History WesternAnimation / TheBoysDiabolical

* AdaptationalJerkass: Homelander in "I'm Your Pusher" is more openly sardonic to his colleagues than he is in the live-action series(although he's already a jerkass in the comics). When [[spoiler: the Great Wide Wonder and Ironcast inadvertently kill each other, Homelander is more annoyed than horrified. Also, it is revealed he snorts coke.]] Justified because this episode takes place in the continuity of the comics, where Homelander's personality is a bit different.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Homelander in "I'm Your Pusher" is more openly sardonic to his colleagues than he is in the live-action series. When [[spoiler: the Great Wide Wonder and Ironcast inadvertently kill each other, Homelander is more annoyed than horrified. Also, it is revealed he snorts coke.]] Justified because this episode takes place in the continuity of the comics, where Homelander's personality is a bit different.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Homelander in "I'm Your Pusher" is more openly sardonic to his colleagues than he is in the live-action series. When [[spoiler: the Great Wide Wonder and Ironcast inadvertently kill each other, Homelander is more annoyed than horrified. Also, it is revealed he snorts coke.]]

* HasTwoMommies: In the second short, Kingdom is shown to have two fathers when it is his turn to become a SelfMadeOrphan.

** [[spoiler: Deconstructed. The Vought mercenaries and tactical team are obviously not meant to be sympathetic, seeing as they're willing to attack an elderly couple, one of which is terminally ill. John even lampshades this when Sun-Hee is horrified about her powers killing them, stating that if Sun-Hee hadn't fought back, they would be dead. Sun-Hee still thinks it wasn't okay and is traumatized by what Compound V has turned her into.]]

** In Episode 7, while a bit more downplayed than the previous entry due to [[spoiler:the creature]]'s [[EldritchAbomination more beastly nature]], the first thing [[spoiler:the mutated cancer]] does after escaping [[spoiler: Sun-hee's body]] is trap and violently consume forest animals one by one, from squirrels to moose to bears.

* AdaptationalContextChange: While it was Black Noir who ended being the last straw in Homelander's [[ThenLetMeBeEvil corruption]] in the comics as well, there it was in a much more cruel and elaborated form: [[spoiler: Black Noir was a clone of Homelander who commited several heinous crimes, recorded it and gashlighted the actual Homelander into beliving he did it]], in "One Plus One Equals Two" he does that out of pragmatism in a much more simple and mundane form.
* AdaptationalIntelligence: Unlike the comics, Groundhawk can say more than "Gonna."

* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:The majority of "Boyd in 3D" is just a hallucination Boyd had after being mutilated by Envision, just before his head explodes.]]

** The Vought mercenaries who run their van into a street vendor to catch Laser Baby and then promptly get lasered to death.
** [[spoiler: Great Wide Wonder and Ironcast are both killed horribly when Wonder overdoses on drugs and flies through Ironcast before colliding with a wall.]]
*** [[spoiler: According to Butcher, Wonder took two women high up in the sky for a "flying fuck", froze them to death from the high altitude as part of his fetish, and left them in space to cover his tracks.]]
*** [[spoiler:Ironcast, on the other hand, recreationally drank the blood of terminally ill children and enjoyed it so much that it gave him an erection. According to Butcher, he enjoyed drinking their blood because he could "taste the despair".]]

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: Everyone in Ghost's group except her is lasered by Homelander at the end of Episode 2.]]

** Episode 2: [[spoiler: The team is about to succeed in killing off their AbusiveParents until Homelander flies in and [[KillEmAll lasers every single one of them]] save for Ghost in one fell swoop.]]

* There's a briefly seen comic of the Avenging Squad, the predecessors of Payback.

* {{Gorn}}: It wouldn't be ''The Boys'' without it. Episode 2 is especially relentless with it.

** Episode 6: [[spoiler: Since Maya's attempt to bring her parents back together GoneHorriblyRight, she decides it's better if they divorced.]]

* CatGirl: Cherry becomes this upon using the Envision cream in "Boyd in 3D."

*** Aqua Agua slips into his parents jacuzzi while they're having sex, which distracts them long enough for Fang to drop a live flatscreen into the jacuzzi to electrocute them, leaving both parents charred husks.

*** Kingdom douses his parents with blood and turns himself into a shark to ravage them.

* NoDialogueEpisode: "Laser Baby's Day Out".

* WholePlotReference: The first episode is clearly paying {{Homage}} to ''Franchise/TomAndJerry'', episode 114 "Tot Watchers". The basic premies of the episodes is about babies crawling everywhere through the big city and ending at on a construction site and their guardians failing to catch the babies.

* WholePlotReference: The first episode is clearly paying {{Homage}} to ''Franchise/TomAndJerry'', episode 114 "Tot Watchers". Both episodes are about babies crawling everywhere through the big city and ending at on a construction site and their guardians failing to catch the babies.

