Billy Butcher is one for the Badass NormalVigilante Man archetype, particularly the Crusading WidowEscapist Characterinvoked form. Billy is excessively violent and treats even his friends with insulting sarcasm, and drips of toxic masculinity, which is the primary reason the Boys are so dysfunctional, and his treatment of them is clearly abusive on his end. Though he justifies his rage by what happened to Becca, it's made clear that he was always a violent person with rage issues who was just looking for an excuse to go off on a rampage, and what Homelander did just gave him a target. While he's not shown to be as bad as Homelander or Stormfront, he's presented as less sympathetic a character than half the Supes themselves and nowhere near as noble as he thinks himself to be. Uniquely, Butcher is also a Reconstruction, as his Character Development causes him to mellow out and drift away from the worst aspects of those tropes, even if he still can be ruthless and lean toward extremism.
Hughie Campbell is one for the Internal Reformist. While Hughie acknowledges the problems that Supes can cause (his first girlfriend was reduced to Ludicrous Gibs due to A-Train running through her), he doesn't want to resort to the insane and illegal methods Butcher advocates, instead wanting to go with the Boys' original plan of being a sort of policing force for Supes. As the series goes on, though, it becomes increasingly clear that Vought has been working the system long enough that trying to fix the corruption from within is impossible — the rot runs all the way to the bone. The final straw is when he learns that his boss, congresswoman Victoria Neumann, is not only a Supe who interrupted a congressional hearing by blowing up the heads of those who could testify against Vought, but is also Stan Edgar's adopted daughter. It's at this point that Hughie realizes that the problems he is facing are Inherent in the System due to Vought's willingness to play the long game and that the only way he can enact meaningful change is by stooping down to Billy's level.
Homelander deconstructs the All-American Face — from day 1, Homelander has been made into the embodiment of the American supe, with his image and supposed backstory tailored to appeal to the public. The problem with this is that, as a Raised in a Lab superhuman with no real family bonds or other things to tie him to morality, and as someone who has literally been told that they are better than others, he's got a massive but fragile ego that leaves him quick to anger, which is not a good thing seeing how he regularly has to restrain himself from killing people who annoy him. Add in the negative traits of Eagleland, and you get someone who looks like a hero, yet is anything but in person.
Queen Maeve deconstructs the Flawless Token. For the majority of season 1, Maeve kept her bisexuality a secret and had to enter a relationship with Homelander for the sake of publicity and protecting Elena at the same from Homelander, who jealously murdered a man for hitting on her. When Homelander reveals her sexuality on live television to deflect the question of diversity, Maeve is beyond furious with him and Vought enveloped her by quickly marketing her as an LGBT icon. Vought was incredibly blatant about objectifying her as a gay hero despite Maeve's many attempts to tell them she was actually bisexual and extremely uncomfortable with being solely defined by her sexuality.
Black Noir is one of The Team Normal as demonstrated by Batman. He's the most "normal" of the group in that he chooses to fight with bare fists and weapons and is responsible enough to not display any vices. It ends up making him more alien as opposed to humanizing him, due to his enigmatic and robotic nature and knowing that he's still capable enough to keep up with the rest of The Seven.
Stormfront is a walking one of female empowerment tropes like You Go, Girl! and Be Yourself. Stormfront being just as strong as Homelander causes a lot of tension between them and it's later revealed that Homelander's powers were partially based on hers, meaning Stormfront isn't proving her power for herself, she's proving her power to purposely undermine Homelander. Stormfront is also very comfortable with who she is, but it's later revealed that she's a despicable Nazi, turning the once wholesome trope on its head. In general, Stormfront seems to be a display of how corporate interests will corrupt feminist messages to empower unsavory individuals, and then use said feminist angle as a shield against criticism. This is especially biting considering Stormfront's extremist leanings.
The Deep is one of what it means to deconstruct the Karmic Butt-Monkey. The man is horrible for what he did to Starlight and in turn, suffers so much terrible things in return. But the fact that so many terrible things constantly happen to him or that he's forced to do, over and over and OVER, it takes said punishment to uncomfortable levels. Put simply: if someone deserves karmic punishment for a crime, just how much punishment should they suffer before it becomes excessive? Is it actually karmic punishment at that point, or just indulging the audience in a revenge-sadism fantasy?
