Fanfic / The Boys: Real Justice

Ashley: I don't have the luxury of living in a magic land with angels and unicorns. Things are hard, you know, you have to know it's not safe for me.
Catherine: I do. And I'm sorry. Still, we couldn't let a guy like that walk around your world.

While rescuing Ryan, a freak event occurs in the world of The Boys. While the vigilante team (and Ryan) are sent to another version of the world, a team of 7 superhero ambassadors come to their world, chasing after their enemies. What follows is a tale of interdimensional intrigue between different heroes, villains and all those in between.

The Boys: Real Justice (AO3 Link) is a Justice League and The Boys (2019) crossover by crossover 15 and AGoodCraftsman. The story was completed on 26th October 2023.

It has a spin-off called The Boys take a peep at the multiverse (AO3 Link) which is a two-chapter story involving a Teleporter Accident, that takes place in the middle of Real Justice that's mentioned as a Noodle Incident in the main story.

Compare with A Supe of a Man, a similar crossover fanfic with the Superman, though focused on a rather straight-forward AU instead of a massive crossover between the established universes.

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The Boys: Real Justice contains the following examples:

• Actor Allusion: Early on, it's lampshaded how various Boys characters look like famous actors by the DC characters, and vice versa.
  • When Billy and Becca end up in Metropolis, Becca is mistaken for Patty Spivot.
  • Deathstroke briefly mistakes Kimiko for Katana.
• Adaptational Job Change: When Livewire's Start of Darkness is mentioned, her job was changed from radio shock jock to podcaster.
• Adaptational Karma: Thanks to Herogasm being busted by the Justice League, the TNT Twins were arrested and sent to Rikers Island. They're still killed by Soldier Boy, though.
• Affably Evil: The Penguin has largely stopped his over-the-top villainous schemes in favor of owning a classy, popular night club, and he's visibly polite and courteous to his guests. But, as the Boys find out, he still has a presence in Gotham's criminal underworld. Despite the polite speech and good manners, he's still a very dangerous man.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: After her beatdown at Grundy's hands, Stormfront is reduced to pleading with Two-Face, who is unmoved and leaves her fate up to his coin toss. He spares her.
• Alas, Poor Villain: Despite A-Train being an obnoxious Supe who cares only for glory, his death is played for all the horror and sympathy it's worth. A-Train's crimes of being a murderer and a backstabber are revealed to his family by Reverse-Flash and he's subjected to a Cruel and Unusual Death in front of them, leaving them and Wally utterly horrified by what they just witnessed despite knowing of A-Train's crimes. After recovering, Wally screams at Eobard that he's a murderer. Even Hughie (who hates A-Train for carelessly killing Robin in a hit-and-run and brushing her death off) and Annie were horrified by this and agreed that A-Train didn't deserve to die like that in front of his family.
• Always Someone Better: The Justice League are this to the Seven.
  • Superman is more powerful and much more skilled when it comes to using his powers compared to Homelander. He also has powers Homelander lacks such as his super breath. Not to mention, Clark is much more morally and psychologically stable compared to Homelander. Needless to say, Homelander is not happy about all of this at all.
  • The Flash is not only significantly faster than A-Train, but his Speed Force-based abilities further the gap between them infinitely more; that's not even bringing up A-Train's heart issues. Chapter 12 reveals several speedsters from The Boys' universe are quitting racing and retiring after seeing Wally rebuild over fifty houses in under an hour; they don't hold a candle to him either. Professor Zoom kills A-Train by grabbing him and then running at speeds Reggie's body isn't built to take.
  • Wonder Woman is this to Maeve as Diana was everything Maeve wanted to be and more.
  • Aquaman is this to the Deep. Not only is Arthur more powerful, but he also has the respect of his peers. Case in point, when a Shazam-empowered Stormfront electrifies the part of the ocean The Deep and Aquaman are in, Kevin is reduced to a pile of bones while Arthur is able to power through Stormfront's assault and force her into retreating.
  • Not relating to the Seven, Batman is this to The Boys when it comes to Badass Normal vigilantism. For starters, Bruce managed to learn about Herogasm while the Boys could not and only stumble upon it by chance in canon. He even manages to blackmail Mallory by threatening to leak her involvement in Operation Charly. Then he solves the identity of the Head Popper, Victoria Neuman. Finally, he manages to apprehend the Boys and outsmart Butcher. Even managing to shoot down Butcher's claim of him being Bruce Wayne by having J'onn impersonate Bruce Wayne at Arkham. If it weren't for Amanda Waller they would have been done.
• And Your Little Dog, Too!: After hearing from Superman that Ryan is in hiding with his mother and wants nothing to do with Homelander anymore, the latter threatens to kill Superman’s loved ones out of spite. This earns him Superman’s ire as their battle intensifies.
• Anti-Villain: Kimiko realizes that Mr. Freeze is working for Black Mask because the latter is using Freeze's wife as leverage.
• An Arm and a Leg: The Deep loses his right arm during the fight with the Legion of Doom, courtesy of Black Manta.
• Armor-Piercing Question: While in prison, Annie tries to justify that she was a real superhero and not just a corporate puppet to Poison Ivy by speaking up about what The Deep did to her and other women leading to his firing. Poison Ivy points out that Vought only protected their interests by dropping The Deep who wasn't respected even before that, stunning Annie into silence and eventually leading her to change the subject:
  Pamela: Not when you threaten their stock price. Tell me something, did people even have respect for that man even before you brought up what he did to you?
  • However Annie rapidly returns the favor by comparing her to the Joker and bringing up her relation to Harley Quinn, leading Poison Ivy to almost strangle her in a blind rage:
    Annie: So I take it that you agree with what the clowns are doing to Vought? I read about you and his girlfriend, Harley Quinn, is it? I wonder what it is you and her boyfriend have in common? Other than the fact you both are clearly homicidal maniacs.
• Asshole Victim:
  • No one is remotely sad about The Deep's death due to his crimes.
  • Soldier Boy gets bifurcated by Black Noir.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: Batman's greatest strength is his detective skills. By observing the microaggressions of Homelander and Victoria Neuman, he can determine the former's mental instability and that the latter is a plant of Vought.
• Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: The League has no intention of causing permanent harm to the supers of Earth-Seven. Unfortunately, people like Zoom have no such limitations and start tearing up Vought's superheroes.
• Badass Normal: Batman has no powers but can still put the fear of God into the likes of Homelander and Stormfront. What sets him apart from The Boys is that Batman has extensive training, a genius level intellect, and access to state of the art technology.
• Beneath the Mask: Batman can see that underneath Homelander's glowing image is massive insecurity about his strength and power.
• Beware the Silly Ones:
  • The DC villains are seen by the Boys as fruitcakes in silly costumes but are still dangerous villains who shouldn't be underestimated.
  • Homelander sees the Joker as a powerless clown with silly makeup. Still, he succeeds in killing dozens of people and savagely humiliating Homelander, severely damaging his reputation as a crime fighter.
  • Stormfront is foolish enough to think that she can take on one of Batman's rogues on her own reasoning that if he can fight them without powers, then surely she can handle them. She then gets beaten nearly to death by Solomon Grundy, and only lives because of Two-Face's coin.
• Beware the Superman:
  • Clark and Bruce are stunned by the incompetence and corruption of the superheroes in The Boys' universe.
  • Billy Butcher, due to his Supe prejudice, scornfully sees Superman as another Homelander once he lays eyes on his statue in Metropolis.
• Big Bad Ensemble: Hoo boy. There are a lot of villains in this fic, most only appearing in one or two chapters. However, there appear to be several overarching villains.
  • The Seven, with Homelander in the lead, take the primary role, seeking to retain their image in contrast to the Justice League. Homelander also has his own personal rivalry with the Boys and seeks to maintain control of his son Ryan. At the end, they go for all-out war, aligning with the bottom example.
  • The Joker is running around causing chaos and trying to spur them on. He is later apprehended by Batman.
  • Circe slowly undermines Queen Maeve's sanity and brainwashes her into going on a killing spree to spite Wonder Woman.
  • A group of Gotham's rogues^note specifically Penguin, Bane, Deathstroke, Great White Shark, Two-Face, Black Mask, Scarecrow, and Mr. Freeze and the Legion of Doom^note consisting of Gorilla Grodd, Bizzaro, Black Manta, Clayface, Cheetah, Polaris, and Gigantia are each independently trying to smuggle Compund-V into Earth-One.
  • Behind the scenes, Lex Luthor's Secret Society of Supervillains and Vought Industries are working together to undermine all superheroes from both Earth-One and Earth-Seven.
  • The Sinestro Corps take centre stage at the end, trying to conquer the entire world.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Time and time again the corrupt Supers in the The Boys universe end up outclassed and embarrassed by the more powerful and competent DC universe heroes and villains; Homelander's efforts to be the full Big Bad shows him to be outplayed at every turn. Even when he gains a Yellow Lantern Ring and Stormfront gets the power of Shazam!, they are still outclassed by the Green Lanterns who have much more experience with their rings. Even with them recruiting followers out of the disgraced Vought Supers and trying to establish themselves as a dangerous Big Bad Duumvirate, they both just end up forcibly Demoted to Dragon by Sinestro.
• Big Fish in a Bigger Ocean: In their own universe, the Seven are it's premier superhero team. However when both they and Billy Butcher and his team crossover into the DC Comics universe, Homelander and the other members of the Seven are on multiple occasions shown that they can't compete with Superman and his Justice League teammates like Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash and Aquaman.
• Bizarro Universe: The characters from The Boys universe see the DC universe as this, calling it "Narnia".
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: The Joker is perfectly okay with causing random, "funny" deaths. But genocide and bigotry aren't funny at all. Which is why he admits that he doesn't like Stormfront.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Maeve becomes this at the hands of Circe and is forced to fight Wonder Woman.
