History CorruptedCharacterCopy / TheBoys2019

* [[Characters/TheBoys2019Homelander Homelander]], SupermanSubstitute with the same powers and heroic image, but pretty much as a [[BewareTheSuperman straight-up villain]]. In addition to his sins from the comic, the show also focuses on his corruption of the AllAmericanFace persona of Superman and ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, portrayed as a militaristic fascist, [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist Christian]] (publicly; in reality he's a HollywoodAtheist}, and (in season three) AngryWhiteMan who reflects every awful stereotype of Boorish {{Eagleland}}. He's essentially what happens if Superman wasn't raised by loving parents who would instill a love for humanity, or if Superman had an {{Expy}} of [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica William Burnside]].

* [[Characters/TheBoys2019Homelander Homelander]], SupermanSubstitute with the same powers and heroic image, but pretty much as a [[BewareTheSuperman straight-up villain]]. In addition to his sins from the comic, the show also focuses on his corruption of the AllAmericanFace persona of Superman and ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, portrayed as a militaristic fascist, [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist Christian]], and (in season three) AngryWhiteMan who reflects every awful stereotype of Boorish {{Eagleland}}. He's essentially what happens if Superman wasn't raised by loving parents who would instill a love for humanity, or if Superman had an {{Expy}} of [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica William Burnside]].

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!!Gen V

!!Other Supes

* Ryan is John Kent Jr, being the son of a Superman Expy conceived with an ordinary woman. But while John was raised by parents with good values, John only had his mother for most of his life before being raised by Homelander, who doesn't have any principles whatsoever. The result is that Ryan is gradually succumbing to Homelander's CultOfPersonality.

* The Deep, expy of ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}, complete with perceived [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway uselessness]] and [[BestialityIsDepraved fish jokes]]. He pulls a CastingCouch on Starlight, it's stated that he's sexually assaulted (or at least harassed) several other women, [[spoiler:and he suffers a TraumaCongaLine when it comes out]]. His one redeeming trait is his genuine love of all marine creatures, leading to the aforementioned fish jokes, and every time he tries to push this issue forward he's rebuffed (he wants to "shine a light" on Oceanland's questionable animal handling practices, but is told to just go along with the ad campaign Oceanland signed him up for).

* [[Characters/TheBoys2019BlackNoir Black Noir]], expy of Franchise/{{Batman}}. Dresses all in black, good at close-quarters combat with knives, never speaks, mysterious. Unlike Batman, he is a remorseless mass murderer happy to cover up Homelander's atrocities and [[spoiler: helps kidnap Maeve]].

* Black Noir, expy of Franchise/{{Batman}}. Dresses all in black, good at close-quarters combat with knives, never speaks, mysterious. Unlike Batman, he is a remorseless mass murderer happy to cover up Homelander's atrocities and [[spoiler: helps kidnap Maeve]].

* A-Train, expy of Franchise/TheFlash. Repeatedly called "The Fastest Man Alive". Fear of losing that title [[spoiler:leads to him juicing on [[SuperSerum Compound V]] to the point that 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 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 to be a weak link in this plan]].

As in the ''ComicBook/TheBoys'' comics, the characters are mostly clear expies of existing characters from other comics, mostly Marvel and DC, who are twisted to be far more unscrupulous and viler than the characters they are based on. In some cases, they've altered the expy a bit or made it more clear.

* [[Characters/TheBoys2019Homelander Homelander]], SupermanSubstitute with the same powers and heroic image, but pretty much as a [[BewareTheSuperman straight-up villain]]. In addition to his sins from the comic, the show also focuses on his corruption of the AllAmericanFace persona of Superman and ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, portrayed as a militaristic fascist, [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist Christian]], and (in season three) AngryWhiteMan who reflects every awful stereotype of Boorish {{Eagleland}}. He's essentially what happens if Superman wasn't raised by loving parents who would instill a love for humanity.

