Expies in Amazon's The Boys.
- Homelander: Expy of Superman; a Flying Brick with laser eyes and classically handsome features, outwardly a paragon of virtue (though Homelander really isn't one, he's presented to the public as having been raised as The All-American Boy like Superman really was, but he wasn't). His sociopathy is born of not having a loving upbringing, having been Raised in a Lab.
- Queen Maeve: Expy of Wonder Woman. Being (billed as) an Amazonian warrior woman who is nearly as strong as Homelander. Her costume draws a lot of inspiration from the DC Extended Universe's Wonder Woman played by Gal Gadot, she's a Multi-Melee Master, but can't fly (relying on Homelander to carry her when needed). Maeve started out idealistic and genuinely dedicated to saving the world, but eventually gave it all up one compromise at a time, and now is a rude, apathetic alcoholic who isn't going to her meetings.
- The Deep: He's basically Aquaman, complete with the common public perception with jokes about being useless and talking to fish. He starts off as a sexual abuser and grows increasingly insecure.
- A-Train: Of The Flash, Wally West in particular, being the speedster of the team who has graduated from a teenage team to an adult one. His Race Lift from white in the comic to black in the show mirrors the one Wally West received in both the New 52 (before that Wally was retconned as a separate character from the original) and the Arrowverse. He's also a drug addict who loses grip on the consequences of his actions.
- Starlight: Supergirl. She has long blonde hair like Kara Zor-El, she has Super-Strength and she's a Flying Brick. Her Season 3 outfit also resembles the classic depiction of Kara with the skirt, only in white and gold. Her first day in the Super Team ended up quite traumatic, and she is not related to Homelander unlike Kara and Superman, nor does she have the same kind of friendly interactions with him due to Homelander being a sociopath.
- Mr. Marathon: To the Flash, even having a costume with a cowl unlike the other speedsters. He could particularly be seen as a parallel to Jay Garrick, the first Flash, who despite arguably being the first to use the mantle, he tends to be Out of Focus on modern Flash stories, just like Marathon in the series, who is arguably The Ghost.
- Shockwave: Another expy of The Flash, like A-Train, taken further by having a lightning-themed costume. His status as a Superior Successor to A-Train specifically makes him this to Wally West, the third and most powerful incarnation of the Flash.
- Lamplighter: Pyro, especially the version seen in the X-Men Film Series. Same powers and limitations — he can shape, control, and expand fire, but cannot create it, relying on an external source of flame (his ostentatious torch while with the Seven, after an ordinary Zippo lighter, which Pyro also used). To drive the point home, Lamplighter is played by Shawn Ashmore, who played Bobby Drake, Iceman and Pyro being nemeses in the X-Men films.
Non-Supes
- Frederick Vought: Abraham Erskine, particularly the MCU version. Being a German scientist working on a super serum who defected to the US and created their first super-soldier for them. Unlike Erskine, Vought did it for his own interests and started off by working for the Nazis, testing his serum on inmates in concentration camps ala Josef Mengele.
- Billy Butcher: The Punisher. A Badass Normal former (Royal) Marine who supposedly lost his wife to an evil bastard (a corrupt superhero in Butcher's case, a mafia boss in Punisher's case), and becomes a vigilante as a result. Just without being glorified. His wife is secretly alive but then dies for real. And he has no children.
- The Legend: Stan the Man himself. A highly respected figure in the film and comicbook industry who wears tinted glasses. He bears a strong resemblance to Hugh Hefner, which works as a shoutout to Iron Man where Stan Lee was mistakenly referred to as such.
