Rubie's Women's The Boys Starlight Deluxe Fancy Dress Costume

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Informed Attribute: In-universe, he claims to be extremely skilled at reading people, making him good at gathering information along with his invisibility. In reality, he's so bad at reading people that it gets himself killed. Powerful, but Incompetent: Part of the Seven's problems is that they are powerful, but poorly trained in how to use their powers, resulting in a lot of unnecessary deaths, injuries, and collateral damages that could have otherwise been avoided. Adaptational Jerkass: Oh boy. In the comics, The Deep is the least bad member of The Seven and never really does anything bad. Here, he's a neurotic sexual predator. At the start of season 1, Annie is sexually assaulted by The Deep after being introduced as the newest member of the Seven. After preventing a rape and initially being reprimanded by Vought for doing so whilst out of costume, Annie is coerced by Madelyn Stillwell ( Elisabeth Shue) to wear a revealing costume supposedly representing female empowerment similarly to the golden age of feminist movement's revolution, although Annie seems to have a more puritan thought and opinion about it. After attending a Capes for Christ event, she begins questioning its approach to faith when she witnesses inherent homophobia, religious intolerance and too much focus on opposition to premarital sex, eventually revealing the Deep's sexual assault on live television. She also enters a relationship with Hughie, with him finding out her identity as Starlight early on, though the relationship becomes strained when she learns of his involvement with The Boys and subsequently the truth about Compound V and its role in the creation of Supes. Too Dumb to Live: You'd have to be a certain type of arrogant idiot to brag about what your superpower is and how it works, making it possible to exploit its logical weaknesses, which is made even worse by the fact Translucent does this in-front of people who have the fullest intention to kill him. Also; thinking you can manipulate an emotionally unstable man, who just developed a strong hatred of you personally and Supes in general, and is possession of a trigger for a bomb up your asslu, is probably the surest way you can end up as a visceral modern art piece across the wall.

Required Secondary Powers: Averted. He is not immune to fire, which allows him to easily burn himself to death. Dies Differently in Adaptation: He burns himself alive in the conference room. In the comics, he was killed by Mallory as revenge for killing his grandchildren, only to be partially reanimated by the Compound V in his system. Sexual Karma: Unlike Hughie, The Deep's sex life is never portrayed a good light. He has a history of forcing women to give him oral sex for being their hero and when he's finally punished for his actions, he's the one who gets sexually abused when a woman refuses to stop putting her fingers in his gills, despite telling her how painful the act is to him. In Season 2 he is in an Arranged Marriage with a clingy wife that is bad at giving oral sex according to him. His tryst with an octopus is the one time he's ever shown having consensual sex. Body Horror: The state of his body after Homelander kills him is beyond horrific. His left arm and right leg seem to have been ripped off, he's got severe burns from Homelander's heat vision and his face has been caved in, presumably by a punch from Homelander.Adaptational Sexuality: At first, it's left unclear if she's a closeted lesbian or bisexual as she dated Homelander (in terms of Homelander, it was to keep her public image acceptable) and dated a civilian woman before, even though she is only involved with men in the comic. Homelander outs her in Season 2, on national TV no less. Elena also clarifies that she's bisexual. Season 3 also shows her having sex with Billy Butcher and having a string of casual lovers of both men and women. Adaptational Superpower Change: Maeve in the comics could fly, while in the show it is a plot point in the Flight 37 incident that only Homelander can. The Beastmaster: Just like Aquaman, he can command sea creatures. Unlike Aquaman, he's absolutely terrible at using them sensibly. Invisible Streaker: His clothes are unaffected by his powers, so he has to be completely naked to be undetectable.

