Annie's Starlight appearance, especially her original costume, is based on DC heroines Mary Marvel, whereas her powers are based on Marvel's Dazzler, who also can generate light and use it as both heat and concussive force.
Starlight has the midwestern twang of a pair of DC female superheroes: Supergirl (as seen in the Arrowverse), and Stargirl (who recently got her own DC Universe standalone series).
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.
Queen Maeve: Wonder Woman
From costume to the sword, Queen Maeve resembles Wonder Woman in many ways. Her super strength, durability, reflexes are also similar to that of Diana. However, the two characters heavily differ when it comes to mental fortitude.
It doesn't take an expert to see that Starlight is inspired by several superheroes in popular culture. The most obvious inspirations are definitely Captain Marvel, Mary Marvel, and Stargirl.
In both the comic and TV 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.
Nexstar hopes to produce cheaper, original programming that is geared towards what they believe is The CW's core audience: 58 year olds. Unfortunately, that means that shows like Stargirl (which is both centred around teenagers and expensive to produce) don't fit their image anymore.
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.
Hughie is intentionally drawn to resemble the British actor and writer Simon Pegg. According to Robertson, he drew the character based on Pegg after seeing him in the sitcom Spaced, and thought that Pegg captured the balance of "innocence but tough determination" that Ennis wanted in the character.
On a side note, the WWII version of Soldier Boy is an actual villainous parody of Captain America while the present-day Soldier Boy is a comedic spoof of Captain America. It has been noted that Jensen Ackles is portraying the original Soldier Boy instead of the current, incompetent one.
Lamplighter is one of three characters to be recast in Season 2 after their first appearance in Season 1. The other two are Naqib and Ryan Butcher. Lamplighter's comic book name and appearance are a parody of DC's Green Lantern, although their powers are quite different.
They are a parody of the Justice League, the premier superhero team of the DC Comics universe. Their name is derived from "the Big Seven", an informal nick-name some DC fans call the Justice League by.
Starlight is by far the most heroic member of the Seven.
So in order to save not just the lives of the people she loves, but the entire world, she sucks it up and goes further down the rabbit hole, “revealing” a secret relationship with Homelander in the American Hero finale in order to rehabilitate his image, and taking it one step further by kissing him.
Vought Entertainment Television: A fashion and pop-culture channel. It is a parody of Entertainment Tonight. VTV: Television for Women: A TV channel directed at women viewers. It is likely a parody of the Lifetime and Hallmark channel.
It's no secret that through The Seven, The Boys deliberately rips off of the Justice League team from DC Comics, with characters like Homelander, Queen Maeve, and Black Noir having direct parallels to Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman, respectively.
TNT Twins are a parody of many comic book characters, but they most closely resemble the Wonder Twins, extraterrestrial twins created for the Super Friends cartoon, eventually integrated into the DC Universe. Like the TNT Twins and the members of Payback in general, the Wonder Twins are notoriously inept.
He is described as having a strong connection with both Female and Billy, however, he has killer instincts and his anger is hard to reign in once provoked. Similar to Female of the Species, the Frenchman's use of Compound V has given him abilities such as increased strength, smell and increased durability.
Vikor is likely inspired by Marvel's Thor and other mythical superheroes.
Earving, better known as Black Noir, was a major antagonist in the Amazon series The Boys. Serving as a supporting antagonist in Season 1, the secondary antagonist of Season 2, and a major anti-villain in Season 3. He was a mute, darkly costumed superhero and a member of The Seven.
However, the origin Homelander never wanted and kept hidden was borrowed by the "Children of Stormfront" and Vikor, The Boys' parody of Thor, who seems completely fine pretending to be connected to the Nazi Supe.
She mistook Sylvester Pemberton/Starman for her dad due to his close resemblance to her biological father and took up the Stargirl mantle to continue his legacy. But Courtney was disappointed to learn she wasn't Starman's daughter -- and rejected her biological father for the problematic person he was.
The musical elements are well done, especially Grace VanderWaal's singing and ukulele playing. Overall, Stargirl is a sweet, family-friendly coming of age story, though it does show its age in the depictions of teenagers and especially in its main female lead.
Courtney "Court" Whitmore, also known as Stargirl, is a vigilante operating in Blue Valley on Earth-2.