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The Boys (2019)

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The Boys (2019)	comment	The Boys is a television series airing on Prime Video and helmed by Eric Kripke of Supernatural fame, based on Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's comic book of the same name. It premiered on July 26, 2019 and has run for three seasons. A week after Season 3's premiere in June 2022, it was renewed for a fourth season, which is expected to premiere on June 13, 2024.The series takes place in a world where superhuman "Supes" are their own subset of celebrity culture, where they embrace all the darker aspects of having wealth and fame while enjoying the public view of them as paragons. The major caveat is that these super"heroes" are primarily a marketing tool exploited by Vought International, who go to extreme lengths to cover up their violence and decadence as they maximize profits. The story revolves around a group of vigilantes known loosely as "The Boys" who set out to take down corrupt superheroes with their blue-collar grit and willingness to fight dirty, all the while uncovering deeper secrets of Vought's history.The cast includes Karl Urban as Billy Butcher, Elisabeth Shue as Madelyn Stillwell, Erin Moriarty as Starlight, Antony Starr as Homelander, Dominique McElligott as Queen Maeve, Jessie T. Usher as A-Train, Chace Crawford as The Deep, Nathan Mitchell as Black Noir, Laz Alonso as Mother's Milk, Jack Quaid as "Wee" Hughie Campbell, Karen Fukuhara as Kimiko/"The Female", Tomer Kapon as Frenchie, Jennifer Esposito as CIA Agent Susan Raynor, and Simon Pegg as Hughie's father. Season 2 adds Aya Cash as Stormfront and Giancarlo Esposito as Vought CEO Stan Edgar (who appears in a cameo in Season 1). Season 3 adds Jensen Ackles as the "original superhero" Soldier Boy.Spinoffs: An animated anthology spinoff titled The Boys: Diabolical consisting of eight episodes was released in March 2022, sometime before season three of the main series. A second spinoff, Gen V, was announced in September 2020 and released on September 29, 2023. It is set at a Vought-operated college for young adult supes who compete with one another for sponsorships and notoriety. It is loosely inspired by the G-Men of the comics, who in turn were based on Marvel's X-Men. A third spinoff, set in Mexico City and spoken entirely in Spanish, was reported to be in development in November 2023.Other Media: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II: Starlight, Homelander and Black Noir appear as playable Multiplayer and Warzone operators as part of Season Four Reloaded DLC. Mortal Kombat 1: Homelander appears as a playable Downloadable Content Guest Fighter to be released in early 2024.
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The Boys (2019) / int_108c268e	type	Hotter and Sexier
The Boys (2019) / int_108c268e	comment	Starlight is made to wear a Hotter and Sexier costume, and in a public appearance she has to deal with perverts catcalling her as she bends over for a picture with a little girl.
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The Boys (2019) / int_113480b7	type	Canon Foreigner
The Boys (2019) / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: There are many characters added to the show who were not present in the comics, including Translucent (who replaces Jack from Jupiter in The Seven), Ezekiel (who replaces Oh Father), Mesmer, Doppelganger, Cherie (Frenchie's girlfriend), Starlight's mother (who was only briefly mentioned in the comics), and Ashley Barret. Season 2 adds Kenji, Alistair Adana and the Church of the Collective, and Cindy. Season 3 introduces Termite, Blue Hawk, The TNT Twins and Mindstorm.
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The Boys (2019) / int_120d0e3f	type	Adam Westing
The Boys (2019) / int_120d0e3f	comment	Adam Westing: Billy Zane appears as himself in a low-budget exploitation movie and again at a convention signing autographs. Tara Reid also appears as herself, waiting at an empty booth for someone to request an autograph while holding her lap dog.
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The Boys (2019) / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
The Boys (2019) / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Translucent, Popclaw, Mesmer and Madelyn Stillwell in the first season. Naqib, Susan Raynor, Kenji, Doppelganger, Lamplighter, Dr. Vogelbaum, Shockwave, Rebecca Butcher and Alastair Adana in the second season. Stormfront, Gunpowder, Swatto, Supersonic, Crimson Countess, The TNT Twins, Blue Hawk, Termite, Mindstorm, and Black Noir in the third season.
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The Boys (2019) / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
The Boys (2019) / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: Happens a lot, since capes are assholes, even in the first episode.
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The Boys (2019) / int_146e133b	type	Tamer and Chaster
The Boys (2019) / int_146e133b	comment	Tamer and Chaster: Compared to the comics, which had large amounts of sex and nudity, while the show has little of both (though it does include Male Frontal Nudity courtesy of Translucent). When eventually a remotely comparable amount of sex and nudity shows up onscreen, the episode opens with a Content Warning.
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The Boys (2019) / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The Boys (2019) / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Than all the other superhero movies out there. Certainly darker than the MCU, and even darker than the DCEU, which mostly at least tries to stick to Thou Shalt Not Kill. In the first episode alone, one member of The Seven covers a man's hand in molten iron, another accidentally kills a woman and doesn't care, a third tries to kill two civilians, a fourth rapes a fifth on her first day on the team, and the first one kills a man, his son, and the crew of his private plane to keep company secrets.
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The Boys (2019) / int_1713b00a	type	Your Head A-Splode
The Boys (2019) / int_1713b00a	comment	Your Head Asplode: Popclaw accidentally crushes her landlord's while he gives her oral sex, with his brain shown getting squirted out. Homelander crushes some poor criminal's head in his hand until it pops. This is Victoria Neuman's superpower, allowing her to do this to anyone in her line of sight. It's not limited to the victim's head - the first episode of season 3 shows that she can do this to any part of a person's body, even the entire body itself - but she seems to prefer the head, presumably as it kills the victim instantly. In the Season 3 finale, a protestor throws a drink at Ryan and calls Homelander a fascist. Homelander responds by lasering his head into an explosive pulp.
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The Boys (2019) / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
The Boys (2019) / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The show's site on Amazon reveals a few tidbits about the characters; Butcher was in the SAS, and MM is out to avenge his father's death (both details that eventually end up coming out in Season 2).
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The Boys (2019) / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
The Boys (2019) / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: The trailers implied that "The Boys" was an official group dedicated to keeping Supes in line, as they are in the comics. In the show, they are not official at all and are acting of their own initiative without any police or government clearance, although Billy does tell Hugh that he works for the FBI when they first meet (later implied to be former CIA, and was quickly burning bridges doing this independent work).
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The Boys (2019) / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
The Boys (2019) / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Several characters from the comics are name-checked but have yet to make an appearance. They include the majority of Teenage Kix, and the G-Men. Lamplighter is mentioned numerous times over the first season. Most notably, he's the superhero whom Starlight is replacing on the Seven. While we see a few depictions of him, he never actually shows up in person, and it's never made clear why he left. At one point the Boys vaguely mention an operation involving him that left Mallory's grandchildren dead. "The Bloody Doors Off" reveals that he was Reassigned to Antarctica and now used as an orderly that incinerates unstable Compound V test subjects.
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The Boys (2019) / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Boys (2019) / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Any normal person killed by a Supe qualifies. A-Train runs right into Robin in episode 1, leaving nothing but a puddle of goo. Then there's Popclaw bursting her landlord's head with her thighs as he's giving her oral sex, and Termite, who inadvertently returns to his regular size while inside another guy's penis. Note that these are only the accidental murders - Supes can be even nastier when doing it on purpose. When The Female escapes from her cage, after seeing what she did to the other guards the last guard Ate His Gun rather than suffer the same fate. Homelander scares the living hell out of Stillwell simply by holding her baby. When he gets her to admit that she's scared of him, he thanks her, kisses her, and then zaps her right in the face. Several characters in Season 2 have their heads suddenly explode by a mysterious assassin, including Raynor, Vogelbaum, Shockwave and several others at the hearing. This turns out to be the work of Congresswoman Victoria Neuman, who may or may not be a Vought spy, considering everyone of note who had their head exploded was on the verge of revealing Vought secrets. A-Train shows exactly how intentionally dangerous he can be when he grabs Blue Hawk by the ankle and drags him down the highway at super speed, leaving him a ground-up, bloody mess.
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The Boys (2019) / int_1eb49c19	type	Stripperiffic
The Boys (2019) / int_1eb49c19	comment	Stripperiffic: Starlight's homemade costume is more of a warrior queen design with a long skirt, shoulder pads, and a cape. When she joins The Seven their marketing team redesigns her costume to be a backless leotard with a deep cleavage cut. She is not happy with it, and later encourages a young fan cosplaying her original design to not shell out money for the new one.
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The Boys (2019) / int_1fdc1aa	type	See the Invisible
The Boys (2019) / int_1fdc1aa	comment	See the Invisible: When Billy fights Translucent at Hughie's hardware store, he spits Blood from the Mouth into Translucent's face in order to get an idea of his opponent's position.
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The Boys (2019) / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
The Boys (2019) / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: The Deep in the comics is a minor character bordering on Advertised Extra and is only guilty of being a member of the Seven and going along with Homelander's plan. In the show, he is a serial sexual harasser. Notably, he's the only one involved in Starlight's "final test," while in the comics he's one of the two males in the Seven who didn't take part. Somehow, Vought is presented as being more evil than they were in the comics. In the comics, even though they were a highly corrupt corporation, their attempts to push the wider adoption of Supes was limited to political power plays and appealing to public opinion. In the series, however, it is revealed that Vought uses their Supes to outright blackmail and even assassinate politicians who don't play ball with them. They're also revealed to be smuggling Compound V to terrorist groups in a bid to convince the US armed forces to adopt Supes through false flag operations. While that was later revealed to be all Homelander's plan, Stillwell is ecstatic when she hears about it, almost saying she wishes it had been her plan. The Supes' assorted damages are also portrayed as the result of Vought's corporate exploitation of them.
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The Boys (2019) / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Boys (2019) / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: The show is filled with gory and graphic black humor from Transluscent getting blown into gibs from an internal bomb to Mother's Milk getting garroted by an elongated super penis.
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The Boys (2019) / int_225d4412	type	PlayedStraight
The Boys (2019) / int_225d4412	comment	Played Straight in Season 3 with Little Nina's blatant sexual harassment of Frenchie in every interaction they have. It is heavily sexualized and never called-out the way the Deep and Homelander's harassment of women is. The fact that Nina was Frenchie's employer also means that their previous sexual relationship was most likely unconsenting, which is also not discussed in any way.
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The Boys (2019) / int_22cf50f9	type	Chekhov's Gag
The Boys (2019) / int_22cf50f9	comment	Chekhov's Gag: The Seven make a number of jokes about Deep wanting to have sex with dolphins, which he vehemently denies. Based on his later conversations with the dolphin he tries to rescue, it appears The Seven were correct.
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The Boys (2019) / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
The Boys (2019) / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: The show gives much larger roles to The Seven beyond Homelander and Starlight. The other team members had little character development in the comics (particularly the Deep and A-Train).
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The Boys (2019) / int_23a1e2a9	type	Adaptation Deviation
The Boys (2019) / int_23a1e2a9	comment	Adaptation Deviation: As said in the subtrope examples, a whole lot in the show is completely different compared to the comic series it is based on. Examples being changed include some characters' races, nationalities, genders, personalities, backstories, and roles being switched or mixed together.
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The Boys (2019) / int_23e32a30	type	Genre Deconstruction
The Boys (2019) / int_23e32a30	comment	Genre Deconstruction: Of superheroes, or at least their near-celebrity status within the general public and pop culture. In general, they are real jerkasses who are more like selfish celebrities than superheroes with more concern toward money or their images than anything else. Frequently they will get away with even reckless homicide given the hero worship they receive-others are even secretly murderers. Others are just hypocritical or creeps. Regardless, they mostly get away with all of it due to their powers, superheroes' prestige, and good publicity. They have an entire corporation that manages them, with corporate sponsorship, licensed products, and publicists smoothing over their images. Given what they can get away with, some people really hate them, up to the point of a homicidal campaign. Also, a deconstruction of gruff anti-heroes, as the show demonstrates just how badly being a lone wolf suffer-no-fools type would screw you over. Not only do the Boys end up fugitives from the Government and the Seven, but each of their lives have been damaged in a particular way. Frenchie is alienated from his business partners and suffered huge losses in profits and material. Mother's Milk destroys the reconciliation with his wife he strove so hard for and now may never see his daughter again. Even Hughie, though more confident, had to put his dad in protective custody, has no job, no home and will likely face an even more pissed off A-Train in the future. Special mention goes to Butcher whose constant manipulations and single-minded quest to kill Homelander alienates all his remaining friends and allies, gets him marked as a wanted criminal, and results in several deaths. Furthermore, his final confrontation with Homelander leads to All for Nothing (see above). Only The Female/Kimiko has any improvement in the quality of life, but only so far as being a fugitive is better than being a slave test subject. Of supervillains. It is simply much more profitable and personally rewarding to let the crowd adore you as a superhero than to become the recurring punching bag of one.
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The Boys (2019) / int_25220e5d	type	Archetypal Character
The Boys (2019) / int_25220e5d	comment	Archetypal Character: It's implied and discussed in various episodes of Season 2 that the Seven always has someone with Super-Speed as part of the team — previously it was Mr. Marathon. Once A-Train starts having issues due to Compound V abuse, he's laid off and Shockwave is hired for his spot. Once Shockwave gets killed by the head-exploding assassin and Stormfront is outed as a Nazi, A-Train is welcomed back to the Seven despite previous problems, solely because they really need someone with Super-Speed for the marketing and getting a black guy after Stormfront's debacle would improve Vought's image.
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The Boys (2019) / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
The Boys (2019) / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Billy beats Mesmer to death in a train station bathroom by repeatedly smashing his head against a sink. A super-powered version is pulled off by A-Train, who slams Kimiko's head against a wall with the speed of a jackhammer. Although Kimiko initially holds her own pretty well against Black Noir, it's not very long before he manages to put her down. If not for her Healing Factor, she would've died. During Starlight's escape from Vought Tower, she's confronted by Black Noir and promptly thrown around the conference room, tossed through pillars and slammed into the table. The only reason she isn't killed there and then is because of Maeve's interference. During the Season Finale, Maeve, Starlight and Kimiko dispense with any pretense of actual fighting skill or grace and just viciously pound and stomp Stormfront into the ground. Whenever she manages a brief second of comeback, it's just followed up with more vicious beatings. She's forced to retreat.
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The Boys (2019) / int_25a19aa5	type	Turn the Other Cheek
The Boys (2019) / int_25a19aa5	comment	Turn the Other Cheek: After everything Hughie has been fighting for, everything he'd done, he has A-Train on the ground having a heart attack. Even though he knows A-Train will be after him for the rest of his life, he chooses to save him and let him go anyway.
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The Boys (2019) / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
The Boys (2019) / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Has its own page.
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The Boys (2019) / int_26d18908	type	Puny Earthlings
The Boys (2019) / int_26d18908	comment	Puny Earthlings: One of the scenes where we begin to see Homelander's Super Supremacist leanings involves him and Queen Maeve talking about their bosses, pointing out their health issues and physical weakness, and openly wondering why they're taking orders from such inferior beings.
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The Boys (2019) / int_27dc05b2	type	LGBT Fanbase
The Boys (2019) / int_27dc05b2	comment	The entire corporate commercialization of anything even remotely related to LGBT issues by Vought, seen entirely as chasing after yet another target demographic and not giving a damn about it other than consumers of a product, with incredibly heavy-handed and misguided attempts to please the in-universe LGBT Fanbase. This is clearly at dig at corporations such as Disney who are guilty of the same.
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The Boys (2019) / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
The Boys (2019) / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: There's no mention of Stillwell's baby's father. Since she got pregnant through IVF, he might just have been an anonymous sperm donor. Starlight's dad left when she was pretty young. At first, she believes this was because he lost their money. Then later she suspects it's because he couldn't take how she'd been given superpowers. Mesmer is one to his daughter, who barely knows him. He doesn't have custody of her, but does want more contact. Still, he realizes that isn't really what she wants, and backs away. Homelander is revealed to have been one involuntarily, as he has a son that was kept secret from him.
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The Boys (2019) / int_29a39f6	comment	Easter Egg: Make sure to periodically check Amazon Prime's X-Ray feature, as beyond the usual cast bios and general trivia, there are quite a few extra jokes thrown in.
