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Shit, speaking of the Boys, fucking Homelander can clean up Gotham better than comic book Batman could. He'd laser the Rogues Gallery in half, then most of the crooks would know to keep their heads down and stick to white-collar crime, because John in his lazy-ass way of dealing with criminals would just take the serious criminals and laser them into pieces.
If I ever make a superhero like character he'll try not to use lethal force only in certain situations like if it's to save a live ,there's no other choice, the fact that during a life or death fight it can happen, or if the person is an absolute scumbag or danger.
 
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Can we talk about how V24 breaks the plot? Homelander is meant to be physically unstoppable, yet Butcher and Hughie knock him on his ass with it. Vought could juice up 5 random expendable muggles if they want to take out Homelander like Noir does in the comic.
Homelander is shown to get hurt by anyone with super strength, and he always somehow lives because of plot armor. It would be fine if like the comics, The Boys didn't always encounter him, but they do and they whine about how using compound V is wrong despite the fact it can beat Homelander.
 
Can we talk about how V24 breaks the plot? Homelander is meant to be physically unstoppable, yet Butcher and Hughie knock him on his ass with it. Vought could juice up 5 random expendable muggles if they want to take out Homelander like Noir does in the comic.
This was brought this up in the thread probably 100 pages ago. All Vought would need to do was make ten doses of V24, give it to a bunch of Navy SEALS or Marines, then have them wipe out any rogue superhero including Homelander. They could have consulted the CIA in secret, assembled a team, and got the job done before Homelander realized what was happening.

But the existence of Compound V being public makes no sense at all. Every single person on Earth and every government would literally descend on Vought's labs and facilities looking for a dose to inject themselves. People break into stores to steal televisions or sneakers. But not a serum that turns you into a god? The world building on this show, and most of the comics, is atrocious.
 
But the existence of Compound V being public makes no sense at all. Every single person on Earth and every government would literally descend on Vought's labs and facilities looking for a dose to inject themselves. People break into stores to steal televisions or sneakers. But not a serum that turns you into a god? The world building on this show, and most of the comics, is atrocious.
The comics had the benefit of The Boys just mostly fighting low level random superhero parodies.

The show is also campy until Kripke around Season 3 decided he needed to make serious political satire with a gajillion spinoffs (like The Boys inherently already parodies politics, but Kripke's brand of satire of inserting wacky thing politician says into superhero started around Season 3)
 
Can we talk about how V24 breaks the plot? Homelander is meant to be physically unstoppable, yet Butcher and Hughie knock him on his ass with it. Vought could juice up 5 random expendable muggles if they want to take out Homelander like Noir does in the comic.
It was a thing in the comic as well and also didn't make a lot of sense.
 
> Starts edgy
> Decides to own the chuds
> Makes chuds look amazing

This show has the same arc as iDubbz.
Like Homelander is a meme who can come across as really pathetic in many scenes, but holy fuck Kripke's attempts at making people see Soldier Boy and Butcher look like embodiments of toxic masculinity who need to be stopped backfires so hilariously.

Soldier Boy actually has honor and sympathetic reasons to go after all the people who backstabbed him for petty reasons, yet Kripke wants people to see him as this toxic masculine guy who needs to be stopped no matter what despite the fact he would've actually killed Homelander and just fucked off to bang grandmas since he had no great ambitions.

Butcher in season 4 is meant to be seen as this violent extremist who won't let more humane ways of dealing with superheroes happen, but he's the only one getting shit done while everyone else is having panic attacks, or romantic drama.
 
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Double post but Jesus Christ I get reality is pretty stupid but does The Boys have any satire beyond "WHAT IF SUPERHERO SAID THING POLITICIAN DID!"

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Like Homelander is a meme who can come across as really pathetic in many scenes, but holy fuck Kripke's attempts at making people see Soldier Boy and Butcher look like embodiments of toxic masculinity who need to be stopped backfires so hilariously.

Soldier Boy actually has honor and sympathetic reasons to go after all the people who backstabbed him for petty reasons, yet Kripke wants people to see him as this toxic masculine guy who needs to be stopped no matter what despite the fact he would've actually killed Homelander and just fucked off to bang grandmas since he had no great ambitions.

Butcher in season 4 is meant to be seen as this violent extremist who won't let less humane ways of dealing with superheroes happen, but he's the only one getting shit done while everyone else is having panic attacks, or romantic drama.
I still can't wrap my head around how Hughie is supposed to be toxic and controlling for taking the temp V, to aid his girlfriend who was legitimately cornered by Homelander, after traumatically watching his first one die helplessly.
 
Soldier Boy actually has honor and sympathetic reasons to go after all the people who backstabbed him for petty reasons
Soldier Boy is the most relatable character
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Double post but Jesus Christ I get reality is pretty stupid but does The Boys have any satire beyond "WHAT IF SUPERHERO SAID THING POLITICIAN DID!"

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If you're gonna tell a joke about :trump:, how hard can it be to write a punchline or add some other twist to make it funny? Weed Jews, man. So fucking lazy.
 
Butcher in season 4 is meant to be seen as this violent extremist who won't let more humane ways of dealing with superheroes happen, but he's the only one getting shit done while everyone else is having panic attacks, or romantic drama.
It's particularly bad with Billy "Me Wife's Son" Butcher when you realize that extremism is the only way they've lasted this long, but then also wrote that Billy would save Homelander from Soldier Boy effectively cockblocking himself from the exact same thing they've been trying for years. So he's a dangerous extremist with standards that steals defeat from the jaws of victory!
 
It's particularly bad with Billy "Me Wife's Son" Butcher when you realize that extremism is the only way they've lasted this long, but then also wrote that Billy would save Homelander from Soldier Boy effectively cockblocking himself from the exact same thing they've been trying for years. So he's a dangerous extremist with standards that steals defeat from the jaws of victory!
It's a weird scene where they're trying to make it out like it's either let Ryan die or fight Soldier Boy as if they can't get Ryan out of the way and kill Homelander (and Ryan will probably change his tune if Homelander starts trying to use him as a human shield)
 
It's particularly bad with Billy "Me Wife's Son" Butcher when you realize that extremism is the only way they've lasted this long, but then also wrote that Billy would save Homelander from Soldier Boy effectively cockblocking himself from the exact same thing they've been trying for years. So he's a dangerous extremist with standards that steals defeat from the jaws of victory!
That conflict was so stupid since it was clear how lazily done it was just for the sake of keeping Homelander alive for another season since he is not that strong.

The Boys has the most blatant plot armor both for its protagonists and Homelander.
 
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