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

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Jaded Professional: Due to the PR-obsessed, profit-based nature of Vought International, the Seven have all turned into image-obsessed celebrities that seem more interested in looking good and selling merchandise than actually accomplishing anything good. Even when any of the heroes try to do something noble (Starlight saving a would-be rape victim, the Deep wanting to help with the conditions for dolphins at Oceanland, etc.), Stillwell and the PR department will advise against it. Former Child Star: After his pop-stardom as Drummer Boy, he supposedly fell victim to the typical pitfalls of teen celebrities. Rebranding himself as Supersonic is at least partly a way for him to make a clean break with his past. Captain Ethnic: A subtle example. Her hero persona is Irish-themed, having red hair and being named after Medb, anglicized as Maeve, a legendary queen/goddess in Irish mythology. Not to mention that her actress is Irish. Reassigned to Antarctica: After being exposed for sexually assaulting Starlight (among other women), The Deep is forced to make a public apology and demoted to working in Sandusky, Ohio. High Turnover Rate: Career safety in the Seven really disappeared with Lamplighter when he retired at the beginning of Season 1 and the Boys start moving against them. To whit...

Forgotten Fallen Friend: No one ever never mentions him again throughout the series after his funeral in Season 2, not even his fellow members of The Seven. Jerkass Façade: Taunts Frenchie over being unable to stop him from burning Mallory's grandchildren, claiming that he may also be as much of a pyromaniac as he is. He then drops it when admitting that he didn't mean to kill them. Averted when she had to save a school bus early in her career and ending up breaking every bone in her arm. It never entirely healed right. Corporate-Sponsored Superhero: Their personas, jobs, and salaries all come from Vought, a corporation that owns their image rights. Because of this, they are all more interested in looking heroic to the press than actually having any moral character themselves, basically turning them into narcissistic, unbalanced celebrities that could (and have) create a body count of innocent people due to their powers and negligence in using them, having an entire global corporation to clean up whatever messes they create.Required Secondary Powers: He needs these to deal with the ocean water temperature and pressure. It's implied he has dived all the way down to the Mariana Trench, the deepest point on Earth, which indicates he has the physiology necessary to survive being in water barely above freezing and immense pressure at over a thousand times that of standard atmospheric pressure. Reference The Mariana Trench has an average PSI, or Pounds per Square Inch of 16,000. Considering the human body can withstand 50 PSI of pressure in a sudden impact, or up to 400 PSI over a slow sustained increase, The Deep would need to be capable of withstanding force at least 40 times that of a normal human in a best case scenario of sustained force, or as high as 320 times in the worst case of immediate pressure. The Beastmaster: Just like Aquaman, he can command sea creatures. Unlike Aquaman, he's absolutely terrible at using them sensibly. The Deep, expy of Aquaman, complete with perceived uselessness and fish jokes. He pulls a Casting Couch on Starlight, and suffers a Trauma Conga Line when it comes out. It's also stated he's sexually assaulted (or at least harassed) several other women. His one redeeming trait is his genuine love of all marine creatures, leading to the aforementioned fish jokes, and every time he tries to push this issue forward he's rebuffed (he wants to "shine a light" on Oceanland's questionable animal handling practices, but is told to just go along with the ad campaign Oceanland signed him up for). Starlight’s original supersuit (left) was replaced with a much more revealing outfit, which is used to help sell an insidious version of corporate feminism.

It was important to Kripke that we create a legitimate superhero universe,” the show’s costume designer, Laura Jean Shannon, tells Vulture. “We have other cinematic superhero universes that have been in existence for generations. But he wanted us to create a cinematic universe with our suits that could really play with the big boys. Like, it had to be legit. It wasn’t a joke.” For Shannon, the Deep’s overall look was a joy to design — not least because it turned on its head decades-long ideas about how to dream up costumes for male superheroes. For those of us who relish seeing Crawford in such a tight-fitting outfit ( which The Boys’ marketing department artfully exploited), there’s no missing how it’s a costume that demands you ogle its wearer: When he’s seen from behind, the design of his pants actually accentuates his ass. Shannon was all too delighted to talk about such a cheeky detail. Garth Ennis has stated that Annie's relationship with Hughie Campbell and subsequent characterisation in the comic series was not originally planned, saying that: [11] Achilles' Heel: Translucent's power isn't actually to go invisible but turning his skin to various carbon-based compounds, including a metamaterial and diamond-like substance. Unfortunately, this makes him vulnerable to electricity. Likewise he's only invulnerable from the outside. Not the inside. Meaningful Name: Her superhero name, Queen Maeve, is the Anglicised spelling of Queen Medb, a powerful fairy queen in Irish mythology who often acts as an antagonist against some of that mythology's most powerful male heroes (particularly Cu Chulainn in The Cattle Raid of Cooley). One of the Vought marketing guys also refers to her as "the Empress of the Otherworld" when he's pitching his concept for Maeve's public relationship with Elena in Season 2. In Irish mythology, the Otherworld is the fairies' homeland. It makes sense that Vought would play up a mythological angle for Queen Maeve's image, since she's their counterpart to Wonder Woman, who has a mythos steeped in Greek and Roman mythology.

Your Head Asplode: Along with Vogelbaum and numerous others, at the Congressional hearing on Compound-V, by Victoria Neuman. Dating What Daddy Hates: According to him, his grandmother didn't approve of him dating Starlight because of interracial reasons. Corrupted Character Copy: As in the comics, the characters are mostly clear copies of existing characters from other comics, mostly Marvel and DC. In some cases, they've altered the copy a bit or made it clearer.

Out of universe she's still a pretty close example. She's stronger, more competent, and far more heroic than any male member of the Seven, note Homelander slightly exceeds her in strength, but even then Kripke stated that she could beat him in a no-holds-barred fight. and in fact she and Starlight are both coincidentally the most moral members of the team and the only two females (aside from Stormfront's brief turn in season 2). She's notably never shown committing any great crimes, unlike all of the recurring male members, aside from keeping silent about Flight 37 which was only because Homelander bullied her into it. Adaptational Attractiveness: The Deep's comic costume is an embarrassingly goofy mishmash of a cape, a vintage diving helmet, and unflattering shorts. His appearance in the show is far more in line with what you'd expect a charismatic superhero to look like.

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Dumb Muscle: What he amounts to, even with the ability to control sea life — Deep is just so stupid that he never considers using his powers in ways beyond brute force. Complimenting this is that his only powers that don't relate to the ocean are Super-Strength and enhanced durability. Everyone Has Standards: What finally convinces her to help the Boys in the Season 2 finale is when she finds out Stormfront is a literal Nazi. 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. Extreme Omnisexual: Humans and maritime life, and if he can have a ménage-a-trois with both, even better. 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.