History Characters / TheBoys2019TheSeven

* {{Expy}}: Of ''Franchise/TheFlash''. A speedster with a lightning-themed costume. His status as a SuperiorSuccessor to A-Train specifically makes him possibly this to ComicBook/WallyWest, the third and most powerful incarnation of the Flash.

* MeaningfulName: Queen Maeve is a powerful fairy queen in [[Myth/CelticMythology Irish mythology]] who often acts as an antagonist against some of that mythology's most powerful male heroes (particularly Cu Chulainn in ''The Cattle Raid of Cooley''). One of the Vought marketing guys also refers to her as "the Empress of the Otherworld" when he's pitching his concept for Maeve's public relationship with Elena in Season 2. In Irish mythology, the Otherworld is the fairies' homeland. It makes sense that Vought would play up a mythological angle for Queen Maeve's image, since she's their counterpart to Wonder Woman, who has a mythos steeped in Greek and Roman mythology.

* WonderWomanWannabe: Her "Amazon"-esque outfit and powers, along with [[TheAlcoholic alcoholism]] and [[TheCynic cynicism]] make her a [[CorruptedCharacterCopy darker take]] on this trope.

* HazyFeelTurn: [[spoiler:He heavily regrets killing Mallory's grandchildren and isn't pleased with his position in the Sage Grove facility. He eventually comes with the Boys to go along with their plans, even protecting them from Stormfront when she returns to the place. While willing to cooperate, he's also suicidal and needs to be kept from bailing on his planned testimony, and he doesn't regret his hedonism as a career SmugSuper.]]

* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: In the comics, Drummer Boy and Starlight are actually still together at the start (or at least, that's what Starlight thinks), only to permanently split on bad terms after Starlight catches him having sex with a fellow member of the Young Americans. In the show, Supersonic and Annie broke up long ago, and they're on genuinely friendly terms.
** In the comics, he never interacts with Homelander or Hughie.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the comics. Alex's only appearance was as Drummer Boy. And his only notable appearance is when he is caught cheating on Annie with another member of the Young Americans. Here, he is supportive of Annie even at the risk of his own safety.
* AgeLift:

* OrangeBlueContrast: He wears an orange costume against A-Train's blue one. It's especially clear in their race in "Get Some."

* TheRival: To A-Train, though how much of this is just for publicity is unclear. He ''does'' give a smug smirk when [[spoiler:he replaces A-Train on the Seven]].

* FlatCharacter: There's no information on this guy that isn't tied into his rivalry with A-Train.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Much more willing to [[spoiler:work with The Boys than his comic counterpart.]]
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: To a degree. [[spoiler:His killing of Malory's grandchildren was accidental, and is something he's deeply ashamed about to the degree of offering himself up to Mallory. In the comics, Lamplighter has absolutely zero remorse for what he did]]
* AdaptationalSympathy: He's beyond horrified at the realization that it was [[spoiler:Mallory's grandchildren, not Mallory that he ended up burning alive. He's so broken by this that when confronted by Mallory, who in the comics brutally kills him, she actually feels some level of sympathy for the bastard.]]

* AdaptationDyeJob: Queen Maeve was blonde in the comics, but has auburn hair here.

* TheAlcoholic: She apparently has been one for awhile, as her ex notes "you're not going to your meetings." She relapses hard after Flight 37 [[spoiler:and when Elena leaves]].

** A-Train, copy of ComicBook/TheFlash. Repeatedly called "The Fastest Man Alive." Fear of losing that title [[spoiler:leads to him juicing on Compound V to the point he has a heart attack]]. As in the comics, he's responsible for reducing Hughie's girlfriend to LudicrousGibs, and doesn't really feel that bad about it (he even repeatedly fails to recognize Hughie, even after they met face-to-face and A-Train delivered a Vought-mandated apology). [[spoiler:He's also the key in Homelander's plan to spread Compound V through the world and create supervillains for The Seven to fight, and murders his girlfriend Popclaw when she proves a weak link in this plan.]]

