10 Ways The Boys TV Show Is Different From The Comics

While Hughie is on a date with his girlfriend, Robin, the lightning-quick superhero, A-Train, zooms through her, shredding her to pieces. It is this incident that inspires Billy Butcher to ask Hughie to join his squad to take down the Supes. The Amazon series also shows that A-Train has a rivalry with a speedster called Shockwave, and a relationship with a Wolverine-inspired superheroine called Popclaw.

However, Shockwave was completely invented for the show. Popclaw was in the comic, but she had a very minor role and never met A-Train at any point. His heart problems and his addiction to Compound V were also created for the television adaptation.

In the comic, A-Train was the newest and youngest member of The Seven before Starlight joined. Because of his lack of experience, he isn't respected by his teammates or Vought, giving him a propensity to lash out. He constantly chastises Starlight, even when he is in front of Vought members, and tries to rape her while on a mission.

The only Seven member he gets on with is Jack from Jupiter (who was cut from the series), probably because he is the only one who is as sexually depraved as A-Train.