on George Zimmerman.^note A volunteer neighbourhood watch officer who killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, during a highly controversial confrontation in 2012.
• Angry White Man: He downplays the "angry" part to gaslight his opponents, but it's clear that he feels nothing but contempt for any race that isn't his own.
• Asshole Victim: After two episodes of watching him get away with racist hate crimes, A-Train gets him back by dragging his body across the road while he runs at full speed, leaving Blue Hawk a shredded, bloody mess.
• Bigot with a Badge: He's more or less a racist cop with no redeeming qualities to speak of.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He starts out trying to act reasonable and compassionate, but when it's made clear that he's not good at it, and unable to handle any real criticism for his actions, he quickly flies off the handle.
• Blatant Lies: His "apology" to the black community for his actions absolutely reek of insincerity, and his delivery makes it clear he doesn't mean a word of it. The crowd is appropriately not won over.
• Body Horror: after A-Train is done dragging him across the road, all that's left is a partially flayed, bloody mess.
• Canon Foreigner: He's made specifically for the tv series and the closest he has to a comic book counterpart is Five-Oh from G-Men but there is no mention if the two are the same character or if he was just renamed in the adaptation.
• Color Character: Blue Hawk.
• Conspiracy Theorist: He seems to genuinely believe that Soldier Boy's explosions are fake because he "did research" and offers to show Annie "some videos" that will educate her. This actually ties in well with his previous scene citing misleading stats about black crime to justify his racism, as such misinformation is often spread in similar circles as conspiracy theorists.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: A-Train uses his powers to drag him across a road at super speed, leaving him a bloody mess.
• Death by Irony: A virulent racist gets killed by being dragged down a road, a method of lynching made infamous by the murder of James Byrd Jr. For good measure, it's a black man, A-Train, who does it to him.
• Digging Yourself Deeper: He claims in his Ordered Apology that the deaths of the African Americans he committed weren't racial-based, but as soon as the African community calls him out on his methods, he soon loses his temper and spouts out his true beliefs.
• Dirty Cop: A police-themed superhero who brutalizes and murders black people in black neighborhoods.
• Dirty Coward: He gleefully terrorizes defenseless civilians in the black neighborhoods he "patrols" in, but when faced with an actual threat in the form of Soldier Boy, he flees Herogasm in a panic, not even stopping to help those who were injured from the attack.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?:
  • His "Supe Lives Matter" outburst is obviously meant as an analogue for the real life "Blue Lives Matter" slogan adopted by some police supporters in response to Black Lives Matter.
  • A-Train killing him by dragging him across the road at high speed brings to mind lynching, which sometimes involves the victim being chained to the back of a car and dragged against the asphalt. Quite an ironic death given how prejudiced he is toward Black people.
• Faux Affably Evil: He's a racist thug when the chips are down, but he'll play the Reasonable Authority Figure for the sake of good PR.
• Finishing Stomp: He killed a black man who a white woman thought was stalking her by stomping him so hard it cracked the pavement.
• Hate Sink: Given his unapologetic racism, refusal to take any responsibility, and brutal treatment of black communities he is easily one of the most hateable supes of the entire series.
• Hidden Depths: Possibly. Either he was an organ donor, or Vought slapped his heart into A-Tran without any prior authorization.
• Insane Troll Logic: Claims that A-Train is the real racist for calling him racist, despite Blue Hawk having an open record of cracking down on black communities.
• Irony: His heart is transplanted into A-Train, the black man who killed him. What's left of his corpse is probably rolling in its grave at supersonic speeds.
• Jerkass: He's a short-tempered, unpleasant racist who views everyone who isn't like him as a lower form of life. He doesn't even have Homelander's gift for PR, barely even trying to hide his contempt for the people he's forced to interact with.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: He got away with many racist hate crimes thanks to Vought covering them all up until A-Train takes matters into his own hands.
• Karmic Death: His racist antagonism towards black people, which contributed to him crippling Nathan for trying to restrain him from acting violent, and being unrepentant about it ends with Blue Hawk digging himself a hole when he reencounters A-Train, Nathan's younger brother after the Herogasm explosion. A-Train does not hesitate to drag Blue Hawk across the pavement with his super-speed, flaying him to shreds. To add salt on the wound, his heart (which somehow survived his body being cheese-gratered along the road) is transplanted to A-Train.
• Last-Second Word Swap: He was about to call black people a slur before taking a looooooong pause because of A-Train's presence.
• Lawman Baton: He owns a police baton but rarely uses it.
• Meaningful Name: Blue Hawk. The "Blue" obviously means police, as in "Back the Blue" and "Blue Lives Matter" and "Hawk" being a shortened form of "Warhawk", a derogatory slang term for overzealous, usually right-wing military fanatics.
