How The Seven Look In The Boys Comics vs. The Show

The Boys

For multiple seasons , the main chemical group onThe Boyshas gone to war with members of The Seven — but how does the chief superhero team match up to theirThe Boyscomic Word of God similitude ? Based on Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson ’s rootage fabric , The Boyswas brought to the screen by Eric Kripke , Seth Rogen , and Evan Goldberg . The saga first premiered via Amazon Prime in mid-2019 . The serial has so far been consistently reincarnate before each new season has neglect . As its popularity and acclaim have continued to sailplane , Kripke foretell that there are plans for at least fiveseasons ofThe Boys .

Both the graphic novels and the series center on a singular job force head by Billy Butcher . Focused specifically on holding corrupt superheroes to report , the group was originally formed by Grace Mallory ( Greg in the strip ) , a military colonel turned CIA Deputy Director . Alongside Billy , the first incarnation of The Boys consisted of Frenchie and Marvin T. Milk ( a.k.a Mother ’s Milk ) . After a tragic event that interpret Mallory ’s grandchildren burned to death , however , the team went their disjoined way . year afterwards , still drive by an extremely personal vendetta , Billy would not only reform the team but thrive it . The Modern members would include Hughie Campbell andKimiko Miyashiro a.k.a . The Female , who each had their own reasons to contemn superheroes and their creators at Vought International .

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Homelander

trifle by Antony Starr , Homelander served as the brass of The Seven from the first sequence . Though his hold over the chemical group bit by bit lessen across the seasons , his law of similarity toThe Boyscomic al-Qur’an archetype ’s personality horrifyingly remained . It could be argue that the boob tube variation is even bad , in fact , since he ’s fully responsible for act he was frame for in the comics . In term of appearance , Starr is equally close . However , Starr ’s whisker is dyed blonde rather than naturally so . Starr is also not quite so square - jawed and has a superhero costume that is clearly pad to give the illusion ofThe Boys’comic book Homelander’snatural bulk . Regardless , the couple share the same color and floor of sadistic menace in their " really f*cking blue " eyes that Stormfront admired so much .

Starlight

Played by Erin Moriarty , Starlight / Annie January was the original freshman to The Seven inThe Boysseason 1 . In term of costume , she was mostly identical to her comic book counterpart — both in terms of the original and Vought ’s pictorial redesign . The only material difference was that the comic ’s edition had a occlusion - yellow-bellied mantle rather than white and star - jewelled . Moriarty also miss star - shape earring . Both versions of Starlight evenly shared like physical appearance , mighty down to the flow blond hair . Moriarty ’s eyes , however , are brown rather than the amusing book blue . The Starlight on the Sir Frederick Handley Page is also more often depicted as forlorn , in both reflection and behind her eye . While Moriarty ’s interlingual rendition ofThe Boys’Starlighthas at times given into desperation over her situation , she more frequently exude an melodic phrase of defiance that recreate her typeface . Such a trait has been the rationality why Starlight has been more akin to Billy Butcher than Hughie .

Queen Maeve

Played by Dominique McElligott , Queen Maeve served as The Seven ’s nonmigratory Amazon - similar warrior . The show ’s rendering share a very similar personality to her comic book opposite number — frequently benumb herself with alcohol and sexuality , but stepping up to fend for her fellow girl Supers inThe Boyswhen take . However , with McElligott being an Irish actress , the show ’s version had a expression more in line with the type ’s own Irish heritage . This is most depicted in McElligott ’s Maeve having ruby-red hair’s-breadth rather than blonde . She also had Celtic vortex woven into the design of her costume . Despite Vought ’s preference for producing more revealing costumes , however , The Boys ' Queen Maeveis not as gratuitously buxom as in Ennis and Robertson ’s design . Both , though , often wore the sensation - emblazon steel shoulder pads . By the ending of time of year 3 , she also has an centre patch .

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A-Train

Played by Jessie Usher , A - Train served as The Seven ’s resident speedster , and the character was race - swop from the funnies to the show . Usher ’s version also had shorter hair and maintained a reduce goatee byssus , which juxtapose the comedian ’s clean - shaved look and boy - band coif . The comic book version also was much bulkier , in full term of brawniness mass . Their costume used the same colour scheme ( measure time of year 3 , in which A - Train picked a more traditional African pattern).The Boys ' version of A - string , however , was n’t sleeveless , had the letter ' A ' emblazoned on the shoulders rather than the chest and wisely had protective plating over vital areas .

Black Noir

In comparison to the comics , The Boys ' Black Noiris a twofold hex in terminal figure of changes . first of all , his costume is extremely different . On the show , Nathan Mitchell ’s Noir merely wears the form of body - armor suit favorite by such pop heroes as Batman or Daredevil . In the comics , however , it ’s a form - caressing and featureless bodysuit . The latter add together even more to the character ’s mystique – appropriately making him seem like a simple shadow or the avatar of a black cakehole . Beneath the masque , however , afford the most dramatic difference of opinion . In the comics , he ’s revealed to be a dead ringer of Homelander himself . On the show , however , Black Noir is a blackened mankind name Earving with his own separate identity element and a more tragic arc .