Starlight deconstructs the Token Good Teammate. While she is the most idealistic member of the group and the only one who wants to be a hero for altruistic reasons, it also makes her a target for less scrupulous members of the team (read: the Deep). Additionally, having to work with people who are completely apathetic to her issues (and often make them worse) takes a toll on Starlight's psyche. She eventually ends up becoming The Mole for the Boys, as well as their Sixth Ranger, because one of them (Hughie) actually treats her like a living being, and because she agrees with the Boys' mindset that (most) heroes are not really that heroic.
Starlight also deconstructs the Internal Reformist — unlike Hughie, she initially has some luck with changing Vought because she's got enough public clout to force some issues through (admitting she was subject to Sexual Extortion results in The Deep being kicked off the Seven due to the #MeToo movement), but Vought is willing to force concessions from her as a price. Season 3 sees all her work going down the drain because a. Vought has Victoria Neuman, a congresswoman, to keep Supes outside the grip of the law, and b. Homelander has gotten so unstable that he can no longer be reasoned with or intimidated. Additionally, unlike Hughie, Annie is extremely unwilling to resort to illicit methods once she's stonewalled with red tape, meaning she's effectively useless once things go south. By the end of "Herogasm", she's so disillusioned with everything that she straight up quits the Seven in disgust and defeat.
Just like Homelander, Soldier Boy deconstructs the All-American Face. As a Corrupted Character Copy of Captain America, Soldier Boy was an enlisted soldier who received Super Serum that turned him into a Super-Soldier who fought for his nation. Unlike Steve Rogers, though, Ben is very much a product of his time, having outdated views on gender, race, masculinity, and homosexuality, resulting in him being a bigoted Jerkass. It's also revealed that he was The Bully to the rest of Payback, especially toward Black Noir, whose life he ruined due to an inability to share the spotlight. Perhaps most damningly of all, Soldier Boy's entire combat record was faked, with most of his experience coming from cracking down against Civil Rights protestors.
Soldier Boy also deconstructs the Living Relic. Having been around since before the Second World War, Soldier Boy has the mindset of someone who lived through the Great Depression all the way into the Cold War. Instead of having the virtues associated with the era, though, Ben is Deliberate Values Dissonance personified, being insanely toxic to those he works with, has sexist opinions of women, is dismissive of the LGBT community, insults the mentally ill, hates any display of emotion and vulnerability, and shows disdain for those who prefer diplomacy to violence. In short, while most living relics make people yearn for the so-called "good old days", Soldier Boy shows precisely why these attitudes were left behind in the first place.
Dr. Frederick Vought's essentially what somebody with the willingness and capabilities to create a super-soldier formula would really be like: lacking in ethics and capitalizing on the success found. The creation of a serum that dramatically changes human genetics requires a basis, so he went to work with human testing. He was able to experiment on several humans under a regime that would allow and encourage his operations. In the goal of genetically engineering an army of supermen, he ensured that his formula would not belimited in its use. With the war over, he would go on to create a company centered around this new invention to find further uses for it.
Stan Edgar is one for the Corrupt Corporate Executive and The Chessmaster tropes. Edgar has been planning for Vought to achieve dominance in America for a long time, laying foundations for Supes to be in the military and for Supes under his control to take up political positions to help further his cause. Additionally, he also makes sure to check for someone who could be an effective successor, showing that he is well aware of his own limits. He even has the skills and authority needed to cow Homelander into submission. By the time of Season 3, though, his plans are starting to backfire — his decision to aid the Boysto take down Stormfront allowed them time to recover and find information that might actually be able to hurt Vought. Furthermore, while Edgar was able to put Homelander in his place, the successive blows to his ego from the past two seasons have desensitized the Supe to Edgar's normal methods. In essence, while Stan is still The Chessmaster and able to use his corporate assets to their greatest effects, he can't account for everything.
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Sam Butcher deconstructs the Tough Love and Sink or Swim Mentor father. Sam claims he beat his sons to make them stronger, but it’s clear it was nothing more than him perpetuating his toxic Men Are Tough views of masculinity at best, and an excuse to beat and torment his sons at worst. On the Sink or Swim Mentor side of things, it shows what happens when this type of person gets someone killed, as he shows no remorse for his son Lenny’s suicide.
