History Recap / TheBoysS0205WeGottaGoNow

* DestructoNookie: Homelander and Stormfront, destroying an apartment ([[InterplayOfSexAndVIolence plus hurting]] [[GoodThingYouCanHeal themselves]]) between and [[WallBangHer during]] their intimate moments.

* SoMuchForStealth: Trevor's barking gives away that The Boys are hiding in the basement. Moments later a gas grenade comes tumbling down the air shaft.

* UnreadablyFastText: Go ahead and try to read [[https://i.redd.it/w5888r1i8un51.png A-Train's revised script]]. You'll find it's full of self-gratification, complete with Homelander [[CharacterShilling verbally fellating him]]. No wonder the director nixed it without a second thought.

* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: This is how Vought's PR team tries to brand Maeve and Elena, proposing a makeover for the latter so she'll look butch. Elena is having none of it, since she's a firm {{lipstick lesbian}}.

* {{Expy}}: Agent Bill Pearson, a (heavily implied to be) BadassNormal federal agent who is a liaison to superheroes and also helps motivate them with snarky tough love, and extends this motivational snarky tough love to other non-powered people such as the hacker Ruby in a similar way that he expresses that kind of attitude to superheroes. Phil Coulson, anyone? His first name even rhymes with Phil and his last name is four letters off Coulson (As a bonus, he's clearly working with the aforementioned hacker Ruby, recalling Coulson's partner [[Series/AgentsOfSHIELD Skye\Daisy Johnson]].)

* {{Expy}}: Agent Bill Pearson, a (heavily implied to be) BadassNormal federal agent who is a liaison to superheroes and also helps motivate them with snarky tough love, and extends this snarky tough love to other non-powered people such as the hacker Ruby. Phil Coulson, anyone? His first name even rhymes with Phil and his last name is four letters off Coulson (As a bonus, he's clearly working with the aforementioned hacker Ruby, recalling Coulson's partner [[Series/AgentsOfSHIELD Skye\Daisy Johnson]].)

* {{Expy}}: Agent Bill Pearson, a (heavily implied to be) BadassNormal federal agent who is a liaison to superheroes and also helps motivate them with snarky tough love, and extends this snarky tough love to other non-powered people such as the hacker Ruby. Phil Coulson, anyone? (As a bonus, he's clearly working with the aforementioned hacker Ruby, recalling Coulson's partner [[Series/AgentsOfSHIELD Skye\Daisy Johnson]].)

* {{Expy}}: Agent Bill Pearson, a BadassNormal federal agent who is a liaison to superheroes and also helps motivate them with snarky tough love. Phil Coulson, anyone? (as a bonus, he's clearly working with the hacker Ruby, recalling Coulson's partner [[Series/AgentsOfSHIELD Skye\Daisy Johnson]])

* LeaveMeAlone: Kimoko blames herself for her brother's death and is taking out her rage in contract murders. She forcibly rejects Frenchie's attempt to talk her out of this.

* {{Expy}}: Agent Bill Pearson, a BadassNormal federal agent who is a liaison to superheroes and also helps motivate them with snarky tough love. Phil Coulson, anyone?

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Stormfront is shown talking on the phone to a minion working at the Sage Grove Centre, and Starlight finds computer files on Sage Grove on her laptop.

* UnreadablyFastText: Go ahead and try to read [[https://i.redd.it/w5888r1i8un51.png A-Train's revised script]]. You'll find it's full of self-gratification, complete with Homelander verbally fellating him. No wonder the director nixed it without a second thought.

* FreezeFrameBonus: Go ahead and try to read [[https://i.redd.it/w5888r1i8un51.png A-Train's revised script]]. You'll find it's full of self-gratification, complete with Homelander verbally fellating him. No wonder the director nixed it without a second thought.

* FreezeFrameBonus: Go ahead and try to read [[https://i.redd.it/w5888r1i8un51.png A-Train's revised script]]. You'll find it's full of self-gratification, compelte with Homelander verbally fellating him. No wonder the director nixed it without a second thought.

** Judy snarks that it's cheaper to buy illegal drugs than it is to go through the privatized American healthcare industry.

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Frenchie tries to talk Kimiko out of what she's doing, saying that she doesn't have to be a monster.

** Butcher goes to drive off when he sees Black Noir perches on the roof of a nearby house, and realises he's been tracked from where Becca was held.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Stormfront is shown talking on the phone to a minion working at the Sage Grove Centre, and Starlight finds computer files on Sage Grove on her laptop.

* YouGotSpunk: Stormfront uses the line straight when Starlight flashes her GlowingEyesOfDoom.

* YouGotSpunk: Stormfront is impressed when Starlight faces her down.

* DeathSeeker: Butcher finds out he now has no reason to even live for anymore, after finding out Becca is alive and unwilling to make a run with him. In the opening scene, he starts a brawl with the biggest guy he can find in a BadGuyBar, with a clear intention of being beaten. When Black Noir shows up in his aunt's neighborhood, he plans to just walk out and be done with it.
* DespairEventHorizon: Butcher is ready to confront Black Noir and just get it over with. Hughie admits that even now he's still tempted by suicide over Robin's death. Kimoko blames herself for her brother's death and is taking out her rage in contract murders.

* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Starlight hasn't been returning her mother's calls, so Donna tries to meet with her daughter by turning up at a busy film shoot and casually discussing the matter with Stormfront. When Starlight wants to know why she'd discuss the matter with a stranger, Donna just says that Stormfront isn't a stranger; she's Starlight's teammate. Even without knowing why Starlight is concerned about Stormfront, it shows Donna's failure to comprehend that her daughter has a private life that is separate from her job.

* SuicideByCop: Butcher plans to just go out to Black Noir and go out fighting until he snaps out by the end of the episode.

* GayAesop: The in-universe ''Dawn of the Seven'' movie and its surrounding marketing are trying to do this, in the most mangled, corporate-committee-written, misguided way possible. Maeve and Elena's faces when they have to listen to the two script doctors presenting the new rewrite say it all - and that's before they really get obnoxious with their pitches.

* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Starlight hasn't been returning her mother's calls, so Donna tries to meet with her daughter by turning up at a busy film shoot and casually discussing the matter with Stormfront. When Starlight wants to know why she'd discuss the matter with a stranger, Donna just says that Stormfront isn't a stranger; she's Starlight's friend, being a member of The Seven. Even without knowing why Starlight is concerned about Stormfront, it shows Donna's failure to comprehend that her daughter has a private life that is separate from her job.