The Boys/Characters

The Boys

Billy Butcher

• All a Part of the Job: Besides wanting to take out The Homelander, this is the reason he joined, remained with and reformed The Boys. Billy loves nothing more than getting an opportunity to maim or murder a superhero.
• Anti-Hero: Type V.
• Badass Abnormal: Granted super-strength through Compound V like all members of The Boys, but is otherwise normal.
• Badass Longcoat: Standard issue uniform for The Boys.
• Berserk Button: Superheroes, period. To the point where Billy was ready to assault Superduper because one of their members, The Klanker, accidentally called him a "fucking cunt" due to his Tourette's Syndrome.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Like you wouldn't fucking believe. Abusive dad, fighting in the Falklands, losing his wife via rape-induced pregnancy and premature birth of a super-fetus...Butcher has a Dark And Troubled LIFE.
• Fake American: Something he does in case he needs to fool someone, although he admits his Yank accent is crap.
• He Who Fights Monsters: Played with; he admits this about himself in Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker. Billy was well on his way to being a violent sociopath until he met his wife Becky. Once she died, Mallory set him back on the fast-track to this by recruiting him into The Boys.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Comes off as this if you're feeling generous.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Comes off like this if you're not.
• Manipulative Bastard: Played with. He will say or do anything it takes to to get the results he wants. When it comes to recruiting Wee Hughie he's no different, but he does seem to have genuine affection for him although that doesn't stop him from plotting to use Hughie as a soldier and a way into The Seven via Starlight.
• Morality Pet: Has a literal one in Terror.
• Noble Bigot: Constantly mocks gays and transgenders, calls Americans "Septics" (Septic Tank = Yank) and refers to Chinese food as "Chinky", but is (arguably) one of the good guys nonetheless.
• Poisonous Friend: When he begins to suspect Hughie of being a spy for The Seven after catching him with Annie outside the Flatiron, he immediately hatches a plan to keep Hughie out of the way by sending him to monitor Superduper after Malchemical joins their ranks.
• Spot of Tea: Butcher's partial to a nice cup of tea.

"When you're done we can go in and you can have your girl make me a nice cuppa tea. Proper tea, Monkey. Not that shit with a fuckin' tampon string in it you Septics think is tea."

—Billy Butcher, The Boys "The Name of The Game."

• Tranquil Fury: Displays this when he goes off to murder Jack From Jupiter when he thinks Jack killed his dog Terror.

Wee Hughie

• Dating Catwoman: Has no idea that Annie is Starlight and a member of The Seven. For a while, anyway. He doesn't take it well when he finds out.
• The Heart
• Ignored Epiphany: Turns his back on Starlight and leaves her despite knowing that it's the wrong thing to do. He later changes his mind though.
• Kid Detective/Snooping Little Kid: As a child.
• The Mole: Goes undercover investigating G-Whiz. Butcher also later sends him to infiltrate Super Duper, while simultaneously trying to see if Hughie is actually a mole planted inside the Boys.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: Thanks to Compound V.
• Naive Newcomer: Arrives naive; Butcher makes sure this doesn't last long.
• Reluctant Warrior: Flip-flops between this and lashing out violently when facing Supes.
• Token Good Teammate

Mother's Milk

• Afro Asskicker
• Good Is Not Nice: At all. Well, if you're a Supe. Otherwise he's pleasant to be around.
• The Reliable One: Butcher specifically cites him as the guy holding the group together, he's the best investigator/detective of the group, and once Mallory was gone, the only sane one before Hughie was brought on.

The Frenchman

• Shame If Something Happened: How he gets the Mafia to cancel their current and future contracts with The Female.

The Female (of the Species)

• Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: Said "basic skill" being not having the urge to kill at all times.

Greg D. Mallory

• Fake Brit: When following Hughie back in Scotland after he leaves The Boys temporarily.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: Not forever, but a very long time thanks to Compound V. Or at least until he's presumably killed by an off-panel assailant.

