The Boys/YMMV

• Anvilicious
• Complete Monster: Homelander, later issues might be trying to give him a troubled past and present insecurities, still nothing can redeem a ruthless rapist, baby & heart eater, and more recently a man who likes to incinerate airliners with his heat vision and drop cars from above the clouds, with a family in it. The man is basically Captain Hero not played for laughs.
  • As of issue 65, he's actually a slight subversion. He certainly has crossed the Moral Event Horizon multiple times, but it turns out that he didn't exactly get to this point on his own. In fact, as shown below...
  • Malchemical runs off this slippery slope at full speed, with absolutely zero remorse, and is stopped just before he gets to rape little girls. It's a running theme that people with sufficient superpowers to get away with it will end up becoming as close to this trope as makes no difference.
  • With the revelation in Issue 65, Black Noir clearly is this, considering that he committed most of the atrocities attributed to Homelander and manipulated him into becoming 'a complete fucking psychopath by accident,' to quote Butcher.
• Crossing the Line Twice: Almost every issue.
• Fridge Horror: When Tek-Knight sent Laddio away to visit all the other superteams in a effort to keep himself from involuntarily raping the boy, he explicitly said to even visit the G-Men and all their spin-off teams. We never see Laddio again after that.
• High Octane Nightmare Fuel: Issue 63: Homelander's face after he kills Queen Maeve and has Annie in his sights as a possible next target
• Moral Event Horizon: Homelander settled himself in the Believe arc, issue 46, The Muller family had just won the BELIEVE meeting prizes, a new shining car and a dinner with Homelander, the hero was kind enough to take the car and family flying to their reserved tables; that was what the family thought, the "Superhero" took the Mullers for their final ride as he dropped the car, already above the clouds with the family screaming in fear, in cold blood while reveling that the BELIEVE meeting was just a farce.
  • Then there was that time with him eating babies and hearts, laughing no less...
    • As of issue 65, the above was a subversion. That was Black Noir.
• Narm: Frequently played straight in-universe.
• Squick
• Wangst: Played with; many's the time that Wee Hughie's basically been told to shut the fuck up, stop moaning about things and just get over it by the other characters, and he does display a tendency to mope about and wallow in self-pity over the problems in his life. Then again, a lot of the people who are telling him this are themselves homicidal borderline-sociopaths who find it unsettlingly easy to shrug off various atrocities, so they probably aren't the best examples to follow in terms of getting in touch with your emotions.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: In Butcher's case, Played With. He wasn't exactly a nice guy early in his life. But he gradually became a better person when he met his wife, Becky. Then she got raped by Homelander, really Black Noir. And then she died when the child crawled out of her womb. He's implied to have Death Seeker tendencies, and in issue 65 after Black Noir and Homelander are dead, he admits, with tears in his eyes, that Becky would loath what he has become.
  • Ironically enough, as of issue 65, Homelander, of all people, may count. Throughout the series, we see him cross the Moral Event Horizon multiple times. And yet it turns out that he only got to this point because of atrocities he thought he committed, believing that he was far beyond saving. In truth, Black Noir, who turns out to be his clone, committed several of these crimes (including the baby eating) in an attempt to get Homelander to the point where he could perform his purpose: to kill Homelander.