• Broken Pedestal: The Seven's reputation in the public eye has taken hit after hit due to them losing horribly against the DC villains and the DC heroes proving to be much better at being heroes. By Chapter 16, Homelander's reputation has gotten so toxic his rally is a lackluster affair, with the only people showing up being jingoistic idiots who distrust the Justice League simply because they come from another universe.
• Burger Fool: When Frenchie and Kimiko are teleported to Gotham, they eat at a Batman-themed fast food resturant named the Bat Burger. A waitress dressed as Batgirl very obviously fakes enthusiasm when delivering their orders. Frenchie in particular despises the grease and smoke fumes and how dirty the place is. Kimiko enjoys their burgers though.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday:
  • Where Vought and affiliated heroes are unfamiliar with the concept of the multiverse, this kind of knowledge is so common on the Justice League's Earth that it’s observed basically any teenager could learn the facts they're sharing with a quick browse of the Internet.
  • As the Boys try to find each other while hiding in Gotham, it’s observed that saying they’re in the hotel that was attacked by the Joker doesn't really help anyone narrow down the options.
• Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Frenchie in particular is thrown to learn that the term for someone with superpowers in the new Earth is "meta" (as in metahuman) rather than "super" (as in super-abled).
• The Cameo:
  • Because of the sheer number of heroes in the DC universe, a lot of characters only appear for a few minutes, or not at all (the Bat kids, for example, only get a half-dozen scenes between all of them).
  • Later, when Wally West is fighting Eobard Thawne, they briefly vibrate into a reality that appears to be The Wastelands of the Marvel Universe.
• Cassandra Truth:
  • Frenchie admits that, after the Boys run into Bat-Hound, he thought that the latter was something made up by Bat Burger.
  • Discussed between Billy Butcher and Hugo Strange. Strange points out to Butcher that even if he does know who Batman is, it's unlikely that many people will ever believe him because he has the reputation of a madman in both worlds.
• Chain of Harm: Hugo Strange deduces that Soldier Boy's problems stem from issues with his father. Soldier Boy would go on to become a terrible father to Homelander once he found out they were biologically related.
• Clark Kenting:
  • The Trope Namer does this to both Billy Butcher and Homelander, with none of them being the wiser. Justified since Clark makes his posture as clumsy as possible. Butcher, due to his prejudices as mentioned above, instead thinks Superman is having an affair with Lois Lane behind Clark's back. Whereas Homelander would never believe Superman has a civilian life.
  • All of the Justice League pull this in New York in an early chapter (Superman as Clark Kent, Wonder Woman as Diana Prince, Batman as Matches Malone^note  He explains to Superman that he doesn't want Bruce Wayne to make his Earth-Seven debut yet) so they can investigate this new version of Earth. They are never suspected because none of Vought's supers ever thought about creating a civilian identity.
• Cliffhanger: Chapter 29, aptly titled "Calm Before the Storm". Homelander is about to lead a murder campaign across the U.S., the Boys are now under the control of Luthor, Annie, Hughie, Becca, and Ryan are possibly about to join the League, Maeve is fully under Circe's control, and Batman has just viewed the video of Homelander on Flight 37.
• Combat Pragmatist: Butcher tries fighting Deathstroke this way, such as attacking him from his blind spot, biting down on his arm when he starts pressing his throat (which doesn't work), stabing Deathstroke's body onto a broken shelf's supporter, throwing broken glass from a table at his eye, kicking his legs, attempting to use misdirection by holding his breath and throwing his boot in a different direction, trying to strangle him with chains, and trying to poke him in the eye once he's pinned down to the floor (which fails to due to the eye being protected by glass). Deathstroke even lampshades that Butcher's a dirty fighter. Unfortunately, while this does help Butcher last a few minutes against Deathstroke, the former is still outmatched by the latter's superior combat experience and skills alongside his unnatural strength and endurance.
• The Corrupter:
  • The Joker isn't merely interested in killing but in yanking superheroes down to his level by bringing out the worst in them. He succeeds in humiliating Homelander to the point that he lashes out in a way that leads to the death of dozens of people.
  • Circe, who exploits Maeve's insecurities to bring her under her thumb.
• Crossover Power Acquisition:
  • Stormfront steals the powers of Shazam.
  • Homelander gets a Yellow Lantern ring.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Reverse-Flash grabs A-Train and pulls him around the world at the same impossible speeds he and Flash regularly go. The problem is that even though A-Train's body is hardened to withstand running at supersonic speeds, he can't handle going that fast because he lacks the connection to the Speed Force that prevents the Flashes from getting torn apart by the laws of physics. When Thawne grabs him and takes him across the planet, he gets brutally torn asunder; skin, bones, and organs get ripped away by friction, leaving behind only Reggie's burnt goggles.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: In the fic, whether it's Vought's heroes or the Boys, both sides show they don't hold a candle to the DC universe's villains.
  • At one point A-Train tries to confront the Rogues of Central City while they're robbing the other Earth's Hollywood, but Captain Cold stops him with one blast of his cold gun, making it clear to A-Train that Flash would have found them ages before A-Train did.
  • Later on, Stormfront attempts to confront Two-Face as he is stealing samples of Compound V, but since Two-Face brought Solomon Grundy as backup, Grundy beats her easily, and she only survives the fight because Two-Face's final coin-toss came up in her favor.
  • The fight between the reformed Seven and the Legion of Doom can hardly be called a battle; Bizarro overpowers Homelander, while Queen Maeve and Stormfront are rapidly incapacitated before doing anything by Cheetah and Giganta, respectively; Clayface's body efficiently traps Black Noir, and upon seeing how badly the battle is going, both A-Train and The Deep try to flee, only to be quickly stopped and mauled by Dr. Polaris and Black Manta.
  • When Eobard Thawne finds his way to Earth Seven, he brutally slaughters several major heroes and delivers a humiliating beat-down to A-Train before taking him past his physical limits and literally tearing his body apart.
  • Superman vs Homelander. The only reason Homelander is still alive after this is because, just like Black Canary said, Clark isn't a murderer like him.
• Curb Stomp Cushion:
  • Butcher thinks he can take on Deathstroke in Chapter 16, believing if someone like Batman, who has no powers, can beat him, he can too. Although his dirty fighting does allow him to get a few good hits and helps him last for a few minutes in the fight, Slade ultimately proves him wrong and leaves him with a swollen face, a broken nose, a dislocated arm, and a bleeding mouth; if it weren't for the GCPD's arrival, he would've killed Butcher.
  • Even after Stormfront acquires the power of Shazam, when she goes up against Aquaman the lightning only gives her the chance to deliver a few powerful blows against Aquaman rather than the easy victory she had anticipated, as Arthur uses his hydrokinetic abilities to force her underwater and injures her with his own weapons.
• Death by Adaptation:
  • This time, it's A-Train who gets dragged to his death by a speedster (Zoom). And the Reverse-Flash makes sure the death is painful in every way, as he also makes sure that A-Train's family not only watched it happen, but that they knew that he'd murdered Robin Ward and Popclaw. Flash is horrified, mostly because he never saw A-Train as an enemy.
  • The Deep, in a big change from both source materials is electrocuted and boiled alive in a futile attempt to kill Aquaman.
  • Soldier Boy, instead of being put back into stasis, dies when Black Noir performs a Taking You with Me by letting himself and Soldier Boy both be cut by the portal between universes.
• Death by Depower: Stormfront dies when after losing both the traces of Compound-V inside of her and the Wizard taking back the powers she stole from the Rock of Eterninity result in her aging to death.
• Death Is Cheap: Discussed in Chapter 33. When MM is ranting over the fact that Professor Zoom is yet another villain the Justice League should have killed, Hughie does point out that Zoom has actually died before, but keeps coming back thanks to time travel. The Boys pointedly ignore this.
• Deconstruction Crossover:
  • The fic explores how corrupt and broken the superheroes of The Boys' world would appear to the likes of the Justice League. The villains from the DC Earth do very well when faced with fake heroes who are, with few exceptions, broken failures who can't back up the marketing behind them.
  • The fic also explores how out of their depth The Boys would be in a more classical superhero universe. The group's members simply lack the power, the competence, and/or the experience to deal with villains or more capable heroes, resulting in their frequently ending up in situations (such as trying to fight the Batfamily) where they could have died horribly multiple times or only being a nuisance to their targets even when everything goes right. Their stunt at Gotham ends with them being hounded by the criminals, the police, and the Bat family while Butcher is barely able to move. They're ultimately brought to Arkham for their own safety more than anything ^note To add insult to injury, they're taken out by Batman and Bat-Hound, and neither of them had to work too hard to catch them.
    Mother's Milk: Back home, we were the guys going after the bigger assholes in charge. Now we're just assholes in a world where we don't belong.
  • While the DC heroes genuinely want to help the people of the Boys' world and are a vast improvement morality-wise over that world's heroes being Nominal Heroes / broken failures with superpowers, they and their world come with their own problems that the people of The Boys are unprepared for.
    • The DC universe has scores of dangerous super-criminals that are allowed to roam free and cause collateral damage for the civilian population because there are no places that can hold them and the heroes are unwilling to kill them. After seeing how dangerous the supervillains are and how much damage they cause on a regular basis, the people of the Boy's world turn against the Justice League and go back to The Seven, despite becoming aware of the Seven's unsavory flaws and actions.
    • The Justice League's Thou Shalt Not Kill policy for their enemies, no matter how dangerous they are, loses them allies in the Boys' world. There are people on both worlds that want the Seven dead (especially the Psychopathic Manchild with godly powers Homelander), but because the Justice League refuses to allow the likes of Homelander to be killed by anyone, the likes of Stan Edgar and Grace Mallory turn against them because the League won't let truly horrible people die and they're worried about the Justice League coming after them next because of their high standards.