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The Boys (2019) / int_2a4e8051	type	Sexual Karma
The Boys (2019) / int_2a4e8051	comment	Sexual Karma: Heroes and good characters tend to have healthy, mutually satisfying sex and be vanilla while the bad guys are rapists, terrible in bed, or have bizarre and gross sexual fetishes to make them less likable. When Hughie and Annie have sex, they both seem to climax at the same time. Contrast this to the literally painful sex scene between Homelander and Stillwell. It show him to be a bad lover who suffers from Speed Sex and with a really weird complex about milk. He has an almost orgasmic expression while milking a cow and drinks it straight from the udders, unpasteurized. He's later shown to spy on Stilwell while she breast feeds her baby and steals some of her breast milk to drink. Stormfront, another villain, enters a sexual relationship with Homelander. While his performance improves, their sex life is shown to involve kinky or unpleasant elements, such as harming each other with Homelander frying StormfrontÂ´s chest with his Eye Beams, or having sex in an alley near a corpse after Homelander turned a robber's head into paste. Apparently, maiming and gruesomely killing people are good for their libidos. The Deep has to extort women for sex; the one woman he's shown having consensual sex with is the one that he also says gives terrible blowjobs. Season 3 reveals that he has sex with animals in his free time and he seems to like them more than human partners. Soldier Boy founded the degenerate orgy Herogasm and is shown to have a fetish for overweight elderly women. Cameron Coleman, a Tucker Carlson expy, is revealed to be into getting pegged by his corporate overlord both figuratively and literally. Blue Hawk is shown to attend Herogasm's raunchy orgy, presumably to make him even less likable to the audience right before A-Train kills him. Termite uses his shrinking powers for, essentially, sounding (while drugged up and with a stranger), which leads to his partner's death. Like Blue Hawk he's also shown attending Herogasm.
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The Boys (2019) / int_2a552d44	comment	Recurring Element: Nature documentaries tend to pop up a bit. The documentary on lions when Billy finally meets Hughie — not only alluding to his predatory nature but goes two levels deep as lions famously leave the hunting to the females. A documentary about land turtles is on TV when the Boys are racking their heads over dealing with the Nigh-Invulnerable Translucent - leading to Frenchie's "Eureka!" Moment. Frenchie and the Female bonding over Shark Week. Listen to the documentary voice-over during that scene, it's pretty adorable. Frenchie's tendency to watch documentaries, taken in context with what he tells Kimiko about his childhood, suggests some very sad things about how he learned things.
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The Boys (2019) / int_2bb06191	type	Adaptational Sexuality
The Boys (2019) / int_2bb06191	comment	Adaptational Sexuality: At first it's left unclear if Queen Maeve is a closeted lesbian or bisexual as she dated Homelander (which was done mostly to keep an acceptable public image) and dated a civilian woman before, even though she is only involved with men in the comic. Homelander later outs her as a lesbian in Season 2, on national TV no less (she's actually bisexual, but Vought's PR team just sticks with "lesbian" as it's "easier"). Popclaw is a closeted lesbian in the comics, but straight (or at least only shown having sex with men) in the show.
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The Boys (2019) / int_2cbaa888	type	Empty Shell
The Boys (2019) / int_2cbaa888	comment	In one of her bright moments, Maeve notes to Annie that when she joined the Seven, she was just like her, full of idealism and then slowly, but surely selling out. She encourages Starlight to not let the bastards grind her down.
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The Boys (2019) / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
The Boys (2019) / int_2d4fa515	comment	Alot of the original Black Noir's personality are directly given to Homelander, instead of the latter going insane because of Black Noir gaslighting him.
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The Boys (2019) / int_2e206837	type	Bed Trick
The Boys (2019) / int_2e206837	comment	Bed Trick: A US Senator thinks he's having some kinky sex with a cute, young, female bartender. Instead, he's with a Vought shapeshifter who, after blindfolding him, assumes the form of an overweight, middle-aged male for blackmail purposes.
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The Boys (2019) / int_2f1fa94c	type	Mysterious Middle Initial
The Boys (2019) / int_2f1fa94c	comment	Mother's Milk: Marvin T. Milk.
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The Boys (2019) / int_315b877e	type	Resolved Noodle Incident
The Boys (2019) / int_315b877e	comment	Resolved Noodle Incident: Butcher, MM, and Frenchie worked together on an anti-supes task force for Mallory sometime in the past. Their association ended when Frenchie disregarded orders and Lamplighter murdered Mallory's grandchildren. Season 2, Episode 6 reveals what happened. Frenchie was supposed to tail Lamplighter but got a call that his friend was overdosing; Frenchie ran to save him, and consequently did not catch up to Lamplighter, who was attempting to assassinate Mallory and mistakenly killed her grandchildren. Guilt-consumed Frenchie did not tell anyone, because he wanted to be reminded of his mistake.
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The Boys (2019) / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
The Boys (2019) / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: Via adaptation. "Wee Hughie" was an affectionate nickname used both in and out of The Boys, with Frenchie changing it to "petit Hughie" (literally, "little Hughie"). Here, Frenchie just starts calling Hughie that, probably referencing his NaÃ¯ve Newcomer status, and Hughie doesn't particularly appreciate it. Likely because he's a full head taller than the guy giving him the nickname.
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The Boys (2019) / int_326a44a1	type	Create Your Own Villain
The Boys (2019) / int_326a44a1	comment	Create Your Own Villain: Literally, as Homelander engineers a plan to distribute Compound V to the terrorists around the world and soup them up with the drug, creating supervillains for Vought to send the Seven after and justify Supes enlisting in the United States military. This actually kicks off the series when A-Train runs through Robin and sets Hughie on the path of revenge. It's later revealed that Homelander created Butcher when he raped Butcher's wife and she disappeared shortly after that.
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The Boys (2019) / int_33ba37ca	type	Out with a Bang
The Boys (2019) / int_33ba37ca	comment	Any normal person killed by a Supe qualifies. A-Train runs right into Robin in episode 1, leaving nothing but a puddle of goo. Then there's Popclaw bursting her landlord's head with her thighs as he's giving her oral sex, and Termite, who inadvertently returns to his regular size while inside another guy's penis. Note that these are only the accidental murders - Supes can be even nastier when doing it on purpose.
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The Boys (2019) / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Boys (2019) / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Downplayed as Teenage Kix is referenced a few times, but no active members appear, and The Boys don't target them as their "warning shot" to the Supes. Stormfront, Eagle the Archer, and Tek-Knight are independent heroes and appear to have never been a part of the second-rate team Payback. Jack From Jupiter is replaced on The Seven by Translucent. Oh Father is replaced by Ezekiel.
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The Boys (2019) / int_34889673	type	Gender Flip
The Boys (2019) / int_34889673	comment	Gender Flip: Madelyn (James in the comic) Stillwell and Grace (Greg) Mallory in season 1. Stormfront and Victoria (Victor) Neuman in season 2.
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The Boys (2019) / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
The Boys (2019) / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Everyone here swears like they've got a big quota to meet. Even the seven-year-old kid gets in on the action.
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The Boys (2019) / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
The Boys (2019) / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Karl Urban's Cockney accent is so bad, that if it wasn't for the overuse of London slang and references to being English, you'd be forgiven for thinking Butcher was from Australia which, given that Urban is from New Zealand, isn't too far off. Simon Pegg's rendition of an American accent is fairly even, but he really gnaws on his R's in a way that betrays how hard he's trying to affect it. Dominique McElligott's natural Irish accent slips out when she starts shouting.
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The Boys (2019) / int_364b9be6	type	Flipping the Bird
The Boys (2019) / int_364b9be6	comment	Flipping the Bird: The NYCC teaser ends with the titular team doing this collectively in response to a Vought commercial.
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The Boys (2019) / int_37cb353b	type	Ate His Gun
The Boys (2019) / int_37cb353b	comment	When The Female escapes from her cage, after seeing what she did to the other guards the last guard Ate His Gun rather than suffer the same fate.
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The Boys (2019) / int_3cb68bd3	type	Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon
The Boys (2019) / int_3cb68bd3	comment	Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: Billy explaining to Mesmer what he is going to do with him if he talks to anyone.
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The Boys (2019) / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
The Boys (2019) / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: The good guys in Season 2 reveal damning evidence about a corporation and how it basically poisoned a generation of Americans. Mother's Milk cheers and hugs Hughie while Frenchie kisses him, as they finally have a win. Is that enough to bring Vought down? HA HA HAâ€”No; Vought is able to pin the conspiracy on a deceased employee, and stalls long enough for Congressional hearings instead of arrests by using their government contacts. As Edgar puts it, Vought has had experience covering up their "pharmaceutical experiments" and they aren't comic book supervillains. Hughie and Starlight are broken by the fact that the risks she took were All for Nothing, with the only thing coming out of it is a lead on Stormfront's real identity. On the other hand, the revelations do cause considerable damage the company's image and required a lot of effort to smooth over which is why Stan Edgar was appointed to his role to begin with and makes it clear he won't be as tolerant of Homelander's antics as Stillwell was. Even an evil company is still a company with shareholders, customers and a public image to consider. You urge your girlfriend to tell you everything about her stressful life because you want to show her that neither of you has to be afraid of a controlling ex. She reluctantly agrees, opening up bit by bit. Then you find out that your girlfriend may be a little complicit in some war crimes, something she hid from you apart from a drunken breakdown. Do you go Easily Forgiven and reassure her that it wasn't her fault and that their relationship will last, the way Starlight eventually forgave Hughie for spying on her? Nope; when Maeve tells Elena with a Stepford Smiler expression that the footage, which Elena found by accident, is the means of securing their freedom from Homelander, Elena breaks up with her and goes into hiding. Elena said she wanted Maeve to be open with her, but finding out that she left hundreds of people to die is kind of a dealbreaker. The blackmail Maeve got on Homelander in season 2 doesn't last. As the public keeps throwing Stormfront in his face and Starlight keeps pushing her luck with defying him, Homelander eventually decides that he has had enough and calls Starlight's bluff, explaining that, while he would be prefer to be loved, he'll embace being feared if means he doesn't have to deal with her and Maeve strong arming him anymore, especially if means he can destroy not only New York but both Starlight and Maeve's hometowns without consequence. Naturally, Starlight backs down. When it's revealed that the Parents of all Supes concented to Vaught experimenting on their kids in exchange for money and the promise of fame. It is no surprise that people who placed more value on those things than their children's health and safety weren't at all emotionally qualified to be good parents to those children. Which in turn lead to many of the emotional issues most Supes posess.
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The Boys (2019) / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
The Boys (2019) / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: While the Supes are still as hedonistic and depraved as the comic, unlike the comic, the Supes don't just sit around collecting royalties and being little more than publicity figures with powers. They actually do help to stop crimes, even if the crimes are carefully selected by Vought for the maximum PR. Whereas in the comic, they were legally barred from actually doing any vigilante work.
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The Boys (2019) / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
The Boys (2019) / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: Pretty much everything made by Vought's media department, along with the in-universe The Merch, is horribly corny, poorly written and blatantly chasing after specific demographic targets without actually giving squat about them or their issues.
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The Boys (2019) / int_41c08e5	type	Establishing Series Moment
The Boys (2019) / int_41c08e5	comment	Establishing Series Moment: The first episode goes out of its way to demonstrate that this is not part of the MCU, that all of the supes are assholes. It opens with extreme violence, proceeds to murder, then rape, corporate malfeasance, a super opening up on two normal people, and ends with the murder of a child.
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The Boys (2019) / int_4294909e	type	Superman Substitute
The Boys (2019) / int_4294909e	comment	Homelander is the most obvious example of this since he is actually a twisted Superman Substitute.
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The Boys (2019) / int_42c9f1ec	type	Downplayed Trope
The Boys (2019) / int_42c9f1ec	comment	Downplayed as Teenage Kix is referenced a few times, but no active members appear, and The Boys don't target them as their "warning shot" to the Supes.
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The Boys (2019) / int_4583a262	type	Shirtless Scene
The Boys (2019) / int_4583a262	comment	The third episode gives Hughie a Shirtless Scene...while he's washing off Translucent's blood after blowing him to smithereens. He's clearly traumatized during this.
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The Boys (2019) / int_4631e81f	type	Badass in Distress
The Boys (2019) / int_4631e81f	comment	Badass in Distress: Towards the end of season 1, Frenchie, Milk and the Female are all captured.
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The Boys (2019) / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
The Boys (2019) / int_469e3e2f	comment	In-Universe, Stormfront rides her popularity on social media, which gives her the freedom to criticize Vought all she wants without the fear the others have of losing their cash flow. She even mocks Homelander that he spent 280 million on a flopping PR campaign while she is succeeding because of five interns making memes.
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The Boys (2019) / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
The Boys (2019) / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Surprisingly enough, since it's such a rarity in this series: All we see is blood splattered on the glass door when Kimiko comes to kill the owner of the beauty parlor. We don't actually see Black Noir cut off the supe terrorist's head in the Season 2 premiere, merely the aftermath. We only see one of the actual victims get killed during Stormfront's rampage through the apartment building. The rest of the action either occurs off-screen, or is filmed from outside the building.
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The Boys (2019) / int_4b0ef86e	type	Advertised Extra
The Boys (2019) / int_4b0ef86e	comment	The Deep in the comics is a minor character bordering on Advertised Extra and is only guilty of being a member of the Seven and going along with Homelander's plan. In the show, he is a serial sexual harasser. Notably, he's the only one involved in Starlight's "final test," while in the comics he's one of the two males in the Seven who didn't take part.
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The Boys (2019) / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
The Boys (2019) / int_4b316d47	comment	Hughie is mentally a child as he's still treated like one, holds onto his childhood with both hands, and is shown to be living a stagnant lifestyle. His girlfriend, Robin, even had to ask him out on a first date because he never took the initiative to do so. After Robin is killed, Hughie's mundane life is pulled from under his feet and he tumbles into adulthood when he experiences injustice for the first time when A-Train receives absolutely no punishment for Robin's death and Hughie realizes that his own father can't provide the closure he's looking for. When Hughie kills Translucent, it signifies the loss of his innocence but it doesn't make him feel like an adult, as it instead leaves him with severe PTSD that only gets worse in season 2. His relationship with Annie has him slowly growing more mature as he starts taking the initiative and shedding his naivete while still maintaining his optimistic determination.
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The Boys (2019) / int_4d070ee3	type	Power Perversion Potential
The Boys (2019) / int_4d070ee3	comment	Termite uses his shrinking powers for, essentially, sounding (while drugged up and with a stranger), which leads to his partner's death. Like Blue Hawk he's also shown attending Herogasm.
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The Boys (2019) / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Boys (2019) / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: In Season 1, the Supes are seen doing actual crimefighting against genuine criminals like bank robbers and mass shooters and whatnot; sure they were sloppy as all hell and had zero regard for environmental destruction and excessive force, of course, but they were out there. Later seasons firmly establish that they rarely deal with any threats that Vought doesn't just artificially make up for them (IE the "Super-Terrorists"), and they're mostly just glorified movie-stars with little actual law-enforcement duties.
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The Boys (2019) / int_4f88342a	type	Smug Super
The Boys (2019) / int_4f88342a	comment	A-Train, who takes pride in his Super-Speed, is sent after the Female and brutalizes her — she not only survives but cripples him with a pipe to the leg.
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The Boys (2019) / int_515edb43	type	Fantasy Landmark Equivalent
The Boys (2019) / int_515edb43	comment	Fantasy Landmark Equivalent: The show parodies Avengers Tower from the MCU by having Vought Tower be in roughly the same location as the Met Life building.
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The Boys (2019) / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Boys (2019) / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Starlight's Season 1 arc starts and ends with her throwing up in the bathroom and getting a pep talk from Maeve. The finales of seasons 1 and 2 both frame the climactic face-off between Billy and Homelander in the same scene as a woman gets blinded and killed by laser vision in front of her young child. In season 2, the blinded woman and the killed one are 2 separate people, but the laser vision causes catastrophic injury to both. Season 3 begins and ends among the ruins of Vought Tower. In the first episode, it's merely part of a Seven movie. In the finale, it's for real as a result of Soldier Boy going nuclear just outside of the building.
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The Boys (2019) / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
The Boys (2019) / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: Butcher is quite fond of the word, to the point that it's his go-to insult. He also uses it as a compliment, but that's much rarer.
