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NOTE: This article is only for the TV version of The Deep. To see the article for the original version of him, go to The Deep (comics).
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| “ | Oh, wow. What a surprise. A water crime. F**k me running. I swear to God, they only call me when there's trouble at a dock. Or a river or a lake, canal. A jetty. F**king idiots. I could be doing so much more. But no, Vought just wants me to make my big pretty dives into the water and flash my f*cking biceps for Instagram. I mean, sure, four million hits a day, but still, it's f**king demeaning. | „ |
| ~ The Deep to Starlight. |
| “ | Justice, you f**king bitch. God, I'm gonna enjoy this so much. First you try to cancel me, victimize an innocent man because I guess that's just cool to do to white guys nowadays, but joke's on you. #MeToo's over, sweetheart, it didn't work. Womp, womp, womp. I do not respect your truth, I do not honor and cherish your story, and I do not f**king apologize. | „ |
| ~ The Deep's misogynistic rant towards Starlight. |
Kevin Moskowitz, better known as The Deep, is a major antagonist in the 2019 Amazon TV adaptation of the comic book series The Boys and a minor character in its 2023 spin-off series Gen V.
He is a member of The Seven with aquatic powers who is particularly well known for his perverted and opportunistic views on women, something he later tries correcting after being kicked out of the team. He is also an astraphiliac, one of Starlight's archenemies and Black Noir II's best friend.
He is portrayed by Chace Crawford.
Biography[]
Background[]
Kevin Moskowitz was born around the 1980s to unnamed parents and was given Compound V at birth, allowing him to develop aquatic abilities. During his youth, Kevin's powers continued to develop, causing his insecurites once his body started to sprout gills on his body. At some point, he attended Godolkin University alongside numerous supes and was given a position in the Seven.
Season One[]
| “ | You know something? On my first day, I, uh... well, I-I felt like a fraud. Yeah. But the good news is, everybody feels that way. | „ |
| ~ The Deep meeting Starlight. |
The Deep initially believes himself to be a high-ranking member of The Seven, remarking to Starlight that he is The Seven's #2. The Deep uses this to his advantage, blackmailing Starlight into having oral sex with him, something she was strongly against at the time.
The Deep uses this to mock her; however, on advice from Queen Maeve, Starlight is able to move past it and ignore him. When they are on a mission, The Deep mocks Starlight frequently, showing himself to be a superior member of The Seven and believing himself to be more valuable to The Seven.
After Starlight reveals that she was sexually assaulted at the Believe Expo, the public begins to suspect that her assailant was The Deep. Vought becomes worried that their stock will dive and they will gain negative publicity for this, leading to them forcing The Deep to publicly apologize to Starlight.
As punishment, Vought sends The Deep to Sandusky on sabbatical from The Seven. The Deep finds this difficult initially, believing himself to be so much more than a small town. He questions when he will return to the public spotlight, however, and is shocked to find out that Vought does not intend on him returning due to wanting to retain their public image. The Deep begins to struggle with being taken out of the team and eventually suffers an emotional breakdown by the end of the season.
Season Two[]
The Deep continues to struggle with coping with his Sabbatical. After The Deep gets arrested, he's bailed out of jail by Eagle the Archer, who offers to help him build his reputation back. With the assistance of Carol, a member of the Church of the Collective, The Deep is able to finally open up and figure out why he does what he does. Furthermore, Carol promises Deep that if he continues to follow the process, he'll be worthy of rejoining The Seven. Eventually, Deep participates in a planned marriage by Carol in order to help him gain the right kind of public attention. At the end of We Gotta Go Now, Queen Maeve approaches the Deep and makes him an offer: He helps her with a favor, and she'll help earn the Deep more positive publicity.
The Maeve's conditions in the deal are revealed in The Bloody Doors Off, she wants The Deep to search the wreckage of Flight 37 for footage of her and Homelander leaving the passengers to die. He returns and hands her a damaged GoPro camera with footage of a man recording Maeve and Homelander debating with each other on whether or not to let all of the passengers die. While at the movie set, he attempts to recruit A-Train and offers him lunch with him and the chairman, Alastair Adana. There, the two attempt to recruit A-Train as a member.
Eventually, A-Train joins because Adana has information on his abuse of Compound V. Both the Deep and A-Train are promised back into the Seven; however, only A-Train gets back in. The Deep is furious with the church because of this and storms off, presumably leaving the church for good.
