But specified not physically, that he couldn’t be bothered to, more that he was such a disappointment.
Yeah, he’s probably never gotten past the first punch in a fight with anyone.
Haven’t seen anyone mention it…but Ryans outfits always give me a Smallville vibe.
I’d always assumed that you couldn’t give an adult Compound V and all the current Supes grew up with powers. If that’s true, how did Soldier Boy get his? Was he just the lucky result of lots of tests?
With all my questions I’m starting to think I missed a lot!
Nah, we learned last season that you can give Compound V to adults, but there’s an increased chance of nasty side effects. That’s what was going on at the compound where they found Lamplighter. He was burning up the failures. We also know Stormfront got her powers as an adult.
Vought was developing supes for the Nazis but then pulled a Von Braun and defected to America when it was clear that Hitler was losing the war. Soldier Boy and Liberty were the first successful supes.
“Soldier boy” is kind of a weird anachronistic name for a WW2 era superhero isn’t it? I assume there’s some backstory from the comments or something. In general I think “soldier boy” as some kind of slang is more modern and… well, the guy was an actual soldier, so I don’t know why “soldier boy” fits. It’s a very strange superhero name. It’s kind of diminutive compared to, say, wartime jingoistic “Captain America” which I assume he’s partly based on.
I’ve never heard that as slang for anything.
Calling soldiers “boys” in the WW2 era was common. It showed up all the time in the propaganda. I think the idea was just that the home country owed them as much support as possible, in the same way that parents are obligated to support their children.
There was a WWI song called “I’m a Yankee Doodle Soldier Boy”, but apparently it’s so unknown now I can’t find a single recording of it. But it may have been somewhat still known in WWII.
I think that’s kind of the point of a lot of the superhero names. They’re deliberately ridiculous. I mean, Homelander is named “Homelander”, after all. And as Butcher pointed out in Season 1, “Translucent” doesn’t mean “invisible”. “Soldier Boy” was pretty clearly deliberately named so that we would realize he’s not exactly Captain America.
Not morally, but he’s physically way more powerful than Captain America. He’s bulletproof and fireproof, and strong enough to throw a car.
And yet, he faked most of his actual fighting, like lying about storming the beaches on D Day.
Solider Boy was a term from the 40s I think. Maybe it’s from a song? Either way it’s a term I’ve heard outside of the Boys and not as a negative. Like dough boy which was similar.
Company B definitely had bugle boys, so I don’t see why they wouldn’t have soldier boys as well.
Don’t forget Black Noir, aka “Black Black”.
Really, all of them. Starlight, whose powers have nothing to do with light, or stars. The Deep, which sounds like a goth band. A-Train, I’m pretty sure that’s a subway in New York?
Queen Maeve is the only one that doesn’t sound outright ridiculous, and it’s because “Maeve” is literally her name. It’s like Super Dave Osbourne.
Yup, noted in the song “Take the ‘A’ Train”, it was part of the directions to Duke Ellington’s home given to songwriter Billy Strayhorn. Also the final Jeopardy answer for
one of their tournaments.
Umm…sure, why not.
Well, there was this #1 in 1962, surely inspired by the superhero 
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It’s interesting to note that the actor who portrayed Black Noir in the flashback scenes is not the actor who has been under the suit since season 1. It sets up the possibility of some other character picking up the suit and taking his place, especially since the public hasn’t seen Black Noir’s face.
Anyone else think they’re gonna rename The Seven? They can’t keep it staffed anymore.