** Hughie to Starlight: the NaiveNewcomer of their teams, both are more idealistic than their teammates until they had a massive reality check involving one of the Seven (A-Train reducing Hughie's first girlfriend to LudicrousGibs, The Deep pulling a CastingCouch on Starlight). Hughie, however, is still respected by his teammates (and is in fact Butcher's MoralityPet) while Starlight only has a good rapport with Queen Maeve. Their similarities end up leading to Hughie and Annie becoming a couple.

* TwoGirlsToATeam: Queen Maeve and Starlight are the only two female members of the team. This appears to be {{invoked}}, as Starlight mentions Vought is auditioning "girls" nationwide in search of Lamplighter's replacement. Prior to that, the team ran on TheSmurfettePrinciple with Queen Maeve as the only female. Apparently, marketing decided to get with the times in terms of female representation. The trope is broken in Season 2 when Stormfront becomes Translucent's replacement. Vought's marketers are shown playing this up to score diversity points.

* BreedingSlave: [[spoiler:Homelander plans on forcefully harvest Maeve's eggs in order to produce the perfect, powerful children he always dreamed to have with her]].

* DeathFakedForYou: [[spoiler: After being hit by Soldier Boy's blast in the Season 3 finale, she goes missing and Vought declares her dead, with Ashley having deleted the only recording proving her survival and rescue by the Boys.]]

* CastingGag: Isn't it ironic that the pyrokinetic (false) superhero is played by the same actor who portrayed the [[ComicBook/{{Iceman}} mutant who can manipulate ice]]? Counts double giving that Iceman battled against another villainous pyrokinesist in [[Film/XMenFilmSeries this saga]]. Even better, Lamplighter use a lighter for his power like Pyro does in ''Film/X2XMenUnited''.

* BoobsOfSteel: Big-busted, and the strongest female character in the show.

* ForgottenFallenFriend: [[spoiler: No one ever never mentions him again throughout the series after his funeral in Season 2.]]

* ForgottenFallenFriend: [[spoiler: Invoked: Vought decides to keep his death a secret to hide the fact that their superheroes are indeed killable. Later played straight, as he's never mentioned by anyone throughout the series after his funeral in Season 2.]]

* ForgottenFallenFriend: [[spoiler: Invoked: Vought decides to keep his death a secret to hide the fact that their superheroes are indeed killable. Later played straight, as he's never mentioned by anyone throughout the series again after his funeral in Season 2.]]

* PreserveYourGays: [[spoiler:Erik Kripke declared that for all the hardships Maeve endured, he always wanted her to have a happy ending and intentionally subverted the BuryYouGaysTrope for her]].

* AmbiguouslyBi: He reveals to Hughie that he and Mr. Marathon used to seduce college girls. One of the porn parodies he owns is one that features Jack From Jupiter having sex with multiple men.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: To a degree. [[spoiler:His killing of Malory's grandchildren was accidental, and is something he's deeply ashamed about to the degree of offering himself up to Mallory.]]

* RaceLift: In the comics, he is a Caucasian blond man, while here he is Latino, and has dark hair.

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* NighInvulnerable: When invisible, he can shrug of being run over a car, and can laugh off Frenchie's specially modified .50 caliber sniper rounds fired from Butcher's gun at point-blank range. For comparison, one of the above two was enough to harm Starlight. He also shrugged off getting hit by a car hard enough to be sent flying and crater a wall.

* TooDumbToLive: You'd have to be a certain type of arrogant idiot to brag about what your superpower is and how it works, making it possible to exploit its logical weaknesses, which is made even worse by the fact Translucent does this in-front of people who have the fullest intention to kill him. [[spoiler:Also; thinking you can manipulate an emotionally unstable man who just developed a strong hatred of you personally and Supes in general, is probably the surest way you can end up as a visceral modern art piece across the wall.]]

!!Queen Maeve / Maggie Shaw