History Recap / TheBoysS0205WeGottaGoNow

* FacialHorror: Kimiko ''rips a man's face off and leaves him alive''.

** Ashley's panics when Homelander barges into a rally of congresswoman Neuman. Her reaction only goes worse as she continues watching the transmission since Homelander is only making his situation worse with each sentence.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: The Russian mook approaching Kimiko makes sexist slurs and performances a VillainousFaceHold before getting his face ripped off by her.

* BlatantLies: Some of the memes that Stormfront plans on spreading about are accusations of fake news, such as claiming that the body that Homelander laser'd was photoshopped.

** An MCU [[sarcasm shout out]] this time is the [[AmazonBrigade "Girls get it done."]] which serves one for ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' when Captain Marvel is backed up by several of the MCU's female heroes.

** Another shout out is the [[AmazonBrigade "Girls get it done."]] which serves one for ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' when Captain Marvel is backed up by several of the MCU's female heroes.

* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Enforced InUniverse by the marketing team of Vought that, for PR reasons, think Maeve and Elena should be respectively portrayed as a LipstickLesbian and a ButchLesbian, like "Creator/{{Ellen|DeGeneres}} and Creator/{{Portia|De Rossi}}". Even though [[NoBisexuals Queen Maeve is not even lesbian]]. That goes without mentioning Vought's decision to switch Maeve's so far [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak largely tomboyish image]] into that of a LipstickLesbian, rather than simply handing that role off to Elena and at least avoid a jarring shift in their marketing.

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* PanderingToTheBase: In “Rise of the Seven”, the scenes of Maeve coming out as gay are clearly this in-universe, with Maeve’s love interest even looking like a stereotypical punk lesbian. Which is then confirmed by the writers, who reveal that they’re basing a lot of their decisions on trends and what “most Americans” are comfortable seeing.

* UnusualEuphemism: Ashley makes reference to Tinder dates “eating [her] paella.”

* PanderingToTheBase: In “Rise of the Seven”, the scenes of Maeve coming out as gay are clearly this in-universe, with Maeve’s love interest even looking like a stereotypical punk lesbian. Which is then confirmed by the writers, who reveal that they’re basing a lot of their decisions on what [[CommonDenominator “most Americans”]] are comfortable seeing.

** Creator/JossWhedon is stated to be a responsible for the rewrites on ''[[ShowWithinAShow Dawn of the Seven]]''. Technically doubles as [[TakeThat a jab]] at ''Film/{{Justice League|2017}}'', which he significantly rewrote and refilmed after the departure of Creator/ZackSnyder, although Eric Kripke says that the slam was unintentional.

** Creator/JossWhedon is stated to be a responsible for the rewrites on ''[[ShowWithinAShow Dawn of the Seven]]''. Technically doubles as [[TakeThat a jab]] at ''Film/{{Justice League|2017}}'', which he significantly rewrote and refilmed after the departure of Creator/ZackSnyder.

* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Enforced InUniverse by the marketing team of Vought that, for PR reasons, think they should be respectively portrayed as a LipstickLesbian and a ButchLesbian, like "Ellen and Portia". Even though [[NoBisexuals Queen Maeve is not even lesbian]]. That goes without mentioning Vought's decision to switch Maeve's so far [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak largely tomboyish image]] into that of a LipstickLesbian, rather than simply handing that role off to Elena and at least avoid a jarring shift in their marketing.

** The writers really weren't fans of that moment in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' where all the female heroes stand together. Once Vought gets a third female Supe onto the Seven, they milk the girl power angle for all it's worth, with a movie on the Seven having a scene where Starlight, Maeve and Stormfront stand together just so they can say "Girls get it done!". [[spoiler: In the Season 2 finale, Kimiko teams up with Starlight and Maeve to take on Stormfront. Justified in this instance, as the only people who could put up a fight against Stormfront were all women.]]

* PatrioticFervor: Homelander tries to inspire this in the crowd at the rally, invoking soldiers he fought along for freedom of all Americans... until a trooper from 101st Airborne shouts "You don't speak for us!" and the crowd goes into a frenzy.

* 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. While trying to talk him out of this, Hughie admits that he's also tempted by thoughts of suicide.

* AlmostKiss: The opening scene from a movie set has Maeve ''almost'' kissing her in-story LoveInterest, only for another explosion in the distance, conveniently killing the moment and reminds them to keep going. She hates this scene with passion, especially since it's implied Homelander forced it in and now is watching replays of the last take, solely to mock Maeve.

* 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.

* ProfessionalKiller: Kimiko takes such work under the Albanian mob, with Cherie getting a cut. Frankie is not happy that she's going down the same dark path that he did.