• Deducing the Secret Identity: The Boys managed to figure out that Bruce Wayne is Batman based on Frenchie doing some research. Of course, this doesn’t really help them in the long term, as when Batman apprehends them and sends them to Arkham Asylum, Butcher tries to reveal Batman is Bruce Wayne to the public out of spite only for Batman to be one step ahead of him by having Martian Manhunter take on Bruce Wayne’s appearance. The sight of Batman and Bruce Wayne in the same place completely throws The Boys for a loop and makes them look crazy to everyone else.
• De-power: Amanda Waller and the Justice League are planning to create a way to permanently get rid of the Compund-V in people’s blood to remove the superpowers of those who abuse them, and in the Justice League's case, also to turn Ryan into a normal boy at his mother’s request. Waller plans to weaponize the radiation from Soldier Boy's powers for such a purpose, and Mr. Terrific successfully creates an explosive weapon that uses such radiation to burn away Compound-V. Batman and Green Arrow use this weapon to strip away the superpowers of Homelander's followers and Blue Hawk, allowing them to defeat them non-lethally.
• Didn't Think This Through: When John Stewart faces Stormfront, he points out that giving Homelander a Yellow Lantern Ring is actually a stupid move on her part. Yellow Lantern Rings work best if people fear their wielder; since none of the heroes Homelander and Stormfront are fighting are actually scared of them, the ring's deprived of much of its potential power. Furthermore, even if the duo actually wins, Homelander will be essentially serving Sinestro rather than Stormfront, with John dismissing the idea that Homelander can defeat Sinestro.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation:
  • As opposed to getting stomped on by Homelander, Termite dies when he crawls into the butt of one of Nina's V24 empowered men while shrunken and tries to grow while inside him only to get crushed by his tougher body.
  • Soldier Boy is about to kill Crimson Countess the same way he did in canon with his radiation blast but after being called back by Waller, he snaps Countess' neck before leaving. Crimson Countess' death in this story emphasizes just how much she hated Soldier Boy as she dies still giving him a defiant hateful look.
  • Unlike in the show, where Stormfront killed herself in season 3, in this fanfic, she died by being rapidly aged after she lose her powers.
• Dirty Coward:
  • As the battle between the Seven and the Legion of Doom goes wrong for the former, A-Train and the Deep try to run, but Black Manta, Doctor Polaris, and Grodd catch up and maim them. Manta cuts Kevin's arm off while Polaris breaks both of A-Train's legs, and Grodd almost bites off Reggie's head.
  • After The Deep fails to sink a cruise ship, thanks to Aquaman, he tries to punch Arthur, only to break his knuckles. Kevin instantly starts cowering before the King of Atlantis and spills the beans about Stormfront ordering him to do it. He even goes back to calling Arthur "Your Majesty."
• Disappointed in You: When confronting Homelander who has sided with Sinestro and the Yellow Lantern Corps Superman can only look at the latter in disappointment which only enrages the latter.
• The Dog Bites Back: With the encouragement of his imaginary friends, Black Noir overcomes his fear of Soldier Boy and fights him a battle ends in both of their deaths.
• Don't Create a Martyr: This is one of the reasons the Justice League doesn't take immediate action to depose of Homelander and the Seven. Batman points out to Becca that even if they were willing to kill Homelander, his popularity with the masses would only make the Justice League come off as invaders and make Homelander a martyr.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: When Superman expresses some sympathy towards Homelander towards his upbringing as a lab rat, the latter only expresses rage, believing the Man of Steel to be looking down on him.
• Driven to Suicide: Discussed. When Butcher demands to know why the Justice League haven't killed Homelander or let him die despite the danger he presents to everyone, especially now that he has a Yellow Lantern Ring, Superman tells him that they intend to De-power him and let him rot in a jail cell for the rest of his life. When Butcher points out the possibility that Homelander will likely take his own life when the guards aren't looking just so he won't have to live what he considers a Fate Worse than Death, Superman states that if he chooses to do that, he will die as something he hates, and asks Butcher if that would be enough for him. Butcher scoffs that he'll wait and see, but the narrative makes it clear that he doesn't find that a satisfying comeuppance.
• Drowning My Sorrows:
  • Maeve's guilt over being part of the Seven drives her to the bottle which is made worse when the Justice League proves to be better than her at the hero game.
  • Prior to Prof. Zoom's attack, Velocity is seen drunkenly lamenting how the Flash is putting speedsters like him out of work.
• Due to the Dead: After his fight with Stormfront, Aquaman takes the time to retrieve The Deep's remains, stating that for all of their flaws, they might have family that would want to give them a proper burial.
• Dumbass Has a Point: The Trickster may not be the sharpest tool in the shed at first glance, and Butcher clearly considers him to be an idiot, but even he can see Butcher's ego is his Fatal Flaw and that he is out of his depth in the DC Universe:
  Trickster: Hey, you've been bitched by every single supervillain in Gotham and got your ass kicked by Deathstroke. Maybe you should see you're not hot shit and I'm the bigger fish on this pod.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: The final chapter.
  • Billy finally kills Homelander. Years of wanting his death had come to fruition, at the cost of his own life. Despite that, they all remark that at least Billy died without any regrets and had fulfilled what he had wanted for years.
  • Annie and Hughie both decide to remain on Earth-1, are now engaged, and have a child. After everything the Seven put them through, they earned this.
  • The rest of the Boys have the green light to take down Vought. Judging by their reactions, they are raring to go.
  • Maeve being able to rebuild her life. After years of feeling extreme guilt and loathing, she was able to start fresh. She even got to see Professor Brink get manhandled by Mallory.
  • Becca has met up with her family and begun to rebuild her life.
  • Ryan is getting accepted by the Saunders family. He chose to keep his powers, wanting to be like Superman when he grows up.
  • Mother's Milk finally rebuilds his relationship with his wife.
  • Stan Edgar and Vought successfully remake Luthor's V24 (without the mind-controlling nanites), which they're ready to push into the market, and have finally left the superhero business, allowing Edgar to move the company in whatever direction he wants; best of all, Homelander's dead, who Stan loathes. It's downplayed a little bit, as Stan and Vought (now named Victory) still have to deal with The Boys, who are now gunning for them, and Maeve, who wants to expose their dirty origins.
• Enemy Mine: Played with. The League out of public necessity makes a formal gesture of cooperation with Vought, but Stan can tell they'll be undermining him as they go. Stan then allies himself with Mallory and Lex Luthor to better survive, but Lex has his own ideas of what to do on this Earth. The Boys are pulled into The Suicide Squad, but despite their similar MO's, neither group particularly likes the other. And Lex tries to invoke this with the Boys, with their mutual distrust of Superheroes, but they all see in him a petty, evil man who isn't worth teaming up with.
  • A straighter example occurs with the Marvel Family and Black Adam; while they have no love for each other, none of them want Stormfront possessing the powers of Shazam, so they all resolve to take her down.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Deconstructed. Homelander's affection for Ryan may be genuine, but he still narcissistically desires to turn Ryan into a splitting image of himself to the point of isolating him from other kids. It's eventually revealed to everyone (the readers, the Justice League, and Ryan himself) that Homelander's love was only narcissism, and Ryan is quickly shown to be happier with his mother and super kids his age (with Superboy and Robin even being the ones to break him out of Vought Tower).
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • The Rogues hate The Deep for his crimes and beat the shit out of him shortly after. They even explicitly tell the Deep that if they think he's a disgusting rapist, then the League is just going to outright hate him.
  • Two-Face will spare any opponent if the coin toss goes well.
  • Played With: Homelander is annoyed by Stormfront's Master Race nonsense... because he sees himself, and every other person injected with Compound V, as the "true" Master Race. His objection comes more from exasperation than any real morality.
  • During the Legion of Doom's attack on Vought Studios, Clayface takes a moment to decry Adam Bourke's work as "showcas(e)[ing] the decay of modern cinema".
  • When the Joker calls Homelander and Stormfront, he makes it clear that he has complete contempt for Stormfront's Nazi history, maintaining that he is "an American criminal lunatic", even referencing his meeting with "that noseless Nazi bonehead from Earth-616".
  • When the Joker calls Homelander and Stormfront about Flight 37, Homelander threatens to destroy everyone and everything if the footage gets out. The Joker makes it clear that's what he wants Homelander to do, even telling him that it's better to be feared than loved. Homelander and Stormfront are stunned to hear this.
    Homelander: If you release that video, I will destroy everyone and everything.
    Joker: Good, glad you and I are on the same page.
    Homelander: [eyes widening] What?
  • Lex Luthor is noticeably disgusted and uncomfortable with Homelander's rape of Becca.
    • Later, when Soldier Boy is horrified at the sort of man Vought raised Homelander to be, Lex offers him his sympathies.
  • When Waller reveals to him that Stormfront was in fact a Nazi, Soldier Boy admits he had no idea and was genuinely disgusted and horrified by the revelation.
  • When Stormfront is aged to death after she loses her powers, it's speculated by the Marvel family to be a punishment from the Wizard against someone so evil using his powers. When Stargirl brings up Black Adam, Mary counters that for all his flaws, Adam never espoused the same things Stormfront did.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Bruce and Clark are astonished to see Vought surpassing Lex Luthor in breaking antitrust laws.
  • The fact that people get superpowers by injecting fetuses with Compound V disgusts and horrifies several members of the League.
  • Aquaman is disgusted with the Deep on account of him being a Serial Rapist and the fact that he has intercourse with marine life.
    • That being said, when Stormfront ends up killing the Deep, he still takes the time to retrieve his body so any family he might've had can give him a proper burial.
  • The Boys are stunned to see The Joker's bomb go off and kill sixty people. Even prior to this, Butcher is wary of the Clown Prince of Crime upon hearing the stories.
