What went wrong with The Boy’s First Superteam that they didn’t succeed in their first mission during World War II.
Before the formation of The Boys or The Seven, Vought-American attempted to assemble the team do rupees during the time of World War II. Throwing the masked heroes on the battlefield was a great move but something went wrong with the Boy’s first superteam that resulted in a failed mission.
In by Garth Ennis, Simon Bowland, John McCrea, Keith Burns, Tony Avino, and Darick Robertson’ The Boys #53, Greg Mallory reveals how the first superteam was assembled and what went wrong with the Boy’s Superteam that forced him to leave the team. In a series of flashbacks glimpses of Mallory’s experience on frontlines were shown.
A senator from Connecticut approached him, who tells him that because of the President’s order they are visiting him.
The Boy’s First Superteam Failed First Mission
The Senator and Vought-American rep tells Mallory that they have planned something that is going to change the idea of war. That’s the moment when they reveal that they were building super-soldier of their own. They took him into a dark room and when they switched on the light Mallory saw a room filled with masked heroes.
Mallory meets the group who named themselves “The Avenging Squad” that includes Soldier Boy (Captain America), Eagle the Archer (Hawkeye), Monbiot (Vision), and Laddie (Robin/Bucky Barnes). The Superteam started showing their real color in the early war as they started to get violent as the war started. It turns out Eagle the Archer, who can fly, was spotted on his way down to the base and German soldiers have located the Americans and the Supes.
They brutally kill all of the Supes and a majority of the U.S. soldiers. Mallory even finds Soldier Boy ripped in half and dying from his gruesome wounds.
Even the government and Vaught Americans were in shock after seeing went wrong with the Boy’s Superteam. Because of this violent behavior, they lost their first ever mission. Ironically, the inexperienced heroes being dispatched by the government and Vought-American are what ultimately drives Mallory to create The Boys as a task force against the superpowered heroes.