• Mirror Character: He's got all of A-Train's negative traits, which causes the speedster to finally realize what a dick he is. As Ashley pointed out, both got away with daylight murder with the only consequence being to read out a half-assed apology which they openly treat like a chore, yet A-Train only sees injustice when someone he cares about is on the receiving end of it.
• The Napoleon: Noticeable shorter than most other Supes, with both a volatile temper and a tendency to pick on those weaker than him.
• Never My Fault: He never takes any responsibility for his violent behavior toward black people, and only doubles down on his bigotry when people rightfully call him out on it.
• Non-Indicative Name: His outfit is neither blue (unless in certain lighting) nor hawk-themed. The name is more tied to the symbolism of both police officers and warmongers.
• No Social Skills: Literally all he had to do to avoid his eventual death was to put just the slightest bit of effort into making his apology sound genuine, and to not immediately fly off the handle when confronted.
• Ordered Apology: A-Train makes him give one to the black community in a cheap attempt to cash in on the Black Lives Matter movement and boost his own popularity. It starts poorly with Blue Hawk blandly reading his lines off a script in a rushed, bored tone that makes it clear he isn't remotely sincere, and that's before he loses his temper with his audience rightfully calling bullshit on his fake remorse.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He's visibly much shorter than other people, especially compared to A-Train, but he's also a Supe who's strong enough to send people flying with his blows.
• Police Brutality: Pretty much his whole gimmick. Nathan shows A-Train a news segment that praises Blue Hawk for apprehending and killing a mugger. Said mugger was an innocent black man who was merely walking down the street at the time, whom a hysterical white woman believed was following her.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: In the same vein as Stormfront, as he speaks in dog whistles like "All Lives Matter," "blacks are predisposed to be aggressive and criminal,"^note In real life, this tends to get shortened to 13/50, meaning blacks are 13% of the population but 50% of all murderers and "tough on crime." It's noted that he shares a demographic with Homelander who is quickly moving in on Stormfront's fandom.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He bails on his rampage against the angry black community when he sees that he accidentally hurt Nathan.
• Some of My Best Friends Are X: When addressing a community hall full of black people, he assures them that he doesn't see race and that he's friends with black people. The only black "friend" he manages to name is A-Train, who gives him a dirty look.
• Strawman Political:
  • He's every stereotype of the opponents of Black Lives Matter rolled into one person. After trying to downplay his murder of an unarmed black man to an audience of his black neighbors, he then outright accuses their entire race of being inherently criminal based on self-serving statistics. Then the community starts chanting "Black Lives Matter", to which he responds by calmly saying "All Lives Matter" right before screaming "Supes Lives Matter!" within seconds. And then he gets violent, knowing full well that none of his victims are a physical threat to him.
  • It's given less focus, but his presence at Herogasm - where it's stated that sex workers are forced to endure all sorts of horrific sex acts - plays on the stereotype of cops dehumanizing women who exchange sexual favors for money.
• Super-Strength: Brutally demonstrates this in the community center when he sends two people flying with a punch and toss respectively. Not that he can match up to A-Train.
• Super Supremacist: It's hinted that it's not just black people he takes issue with but everyone without powers, as he cheerfully reminds A-Train that they were both trained to "dominate totally" when dealing with civilians and he shouts "Supes Lives Matter!" at the angry crowd when confronted.
• Surprisingly Sudden Death: For a given value of "sudden", since he's given a second or two to know it's coming, but A-Train's speed makes what would normally be a prolonged torture near-instantaneous; the only sound he makes is a Doppled scream of agony, and he's already dead by the next shot.
• Vigilante Injustice: He brutally executed a black man under the belief that he was stalking a white woman, when in actuality, the guy was just walking behind her and she jumped to conclusions. When told to make a public apology, he only does it for PR and is very clearly insincere.
• Villainous Breakdown: He doesn't take well to black people calling him out on his fake apology and hiding his racism behind dog whistles, and starts attacking them in a fit of rage. Way to prove their point.
  Blue Hawk: All lives matter. All lives matter. Supe lives matter. Supe lives matter! Supe lives matter, you fucking ingrates!
• Villain with Good Publicity: Aside from black people, he seems to be well-liked among the public despite, again, being a bigoted Super Supremacist. Nathan calls out A-Train for killing Blue Hawk and allowing it to be blamed on Soldier Boy because now he will have this reputation forever while leaving him alive and arresting him would allow him to face justice for his crimes.
• What a Drag: He's violently killed by A-Train when the latter grabs his leg and runs at full speed while dragging Blue Hawk behind him.
• You Are a Credit to Your Race: A-Train seems to be the only black person he genuinely respects and sees as an equal, due to them both having superpowers and growing up together in Chicago.