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The Boys (2019) / int_5679208c	type	No Bisexuals
The Boys (2019) / int_5679208c	comment	At first it's left unclear if Queen Maeve is a closeted lesbian or bisexual as she dated Homelander (which was done mostly to keep an acceptable public image) and dated a civilian woman before, even though she is only involved with men in the comic. Homelander later outs her as a lesbian in Season 2, on national TV no less (she's actually bisexual, but Vought's PR team just sticks with "lesbian" as it's "easier").
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The Boys (2019) / int_571a3c67	type	Power Incontinence
The Boys (2019) / int_571a3c67	comment	Power Incontinence: The downside of having sex with a superhero? Many have a tendency to lose control of their powers near or during the climax. Depending on the power, this can have bad consequences for their sexual partner. A-Train also starts losing control of his super-speed powers thanks to abusing Compound V. He runs through Robin while hopped-up on the stuff, then nearly blows his cover in the race with Shockwave by not quite being able to stand still. When Starlight gets angry, electronics around her tend to start short-circuiting. She also accidentally cracked several TV screens when The Deep was sexually harassing her. Her eyes also light up when she orgasms. Termite has the power to shrink to a miniature size, which he exploits for sex purposes. He crawls up a man's urethra at one point, but then suddenly loses control and reverts to full-size, shredding the man in half and killing him instantly.
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The Boys (2019) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
The Boys (2019) / int_571bfe2	comment	Super Serum: Compound V is pretty much a performance-enhancing drug for superheroes, with abusers being able to push their powers well beyond their usual limits, at the cost of not just risking Power Incontinence, but also enlarged hearts and shrunken testes much like real athletes get from sustained steroid abuse. It's also the big secret behind the Superhero phenomenon. They aren't chosen by God as some people and heroes believe, they were given V as babies to trigger their powers by their world's Evil, Inc..
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The Boys (2019) / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
The Boys (2019) / int_5798bfbf	comment	Lamplighter is mentioned numerous times over the first season. Most notably, he's the superhero whom Starlight is replacing on the Seven. While we see a few depictions of him, he never actually shows up in person, and it's never made clear why he left. At one point the Boys vaguely mention an operation involving him that left Mallory's grandchildren dead. "The Bloody Doors Off" reveals that he was Reassigned to Antarctica and now used as an orderly that incinerates unstable Compound V test subjects.
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The Boys (2019) / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
The Boys (2019) / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Mallory and especially Butcher express hatred for all supes. Implied to be the case with Edgar regarding Homelander, explaining why he hates him so much (along with Homelander's psychotic antics). He keeps referring to him as "asset" and "product", which may be in reference to how Homelander was born and raised in a lab by scientists.
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The Boys (2019) / int_584634dd	type	Third-Act Misunderstanding
The Boys (2019) / int_584634dd	comment	Third-Act Misunderstanding: Annie and Hughie have a falling out in the penultimate episode of season 1 due to Hughie using her for his quest for vengeance, but reunite at the end of the season after Annie saves the Boys via a Big Damn Heroes moment.
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The Boys (2019) / int_58db779e	type	Letting the Air out of the Band
The Boys (2019) / int_58db779e	comment	Letting the Air out of the Band: Happens a few times in the soundtrack. In "Cherry," a strong heroic theme plays as The Deep heads into The Seven's meeting room, only to peter out as he sees an annoyed Homelander waiting for him.
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The Boys (2019) / int_5a852047	type	Sliding Scale of Adaptation Modification
The Boys (2019) / int_5a852047	comment	Sliding Scale of Adaptation Modification: Recognizable: the series takes the general premise, themes, and darkly comedic tone of the comics, but the plot thus far is an original one that only takes elements from the comics, and most of the characters have been changed around to fit the new story and Setting Update - some are pretty close to the originals, others are basically unrecognizable apart from their names.
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The Boys (2019) / int_5bba0339	type	Telekinesis
The Boys (2019) / int_5bba0339	comment	Cindy, the Super test subject at Sage Grove, can turn people into this with her mind.
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The Boys (2019) / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
The Boys (2019) / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: It turns out that Stan Edgar, a black man, knows all about Stormfront being a Nazi. He doesn't care because it's profitable not to care.
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The Boys (2019) / int_5cd6010b	type	Turn Out Like His Father
The Boys (2019) / int_5cd6010b	comment	Turn Out Like His Father: Both Becca and Homelander want to prevent Ryan going through a traumatic childhood because of how badly his father turned out. They just have very different ideas of how to go about this goal. Homelander almost references this trope directly in conversation, which is a surprising moment of honesty.
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The Boys (2019) / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
The Boys (2019) / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: A lot of liberties have been taken when compared to the source material, both for creative reasons and because the shift from comic books to a television series necessitates it. The show is much more focused and concise in order to fit the eight-episode timeframe, whereas the comic had multi-issue storylines which basically had nothing to do with the Seven or the main plot, often involving the Boys going after some other Supes or teams, like when Hughie infiltrates X-Men pastiche The G-Men, or when the entire team focuses on bringing down Tek-Knight. In the show, the Boys (bar Kimiko) are regular humans except in Season 3, where Butcher and Hughie go on Temp V), whereas they all are superpowered in the comic. Naturally, writing a show where the Boys are just as strong and durable as their enemies would be a challenge, not to mention that every fight scene having superpowers thrown in the mix would be extremely expensive to do well. The social and political commentary had to be reworked from the ground-up to account for the decade and a half that passed between the first comic and the first episode, especially given that the comic was a parody of the post-9/11 hysteria and conservatism of the early to mid-2000s, with Vic the Veep being a particularly harsh parody of George W. Bush. The show instead parodies more current political trends, such as "rainbow capitalism", the #metoo movement and the rise of the Alt-Right, conspiracy theorists and controversial right wing populist figures such as Donald Trump, with the gender-swapped version Vic Neuman being changed from a spoof on George W. Bush to an evil, super powered parody of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Despite not exactly shying away from the dark and disgusting, the show did do away with some of the more gratuitously edgy things in the comic such as Homelander (really Black Noir) being shown in full eating a baby, Seven member Jack from Jupiter doing drugs laced with Queen Maeve's vaginal mucus, a Supe that goes around with a hamster lodged in his rectum and Starlight being gang-raped by Homelander, Black Noir and A-Train instead of just The Deep. Some character traits were also tweaked, Butcher is no longer as homophobic and misogynistic as he is in the comics, and Homelander, while still a racist, doesn't repeatedly call Black characters the N-word. The show's depictions of sexual assault are treated a lot more seriously, whereas in the comics, what happens on Starlight's first day gets sort of blown off and Hughie being randomly sexually assaulted by Black Noir in the comic, gets treated almost like a joke. In general, the show is more restrained when it comes to which characters that are sexual predators, whereas in the comic, a bad Supe not being a rapist almost seems like the exception. Hughie goes from being Scottish to an American already living in New York, partly because it's not exactly common for American shows to feature a main character with a really thick Scottish accent and partly because it moves the story along quicker and ties in nicely with A-Train's story. Soldier Boy's character is drastically reworked. Both because the comic version isn't one person, but three, and because the comic version of Soldier Boy is a one-note walking gay joke and basically just exists so abuse can happen to him, which would neither fly these days, nor make for a particularly interesting season-long arc. The Supe costumes have been given the Marvel Cinematic Universe treatment, being darker and more detailed, with a more textured, sometimes metallic look, whereas all the comic characters wear classic spandex costumes, usually designed to be as garish and unflattering as humanly possible. Case in point, the massive gold eagle covering Homelander's entire left shoulder has been replaced with smaller gold eagle shoulder pauldrons on both shoulders, and Black Noir's outfit, which in the comics amounts to a featureless black spandex pajamas, has been given the Batman treatment, and instead resembles a cross between a ninja outfit and tactical military gear. Flying is a lot more rare in the show, both because of how expensive it is to make it look convincing, and to further differentiate Homelander from other Supes. In the comic, the only Seven members that can't fly are A-Train and Black Noir (not really, but he pretends he can't fly). Seven member Jack from Jupiter was scrapped and replaced by the similarly powered Translucent. According to the creators, Jack, who looks like an orange version of the Martian Manhunter and supposedly is an "alien" was just a little too out there, even for The Boys. The twist of Black Noir being a clone of Homelander and actually the one who did all the horrible stuff Homelander was accused of was scrapped pretty quick, partly because the twist itself is a hotly debated topic among fans and partly because it's so well-known and literally able to be spoiled with a single panel that the twist itself wouldn't be much of a twist at all..
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The Boys (2019) / int_61066d95	type	Fictional Counterpart
The Boys (2019) / int_61066d95	comment	Fictional Counterpart: The Deep is a spokesman for Oceanland, a thinly-veiled expy of SeaWorld, complete with controversies over its animal handling practices. The Deep wants to improve the conditions for the animals there, Vought wants him to be the poster boy for a lucrative ad campaign.
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The Boys (2019) / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
The Boys (2019) / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: In the teaser for the second season, John (Homelander), an eleven-year-old boy at the time, is being shown images by a tutor of what he loves about America when he's shown a Norman Rockwell painting depicting Thanksgiving. Seeing the family, he asks his tutor who his father is and she says that technically, Dr. Vogelbaum is his father, and when he asks if she's his mom, she decides to go along with it and says yes. He gives her a hug, and not knowing how strong he is, he breaks her back and crushes her internal organs, killing her. As John cowers in the corner with his blanket, one of the scientists observing the interaction enters the plain white lab John's being raised in and says that they'll just get him a new tutor.
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The Boys (2019) / int_620e256f	type	Gullible Lemmings
The Boys (2019) / int_620e256f	comment	Gullible Lemmings: The crushing majority of regular people in-universe is absolutely blind to all the problems Supes create, the para-legal status of their vigilantism, how corrupt Vought is and how terrible their marketing is, taking it all with a smile of adoration. Despite being portrayed as plain incompetent PR hacks, Vought gets away with everything they do without any lasting damage, since people are still eager to take their Blatant Lies as explanations and never ask for more than basic company statements.
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The Boys (2019) / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
The Boys (2019) / int_62f9d08e	comment	Despite the latter being immune to bullets, Becca is able to stab Stormfront through her eye with a pocketknife. Almost to underscore the point, Stormfront doesn't even feel Butcher hitting her with a crowbar seconds later. Even assuming the intention is that her skin is super-strong and not her eyes, it doesn't explain how there is a slit on Stormfront's eyelid. It is possible though that her skin, rather than being super-hard, is equivalent to an aramid fiber like Kevlar which can resist low-velocity gunfire quite well but is susceptible to someone stabbing through the weave with a knife.
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The Boys (2019) / int_6331ba26	type	Plot Hole
The Boys (2019) / int_6331ba26	comment	Plot Hole: If Homelander is fast enough to save Butcher from his bomb at the end of season 1, then that begs the question of why Homelander didn't use his superspeed to catch The Boys while hunting for them in the sewers. Also when in the sewer, Homelander somehow doesn't hear Hughie mention to Starlight that he messaged her despite the fact that it has been well established that Homelander has super-hearing and he was only a few feet away. When Homelander accidently kills an innocent bystander while fighting a super terrorist and it is caught on video, there is a massive public outcry and protest of him. How does he fix it? He gets Stormfront to make a bunch of memes. Granted, Victoria Neuman is still fighting against Vought (or maybe not), and the memes didn't win over everyone, but the protests stop and Homelander is able to go about his business (even continue filming a movie), despite being filmed killing a civilian. In fact, the video never really comes up again. When Maeve asks The Deep to find the black box from Flight 37 to blackmail Homelander with, he fails to find it and instead brings her a Go Pro Camera a school of Halibut found. It's difficult to believe that not only did the Go Pro survived months of floating around in the ocean, but that it was found when the black box is still unaccounted for note For those who don't know, a black box is two devices that record flight data and the last 2 hours of sound in the cockpit. They also are encased in titanium and emit a locator beacon in case of submersion. Given that they spoke in the cockpit, it would prove that Homelander and Maeve were on the plane when they said they weren't. Butcher and Hughie are able to come into a hospital, get medical treatment for Hughie, and leave without anyone notifying the police despite both of them being wanted criminals. After Lamplighter burns himself alive, somehow enough of the skin on one of his hands survives that Hughie is still able to use his fingerprints. For some reason, emergency lights blare in the Vought cells during a crisis, allowing Starlight to use the light to blast down the door to her cell. When A-Train goes to give Hughie and Starlight proof that Stormfront is a literal nazi, he apparently ran around the borrows until he found them. When they rightfully ask how he was able to do that with his heart condition, he brushes it off by saying his heart is fine. As a reminder, only a few episodes ago, he wasn't able to push himself for more than a few minutes before slumping over in pain. Also, during the same conversation, the three of them are able to talk in the middle of the sidewalk without anyone recognizing them despite two of them being wanted criminals and one of them being a famous superhero in his full costume. When The Boys, Starlight, and Kimiko are struggling to fight Stormfront, Queen Maeve shows up almost completely out of nowhere for a Big Damn Heroes moment, despite having no means to get there that fast and undetected. Despite the latter being immune to bullets, Becca is able to stab Stormfront through her eye with a pocketknife. Almost to underscore the point, Stormfront doesn't even feel Butcher hitting her with a crowbar seconds later. Even assuming the intention is that her skin is super-strong and not her eyes, it doesn't explain how there is a slit on Stormfront's eyelid. It is possible though that her skin, rather than being super-hard, is equivalent to an aramid fiber like Kevlar which can resist low-velocity gunfire quite well but is susceptible to someone stabbing through the weave with a knife.
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The Boys (2019) / int_637b6123	type	Sickening "Crunch!"
The Boys (2019) / int_637b6123	comment	Sickening "Crunch!": The sound made when Kimiko breaks A-Train's leg with a metal pipe. Also when Homelander squashes the head of one of the Middle Eastern Terrorists with his foot. Special mention goes to Popclaw's unfortunate landlord. Slightly subdued, but the sound of Homelander stepping on a shrunken and weakened Termite is still pretty gross.
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The Boys (2019) / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
The Boys (2019) / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: A running gag is that A-Train doesn't remember running Robin over or his apology to Hughie, which allows Hughie to completely slip beneath his notice for quite some time. Downplayed when Homelander doesn't recognize Butcher (whose wife he raped) when he sees Butcher glaring at him at the racetrack but quickly puts the pieces together after Mesmer informs him The Boys are gunning for The Seven. With some prodding, A-Train then remembers Hughie. Exploited by Hughie when he pretends to have had sex with Ezekiel in a club. When MM finally confronts Soldier Boy and tells the supe that he killed MM's family, Soldier Boy's response is just an utterly indifferent "Which one?".
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The Boys (2019) / int_64b2ff00	type	Jesus Was Way Cool
The Boys (2019) / int_64b2ff00	comment	Jesus Was Way Cool: Befitting his status as a parody of "hip" ministers, Ezekiel presents Jesus in this way, peppering his sermons with slang and referencing Jesus referring to people as "bro."
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The Boys (2019) / int_650a309b	type	Forgot About His Powers
The Boys (2019) / int_650a309b	comment	Also when in the sewer, Homelander somehow doesn't hear Hughie mention to Starlight that he messaged her despite the fact that it has been well established that Homelander has super-hearing and he was only a few feet away.
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The Boys (2019) / int_658f7193	type	Lack of Empathy
The Boys (2019) / int_658f7193	comment	Despite it being fairly well established that a child deprived of love and affection will turn out profoundly psychologically damaged, Vought decided to test that theory again on a baby with Superman-grade powers. Completely unsurprisingly, the result (Homelander) is a borderline mad dog with a glaring Lack of Empathy and a barely veiled contempt for humanity.
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The Boys (2019) / int_697b5232	type	Those Wacky Nazis
The Boys (2019) / int_697b5232	comment	The season 2 premiere quickly uses this to establish its key villains without giving away their true motivations or identities. Immediately after the Head Exploder's first kill, the show cuts to Congresswoman Neuman on TV decrying Vought. Additionally, one of Stormfront's first words is praising Homelander's blue eyes.
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The Boys (2019) / int_69cc2a27	type	Hilariously Abusive Childhood
The Boys (2019) / int_69cc2a27	comment	Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Frenchie is played this way at first, but when he opens up to Kimiko about his Dark and Troubled Past it becomes less so.
