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** As it turns out, [[spoiler: passenger on the plane abandoned by Maeve and Homelander]] were recording the whole thing. At least one of these clips survived and Maeve uses it later to [[spoiler: successfully blackmail Homelander]].
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** As it turns out, [[spoiler: passenger passengers on the plane abandoned by Maeve and Homelander]] were recording the whole thing. At least one of these clips survived and Maeve uses it later to [[spoiler: successfully blackmail Homelander]].
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** Frenchis refers to Jack Quaid's character as "Petit Hughie" and sometimes "Wee Hughie". Frenchie considers them affectionate nicknames; Hughie does not.
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** Frenchis Frenchie refers to Jack Quaid's character as "Petit Hughie" and sometimes "Wee Hughie". Frenchie considers them affectionate nicknames; Hughie does not.
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** Kimiko in the comics (where her character is called "The Female of the Species") started out as a neglected infant who ate some Compound V waste and was traded out to Vought-American by her mother in exchange for a magazine subscription, which resulted in her being experimented on by the company until she was rescued by The Boys. In the show, she [[spoiler:and her brother]] were kidnapped at a young age and brainwashed by an Asian terrorist group; she is being held captive by human traffickers, not scientists, when The Boys find her.
** In the comics, Vought-American was a weapons manufacturer that produced cheaply-made, incompetently-designed planes and rifles for the U.S. military, and developed Compound V themselves with the help of a German scientist who they helped defect to the U.S. before the war. In the show, Vought International was founded ''after'' the war by a "reformed" Nazi war criminal who had developed Compound V by testing it on prisoners at Dachau; the company identifies itself as a pharmaceutical company rather than a weapons manufacturer.
** In the comics, Vought-American was a weapons manufacturer that produced cheaply-made, incompetently-designed planes and rifles for the U.S. military, and developed Compound V themselves with the help of a German scientist who they helped defect to the U.S. before the war. In the show, Vought International was founded ''after'' the war by a "reformed" Nazi war criminal who had developed Compound V by testing it on prisoners at Dachau; the company identifies itself as a pharmaceutical company rather than a weapons manufacturer.
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** Kimiko in the comics (where her character is called "The Female of the Species") started out as a neglected infant whose who ate some Compound V waste and was traded out to Vought-American a major Japanese company by her mother in exchange for a magazine subscription, which resulted in her being experimented on by the company until she was rescued by The Boys. In the show, she [[spoiler:and her brother]] were kidnapped at a young age and brainwashed by an Asian terrorist group; she is being held captive by human traffickers, not scientists, when The Boys find her.
** In the comics, Vought-American was a weapons manufacturer that produced cheaply-made, incompetently-designed planes and rifles for the U.S.military, military and developed Compound V themselves with the help of a German scientist who they helped defect to the U.S. before the war. In the show, Vought International was founded ''after'' the war by a "reformed" Nazi war criminal who had developed Compound V by testing it on prisoners at Dachau; the company identifies itself as a pharmaceutical company rather than a weapons manufacturer.
** In the comics, Vought-American was a weapons manufacturer that produced cheaply-made, incompetently-designed planes and rifles for the U.S.
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* FakeUltimateHero: Arguably the whole superhero community in the series is this as Vought makes sure to promote all the superpowered people as classical superheroes while in reality, most of the supposed heroes are only caring for themselves (and Vought itself is only wanting to print money with their heroes). Biggest example is of course SupermanSubstitute Homelander who pretends to be TheCape and an IdealHero in public but in reality is a PsychopathicManchild [[ItsAllAboutMe only caring for himself]].
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** Any time Elisabeth Shue's breasts are partially shown, the context is usually disturbing; Homelander spying on her milking them to breastfeed her baby, or else their creepy foreplay [[spoiler: where she makes him drink her breast milk]].
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** Any time Elisabeth Shue's breasts are partially shown, the context is usually disturbing; Homelander spying on her milking them to breastfeed her baby, or else their creepy foreplay [[spoiler: where she makes lets him drink her breast milk]].
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* ProductPlacement: You may be forgiven if you think that The Deep advertising ''Liquid Death'' in an anti-pollution advertisement is just one of the other {{Parody Product Placement}}s of the show. you may also be forgiven for not knowing that ''Liquid Death'' is a real product.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Vought, as well as [[spoiler:the parents of every Supe out there. All they could see was the money, fame and control it could give them, not that their attitudes and horrible child care would fill the world with extremely powerful beings without the emotional maturity to use that power wisely.]]