Tek Knight

Robert Vernon / Tek Knight

Portrayed by: Derek Wilson

A major non-Seven superhero. He has Awesome by Analysis powers and hosts a True Crime investigation show for Vought.

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• Adaptational Badass: In the comics he has no powers and relies on Clothes Make the Superman. Here he has Awesome by Analysis as a Super Power, and he's implied to have Super-Strength, since he threatens to tear off Cate's hand.
• Adaptational Name Change: Gen V shows that he doesn't have a hyphen in his name, unlike in the comics.
• Adaptational Sympathy: Like in the comics, Tek Knight has a brain tumor that gives him a compulsion to attempt intercourse with anything that has a hole; however, in Gen V, he's only seen penetrating inanimate objects as opposed to attempting to rape other people, and seems at least somewhat disturbed that he has this compulsion.
• Adaptational Villainy: Comic Tek-Knight was, brain-tumor-induced behaviour aside, fairly upstanding for a superhero, and even died saving a woman's life. Tek Knight here, however, has a line of ruined lives in his wake.
• Added Alliterative Appeal: He frequently speaks alliterative nonsense before the cameras roll as a warm-up exercise.
• Asshole Victim: Indira Shetty may be the Big Bad of Gen V season 1, but it's still pretty satisfying to see her humiliate him with his disturbing secret after his callous, cruel behavior and also directly after he sexually harasses her.
• The Bully: Revels in using his detecting powers to get information people and the discomfort it brings them. He’s even driven some of his interviewees to suicide. He’s also not above intimidation as he threatens to rip Cate Dunlap’s hand off.
• Casting Gag: This is the second time that Derek Wilson has played a character in an adaptation of a Garth Ennis comic; he previously appeared in Preacher.
• Destructive Saviour: Crippled a woman in the process of saving her.
• The Dreaded: For different reasons than someone like Homelander. His ability to instantly deduce anything and everything, and analyze details on a molecular level, makes it very, very, very difficult, if not outright impossible, to keep secrets from him or to lie to him. Coupled with his influence, him showing up always puts everyone on extreme edge.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: During the first seasons of The Boys it seemed like Tek Knight was much closer to his comics counterpart, being described as something of a Iron Man/Batman expy. Him crippling a woman while saving her could've made sense if he was an actual superhero but in Gen V it's revealed his powers are pretty much cerebral, consisting of heightened senses and intelligence, and it's mentioned he has never actually been a superhero.
• Faux Affably Evil: He never loses his cool. Even when threatening or bullying his victims.
• Immoral Journalist: His detecting powers allow him to get information out of people that he’d otherwise be unable to access. And he abuses it any chance he gets to produce a good enough story. And if the truth is not good enough, he’s not above outright making up a narrative.
• The Mentally Disturbed: His brain tumor has left him severely mentally ill, and prone to indulging in downright disturbing sexual deviance.
• The Sociopath: Clearly enjoys abusing his powers to bully people into submission and even driving them into suicide simply because he can without a shred of remorse, overlapping with Card-Carrying Villain as he only reacts with an amused smirk or snarky affirmative comebacks when people call him out for his horrible actions.
• Super Supremacist: He tells Shetty that he's intending to pin Golden Boy's death on her solely because she's "only" human, and not a supe like him.
• Your Days Are Numbered: He has a brain tumor that while eventually killing him, in the meantime has given him a proclivity to sexually penetrate any hole he sees. Indira Shetty uses this to blackmail him.

Mentioned-only superheroes

In General

Supes that have only been mentioned in dialogue and have yet to properly make an appearance.

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• The Ghost: Applies to most of them. The ones who have the least details in their mention are Shout-Out and Drummer Boy.
• Mythology Gag: Many of them are characters that appear in the comicbook or share characterization with them.

Big Game

One of the targets for Billy's investigation.

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• The Ghost: So far has only been mentioned in passing by Billy in Season 1 and Annie in Season 2.
• Religious Bruiser: Annie mentions that he was in Bible Camp with her and Gecko. He played Pontious Pilate in their play.

G-Men

A superhero group currently caught in a scandal.

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• The Ghost: They are mentioned in the series premiere of the series as having a billion dollar-grossing movie, and again in the season 2 premiere in a news ticker in Season 2's first episode and haven't been fully elaborated on.
• Meaningful Name: "G-Man" is a common term for a government worker.
• Mythology Gag: They're involved in a #MeToo-esque scandal, recalling the "We Gotta Go Now" story arc of the comics.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Their reputation is under fire for sexual misbehavior, leading to a public movement against them.
• Super Team: Implied to be one.

Ice Princess

A Supe mentioned during the counselling session for people damaged by Supes.

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• The Ghost: A former partner of hers mentions her in a support group but we never actually see her.
• An Ice Person: Ice Princess, a superhero who has the power to turn herself into ice.
• Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex: Gender flipped. One of the men in the supe victims support group revealed that he had sex with her and when she climaxed, she briefly turned to ice... with his penis still inside her. It snapped off.

Behemoth

A rage-activated supe.

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• Canon Foreigner: Somewhat. The comics has a She-Hulk Expy called She-Hemoth, which implies a Behemoth, but he is never actually seen or referenced (while she's confirmed to be canon in Gen V).
• HULK MASH!-Up: He is implied to be a stand-in for the Hulk.
• Logical Weakness: How do you stop a rampaging rage-monster? Douse him with Xanax so he can't get angry enough to trigger his power.
• Unstoppable Rage: His power. It's given a weakness in the form of relaxing them into a non-powered state.

She-Hemoth

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• Destructo-Nookie: According to Tek Knight's show, she crushed a man in the middle of doing it.
• HULK MASH!-Up: Variant - her mug shot resembles MCU She-Hulk (thus qualifying as a Take That!).

Livewire

A supe based in Madison, Wisconsin.

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• Electric Black Guy: He has electrical powers and his picture shown on Seven on 7 with Cameron Coleman confirms that he is African-American.

Supervillains

In General

• Create Your Own Villain: Invoked In-Universe by Homelander. He deliberately distributed the drug to several criminal and terrorist organizations for the express purpose of creating supervillains for The Seven to fight.
• Insistent Terminology: Originally dubbed "Super-Terrorists" by government agencies, in Season 2, Vought arranges to have them officially called Super Villains to make them more marketable.
• Not Wearing Tights: They don't get flashy costumes like the superheroes in this world. They aren't officially backed by Vought, so they wouldn't have them made. In fact, Vought was not involved in their creation at all. It was all Homelander.
• Superhero Paradox: The supervillains made to exemplify this specific theme of the show. Mainly because their existence was deliberately created by Homelander.

Naqib

Naqib

"Burn in truth!"

Portrayed by: Krishan Dutt (Season 1) & Samer Salem (Season 2)

An ISIS terrorist with the power to self-detonate.