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The Boys (2019) / int_6bf29c6e	type	Good Wings, Evil Wings
The Boys (2019) / int_6bf29c6e	comment	Good Wings, Evil Wings: A Christian Rock performer at the Believe Expo has classic white, feathery, angel-esque wings.
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The Boys (2019) / int_6eb4e408	type	Artistic License â€“ Military
The Boys (2019) / int_6eb4e408	comment	Artistic License â€“ Military: The soldier who appears in the protest in episode 5 of season 2 has a full-color unit patch instead of the subdued (green and black) version which would be worn. Besides this, his collar is up, which is typically only worn when using firearms. Military personnel are also barred from participating in protests while in uniform. In Episode 7 of Season 2, Billy is chastised for running away to "join the SAS." It's unclear whether this means that he entered the SAS directly from being a civilian, as this would be impossible in real life. Only experienced members of the British military can transfer into the SAS, so Billy would likely have first joined the Royal Marines, as he explicitly did in the comics. The SAS Reserves do recruit civilians, but no one ever describes him as a Reserves member. MM mentions having been a field medic in the past, while the site mentions him being an ex-Marine. There is no such thing as a Marine medic. The role that implies is fulfilled by Navy Hospital Corpsmen.
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The Boys (2019) / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
The Boys (2019) / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Hughie's father is played by Simon Pegg, who was the model for Hughie in the original comic. The pyrokinetic Lamplighter is played by Shawn Ashmore, who previously played the cryokinetic Iceman in the X-Men movies. Even more amusing, Lamplighter appears to require a source of fire to manipulate (his ostentatious torch pole during his days as Lamplighter, and ordinary Zippo lighter now), which was the same limitation faced by Iceman's nemesis in those films, Pyro, who also used an ordinary Zippo before graduating to full-fledged supervillain. Stormfront is a violently racist white supremacist who wears Nazi-like designs and is clearly named after the neo-Nazi website. She's played by Aya Cash, a Jewish actress. Haley Joel Osment plays a Supe who was a Former Child Star, before largely disappearing into obscurity. For bonus points, he's most famously known for having Psychic Powers (although in-universe, the powers are real). Giancarlo Esposito plays the CEO of a shady enterprise whose secret wonder weapon is a drug of a certain blue color. Where have we seen that before? Karl Urban and Simon Pegg previously co-starred in the Star Trek (2009) reboot films as McCoy and Scotty, respectively. In those films though, the accents they used were reversed: Urban was the Fake American and Pegg (though an actual native Briton), adopted a very thick Scottish accent. Billy Butcher's father is played by John Noble, which means that Billy is literally what you'd get if Eomer was raised by Denethor instead.
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The Boys (2019) / int_6fed1f70	type	The Thing That Would Not Leave
The Boys (2019) / int_6fed1f70	comment	The Thing That Would Not Leave: Played for Drama in the second season as Homelander repeatedly visits Becca to bring out Ryan's superpowers. Given that Homelander is a textbook sociopath who had raped Becca and is only interested in turning Ryan into someone like him, her refusal to see him at her home is understandable.
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The Boys (2019) / int_71748a39	type	Named by the Adaptation
The Boys (2019) / int_71748a39	comment	Named by the Adaptation: A few characters Only Known by Their Nickname, or were even Never Given a Name, are given at least personal names. Mother's Milk: Marvin T. Milk. The Female: Kimiko Miyashiro. Frenchie: Serge. The Deep: Kevin Moskowitz. Popclaw: Charlotte. Mr. Edgar: Stan Edgar. Janine's mother: Monique. Queen Maeve: Maggie Shaw. A-Train: Reggie Franklin. Stormfront: Klara Risinger. Drummer Boy AKA Supersonic: Alex. Black Noir: Earving. Soldier Boy: Ben.
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The Boys (2019) / int_735b4101	type	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
The Boys (2019) / int_735b4101	comment	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: The Super Serum Compound V is colored blue while Temp V is colored green.
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The Boys (2019) / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
The Boys (2019) / int_736d791f	comment	Adaptational Badass: Just about all the supes. In the comic, they are all laughably incompetent - most of them can be effortlessly bested by regular soldiers, and the few that can't rely solely on being so ridiculously powerful that they can't help but eventually win any fight through sheer irresistable brute force. In the series, while they aren't any stronger (in fact their feats are generally weaker and Super-Toughness is no longer omnipresent among them) and are still a lot more fallible than classic superheroes, most of them are genuinely quite skilled at using their powers and absolutely terrifying as enemies.
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The Boys (2019) / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
The Boys (2019) / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: The Brooklyn Bridge, as instead of stopping their version of the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11, The Seven 'stop' the hijacking of Flight 37.
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The Boys (2019) / int_74c9cf33	type	Two Girls to a Team
The Boys (2019) / int_74c9cf33	comment	Two Girls to a Team: The Seven provides an In-Universe example of this trope when Starlight joins in Season 1. It's apropos because prior to that Queen Maeve had been operating under The Smurfette Principle, and it's an evolution to have more than one woman in The Seven. Subverted in Season 2 when Stormfront, a third woman, joins The Seven, but it gets double subverted after she gets removed from the team by the end of the season. The Boys have two female members once Starlight joins. Payback also followed this, with Crimson Countess and Tessa from the TNT Twins.
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The Boys (2019) / int_7583ecbf	type	Morality Kitchen Sink
The Boys (2019) / int_7583ecbf	comment	Morality Kitchen Sink: Adaptational Heroism and Adaptational Nice Guy contribute to moving the conflict between Vought and The Boys into this territory: Homelander, Stormfront, Stillwell, Edgar, and Vought in general are pretty much unambiguously evil, making sure the Supes have good publicity no matter what, using them to rake in loads of cash, trying to get Supes into national defense to rake in more cash (and maybe contribute to defending America in the process), injecting infants with Compound V to make more Supes, and for Homelander, spreading Compound V around the world to create supervillains. In the case of Homelander and Stormfront, they also have a tendency to pay no heed towards collateral damage (and in some cases, intentionally embrace it for kicks). Then you have A-Train, Popclaw, Soldier Boy, Translucent, and The Deep, who are at best negligently criminal (A-Train and Popclaw's Accidental Murder moments, Soldier Boy's collateral damage, and The Deep's Black Comedy Animal Cruelty), at worst just plain criminal (Translucent and The Deep being repeat sex offenders, Soldier Boy brutalizing Black Noir and the rest of his team, A-Train and Popclaw being complicit in Vought and Homelander spreading Compound V), just on a much smaller scale than above. Then there's The Boys, out to do a good thing (bring down Vought and expose their dirty dealings), but have no problem using espionage, blackmail, and murder to do it. Hughie is the most upstanding of them, and even he admits that a part of him enjoyed murdering Translucent. Finally you have Queen Maeve and Starlight, trying their best to be good despite their faults (though Maeve, self-admittedly, has had more time to accumulate faults than Starlight). Lampshaded when A-Train points out to Hughie that while his splattering of Robin was an accident, everything Hughie and The Boys have done is on purpose, so really, who has the moral high ground here? Though this does lose weight considering the fact that A-Train murdered his blackmailed girlfriend to cover up the fact that he was empowering terrorists all over the world with Compound V.
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The Boys (2019) / int_781f2467	comment	Shooting Superman: Repeatedly, Supes get shot at although it's widely known that they are Immune to Bullets. The Syrian terrorists don't seem to get the hint Homelander is impervious to their bullets. Vought commandos point their submachineguns at Homelander when they really ought know they should be trying to stay off his bad side. Even the Boys themselves fall prey to this, repeatedly shooting Black Noir and Stormfront despite being fully aware the bullets will have no effect. Though in their case, at least, the implication is less that they expect it to work and more that they're being Defiant to the End against enemies they can't escape from and can't stop or using it as a simple distraction.
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The Boys (2019) / int_794f3589	comment	Adaptation Explanation Extrication: Due to supes as a whole being a lot more capable in the show, including the show version of Soldier Boy being a One-Man Army during WW2, Vought International's inability to get involved in the military makes much less sense than it did in the comic where their prior attempts had been catastrophic. Season 3 finally tackles this by showing a disastrous attempt by supes to aid in a military action. They also point out that much of Soldier Boy's supposed contribution to the war effort was fictional. Thus, when it comes to Supes in national defense, Soldier Boy was an exception, and not a particularly exceptional one.
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The Boys (2019) / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
The Boys (2019) / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: While Stillwell is trying to get Starlight to play ball with Vought's corporate image, bringing up the fact that lots of people work very hard to create Starlight the Superhero, Starlight responds that she never asked for any of it. Stillwell asks "Then why don't you burn the sparkly outfit and become a cop?" Starlight has no answer. When Billy calls Hughie out for dating Annie, the latter asks how being loyal to a dead woman who doesn't know and doesn't care works out for him. Suddenly, the whole room is filled with stunned silence. Frenchie gives one to M.M during a conversation about love and marriage, asking "If you and Monique have something so pure, why are you lying to her about where you are?" M.M doesn't respond.
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The Boys (2019) / int_7d163c9c	type	Dating Catwoman
The Boys (2019) / int_7d163c9c	comment	Dating Catwoman: Billy thinks this is happening between Hughie and Starlight. Hughie tries to explain that Starlight was never part of the enemy faction to begin with but Billy wouldn't hear it.
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The Boys (2019) / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
The Boys (2019) / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: A security guard's head is blasted off by the Eye Beams of a super-powered baby held by Billy Butcher. Notably, there's no clean cauterization of the wound as usually expected with beam wounds, and instead, there's thick gore from both the neck stump and the separated head. Naqib gets his head cut off by Black Noir who carries it off with him, presumably as proof of the kill.
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The Boys (2019) / int_845789b0	type	Superhero
The Boys (2019) / int_845789b0	comment	Of superheroes, or at least their near-celebrity status within the general public and pop culture. In general, they are real jerkasses who are more like selfish celebrities than superheroes with more concern toward money or their images than anything else. Frequently they will get away with even reckless homicide given the hero worship they receive-others are even secretly murderers. Others are just hypocritical or creeps. Regardless, they mostly get away with all of it due to their powers, superheroes' prestige, and good publicity. They have an entire corporation that manages them, with corporate sponsorship, licensed products, and publicists smoothing over their images. Given what they can get away with, some people really hate them, up to the point of a homicidal campaign.
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The Boys (2019) / int_84fa1d7d	type	Disposable Woman
The Boys (2019) / int_84fa1d7d	comment	Disposable Woman: Both Hughie and Billy Butcher are motivated by the deaths of a female character. It turns out that Billy's wife wasn't actually dead.
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The Boys (2019) / int_874201dc	type	Inside Job
The Boys (2019) / int_874201dc	comment	In season 2, Secretary of Defense Robert Singer invokes this trope when Mallory tries to strong-arm him to keep opposing Vought. He tells her that he would rather take a fallout for whatever the hell Mallory has on him, even if that's some kinky sex tape, than let the situation on hand escalate any further without solid proof against Vought's Inside Job attack on a Congressional hearing against them.
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The Boys (2019) / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
The Boys (2019) / int_875615dd	comment	The results of Homelander's heat vision, more often than not. Truth in Television, as a laser-like beam that flash-heated human tissue (which is mostly water) would cause violent steam explosions.
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The Boys (2019) / int_8858e515	type	Fetishes Are Weird
The Boys (2019) / int_8858e515	comment	Fetishes Are Weird: The only characters depicted as having fetishes are all villains. As for the sympathetic characters, like Hughie and Starlight, they all have completely vanilla sex lives without any kind of kink involved. Homelander is a complete sociopath and narcissist who has a mommy/milk fetish. A-Train is a self-centered narcissist who likes having his feet worshipped. Soldier Boy also has a thing for grannies, which is just used to show how depraved his hedonism is.
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The Boys (2019) / int_8871bbd8	comment	Stormfront, another villain, enters a sexual relationship with Homelander. While his performance improves, their sex life is shown to involve kinky or unpleasant elements, such as harming each other with Homelander frying StormfrontÂ´s chest with his Eye Beams, or having sex in an alley near a corpse after Homelander turned a robber's head into paste. Apparently, maiming and gruesomely killing people are good for their libidos.
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The Boys (2019) / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
The Boys (2019) / int_8ae880f7	comment	Also, a deconstruction of gruff anti-heroes, as the show demonstrates just how badly being a lone wolf suffer-no-fools type would screw you over. Not only do the Boys end up fugitives from the Government and the Seven, but each of their lives have been damaged in a particular way. Frenchie is alienated from his business partners and suffered huge losses in profits and material. Mother's Milk destroys the reconciliation with his wife he strove so hard for and now may never see his daughter again. Even Hughie, though more confident, had to put his dad in protective custody, has no job, no home and will likely face an even more pissed off A-Train in the future. Special mention goes to Butcher whose constant manipulations and single-minded quest to kill Homelander alienates all his remaining friends and allies, gets him marked as a wanted criminal, and results in several deaths. Furthermore, his final confrontation with Homelander leads to All for Nothing (see above). Only The Female/Kimiko has any improvement in the quality of life, but only so far as being a fugitive is better than being a slave test subject.
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The Boys (2019) / int_8c625f4c	comment	Soviet Superscience: During the 80's the Soviets had developed a weapon that supposedly killed Soldier Boy, Vought's most powerful superhero at the time. The search for this weapon, so that it can be used against Homelander, is the main drive of Season 3. Double Subverted; the Soviets didn't take Soldier Boy down themselves, but as part of a deal with his team Payback, who had grown sick of his abuse, and Payback did the heavy lifting. However, it turns out that the experiments the Soviets did on Soldier Boy when they captured him gave him the ability to cause a radioactive explosion that also de-powers Supes.
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The Boys (2019) / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
The Boys (2019) / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Despite it being fairly well established that a child deprived of love and affection will turn out profoundly psychologically damaged, Vought decided to test that theory again on a baby with Superman-grade powers. Completely unsurprisingly, the result (Homelander) is a borderline mad dog with a glaring Lack of Empathy and a barely veiled contempt for humanity. Stan Edgar brings in Stormfront on the Seven to teach Homelander a lesson. However, Stormfront is a Nazi, and ends up corrupting Homelander further. The Boys force Lamplighter to become their spy within the Seven through blackmail, and regularly taunt him about it directly to his face despite making him spy on freakin' Homelander. Needless to say, Lamplighter retaliates to being backed into a corner the first chance he gets resulting in the tragic deaths of Mallory's grandchildren. That turned out to be an accident; the intended target was supposed to be Mallory, not the kids. After learning from their mistakes of raising Homelander like a lab rat and how damaging it was for his personality, Vought decides to let Becca raise Ryan in a friendly, home environment. What they failed to comprehend is how this is still a very small and very controlled environment, leaving Ryan utterly incapable of handling social interactions, crowds or simply people he never met before, not to mention being over-stimulated by just about anything. It seems that the parts of their plan that did succeed - not raising an egotistical megalomaniac with superpowers - left him with different set of problems, most of which could be easily avoided from the start by organising his "cage" differently. Homelander forces Stan Edgar out of the company and takes over management of Vought International, the entire corporation. He does it purely for the satisfaction of being in charge and not having anyone looming over him. But since he's a a Flying Brick with potentially no formal education whatsoever, not to mention no business acumen (or even basic business sense), the very first board meeting goes completely sideways, for he has no idea what the other board members are even asking fornote And they are not asking tough questions, either. The only thing he can come up with is scaring them into compliance, but it is made crystal clear he has no idea how to run the whole thing even on the most basic level and didn't even anticipate such situation.
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The Boys (2019) / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
The Boys (2019) / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: A staple of season's finale: You Found Me. Homelander was organizing the entire super-terrorist scheme behind Madelyn's back, using A-Train as a courier to run the Compound V to various terrorist groups. Starlight has a face-off with A-Train, while allying herself with the Boys by rescuing them. However A-Train knows what she did and is still alive to tell the rest of the Seven. By the end of the episode, Homelander murders Madelyn Stillwell to become The Unfettered, while Billy Butcher finds that his wife has been alive the entire time, and is raising Homelander's son. Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker. Starlight is outed as a mole and traitor to The Seven, and Lamplighter dies during the mission to rescue her. Homelander and Stormfront successfully convince Ryan to leave Becca, and Billy blackmails Jonah Vogelbaum into testifying against Vought. The Congressional hearing begins and Jonah Vogelbaum shows up to testify, then people's heads start exploding like Raynor's did.