The Legend

The Seven

The Homelander

• A God Am I
• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Superman.
• Ax Crazy
• Beware the Superman
• Eats Babies: Although this only happened once that we know of. And as it turned out it wasn't him.
• Fake Ultimate Hero: As the Muller family finds out to their peril.
• Flying Brick
• Lack of Empathy
• Nice Character, Mean Actor: Possibly the shining example in the series. Homelander is an expert at putting up an appealing front to mask his psychotic and megalomaniacal tendencies.
• Politically-Incorrect Villain: After The Deep punches out the windshield on the plane they're trying to rescure on 9/11, he says: "Oh, fucking nigger! Fucking Nigger!"
• Shaggy Dog Story: He decides to become an amoral Ubermensch because he thinks he has already killed and raped some innocent people, even though he has no memory of that happening. Turns out the reason he can't remember those things is that he didn't do them, it was Black Noir, his clone.
• Smug Super: The root of all his self-aggrandizing, homicidal, and sociopathic behavior. Homelander likes to play "Hot or Cold" by reading the subject's body temperature and heart rate while taunting them about the things he's done to them or their loved ones.
• The Sociopath
• Superpower Lottery: Is considered the strongest Supe on the planet, and for good reason.
• Ubermensch: In his own mind, anyway.
• Villainous Breakdown: Stillwell seems to instigate these the most with him.
• Villain with Good Publicity
• Wearing a Flag on Your Head

Queen Maeve

• The Alcoholic: The 9/11 disaster took a huge toll on her and seemed to loss all the passion she once had for her job, turning to drink as a result. Now she doesn't care at all about world affairs "as long as she's got enough gin inside her".
• Alternate Company Equivalent: of Wonder Woman.
• Deadpan Snarker
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Slowly but surely.
• Defector From Decadence: With Starlight, or at least she tries to, before Homelander decapitates her.
• Empty Shell: "I just want to live inside myself."
• The Hedonist: Sleeps with bodybuilders two at a time when she isn't downing gallons of alcohol.
• Heroic Sacrifice: She helped Starlight to escape from The Seven's HQ after Homelander showed up to kill them both just for kicks
• The Mole: Is the source of info for The Boys.
• Off With Her Head: Homelander effortlessly punched her head off her shoulders
• Selfish Good, Selfish Evil: Prefers to think of herself as Neutral Selfish, and mostly is, until Starlight comes along.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Starlight. Mauve seemed to be in good terms with her, despite both of them openly stating that they don't like each other very much.

Black Noir

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Batman. And of Superboy.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: Even the other members of The Seven are scared of him, excluding Homelander, obviously. And Queen Maeve.
• The Quiet One: Has only spoken in one instance, and that's when he was at Herogasm and shoved his thumb up Wee Hughie's ass, saying "Good soldier, good soldier." after catching him.
• Let's Get Dangerous: Threatens Starlight when she refuses to accept her new makeover and origin.
• The Reveal: He's a Homelander clone, and behind most of his atrocities, including raping Butcher's wife.
  • Worse: The fact that Homelander thought he was doing those deeds himself and couldn't remember it wrecked such havoc with his brain that he, as Butcher put it, basically turned into 'a complete fucking psychopath by accident.'
  • Oh, and the entire reason for his existence is that he's the only supe with the power to end The Homelander. Not being given permission to do so is what sent him completely insane.

The Deep

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Aquaman.
• Butt Monkey
• Enemy Mine: Suggests the Boys and the Seven do this after they're set up to wipe each other out. Everyone around him treats him like an idiot for it.
• The Faceless: His face is almost always covered up by his old time diving helmet.
• Flat Character: Has the less screentime and characterization of all The Seven. Probably Ennis commenting on Aquaman's (lack of) relevance in the grand scheme of things.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Facing the impeding war with The Boys courtesy of the Homelander he left the The Seven's HQ, advising A-Train to take his copy of the Seven's merchandising contract and lay low.
• Token Minority: "The least black black man on the planet" as described by Jack from Jupiter.

Jack From Jupiter

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Martian Manhunter.
• The Hedonist: Likes to shoot heroin cut with Queen Maeve's vaginal mucus.
• Fetish: For pre-op transsexual prostitutes.
• Only Sane Man: Tries to talk down A-Train and The Lamplighter from doing stupid things, to varying degrees of success.
• Politically-Incorrect Villain: "Fuck off, Wonder-Tits! So what's gonna happen to me now, am I gonna get exiled? Me and the nigger from Teenage Kix, and Michael Fucking Richards?"

