History Recap / TheBoysDiabolicalS1E02AnAnimatedShort

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Some of the kids' bizarre powers turn out to be very useful.

** Boombox has a speaker for a head that only plays Music/HootieAndTheBlowfish. It’s still useful for sonic attacks.
** Fang has teeth that can cut through almost anything. They take up most of her face and she’s hard to understand, but they're still useful.

* TragicIntangibility: Ghost. Her intagibility makes her unable to eat, wear clothes or to do anything remotely related to living a normal life.

** Kingdom can turn into any animal. Unfortunately, he transforms body AND mind, so he’s not going to remember things like strategies. But if he douses his targets with blood before turning into a carnivore…

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Some of the kids’ bizarre powers turn out to be very useful.

** Fang has teeth that can cut through almost anything. They take up most of her face and she’s hard to understand, but they’re still useful.

* InteractiveNarrator: One resident of the Red River group home has the ability to narrate what is going on. He serves as the episode’s narrator.

* NeverMyFault: Ghost’s parents abandon her at the group home on the grounds that it isn’t their job to clean up Vought’s mistakes, conveniently ignoring the fact that THEY had her injected with Compound V to begin with so they could get rich off a famous superhero child.

* DirtyCoward: Several of the parents pathetically cower and beg for their lives when confronted by their rightfully disgruntled children. All their pleas fall upon deaf ears.

* EvilCripple: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed;]] one of Kingdom's dads is implied to have sleep apnea, as he's seen wearing a CPAP mask in bed.

* ElectrifiedBathtub: Aqua Agua's parents are killed when their child poses as their hot tub water and the other supes dump a radio in.

** Homelander butchers the Superkids and gets away with it.

* DirtyCoward: Some of the parents pathetically cower and beg for their lives when confronted by their rightfully disgruntled children. All their pleas fall upon deaf ears.

* DirtyCoward: Some of the parents have the gall to cower and beg for their lives when confronted by their rightfully disgruntled children. All their pleas fall upon deaf ears.

* HasTwoMommies: Kingdom is shown to have two fathers.

* SelfMadeOrphan: It says it all in the title.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: Flashback and Picante Balls hug each other right before Homelander rips them apart with his eye-beams.

** Ghost is completely intangible. She is unable to eat or feel anything and she cannot interact physically with anyone. However, she is able to walk though walls and survive attacks from powerhouses like Homelander.

* ManBitesMan: Fang kills her father by biting his throat out.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: After they find their families's locations, the protagonists work together to get their revenge for being abandoned.

** Kingdom can [[{{Shapeshifting}} transform into any animal he wants]], but his mind also transforms into that of the animal he choose, which means he can't control his animal forms, thus making his power marginally useful in situations in which he can count on his animal form instincts.

** Ghost has Intangibility, which gives her the ability to pass through walls and gives her NighInvulnerability to the point that even Homelander can't do anything against her. However, the fact that she's ''always'' intangible doesn't only means that her powers are useless in combat, but she also can't even live a normal life because of it.
** Kingdom can [[Shapeshifting transform into any animal he wants]], but his mind also transforms into that of the animal he choose, which means he can't control his animal forms, thus making his power marginally useful in situations in which he can count on his animal form instincts.

** Ghost is intengible, which gives her the ability to pass through walls and gives her NighInvulnerability to the point that even Homelander can't do anything against her. However, the fact that she's ''always'' intangible doesn't only means that her powers are useless in combat, but she also can't even live a normal life because of it.
** Kingdom can transform into any animal he wants, but his mind also transforms into that of the animal he choose, which means he can't control his animal forms, thus making his power marginally useful in situations in which he can count on his animal form instincts.

** Ghost is intengible, which gives her the ability to pass through walls and makes her NighInvulnerability to the point that even Homelander can't do anything against her. However, the fact that she's ''always'' intangible doesn't only means that her powers are useless in combat, but she also can't even live a normal life because of it.

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: The moment the Supe teens see Homelander, they realized they were going to die in a garage.