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The Boys (2019) / int_90328f91	type	Unscrupulous Hero
The Boys (2019) / int_90328f91	comment	Then there's The Boys, out to do a good thing (bring down Vought and expose their dirty dealings), but have no problem using espionage, blackmail, and murder to do it. Hughie is the most upstanding of them, and even he admits that a part of him enjoyed murdering Translucent.
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The Boys (2019) / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Boys (2019) / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: During the Deep's PR-mandated exile, a woman masquerading as a groupie forces herself on him, invasively penetrating his sensitive gills with her long, sharp fingernails, which causes him visible discomfort. He's effectively being subjected to the same kind of abuse he inflicted on Starlight that led to his exile in the first place. A-Train, who takes pride in his Super-Speed, is sent after the Female and brutalizes her — she not only survives but cripples him with a pipe to the leg. In the Season One finale, Hughie chooses to rescue his True Companions—he not only succeeds but is able to reconcile with the woman he loves. Butcher chooses to abandon them for revenge. He not only fails in his task but finds everything he's done for vengeance is based on a lie.
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The Boys (2019) / int_93b92ca4	type	Lousy Lovers Are Losers
The Boys (2019) / int_93b92ca4	comment	The Deep has to extort women for sex; the one woman he's shown having consensual sex with is the one that he also says gives terrible blowjobs. Season 3 reveals that he has sex with animals in his free time and he seems to like them more than human partners.
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The Boys (2019) / int_93ca906	type	Burner Phones
The Boys (2019) / int_93ca906	comment	Burner Phones: Whenever any one of The Boys calls the others and says something along the lines of "I've been burned," they will all throw their phones on the ground, smashing them, and hightail it out of there before the authorities, Vought security, or The Seven get too close.
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The Boys (2019) / int_953c92eb	type	Beware the Superman
The Boys (2019) / int_953c92eb	comment	Beware the Superman: One of the series' main themes. Superheroes, just like normal human characters in this world, are at best individuals dealing with serious issues and at worst are villains drunk on power. Homelander is the most obvious example of this since he is actually a twisted Superman Substitute. Billy Butcher invokes the trope as justification for his hatred of all "supes", most prominently expressed during the group therapy scene. How much of it is genuine and how much is it just an excuse he uses to deal with personal trauma is left for the viewer to decide. Stormfront seems like a strong, no-bullshit female role model, and a likeable new addition to the Seven... before it's revealed that she's a murderous racist who slaughters an entire apartment building full of innocent African-Americans to take out Kimiko's brother.
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The Boys (2019) / int_95b7e807	type	Middle Eastern Terrorists
The Boys (2019) / int_95b7e807	comment	Also when Homelander squashes the head of one of the Middle Eastern Terrorists with his foot.
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The Boys (2019) / int_962b9429	type	Social Media Is Bad
The Boys (2019) / int_962b9429	comment	Social Media Is Bad: Social media, and foremost 4chan, are painted as a hotbed for extremists, e.g. the radical right-wing Stormchasers from season 3.
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The Boys (2019) / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
The Boys (2019) / int_966da803	comment	Even the Boys themselves fall prey to this, repeatedly shooting Black Noir and Stormfront despite being fully aware the bullets will have no effect. Though in their case, at least, the implication is less that they expect it to work and more that they're being Defiant to the End against enemies they can't escape from and can't stop or using it as a simple distraction.
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The Boys (2019) / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
The Boys (2019) / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: Season 2 becomes a lot more different with the revelation that Congresswoman Neuman is the head exploder. There's a fair bit of subtle foreshadowing throughout the season, but the main source of rewatch comes at the trial in Episode 7. Neuman "conveniently" closes her eyes right before the first head finishes exploding and thus protects her eyes from the incoming blood spatter. What we assume was her being shellshocked, was her actually faking it and using it as a way to scan the room for more targets (and you can even see her eyes dart around the room). She turns around at one point, just in time to see her Chief of Staff get taken out but of course it turns out that she turned around in order to do it herself and have an excuse to reenter the room to kill more people. This was done so effectively that very few people actually predicted this going into the season finale. Black Noir's recollection of what happened in Nicaragua in Episode 8 changes the interpretation of the supes' onscreen actions in Episode 2, from being fools out of their element who panic-killed men on their own side and lost Swatto and Soldier Boy to Sandinista fire, to very likely killing those men on purpose to remove witnesses from their betrayal of Soldier Boy to the Russians.
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The Boys (2019) / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
The Boys (2019) / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: In one of her bright moments, Maeve notes to Annie that when she joined the Seven, she was just like her, full of idealism and then slowly, but surely selling out. She encourages Starlight to not let the bastards grind her down. There is a whole lot of various characters pointing out that Butcher isn't really that different from Homelander, with both of them being bigoted, aggressive and self-centered assholes. Even certain bits of their childhood match.
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The Boys (2019) / int_995ad130	type	Meta Origin
The Boys (2019) / int_995ad130	comment	Meta Origin: Vought's marketing plays up the appearance of Supes as being "Miracles," but Compound V is shown to not just be a Supe-specific drug but when given to infants is actually what causes them to develop powers in the first place. It's possible for adults to develop superpowers, but is also just as likely to kill them.
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The Boys (2019) / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
The Boys (2019) / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Vought, as well as the parents of every Supe out there. All they could see was the money, fame and control it could give them, not that their attitudes and horrible child care would fill the world with extremely powerful beings without the emotional maturity to use that power wisely.
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The Boys (2019) / int_9aaad071	type	HA HA HAâ€”No
The Boys (2019) / int_9aaad071	comment	The good guys in Season 2 reveal damning evidence about a corporation and how it basically poisoned a generation of Americans. Mother's Milk cheers and hugs Hughie while Frenchie kisses him, as they finally have a win. Is that enough to bring Vought down? HA HA HAâ€”No; Vought is able to pin the conspiracy on a deceased employee, and stalls long enough for Congressional hearings instead of arrests by using their government contacts. As Edgar puts it, Vought has had experience covering up their "pharmaceutical experiments" and they aren't comic book supervillains. Hughie and Starlight are broken by the fact that the risks she took were All for Nothing, with the only thing coming out of it is a lead on Stormfront's real identity. On the other hand, the revelations do cause considerable damage the company's image and required a lot of effort to smooth over which is why Stan Edgar was appointed to his role to begin with and makes it clear he won't be as tolerant of Homelander's antics as Stillwell was. Even an evil company is still a company with shareholders, customers and a public image to consider.
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The Boys (2019) / int_9c209a57	type	The Hecate Sisters
The Boys (2019) / int_9c209a57	comment	The Hecate Sisters: Played with in regards of Starlight, Stormfront and Queen Maeve. Starlight definitely plays the role of The Maiden for being the youngest member and a naÃ¯ve blondie with an idealistic look on life. Stormfront is a darker take in the Mother Archetype, as she was married to Friederich Vought and had a daughter with him; she is also on the more controlling and manipulative side of the mother archetype for playing the role of feminist role model, yet in reality she is an unapologetic Nazi. Queen Maeve finally gets the role of the Crone; she is the eldest female member in the team, is the most powerful of them and she is a cynical, jaded and apathetic woman.
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The Boys (2019) / int_9cb5e4bb	type	Evil Costume Switch
The Boys (2019) / int_9cb5e4bb	comment	Evil Costume Switch: Starlight, to symbolize how she gave up on her morals and Hughie, dons the stripperific outfit Vought made for her and goes to the corporate party. She switches back for the finale.
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The Boys (2019) / int_9ce377f1	type	Cure Your Gays
The Boys (2019) / int_9ce377f1	comment	Cure Your Gays: Ezekiel's main selling point is that he truly believes that through the power of prayer, a person can become straight. At Believe Expo, Starlight even sees a poster of Homelander that says "Feeling Confused? Fly Straight", and the festival just serves as a way to market this to the world at large by sponsoring superheroes. Ezekiel personally knows the opposite, and lives as a closeted gay man.
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The Boys (2019) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Boys (2019) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The season 2 premiere quickly uses this to establish its key villains without giving away their true motivations or identities. Immediately after the Head Exploder's first kill, the show cuts to Congresswoman Neuman on TV decrying Vought. Additionally, one of Stormfront's first words is praising Homelander's blue eyes. One which uses the audience's meta knowledge. Lamplighter is an Expy of Pyro from the X-Men Film Series. He's played by Shawn Ashmore. Shawn Ashmore played Bobby Drake/Iceman in those same films. Iceman and Pyro were nemeses. Lamplighter is his own worst enemy, so his suicide should come as no great surprise.
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The Boys (2019) / int_9fbf8969	type	Cut Lex Luthor a Check
The Boys (2019) / int_9fbf8969	comment	Of supervillains. It is simply much more profitable and personally rewarding to let the crowd adore you as a superhero than to become the recurring punching bag of one.
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The Boys (2019) / int_a27c0c2c	type	Artistic License â€“ Religion
The Boys (2019) / int_a27c0c2c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Religion: The Islamic super-terrorist has Arabic text tattooed on his chest, apparently to show how fanatical he is. However, it's unlikely that a Muslim fanatic would have such tattoos. They are prohibited in most interpretations of Sunni Islam, and in Shia Islam they are either considered offensive or outright prohibited depending on the type of ink used.
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The Boys (2019) / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Boys (2019) / int_a2b38d3b	comment	The finales of seasons 1 and 2 both frame the climactic face-off between Billy and Homelander in the same scene as a woman gets blinded and killed by laser vision in front of her young child. In season 2, the blinded woman and the killed one are 2 separate people, but the laser vision causes catastrophic injury to both.
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The Boys (2019) / int_a448674	type	Gratuitous Latin
The Boys (2019) / int_a448674	comment	Gratuitous Latin: The carving of The Seven is inscribed with the Latin "Fiat justitia ruat caelum" or "Let justice be done though the heavens fall".
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The Boys (2019) / int_a51b63ed	type	Flying Brick
The Boys (2019) / int_a51b63ed	comment	Homelander forces Stan Edgar out of the company and takes over management of Vought International, the entire corporation. He does it purely for the satisfaction of being in charge and not having anyone looming over him. But since he's a a Flying Brick with potentially no formal education whatsoever, not to mention no business acumen (or even basic business sense), the very first board meeting goes completely sideways, for he has no idea what the other board members are even asking fornote And they are not asking tough questions, either. The only thing he can come up with is scaring them into compliance, but it is made crystal clear he has no idea how to run the whole thing even on the most basic level and didn't even anticipate such situation.
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The Boys (2019) / int_a5e0c01	type	As Himself
The Boys (2019) / int_a5e0c01	comment	As Himself: In-Universe. There is a Vought Cinematic Universe where superheroes play themselves in movies and television shows. Jimmy Fallon has Translucent on his show. Seth Rogen has a cameo where he is the director of the Black Noir movie. Season 2 reveals that he's directing the Translucent movie as well. Season 3 has him show up as the patron of a camgirl. Billy Zane was in a movie with Popclaw, and shows up at a comic con meet and greet later. He later goes on to play Alastair Adana in a made-for-TV movie based on the Deep's memoir. Tara Reid shows up at a fan meet and greet. She has a poster behind her of a superhero movie she was in, in-universe. Maria Menounos interviews various members of the Seven at different points. Greg Grunberg is one of the stars of Dawn of the Seven. Dateline's Chris Hansen appears briefly to give exposition on The Boys' wanted status on TV. Charlize Theron plays Stormfront in a highly fictional Vought film about her clash with the Seven.
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The Boys (2019) / int_a5fb0d24	type	Healing Factor
The Boys (2019) / int_a5fb0d24	comment	Although Kimiko initially holds her own pretty well against Black Noir, it's not very long before he manages to put her down. If not for her Healing Factor, she would've died.
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The Boys (2019) / int_a76de48b	type	Troubled Production
The Boys (2019) / int_a76de48b	comment	Troubled Production: In-Universe. Production for Dawn of the Seven is thrown into turmoil by Homelander's abrupt decisions to out Queen Maeve as gay and kick A-Train off the team, necessitating hasty rewrites. A-Train initially balks at delivering his dialogue in which he announces his departure until Ashley reminds him that he is still under Vought's contract. Homelander burns down his own trailer in a fit of rage after finding out Stormfront lied to him about her whereabouts.
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The Boys (2019) / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
The Boys (2019) / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: In the show's universe, superheroes have been around at least since the '60s. You wouldn't be able to tell from the way society is more or less the same compared to our world. This gets called into question as of episode 6: The Boys discover from their encounter with the super baby the previous episode that Vought has been creating Supes since 1971 using their charities as cover. This is the same episode where Stillwell outright admits that Vought similarly manufactured the entire "superhero mythology" for public consumption. Season 2 Episode 1 finally has Stan Edgar reveal Compound V has its origins in Dachau, 1939, where Frederick Vought was a Nazi scientist who experimented on the camp's prisoners, hoping to create a Super-Soldier. By early 1944, he realized Germany was going to lose and defected to the United States, bringing with him the first practical applications of Compound V and earning a pardon from Franklin Roosevelt for his crimes.
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The Boys (2019) / int_a9667a3b	type	Hero Insurance
The Boys (2019) / int_a9667a3b	comment	Hero Insurance: Superheroes have quasi-immunity like cops while on the job. They can still be sued or charged for acting outside that. A-Train kills Robin by running into her while she's just barely in the street (one foot off the curb, as Hughie says). Later he lies and claims she was in the middle of the street while he was speeding past pursuing bank robbers. He can't be prosecuted so long as it was part of his crime-fighting, and this is explicitly said to be like the quasi-immunity law enforcement officers have while performing their duties, so the idea appears to have been codified by law in the show's universe. It's said he could still be sued, but Hughie's father says it would be too hard to prove wrongdoing. Butcher points out people simply want to believe that Supes are the good guys and thus ignore the collateral damage and all the problems of their vigilantism, though superheroes are shown carefully covering up actual blatant crimes they commit. When you are also backed by a multi-billion corporation and its marketing and legal departments, it is very easy to make people remain silent with their complaints or by outright forcing them to never mention anything by signing an agreement outside of court. Those few that insist on still making a fuss over the damage, destruction, or manslaughter get simply buried under litigation Vought can easily afford for years. Butcher does a small bit of investigating of concurrent crimes at the time of Robin's death and proves internally it was false (and helps recruit Hughie to his mission), but the uphill legal battle would still be brutal; thus, much of the first season revolves around getting proof that A-Train is actually an addict and was under the influence at the time of Robins death. In the past, Butcher and his team were semi-sponsored by the CIA, but after several bad incidents (an attempt at blackmailing Lamplighter to give them a link inside the Seven led to him killing Mallory's grandchildren) they were forced to be more of a freelance team and have a difficult time keeping together at the start of the series. Butcher still has numerous contacts because of that past association, though many bridges were also burned. The Boys do end up guilty of or accomplices in numerous murders, robberies, blackmail and trespassing, which forces them to go deep underground once Vought becomes more aware of their existence. They do rebuild their relationships as they uncover legitimate evidence, leading to all charges against them being dropped at the end of the second season, with talk of them heading an official counter-supe team for the CIA.
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The Boys (2019) / int_aa87556f	type	Orange/Blue Contrast
The Boys (2019) / int_aa87556f	comment	Orange/Blue Contrast: A-Train wears blue, his rival Shockwave wears orange. At their race in Episode 3, the stadium and fans present are evenly divided between the two colors.
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The Boys (2019) / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
The Boys (2019) / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: Directly after the above, comes The Deep attempting to rescue a dolphin with "Wannabe" in the background - the dissonance gets even worse when it goes wrong! Said Spice Girls song is also used for clashing contrast in the trailer, with Season 2 following suit by having Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" (after all, Hughie has been revealed to be a fan of his).
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The Boys (2019) / int_ac33492	type	Destroy the Product Placement
The Boys (2019) / int_ac33492	comment	Destroy the Product Placement: Or rather, Associate the Product Placement With the Villains. Season two makes the citrus soft drink Fresca the drink of choice for the Church of the Collective, to the point where any mention of Fresca carries sinister connotations.
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The Boys (2019) / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
The Boys (2019) / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Every episode in the first two seasons is named after a story arc in the comics. In season 3, when they began to run out of arc titles, some quotes from the comics were used instead.
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The Boys (2019) / int_ac4c677f	type	De-power
The Boys (2019) / int_ac4c677f	comment	After Kimiko gets De Powered in season 3, she and Frenchie have their own adventures with The Mafiya while the rest of the Boys keep fighting deranged supes.