Season Three[]
Still continuing his comeback attempt, the Deep gets some success with the assistance of Cassandra and the release of his book. He meets Homelander after his interview with Cameron Coleman, telling his former team leader that he wants to return since his numbers are climbing back up. After his popularity returns, Homelander decides to bring the Deep back into the Seven, presumably to spite Starlight. Homelander then throws a celebration with the Deep, but instead abuses the supe by bringing seafood and forcing him to eat Timothy the octopus in exchange for his position on the Seven. The Deep reluctantly does so and is brought back into the team during the final episode of the reality TV show American Hero, where he and his new teammate Supersonic witness Homelander reveal that he and Starlight are in a relationship.
At a meeting at the tower, the Deep listens to A-Train's proposal to crack down on Blue Hawk patrolling black neighborhoods, but Cassandra persuades her to earn Homelander's favor. Seeing an opportunity to do so, the Deep persuades his team leader by reminding him that they should unite with all supes. Homelander agrees and rejects A-Train's proposal, resulting in A-Train confronting the Deep in the hallway before having a little scuffle with him. After Stan Edgar is removed from his position as Vought's chairman, the Deep is placed as the company's head of their crime analytics department. However, the Deep fires most of the staff within the department due to their past tweets criticizing Homelander.
The Seven later learn of Soldier Boy's return, and Homelander tasks the Deep with finding what he can by meeting the supe's former teammates, the TNT Twins. Meeting them at their mansions, he learns that they're the hosts of Herogasm, an event where supes please themselves with other supes or people. Instead of following Homelander's orders, the Deep joins in on the event, where he is caught by Starlight having sex with another octopus. She takes pictures of the compromising scene, but the Deep reveals Homelander's orders to prevent her from publicizing the photos. Following Soldier Boy's attack at the mansion, the Deep escaped with the octopus while other supes were left injured or dead.
Meeting with Cassandra, the Deep admits that he wants to expand their sexual life by having three ways with sea creatures. Though she initially agrees, she drops out at the last second, confronting him over his adultery with other marine animals before deciding to leave their marriage. Later on, the Deep, A-Train, and Ashley hear Starlight's warning of Soldier Boy's arrival, but they are greeted by Homelander with Black Noir's helmet. Revealing that Noir was keeping secrets, Homelander ridicules the three, but then orders the Deep to kill the vice president nominee Lamar Bishop. Despite believing what he was ordered to be treason, the Deep goes with killing Bishop and staging it as an accidental drowning after Homelander reminds the three that he doesn't need them.
Following Soldier Boy's defeat, the Deep watches television and sees that Cassandra is releasing a book about her relationship with the supe. Seeing that she will potentially expose his secrets and not having someone to support his comeback, the Deep quietly tears up while eating. Due to Bishop's sudden death, Victoria Neuman replaces him as President Robert Singer's running mate.
Gen V: Season One[]
After Richard Brinkerhoff's death, the Deep released a message for the late professor at his funeral.
Season Four[]
During a meeting of the Seven, Homelander orders the Deep to perform fellatio on A-Train, which seemed to be an actual order until A-Train could move his pants, at which point, Homelander revealed it was a test, which was to illustrate his disdain with the team being sycophants. Later, Deep and A-Train are also body-shamed by Homelander, who accused them of being fat.
Meanwhile. despite orders to remove it, the Deep had kept his latest octopus lover, Ambrosia, in a hidden area of his walk-in wardrobe. The relationship seemed loving at first, however, due to pressure from Homelander, the Deep becomes more withdrawn and neglectful of her.
Homelander filled one of the vacant slots of the Seven with Sister Sage, much to the chagrin of A-Train due to his teenage peerage with her and he found her belligerent. The Deep similarly acts dismissive of her due to her main power being super intelligence, which is something his idiotic brain can't find as useful.
Homelander organised to have a private meeting with three of his loudest civilian supporters (including Monique's ex-husband, Todd), with the Deep, A-Train, and Black Noir II in attendance. Homelander presents three baseball bats, telling his teammates to beat the three humans to death; initially, the Deep believed it was merely another test, but Homelander corrects that he is serious. Noir II killed one man, which panics Deep to kill another, while A-Train reluctantly killed the third. Homelander ordered A-Train to dump the bodies between the quarreling factions of Homelander and Starlight, as to frame the latter's supporters as murderers.
