The first promo to feature Ackles’ Soldier Boy sees him smiling his way through a group video where he reassures viewers that supes are still trustworthy, despite Stormfront’s recent outing as a Nazi. The brief teaser proves that the adaptation’s version of Soldier Boy is set to be a face for dangerous, overpowered authorities who makes their misdeeds palatable for the public, a point proven by Kripke’s comments. Soldier Boy gives us an opportunity to do that.” According to showrunner Eric Kripke, “ One of the reasons that we’re getting into Soldier Boy and that team, Payback, is… through the history of the supes, we can tell a little bit about the history of America and how we ended up in the current fraught position that we’re in.
The Deep’s season 2 plot already saw the series spoof Scientology and its celebrity representatives, and if he is anything like his comic counterpart Soldier Boy will be a vicious condemnation of war hawks who use patriotism as an excuse to fund constant conflict and violent power grabs. This approach allows the comic, and now the television adaptation, to comment on the disconnect between how real-life political authorities and cultural figures see themselves versus how they actually act.
In the source comics, he is an earnestly patriotic figure who loves America and sincerely thinks he is helping despite the atrocious acts he and other supes frequently commit. Modeled on the original Captain America, Soldier Boy is a propaganda tool that believes his hype entirely.