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• Action Bomb: He can detonate, and live to do it again.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": Though an entire word rather than a single letter, he has the word "captain" tattooed over his chest to give this effect.
• Captain Superhero: Or in this case, Captain Supervillain (not that most "superheroes" are any better), but same basic principle. His super-name is the Arabic word for "Captain".
• Celebrity Superhero: Well, supervillain, but he follows Vought's example and starts selling T-shirts with his face and slogan on them.
• Knight of Cerebus: His sudden appearance changes the situation between the government and supes drastically.
• Middle Eastern Terrorists: He's an ISIS operative.
• Mr. Fanservice: Handsome, toned, shirtless? Definitely.
• Oh, Crap!: When he sees Black Noir tanked his explosion without issue.
• Off with His Head!: This is how Black Noir kills him in Season 2.
• The Other Darrin: He is played by two not-so-similar looking actors in each season. No explanation is given why.
• Personality Powers: It's astonishingly appropriate that an Islamic terrorist would have the power to self-detonate. This may have been intentional In-Universe however, as Homelander is responsible for creating him and wanted a thematically appropriate "super terrorist".
• Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: Decides "Burn in truth!" would be a suitable Catchphrase, then Black Noir appears and he puts it to immediate use.
• Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: He gets killed immediately into season 2.
• Unwitting Pawn: He's just one of the Supe terrorists Homelander created to coerce the US government into hiring Vought as a military contractor. Once the bill is passed, Black Noir arrives to chop his head off.
• Villains Out Shopping: He discusses with another terrorist possible catchphrases and slogans for his brand in Season 2.
• Visual Gag: He's a literal terrorist bomb.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: He existed purely to be used as the deciding factor that convinces the US government to make Vought a military contractor. Once the bill was passed, Naqib no longer had a reason to live, so Black Noir was sent to unceremoniously assassinate him.

Kenji Miyashiro

Kenji Miyashiro / The Male

Portrayed by: Abraham Lim

Kimiko's brother and a Shining Light Liberation Army operative.

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• Animal Lover: Nursed mice back to health when he was young.
• Big Brother Instinct: He could have escaped but chose to save Kimiko from Stormfront, paying for the decision with his life. See also Taking the Heat below.
• Big Little Brother: The younger sibling but physically taller.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Despite reuniting with his sister, Kenji still hasn't been deprogrammed from his terrorist brainwashing like Kimiko has, making him dangerous.
• Bullying a Dragon: One of the members of Frenchie's allied gang harassed Kenji as part of their trafficking. Kenji responds by throwing the boat that they transported him on and flaying the member's arm.
• Canon Foreigner: Does not exist in the comics, where The Female was an only child.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Shares his experiences with Kimiko, and witnessed the horrors of the Supes at the village, spurring him into further following Shining Light.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Becomes the first person to defeat Homelander on-screen by bringing down the ceiling and the road above him onto to his head while in the sewers.
• Fatal Flaw: He just won't give up on the Shining Light's cause despite Kimiko trying her best to recruit him into the Boys. He decides to make a run for it when he's freed to save Hughie, leading to a ill-fated death at Stormfront's hands.
• Foreshadowing: As he and Kimiko remember their past, he recalls taking the blame for Kimiko's stealing of food (in order to feed him when he got hungrier) and that the adults broke his hands as punishment. When they get into their confrontation with Stormfront, he returns to save his sister from her and has his hands destroyed before being killed.
• Frame-Up: It's downplayed since he was probably planning to attack civilians anyway, but Stormfront's massacre of 59 civilians is pinned on him.
• Gratuitous Japanese: The character tends to have full conversations in Japanese onscreen, with a very noticeable accent and rather obvious that he is only repeating the script verbatim.
• Living MacGuffin: If The Boys manage to transport the Super-Terrorist to their contact, they'll be able to scrub their criminal records clean. It's easier said than done.
• Logical Weakness: His telekinesis is rooted in his hands. If they're incapacitated in any way, he can't use his powers, and how much power and control he has seems to be dictated by how free his fingers are.
• Made of Iron: Despite apparently having only telekinesis as a superpower, he nigh instantly recovers from blasted by Stormfront's lightning bolts through two brick walls in rapid succession with no injury. A civilian hit with a weaker bolt had his brains splattered over a fridge he was blown into.
• Mind over Matter: His power.
• More than Mind Control: Seeing American Supers commit atrocities firsthand apparently made Kenji considerably more receptive to Shining Light's doctrine.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He only appears for a few episodes, but he reveals more of Kimiko's character, shows that things are more serious with the trafficking of Super-Terrorists, and exposes Stormfront's true nature in the small screentime that he has.
• Superhuman Trafficking: Was one such Supe being trafficked.
• Taking the Heat: Shining Light broke his hands after he covered for a thieving Kimiko.
• Terrorists Without a Cause: Although he argues otherwise. Under Shining Light with Kimiko, he expresses more of their motivations in that they've targeted America as one of their enemies, but we still don't get a proper exploration of what they want.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Kimiko tries to get him to abandon the principles of Shining Light and their attacks against America, reasoning that he's the same boy that nursed every mouse and their mother back to health when they were children. He responds by essentially saying that the circumstances are dire now.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: He only gets screentime for two episodes before Stormfront kills him.
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: He has amazing telekinetic powers that allow him to safely take out Homelander without much difficulty, and seem to be strong enough to destroy roads, but also depend on his hand. He then decides to tackle Stormfront instead of using his powers against her, despite being at a safe distance to do so, exposing himself. Stormfront is then able to easily overpower him, disable his hands and then kill him.
• The Worf Effect: On both given and receiving end. He takes out Homelander and is taken out by Stormfromt in turn.
• You Killed My Father: Zigzagged. Although Shining Light killed his and Kimiko's parents in front of them, he's too ingrained in their beliefs to oppose them anymore.
• You Can't Go Home Again: What he tells Kimiko, as a Supe decimated their village and believes that he only has Shining Light left.
• Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: He still believes in the cause of Shining Light, and he is partially motivated from how they target America since one of the country's Supes completely annihilated their home.
• You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry!: When pushed too far, he will stop at nothing to tear apart any obstacle to his mission and loved ones.

