Tree Nut Allergy: Black Noir has an allergy to tree nuts. Queen Maeve uses this to her advantage by force feeding him an Almond Joy, giving her and Starlight an opportunity to escape. When fed something with tree nuts, he immediately goes into anaphylactic shock and requires a EpiPen shot to stabilize himself.
It certainly wasn't inspired by the comics. Showrunner Eric Kripke told IGN it was instead an embellishment inspired by the fact that actor Nathan Mitchell actually suffers from a nut allergy in real life. "Yeah, we came up with it," said Kripke.
Because Black Noir didn't speak for so long and was forced to live in solitude, he developed an intense hatred for Homelander. He wanted to bring down Vought's crown jewel whether they wanted him to or not, so he raped Becca Butcher and took pictures to frame Homelander.
Noir's animated animal pals get him to face his Soldier Boy fears by re-creating the event that made him so completely terrified of Soldier Boy in the first place, a day when Soldier Boy beat him up after he stood up to him, as well as the nearly fatal attack Soldier Boy made on Noir the day he led Payback in ...
Mental Illness: His unstable mind causes him to lose control and reveal his true colors. This eventually leads to his downfall at the hands of Butcher and the military after being greatly weakened by Homelander. Obsession: Black Noir has an uncontrollable desire of fulfilling his purpose of killing Homelander.
In both the comic and television series, Noir is a member of the hedonistic and reckless Vought-American superhero group the Seven and is depicted as a "silent ninja" type parody of Batman, Snake Eyes and Deathstroke.
Starlight is based of a pair of DC female superheroes: Her appearance, especially her original costume, is based on Mary Marvel, where as her abilities are based on Stargirl.
Noir is later seen in the Vought tower, sitting near a wall and crying in the middle of the hallway while holding his phone, watching the news story on Vought and their 'Lab Made Heroes' realizing he was lied to his whole life.
Black Noir is deathly allergic to nuts in The Boys series.
Queen Maeve utilizes this weakness to save Starlight when Black Noir tries to stop her from escaping. Queen Maeve shoves a bar of Almond Joy in Black Noir's mouth causing him to collapse instantly.
His addiction to breast milk is a symptom of growing up in the Vought lab where he never had access to motherly affection and the opportunity to form a loving bond at a young age. Homelander's trauma manifested in his kink for breast milk and need for a dominant mother figure.
It is also possible that losing part of his brain fighting Soldier Boy limited what he can come back from. Otherwise, Vought might have put a limit on Black Noir's healing just in case they needed to take him down and his nut allergy would not do the trick.
After revealing his torture and disappointment that Payback never came to rescue him, Crimson Countess reveals that she and the rest of Payback secretly despised him and betrayed him to the Russians for no money. Afterwards, Soldier Boy kills her with a radioactive burst.
The Dupain-Cheng's found out very early in Marinette's life that she had a severe allergic reaction to cherries. Her parents made sure she was properly educated about her reaction: she always carried an epi-pen with her.
What Makes Him Pure Evil. Becoming obsessed with his mission to terminate Homelander, Black Noir sought to frame the real Homelander just so he could get the order to kill him. Black Noir thus went on numerous rampages disguised as Homelander, in which he raped and murdered dozens of innocent people and even ate babies ...
While it is possible he ages normally, Black Noir has a healing factor, a power that typically slows aging in various superhero comics. In The Boys, supes aren't born with their powers. Instead, they gain them when they take a dose of Compound V.
Pain Suppression: He can turn his pain receptors on and off so he can keep fighting when the pain would stop a normal man as he doesn't react when Naqib uses his self detonation, leaving him with severe burns on his head and chest, or when Hughie shoots through his hand at point blank.
After the treatment, his regenerative capabilities took over. But this new version could be entirely under Vought's control, which is why he isn't revolting against Homelander. The second option could be that an imposter is simply posing as Black Noir to maintain his public appearance.
A serum-enhanced super-soldier, originating in WWII, with a patriotic theme and a clean-cut, morally superior persona — it's pretty clear that Soldier Boy is an exaggerated parody of Captain America.
Lamplighter is a parody of Marvel's Pyro. Shawn Ashmore, the actor who plays Lamplighter in season 2, previously played Iceman in 20th Century Fox's X-Men franchise, making his appearance in The Boys a meta-joke, as his powers on The Boys are the opposite of his powers on X-Men.
Billy Butcher was designed as a parody of Punisher, a character that series creator Garth Ennis had written for nine years, prior to creating The Boys. Both characters are family men who become violent, unhinged vigilantes who allow their constant thirst for revenge to take them over completely.
Trivia. Queen Maeve is a parody of Wonder Woman from DC Comics. Her design is also reminiscent of Barbie Dolls from the 21st Century. Queen Maeve's Amazon counterpart differs from her comics one only slightly but in many areas.
The character was designed as an evil version of Superman and Captain America in terms of powerset and costume. His cape pulled to the left resembles the first costume of Captain Marvel a.k.a. Shazam. Homelander's backstory in the original comics is similar to that in the television adaption of The Boys.
He had several enemies, such as Coagula, Sexface, and an unnamed naked girl who is a spoof of Poison Ivy. Eventually, Black Noir went insane due to not being able to complete the mission, and being forced to reside and interact with his target.
