Apparently Human Merfolk: The Deep appears completely human at first, but is later shown to be one, with gills on his torso. The Beastmaster: Just like Aquaman, he can command sea creatures. Unlike Aquaman, he's absolutely terrible at using them sensibly. Invisible Streaker: His clothes are unaffected by his powers, so he has to be completely naked to be undetectable. Adaptational Heroism: In the comics, Queen Maeve is mostly a self-destructive hedonist and doesn't care about anything heroic. In the show, she's unambiguously heroic, albeit riddled with character flaws that keep her from being a paragon. Maeve's introduced trying to stop bank robbers, and is overall the most heroic member of The Seven except for Starlight. She even tells Starlight how excited she was to become a real heroine when she was younger, until she started to give away pieces of herself. She also beats up Stormfront and risks her life to stop Homelander and Soldier Boy.

Meaningful Name: Her superhero name, Queen Maeve, is the Anglicised spelling of Queen Medb, a powerful fairy queen in Irish mythology who often acts as an antagonist against some of that mythology's most powerful male heroes (particularly Cu Chulainn in The Cattle Raid of Cooley). One of the Vought marketing guys also refers to her as "the Empress of the Otherworld" when he's pitching his concept for Maeve's public relationship with Elena in Season 2. In Irish mythology, the Otherworld is the fairies' homeland. It makes sense that Vought would play up a mythological angle for Queen Maeve's image, since she's their counterpart to Wonder Woman, who has a mythos steeped in Greek and Roman mythology.Achilles' Heel: Translucent's power isn't actually to go invisible but turning his skin to various carbon-based compounds, including a metamaterial and diamond-like substance. Unfortunately, this makes him vulnerable to electricity. Likewise he's only invulnerable from the outside. Not the inside. Knight in Sour Armor: She certainly wants to do good for the world. But the idealism has been broken by all those years under Vought, as Maeve makes clear whenever she's discussing heroism with Starlight. Kill It with Fire: His go-to method of dealing with situations. First it's an attempt to take Mallory out, then it's for getting rid of Sage Grove's patients when they are no longer of use to Vought. Finally, it's on himself. Corporate-Sponsored Superhero: Their personas, jobs, and salaries all come from Vought, a corporation that owns their image rights. Because of this, they are all more interested in looking heroic to the press than actually having any moral character themselves, basically turning them into narcissistic, unbalanced celebrities that could (and have) create a body count of innocent people due to their powers and negligence in using them, having an entire global corporation to clean up whatever messes they create.

Rule 34 – Creator Reactions: In-Universe, before testifying against Vought he chooses to watch porn parodies of The Seven and forces Hughie to watch them with him. Unlike Lamplighter, Hughie and Starlight's mom are both uncomfortable and disturbed by them since they include Starlight as well.Jaded Professional: Due to the PR-obsessed, profit-based nature of Vought International, the Seven have all turned into image-obsessed celebrities that seem more interested in looking good and selling merchandise than actually accomplishing anything good. Even when any of the heroes try to do something noble (Starlight saving a would-be rape victim, the Deep wanting to help with the conditions for dolphins at Oceanland, etc.), Stillwell and the PR department will advise against it. Therapy Is for the Weak: He rejects Eagle and Carol's attempts to have him better himself, though their odd behavior as members of the Church of the Collective also probably has something to do with it.