Kimiko Miyashiro

Kimiko Miyashiro / The Female

See tropes under ''The Boys''

Unnamed Super-Terrorist

African "Super Villain"

Portrayed by: Kevin Shand

A Supe in an African village that Homelander kills in an act of vigilantism for an easy victory.

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• Ambiguous Situation: When the camera footage is focused on him, he seems to be barely doing anything, and all of the villagers are seen running away from Homelander's position and barely away from the Super Villain. He could've been doing little harm and was actually acting in self-defense.
• Blow You Away: The power that we see him use.
• Collateral Damage: His powers blow apart a sizable chunk of the village, but Homelander dealing with him is what causes a casualty.
• No Name Given: Kevin Shand is only credited as "Super Villain."
• Small Role, Big Impact: Homelander decides on a whim to take him out to easily score public approval. He carelessly dispatches him with his heat vision, and a village boy is caught in the crossfire. With this event caught on camera, Homelander's reputation actually ends up hampered. This incident also pushes him to seek help from Stormfront.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Dies as soon as he's introduced.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Homelander is shown to have been thoroughly unimpressed by his wind powers, making a "I'm so scared" gesture complete with sarcastic "ooooh", before gut-shotting him with eye beams and flying away. The whole incident takes less than 15 seconds, and was clearly chosen for minimal effort and risk.

Sage Grove Patients

In General

A group of patients living in the Sage Grove Psychiatric Center owned by Vought, secretly being tested on to develop an adult-safe version of Compound V. There hasn't been much success yet.

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• And I Must Scream: Until they're eventually burnt alive, they are lifted from places and tested on inhumanely while powers that they may not have any control over manifest and develop.
• Barefoot Captives: They are all kept barefoot in their cells, and presumably even when they are allowed out. That said, given that most of them have bulletproof skin, it doesn't bother them much as Cindy is shown hitchhiking without shoes.
• Bedlam House: Even worse, as most of the patients have incredibly unstable superpowers.
• Dissonant Serenity: Many are calm when seen in the security footage, such as Cindy.
• Empty Promise: Some of them, such as a subject with control over his telekinesis, are told that they can be arranged to see the outside world after meeting certain conditions. None of them leave alive.
• Fiery Cover-Up: Their ultimate fate while Vought tries to work out the kinks on controllable, adult-applicable V.
• Flawed Prototype: They're taking doses of Compound V engineered to be taken by adults, providing information into perfecting a formula that is safe, effective, and not completely luck-based for true Super Soldiers to take.
• Glass Cannon: Some of these Supes may have strong abilities and powers, but also might not have durability on top of them, allowing some of them to die with simple gunshots.
• Having a Blast: The Supe that meets Billy, Annie and Hughie outside the compound has a non-fiery version of this that also doubles as an EMP.
• Incredible Shrinking Man: A subject seen from the cameras is this.
• Mind over Matter: Another one of the nameless Supes' powers.
• Power Incontinence: Some of them cannot control their own powers.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: All of them are too unstable to be seen in public, sent away to an isolated compound in strong cells to hold them. Cindy breaks them out and escapes to the outside world herself.
• Superpower Lottery: Exemplify this as Vought is researching them in trying to make a more controllable version of V for adults.
• Superpower Russian Roulette: As part of the unknown factors that determine superpowers, and being adults who are introduced to the serum instead of being injectd at a young age, the subjects as Sage Grove tend to struggle to remain sane, have trouble over controlling their powers, or both.
• Super Soldiers: What The Boys initially believe. These Supes are more akin to test subjects, which will pave the way for these properly.
• Super-Strength: Many are seen breaking the walls and floor of their cell.
• Teleport Spam: A subject is seen doing this in a twitching state, possibly implying that they have little control over it.
• Tested on Humans: It's a mental hospital that Vought is using to test V. It's ambiguous if they've consented to the testing, however.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Any patient that finishes or refuses to comply with power testing is incinerated by Lamplighter.

Cindy

Cindy

"I don't like liars."

Portrayed by: Ess Hödlmoser

A bald-headed young woman with psychic abilities.

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• Canon Foreigner: Doesn't exist in the comic.
• Chrome Dome Psi: An unstable young woman who has powerful psychic powers.
• Creepy Monotone: Speaks like this.
• The Dreaded: Lamplighter greatly fears her and won't attack her even when her back is turned on him. The Boys including Kimiko quickly learn to why after she turns a guard into Ludicrous Gibs.
• Kubrick Stare: Has this stare in all her scenes.
• Mind over Matter: Her superpower, and she seems to have a stronger version of it compared to Kenji. Unlike Kenji, who uses it to move things around, Cindy uses it crush them.
• Red Herring: Her set of powers make it seems that she was the mysterious supe blowing people's heads, but she wasn't.
• Super-Toughness: Survives being electrocuted by Stormfront without any lasting damage. Before that, a volley of machine gun fire to the back just left her with a damaged shirt.
• Tranquil Fury: Very calm in her rampage and killing.
• The Worf Effect: She gets taken down by Stormfront in seconds after she sent Lamplighter and the Boys running for their lives.
• Your Head Asplode: Her powers allow her to inflict this on people.