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''The Boys'' is a television series airing on Creator/PrimeVideo and helmed by Creator/EricKripke of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' fame, based on Creator/GarthEnnis and Darick Robertson's [[ComicBook/TheBoys comic book of the same name]]. It premiered on July 26, 2019 and has run for three seasons; seasons. A week after Season 3's premiere in June 2022, it was renewed for a fourth season season, which is expected to release sometime in 2024.
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''The Boys'' is a television series airing on Creator/PrimeVideo and helmed by Creator/EricKripke of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' fame, based on the Creator/GarthEnnis and Darick Robertson Robertson's [[ComicBook/TheBoys comic book of the same name]]. It premiered on July 26, 2019 and has run for three seasons; a week after Season 3's premiere in June 2022, it was renewed for a fourth season with an is expected to release sometime in 2024.
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* A [[https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/the-boys-spinoff-mexico-amazon-1235811650/ third spinoff]], set in UsefulNotes/MexicoCity and spoken entirely in Spanish, was reported to be in development in November 2023.
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** Billy Butcher's father is played by Creator/JohnNoble, which means that Billy is literally what you'd get if [[Franchise/TheLordOfTheRings Eomer was raised by Denethor instead.]]
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* A second spinoff, ''Series/GenV,'' was announced in September 2020 and released on September 29, 2023. It is set at a Vought-operated college for young adult supes who compete with one another for sponsorships and notoriety. It is loosely inspired by the G-Men of the comics, who in turn were based on Creator/{{Marvel}}'s ComicBook/XMen.
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* A second spinoff, ''Series/GenV,'' ''Series/GenV'', was announced in September 2020 and released on September 29, 2023. It is set at a Vought-operated college for young adult supes who compete with one another for sponsorships and notoriety. It is loosely inspired by the G-Men of the comics, who in turn were based on Creator/{{Marvel}}'s ComicBook/XMen.
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* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Hughie's reaction to Mother's Milk's name.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: The series only follows the comic's story in broad strokes, yet is generally hailed as the superior product.
** For example, in the comics superheroes don't fight crime and they are legally barred from doing so. In the series they do, and are legally deputized by law enforcement. This is even incorporated into the explanation for why Hughie cannot expect A-Train to be prosecuted for killing Robin, because it was ([[TheConspiracy supposedly]]) an accident while A-Train was pursuing some criminals. This raises both disturbing implications and the subsequent commentary on unchecked MegaCorp overreach, PoliceBrutality and accountability, that were absent from the original story.
** [[AdaptationalWimp The Boys weren't given superpowers in the show,]] while [[AdaptationalBadass the villains were given some basic competence,]] thus avoiding the BrokenAesop of superpowers being bad except when ''we'' have them, and raising the stakes by making the protagonists the underdogs. [[spoiler: And when The Boys ''do'' get access to temporary superpowers in Season 3, the fact is stressed that they are [[HeWhoFightsMonsters now effectively indistinguishable from their enemies.]]]]
** In the comics, there are some half-hearted efforts to portray Butcher as being as bad in his own way as the villains, but we still spend most of the time seeing him [[ShowyInvincibleHero mouth off to superiors with zero pushback, inflict gleeful punishment on people who annoyed him, effortlessly beat down bad people and just generally be a walking power fantasy.]] In the show, he is far more convincingly shown to be a fundamentally broken man and an abusive influence on everyone who gets near him, and [[GodzillaThreshold tolerated only because he's the only one who has even the slightest chance of taking down Vought.]]
** Conversely, the villain characters were all fleshed out and given complex motivations. They are still fundamentally jerks at best and monsters at worst, but they're no longer one-dimensional punching bags.
** For example, in the comics superheroes don't fight crime and they are legally barred from doing so. In the series they do, and are legally deputized by law enforcement. This is even incorporated into the explanation for why Hughie cannot expect A-Train to be prosecuted for killing Robin, because it was ([[TheConspiracy supposedly]]) an accident while A-Train was pursuing some criminals. This raises both disturbing implications and the subsequent commentary on unchecked MegaCorp overreach, PoliceBrutality and accountability, that were absent from the original story.
** [[AdaptationalWimp The Boys weren't given superpowers in the show,]] while [[AdaptationalBadass the villains were given some basic competence,]] thus avoiding the BrokenAesop of superpowers being bad except when ''we'' have them, and raising the stakes by making the protagonists the underdogs. [[spoiler: And when The Boys ''do'' get access to temporary superpowers in Season 3, the fact is stressed that they are [[HeWhoFightsMonsters now effectively indistinguishable from their enemies.]]]]