A-Train

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Wally West.
• Attempted Rape: Tried to get his way with Starlight. Got temporary blinded in one eye for his troubles.
• Catch Phrase: "Can't stop the A-Train--!"
• Off with His Head!: Hughie kicked his head off after hearing him talking about Starlight.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Facing the impeding war with The Boys courtesy of the Homelander he left the The Seven's HQ, saying "I am gonna check into the Mandarin, chill for a couple weeks."

Starlight

• The Pollyanna: for all of a few pages. Then she meets Homelander, A-Train, and Black Noir. It's all downhill from there.

The Lamplighter

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Hal Jordan
• Ax Crazy
• Came Back Wrong: returned as a braindead zombie prone to soil himself. Currently locked up somewhere in The Seven's HQ where the other supers took turns cleaning his mess.
• Complete Monster: Murdered Mallory's granddaughters as revenge for being blackmailed by The Boys.
• Villainous Breakdown: Did not take the news that The Boys were going to blackmail The Seven over their 9/11 rescue catastrophe well at all, so he murdered Mallory's granddaughters as revenge.

Mister Marathon

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Barry Allen

Vought-American

James Stillwell, the Unnamed Vought-American Executive

• Repeat What You Just Said: When Jimmy The One accidentally spills the beans about Homelander's plan to take over the government going into effect.
• The Unfettered: To degree so frightening that it disturbs even the members of The Seven, who could obliterate him with no effort.

Jess Bradley

• Only Sane Man: Was the first person in years since 9/11 to even suggest that it might not be worth training Black Noir to fly a plane because of his unpredictable nature.

United States Government

Robert "Dakota Bob" Schafer

• Reasonable Authority Figure: To a degree. The protagonists never directly interact with him, but he certainly comes off as cool, competent, albeit probably a little ruthless.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money: His solution to the problem the real life US has with bombing/attacking Pakistan is solved by him bribing the Pakistani government into letting the US do whatever it wants.

Susan L. Rayner

• Slap Slap Kiss: With Butcher. Except the "Kiss" part is vigorous hate-sex.

Kessler, A.K.A "Monkey"

• A Date with Rosie Palms: He was "in the act" during his introduction.
• Attempted Rape: He tried to assault a paraplegic former athlete. She started kicking his ass and then Butcher intervened.
• Butt Monkey: Being nickmaned "Monkey" could be seen as a unnintentional Lampshade Hanging. Then he became this literaly, after being raped by Terror under Butcher's command.
  • Then there's where he got the nickname in the first place. Which is to say, getting skull-fucked in both ears by monkeys.
• Fetish: He seems to have a thing for female paraplegics, which led to the events described above.

Victor K. "Vic the Veep" Neuman

• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Try mixing Arnold Schwarzenegger with Dan Quayle's personality, George W. Bush's speech pattern, and someone with Down's Syndrome, and you have Vic.
• Ralph Wiggum: Playing fetch with his dog is beyond his mental capacity.

Teenage Kix

Big Game

Shout Out

Dogknott

Popclaw

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of X-23.

Blarney Cock

Whack Job

Gunpowder

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Judge Dredd.

Jetstreak

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Possibly of Bart Allen.

Payback

Stormfront

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Thor.
• Those Wacky Nazis
• The Worf Effect: He's built up as a Supe nearly on The Homelander's level, but the good guys don't have much of a problem with him once they start ganging up on him.

Soldier Boy

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Captain America (comics).
• Dirty Coward
• Fake Ultimate Hero
• Legacy Character: Although almost nobody knows about it, he's not the first Soldier Boy.

Tek-Knight

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Mostly of Batman, although there's some Iron Man mixed in too.
• Anything That Moves: Thanks to a tumor "the size of a fist" in his brain, he feels the urge to have sex with the closest thing to him.

Laddio

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Robin.

Crimson Countess

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of The Scarlet Witch.

Mind-Droid

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of The Vision.
• Ridiculously-Human Robots: Subverted, as he's actually a human. Strangely, he is depicted with cyborg genitals in the Herogasm mini-series.

Swatto

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Ant-Man.
• The Unintelligible: Never says anything except "BZZZZZZ!", to Soldier Boy's dismay.