* [[Characters/TheBoys2019SoldierBoy Soldier Boy]] is blatant expy of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica and, being an empowered SuperSoldier from UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. However, while Steve Rogers is a polite and humble hero who earns the respect of his fellow superheroes, Soldier Boy is a gloryhound and bully who ends up alienating his peers. [[spoiler:He was such an asshole, in fact, that the rest of Payback sold him out and let him get captured by the Soviets just to be rid of him, something that never happened to the inspiring Steve]]. Also, like Steve Rogers (and his former sidekick-turned successor, Bucky Barnes, A.K.A. the Winter Soldier) Soldier Boy is a FishOutOfTemporalWater, but while Steve and Bucky are remarkably egalitarian for their time, Soldier Boy is a crass bigot who scoffs at the idea of men not fitting his definition of masculinity. Essentially Soldier Boy is what you'd get if the recruit who ''bullied'' Steve Rogers during training became Captain America, if you take John Walker's {{Jerkass}} traits to the extreme, or if William Burnside, the "Commie Smasher" Captain America, really ''was'' Steve Rogers.

!![[Characters/TheBoys2019Supes Supes]]
Payback: To The Avengers, with a similar revenge-themed name and led by a Captain America CCC. While the Avengers rarely intervene in ordinary conflicts because they don't have the authority to, Payback is sent to intervene in the conflict in Nicaragua specifically to try and get them the authority to keep doing it (thus making Vought more money by having super soldiers instead of just super heroes). Like the Avengers, Payback presents a front of being TrueCompanions, but while this is true for many iterations of the Avengers, behind the scenes the members of Payback can barely tolerate each other, or actively hate each other.

!![[Characters/TheBoys2019Supes Other Supes]]

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* [[Characters/TheBoys2019SoldierBoy Soldier Boy]] is blatant expy of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica and, being an empowered SuperSoldier from UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. However, while Steve Rogers is a polite and humble hero who earns the respect of his fellow superheroes, Soldier Boy is a gloryhound and bully who ends up alienating his peers. [[spoiler:He was such an asshole, in fact, that the rest of Payback sold him out and let him get captured by the Soviets just to be rid of him, something that never happened to the inspiring Steve]]. Also, like Steve Rogers (and his former sidekick-turned successor, Bucky Barnes, A.K.A. the Winter Soldier) Soldier Boy is a FishOutOfTemporalWater, but while Steve and Bucky are remarkably egalitarian for their time, Soldier Boy is a crass bigot who scoffs at the idea of men not fitting his definition of masculinity. Essentially Soldier Boy is what you'd get if the recruit who ''bullied'' Steve Rogers during training became Captain America, or rather, if you take John Walker's {{Jerkass}} traits to the extreme.

* Crimson Countess to Scarlet Witch. As in the comics, her costume looks like something Wanda from the comics would actually wear, and she has a red-tinged ranged attack much like Wanda's Hex Bolts. While Wanda may stumble and make mistakes (especially in the MCU), she does want to be good and help and protect people ([[Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness most of the time]]). In contrast, Crimson Countess doesn't seem to particularly care about her actions or the people she hurted. When Wanda [[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar caused a friendly fire incident]], she was doing her best to protect people and felt horrible about it. When Crimson Countess caused a friendly fire incident, she just picked a random running person and blew him up because she didn't bother to check who's side he was on. [[DownplayedTrope Countess does have a drive for ape conservation, though]].

* [[Characters/TheBoys2019SoldierBoy Soldier Boy]] is blatant expy of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica and, being an empowered SuperSoldier from UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. However, while Steve Rogers is a polite and humble hero who earns the respect of his fellow superheroes, Steve Soldier Boy is a gloryhound and bully who ends up alienating his peers. [[spoiler:He was such an asshole, in fact, that the rest of Payback sold him out and let him get captured by the Soviets just to be rid of him, something that never happened to the inspiring Steve]]. Also, like Steve Rogers (and his former sidekick-turned successor, Bucky Barnes, A.K.A. the Winter Soldier) Soldier Boy is a FishOutOfTemporalWater, but while Steve and Bucky are remarkably egalitarian for their time, Soldier Boy is a crass bigot who scoffs at the idea of men not fitting his definition of masculinity. Essentially Soldier Boy is what you'd get if the recruit who ''bullied'' Steve Rogers during training became Captain America, or rather, if you take John Walker's {{Jerkass}} traits to the extreme.