Love Sausage

"Love Sausage"

"Love Sausage, huh? This is good name for me. I like it."

Portrayed by: Andrew Jackson (Season 2), Derek Johns (Season 3)

A Russian Supe with a rather strange ability.

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• Adaptational Backstory Change: A former member of a Soviet-era government superhero team in the comics, while he gets his powers from a stay in a mental institution.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: Goes from a Made of Iron juggernaut who just happens to have a massive penis to a man whose sole apparent power is the ability to use his massive penis as a weapon.
• Age Lift: Love Sausage in the comics looked to be past middle-age and a few anecdotes date him as being even older. Here he looks younger and it's implied his age aligns.
• All There in the Manual: He's never named in the show itself; his name comes from the character he was adapted from in the comics.
  • However, he later decides that he likes the name "Love Sausage" in season 3 when M.M. says it to his face. His real name from the comics (Vasilii "Vas" Vorishikin) is yet to be mentioned.
• Combat Tentacles: Except he has one tentacle. And it isn't a tentacle.
• Composite Character: His ability to use his own anatomy as a weapon calls to mind MM's mother from the comics.
• Demoted to Extra: Goes from a recurring ally and friend of the team to a small part with a couple of mumbled lines. He has a slightly larger role when he returns in season 3's Herogasm, actually getting some dialogue and characterization.
• Gag Penis: What Mother's Milk takes note of when he spots him on the security cameras. It's his superpower. It becomes a Running Gag that MM keeps running into this guy and attracting the attention of his penis. In "Herogasm", he survived the explosion and has seemingly lost his powers as a result but his penis remains long enough for him to hang over his shoulder.
• Groin Attack: Inverted, his penis attacks you.
  • Played straight in the aftermath of Herogasm, where his penis gets charred and apparently goes into shock, since he has to carry it around his shoulders.
• Nice Guy: Just like in the comics, he's a friendly supe who doesn't seem to have beef with anybody.
• No Ontological Inertia: If he's knocked out, his penis will retract to its default length.
• Prehensile Tail: Prehensile penis.
• Super Sex Organs: As mentioned multiple times here already, his penis.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: While getting intimate with a sex worker, Love Sausage played some Russian music. Unfortunately, the radio started playing "Escape" while Soldier Boy was confronting Tessa and Tommy, which triggered Soldier Boy's PTSD and caused an explosion that killed multiple people.

Discharge

Discharge

An unnamed Supe with the ability to produce acidic vomit

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• Acid Attack: His power is to produce corrosive acid through his vomit
• Adaptational Backstory Change: In the comics, he was a member of G-Whiz. In the show, he's one of the abused patients at Sage Grove.
• Adaptation Personality Change: In the comics, he was a hedonistic pervert. In the show, he displays no other personality traits than vengeful anger, as he participates in the hospital riot.
• Age Lift: A teenager in the comic, a middle aged man in the show.
• All There in the Manual: He's never named in the show itself; his name comes from the character he was adapted from in the comics.
• Bald of Evil: A vengeful patient who kills indiscriminately with his own vomit.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Kimiko forces him to vomit on his own face, which corrodes it.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the comics, he is killed off-screen by Frenchie and Kimiko. In the show, he's killed by Kimiko when she forces him to vomit on himself.
• Facial Horror: His face is burned away by the corrosive acid.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: He is killed by Kimiko, who knocks him on his back and kicks him in the stomach, which forces him to vomit onto his own face. Thanks to not having immunity to it, he's done in by his own acid.
• Hollywood Acid: The Supe's powers is launching this. If only he had invulnerable skin to go along with it...
• No Name Given: He isn't given a name in the show and he can only be identified through the comic.
• Required Secondary Power: His throat and stomach can withstand the acid. Averted with the rest of his body, which can't; as soon as he vomits while lying down, his face is melted.
• Super Spit: A subject that launches dangerous stomach acid almost uncontrollably.
• Vomit Indiscretion Shot: In his first scene, he vomits onto his own food and dissolves the tray.

Red River (Unmarked Spoilers)

In General

• Adaptational Job Change: In the comics Red River was a Private Military Contractor owned by Vought and a clear Expy of Blackwater. In here, they're a group home for young supes who were orphaned or are too unstable to be with their families.
• Badly Battered Babysitter: One of the Red River employees seen wears a cast on one leg, the result of tending to a group of superpowered children who haven't mastered the use of their powers. It used to be worse - the caretakers of Nadia had a nasty tendency to explode when she was a toddler and had absolutely zero control over her power.
• Superhero School: More like a superhero group home.

Teddy Stillwell

Portrayed by: Declan Sheedy (season 1), Gavin Sheedy (season 3)

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• Creepy Child: He has grown up a bit in season 3, and repeatedly freaks Hughie out by teleporting right next to him while never saying a word. Then, head down, Teddy points at Hughie on the TV.
• The Bus Came Back: He appears in season 3 after only appearing in a news reel in season 2.
• Improbable Infant Survival: He survived Billy's attempted suicide bombing. Justified as he has teleportation.
• Teleportation: His superpower, which the caretaker tells him not to use.