  • Despite being a vigilante himself, Batman dislikes Butcher because of his recklessness and ornery attitude, which make him more of a hindrance.
  • Alfred also remarks that Homelander elicits anger and disgust in Bruce only seen when speaking about The Joker.
  • Batman goes after the Boys with no one but Bat-Hound, because he knows that Billy Butcher can't bring himself to kill a dog.
  • In an interview with Adam Rourke, it's mentioned that Booster Gold originally approached to cameo in the next Seven film, but backed out after the Herogasm scandal.
  • Hughie is horrified when Annie informs him that Professor Zoom killed A-Train. Despite A-Train being a terrible person and wanting him to pay for killing Robin, Hughie and Annie admit Reggie didn't deserve to die in such a brutal way in front of his family.
  • After Stormfront is stripped of the power of Shazam and her own abilities, she immediately ages to death, with the other Marvels speculating that this is the Wizard's punishment for such a foul person trying to harness his power. Others point out how Black Adam is still allowed to use his powers despite his attitude, but it is pointed out that the difference between Stormfront and Black Adam is that Black Adam has never killed anyone out of personal prejudice and at least generally kills for a clear reason even if others don't always agree with it.
  • Despite being the reason why the events of this fanfic happened because he wanted to have fun, Bat-Mite thinks the comics version of The Boys is "too grotesque". And he's still nice enough to give a Plot Armor to Butcher and his friends.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good:
  • The Deep is desperately trying to join the Justice League by connecting to Aquaman, despite the fact that the King of Atlantis is clearly repulsed by him being a serial rapist who abuses humans and sea life alike and is barely cordial to him while multiple people, including the Flash's Rogues, point out that the League is never going to accept a sex offender. It's only after Aquaman tells him off that The Deep finally gets the message.
  • Butcher is more of a hardened vigilante than straight-up evil, but he believes Superman is another Fake Ultimate Hero like Homelander, and assumes Batman/Bruce Wayne is "just another rich cunt who gets off on beating the unfortunate" rather than recognize that Batman's foes are serious criminals and Bruce Wayne does his best to help Gotham out of the suit as well.
  • Much like Lex Luthor, Homelander refuses to believe someone as powerful and as beloved as Superman would ever pretend to be a nonpowered human.
  • When Luthor tries to take Ryan from her, Becca angrily tells him to "Fuck off". Luthor is shocked that she'd care so much for Ryan considering his powers and the circumstances of his birth.
  • Being the selfish manchild he is, Homelander assumes all of Superman's good deeds were done solely for the sake of showing him up rather than comprehend that he is just a plain altruistic Nice Guy who genuinely believes that Good Feels Good. Likewise, when the latter expresses some sympathy at him over his upbringing, he gets annoyed, thinking he was just looking down on him.
• Evil Is Petty:
  • While informing Butcher of Gotham's rogues, Frenchie brings up the time a cook at a five-star restaurant laughed at the Penguin. The Penguin proceeded to ruin the man's entire life.
  • Stormfront offends a disguised Circe while passing her in a hallway. As a bit of petty revenge, Circe casts a quick spell that ensures she and Homelander will be having... issues.
  • Eobard Thawne, naturally. While capturing the Boys, he takes a brief moment to torture Frenchie by phasing an arm through him. When he arrives on Earth-Seven, Zoom massacres an entire bar full of people save for one survivor to send a message to Flash and A-Train, promising that he will kill her if she doesn't do what he says. In a fight with Wally, he intentionally presses the Flash's Berserk Buttons by bringing up Barry and Iris. Eobard also informed Nathan, Arana, and their children that Reggie killed Robin Ward and Popclaw before killing A-Train by exposing him to the friction of moving at speeds he isn't built to withstand, all of which was done in front of Wally and Reggie's family.
• Evil Versus Evil: The Seven, in a last-ditch attempt to salvage their reputation, decide to go after the Legion of Doom when they take a film crew hostage. It goes very, very poorly for them.
• Eviler than Thou:
  • Ultimately, the Seven can't hold a candle against the villains of the DC world. When Homelander and his crew try to go up against the Legion of Doom, they go down pathetically quickly.
  • When Sinestro arrives on Earth-Seven, he overrides Homelander's ring and makes it clear to him, Stormfront, Blue Hawk, and their followers that they now work for him.
• Extreme Mêlée Revenge: Upon being depowered, Homelander is subjected to beatdown from The Boys, ending with Butcher utterly mauling him, with his jaw broken off, pummeled to death, then having a crowbar ''jammed through his eye'' before having his skill cracked open and his brain ripped out.
• Eye Scream: As part of her wounds from being pounded by the Legion, Stormfront finds out she lost an eye in the fight, marring her perfect face.
• Failure Hero: The heroes of The Boys, to put it simply, are utterly useless in a real fight, with even non-powered villains able to take them out quickly.
• Fake Ultimate Hero: Deconstructed. The Seven get away with being corrupt phonies due to being coddled by an all-powerful corporation with a stranglehold on the media and having little competition. But once the Justice League and their Rogues Gallery show up and offer the Seven real competition, and the media of the league's earth no longer covers up their bad behavior, they go down hard in battle and the public eye.
• False Friend:
  • A-Train pretends to be an understanding friend to the Deep but only associates with him because he wants someone to look down upon.
  • Circe invokes this to manipulate Maeve, claiming the Justice League wants to use her to get dirt on the Seven.
• Fatal Flaw: Beyond his usual prejudice of supes, Butcher also suffers from Pride as he continuously underestimates Gotham's rogues gallery. While most of them don't have any superpowers, the other Boys express reservations after doing research on them.
• Fighting Across Time and Space: Flash and Zoom's fight spans across several different universes before eventually ending up in the 31st Century, where the Legion of Super Heroes are waiting to imprison Reverse-Flash.
• Foil: Vought and the Justice League are two very different organizations, to say the least.
  • Vought is an immoral MegaCorp that manipulates the media and corrupts society for its gain while producing dangerous products. It produces "superheroes" that are little more than glorified superhuman celebrities who are, with few exceptions, emotional trainwrecks.
  • The Justice League is a global non-profit devoted to peace and unity that recruits superhumans and molds them into genuine heroes.
• Freak Out: Ashley becomes more and more unnerved by how the Justice League's investigations of Vought are only going to make her job security more and more difficult. One notable moment was her tearing out her hair after Blue Hawk is exposed, yelling at the League's liaison Catherine that she doesn't have the security of "Living in a world of unicorns and rainbows".
• Freudian Excuse:
  • It is repeatedly lampshaded that Homelander's loveless upbringing and lack of positive role models turned him into an unstable and narcissistic maniac.
  • Hugo Strange, himself a psychologist, spells out to Soldier Boy that his emotional problems stem from daddy issues.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse:
  • While admitting to understand how being Raised in a Lab turned him into what he is, the League make it clear that it does not excuse Homelander's atrocities and make it clear he's still a threat that needs to be taken down.
  • When the Deep tries to bring up his issues with his gills, Aquaman immediately shuts him down hard, telling him in no uncertain terms that his self-image issues absolutely do not excuse his bestiality or sexual assault.
• Godzilla Threshold:
  • When Eobard Thawne attacks, Wally ultimately deals with this foe by taking him to the 31st century, reasoning that the Legion of Super-Heroes will be able to contain him.
  • Stormfront and Homelander, both supe-supremacists, end up begging the alien Sinestro for his help in fighting the Justice League.
• Greater-Scope Villain: The final chapter reveals that Bat-Mite orchestrated the events of the entire story by creating a dimensional link between Earth-One and Earth-Seven, with the end goal of bringing the Seven and Vought into conflict with the Justice League. He was also the one who essentially gave the Boys Plot Armor, allowing them to survive in the DC universe for far longer than they should have.
• Green-Eyed Monster:
  • What sets off Homelander's resentment towards Superman is the fact Clark was raised by loving parents whereas he was raised in a lab by unloving scientists.
  • A-Train has a growing resentment towards the Flash, as it's clear the latter is the vastly superior speedster. Chapter 12 shows that countless other speedsters from the Boys' universe are quitting racing; combined with his heart issues and desperation of being the fastest man on his earth, A-Train is afraid he'll have to stop running too and fade into obscurity.
• Groin Attack:
  • After the Rogues take down A-Train and the Deep, Golden Glider takes the opportunity to stomp down hard on the Deep's crotch. While he deserved it, the male Rogues all wince at the sight.
  • After Green Arrow De-Powers Blue Hawk with a specialized arrow, Black Canary kicks him in the crotch, causing him to squeal, as Oliver amusedly notes, like a pig.
• Had to Be Sharp: The DC heroes are much more capable than the Seven because the former come from a world with many terrestrial and extraterrestrial threats, whereas the Seven have never fought any serious supervillains and aliens are completely fictional in their world.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Black Noir and Soldier Boy both end up bifurcated when crossing through an unstable portal at the end of Chapter 34, with Black Noir ensuring they’re both cut by the portal in the end.
• Hated by All: Deep. The DC heroes (and villains) hate him for his sex crimes and bestiality. His supposed ally, A-Train, only associates with him because he wants someone to look down on.
• Heroic Wannabe: Both the Seven and The Boys try and take down the bad guys of the DC Universe to claim the mantle of the good guy, but their incompetence and moral weakness means they go down hard while looking like arrogant idiots.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: The Justice League are looked down upon and vilified by the public from The Boys' universe due to their refusal to kill criminals no matter how dangerous and uncontainable they are. However, it's slowly subverted as the Seven repeatedly get humiliated by the villains the Justice League regularly defeat.
• Humiliation Conga: The Seven goes through one throughout the story: The Justice League overshadows them by being better and more stable heroes, their reputation and renown collapse because they keep losing to the DC Rogues Gallery and their dirty secrets are exposed to the public, and their desperate attempt to salvage their reputation by fighting the Legion of Doom fails horribly with them being overpowered, beaten, and mutilated.