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The Boys (2019) / int_aca32000	type	Armor-Piercing Response
The Boys (2019) / int_aca32000	comment	Armor-Piercing Response: In the Season 2 finale, Maeve gives one to Homelander when she blackmails him into letting Billy and Ryan go with the video proof of him allowing the plane to crash back in Season 1.
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The Boys (2019) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Boys (2019) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Ashley in general has so many Oh, Crap! moments that it's basically her job description for the show. Being the spin doctor for a bunch of violent psychopaths that often act first and think about the PR disaster later tends to do that to you.
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The Boys (2019) / int_ad641426	type	Trademark Favorite Food
The Boys (2019) / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: The Church of the Collective uses Fresca as part of its recruitment strategy.
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The Boys (2019) / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
The Boys (2019) / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: Butcher. His entire motivation in the series (and comic) is that Homelander raped and got his wife killed. Not only is she still alive, but she tearfully refuses Billy's attempt to rescue her because of her love for her son, whom she knows Billy views as a monster because of his father. Starlight is extorted for oral sex by The Deep on pretty much her first day. He claims he's the number 2 in the organization, and that if she doesn't do what he says, she'll get kicked out. Starlight finds out on her own after the encounter that he's pretty much a nobody in the group. Saying no to his demands and explaining what he did would have stirred up minimal trouble for her at best. Throughout Season 2, the Boys attempt to gather evidence and witnesses to try and finally expose Vought. To say it goes sideways would be an understatement. It starts with them attempting to inform Raynor about Vought, which immediately ends when her head explodes. Their next move is to infiltrate a Supe breeding facility, where they find a key witness in Lamplighter. That fails when all the prisoners escape and Lamplighter just kills himself an episode later. Even when they manage to get an actual hearing in front of Congress, that goes wrong as their star witnesses and several others in the hearing also have their heads exploded, one after the other. We find out in the season finale that any attempt at gathering witnesses to testify against Vought was going to be pointless as Congresswoman Neuman is the head exploder. Season 3 takes it a step further by revealing that Neuman was Stan Edgar's adopted daughter the whole time and she is only pretending to go against Vought so they would be able to control the political opposition to them. This is the main reason Hughie decides to reluctantly embrace Butcher's methods. Tired of being constantly outmaneuvered by Vought when trying to bring them down the "right way", he tells Annie that they have to be prepared to do anything, no matter how violent or outside the law.
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The Boys (2019) / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
The Boys (2019) / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Butcher has a tendency to use "diabolical" to mean anything from "exceptionally sinister" to "unspeakably awesome." Whenever Homelander shows up to a crime scene, he always stops before going in and tells the first responders, "You guys are the real heroes." Ashley, the first PR rep in charge of handling Starlight, responds to Starlight's statements of what she wants or thinks she wants to do or be with "And that is why we love you," before basically telling her the exact opposite because that's what Vought thinks is most marketable. A lesser example, but MM is very fond of calling people "motherfucker".
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The Boys (2019) / int_b15ad926	type	Time-Shifted Actor
The Boys (2019) / int_b15ad926	comment	Time-Shifted Actor: Maya Misaljevic plays a young Starlight.
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The Boys (2019) / int_b1e8a3b3	type	Coming of Age Story
The Boys (2019) / int_b1e8a3b3	comment	Coming of Age Story: The late bloomer variety for Hughie and Starlight. Hughie is mentally a child as he's still treated like one, holds onto his childhood with both hands, and is shown to be living a stagnant lifestyle. His girlfriend, Robin, even had to ask him out on a first date because he never took the initiative to do so. After Robin is killed, Hughie's mundane life is pulled from under his feet and he tumbles into adulthood when he experiences injustice for the first time when A-Train receives absolutely no punishment for Robin's death and Hughie realizes that his own father can't provide the closure he's looking for. When Hughie kills Translucent, it signifies the loss of his innocence but it doesn't make him feel like an adult, as it instead leaves him with severe PTSD that only gets worse in season 2. His relationship with Annie has him slowly growing more mature as he starts taking the initiative and shedding his naivete while still maintaining his optimistic determination. Before her initiation into The Seven, Annie was sexually naive and idealistic about justice. After being forced to perform oral sex on The Deep, Annie tumbles into adulthood after learning the inherent depravity of supes, the blatant hypocrisy and injustice brought in by Vought International, and the story has shaken her faith in a higher power. As she's forced to stay quiet about the assault, portray herself as virginal, and hold herself to an unrealistic standard. Starlight makes her first adult decision by breaking character during a seminar to reveal how she was sexually assaulted by The Deep. Like Hughie, Starlight's loss of innocence doesn't harden her in the way it was intended to, as it makes her ruthless, violent, and manipulative.
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The Boys (2019) / int_b2adf5ad	type	Destructo-Nookie
The Boys (2019) / int_b2adf5ad	comment	Half of the foreplay with Stormfront and Homelander was her goading him to use his heat vision on her chest, which she manages to withstand and they both seemed to enjoy as a fetish, suggesting neither have a lot of experience being able to push themselves during sex. The rest of the time turned into Destructo-Nookie.
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The Boys (2019) / int_b2e94341	type	Based on a Great Big Lie
The Boys (2019) / int_b2e94341	comment	Based on a Great Big Lie: In-Universe: Homelander films a documentary to try and garner sympathy towards militarizing superheroes. He tells stories about his mother and father, playing little league, and birthday cakes. None of it ever happened. Starlight calls Maeve out on this, stating how she read Maeve's biography so much she wore it out and had to buy a second copy, idolized Maeve, and wanted to be just like her. She specifically cites an incident where Maeve broke every bone in her arm stopping a school bus from going off a bridge, then visited all the kids in physical therapy to help inspire their recovery. Now, she's pretty sure it was all made up by the marketing department and none of it really happened. Subverted in the last episode of season 1, Maeve shows Starlight that her radius never healed completely straight, and she really did break every bone in her arm stopping that bus, so that part of the story at least is true.
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The Boys (2019) / int_b34ae206	type	Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex
The Boys (2019) / int_b34ae206	comment	Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex: Popclaw accidentally smashes the head of her landlord while facesitting him after losing control as she climaxes, plus due to being high on Compound V. Another instance is mentioned in a therapy group. A man claims that he had sex with a supe called Ice Princess and her vagina cooled down to the temperature of frozen nitrogen when she climaxed, with his penis still inside. It snapped off. Homelander is told that Becca became pregnant with his child but died during childbirth because the superpowered baby tried to rip its way out and drowned in Becca's blood. That turns out to be a lie. Becca survived her sexual encounter with Homelander and gave birth to the child without apparent difficulty. Starlight's powers do flare up while having sex, but is not shown to be harmful. Half of the foreplay with Stormfront and Homelander was her goading him to use his heat vision on her chest, which she manages to withstand and they both seemed to enjoy as a fetish, suggesting neither have a lot of experience being able to push themselves during sex. The rest of the time turned into Destructo-Nookie. In Season three, a size-shifting supe named Termite tries to play some urethral insertion fetish with another man, by turning himself into the size of an ant and entering his penis through the urethra. However, Termite ends up sneezing and losing control of his power while inside, which quickly turns the other man into Ludicrous Gibs from the waist down.
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The Boys (2019) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Boys (2019) / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: The series routinely take pot-shots at various things. In Season 2, a film writer proposes his idea for a Hans-Zimmer-scored blockbuster about the origins of the Seven, entitled Dawn of the Seven. Stormfront's feedback is that all the women are written to be "unknowable Hitchcock bitches or Michael Bay fuckdolls" and blames it on the writer's "lifetime of jerking off to Transformers." During filming of Dawn fo the Seven, Homelander says that he likes the rewrites by Whedon, who at the time was starting to become infamous for his portrayal of female characters and treatment of women on sets. It's also a dig at Justice League (2017), which Whedon was brought on to help rewrite and redirect after Zack Snyder experienced a personal tragedy. According to showrunner Eric Kripke, the "girls get it done" scenes in season 2 (both the horribly corny bits from the in-universe film and the actually entertaining beatdown that follows the line in a different context towards the end of the season) were meant as a dig at this scene in Avengers: Endgame, which he and producer Rebecca Sonneshine found to be unearned pandering that made no sense in its own context. The entire corporate commercialization of anything even remotely related to LGBT issues by Vought, seen entirely as chasing after yet another target demographic and not giving a damn about it other than consumers of a product, with incredibly heavy-handed and misguided attempts to please the in-universe LGBT Fanbase. This is clearly at dig at corporations such as Disney who are guilty of the same. A-Train's hilariously tasteless Glurgeinvoked energy drink ad in season 3 is an obvious shot at the infamous Kendal Jenner Pepsi ad. Prior to that, A-Train rebranding himself around his African ancestry, despite doing it only for staying in the spotlight, is a not-so-subtle jab toward Disney's massive marketing campaign around Black Panther (2018), where they were trying to up-sell a superhero movie as the biggest social event of the decade and the most relevant thing, but mostly just blatantly targeting the African-American demographic. The Deep releases a perfect recreation of Gal Gadot's celebrity-filled cover of "Imagine" that dropped early in the Covid pandemic and was roundly mocked for its tone-deafness. Bonus points for it also being loaded with real celebrities. Ashley telling A-Train that he will be starring in an autobiographical film that completely rewrites his life as a stereotypical White Savior Oscar Bait drama, where a white coach helps him "find a more civilized path". This is a pretty obvious reference to films like The Blind Side that over-exaggerate the influence a white person had on a black person's success. In February 2024, official Vought social medias released a new product - Homelander boots, with a price of $777 to raise funds for his trial of murder. Not so long before that Donald Trump did exactly the same thing for the same reasons.
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The Boys (2019) / int_b552b24	type	Truer to the Text
The Boys (2019) / int_b552b24	comment	Truer to the Text: Season 3 sees a number of comic book elements come into play that were present in the comic from the beginning. The Boys are now official government agents, MM and Monique have divorced, and Butcher and Hughie gain superpowers, albeit on a temporary basis.
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The Boys (2019) / int_b8198b96	type	Dead Man's Switch
The Boys (2019) / int_b8198b96	comment	Dead Man's Switch: To protect his life during his showdown with Homelander, Billy carries a detonator in his hand which would blow up the explosive vest Stillwell is wearing if activated. Homelander doesn't care and moves on to kill Stillwell himself, thus removing any last threat Billy could pose to him.
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The Boys (2019) / int_ba46585b	type	Adaptational Backstory Change
The Boys (2019) / int_ba46585b	comment	Adaptational Backstory Change: Kimiko in the comics (where her character is called "The Female of the Species") started out as a neglected infant whose who ate some Compound V waste and was traded out to a major Japanese company by her mother in exchange for a magazine subscription, which resulted in her being experimented on by the company until she was rescued by The Boys. In the show, she and her brother were kidnapped at a young age and brainwashed by an Asian terrorist group; she is being held captive by human traffickers, not scientists, when The Boys find her. In the comics, Vought-American was a weapons manufacturer that produced cheaply-made, incompetently-designed planes and rifles for the U.S. military and developed Compound V themselves with the help of a German scientist who they helped defect to the U.S. before the war. In the show, Vought International was founded after the war by a "reformed" Nazi war criminal who had developed Compound V by testing it on prisoners at Dachau; the company identifies itself as a pharmaceutical company rather than a weapons manufacturer.
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The Boys (2019) / int_bbc77bb5	type	Hard Truth Aesop
The Boys (2019) / int_bbc77bb5	comment	Hard Truth Aesop: The justice system is inherently, irrepairably corrupt, and trying to fix it from the inside will only end up with you and those you care about getting targets painted on your backs. Sometimes, your manipulative hardass of a boss is the ONLY one keeping everything in line, and without them, your entire operation will fall into shambles. It doesn't matter how much of a corporation's crimes you end up exposing; if they're rich and powerful enough, they'll escape legal consequences every single time, and will still have tons of people supporting them.
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The Boys (2019) / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Boys (2019) / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Homelander may be all smiles in front of cameras and large crowds of fans, but underneath his public image he's one of the most Ax-Crazy Supes of them all, and he has several such buttons to accentuate it: he blows up over a reminder of his childhood Security Blanket, don't lie to him and, as of Season 2's ending, don't insult Stormfront or remind him of her death. After being continuously babied by his father into young adulthood, Hughie does not like being demeaned for his youthful looks, and it's implied to be what tilts him toward going through with blowing up Translucent. Mocking his friends or loved ones is also enough to make him look ready to punch Homelander in the face. Reminding Butcher of his wife Becca is a bad idea. Hughie rightly calling Butcher out on the bullshit of his "I'm doing this for Becca" justification for his all-consuming and toxic vendetta against Supes causes both M.M. and Frenchie to shit bricks in a way which implies that if anyone else had said that in Hughie's place, they would've met a very nasty retribution. One trait Homelander's son Ryan has in common with his biological father? He hates being lied to. Also, don't hurt or threaten his mother — doing so gives him the incentive to push Homelander down, and to burn Stormfront to nothing more than a torso, a head and an arm.
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The Boys (2019) / int_bd79d896	type	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
The Boys (2019) / int_bd79d896	comment	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: A-Train liquefying Robin leads to the Boys discovering Homelander's plot to seed Compound V all over the world, creating an endless number of supervillains for Vought's heroes to fight, and forcing the government to accept superheroes into the military since no one else is equipped to deal with them.
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The Boys (2019) / int_beb932ca	comment	Big Applesauce: Much of the action takes place in New York City, where Vought is headquartered.
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The Boys (2019) / int_c02f148d	type	Both Sides Have a Point
The Boys (2019) / int_c02f148d	comment	Both Sides Have a Point: In season 3, the Boys' internal conflict regarding Soldier Boy. MM and Starlight want him taken out, while Butcher and Hughie team up with him against Homelander. On the one hand, Soldier Boy is extremely unstable and leaves corpses in his wake whenever his powers get out of control, and MM has as legitimate a grievance against him as Butcher has against Homelander or Hughie against A-Train. On the other hand, Soldier Boy is their best chance against Homelander, who is far worse and an active threat against Ryan's safety.
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The Boys (2019) / int_c0fd3b54	type	Light 'em Up
The Boys (2019) / int_c0fd3b54	comment	Someone actually asks if Starlight ever used her glowy hands for "fun."
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The Boys (2019) / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
The Boys (2019) / int_c145f69b	comment	Starlight calls Maeve out on this, stating how she read Maeve's biography so much she wore it out and had to buy a second copy, idolized Maeve, and wanted to be just like her. She specifically cites an incident where Maeve broke every bone in her arm stopping a school bus from going off a bridge, then visited all the kids in physical therapy to help inspire their recovery. Now, she's pretty sure it was all made up by the marketing department and none of it really happened. Subverted in the last episode of season 1, Maeve shows Starlight that her radius never healed completely straight, and she really did break every bone in her arm stopping that bus, so that part of the story at least is true.
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The Boys (2019) / int_c1d1d6ad	type	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?
The Boys (2019) / int_c1d1d6ad	comment	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Hughie's reaction to Mother's Milk's name.
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The Boys (2019) / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
The Boys (2019) / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: There are multiple films and at least one TV show in the series universe starring or about superheroes. Most are superhero movies akin to real ones you'd see. Another thought was a police procedural with a young superhero named Mesmer who used his mind-reading power to help solve crimes. They are all supposed to be part of the 'Vought Cinematic Universe'.
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The Boys (2019) / int_c289826f	type	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male
The Boys (2019) / int_c289826f	comment	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Zig-Zagged as part of The Deep's Trauma Conga Line. After getting bounced from The Seven to Sandusky, Ohio, he invites a groupie to his apartment for some playtime. She first laughs at his gills, then pins him to the couch, putting her fingers in them despite him telling her repeatedly it hurts, then rapes him while sticking her fingers in those painful spots. The scene is shot and scored such that it's obviously not deserved comeuppance for his sexual assault of Starlight, and while it plays a role in what's either going to be Character Development or a complete breakdown going forward, what happened to him is still shown as wrong. However, the incident is never mentioned again, and the Deep's actor has stated that this was comeuppance for the character's actions. So, this is a case where this trope could have been averted, but ultimately wasn't. Played Straight in Season 3 with Little Nina's blatant sexual harassment of Frenchie in every interaction they have. It is heavily sexualized and never called-out the way the Deep and Homelander's harassment of women is. The fact that Nina was Frenchie's employer also means that their previous sexual relationship was most likely unconsenting, which is also not discussed in any way.