The Deep

Played by Chace Crawford , The Boysshow ’s version of The Deepemerged as the hapless wash of The Seven . Originally a firm member , he has since found himself on the outs and forever doomed to failure and disappointment . Deep also marked one of the show ’s giving change . The comedian show him as a seven - foot fatal humanity who wore a bulky helmet with a port . As such , he was more a pastiche of classic DC Comics scoundrel , Black Manta . Deep ’s spotlight in the comics also certify a broader capacity for menace than the idiot box variation was ever able to manage . In the show , Crawford ’s adaptation of Deep was a six - understructure , lily-white , manlike model - type more cognate to Aquaman himself , albeit even more mocked and with seeable ( and sometimes speak ) gill .

Stormfront

dally by Aya Cash , Stormfront ( who could be Homelander ’s female parent ) , marked another of the show ’s gender - swapped theatrical role . In the comics , Stormfront was depicted in the traditional fashion of a thickset and surly man , who wore his virulent Nazism as proudly as Homelander wore an American masthead for a ness . On the show , the lineament was offered instead as a woman with no seeable Nazi dress . This was by astute figure on the part ofThe Boys’showrunner , who wanted to underline how thing had evolved during innovative time . While national socialist - expressive style fascism is still clearly live , The Boysput forward how societal medium and the like has allowed it to often be enfold up in a pretty and appealing package .

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Lamplighter

play by Shawn Ashmore , The Boys’Lamplighterproved to be one of the breakout surprises inThe Boysseason 2 . Ashmore ’s Lamplighter was also a stark direct contrast , physically . In the comics , he is depicted as uncontaminating - shaved and newly - faced , with foresightful , flow blonde hair . In flashbacks on the show , he is depict as both former and scruffier around the jaw . That scruffiness is even more marked when he reemerged in the present day , burden by twelvemonth of guilt over what he did to Mallory ’s grandchild . Lamplighter ’s costume is also markedly different . In the strip , he wore a yellow and blue costume with a blue eye - masque . On the show , Lamplighter was adorned in the kind of leather , hooded ensemble favored by sure Arrowverse Heron . He also wore a pair of tinct goggles rather than a mask . Lamplighter ’s final state was equally different in both mediums . Ashmore ’s Lamplighter choose self-annihilation by self - immolation , while the comic ’s iteration was turned into a headless zombie of a prisoner by Vought .

Soldier Boy

Soldier Boy is played bySupernatural ’s Jensen Ackles inThe Boysseason 3 . Soldier Boy and his comic Quran counterpart do have some notable remainder when it comes to appearances and costume . InThe BoysTV show , Ackles sports a coloured dark-green and heavily armoured costume , whereas the comics ' version is almost a straight ripoff of Captain America – done intentionally , of grade . Both heroes frolic their stylemark shields . However , it differs from the comics in that the TV translation ’s shield is much more oblong , and it has a neat - looking eagle etched into the front of it . Soldier Boy ’s costume inThe Boysis much more subdued when compare to his comic book counterpart , despite being armored . Jensen Ackles also has filthy blonde hair , while Soldier Boy ’s pilus in the comics is a silky lightlessness . Both characters don a face mask for battle , but Ackles ' character wears it less in the series .

Translucent Replaced Jack from Jupiter

InThe Boysseason 1 , there was another member of The Seven cite Translucent . Having caught Hughie leaving a bug in Vought Tower , Translucent tracked him back to his place of study . There , he was disable and capture by Hughie and Billy Butcher . The former would at last pop him with a specifically - placed bomb . Unlike the others , The Boys ' Transculentwas an original Cartesian product of the show , supersede the Martian - Manhunter - inspired Jack from Jupiterwho was deemed too outlandish for the show ’s jolly grounded tone . As such , he has no comic book similitude with which to compare or contrast ( although , being largely invisible , very few comparisons could have been made anyway ) .

The Seven’s Headquarters Also Looks Different In The Show

Lastly , Amazon’sThe Boysalso drastically interpolate The Seven ’s headquarters from the comic strip . Whereas inThe Boyscomics , The Seven engage out of a drift headquarters reminiscent of the Justice League ’s Watchtower , the show instead has their deeply ominous operations working out ofVoughtTower in New York City , a more lineal cite to the Avengers Tower of the MCU . As with many of The Seven ’s changes , this revision serves to undercoat the show more and aids its social commentary of collective neglect and overreach rather than spinning a more grotesque level . The show use Vought as a stand - in for Disney and Warner Bros. , so the switch to a hulk incarnate complex is fitting . AsThe Boyscontinues with more time of year , Vought Tower will certainly continue to be a hotspot of criminal bodily process , and its public relations squad will be work overtime to overlay Homelander ’s progressively brutal tracks .