History Series / TheBoys2019

* {{Blackmail}}: Stillwell was being blackmailed by the mayor of Baltimore, so Homelander kills him. Then she in turn blackmails a Senator by having Doppleganger have sex with him first in female form then becoming male after he's been blindfolded, something voters in his home state wouldn't tolerate.

* AltumVidetur: The carving of The Seven is inscribed with the Latin "Fiat justitia ruat caelum" or "Let justice be done though the heavens fall".
* ArmoredClosetGay: Ezekiel, it turns out, is a closeted gay or bi man who secretly has relationships with men while publicly touting his conservative Christian beliefs, saying homosexuality can be cured by prayer.

* LudicrousGibs: Robin is reduced to a stream of blood when A-Train runs into her, leaving Hughie holding only her severed arms in his.

* CastingCouch: The Deep tries to have Starlight give him oral sex so he'll recommend her for the Seven, a famous superhero team. She's appalled and disgusted by this.

* EyeBeams: A trailer shows Billy Butcher wielding a superpowered baby as a weapon by making it blast blue beams from its eyes at his enemies.

* {{Jerkass}}: Most of the superheroes turn out to be this. A-Train actually jokes about killing Robin and has zero remorse.

* HeroInsurance: A-Train kills Robin by recklessly speeding past while she's just barely in the street (one foot off the curb, as Hughie says). Later he lies and claims she was in the middle of the street while he was speeding past pursuing bank robbers. He can't be prosecuted so long as it was part of his crime-fighting, and this is explicitly said to be the semi-immunity law enforcement officers have while performing their duties, so the idea has apparently been codified by law in the show's universe.

''The Boys'' is an upcoming 2019 web television series set to air on Creator/PrimeVideo, based on the Creator/GarthEnnis and Darick Robertson [[ComicBook/TheBoys comic book of the same name]].

* StrongFleshWeakSteel: There's a scene in the trailers where a female superhero jumps in front of the truck that was about to run someone over: she is completely unhurt, while the truck instantly has its engine crumble to pieces.

* AdaptationDeviation: While this is to be expected, due to how extreme the source material is, several plot points have been drastically changed, especially to the character of Hugie, such as him knowing from the first meeting that Anne is Starlight, and suggesting to use her as a mole, he seems much more willing to take on the supes (whereas in the comic he was always somewhat unsure of whether he was up for it) taking a more active role in dispatching some, his father seems to be more involved in the plot as well, Butcher seems to be more GeneralRipper rather than Hugies BigBrotherMentor figure, amongst other things.

%%* AdaptedOut
%%** The Boys' leather jacket uniform is restricted to Billy Butcher.
%%* CastingGag: Creator/SimonPegg plays Hughie's dad, a reference to the fact that the original comic's depiction of Hughie was based on [[ComicBookFantasyCasting Pegg himself.]]
%%* AdaptationalAttractiveness: The Deep, who is based on ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}, has been redesigned so he looks more like the ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' version of the character with a color tone similar to that of the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse version rather than the bulky outfit with a diver's helmet that the comic book version wears.
%%* ClusterFBomb: Just like the comic, swear words get used all the time.
%%* DeconstructorFleet: The show attacks the sleazy corporate greed surrounding the superhero medium, and as one can expect from any Ennis-written superhero work, basically says "superheroes suck".

%%* FlippingTheBird: The Boys do this at the end of the NYCC teaser, directing it at a cheerful Vought commercial.
%%* GenderFlip: Madelyn Stillwell, the Vought-American executive, is a woman in the adaptation. In the comic, she was a man named Jasper Stillwill.
%%* MythologyGag:
%%** The poster is made to resemble that of the [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a8/The-Boys_Volume_One.jpg first volume cover]].
%%** Simon Pegg's casting is a reference to Comic!Hughie's [[ComicBookFantasyCasting physical appearance being based on Pegg himself]].
%%** The teaser where The Boys watch a Vought commercial ends with them seated in the same positions as [[https://www.dynamite.com/images/TNBoys22CovRobertson.jpg this cover]].

%%* RaceLift: A-Train and the Deep were white and black in the comic. The show switches them around.
%%* RefugeInAudacity: ''The Boys'' prides itself in its BlackComedy.

%%* VillainProtagonist: Let's just say our "heroes" aren't exactly good guys in this CrapsackWorld.

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: While all members of The Seven have these issues in one way or the other, it is The Homelander who gets to put it across in the trailer.
--> '''The Homelander''': '''''We''' are the world's greatest superheroes. And '''I''' can do whatever [[PrecisionFStrike the '''fuck''']] I want.''

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: The Deep, who is based on ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}, has been redesigned so he looks more like the ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' version of the character with a color tone similar to that of the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse version rather than the bulky outfit with a diver's helmet that the comic book version wears.

* GenderFlip: Madelyn Stillwell, the Vought-American executive, is a woman in the adaptation. In the comic, she was a man named Jasper Stillwill.

* RaceLift: A-Train and the Deep were white and black in the comic. The show switches them around.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: The Deep, who is based on ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}, has redesigned so he looks more like the ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' version of the character with a color tone similar to that of the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse version rather than the bulky outfit with a diver's helmet that the comic book version wears.

%%* GenderFlip: Stillwell, the Vought-American executive is a woman in the adaptation.

%%* RaceLift: A-Train and the Deep were white and black in the comic. The show switches them around.

[[caption-width-right:288:[[{{Tageline}} Never met your heroes.]]]]

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* AdaptedOut
** The Boys' leather jacket uniform is restricted to Billy Butcher.
* CastingGag: Creator/SimonPegg plays Hughie's dad, a reference to the fact that the original comic's depiction of Hughie was based on [[ComicBookFantasyCasting Pegg himself.]]
* ClusterFBomb: Just like the comic, swear words get used all the time.
* DeconstructorFleet: The show attacks the sleazy corporate greed surrounding the superhero medium, and as one can expect from any Ennis-written superhero work, basically says "superheroes suck".
* FlippingTheBird: The Boys do this at the end of the NYCC teaser, directing it at a cheerful Vought commercial.
* GenderFlip: Stillwell, the Vought-American executive is a woman in the adaptation.
* MythologyGag:
** The poster is made to resemble that of the [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a8/The-Boys_Volume_One.jpg first volume cover]].
** Simon Pegg's casting is a reference to Comic!Hughie's [[ComicBookFantasyCasting physical appearance being based on Pegg himself]].
** The teaser where The Boys watch a Vought commercial ends with them seated in the same positions as [[https://www.dynamite.com/images/TNBoys22CovRobertson.jpg this cover]].
* RaceLift: A-Train and the Deep were white and black in the comic. The show switches them around.
* RefugeInAudacity: ''The Boys'' prides itself in its BlackComedy.
* VillainProtagonist: Let's just say our "heroes" aren't exactly good guys in this CrapsackWorld.

''The Boys'' is an upcoming 2019 web television series set to air on Amazon Prime, based on the Creator/GarthEnnis and Darick Robertson [[ComicBook/TheBoys of the same name]].

** Jack From Jupiter, an {{Expy}} of the ComicBook/MartianManhunter and member of the seven, is left out and seem to be replaced by some sort of invisible man.

* MythologyGag: The poster is made to resemble that of the [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a8/The-Boys_Volume_One.jpg first volume cover]].