** In the comics, there are some half-hearted efforts to portray Butcher as being as bad in his own way as the villains, but we still spend most of the time seeing him [[ShowyInvincibleHero mouth off to superiors with zero pushback, inflict gleeful punishment on people who annoyed him, effortlessly beat down bad people and just generally be a walking power fantasy.]] In the show, he is far more convincingly shown to be a fundamentally broken man and an abusive influence on everyone who gets near him, and [[GodzillaThreshold tolerated only because he's the only one who has even the slightest chance of taking down Vought.]]
** Conversely, the villain characters were all fleshed out and given complex motivations. They are still fundamentally jerks at best and monsters at worst, but they're no longer one-dimensional punching bags.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: The ''A lot'' of liberties have been taken when compared to the source material, both for creative reasons and because the shift from comic books to a television series only follows necessitates it.
** The show is much more focused and concise in order to fit thecomic's eight-episode timeframe, whereas the comic had multi-issue storylines which basically had nothing to do with the Seven or the main plot, often involving the Boys going after some other Supes or teams, like when Hughie infiltrates X-Men pastiche The G-Men, or when the entire team focuses on bringing down Tek-Knight.
** In the show, the Boys (bar Kimiko) are regular humans [[spoiler:except in Season 3, where Butcher and Hughie go on Temp V)]], whereas they all are super powered in the comic. Naturally, writing a show where the Boys are just as strong and durable as their enemies would be a challenge, not to mention that every fight scene having super powers thrown in the mix would be ''extremely'' expensive to do well.
** The social and political commentary had to be reworked from the ground-up to account for the decade and a half that passed between the first comic and the first episode, especially given that the comic was a parody of the post-9/11 hysteria and conservatism of the early to mid-2000s, with Vic the Veep being a particularly harsh parody of George W. Bush. The show instead parodies more current political trends, such as "rainbow capitalism", the #metoo movement and the rise of the Alt-Right, conspiracy theorists and controversial right wing populist figures such as Donald Trump, with the gender-swapped version Vic Neuman being changed from a spoof on George W. Bush to an [[spoiler:evil, super powered]] parody of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
** Despite not exactly shying away from the dark and disgusting, the show ''did'' do away with some of the more gratuitously edgy things in the comic such as Homelander [[spoiler:(really Black Noir) being shown in full eating a baby]], Seven member Jack from Jupiter doing drugs laced with Queen Maeve's [[spoiler:vaginal mucus]], a Supe that goes around with a hamster lodged in his rectum and Starlight being [[spoiler:gang-raped by Homelander, Black Noir and A-Train instead of just The Deep]]. Some character traits were also tweaked, Butcher is no longer as homophobic and misogynistic as he is in the comics, and Homelander, while still a racist, doesn't repeatedly call Black characters the N-word.
** The show's depictions of sexual assault are treated a lot more seriously, whereas in the comics, what happens on Starlight's first day gets sort of blown off and Hughie [[spoiler:being randomly sexually assaulted by Black Noir in the comic, gets treated almost like a joke]]. In general, the show is more restrained when it comes to which characters that are sexual predators, whereas in the comic, a bad Supe ''not'' being a rapist almost seems like the exception.
** Hughie goes from being Scottish to an American already living in New York, partly because it's not exactly common for American shows to feature a main character with a really thick Scottish accent and partly because it moves the story along quicker and ties inbroad strokes, yet nicely with A-Train's story.
** Soldier Boy's character isgenerally hailed as drastically reworked. Both because the superior product.
comic version isn't one person, but three, and because the comic version of Soldier Boy is a one-note walking gay joke and basically just exists so abuse can happen to him, which would neither fly these days, or make for a particularly interesting season-long arc.
**For example, The Supe costumes have been given the Marvel Cinematic Universe treatment, being darker and more detailed, with a more textured, sometimes metallic look, whereas all the comic characters wear classic spandex costumes, usually designed to be as garish and unflattering as humanly possible. Case in point, the massive gold eagle covering Homelander's entire left shoulder has been replaced with smaller gold eagle shoulder pauldrons on both shoulders, and Black Noir's outfit, which in the comics superheroes don't fight crime and they are legally barred from doing so. In the series they do, and are legally deputized by law enforcement. This is even incorporated into the explanation for why Hughie cannot expect A-Train amounts to be prosecuted for killing Robin, because it was ([[TheConspiracy supposedly]]) an accident while A-Train was pursuing some criminals. This raises both disturbing implications and the subsequent commentary on unchecked MegaCorp overreach, PoliceBrutality and accountability, that were absent from the original story.