Season 1: Translucent gets killed off and the Deep is removed after his sexual assault of multiple women comes to light.Preserve Your Gays: Erik Kripke declared that for all the hardships Maeve endured, he always wanted her to have a happy ending and intentionally subverted the Bury Your Gays trope for her. Homelander has never really had any good familial or friendly relationships due to being raised in a lab. When he does enter a romance with Stormfront, he ultimately loses her due to her own racism. Straw Loser: The Deep is consistently portrayed as the least powerful and competent of The Seven. Futher more he is easily one of the biggest targets for misfortune in the story, which is both portrayed was deserved and Played for Laughs. Always Someone Better: Rivals A-Train in speed, and while he loses their public match, it's only because A-Train was abusing Compound V to enhance his powers. Brief glimpses of his exploits in Season 2 show him improving his speed, and he eventually takes a spot on The Seven.

Adaptational Heroism: In the comics, Queen Maeve is mostly a self-destructive hedonist and doesn't care about anything heroic. In the show, she's unambiguously heroic, albeit riddled with character flaws that keep her from being a paragon. Maeve's introduced trying to stop bank robbers, and is overall the most heroic member of The Seven except for Starlight. She even tells Starlight how excited she was to become a real heroine when she was younger, until she started to give away pieces of herself. She also beats up Stormfront and risks her life to stop Homelander and Soldier Boy. The Deep is later set up with a sham wife to help clean up his image. He complains that she gives bad blowjobs, and she is complicit in his torture. The Cynic: She seems to be the most experienced member of the Seven alongside Homelander, and is accordingly very jaded and often unfriendly. Full-Frontal Assault: He can only turn his own body invisible, not his clothes. Anytime he is involved in heroics (or other violence), he has to be naked. Super-Strength: She's implied to be about the only Supe who can match Homelander in this department. Proven in the Season 2 finale, where she utterly demolishes Stormfront in a fistfight. This is later proven true in the Season 3 finale, where she manages to be the first character on-screen to make Homelander BLEED. Season 1 establishes a few hard limits for her - she broke every bone in her arm trying to stop a bus from falling off a precipice, and being in a crashing plane would kill her.Adaptational Nice Guy: In the comics. Alex's only appearance was as Drummer Boy. And his only notable appearance is when he is caught cheating on Annie with another member of the Young Americans. Here, he is supportive of Annie even at the risk of his own safety. It's All About Me: He's not quite as bad as Homelander or A-Train in this regard, but it isn't saying much since he's still a self-centered jerk who sees all humans besides himself as not worth caring about. When he sees all the heads exploding on TV, the Deep is more concerned with his own safety. Even A-Train had the decency to look appalled at the carnage, which says a lot about how little the Deep thinks of others. Considering how he was mistreated by The Seven and felt betrayed when he lost his position in Vought, he likely didn't care because he believed there was a form of justice involved. In Season 3, he makes his attempts to makes amends to Starlight about himself, bragging to her about self-forgiveness and trying to bribe her into sweeping things under the rug.

Limited Wardrobe: Most of The Seven are rarely seen in civilian attire, and will go from publicity events to private corporate meetings wearing the same thing. Homelander in particular (barring dropping his pants for sex) is always seen in full costume, even mentioning he hasn't bothered with a Secret Identity in years. Starlight regularly drops the look and goes out in public as just Annie, but even still tends to wear white or off-white that matches her hero costume.Orange/Blue Contrast: He wears an orange costume against A-Train's blue one. It's especially clear in their race in "Get Some". Like Cannot Cut Like: The Boys think that it Takes One to Kill One but when Butcher shoots him with a bullet made by Frenchie out of the same material as Translucent's hardened skin, it just bounces off instead of piercing through. Not Afraid of You Anymore: Throughout the first and second seasons, Maeve was crushed under Homelander's controlling thumb and was often forced to compromise her principles to go along with his will. At the end of "What I Know", she reveals the footage she has of the Flight 37 disaster, threatening to leak the footage if Homelander doesn't stop his hunt against Starlight and The Boys. Kill It with Fire: His go-to method of dealing with situations. First it's an attempt to take Mallory out, then it's for getting rid of Sage Grove's patients when they are no longer of use to Vought. Finally, it's on himself.