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The Boys (2019) / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
The Boys (2019) / int_c313d43a	comment	In the Season One finale, Hughie chooses to rescue his True Companions—he not only succeeds but is able to reconcile with the woman he loves. Butcher chooses to abandon them for revenge. He not only fails in his task but finds everything he's done for vengeance is based on a lie.
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The Boys (2019) / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
The Boys (2019) / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Due to her experience with The Deep, Starlight renounced her faith. Due to his experience with Starlight, The Deep joined The Church of the Collective.
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The Boys (2019) / int_c40db9e1	type	Viral Marketing
The Boys (2019) / int_c40db9e1	comment	Viral Marketing: The show is extremely good at this, releasing a whole host of (frequently hilarious) Vought content in the lead-up to each season and continuing throughout, including commercials, news segments, and music videos. In-Universe, Stormfront rides her popularity on social media, which gives her the freedom to criticize Vought all she wants without the fear the others have of losing their cash flow. She even mocks Homelander that he spent 280 million on a flopping PR campaign while she is succeeding because of five interns making memes.
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The Boys (2019) / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
The Boys (2019) / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Translucent often appears fully nude and, while he's not a bad looking guy, the scenes have him spying on other people or else being locked up. Any time Elisabeth Shue's breasts are partially shown, the context is usually disturbing; Homelander spying on her milking them to breastfeed her baby, or else their creepy foreplay where she lets him drink her breast milk. The third episode gives Hughie a Shirtless Scene...while he's washing off Translucent's blood after blowing him to smithereens. He's clearly traumatized during this. Starlight is made to wear a Hotter and Sexier costume, and in a public appearance she has to deal with perverts catcalling her as she bends over for a picture with a little girl. The first time we see The Deep shirtless, he's in really good shape, but then we see he has gills on his torso, and the scene descends into rape from a female fan. More than one scene has a sex act seemingly being performed by a beautiful woman in lingerie...only for it to turn out to be Doppelganger who will still be wearing the lingerie after turning back. Popclaw dons a sexy black nightie for foreplay with her landlord, who she's extorting rent money from with the act. Then she accidentally crushes his head with her thighs. We get a prominent shot of Stormfront's cleavage, her even opening her top to make them more visible...as Homelander is burning her chest with his eye beams. Termite is a Hunk who gets Male Frontal Nudity in the Season 3 premiere. Then he accidentally makes a man explode from the inside and remains fully nude while covered in blood and guts.
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The Boys (2019) / int_c69902e7	type	Church of Happyology
The Boys (2019) / int_c69902e7	comment	Church of Happyology: The "Church of the Collective" in Season 2 is clearly a parody of Scientology in how it disseminates literature, discourages conventional therapy, and recruits superheroes the same way Scientology recruits celebrities. Even the way the church organizes auditions for being The Deep's girlfriend is similar to how Scientology reportedly auditioned girlfriends for Tom Cruise. The Deep also mentions the church's religious doctrine involving "cosmic zygotes", a clear jab at the Scientologist belief that human beings are possessed by alien spirits called "body thetans".
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The Boys (2019) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Boys (2019) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Mother's Milk tells Hughie his cover is a "mild-mannered reporter", which is, of course, how Superman was described in his secret identity as Clark Kent. Homelander's big revelation that he conceived a child and was absent for most of his life is a nod to a contentious moment in Superman Returns. Another Superman Returns shout-out comes in the Flight 37 scene, albeit with a much darker conclusion. Unlike Superman, Homelander botches the mission and leaves the passengers to die. When Queen Maeve suggests he try to lift the plane he points out that he can't hold up a plane, no matter how powerful he is. Trying to do so would just punch through the hull, or cause the whole plane to flip over at 500 mph. A-Train exercises by pulling a train, much like Mr. Incredible. Mesmer's character in The Mesmerizer is called Lt. Howzer, just like that other show with a child genius. The promotional material for season 3 included an actual theater trailer for Dawn of the Seven, the Show Within a Show movie that the Seven were filming throughout season 2. Appropriately, it's dubbed "the Bourke Cut".
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The Boys (2019) / int_ca7ec334	type	Two Lines, No Waiting
The Boys (2019) / int_ca7ec334	comment	Two Lines, No Waiting: While not quite an ensemble, the show is generally split between the politics going on with The Seven and the efforts from The Boys on finding any sort of method of holding Supes accountable. On occasion, the two stories intersect. Generally not enough for a direct confrontation between them, however. After Kimiko gets De Powered in season 3, she and Frenchie have their own adventures with The Mafiya while the rest of the Boys keep fighting deranged supes.
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The Boys (2019) / int_cadef12e	type	Adaptational Skill
The Boys (2019) / int_cadef12e	comment	Adaptational Skill: In the comics, the version of Compound V that The Boys use is basically just a physical booster giving them Super-Strength and Super-Toughness. In the series it bestows a specific superpower on each user such as Eye Beams or Teleportation.
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The Boys (2019) / int_ce1c73e2	type	Just Plane Wrong
The Boys (2019) / int_ce1c73e2	comment	Just Plane Wrong: Aircraft and their capabilities are frequently misrepresented. The Deep misidentifies the previously-seen Hawker private jet as a Gulfstream. The airliner in the first season is supposedly flying from Paris to Chicago with 123 people on board. All seats appear to be full. However, the aircraft shown flying is a Boeing 737 MAX 8, which lacks the range to fly from Paris to Chicago non-stop, and normally carries about 175 passengers in an all-economy configuration. The airliner's oxygen masks should have dropped the moment Homelander opened the door and depressurized the cabin, yet they inexplicably drop later, as the aircraft descends into denser and more breathable air.
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The Boys (2019) / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
The Boys (2019) / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: While the show features graphic violence and sexual depravity, it doesn't go anywhere near as extreme as the source material. This is exemplified by Starlight's Casting Couch experience. In the comics, she is coerced to perform oral sex on Homelander, Black Noir, and A-Train, while Queen Maeve's response in the aftermath is callously dismissive. Starlight has to keep quiet about the experience lest she be booted from the team. In the show, only The Deep coerces her, and Maeve actually gives her some bluntly honest advice. After Starlight makes veiled but public comments about her experience, Vought bows to public pressure and has The Deep Reassigned to Antarctica.
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The Boys (2019) / int_cf1845d7	type	Yellow/Purple Contrast
The Boys (2019) / int_cf1845d7	comment	Yellow/Purple Contrast: In Season 2, Starlight and Stormfront are both female rookie members of The Seven. While Starlight has yellow accents on her costume and has powers based on yellow light, Stormfront has a purple-and-black suit and can project purple lightning. While they get along at first, their aspirations are completely at odds; Starlight genuinely wants to do good, while Stormfront is a Nazi whose atrocities go all the way back to the Third Reich itself.
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The Boys (2019) / int_d243518d	type	In Spite of a Nail
The Boys (2019) / int_d243518d	comment	In the show's universe, superheroes have been around at least since the '60s. You wouldn't be able to tell from the way society is more or less the same compared to our world. This gets called into question as of episode 6: The Boys discover from their encounter with the super baby the previous episode that Vought has been creating Supes since 1971 using their charities as cover. This is the same episode where Stillwell outright admits that Vought similarly manufactured the entire "superhero mythology" for public consumption.
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The Boys (2019) / int_d839c530	type	The Unfettered
The Boys (2019) / int_d839c530	comment	Queen Maeve blackmails Homelander about the crashing plane they abandoned. Unfortunately, while it initially seems to work, Homelander tells Starlight in season 3 that revealing the tape and destroying his reputation would simply allow him to become The Unfettered, killing millions and taking over the world for himself.
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The Boys (2019) / int_da3043c5	type	Fake Ultimate Hero
The Boys (2019) / int_da3043c5	comment	Fake Ultimate Hero: Arguably the whole superhero community in the series is this as Vought makes sure to promote all the superpowered people as classical superheroes while in reality, most of the supposed heroes are only caring for themselves (and Vought itself is only wanting to print money with their heroes). Biggest example is of course Superman Substitute Homelander who pretends to be The Cape and an Ideal Hero in public but in reality is a Psychopathic Manchild only caring for himself.
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The Boys (2019) / int_da46a2c0	type	Hollywood Atheist
The Boys (2019) / int_da46a2c0	comment	Hollywood Atheist: Butcher is a jerkass (well, with a soft side), who goes out of his way to argue with a Christian at the Believe Expo, saying that if God does exist, he's evil. Starlight says to Gekko she's realized there's no God or anyone else watching over humanity, and compares this with Homelander (an evil false "hero" who resembles Superman) implying she lost faith after her prior bad experiences. Though after seeing Billy Butcher perform an incredibly selfless act at the end of Season 2, she half-heartedly starts reconsidering her stance on the subject. In "The Only Man In The Sky" Homelander reveals he doesn't actually believe in God (although a part of his public image is supposedly being a devout Christian and minister) while "talking down" a suicidal young woman, saying it's only him up there in the sky. This is right before he makes her jump, instead of saving her and of course he'd long been established as a murderous, hypocritical asshole.
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The Boys (2019) / int_db33bc7e	type	Ludicrous Gibs
The Boys (2019) / int_db33bc7e	comment	In Season three, a size-shifting supe named Termite tries to play some urethral insertion fetish with another man, by turning himself into the size of an ant and entering his penis through the urethra. However, Termite ends up sneezing and losing control of his power while inside, which quickly turns the other man into Ludicrous Gibs from the waist down.
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The Boys (2019) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
The Boys (2019) / int_db71d717	comment	Thanatos Gambit: Played With. Over the course of the show Butcher lies, cheats and steals his way to Homelander burning every bridge he has in the process to get revenge on Homelander for raping and killing his wife. His revenge was a suicide mission killing the one person Homelander loved, and himself, and leaving him wracked with grief and unable to do anything just as he did for him. However, Homelander makes a great point that Butcher doesn't know for sure that Homelander did anything to him. The show itself is ambiguous if Butcher was right suggesting it was a consensual affair. Which if true that would render his whole mission pointless. Moreover, Homelander simply kills Stillwell negating his plan, and even saves him from his suicide bomb and sets out to prove he was wrong and rub his face in it.
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The Boys (2019) / int_dc2c2968	type	Superpowerful Genetics
The Boys (2019) / int_dc2c2968	comment	Superpowerful Genetics: While the current generation of Supes is engineered via Compound V, the son Homelander has with Becca apparently inherited superpowers from his father. Stormfront explicitly identifies this as unique; no other superhero has produced powered offspring before.
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The Boys (2019) / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
The Boys (2019) / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: In Season 3, The Boys learn that the Russians killed Soldier Boy during the Cold War using some sort of anti-supe weapon, and they investigate it as a possible lead to kill Homelander despite the low odds of success. They don't find the weapon, but instead they unexpectedly find Soldier Boy who somehow now has an anti-supe power, so the plot continues. Made even more contrived by the fact that later in the season, the viewer learns there never was an anti-supe weapon at all: Soldier Boy was originally defeated with nerve gas during a betrayal by his team.
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The Boys (2019) / int_dc67d9ba	type	Kiss of Death
The Boys (2019) / int_dc67d9ba	comment	Homelander scares the living hell out of Stillwell simply by holding her baby. When he gets her to admit that she's scared of him, he thanks her, kisses her, and then zaps her right in the face.
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The Boys (2019) / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
The Boys (2019) / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: Frenchie calls The Female "mon coeur" or "my heart" in lieu of a name before he learns it. He continues to do so even after he finds out what her name is. Frenchie refers to Jack Quaid's character as "Petit Hughie" and sometimes "Wee Hughie". Frenchie considers them affectionate nicknames; Hughie does not. Frenchie also calls his female assistant "Cherie", and MM "Mon Ami" (my friend). He occasionally refers to Billy as "Monsieur Charcuter" (Mr. Butcher).
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The Boys (2019) / int_de10dda2	type	Caught on Tape
The Boys (2019) / int_de10dda2	comment	Caught on Tape: Annie gets caught on camera fighting a group of rapists, which blows her secret identity. Billy gains blackmail material on Popclaw after she accidently kills a man while having sex with him. When A-Train revisits the sex tapes of him and Popclaw, he stumbles upon the footage showing the Boys and especially Frenchie's face. As it turns out, passengers on the plane abandoned by Maeve and Homelander were recording the whole thing. At least one of these clips survived and Maeve uses it later to successfully blackmail Homelander.
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The Boys (2019) / int_e01c3d03	type	Black Comedy Animal Cruelty
The Boys (2019) / int_e01c3d03	comment	Black Comedy Animal Cruelty: The Deep, being able to talk to sea life, leads to three of these moments, with a Friendly, Playful Dolphin being run over by a truck, the lobster he wanted to save being cut open up by the staff at the supermarket, and a whale he put in front of The Boys being rammed by a speedboat.
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The Boys (2019) / int_e1f9753e	type	The Handler
The Boys (2019) / int_e1f9753e	comment	In the past, Butcher and his team were semi-sponsored by the CIA, but after several bad incidents (an attempt at blackmailing Lamplighter to give them a link inside the Seven led to him killing Mallory's grandchildren) they were forced to be more of a freelance team and have a difficult time keeping together at the start of the series. Butcher still has numerous contacts because of that past association, though many bridges were also burned. The Boys do end up guilty of or accomplices in numerous murders, robberies, blackmail and trespassing, which forces them to go deep underground once Vought becomes more aware of their existence. They do rebuild their relationships as they uncover legitimate evidence, leading to all charges against them being dropped at the end of the second season, with talk of them heading an official counter-supe team for the CIA.
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The Boys (2019) / int_e2023325	type	StrawmanPolitical
The Boys (2019) / int_e2023325	comment	Strawman Political: Anyone who spouts right-wing talking points is invariably a hypocrite and at least a self-serving douchebag if not a complete murderous monster. In contrast, while there are some characters who spout left-wing talking points insincerely and in an attempt to make themselves look better than they are, anyone who does believe in liberal ideals is portrayed as simply being on the side of common sense and human decency.
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The Boys (2019) / int_e3b2b2	comment	Japandering: In an extra commercial for the show, American Celebrity Superhero The Deep does a hokey Japanese commercial for shoyu sauce.
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The Boys (2019) / int_e3f88af2	type	The Real Heroes
The Boys (2019) / int_e3f88af2	comment	The Real Heroes: A Running Gag involves Homelander using this line on a group of ordinary non-powered first responders or American soldiers, right before doing their job for them effortlessly. Since in front of the other members of the Seven he describes non-Supes as 'mud people', it's pretty obviously disingenuous. Homelander's predicessor Soldier Boy says this of American soldiers in a wartime propaganda piece.
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The Boys (2019) / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: The show's version of Stan Edgar is one of both the comic's Edgar (Vought CEO) and James Stillwell (utterly unflappable corporate operator capable of intimidating even Homelander). This is especially prevalent in Season 3, where many of Stillwell's moments from the comics are given to Stan, including having him deliver a version of Stillwell's "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Homelander after being ousted as CEO.
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The Boys (2019) / int_e5421161	comment	One which uses the audience's meta knowledge. Lamplighter is an Expy of Pyro from the X-Men Film Series. He's played by Shawn Ashmore. Shawn Ashmore played Bobby Drake/Iceman in those same films. Iceman and Pyro were nemeses. Lamplighter is his own worst enemy, so his suicide should come as no great surprise.
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The Boys (2019) / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: People get their heads (or whole bodies) blown up, lasered to pieces, their limbs and heads lopped off, their hearts and other organs ripped out... we could go on and on. It's exploitation film levels of bad.
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The Boys (2019) / int_e5467735	comment	Expy Coexistence: After leaving the Church of the Collective, The Deep becomes a cult survival spokesperson and refers to himself as "the next Leah Remini". Remini is one of the most prominent Scientology whistleblowers, so unless in this universe she was a CotC member, both cults exist alongside each other.
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The Boys (2019) / int_e5ff9ca3	comment	Team Member in the Adaptation: Gunpowder is a member of Payback in this continuity rather than Teenage Kix. Stormfront ends up joining the Seven when the Stormfront of the source material was strictly a member of Payback. Black Noir was a member of Payback in this continuity before joining the Seven, unlike his comics counterpart who was only on the Seven.