** [[AdaptationalWimp The Boys weren'ta featureless black spandex pajamas, has been given superpowers in the show,]] while [[AdaptationalBadass the villains were given some basic competence,]] thus avoiding the BrokenAesop of superpowers being bad except when ''we'' have them, Batman treatment, and raising the stakes by making the protagonists the underdogs. [[spoiler: And when The Boys ''do'' get access to temporary superpowers in Season 3, the fact is stressed that they are [[HeWhoFightsMonsters now effectively indistinguishable from their enemies.]]]]
** In the comics, there are some half-hearted efforts to portray Butcher as being as bad in his own way as the villains, but we still spend most of the time seeing him [[ShowyInvincibleHero mouth off to superiors with zero pushback, inflict gleeful punishment on people who annoyed him, effortlessly beat down bad peopleinstead resembles a cross between a ninja outfit and just generally be tactical military gear.
** Flying is awalking power fantasy.]] In lot more rare in the show, he is far more convincingly shown to be a fundamentally broken man and an abusive influence on everyone who gets near him, and [[GodzillaThreshold tolerated only both because he's of how expensive it is to make it look convincing, and to further differentiate Homelander from other Supes. In the comic, the only Seven members that ''can't'' fly are A-Train and Black Noir [[spoiler:(not really, but he pretends he can't fly)]].
** Seven member Jack from Jupiter was scrapped and replaced by the similarly powered Translucent. According to the creators, Jack, who looks like an orange version of the Martian Manhunter and supposedly is an "alien" was just a ''little'' too out there, even for The Boys.
** [[spoiler:The twist of Black Noir being a clone of Homelander and actually the one whohas even did all the slightest chance horrible stuff Homelander was accused of taking down Vought.]]
** Conversely,was scrapped pretty quick, partly because the villain characters were all fleshed out twist itself is a hotly debated topic among fans and given complex motivations. They are still fundamentally jerks at best partly because it's so well-known and monsters literally able to be spoiled with a single panel that the twist itself wouldn't be much of a twist at worst, but they're no longer one-dimensional punching bags.all.]].
** The show is much more focused and concise in order to fit the
** In the show, the Boys (bar Kimiko) are regular humans [[spoiler:except in Season 3, where Butcher and Hughie go on Temp V)]], whereas they all are super powered in the comic. Naturally, writing a show where the Boys are just as strong and durable as their enemies would be a challenge, not to mention that every fight scene having super powers thrown in the mix would be ''extremely'' expensive to do well.
** The social and political commentary had to be reworked from the ground-up to account for the decade and a half that passed between the first comic and the first episode, especially given that the comic was a parody of the post-9/11 hysteria and conservatism of the early to mid-2000s, with Vic the Veep being a particularly harsh parody of George W. Bush. The show instead parodies more current political trends, such as "rainbow capitalism", the #metoo movement and the rise of the Alt-Right, conspiracy theorists and controversial right wing populist figures such as Donald Trump, with the gender-swapped version Vic Neuman being changed from a spoof on George W. Bush to an [[spoiler:evil, super powered]] parody of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
** Despite not exactly shying away from the dark and disgusting, the show ''did'' do away with some of the more gratuitously edgy things in the comic such as Homelander [[spoiler:(really Black Noir) being shown in full eating a baby]], Seven member Jack from Jupiter doing drugs laced with Queen Maeve's [[spoiler:vaginal mucus]], a Supe that goes around with a hamster lodged in his rectum and Starlight being [[spoiler:gang-raped by Homelander, Black Noir and A-Train instead of just The Deep]]. Some character traits were also tweaked, Butcher is no longer as homophobic and misogynistic as he is in the comics, and Homelander, while still a racist, doesn't repeatedly call Black characters the N-word.
** The show's depictions of sexual assault are treated a lot more seriously, whereas in the comics, what happens on Starlight's first day gets sort of blown off and Hughie [[spoiler:being randomly sexually assaulted by Black Noir in the comic, gets treated almost like a joke]]. In general, the show is more restrained when it comes to which characters that are sexual predators, whereas in the comic, a bad Supe ''not'' being a rapist almost seems like the exception.