Sister Sage, the Deep, and Ashley are in an elevator together; Ashley listens to one of Deep's terrible ideas, which she insults and degrades him before leaving. Sage suggests that Deep stand up to Ashley, by citing supe supremacy as a reason, and pandering to his misogyny. When Deep later sees Ashley at craft services, she tries to insult him again, but he clumsily if effectively threatens her, repeating supremacist dogma Sage fed him, leaving her horrified and him darkly empowered.
As Sage is eating fried food alone while watching TV, the Deep approached her and apologised for his initial negative reaction, as well as complimenting her. Due to strict dietary demands insisted by Homelander, the Deep is enticed by the fried food, which Sage shared, but then turns it into an odd food fetish hook up.
During another hook up with Sage, she revealed that her brain is constantly regenerating, so voluntarily self-lobotomises to feel peace; she requested that Deep undertake the task, which he is reluctant to do, until she offered anal sex once he had done it.
Tek Knight hosted a party for right wing billionaires and key members of the Seven, which didn't include Deep or Black Noir II, due to Homelander hating them and Sage understanding that they would be more damaging than helpful. When Noir II is in a depressed state due to not feeling he was given any direction as Black Noir, as well as guilt for killing people; Noir II admitted that he was scouted by a theatre company and planned to leave to join it. The Deep, in an attempt to console him and change his mind about leaving, gave a false or perhaps merely delusional recount of his close friendship with the original Noir; Deep explained Noir would achieve sexual gratification through violence and killing. Noir II said he disliked killing, although Deep argued with his own experience of not enjoying inflicting violence at first, then eventually finding it to be the greatest pleasure he had ever known, which seemed to convince Noir II to remain in the Seven.
Homelander ordered the Deep and Noir II to assassinate the Boys, though only find Annie and Butcher. The Deep angrily retracts his feeble apology for his sexual assault against Annie, instead blaming her for trying to "cancel" him, he accused her of hating him for just being an "innocent" white man, and taunted her for even trying to hold him accountable. As Butcher scrambled for weaponry, Noir II started to fly to his shock. When it appeared like the vigilantes were at the mercy of the evil supes, A-Train rushed in, knocking Deep away from Annie, while MM acquired the minigun to push Noir II back with kinetic force of the bullets. The Deep was shocked at A-Train's betrayal, while Noir II vocally threatened the heroes to a greater surprise than when he started flying. Noir II is knocked out a window, as Annie used a barbell to pummel Deep into unconsciousness. The present Boys and A-Train flee before the attackers can recover.
The Deep called Homelander to inform him of A-Train's defection; out of anger for Sage already knowing but hiding the previously secret deception, Homelander fired her from the Seven. Deep and Noir II bond with repetitions of "dude," over their recent fight. Upon seeing Sage leaving, Deep tried to organise another sex session, but she doesn't answer, which made him ask what was wrong, with her answer being the recent termination. Before Deep can appeal to her, Noir II confessed his love for Sage because of a "special bond" he imagined from her sexual activities with him; Deep is startled at the "cheating," though more disturbed to learn that only his sex with her had the prerequisite of giving her a lobotomy before starting.
Homelander tasked Ashley to type up a list of Vought employees who know compromising information on him, the Seven, but most crucially him. Reluctantly, Ashley compiled the list of names and gave it to Homelander, being forced to leave before the meeting began; ironically, the Deep noticed that Ashley's name wasn't on the list, even though she would know more anyone, thus Homelander agreed to add her - since she was eavesdropping, a terrified Ashley rushed to Homelander's apartment to take one of the hidden Compound V doses.
The Deep and Noir II casually murder Vought employees who were on the list. The Deep pinned a man to the wall, and asked him to tell him he is the smartest member of the Seven; the man complied, but Deep expressed doubt, though the man assures him that he is the smartest. The Deep feigns mercy, only to punch through the man's head. Noir II fatally stabbed Ashley Barrett's assistant, since her name is also Ashley, so he was confused; Deep irritably told him of the mistake, noting that the assistant Ashley wasn't even on the list. Noir II simply complained that "everyone is called Ashley," but Deep becomes cheerful when he pointed out Noir II had an erection from enacting the massacre.
Season Five[]
Personality[]
| “ | The Deep: She would've laughed! The Deep's gills: Because that's what you do. You imagine women will laugh at us, so you humiliate them first. The Deep: No, th-that's not true… The Deep's gills: You can't accept your own body, so you violate theirs. The Deep: Shut the f**k up, shut the f**k up! Shut the f—! |
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| ~ The Deep's gills confronting him over his insecurities and behavior towards women during a drug trip. |
Initially, The Deep acts as a charismatic, smooth-talking, and welcoming man; however, he quickly reveals himself as being entitled, perverted, and sexist as well, and very arrogant and overbearing about his status in The Seven. He targets Starlight mainly because she's the newest member and, as such, the most vulnerable; however, he has supposedly done this to several women in the past due to his insecurities over being mocked by them over his gills; therefore, he overcompensates by in turn mocking and humiliating them. He is also incredibly envious and bitter over how he gets treated in The Seven and the missions he gets sent on, viewing them as humiliating and, in some cases, against his beliefs, such as when he was forced to promote a sea life event that endorsed animal cruelty.
After a series of humiliation and trauma, starting with his loss from The Seven, being raped himself, and having his fear of humiliation finally justified, before accidentally trying to kill a dolphin he was trying to save, The Deep has a nervous breakdown and is accepted into The Church of the Collective shortly after. In there, he manages to overcome his insecurities and becomes a much better, more well-adjusted, and even more helpful person, as shown when he tried to help a recently fired A-Train get back into The Seven by recruiting him.
In truth, he doesn't actually regret raping women; just that it got him fired. His supposed attempts to become a better person are just a ploy to make himself look better to get back on The Seven. He even tries to play the victim when confronting Starlight and Billy Butcher because of his fragile ego and admits that he doesn't respect, honor, or cherish anyone, and definitely doesn’t apologize for crimes he committed.
For all his flaws, The Deep genuinely cares for aquatic lifeforms, considering them his only friends. Unfortunately, any attempt to help them or have their help ends up in a mess due to his impulsive and foolish decisions. His fondness for them is also part of his sexual fetish, having sex with two octopus and attempting to have Cassandra participate in a three-way relationship with marine life. Interestingly, his ability to communicate with sea life had made him capable of requesting consent, which is granted, as opposed to how he treats human women with coercion. His most significant relationship was with the second octopus, Ambrosia, who he went to the effort of hiding behind his clothes in a walk-in wardrobe to avoid Homelander repeating another Timothy incident; despite his supposed love for her, his fear of Homelander, and his lust were stronger, so he had an "affair" with someone of the same species, Sage. Even so, Ambrosia forgave him and tried to convince him that Sage didn't care about him - which was true - but Deep's shame made him accidentally shatter her aquarium, which air drowned her; regardless of his selfishness, the accidental death was something he actually regreted, and he appeared to finally appreciate her, though too late.
The Deep is very fond of receiving oral sex, even preferring it to coitus; this is shown when he blackmails Starlight into performing oral sex on him, and his complaint about his wife is that she "gives terrible blow jobs".
Appearance[]
The Deep is a slim man with a somewhat muscular physique and very pale skin. In season one, he had dark, thin, spikey hair before shaving it off after his breakdown. By the time of season two, his hair had grown back slightly into that of a buzzcut. He also stubbles on his face and has visible chest hair, but keeps his limbs shaved.
He is always seen wearing his supersuit. It is a green sleeveless bodysuit that zips at the front, concealing his large, grotesque gills, which he is immensely humiliated by before eventually accepting their presence for what it is. He also wears webbed gauntlets on his arms.
Quotes[]
Season 2[]
| “ | I signed over my bank account to you, I filled out all those f*cking children's workbooks, I married some weirdo, who gives terrible b****jobs. I-I did everything you asked, and when I found out we're all just f*cking space pores, I didn't laugh. I did everything you asked, because you said you'd get me back into The Seven, you f*cking promised. | „ |
| ~ The Deep to the Church of the Collective, after they failed to get him back into the Seven. |
Season 4[]
| “ | Sex is just a spectrum, right bro? | „ |
| ~ The Deep as he's forced by Homelander to give A-Train a blowjob |
| “ | Look I know this is hard to imagine, but... some people laugh at me. It's crazy right? But you know what I realized? When I crush someone's nose into the back of their skull or beat them so bad that they'll never walk again... they're not laughing anymore. They show respect. Violence is power. I'm starting to get why it gave Noir so much chub. | „ |
| ~ The Deep to Black Noir II |
Trivia[]
- Like his comic counterpart, he is a villainous parody of Marvel comic's Namor, who occasionally acts evil, and DC comics' Aquaman. Like Aquaman and Namor, The Deep is constantly underestimated and made fun of.
- In the TV series, he appears to take on A-Train's role of mocking and humiliating Starlight at first before eventually taking a backseat midway through season one in order for Starlight and A-Train's animosity to start over Hughie Campbell.