• Hypocrite: When Lex Luthor talks to the Boys through Butcher's body, Frenchie and MM reject his offered alliance, aware that Luthor's vendetta against Superman drove him so far that he was willing to risk Earth to try and frame Superman for the kryptonite asteroid coming to Earth.
• I Have Your Wife:
  • Homelander threatens A-Train's brother and his family to keep him in line.
  • Circe has the Joker and Harley kidnap Elena in order to further control Maeve.
• Immune to Bullets: Felix Faust isn't at all inconvenienced by bullets.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: The story inverts this trope. Usually, the villains of DC fail against the heroes they are fighting. When facing the DC villains, the Seven are depicted as incompetent losers who are way in over their heads.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex:
  • Homelander, to put it mildly, can't stand not being in control of the situation. The fact that other members of the Seven ignore him in favor of Superman cuts him deeply.
  • A-Train being outrun by Flash leads him to boast about his superiority constantly.
• It Amused Me: Batman remarks that the Joker is targeting Homelander simply because his emotional immaturity makes it easy for the clown to get under his skin. It only takes one (gross) video and Homelander falls right into Joker's hands.
  • Bat-Mite's reasoning for putting Earth 1 and Earth 7 in contact was mostly to see The Justice League humiliating the Seven and see how The Boys would fare in a classic superhero world. The League and especially Batman are less than amused seeing that many people died as a result of his intervention..
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • While searching dirt on the Justice League, Stormfront is right that the DC superheroes are far from perfect and quote some examples (Plastic Man's criminal records, Wonder Woman killing Maxwell Lord, or Alan Scott's homophobic remarks). They also mock the Justice League for letting dangerous supervillains, like the Joker, live despite all the deaths they've caused. The problem is that these faults still pale in comparison to what the Supes of The Boys have done.
  • Hugo Strange harshly, but accurately calls out each of The Boys in his care on their character flaws and inability to look at themselves straight. MM, Frenchie, and Hughie are noticeably affected and can't bring themselves to deny Strange's words.
    • Strange notes that that MM's vendetta against Soldier Boy is very similar to Butcher's own vendetta against Homelander and accuses him of emulating Butcher by seeking to escape mundanity and pursue his grudge against Supes, abandoning his wife and daughter in the process despite claiming to be a family man. MM's defiance against the accusations is quickly snuffed out by that last part.
    • Strange accuses Frenchie of having no self-efficacy, pointing out that time and again he has followed and tried to please people who demean him at every turn, comparing it to a drug addiction that's ruining his life even when he finds it satisfying. He even asks Frenchie if he's not used to having something being about him, which Frenchie admits is true.
    • Even though Kimiko refuses to speak to him and just gives him a Death Glare, Strange is undeterred and gives a simple summation: in the pain of loss, she turned herself into a soldier, and that she seems incapable of walking away from that mindset.
    • When talking to Hughie, Strange accuses him of choosing to be weak and enabling Butcher's own delusions through his passivity, pointing out that like Butcher's brother, Lenny, Hughie was often bullied by others and viewed as weak and helpless, with the only real difference being that Hughie was coddled by his father. Strange tells Hughie that he is lacking in confidence and riddled with insecurities, so he formed an attachment with those he sees as stronger than him. Hughie is unable to deny these words.
    • For Butcher, Strange calls him out on letting his bias towards superheroes blind him, pointing out that he has underestimated both Batman and his Rogues Gallery because he believes that the new world he's in is similar to his own regardless of the obvious evidence otherwise. Strange also points out that time and again Butcher got himself and his team captured and nearly killed by Batman's enemies and only managed to escape because of outside circumstances beyond their control. And ultimately it was Batman himself who apprehended him, which was not a difficult task. Strange even notes that Butcher's reputation as an unhinged madman would make his claims of knowing Batman's secret identity doubtful. And finally, Strange accuses Butcher of becoming just like his abusive father despite his desire to protect people he cares about after he joined the military as an escape, leaving his brother to take the sole brunt of his father's abuse until he committed suicide. Butcher immediately attempts to strangle Strange in response to this, which does nothing but prove Strange right.
• Karma Houdini: The Brain, Dr. Sivanna and Ocean Master all get off scot-free for being part of Luthor's manipulations of Earth Seven.
  • The Rogues also never get caught after heisting Earth 7.
  • By the end of the story, Stan Edgar and Vought (renamed Victory in an effort to distance themselves from their shady past) have managed to more or less get away scott free. However, it's implied that Maeve, Mallory, and the remaining Boys will make sure to step in and keep them honest.
• Karmic Butt-Monkey: The Deep is treated like vermin by hero and villain alike and is brutally crushed in battle. But since he's an incompetent abuser, it is definitely what he deserves. When he ends up as collateral damage during Stormfront's attempt to kill Aquaman, his death is treated with far less gravitas and sympathy than A-Train's a few chapters earlier.
• Karmic Death: After Stormfront is stripped of her Compund-V powers, the Wizard not only takes back the Shazam powers, but rapidly ages her into her actual age and kills her. As Wonder Woman and Kimiko seperately note, her death is this: she died as what she hated, a weak, helpless, and powerless human, and with her sins exposed to the world.
• Kick the Dog: Reverse-Flash reveals every bad thing A-Train did (from turning Robin Ward into red paste to murdering Popclaw) to his family before grabbing Reggie and having friction rip his body apart by running across the planet. The worst part is that Thawne did it in front of the rest of the Franklin family, leaving Nate, Arana, and their kids horrified and distraught.
• Killed Offscreen: The final chapter reveals that Todd, Monique's second husband after MM, was killed by the Joker's gas bomb in Times Square.
• Knight Templar: Waller insists that she is defending her world from superheroes that could go rogue.
• Laughably Evil: The Joker is an evil killer, but his humiliation of Homelander is pretty chuckle-worthy. One of the Green Lanterns even ends up laughing out loud when Joker outs Homelander's... issues.
• Legion of Doom: The Trope Namer is present consisting of Gorilla Grodd, Bizarro, Cheetah, Black Manta, Giganta, Doctor Polaris, Clayface, and Doctor Poison.
  • There's also the Secret Society which consists of Lex Luthor, Professor Zoom, Ocean Master, The Brain (and by extension Monsieur Mallah), Arkillo (representing Sinestro), and Doctor Sivana. Stan Edgar works with the Society to protect Vought as well as get rid of the Seven and Supes.
• Little "No": When The Deep asks if Aquaman could take him to Atlantis one day, the simple thought of The Deep in his kingdom horrifies Aquaman so much, he can only reply this.
• Man Bites Man: When Deathstroke starts pressing Butcher's throat, Butcher resorts to biting his arm in an attempt to get free, but it doesn't work. In fact, Deathstroke is utterly unimpressed at the notion that Butcher seriously thought that would do anything.
• Man of Kryptonite: Ultimately Lex Luthor turns Butcher into this to make him a new weapon against Superman, giving Butcher V24 infused with kryptonite.
• Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration: This is how Homelander, once he's healed enough, copes with his brutal defeat at the hands of Bizarro.
• Misplaced Retribution: Despite the Justice League saving the Seven from the Legion of Doom, many people from The Boys' universe blame the Justice League for the existence of the Legion of Doom.
• Missing Steps Plan: To discredit the Justice League, Homelander had the idea to kill one of their villains to demonstrate the inefficacy of the League's Thou Shalt Not Kill rule. This is missing the fact that none of the Seven were capable of defeating any of the previous DC villains they faced, to the extent that they were all humiliated by the other universe's villains, only surviving because killing the heroes wasn't the goal; Stormfront in particular was only spared through sheer luck. Once Homelander leads The Seven to fight the Legion of Doom, predominantly composed of the Justice League's archnemeses, the fight rapidly turns into a massacre.
• Mook Horror Show: Inverted. The Vought "heroes" find themselves in horrifying and bloody situations when they fight against the DC villains. Stormfront's fight with Grundy is less of a battle and more of a horror show, with Stormfront facing a monster she can't even wound.
• Morality Kitchen Sink: While there's a broad scope of good and evil in this story, the motivations of everyone is much more broad. The League is a firm "good" though not above doing some tricks for the sake of expediting their victory. The Boys are more in the middle. With decent motives and camaraderie, but problems in methods and effectiveness. The supervillains of DC are much more evil, though Even Evil Has Standards in different places. And then there's the myriad of the more ordinary people who fall anywhere between Punch-Clock Villain, A Lighter Shade of Grey or anywhere else on the spectrum.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Played With. When the truth about Stormfront's Nazi past goes public, Homelander is accused of being a Nazi as well. With his reputation basically destroyed and people shouting at him, he massacres the crowd in front of Vought with his laser vision. Only after does he realize that he's completely destroyed his reputation, but he doesn't seem to feel any guilt for killing a hundred innocent people.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Because he doesn't want Bruce Wayne to be seen on Earth-Seven just yet, Batman uses his alternate persona of Matches Malone to stake out the Seven's New York. Matches Malone is a persona used by the Bat multiple times in his comics and even in the animated series, one that he typically uses when he can't be Bruce Wayne or Batman.
  • Joker prank-calling Homelander is taken directly from a scene in The Boys comic book series.
  • Stormfront notes that Mary Marvel looks like Judy Garland, who Mary was indeed originally modeled after.
  • When Professor Zoom kills people in a bar, the lone survivor notes hearing sounds similar to a helicopter before turning around and coming face to face with the evil speedster, a reference to the helicopter sound effects that accompanied the Reverse-Flash in The Flash (2014).
• No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: After beating the Seven in a ridiculously one-sided fight, the Legion of Doom are so disappointed by how easy it was, they are excited to see their enemies in the Justice League show up and give them a real fight.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Grundy gives one to Stormfront, who is left with broken teeth, bruises, and a lot of profuse bleeding; the only reason he didn't kill her was that Two-Face was in charge at the time and the coin-toss turned up in Stormfront's favor.