** Hughie goes from being Scottish to an American already living in New York, partly because it's not exactly common for American shows to feature a main character with a really thick Scottish accent and partly because it moves the story along quicker and ties in
** Soldier Boy's character is
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** [[AdaptationalWimp The Boys weren't
** In the comics, there are some half-hearted efforts to portray Butcher as being as bad in his own way as the villains, but we still spend most of the time seeing him [[ShowyInvincibleHero mouth off to superiors with zero pushback, inflict gleeful punishment on people who annoyed him, effortlessly beat down bad people
** Flying is a
** Seven member Jack from Jupiter was scrapped and replaced by the similarly powered Translucent. According to the creators, Jack, who looks like an orange version of the Martian Manhunter and supposedly is an "alien" was just a ''little'' too out there, even for The Boys.
** [[spoiler:The twist of Black Noir being a clone of Homelander and actually the one who
** Conversely,
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* ConditionedToBeWeak: Homelander is the central antagonist of the series and the driving force behind Butcher's hatred of superhumans. Homelander was raised to be a living product of Vought through isolation and scientific experiments. As a result, he craves external validation and cannot afford to look weak, something Vought exploits because they know how dangerous Homelander is and his utter disregard for human life. [[spoiler:As the series progresses, Homelander is blackmailed by Starlight with video footage of him abandoning a passenger plane and threatening to kill everyone onboard. However, Homelander calls her bluff and says that if she uploads it, they've lost their leash on him and he can go on a rampage without anyone to stop him. He even takes over Vought and finds comfort in his demographic of white males, who unconditionally support him despite killing a Starlight protestor in front of them.]]
-->'''Homelander:''' [[spoiler:Go ahead. Release it. Let's light this candle, huh? I mean, sure, I'll lose everything, but then, I'll have nothing to lose. First, I'll take out the nerve centers -- the White House, the Pentagon - then any domestic defense capabilities, and then critical infrastructure -- like cellular, internet, that kind of thing. And then, well, I think then I'll just wipe New York off the fucking map -- for fun. I'll even throw in Des Moines and that little cousin-fucker hick town that Maeve's from -- 'cause why not? See Starlight, I'd prefer to be loved. I would. But if you take that away from me... Well, being feared is a one okie doke by me. So, go ahead, partner. Do it!]]
-->'''Homelander:''' [[spoiler:Go ahead. Release it. Let's light this candle, huh? I mean, sure, I'll lose everything, but then, I'll have nothing to lose. First, I'll take out the nerve centers -- the White House, the Pentagon - then any domestic defense capabilities, and then critical infrastructure -- like cellular, internet, that kind of thing. And then, well, I think then I'll just wipe New York off the fucking map -- for fun. I'll even throw in Des Moines and that little cousin-fucker hick town that Maeve's from -- 'cause why not? See Starlight, I'd prefer to be loved. I would. But if you take that away from me... Well, being feared is a one okie doke by me. So, go ahead, partner. Do it!]]
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-->'''Homelander:''' [[spoiler:Go ahead. Release it. Let's light this candle, huh? I mean, sure, I'll lose everything, but then, I'll have nothing to lose. First, I'll take out the nerve centers -- the White House, the Pentagon - then any domestic defense capabilities, and then critical infrastructure -- like cellular, internet, that kind of thing. And then, well, I think then I'll just wipe New York off the fucking map -- for fun. I'll even throw in Des Moines and that little cousin-fucker hick town that Maeve's from -- 'cause why not? See Starlight, I'd prefer to be loved. I would. But if you take that away from me... Well, being feared is a one okie doke by me. So, go ahead, partner. Do it!]]
-->'''Homelander:''' [[spoiler:Go ahead. Release it. Let's light this candle, huh? I mean, sure, I'll lose everything, but then, I'll have nothing to lose. First, I'll take out the nerve centers -- the White House, the Pentagon - then any domestic defense capabilities, and then critical infrastructure -- like cellular, internet, that kind of thing. And then, well, I think then I'll just wipe New York off the fucking map -- for fun. I'll even throw in Des Moines and that little cousin-fucker hick town that Maeve's from -- 'cause why not? See Starlight, I'd prefer to be loved. I would. But if you take that away from me... Well, being feared is a one okie doke by me. So, go ahead, partner. Do it!]]
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* DecoyBackstory: InUniverse example: [[PropagandaHero The Seven]] and other supers are publicly given origins of the superhero they parody, eg; [[SupermanSubstitute The Homelander]] is an alien who crash-landed on Earth and raised by farmers. In reality, they were almost all raised in labs after they started showing superpowers as children, some with a nuke nearby ready to detonate in case of behavioral issues. It helps to explain why very few supers in this series are normal or well-adjusted.
