Soldier Boy (The Avenging Squad)/Comics

Soldier Boy was a highly untrained and inept but fully motivated superhero that was elected to lead The Avenging Squad during , being one of Vought-American's earliest Supes.
==History==
Soldier Boy was one of Vought-American's earliest attempts at including Supes in the United States military, he was put in charge of The Avenging Squad, which was comprised of multiple other Supes that were just as untrained and inexperienced in the field as he was before being sent to fight in .
During the , Soldier Boy made the unauthorized decision to send the flyers of the Avenging Squad to scout for Germans as soon as they arrived, making this without awareness of military tactics led the Waffen-SS to a US Army camp, causing a massacre of both the Avenging Squad and the American soldiers they were supposed to assist. He was mortally wounded by the attack and killed by Mallory after he found him asking for help.
==Personality==
Soldier Boy was very enthusiastic about helping the allies as a superhero, being willing to take initiative even if he didn't have any formal training. Unfortunately, his lack of training and field experience made him extremely ignorant and incompetent despite having the best intentions, which ultimately costed the lives of his team and many soldiers.
==Powers==
*Superhuman Strength: Soldier Boy was able to lift a thirty-six ton sherman a foot off the ground with the help of Steel Knight, although it took them a lot of effort. Henry K. Neuman claimed that they could flip the tank over if they choose.
*Superhuman Durability (Tentative): Soldier Boy does seem to have a low level of durability as he survived losing half of his body, being still able to speak, albeit poorly.
==Weakness==
*Lack of Training: Soldier Boy lacks any type of training, his inadequacies made his scouting the reason the Germans massacred him and his allies.
*Blunt Force/Limited Durability: Soldier Boy was still left crippled by the gunfire of the Germans and was later killed by Mallory's grenade.
==Trivia==
*Soldier Boy is a parody of Marvel's Captain America, a character for who Boys writer and co-creator Garth Ennis has a particularly intense contempt.
**Despite this, this parody is not as mean-spirited as his successor that showed up in earlier issues.
Category:Comic characters
Category:Supers
Category:Male Characters
Category:Deceased
Category:The Avenging Squad