• No Immortal Inertia: Stormfront dies when after taking the powers she stole from the Rock of Eternity, the Wizard also goes and undoes The Ageless treatment she received from Compound V, making her rapidly age to death.
• Nominal Hero: The Seven are mainly interested in their self-centered desires than actual heroism. They take on the Legion of Doom less out of any heroic desires and more because they want to salvage their reputations by beating up some bad guys.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond:
  • In their world, the Seven are the top heroes and are renowned for their (non-existent) bravery and courage. But their mediocrity becomes apparent when faced with villains from a world with more experience with superhumans.
  • The Boys are completely overshadowed while in Gotham City, as the criminals of Gotham have been fighting against Badass Normals leagues above them for years. As a result, the Boys' operations against them are easily foiled and they are seriously hurt in the process. This eventually leads to their arrest once their luck runs out.
  • Stan Edgar is a powerful and influential businessman on his Earth, but the resources of Vought pale compared to the Justice League's power, wealth, and omnipresence. Unlike Homelander, he has enough foresight to see he doesn't hold a candle to the Justice League and decides to skip town.
• Not Himself: When Lex Luthor takes control of Butcher's body, the Boys realise Butcher isn't himself because Luthor is more emotionally detached than Butcher.
• Not Me This Time:
  • Thanks to Circe's manipulations, Maeve accuses Homelander of kidnapping Elena. Homelander proves his innocence by explaining that if he wanted to use Elena as leverage, he would've been very upfront about it.
  • Lex denies responsibility for creating the dimensional rift connection himself, stating that he merely co-opted it for his own purposes.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Superman pushes Luthor's Berserk Button by pointing out that he's fundamentally similar to Homelander, in that both ultimately seek validation from others even while believing they're better than everyone else.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain:
  • The Seven treats the DC Rogues Gallery like a bunch of crazed chumps, but they prove to be very dangerous opponents in a fight.
  • Butcher also finds the Penguin and the Scarecrow too stupid to take seriously despite Frenchie's reservations. Once The Boys end up in their clutches, the two prove how dangerous they can really be.
• Not So Stoic: Stan Edgar's icy facade starts to crack as he realizes he is losing control of the power he once held.
• Not So Similar: Despite Edgar and Luthor being dimensional counterparts of each other, Mallory can't help but note how the main difference between them is their Fatal Flaws; Luthor's is his Pride, whilst Edgar's is his Greed.
• Not What It Looks Like: When the Boys are sent into the DC Universe, Annie and Hughie are transported into a janitor's closet in the Flash Museum. They are found by a janitor who assumes they broke off from the group currently taking a tour to hook up.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: While Homelander got invokedbeat up by the Legion, Robin and Superboy busted Ryan out of Vought Tower and brought him to the League's HQ, reuniting him with his mother.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Slightly Played for Laughs but after watching the video of Homelander causing Flight 37 to go down, the fact that Batman actually assures Commissioner Gordon to the point of finishing a conversation with him as opposed to pulling his usual disappearing act in mid-sentence is noted by both Alfred and Barbara to be atypical behavior for Bruce.
• Opportunistic Bastard: Lex Luthor is happy to find an Earth without serious or competent heroes to challenge him and starts setting up shop there, even exploiting Stan Edgar's desperation for his gain.
• Out-Gambitted: After being arrested, Butcher tries to reveal that Batman is Bruce Wayne out of sheer spite to the Arkham guards. But Batman had anticipated this and asked J'onn to impersonate him at Arkham during their arrival. Throwing the Boys in a loop when seeing the two of them at the same place and at the same time.
• Outside-Context Problem: The Justice League, a group of heroes who make the Seven look like a bunch of chumps, causes quite a stir in the world of The Boys, as are the villains who start leaking into their world.
• Paper Tiger: The Seven act like tough shit, but when faced with a world of more competent heroes and legitimate supervillains (as opposed to either regular criminals or fights staged for publicity stunts), their incompetence and moral weakness becomes clear.
• Pass the Popcorn: The Joker is munching on popcorn while he watches the Seven get their butts handed to them by the Legion of Doom.
• Patriotic Fervor:
  • The Justice League invoked this by adding "America" to their title to appease the government bigwigs. Nowadays, Superman finds the addition to be a bit ridiculous since the Justice League is a global organization.
  • As his popularity implodes and the Justice League's popularity rises, Homelander invokes this to a ridiculous degree, claiming the Justice League doesn't serve America's interests just because they come from another universe.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: The DC villains beating up the Seven would usually be depressing... if it weren't for the Seven being morally bankrupt losers.
• People Puppets: The modified V24 allows Lex Luthor to remotely control anyone's body as long as they're "on" the drug. He does this to the Boys (sans Annie and Hughie).
• Persona Non Grata:
  • Deep is forever banned from Atlantis for being a deviant who predates on sea creatures.
  • For his public spat with Flash, A-Train has been kicked out of the Church of the Collective, and is barred from Godolkin University.
• Plot Armor: An in-universe case of this is noted throughout the story, as both the Justice League and Secret Society of Supervillains independently realize that circumstances have been absurdly kind to the Boys since the start of the story, from the subtle (every member conveniently had bank accounts and full wallets of money available the moment they arrived on Earth-One) to the blatant (Waller's Suicide Squad explosive implants disappearing when she tries to dispose of them). The final chapter reveals that Bat-Mite has been behind the favorable circumstances of the Boys, noting that he had to interfere quite a bit to keep them from dying.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: As in canon, Stormfront is a Nazi-loving white nationalist who uses her powers to harm minorities she doesn't like. Batman and the rest of the Justice League see right through her smokescreen.
• Positive Friend Influence: Because Ryan gets some chances to interact with other Super kids, he begins to think for himself regarding what Homelander and Stormfront are doing to him. When others of the Boys are briefly under mind control, Ryan is able to use his powers to free them by just knocking them out thanks to the training he received from his new friends.
• Post-Coital Collapse: Hughie and Annie do this during the aftermath of their "reunion".
• Pragmatic Villainy:
  • Circe is furious over how badly Maeve was beaten and warns the Joker not to do anything to Elena... largely because Maeve dying and Elena getting hurt threatens her goals.
  • When the Central City Rogues are robbing one of the Church of the Collective's churches, one of them wonders why they never tried to rob their Earth-One parallel, only for the others to point out that then they'd have all of Hollywood gunning for them.
• Pretender Diss:
  • Homelander trying to rile up Guy Gardner mostly fails until Homelander indirectly compares himself to Superman by declaring Gardner could never defeat the Man of Steel, leading Gardner to declare that he is not Superman while suiting up his Green Lantern uniform, clearly ready to fight Homelander until John Stewart intervenes.
  • A-Train compares himself to the Flash to Captain Cold, but the latter throws back that the Flash would've already sent him packing.
  • Butcher mocks Deathstroke and insinuates that if a non-superpowered person like Batman can defeat him then he can, Deathstroke's answer is to say he's not the Caped Crusader before brutally beating him in a fight where Butcher would have clearly died if the Gotham Police hadn't intervened.
  • Poison Ivy mocks Annie for calling herself a superhero, belittling her as nothing but a corporate product. Unlike the previous examples, Annie points out that Ivy has very little room to talk.
  • After cutting off his arm, Black Manta comments he is well-aware that the Deep is nowhere near Aquaman's level before stabbing him.
  • Reverse-Flash mockingly calls Wally "Kid Flash", insinuating that he's inferior to his predecessor Barry Allen. Wally in turn states that it's no wonder Barry rejected Eobard as the Flash when the evil speedster asks why he's trying to save A-Train.
  • After exposing A-Train's crimes to his family, Reverse-Flash sarcastically comforts Reggie by saying that at least the Franklin family will have the Flash to look up to before killing him.
  • Upon confronting Stormfront after she takes the power of Shazam for herself, Black Adam calls her a "defiler" of the Rock of Eternity.
  • John Stewart makes it clear to Stormfront that even if she and Homelander, who have been recently empowered with the stolen power of Shazam and Arkillo's Yellow Lantern Ring respectively, win against the Green Lantern Corps, Homelander will just end up being a servant to Sinestro. John also accurately guesses that Sinestro will not be pleased that Stormfront stole one of his rings (from one of his best Yellow Lanterns no less) and gave it to Homelander.
  • Sinestro bluntly informs Homelander that he knows about the latter's many inadequacies compared to Superman, let alone any surviving Kryptonian.
  • The Marvel family tells Stormfront that she's been both a bad hero and an even worse villain.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Homelander has all the emotional maturity of a moody kindergartner, something both Stan Edgar and Batman spell out to him.
• Punch-Clock Hero: Much to the annoyance of the Justice League, A-Train is only willing to do heroism for a cash reward.
• Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...:
  • Stormfront tries punching Grundy, but he brushes them off like they were nothing.
  • Homelander also punches Bizzaro as hard as he can, only hurting his hands, and then Bizzaro hits back.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil:
  • Aquaman refuses to let Deep into Atlantis for his history of sexual abuse. Even other rogues are disgusted by his deviant behavior.
  • Even Lex Luthor disapproves of Homelander sexually assaulting Becca.
• Relative Button:
  • While fighting the Bats, Joker threatens Robin with a crowbar and mentions the last Robin he killed (Jason Todd). Batman beats him up barely a second later.
  • Don't threaten Superman's family. It's not a good idea as Homelander learned... painfully.
• Required Secondary Powers: The Flash explains that the Speed Force breaks the laws of physics in order to let speedsters move as fast, faster than any speedster empowered by Compound V, as they do unharmed. Eobard notes that while Reggie's body is tough in order survive the speeds he moves at, it's nothing compared to what the Speed Force can do which he demonstrates by running the two of them around the world in a second, leaving A-Train a red stain on the street and the Reverse-Flash holding his burnt goggles.