Tony

Portrayed by: Kyle Mac

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• Cruel and Unusual Death: Victoria blows up his mandibles, leaving him painfully choking on blood for a few seconds before mercifully blowing him up.
• Fingore: Victoria blows up his hand with her powers during their fight.
• He Knows Too Much: Victoria kills him due to him knowing about something Vought did with Red River.
• Ludicrous Gibs: His final fate, being blown to chunks by Victoria.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He only has a few minutes of screentime before his death, but it allows Hugie to find out Victoria is the head exploder.
• Super-Strength: He managed to throw Victoria without any effort.

The Head Popper (Major Spoilers)

Victoria Neuman

See tropes in Others

Marie

Marie Moreau

See tropes in Godolkin University

Other Supes

Ryan

Ryan

Portrayed by: Parker Corno (Season 1), Cameron Corvetti (Season 2)

The result of Rebecca's rape by the Homelander, a cheerful boy who meets his father when the superhero appears at their house.

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• Abusive Parents: In Season 2, Homelander pushes him off of the roof of his house in an attempt to get him to use his powers. Otherwise averted as Ryan is one of the few characters to whom Homelander is ever genuinely nice.
• Accidental Murder: While trying to stop Stormfront from killing Becca, his heat vision activates, killing Becca and disfiguring and crippling Stormfront.
• Adaptational Context Change: While he accidentally kills Becca in both the series and comics, it's played much more sympathetically here. In the comics, he kills her as a fetus due to lacking any self control over his powers and is promptly killed by Butcher in self defense. Here, Becca dies as collateral damage when Ryan uses his laser vision to attack Stormfront, who was trying to strangle Becca. Additionally, while Billy does consider killing Ryan, the arrival of Homelander brings Butcher to his senses and leads him to spare the boy and try to give him a new life.
• Afraid of Their Own Strength: Ryan hates his powers, to the point where he refused to have a dog for company, fearing he might hurt the animal by accident.
• Ascended Extra: His comic book version has one appearance in a flashback. The show gives him a name and an important role in the lives of Becca, Butcher, and Homelander.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Embraces Homelander in both senses of the word when the latter assures Ryan that his mother's death wasn't his fault, and that he will always love and be there for him.
• Berserk Button: One trait he shares with his father is that he hates being lied to. He temporarily turns against Becca for lying about his heritage and life.
• Beware the Nice Ones: When Stormfront starts choking Becca, he uses his heat vision on the former, vaporizing much of her body. Unfortunately, he also ends up killing Becca as collateral damage.
• Broken Pedestal: He's initially very happy to learn that Homelander is his father. This goes away upon learning what a horrid person he really is.
  • Rebuilt Pedestal: By the season 3 finale, Homelander has gotten Ryan back under his sway, by actually being a good dad to him after Butcher rejected him.
• Child by Rape: Ryan is the product of Homelander raping Becca Butcher. This actually creates more friction between Becca and Billy than between Becca and Homelander. While Becca loves her son, Billy is disgusted by him because Ryan has superpowers and reminds him of Homelander. As a result, when Billy attempts to rescue Becca, she deduces that he doesn't want to rescue Ryan or would get rid of him in a subtle way. This results in their estrangement. Homelander by contrast is desperate for a relationship with his son to the point he was willing to spare Butcher's life just to keep seeing him.
• Combo Platter Powers: Like his father, he has heat vision, super strength, invulnerability and super senses.
• Commonality Connection: He bonds with Kimiko over being afraid of his own powers because she feels exactly the same.
• Composite Character: He takes on the comic book version of Black Noir's role as Vought's back-up plan against Homelander, including their familial connection (Noir was a clone of Homelander, which essentially made him biologically his son).
• Corrupt the Cutie: Ryan's a good kid who loves his mother, but Homelander wants him to be just like him and goes about trying to impart his psychotic wisdom to a doubting Ryan. Homelander shows joy when Ryan finally fights back. Season 3 ends with Homelander dismissing his Accidental Murder of Becca as being not his fault (Though similar to Homelander's Never My Fault attitude he gained from Noir rather than Butcher actually trying to comfort him). Homelander then "debuts" him to a crowd of adoring fans, and brutally kills a man who threw a water bottle at him. Ryan smiles.
• Cute Bruiser: A normally smiling, considerate kid strong enough to shove Homelander down and blast Stormfront to pieces.
• Emotional Powers: At this time he can't/won't use his powers willingly. The only thing that can set them off is rage at seeing his mother in danger.
• Extremely Protective Child: Ryan loves his mom and becomes extremely upset when the likes of Homelander tries to push her around.
  • Has become this to Homelander in the season 3 finale, using his Eye Beams against Soldier Boy when he attacks them.
• Eye Beams: His only superpower (other than superhuman strength and durability) to manifest by the end of season 2. Especially notable for being much more damaging than Homelander's.
• Face–Heel Turn/Hazy-Feel Turn: In Season 3, after Butcher blames him for Becca's death, he joins Homelander who is actually a very good parent to him.
• Foreshadowing: Dr. Vogelbaum in his encounter with Homelander reveals his disappointment with and shame of the Sociopathic Hero the Homelander grew up to be. The doctor expresses how Homelander needed a family who loved him and not getting locked away in a lab: it's likely Rebecca and her son were provided for in the hopes of not repeating their mistakes.
  • In season two Ryan shows Homelander and Stormfront his homemade animations from his favorite movies, one of which is from The Blind Side, a film in which a timid but powerful young man learns to use his strength to protect others.
• Gilded Cage: He grew up isolated with his mum and knows nothing of the outside world.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: He's got blonde hair like his dad and is a genuinely nice and well-meaning kid.