The G-Men Franchise

John Goldokin

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Charles Xavier.
• He Knows Too Much: Goldokin has no problem in ordering the death of his "beloved" students if there's a risk for his dark secret of being exposed.
• I Love the Dead: He wishes his dead students could come back to life, even after witnessing what happened to Nubia

Silver Kincaid

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Jean Grey.
• Driven to Suicide: Killing Nubia under Goldokin's orders was too much for her.

Five-Oh

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Cyclops.

Coldsnap

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Iceman.
• An Ice Person
• Only Sane Man: The only member of the G-Men to question his role in maintaining the group's status quo.

Critter

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of The Beast.
• Politically-Incorrect Villain: Constantly using homophobic slurs against Divine and Flamer, mocks members of G-Coast and G-Style for basically being black stereotypes incarnate.

Groundhawk

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Wolverine.
• Catch Phrase: "Gonna!"
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Implied to have one, not unlike his inspiration.
• The Unintelligible: Only says his Catch Phrase

Europo

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Nightcrawler.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Talks about how Silver Kincaid "Shaaaaaaaved her genitals!"...at her funeral.

Nubia

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Storm.
• And I Must Scream: "Kill me"
• Came Back Wrong: As an Empty Shell with a death wish
• Token Minority
  • Black Girl Dies First

Divine

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Angel.
• Camp Gay
• Deadpan Snarker: Pretty much anything he has to say to Critter results in this.

Flamer

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Possibly of Sunfire.
• Required Secondary Powers: Possibly subverted, seeing how he was covered in scars.

Superduper

Auntie Sis

• Team Mom: Pretty much the only thing holding the group together, but she doesn't seem bitter about it.

Bobby Badoing

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Possibly of Bouncing Boy
• Big Eater: Constantly eating something, likely due to his powers.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Has the ability to be really fat and...bounce.

Black Hole

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Possibly of Matter-Eater Lad
• Big Eater: Tries and fails at this when he eats an entire serving of ice cream, spoon, container and all.
• Power Incontinence: After his mishap eating ice cream with his powers, he's out of commission for the rest of The Innocents arc.

Klanker

• Cluster F-Bomb: Due to his Tourette's Syndrome.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: He can turn into random useless metal objects.

Kid Camo

Flat Character: Has the least interaction out of all of Superduper.

Ladyfold

• Blessed with Suck: In her own opinion, and rightfully so: "Powers? What kind of power is this, for goodness' sake? I mean what happens, do I just keep going until once a month I'm producing some kind of menstrual sausage--?"

Stoolshadow

• Power Incontinence: Constantly walks into walls, assuming she has control over her phasing powers at the time.

Malchemical

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Metamorpho.
• Attempted Rape: Of the female members of Superduper. Fortunately for them he's stopped by Hughie and Butcher.
• Depraved Bisexual: Threatens to rape Wee Hughie to death.
• Manipulative Bastard: Got kicked out of Team Titanic for impersonating the leader and having sex with his girlfriend.
• Smug Super: Nearly on The Homelander's level of smugness.

Other Characters

Janine

• Bratty Half-Pint
• Freudian Excuse
• Younger Than They Look

Swingwing

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Nightwing. The resemblance was far closer when he first appeared on-panel, but he abruptly became a blond in the next issue.
• Nice Character, Mean Actor: Big time. Though "Mean Actor" is a bit of an understatement, considering when Swingwing was actually "mean" he pushed a young gay man off of a roof who had confessed his love to him.

Vas, "The Love Sausage"

• Biggus Dickus: Huge.
• Gag Penis: He's stopped by his own erection while chasing one of Little Nina's henchmen through a strip club.
• Gargle Blaster: Makes his own alcohol with freaking break fluid.
• Husky Russkie
• Large Ham

Oh Father

• Pedophile Priest: Implied by The Homelander that he rapes his wards, the Sidekick Twelve.
• Scary Black Man
• Villainous Breakdown: When he is confronted by the media asking for a statement on the leaked medical documents that confirm he rapes his sidekicks.

Doc Peculiar

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Doctor Strange.
• Silent Bob: Expresses himself exclusively with weird hand gestures and strange facial expressions.

Team Titanic

• Alternate Company Equivalent: Of Teen Titans.
• Quirky Miniboss Squad: they get hired to protect the Big Bad and his Dragon.