• Revenge Before Reason: Billy Butcher, despite not recovering from Kryptonite radiation poisoning, intends to kill Homelander once he loses his powers, and he doesn’t care if he dies in the end. The Boys reluctantly decide to go with him, knowing that he won't listen to reason, if only to stay by his side to the bitter end.
• Rhetorical Question Blunder: Invoked when Homelander asks what he ever actually did to the heroes of Earth-One, and Guy Gardner sums it up in a simple response; "You're an asshole".
• Right for the Wrong Reasons:
  • While visiting Lois Lane's office, Butcher insinuates to Becca that Lois must be Superman's lover while Becca remarks she is married to Clark Kent, to which Butcher doubts that Superman cares about that. Despite his prejudice leading him to believe that Lois is a cheater, he is right as Clark and Superman are the same person making all these suppositions correct.
  • When Homelander tries to claim that the footage of him drinking bottled breast milk was CGI, Soldier Boy rejects that by observing that he's seen TRON and knows what CGI looks like; effects have improved since Soldier Boy's era, but he's correct that the footage wasn't faked.
• Running Gag: Homelander's milk video ruining milk for everyone.
• Sanity Has Advantages:
  • Part of the reason the Justice League is more successful than the Seven is that its members are full of people with their heads screwed on right, while The Seven is full of emotional trainwrecks with fragile egos.
  • Similarly, The Boys suck as vigilantes because of their arrogance and thin skin, while Batman, for all his flaws, succeeds because he can deal with threats through patience and diligence.
• Sanity Slippage: After getting shown up by Superman and the rest of the Justice League, getting humiliated by the Joker and the Legion of Doom, and having Soldier Boy call him a disappointment, Homelander gradually starts to lose his mind to the point where Stormfront gets freaked out by him. It all comes to a head in Chapter 29 when Homelander wants to begin a mass murder spree with a crowd of God-U members and supes.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
  • After establishing contact with the Justice League and examining the size of their resources and ties, Stan Edgar decides to step down as Vought CEO, seeing it as the end of the Vought style of superheroism and the eventual doom of his company as they could never hope to compete against them:
    Stan Edgar: You don’t understand, do you? It’s over, the company is over. They know, I don’t know much but the Justice League knows enough. They certainly know you both lied about Ryan and it’s just a matter of time until they know your origins.
    Homelander: So you’re going to run and hide like a scared child?
    Stan Edgar: I will do what’s most rational and not throw myself in harm’s way such as you, narcissistic reckless manchild that you are, will do. The Justice League decided to hold the entire world under an impossible standard, and they have the means to force it. But it’s not their power you should be scared of, it’s their divinity. A pantheon of gods watching the world from the sky is everything we sell, but that's just marketing, they have it for real. And once your crowd of fans and... Fanatic radicalized racists see the comparison, they'll see what you all are, bad product.
  • Stormfront tries to launch a propaganda war against the Justice League, but her employees realize the Justice League is too popular to slander and quit.
  • Both A-Train and Deep try and flee when they see their battle against the Legion of Doom is going poorly but don't get too far.
• Secret Test of Character:
  • The Justice League tests Blue Hawk by having Martian Manhunter stage an apparent carjacking, with the Manhunter claiming ownership of the vehicle and saying he locked himself out when Blue Hawk arrives. Blue Hawk hears the full explanation, accepts the argument, and helps the Manhunter gain access to the car when he's posing as a white man, but attacks before the disguised Manhunter has even finished speaking when the Martian is in the form of a black man, prompting the League to take him into custody and force Vought to drop him from the Seven.
  • An implied case, but Batman's initial opinion of Starlight is neutral to dismissive at best. Prior to her therapy session with Dinah, he's non-committal regarding her while most other heroes from the Justice League have a more positive opinion of her. When Annie confesses to killing an innocent man, while the rest of the League is stunned to hear about this, Batman is noted to be surprised about the fact that she confessed at all and his opinion towards her softens, as the League realizes that he had been aware of that death beforehand. The implication being that Bruce wanted to know if she was remorseful over the death or not, and the fact that Annie brought it up on her own when she believed no one on Earth-One had been aware of her accidental killing was definite proof that she is a good person who feels remorse for what she's done.
• Secret Word: A literal example of this is invoked when Billy tells Black Adam that he just needs Adam's help to turn Stormfront back to her usual form to trigger a magic that will change Stormfront's magic word from "Shazam" to an unspecified Spanish tongue-twister, ensuring that she cannot tap the power of Shazam herself any more.
• Seen It All:
  • Homelander (politely) refuses a dinner invitation from the Kent family, thinking his being from another dimension would make the whole thing awkward. The Kents reply that they've seen so many crazy things that a visitor from an Alternate Universe doesn't phase them.
  • Becca and Annie both believe that Wonder Woman wouldn't believe them when revealing that Stormfront has lived far longer than a normal human and has been a Nazi since World War II. These claims don't phase Diana at all and she reassures them by saying that one of the Watchtower's prisoners is Vandal Savage, a ten thousand-year-old man who also happened to ally himself with the Nazis during World War II. Furthermore, Diana mentions that she herself is older than Stormfront is.
• Sequel Hook: The connected one-shot There's a crack in the Multiverse taking place after the story reveals that similar interdimensional displacements have been happening all over the multiverse. More to the point, the one-shot indicates that another version of the Boys universe is going to undergo a similar interdimensional connection, this time to Earth-616...
• Shooting Superman: One angry fan of Homelander throws a brick at Superman. The brick breaks on Superman's head who feels like a fly landed on his face.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!:
  • When Poison Ivy belittles her superhero career, Annie replies by pointing out she is a homicidal maniac like the Joker by bringing up her relationship with Harley Quinn.
  • When Stormfront takes the power of Shazam and is confronted by the Marvel Family about her true history, she claims that people appreciate what she has to say and just don't like the connotations of her past affiliation, but Captain Marvel makes it clear that none of his family are interested in her views.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Many of the characters in The Boys are put out to realize that they don't compare to the heroes and villains of the other reality. While Homelander and A-Train are particular examples of this, Billy Butcher also tends to fall victim to this as he spends time in Gotham. He assumes that he can basically match these villains as Batman is another Badass Normal, never comprehending that Batman has training and experience that Butcher cannot match as he is handicapped by his own prejudices and ego. In the opening alone, Homelander and Stormfront are easily beaten by Faust, who is then quickly beaten by the Justice League.
• Smug Snake:
  • Stormfront firmly believes she can continue to invoke her With Us or Against Us mentality against the Justice League and rally her world against them and keep Ryan on their side. In reality, her control over them is slipping away to the point that her own smear campaign against Superman organizers turns against her and the Seven when they learn Superman's deeds and actions in his own world. At the same time, Ryan being exposed to the Justice League's families led him to become more critical of his father and her.
  • Once Homelander and Stormfront gain a Yellow Lantern Ring and the power of Shazam respectively, the duo believe that because they have powers from Earth-One, they can easily kill any member of the Justice League at will. In reality, all that happens is that they go from being on the receiving end of a Curb-Stomp Battle to a Curb Stomp Cushion. The superior experience of the Earth-One heroes allows them to take on the upgraded Stormfront and Homelander with minimal issues, and their ability to work together means that both Supes are repeatedly forced to retreat when they try to fight the League head-on.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Instead of getting dragged to death by A-Train, Blue Hawk is outed as a racist by Martian Manhunter. His popularity is destroyed, he's dropped from the Seven as an attempt to save face, and he's beat up by Green Lantern (John Stewart) when he tries to retaliate. Arguably, this is a Fate Worse than Death for him, as he valued his popularity as a hero so much.
  • Unlike canon, Becca Butcher survives to continue raising Ryan as a loving mother.
• Starter Villain: When the Justice League begins their covert work trying to clean up Vought, their first target is capturing Blue Hawk's racist patterns of behavior. A simple task with a simple dump.
• Strawman News Media: While the media in The Boys universe is under the thumb of Vought and kowtows to their interests, the DC media is very much an aversion, being willing and able to challenge the corrupt practices of the Seven.
• Strong and Skilled: This is why the Justice League are much better heroes than the Seven. While both groups have powerful members, the Justice League have fought against real threats, allowing them to hone their powers on the battlefield, while the Seven have never actually been in a real fight. Being more emotionally put together than the Seven doesn't hurt, either.
  • This is highlighted when Homelander gets access to a Yellow Lantern Ring and Stormfront gains the powers of Shazam. Despite having power boosts that put them on par with Earth-One's more powerful heroes, their lack of experience results in Stormfront and Homelander still failing to beat the Marvel family and Green Lanterns respectively, who have far more experience with their powers than the two Supes do.
• Sympathy for the Devil:
  • Sort of. Among the Seven, Wonder Woman likes Queen Maeve as she is the most moral of the team by a long shot and deserves a second chance despite being an Accomplice by Inaction at best. Unfortunately, Circe is also interested in Maeve and is trying to manipulate her to mistrust the League for her own goals. When the Seven are badly beaten by the Justice League, Maeve is the only one Annie feels sorry for. Ultimately, once Maeve is freed from Circe's influence, Diana and the Amazons make it clear that if she comes forward about Homelander, the other heroes will do their best to help her.
  • Even though he despises his attitude, Batman has a little pity for Homelander, calling him a scared little boy lashing out at the world.
• Taking You with Me: Black Noir gets his revenge on Soldier Boy by dragging through the unstable portal, which ends up bifurcating both of them.
• Taught to Hate: The Justice League (many members of whom are very protective of children) realize that Homelander and Stormfront are attempting to make Homelander's son Ryan believe the same things they do. Eventually, Robin and Superboy break Ryan out of Vought Tower and bring him to the Watch Tower, where he's reunited with his mother. The Justice League help them set up a new home where Homelander will never find them.