• Hollywood Autism: Has problems in crowds and is seen coping by rocking back and forth while listing states in alphabetical order, similar to autistic meltdowns and stimming. However, this may just be a product of his isolated upbringing, coupled with extra hearing sensitivity from his Super-Senses.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: In contrast to Homelander's Creepy Blue Eyes.
• Like Father, Unlike Son: Unlike his father, the kid is genuinely every bit as nice and cheery as he appears and is even ecstatic rather than shocked to be told Homelander is his father.
• Logical Weakness: Ryan's super-hearing makes him vulnerable to extremely loud high-pitched noises, even if they're being played miles away. Due to his lack of experience with his powers, he's even more susceptible to this than Homelander.
• Momma's Boy: He adores his mother which is understandable as she's pretty much the only person he's ever known.
• Meaningful Name: Ryan means "little king" in Irish Gaelic. Ryan is also Homelander's son, the most powerful superhero on the planet with a fast-developing god complex.
• Morality Pet:
  • He's pretty much the only character the otherwise monstrous Homelander genuinely cares or is ever sincerely nice to, showing he's not completely without humanity.
  • Is also one to Butcher, of all people. Season 3 shows that Billy is trying to move past his Fantastic Racism and bond with Ryan, since the boy is the only memento he has left of Becca. Additionally, whenever his conscience tries to discourage him from morally questionable actions, it takes the form of Ryan.
• The Nose Knows: He has the ability to identify the smell of a person's blood, and whether there's something wrong with them based on how different it is from how they normally smell.
• Outside-Context Problem: Until him, every Supe from Homelander to Starlight were given their powers artificially with Compound V which makes him the very first natural-born Supe in the entire world.
• Primary-Color Champion: His clothes often have the color of red, white, blue and yellow, just like his father's suit.
• Relative Button: Never hurt or threaten his mother. Doing so gets Homelander shoved down in a fit of anger and Stormfront burnt to a crisp.
• Spared by the Adaptation: His comic book version doesn't even make it to birth, killing his mother as a superpowered fetus lacking self-awareness before being beaten to death by Butcher in self-defense, long before the start of the series.
• Stronger with Age: It's hinted that his powers will get even stronger as he grows up and he will eventually be even more powerful than his dad.
• Strong Family Resemblance:
  • Looks like a miniature Homelander. Stormfront is ecstatic at his having inherited Homelander's "Aryan" looks.
  • He also bears an astonishing resemblance to his grandfather, Soldier Boy.
• Super-Hearing: He displays the ability to hear Butcher's heartbeat from several feet away.
• Superior Successor: His heat ray powers manage to burn Stormfront to a crisp, while his father's beams were barely an amusing BDSM tool to her, indicating that Ryan is on track to becoming even more powerful than Homelander. He's also able to shove Homelander to the ground in anger, something it's implied no one else has been able to do. He's even the first person to actually injure Soldier Boy, his grandfather.
• Superman Substitute: Superboy Substitute, to be more specific; he has a lot of parallels with Jon Kent, Superman's son. He's the product of Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex (though in this case, a non-consensual one) which makes him a Half-Human Hybrid. He's the spitting image of his superpowered father, while retaining a personality more like his human mother. And despite his currently developing superpowers, he's Locked Out of the Loop at first about his origin and how he's being brought up.
• Superpowerful Genetics: Unless Vought didn't have their hands in here as well, he is the first natural-born Supe.
• Superpower Lottery: Given what he was capable of doing to Stormfront with his Eye Beams (especially when considering the negligible effects of Homelander's own powers on her) he's potentially one of the most powerful Supes on the show.
• Teach Him Anger: What Homelander and later Stormfront attempted to do, in order to get Ryan to activate his powers. He eventually learns the lesson when he turns his Eye Beams on Stormfront.
• Tragic Keepsake: A necklace of St. Christopher, first given to Butcher by Becca before being passed on to him after her death.
• Turn Out Like His Father: What Rebecca and Vogelbaum are trying to prevent and what Homelander is vying for.
• Unskilled, but Strong: He's a child with no fighting experience, but a single blast from his Eye Beams was enough to maim the previously Nigh-Invulnerable Stormfront.
• Unstable Powered Child: Ryan barely has any control over his powers when he uses them. He accidentally killed his mother while trying to save her from Stormfront, which left him deeply traumatized. In season 3, he refuses to have a dog because he seriously fears he may kill the animal by accident.
• Walking Spoiler: For Season 1.
• World's Strongest Man: His complete obliteration of Stormfront indicates he's at bare minimum number two after his father.
• You're Not My Father:
  • He tells Homelander as much after the leader of the seven pushes the kid off his own roof to test his powers, in addition to being an all-around jackass to Rebecca.
  • When Homelander and Stormfront show him that his upbringing was a lie, he angrily rejects Becca to fly off with them.
  • A non-verbal version when Ryan ultimately chooses Billy Butcher over Homelander.
  • Subverted at the end of season 3, when Butcher's earlier Shoo the Dog moment gives Homelander the opportunity to reconnect with Ryan.
• You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry!: Ryan's powers activate when he's seriously angered, usually due to seeing his mother be threatened and the results are terrifying as illustrated by his leaving Stormfront horrifically burned.

Jamie

A Russian hamster with superpowers.

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• Adaptational Badass: He has superpowers that he completely lacked in the comic.
• Killer Rabbit: A hamster who delivers an agonizing death to one Russian soldier.

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