* WholePlotReference: The first episode is clearly paying {{Homage}} to ''Franchise/TomAndJerry'', episode 114 "Tot Watchers". Both episodes about a baby crawling everywhere through the big city and ending at on a construction site and its guardians failing to catch the baby.

[[https://twitter.com/therealKripke/status/1500530010137915392 According]] to WordOfGod, only [[[[Recap/TheBoysDiabolicalS1E06NubianVsNubian Nubian Vs Nubian "Nubian vs. Nubian"]], [[Recap/TheBoysDiabolicalS1E07JohnAndSunHee John and Sun-Hee "John and Sun-Hee"]], and [[Recap/TheBoysDiabolicalS1E08OnePlusOneEqualsTwo One Plus One Equals Two "One Plus One Equals Two"]] are canon to the TV series.

[[https://twitter.com/therealKripke/status/1500530010137915392 According]] to WordOfGod, only "Nubian vs. Nubian", "John and Sun-Hee" and "One Plus One Equals Two" are canon to the TV series.

** Episode 2: [[spoiler:While the protagonists did get revenge on the parents who abandoned them, all of them (except Ghost) are ultimately put down by Vought when they're found.]]
** Episode 4: [[spoiler:What appears to be a reconciliation between Boyd and Cherry turns out to have been [[AllJustADream a dream the whole time on Boyd's part]], who never even talked to Cherry as [[YourHeadAsplode his head blew up from the Compound V lotion.]]]]
** Episode 6: [[spoiler:Since Maya's attempt to bring her parents back together GoneHorriblyRight, she decides it's better if they divorced.]]
** Episode 7: [[spoiler:Sun-Hee sacrificed herself to kill the cancer mutated from the Compound V that John gave her.]]
** Episode 8: [[spoiler:Because of Black Noir's actions, Homelander begins to stray from the path of sincere heroism and towards becoming a preening, entitled megalomaniac.]]

* FreezeFrameBonus: Nubia's contacts include several Vought supes such as Big Game, Black Hole, Buzz Cut, Country Mama and Critter.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Maya tries to help mend her parents' marriage by staging a fight with Groundhawk, since she knows they're only happy when fighting together. Not only do they brutally beat Groundhawk far more than necessary, they proceed to have incredibly loud sex that night. This convinces Maya it would be better for everyone if they divorced.

** Parodied in "[=BFFs=]". [[spoiler:Sky realizes that she did gain powers from drinking Compound V, allowing her to bring any feces to life. She uses this to create a whole army to attack The Deep, who is so disturbed [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere that he decides to leave.]] Also useful for [[TheDogBitesBack sneaking some poop into an alleged friend's coffee.]]]]
** The protagonists of Episode 2 have mostly genuinely useless powers, but there are a few hints that they could be put to use if used creatively. For example the Human Tongue is capable of strangling a person thanks to being essentially a giant muscle. Boombox is capable of delivering lethal sound waves. Big is a superstrong giant while Ghost is immune to all harm.

* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Nubian Prince and Nubia get so turned on by beating Groundhawk they proceed to have incredibly loud and passionate sex that same night.

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:Everyone in Ghost's group except her are lasered by Homelander at the end of Episode 2.]]

* ButtMonkey: Groundhawk in "Nubian vs Nubian". Not only does he have a stupid and borderline useless power, but his living condition is deplorable and [[FormerlyFit his physique has seen better days]]. He also gets brutally beaten up by Nubia and Nubian Prince after agreeing to help Maya with her parents' marriage. The fact that the episode starts with Terror humping a plushie of him is the cherry on top.

Executive produced by Creator/EricKripke, ''Diabolical'' will feature stories by Creator/SethRogen, Creator/AndySamberg, Creator/AishaTyler, Creator/JustinRoiland and Creator/{{Awkwafina}}, and feature the voice talents of Creator/JasonIsaacs, Creator/DonCheadle, Creator/KieranCulkin, Creator/KenanThompson, Creator/ChristianSlater, Creator/IlanaGlazer, Creator/MichaelCera and Creator/JohnDiMaggio. They will also feature cast members from the series including Creator/AntonyStarr, Creator/GiancarloEsposito, Creator/ChaceCrawford, Creator/ElisabethShue and Creator/SimonPegg.

* FreezeFrameBonus: Nubia's contacts include several VOught supers such as Big Game, Black Hole, Buzz Cut, Country Mama and Critter.

* AdaptaionalBackstoryChange: Nubia was not killed and brought back to life with Compound V, She and Groundhawk were kidnapped by John Godolkin and they make no mention of the G-Men

* ILoveTheDead: It's implied that the Great Wide Yonder gets off on having sex with women after they have frozen to death in space.

* ILoveTheDead: Implied the Great Wide Yonder gets off on having sex with women after they have frozen to death in space.