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The Boys (2019) / int_e6ab61d	type	Magic Realism
The Boys (2019) / int_e6ab61d	comment	Magic Realism: Superheroes are real. With real superpowers. But other than that, the world of the show is remarkably close to ours, and the supes are a pretext to satirize it.
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The Boys (2019) / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Another instance is mentioned in a therapy group. A man claims that he had sex with a supe called Ice Princess and her vagina cooled down to the temperature of frozen nitrogen when she climaxed, with his penis still inside. It snapped off.
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The Boys (2019) / int_eb7c34cf	type	Crossover
The Boys (2019) / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: The characters are used in an episode of the Rooster Teeth web series DEATH BATTLE! pitting the Seven against each other (and Billy Butcher). Black Noir doesn't participate, instead of keeping an eye on hosts Wiz and Boomstick and Billy technically wins before Homelander, who didn't even fight at all, casually lands on top of him, reducing him to a smear. Homelander then reappears again in the same web series, pitted against Omni-Man from Invincible (2021). This time Homelander loses, very, very badly.
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The Boys (2019) / int_eb81c601	comment	When The Boys, Starlight, and Kimiko are struggling to fight Stormfront, Queen Maeve shows up almost completely out of nowhere for a Big Damn Heroes moment, despite having no means to get there that fast and undetected.
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The Boys (2019) / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Butcher is a jerkass (well, with a soft side), who goes out of his way to argue with a Christian at the Believe Expo, saying that if God does exist, he's evil.
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The Boys (2019) / int_ee33bd93	comment	Executive Ball Clicker: Billy meets up with Raynor in her office. She has a Newton's cradle on her desk which he starts playing with while comparing the balls to his grandfather's "bollocks flopping in the wind". Raynor is not amused about this comparison.
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The Boys (2019) / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
The Boys (2019) / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Ashley gets an assistant called Ashley in Season three.
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The Boys (2019) / int_f0508c08	comment	Decomposite Character: Black Noir from the comics was Homelander's clone who was created to kill the latter and the only one strong enough to kill him, but due to never receiving the kill order, he grew unstable and manipulated Homelander to become insane so Black Noir would be allowed by his superiors to kill him. In the TV show, he is split in three characters. Black Noir has a similar suit, but is not Homelander's clone, as he is a black man who existed before Homelander was born. He is killed by Homelander in Season 3. Alot of the original Black Noir's personality are directly given to Homelander, instead of the latter going insane because of Black Noir gaslighting him. Black Noir's attribute of being the only one strong enough to kill Homelander are instead given to Soldier Boy. But unlike comic-Noir, Soldier Boy's goal to kill Homelander stems from a deal with The Boys, instead of it being his sole reason for being.
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The Boys (2019) / int_f0c4ce7d	type	The Lost Lenore
The Boys (2019) / int_f0c4ce7d	comment	When Billy calls Hughie out for dating Annie, the latter asks how being loyal to a dead woman who doesn't know and doesn't care works out for him. Suddenly, the whole room is filled with stunned silence.
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The Boys (2019) / int_f33ff01c	comment	Adaptational Context Change: In the original comic, the Flight 37 incident that becomes Queen Maeve's breaking point was the real-life 9/11 attacks, and it happened before the events of that series.
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The Boys (2019) / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
The Boys (2019) / int_f36c4f98	comment	You urge your girlfriend to tell you everything about her stressful life because you want to show her that neither of you has to be afraid of a controlling ex. She reluctantly agrees, opening up bit by bit. Then you find out that your girlfriend may be a little complicit in some war crimes, something she hid from you apart from a drunken breakdown. Do you go Easily Forgiven and reassure her that it wasn't her fault and that their relationship will last, the way Starlight eventually forgave Hughie for spying on her? Nope; when Maeve tells Elena with a Stepford Smiler expression that the footage, which Elena found by accident, is the means of securing their freedom from Homelander, Elena breaks up with her and goes into hiding. Elena said she wanted Maeve to be open with her, but finding out that she left hundreds of people to die is kind of a dealbreaker.
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The Boys (2019) / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
The Boys (2019) / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: You may be forgiven if you think that The Deep advertising Liquid Death in an anti-pollution advertisement is just one of the other Parody Product Placements of the show. you may also be forgiven for not knowing that Liquid Death is a real product.
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The Boys (2019) / int_f52ae5d8	type	Enemy Civil War
The Boys (2019) / int_f52ae5d8	comment	Enemy Civil War: Season two starts exploring confrontations within the Seven and Vought upper management, with side deals being made and longstanding resentment reaching a boiling point. This is before you even include Starlight as the Inside Man running interference that helps The Boys goals.
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The Boys (2019) / int_f9cf12b2	type	Love Cannot Overcome
The Boys (2019) / int_f9cf12b2	comment	Love Cannot Overcome: Elena and Maeve's arc ends this way in season two. From what Maeve says, she has a way to get Homelander off their backs, and that will give them freedom from his controlling ways. Maeve hasn't told Elena everything, only that Homelander has pretty much blackmailed Maeve into being single, and outing her as a "lesbian" was another power play on his part to remind Maeve that he could torture or kill Elena at any time. Elena as far as she knows has a girlfriend that has been trapped into this role of being a Wonder Woman Wannabe for PR reasons, and being at the mercy of a domestic abuser. Then she finds a GoPro attached to Maeve's phone with damning footage, showing that Homelander forced Maeve to abandon the passengers of Flight 37 to die and all Maeve could do was apologize to them. Her What the Hell, Hero? expression hurts Maeve more than any bullets or bombs could; as she puts it in the next episode, the issue isn't that Maeve is willing to resort to blackmail, but that Maeve was complicit in mass murder. And just how often has Maeve been engaged in this sort of subterfuge to the point that Maeve is hopeful that the footage will buy their freedom and not guilty about the fact that she got hundreds of people killed, that this evidence should be released anyway? Elena wanted Maeve to reveal the real her, but because she thought Maeve wasn't brave enough to stand up for their relationship.
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The Boys (2019) / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Church of the Collective members offer everyone around them a Fresca, to the point that Fresca becomes shorthand for the characters being about to talk about the church. Only Stan Edgar ever refuses, calling the stuff terrible.
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The Boys (2019) / int_fd497706	type	Accidental Murder
The Boys (2019) / int_fd497706	comment	Then you have A-Train, Popclaw, Soldier Boy, Translucent, and The Deep, who are at best negligently criminal (A-Train and Popclaw's Accidental Murder moments, Soldier Boy's collateral damage, and The Deep's Black Comedy Animal Cruelty), at worst just plain criminal (Translucent and The Deep being repeat sex offenders, Soldier Boy brutalizing Black Noir and the rest of his team, A-Train and Popclaw being complicit in Vought and Homelander spreading Compound V), just on a much smaller scale than above.
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The Boys (2019) / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
The Boys (2019) / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: In Stormfront's first big scene, she rolls her eyes at the "Girls Get It Done" feminist marketing gimmick she's made to be apart of, labeling it as silly and pandering. Later in the season, she's subjected to a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown by three superheroines. Frenchie exclaims, "Girls do get it done!"
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The Boys (2019) / int_ff6d8ad9	comment	Adaptational Nationality: Hughie is Scottish in the comic, while Rebecca Butcher is English, and Jonah Vogelbaum is German. Here they're all American.
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The Boys (2019) / int_ff9e9dde	comment	Once a Season: It seems like every season finale must end with a woman losing her eyes. In Season one finale, Stilwell dies after Homelander melts her eyes with his Eye Beams. In Season two finale, Rebecca shoves a knife into one of Stormfront's eyes. In Season three finale, Queen Maeve loses her right eye during her battle with Homelander.
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The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Females Are More Innocent / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Fetishes Are Weird / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Finding the Bug / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Flashed-Badge Hijack / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Flipping the Table / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Foe Yay Shipping / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Former Child Star / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	"Friends" Rent Control / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Full Moon Silhouette / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Gag Penis / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Gay Aesop / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Gay Conservative / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Gayngst / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Genghis Gambit / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Get Out! / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Giant Foot of Stomping / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Girl Next Door / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Girlboss Feminist / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Give Me a Reason / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Glamorous Single Mother / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Glowing Eyes of Doom / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Good People Have Good Sex / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Good Wears White / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Gratuitous Latin / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Grave-Marking Scene / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Grin of Audacity / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Gruesome Grandparent / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Hand Signals / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Hate Crimes Are a Special Kind of Evil / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Head Crushing / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Headbutt of Love / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Heal It With Fire / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Hell-Bent for Leather / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Helmets Are Hardly Heroic / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Hero Insurance / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Hero with an F in Good / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Heroic Build / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	"Hey, You!" Haymaker / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Hidden Heart of Gold / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Hiding Behind Religion / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Hollywood Atheist / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Hot Wind / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Hummer Dinger / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Hypocritical Heartwarming / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	I Am the Noun / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	I Fight for the Strongest Side! / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	I Got You Covered / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	I Just Want to Be Loved / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	I Know You're Watching Me / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	I Work Alone / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Ignored Epiphany / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Immortal Immaturity / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Immune to Bullets / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Impersonating an Officer / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	In Love with Your Carnage / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	In-Universe Catharsis / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Inadequate Inheritor / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Inadvertent Entrance Cue / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Indulgent Fantasy Segue / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Inertia Is a Cruel Mistress / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Informed Flaw / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Interchangeable Asian Cultures / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Internal Homage / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Invisible Jerkass / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Invisible Streaker / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Janitor Impersonation Infiltration / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Jaw Drop / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Jerk with a Heart of Jerk / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Jesus Was Way Cool / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Jews Playing Nazis / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Karmic Butt-Monkey / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Karmic Rape / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Killed Mid-Sentence / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Kingpin in His Gym / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Kinky Role-Playing / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Kitschy Themed Restaurant / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Last Day of Normalcy / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Leave No Witnesses / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Leno Device / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Light Is Good / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Living Lie Detector / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Living Relic / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Look Ma, No Plane! / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Lousy Lovers Are Losers / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Love to Hate / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Ludicrous Gibs / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Madonna-Whore Complex / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Make It Look Like an Accident / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Making Love in All the Wrong Places / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Male Frontal Nudity / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Man of Kryptonite / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Masculineâ€“Feminine Gay Couple / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Mask of Sanity / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Master of the Mixed Message / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Maurice Chevalier Accent / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	MegaCorp / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Middle Eastern Terrorists / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Military Superhero / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Milking the Giant Cow / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Mocking Music / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Momma's Boy / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Money to Burn / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Monster Protection Racket / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Mook Horror Show / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Morality Kitchen Sink / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Mortal Wound Reveal / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Most Common Super Power / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Movie Superheroes Wear Black / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Mugging the Monster / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Murderous Thighs / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Musicalis Interruptus / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Mutually Assured Destruction / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	My Fist Forgives You / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	My Master, Right or Wrong / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Naked on Arrival / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Named by the Adaptation / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Narcissist / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Negated Moment of Awesome / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	No Badass to His Valet / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	No Bisexuals / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	No Guy Wants an Amazon / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	No Man Should Have This Power / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Not His Sled / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Not So Invincible After All / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Not So Similar / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Not Wearing Tights / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Obligatory Earpiece Touch / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Off with His Head! / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Offended by an Enemy's Indifference / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Ordered Apology / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Our Founder / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Out with a Bang / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Overt Rendezvous / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Pacifism Backfire / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Parallel Porn Titles / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Parody Commercial / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Parting-Words Regret / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Pensieve Flashback / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Pep-Talk Song / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Percussive Prevention / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Performance Anxiety / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Phony Veteran / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Piggybacking on Hitler / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Play-Along Meme / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Please Keep Your Hat On / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Plot Armor / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Point of Divergence / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Post-Rape Taunt / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Power Perversion Potential / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Powerful, but Incompetent / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Predatory Big Pharma / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Predecessor Casting Gag / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Prefers Proper Names / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Preserve Your Gays / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	President Evil / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Primary-Color Champion / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Profiling / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Propaganda Hero / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Psycho Electro / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Psycho Serum / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Putting on the Reich / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Queer Character, Queer Actor / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Queer Colors / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Rage Against the Heavens / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Rags to Riches / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Raised in a Lab / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Ramming Always Works / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Real Is Brown / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Really Gets Around / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Really Moves Around / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Redemption Demotion / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Related in the Adaptation / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Reluctant Retiree / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Rescue Sex / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Resized Vocals / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Revenge Is Not Justice / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Right-Wing Militia Fanatic / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Rivals Team Up / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Ruder and Cruder / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Safety in Muggles / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Saying Too Much / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Second Super-Identity / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Secret Identity / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Secret Public Identity / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Security Blanket / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	See the Invisible / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Self-Immolation / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Series of the 2020s / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Seven Deadly Sins / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Sex for Solace / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Sexual Extortion / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Sexual Karma / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Shameless Self-Promoter / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Shapeshifting Squick / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Shark Fin of Doom / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Shoot the Television / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Shoot Your Mate / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Shooting Superman / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Short-Distance Phone Call / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Signature Line / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Signature Sound Effect / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Slashed Throat / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Slave to PR / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Small Parent, Huge Child / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Smug Super / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Smuggling with Dolls / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Some of My Best Friends Are X / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Source Music / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Spies In a Van / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Spiritual Antithesis / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Spiteful Spit / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Spotlight-Stealing Squad / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Stairs Are Faster / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Stalker with a Test Tube / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Stepford Suburbia / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Straw Character / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Straw Misogynist / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Stunt Casting / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Stupid Jetpack Hitler / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Sub-Par Supremacist / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Sudden Principled Stand / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Super Cop / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Super-Hearing / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Super-Power Meltdown / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Super Registration Act / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Super Serum / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Super Sex Organs / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Super-Soldier / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Super-Speed / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Super Supremacist / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Super Team / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Superhero School / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Superior Successor / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Superman Substitute / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Superpower Lottery / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Sweet Sheep / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Synchronized Morning Routine / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Targeted to Hurt the Hero / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Taser Tag Weakness / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Tastes Like Friendship / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Team Member in the Adaptation / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Tear Off Your Face / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	10-Minute Retirement / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Terminator Impersonator / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Terrified of Germs / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Test Subject for Hire / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Tested on Humans / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	The All-American Boy / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	The Baroness / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	The Beard / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	The Dead Have Names / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	The Ex's New Jerkass / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	The Jekyll Is a Jerk / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	The Leader / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	The Man Is Sticking It to the Man / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	The Masochism Tango / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	The Nudifier / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	The Real Heroes / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	The Social Darwinist / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	The Social Expert / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	The Sons and the Spears / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	The Speechless / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	The Speedster / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	The Teetotaler / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Those Wacky Nazis / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Three-Point Landing / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Three-Way Sex / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Through the Ceiling, Stealthily / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Token Flyer / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Token Minority / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Token Super / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Tongue Suicide / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Tongue Trauma / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Too Fast to Stop / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Town Girls / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Toxic Phlebotinum / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Tracking Chip / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Trespassing to Talk / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Tropaholics Anonymous / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Trumplica / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Tuckerization / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Turn Out Like His Father / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Turn the Other Cheek / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Twofer Token Minority / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Tyrant Takes the Helm / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Underequipped Charge / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Undignified Death / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Unholy Matrimony / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Upbringing Makes the Hero / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Upgrade vs. Prototype Fight / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Used to Be a Sweet Kid / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Van in Black / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Varying Competency Alibi / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	[Verb] This! / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Vigilante Execution / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Vigilante Injustice / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Vigilante Man / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Villain Raises a Toast / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Villain with Good Publicity / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Villainous Face Hold / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Villainous Rescue / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Virile Stallion / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Virtuous Character Copy / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Walking Wasteland / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Wall Bang Her / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	We Care / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	We Will Not Have Pockets in the Future / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Weaponized Allergy / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Wearing a Flag on Your Head / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	What a Drag / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	What Beautiful Eyes! / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	What Year Is This? / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Wolverine Wannabe / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Woman Scorned / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Womb Horror / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Wonder Woman Wannabe / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	World's Strongest Man / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	X-Ray Vision / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Yellow/Purple Contrast / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	You Are a Credit to Your Race / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	You Keep Using That Word / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Your Television Hates You / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	You're Drinking Breast Milk / int_38ce5997
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Zero-G Spot / int_38ce5997

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