Super Duper/Comics

Super Duper are minor characters in the Dynamite Entertainment adult comic book series The Boys. They are a harmless and sheltered team of young, naive superheroes located in New Jersey, primarily made up of low-powered, and in some cases, mentally disabled teens who function more as a support group for young people living with disabilities in a group home than as the sort of sadistic revelers comprising the rest of Vought-American's so-called "heroes". 
==Background==
Residing in the suburbs of New Jersey, Super Duper is somewhat of an anomaly in comparison with the rest of the superhero community. Like most superheroes owned by Vought, they are given a completely fictional backstory to make them more marketable to consumers as well as obscure the existence of Compound-V, with their origin story being that they are ageless teenagers from the far future world of 5000 A.D. (described by Billy Butcher as a "sci-fi thing with a Peter Pan twist"). Unlike the debauched and grotesque lifestyles of most Supes, though, they are compassionate and kind young people who genuinely want to be heroes and make the world a better place despite their limitations. The group is considered by most to be an old-fashioned and quaint C-list team, mainly due to not catching up with newer and "edgier" trends in contemporary superheriocs. According to Butcher, the only reason Vought even bothers to keep them around is to appeal to the "nostalgia market".
Although lacking an official team captain, they often appear to look towards their oldest member Auntie Sis for guidance and direction, though she denies her role within the group as a leader.
However, due to their powers being either weak or dysfunctional, they are generally excluded from the rest of the main Vought teams, as they make little to no public appearance, and are never invited to any of events related to Supes, such as the annual Herogasm orgy. In fact, the members of Super Duper seem to be completely isolated from the rest of the Supe world and it seems that most of them (with the exception of Auntie Sis, who admits the group is sheltered) are utterly oblivious to the widespread corruption and rampant hedonism within the broader "superhero" community. Perhaps because of their mental disabilities and sheltered lifestyles, the outlooks and personalities of Super Duper's members are very naive and child-like, despite many of them being in their mid-to-late teens. The team's "crimefighting" mainly consists of normal activities that non-powered civilians can easily do, such as saving cats from trees.
=== Malchemical and the Involvement of the Boys ===
They first gained the attention of The Boys when Team Titanic member Malchemical was expelled from the group after sexually assaulting fellow team member The Starlike (in which he used his shapeshifting abilities to impersonate her boyfriend Jimmy the One into having anal sex with her) and, as part of his punishment, was reassigned to Super Duper as their “leader”. As part of their investigation, Hughie Campbell is sent to New Jersey to conduct surveillance on Super Duper while Mother's Milk investigates why Vought had Malchemical reassigned to the team. 
While at the Super Duper HQ, the group throws a welcoming party for Malchemical to his annoyance. Despite Super Duper's enthusiastic support and embrace of their new captain, it soon becomes clear that Malchemical's toxic personality would cause problems for these young heroes. As Auntie Sis cuts a slice of cake for Klanker (a team member with Tourettes Syndrome), he suddenly shouts "fucking cunt!", which causes Malchemical to laugh and mock his tic. 
Soon after, the group goes on patrol in the neighborhood and tries to rescue a cat out of a tree.
Their uncharacteristically benign nature confuses Billy Butcher, as he has come to view all Supes as inherently malevolent and depraved beyond measure. Hughie befriends them while undercover in "The Innocent's".
==Members==
*Auntie Sis:
*The Black Hole:
*Bobby Badoing:
*Kid Camo:
*Klanker:
*Ladyfold:
*Stool Shadow:
===Former/Deceased Members===
*Malchemical †: a crass and sociopathic elemental shapeshifter who was very briefly appointed as the group's official "leader"; as part of his punishment for tricking fellow superhero The Starlike into having anal sex with him when he was a member of Team Titanic.
==Trivia==
*They are a loose satire on the Legion of Super-Heroes from DC Comics.
**They are also based on the Legion of Substitute Heroes, a collection of wannabe Legionnaires who (much like the members of Super Duper) were rejected from the main Legion for having superpowers that were deemed useless or insufficient and, in response, decided to form their own team.
*The group shares many parallels with the Inferior Five of Earth-Twelve (a more comedic version of the DC Universe), who were also a group of out-of-their-depth, young heroes with aspirations of being legendary crimefighters like their parents were, but are so comically incompetent and scatterbrain (as well as having less-than-worthless powers) that they will remain hopelessly naive misfits.
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