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The Amazon streaming series The Boys will debut online on July 26.

This series is a fun and irreverent take on what happens when superheroes – who are as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians and as revered as Gods – abuse their superpowers rather than use them for good. It’s the powerless against the super powerful as The Boys embark on a heroic quest to expose the truth about The Seven, and Vought – the multi-billion dollar conglomerate that manages these superheroes and covers up all of their dirty secrets.

The Boys are Hughie (Jack Quaid from The Hunger Games), Billy Butcher (Karl Urban from Star Trek), Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso from Detroit), Frenchie (Tomer Capon from Hostages), and The Female (Karen Fukuhara from Suicide Squad).

Simon Pegg (Mission: Impossible – Fallout) guest stars as Hughie’s father. The cast also includes Anthony Starr (Banshee), Chace Crawford (Gossip Girl), Dominique McElligott (Hell on Wheels), Elisabeth Shue (CSI), Erin Moriarty (Jessica Jones) and Jessie T. Usher (Survivor’s Remorse)

Here is a trailer for The Boys: