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Shows that feel likeThe Boys (2019–2026)

A group of vigilantes known informally as “The Boys” set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue-collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty.

If you loved The Boys, the closest series we have are Gen V (2023), DC's Stargirl (2020) and Titans (2018). All three share The Boys' cerebral and dreamlike feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Justice League Unlimited (2004).

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If The Boys hit the spot, these will too

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Gen V
2023–2025 · 2 seasons · Prime Video
★ 7.6action & adventure · drama · sci-fi & fantasyPrime Video

The same corrupt superhero universe, campus edition

The difference: College-age supes, direct spinoff

At America's only college for superheroes, gifted students put their moral boundaries to the test, competing for the university's top ranking, and a chance to join The Seven, Vought International's elite superhero team. When the school's dark secrets come to light, they must decide what kind of heroes they want to become.

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DC's Stargirl
2020–2022 · 3 seasons · The CW
★ 7.1sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventure · dramaMax

Inheriting a fight against people who were supposed to be the good ones

The difference: Wholesome small-town heroics — the exact opposite tone

Courtney Whitmore, a smart, athletic and above all else kind girl, discovers her step-father has a secret: he used to be the sidekick to a superhero. "Borrowing" the long-lost hero’s cosmic staff, she becomes the unlikely inspiration for an entirely new generation of superheroes.

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Titans
2018–2023 · 4 seasons · DC Universe
🍅 50%★ 7.4drama · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasyMax

Grim, adult live-action superheroics with real damage

The difference: Self-serious rather than satirical, and much tamer

A team of young superheroes led by Nightwing (formerly Batman's first Robin) form to combat evil and other perils.

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The Gifted
2017–2019 · 2 seasons · FOX
★ 7.2sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventure · dramaHulu

Ordinary people crushed between powered factions and the state

The difference: Earnest network drama with no bite

A suburban couple's ordinary lives are rocked by the sudden discovery that their children possess mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family joins up with an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive.

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Young Justice
2010–2022 · 4 seasons · Cartoon Network
★ 8.6animation · sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureMax

Powered people under the thumb of the generation above them

The difference: Animated and earnest, with heroes who deserve the title

Teenage superheroes strive to prove themselves as members of the Justice League.

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Agatha All Along
2024 · 1 season · Disney+
★ 7.2sci-fi & fantasy · mysteryDisney+

Both land ideas and dream logic at once

The difference: Trades the momentum of The Boys for an angle of its own

Agatha Harkness gathers a coven of witches and sets off down, down, down The Witches' Road.

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DC's Legends of Tomorrow
2016–2022 · 7 seasons · The CW
★ 6.7action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy · dramaNetflix

A ragtag team of nobodies against beings far above their weight

The difference: Deliberately silly, with no cruelty and no satire

When heroes alone are not enough ... the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat — one in which not only is the planet at stake, but all of time itself. Can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known?

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Jupiter's Legacy
2021 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 6.7sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventure · dramaNetflix

Golden-age heroes exposed as compromised and self-serving

The difference: Prestige and humourless, and it never lands the punch

As the world's first generation of superheroes (who received their powers in the 1930s) become the revered elder guard in the present, their superpowered children struggle to live up to the legendary feats of their parents.

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Marvel's Iron Fist
2017–2018 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 6.4action & adventure · drama · sci-fi & fantasyDisney+

The same two preoccupations: superhero, and superpowers

The difference: Easier on the dark humor than The Boys

Danny Rand resurfaces 15 years after being presumed dead. Now, with the power of the Iron Fist, he seeks to reclaim his past and fulfill his destiny.

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The Umbrella Academy
2019–2024 · 4 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.8action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy · dramaNetflix

Both are built on the same subject: superhero

The difference: Leans harder into drama than The Boys does

Reunited by their father's death, estranged siblings with extraordinary powers uncover shocking family secrets — and a looming threat to humanity.

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Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
2013–2020 · 7 seasons · ABC
★ 7.5drama · sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureDisney+

Kinetic and epic in the same breath

Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) puts together a team of agents to investigate the new, the strange and the unknown around the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary.

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Justice League Unlimited
2004–2006 · 3 seasons · Cartoon Network
★ 8.7animation · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasyMax

A world where the question is who supervises the supervisors

The difference: Animated DC, optimistic and family-safe

The galaxy's most powerful superheroes return to battle the allied villains and criminal plots that endanger the universe.

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