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** When it's revealed that [[spoiler:the Parents of all Supes concented to Vaught experimenting on their kids in exchange for money and the promise of fame. It is no surprise that people who placed more value on those things than their children's health and safety weren't at all emotionally qualified to be good parents to those children. Which in turn lead to many of the emotional issues most Supes posess.]]
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* DecoyBackstory: InUniverse example: [[PropagandaHero The Seven]] and other supers are publicly given origins of the superhero they parody, eg; [[SupermanSubstitute The Homelander]] is an alien who crash-landed on Earth and raised by farmers. In reality, they were almost all raised in labs after they started showing superpowers as children, some with a nuke nearby ready to detonate in case of behavioral issues. It helps to explain why very few supers in this series are normal or well-adjusted.
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* A second spinoff, ''Series/GenV,'' was announced in September 2020 and released in September 29, 2023. It is set set in a Vought-operated college for young adult supes who compete with one another for sponsorships and notoriety. It is loosely inspired by the G-Men of the comics, who in turn were based on Creator/{{Marvel}}'s ComicBook/XMen.
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* A second spinoff, ''Series/GenV,'' was announced in September 2020 and released in on September 29, 2023. It is set set in at a Vought-operated college for young adult supes who compete with one another for sponsorships and notoriety. It is loosely inspired by the G-Men of the comics, who in turn were based on Creator/{{Marvel}}'s ComicBook/XMen.
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** A-Train accidentally kills Robin by racing through her at high speed, reducing her to a bloody pulp. Though this wasn't intentional, it was reckless and he shows zero remorse. It might actually qualify as murder or at least manslaughter [[spoiler:as he's under the influence of V at the time]], but he lies about what happened and most just take his word for it.
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** A-Train accidentally kills Robin by racing through her at high speed, reducing her to a bloody pulp. Though this wasn't intentional, it was reckless and he shows zero remorse. It might actually qualify as murder or at least manslaughter [[spoiler:as he's under the influence of Compound V at the time]], but he lies about what happened and most just take his word for it.
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* BestedAtBowling: In [[Recap/TheBoysS01E04TheFemaleOfTheSpecies "The Female of the Species"]], Hughie and Annie/Starlight go bowling on a date. She plays clumsily, and Hughie cannot believe a {{Superhero}} is having trouble beating him. When he accuses her of holding back, she admits it. She worries NoGuyWantsAnAmazon and that he will feel diminished next to a more-powerful girlfriend. He disagrees, promises her superpowers are a part of her he respects [[AmazonChaser and likes]], and asks Annie not to deny them for his sake. Convinced, she throws an amazing strike and proceeds to crush Hughie at the rest of the game, to his delight.
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* BestedAtBowling: In [[Recap/TheBoysS01E04TheFemaleOfTheSpecies "The Female of the Species"]], Hughie and Annie/Starlight go bowling on a date. She plays clumsily, and Hughie cannot believe a {{Superhero}} is having trouble beating him. When he accuses her of holding back, she admits it. She worries NoGuyWantsAnAmazon and that he will feel diminished next to a more-powerful girlfriend. He disagrees, promises her superpowers are a part of her he respects [[AmazonChaser and likes]], and asks Annie not to deny them for his sake. Convinced, she throws an amazing strike and proceeds to crush Hughie at the rest of the game, to his delight.
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* In September 2020, [[https://deadline.com/2020/09/the-boys-spinoff-fast-track-development-amazon-record-season-2-launch-ratings-1234584256/ it was announced that a spinoff was in development]], which will be set in a Vought-operated college for young adult supes who compete with one another for sponsorships and notoriety. Kripke [[https://www.thewrap.com/the-boys-spinoff-superhero-college-series-gmen-comics-xmen-parody-eric-kripke/ later stated]] that it would be loosely inspired by the G-Men of the comics, who in turn were based on Creator/{{Marvel}}'s ComicBook/XMen. The spinoff is titled ''Series/GenV'' and is planned for release in September 29, 2023.
* Another spinoff, an {{animated anthology}} titled ''WesternAnimation/TheBoysDiabolical'' consisting of eight episodes was released in March 2022, sometime before season three of the main series.
* Another spinoff, an {{animated anthology}} titled ''WesternAnimation/TheBoysDiabolical'' consisting of eight episodes was released in March 2022, sometime before season three of the main series.
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