In The Boys, The Deep often psychologically manipulates and asserts dominance over Starlight (Annie January), especially when she tries to challenge Vought or his position, such as questioning her power, threatening to remove her from The Seven, and exploiting her desire to stay, even implying she attacked him to justify her potential expulsion, highlighting their power struggle within the group.
The Deep uses this to his advantage, blackmailing Starlight into having oral sex with him, something she was strongly against at the time. The Deep uses this to mock her; however, on advice from Queen Maeve, Starlight is able to move past it and ignore him.
He blackmails Starlight into performing oral sex on him, and his complaint about his wife is that she "gives terrible blow jobs." Because of his capacity of communicating with sea creatures, The Deep has at least a friendship with almost every sea creature he knows.
Once the doors close, Homelander hits the stop button on the elevator and tells Starlight that Maeve begged him to save Starlight's life. He gave Starlight a second chance, and she failed him. Starlight feigns ignorance, and Homelander grabs her by the throat and slams her into the wall.
She is quickly rattled after finding that her membership to The Seven comes at a high price—sexual activity with the male members. Starlight is coerced into performing oral sex on Homelander, Black Noir, and A-Train.
Since The Boys Season 4 is set around November 2024, Annie had an abortion in May 2024, six months before the events of the season. This means she terminated the pregnancy shortly after Season 3. This revelation by Firecracker is exposed to be part of a master plan by Sister Sage to tarnish Starlight's reputation.
Vogelbaum reveals that Homelander had impregnated Becca, and that Becca and the baby died during birth.
Despite being referred to as a "brain tumor", Kessler in actuality seems to be a worm-esque parasite existing under Butcher's skin, generally around the brain region. Homelander refers to it as a black mass swirling around his brain, implying the existence of many worms that function as a single entity.
Homelander learn that Queen Maeve slept with Billy Butcher. Homelander is able to smell Billy Butcher's scent on Queen Maeve, thus letting him know they had a tryst. In one of their occasional meetings, Maeve and Butcher have a fling and sleep with each other. Queen Maeve seduced Billy Butcher.
The researcher found that Homelander is proven to have all nine signs of narcissistic personality disorder and is heavily influenced by it. NPD presents itself through a variety of different behavioral patterns.
Knowing he will be locked away for life as an invalid, Butcher deceives Hughie into killing him by falsely claiming he had murdered Hughie's parents. Hughie, in a fit of rage, rams a metal spike into Butcher's chest, killing him. True to character, Billy dies smiling.
A fresh take on the time tripping genre, The Lifespan of Starlight is Gattaca meets The Time Traveler's Wife. It already lies dormant within you: the ability to move within time. In 2084, three teenagers discover the secret to time travel.
Sage herself also revealed that she wasn't above using her sexuality to manipulate others. Having affairs with both the Deep and Black Noir II. Evidently manipulating them both into thinking she loved them when she was in truth using them for her own ends.
The most notable scene of the show happens in Season 2, Episode 5. Once Queen Maeve's public relations staff finds out she's gay, they revise film scripts for her movies to include scenes of her coming out as gay. They begin to plan future movies that tell Queen Maeve and Elena's love story.
Trivia. The Deep appears to be a parody of the DC Comics supervillain Black Manta, rather than the better-known aquatic superhero Aquaman. In the Amazon adaptation, he has more physical similarities to Aquaman and Marvel Comics' Namor the Sub-Mariner.
After being coerced into preforming oral sex on Homelander, Black Noir, and A-Train, Starlight pukes in the bathroom. Exiting the stall, she is happy to meet Queen Maeve, the only other female member. To her disappointment, however, she is coldly dismissed and ignored.
Madelyn Stillwell is loosely based on the character James Stillwell from the comics, who also seems to have heavily inspired the character of her superior Stan Edgar. It is heavily implied that Madelyn had molested Homelander at a young age due to him seeing her as a motherly figure.
Butcher crossed a line he never would've imagined when he took Temp V, a variant of Compound V that grants him superpowers for 24 hours, so he could take the fight directly to Homelander and Vought. But doing so came with a devastating cost: he has developed a tumor and now has less than a year to live.
Homelander's milk obsession stems from his desire for a mother figure. Madelyn's false maternal act contributed to Homelander's Oedipal complex. Season 3 hints at a disturbing twist with Homelander potentially being Stormfront's son.
Because Neuman's power only works with human blood, she has no control over Homelander's blood. This is seen when he lasers her on live TV. She tried to pop his head in that moment but was unable to.
A spokesperson told media outlets on Wednesday that Kennedy had traveled extensively to Africa, South America, and Asia and likely contracted the parasite on one of the trips. Several parasites can affect the central nervous system and potentially create cysts in brain tissue.
Season 4 of The Boys expanded on Butcher's darker side, setting him up to be a more dangerous character (& even the final villain) in season 5.
Trivia. Contrary to the comics, in the television show it appears that natural-born superhumans are extremely rare, with only one known natural-born superhero (Ryan). However, Homelander was born artificially through Soldier Boy's sperm and an unknown woman's egg, along with Compound V.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder Expressed by Homelander's Character in “The Boys” TV Series.
The two returned to The Seven Tower to engage in violent, super-powered sadomasochistic sex. Stormfront and Homelander began a semi-romantic but mostly sexual relationship.