"Thanks for the inspiration, but I’m going to do this my own way." While The Boys series creator, Eric Kripke, never said these exact words to Garth Evans, the creator of the comics, that’s what he must have been thinking. So far, he has made several changes to the source material.
Soldier Boy isn’t a coward fella like he is on the pages, and Black Noir isn’t a Homelander clone. Kripke also decided to make Kimiko, aka The Female, speak in Season 5 after years of staying mute.