• Threat Backfire: When Joker reveals that he's well aware of the Flight 37 incident and intends to release the footage to the public, Homelander states that he will destroy everyone and everything if the footage gets out. Whereas the threat was enough to cow Starlight in canon, it doesn't faze Joker at all; in fact, he encourages Homelander to go on a rampage.
• Token Good Teammate:
  • Maeve is the least morally broken member of the Seven. Wonder Woman sees this and tries to help her, while Circe uses Maeve's guilt to manipulate her into her clutches.
  • Annie/Starlight is clearly this to the Boys and the Seven, to the point that Wonder Girl observes that she can see Annie being part of the Titans or the League if she'd been born on the right Earth.
• Troll: The Joker acts this way to Homelander: first by giving him a prank call and later exposing his mommy fetish to the public. While the bomb going off wasn't funny, a few people (including one of the Lanterns) thought that Joker's taunts at Homelander were pretty good.
• Ultimate Universe: The Earth One which this Justice League comes from seems to be primarily based on the comics, given that it includes more recent characters like Jon Kent or Kite Man's tragic backstory. At the same time, they include details about Superman and John Stewart's appearances which indicate influences from the movies or Justice League, while their larger organizing along with Black Canary being a therapist brings to mind Young Justice.
• Underestimating Badassery: When circumstances force the Justice League to ally with Vought during a dimensional incursion, some of their villains also follow the League through to this world, and swiftly prove to be more than the other Earth's "heroes" can handle:
  • When the Joker delivers a public broadcast calling out Homelander, Homelander assumes that a man dressed as a clown won't be a threat. The Joker proceeds to publicly expose some of Homelander's more embarrassing secrets, such as him drinking Stillwell's bottled breast milk, and tricks him into detonating a bomb full of Joker toxin that kills sixty people.
  • When A-Train tries to go after the Rogues, Captain Cold makes it clear that the Flash is more of a challenge and A-Train shouldn't assume they're easy just because they mostly use weapons rather than powers.
  • Billy Butcher, as lampshaded by Hugo Strange, seriously underestimated both Batman and his Rogues Gallery due to being blind by both his bias towards superheroes and his pride. He tries to take on Batman's foes and gets repeatedly outwitted or beaten before he's finally captured by the Dark Knight.
    • The Boys' attempt to go after Penguin and Two-Face's drug deal gets them caught by said villains, who remark that it was easy to track them down. Butcher's attempt to trick the Penguin also fails because the Penguin recognized him from the news and simply feigned ignorance to lure him into a false sense of security.
    • When The Boys attempt to go after the Scarecrow, Butcher thinks they can take him on since he has no powers and likely doesn't know how to fight, thinks he's stupid if he has no guards at the entrance, and thinks they can avoid the fear gas by holding their breath. The Scarecrow quickly outsmarts them all with a hidden trap sprung on MM, gasses Starlight when she confronts him and causes her to fight off Kimiko when she tries to calm her down (leading Kimiko to be knocked out by an ambush from Scarecrow's men while she's exhausted), has his men fire a dart with fear toxin at Hughie and knock out Butcher with a blow to the head while he's distracted by Hughie.
    • When The Boys try to sneak up on Mr. Freeze, he quickly catches them and freezes Kimiko, forcing Butcher and Hughie to retreat. When confronted by Deathstroke, Butcher tries to fight him under the logic that a Badass Normal like Batman being able to beat him means he can too (overlooking the fact that Batman has years of combat training and experience that Butcher cannot hope to match) and while his dirty fighting does allow him to last for a few minutes, he is still quickly outmatched and almost killed for his arrogance. It's because the GCPD arrive in time that Butcher survives at all, and it's because of Hughie's quick thinking that he and Kimiko are able to escape with Butcher.
    • The Boys' luck finally runs out when Batman arrives to deal with them and brings along Ace the Bat-Hound to help him apprehend them. All members of The Boys are easily apprehended by the two and they are taken to Arkham Asylum. Butcher tries to reveal Batman as Bruce Wayne to the public out of sheer spite, only for Batman to be one step ahead of him by having Martian Manhunter take on Bruce Wayne's appearance to disprove it.
  • Homelander attempts to re-assemble the Seven and "prove" their superiority by killing the next villain from the other Earth they face. However, when they confront the Legion of Doom, which consists of Grodd, Bizarro, Cheetah, Clayface, Black Manta, Giganta, and Doctor Polaris, the Seven are no match for their opponents, with Bizarro breaking both of Homelander's arms, Cheetah mauling and cutting up Maeve, Stormfront being stomped into the ground by Giganta (and losing an eye), Clayface sucking Noir into his body, Black Manta torturing and mutilating the Deep, and Grodd almost biting off A-Train's head after Doctor Polaris brutally broke his legs.
• Unholy Matrimony: Homelander and Stormfront are in love and evil superheroes who use their powers to terrorize others.
• Upbringing Makes the Hero: Discussed by Alfred when Bruce is speaking about Homelander's upbringing. Alfred feels that their world will be forever indebted to Jonathan and Martha Kent for raising Superman.
• Vigilante Injustice: The Boys’ attempt to be vigilantes in Gotham City make them far more of a threat to themselves and the citizens than they are to the supervillains plaguing Gotham. This is why the Bat Family and the GCPD work to apprehend them as well.
• Vigilante Man: Deconstructed with The Boys. While they certainly can take on Supes in their world, the more experienced supervillains of Gotham City are on a whole different level for them, and they almost end up getting themselves killed several times trying to confront them. Their actions also make them a threat to public safety, which is why the GCPD and the Bat Family try to apprehend them. Hugo Strange even lampshades that The Boys were better off letting the experts handle things instead of trying to take matters into their own hands, since for all their faults, the GCPD and Bat Family at least have experience dealing with villains.
• Villainous Friendship: As in canon, Stan Edgar's relationship with Noir is one of mutual respect. Stan gives him the chance to go underground while he still can after he loses control of Soldier Boy and to protect Noir from Homelander's wrath.
• Villain Takes an Interest: Waller took an interest in The Boys as they share the same distrust of superheroes and had been known to get results in their universe. Once they are finally in custody in her universe, she rapidly adds them to her Task Force X.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Homelander (and the Seven) is lauded as a shining paragon of American virtue. Despite knowing about his true nature, the Justice League can't do anything about him since his reputation makes it too dangerous to move against him when he still has the population's support. His support is so strong that even after his defeat, the public from Earth-Seven's America insists on blaming the Justice League, who just saved Homelander and the Seven, for Homelander nearly being killed.
  • Funnily enough, the Joker is the one who starts to take away Homelander's popularity, as it was the release of the invokedmilk video and the following bomb incident that shook people's faith in him.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: When Soldier Boy learns that Homelander is his son, he makes it clear in their next conversation that he considers Homelander pathetic, further devastating the already-unstable man.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The final chapter ends with a one year Time Skip to explain what the Boys are up to after the final battle.
  • Stan Edgar and Vought (now renamed Victory) have managed to recreate Luthor's V-24 formula (minus the mind control nanites), though they're fully out of the superhero market.
  • Maeve has gone into directing, and is currently working on a movie about Vought's founding by a Nazi.
  • During a live interview about Godolkin U.'s future, Prof. Brink is arrested in a raid by Mallory and the remaining Boys. During the raid, Luke, Cate, and Andre are De Powered, Dr. Cardosa is killed by Kimiko, and Luke and Sam are reunited.
  • Becca is reconnecting with her parents, while Ryan is considering become a superhero one day.
  • MM has reconnected with his wife, while Frenchie and Kimiko are starting to settle down.
  • On Earth-One, a show is made chronicling the adventures of the Boys.
  • Hughie, his father, and Annie have settled down on Earth-One (Hughie having to take a plea bargain and spend 4 months in a minimum security facility), with Hughie taking a job at the Hall of Justice.
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?:
  • One of Two Face's mooks wonders why they don't shoot Stormfront dead, but Two-Face angrily insists on following the coin toss.
  • Annie asks Wonder Woman why she and the rest of the Justice League don't just take down Homelander despite him being leagues below them in power. Wonder Woman replies his popularity and respect make him untouchable without hard evidence.
  • After their "battle" with the Seven, Black Manta asks why the other members of the Legion of Doom didn't kill the hero they fought. Dr. Polaris remarks that they can take the time to toy with them, unlike with the Justice League before pointing out that Black Manta didn't kill his opponent either (who simply retorts that the Deep's organs aren't in the usual places).
• Wild Card: Amanda Waller is neither a reformer like the Justice League nor an exploiter per se like the other supervillains. Rather, she just wants to gain a few key assets from Earth 7 and leave it at that.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: Characters from Earth Seven immediately assume that the new heroes fit in with what they expect from their own "heroes".
  • Butcher immediately starts operating on the assumption that the Justice League is just like the Seven and continues to make mistakes from there, anticipating threats that don't exist and underestimating the local villains.
  • The Deep suggests that he and A-Train apply to join the Justice League, assuming they’re just a new group set up by Vought rather than realize where the new heroes really come from.
• You and What Army?:
  • Sort of. Felix Faust warns Superman over opposing him, a master of magic. Superman insists he didn't come alone, and soon the entire Justice League pounces on Felix.
  • Batman invokes this to Stormfront while confronting her white supremacist leanings. Stormfront considers killing him, only for Batman to ask her what she'll tell the League if she knocks him off. Stormfront backs off and walks away shaking.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Stan Edgar decides Homelander is a liability and plans to off him with V24 infused soldiers.
• Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: In her Scarecrow-induced hallucination, Annie is mortified when Homelander congratulates her for killing and says it would make her fit right in as a member of the Seven.

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