The Boys has a fair share of this, owing to Garth Ennis disliking superheroes in general (with a few exceptions), and writing the comic as a parody of them. It's all displayed in the live-action series adaptation as well.
- The Justice League of America stand-in is The Seven, the most powerful and photogenic group of superheroes Vought has been able to produce.
- Homelander, Expy of Superman and provider of the trope's page image. His "comic origin" is landing on Earth in an alien spaceship and rapidly growing to adulthood, but he was actually created in Vought's labs. He's a racist asshole and self-styled Übermensch who only cares about the profits Vought's making off the team (and his cut of them). Ironically, Superman is actually one of the few superheroes Ennis likes.
- Black Noir, sort of an expy of Batman and Superboy, in that he's a clone of Homelander made for the express purpose of killing Homelander if he ever went rogue. This goes as well as you'd expect in an Ennis comic Black Noir can also be compared to Superman: Speeding Bullets Batman, where Batman is a Composite Character with Superman, To drive things home, both Black Noir And Speeding Bullets Batman wear masks that completely cover their faces. He also turns out to be a dark parody of Bizarro, being a mentally unstable clone of Homelander with weird speech patterns, however whereas Bizarro is well-intentioned, friendly with his clone template and only considered a "villain" due to his incompetence, Noir is an utter monster who revels in the misery he causes.
- Queen Maeve, expy of Wonder Woman. It's implied she genuinely wanted to be a good, heroic person, but the bungled attempt to stop 9/11 drove her into alcoholic apathy.
- The Deep, expy of Aquaman. Not all that bad, but doesn't really try and curb the excesses of the supes in The 'Verse. In the live-action series, he is the one to sexually assault new team member Starlight.
- Jack From Jupiter, expy of Martian Manhunter. Like most of the Seven, he really only cares about the profits from his merchandising contracts and enjoying the perks of being able to do whatever (and whoever) he wants with no repercussions.
- A-Train, expy of The Flash (Wally West, specifically). His, Hughie's, and the audience's introduction to the world of superheroes in The Boys is A-Train reducing Hughie's genuinely nice, lovely, wonderful girlfriend to bloody smear and a pair of severed arms. He participates in the coerced blowbang of Starlight (along with Homelander and Black Noir) and later tries to straight-up rape her.
- Starlight, who could be seen as a pastiche of Supergirl, Stargirl, and Starfire. One of the only actually decent people in the entire series.
- Former members include Lamplighter, expy of Green Lantern, who burned children alive, and Marathon Man, another Flash expy, who we learn nothing about.
- The Avengers stand-in is Payback, consisting of:
- Stormfront, combo expy of The Mighty Thor and Shazam!. He's a Nazi. Not Neo-Nazi, he was brought over from Nazi Germany in WWII and fully buys into old-school, straight-from-der-fuhrer's mouth propaganda.
- Soldier Boy, expy of Captain America. A Dirty Coward Phony Veteran. Captain America is one of Ennis' most hated superheroes, considering him an insult to The Real Heroes who fought in World War II.note
- Tek-Knight, mostly an Iron Man expy, but with a few elements of Batman (very young sidekick Laddio which is a legacy title, a Tek-Cave, and a loyal butler). He's recently started having sex with anything that catches his fancy, including other members of Payback, small animals, cups of coffee, and his butler's ear. Turns out this was the result of a fist-sized brain tumor. Aside from that, actually seems a decent guy. He tried to get help for his condition, and after it destroys his hero career, he sacrifices his life by saving a woman and her child from falling a wheelbarrow full of bricks and destroying a gigantic meteor by having sex with it (though the latter is actually a Dying Dream of his).
- Crimson Countess, expy of Scarlet Witch (the most blatant one yet, her costume looks almost exactly like something Wanda would actually wear). She's a bit Ax-Crazy, absolutely determined to vaporize Butcher's dog after it takes a bite out of her (which he did to stop her from vaporizing one of The Boys' heads).
- Man-Droid, expy of The Vision, except he's not actually any kind of "droid," just a dude in a costume. We don't know anything specific he might have gotten up to, but went all-in on Payback's plan to cripple The Boys, and begs for his life when Butcher corners him. And was serving in Payback under Stormfront (see above).
- Swatto, expy of Ant-Man. As with Man-Droid, We Hardly Knew Ye is in effect but seems a fairly Ax-Crazy Unintelligible.
- Swingwing, formerly Laddio, expy of Nightwing. A grown-up sidekick of Tek-Knight (already established as a partial Batman expy), Swingwing is an LGBT+ advocate... on the orders of Vought, for the sake of publicity. In reality, he is a virulent homophobe who tossed a gay man off a roof after he confessed his love for him.
- The X-Men stand-in is the G-Men, run by John Godolkin, who abducts kids off the street, raises them in his mansion and gives them superpowers, selling the idea that he's created a safe place for superpowered orphans. He sexually abuses the children under his care, which results them all being severely damaged adults who turn around and assist Godolkin's abuse when he brings in a new batch of kids. The most blatant parody out of them is GroundHawk, an expy of Wolverine. As Wolverine is Ennis's least favorite superhero (which is saying something, considering his dislike of the genre as a whole), GroundHawk is portrayed as a blithering idiot with hammers for hands.
- Billy Butcher, the leader of the Anti-Superhero team known as The Boys, is this to The Punisher. He wears dark clothes complete with leather jacket, has a backstory as a Marine (a Royal Marine in this case) who saw active combat, and his family was killed and he swore revenge. Butcher, however, is even more unstable, cruel and willing to hurt or risk the lives of innocents than Frank ever was (with one notable exception that was also written by Garth Ennis).
