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Kripke after I strap him to a chair with his eyes forced open as he's forced to watch
Eiken.
He'd probably feel dirty afterwards.
IOW, "Typical Jewish Writing".
I noticed that because I know a lot of good Christians personally who are superhero fans, from school principals, teachers, clergy, among other things. They were big fans of western superheroes. And it's something that some capeshit works recognized, when works like Man of Steel showed Superman to be a good Christian.
Then you have Eric Kripke take over a show mocking superheroes, and instead of making it a Batman-esque story of how a common mortal can defeat godlike superheroes, he turns it into a screed against white American Christians.
Kripke is one of those people who bought into the "woke" meme of Batman not helping poor people and beating mentally ill people. Which is why he thinks the Bat Cave would be a sex dungeon and Alfred would be a glorified slave.
Even with the most retarded version of Batman who believes in that stupid code of his, he still believes that what he does helps both the rich and the poor. He genuinely wants to help everyone. This is so clearly portrayed in the past that Kripke assuming that Batman doesn't want to help the poor makes no goddamn sense. The fact that he freaks out when his money is being donated to BLM makes no sense, when as I said before, billionaires do that kind of shit all the time just to look good.
Honestly the only heroic characters that are against Homelander that are probably more likeable are just Butcher and A-Train. Butcher suffered the worst out of everyone, and his idiotic teammates really make him more validated, and he is the only one in The Boys team who has any interesting dynamic with Homelander, since both of them feel they complete each other as enemies. A-Train also has a pretty good redemption arc where it actually does work for him, especially with how it feels more believable.
A-Train feels like they're redeeming him because of his skin color, which is funny considering that comics A-Train was white. But yes, A-Train at least risks his ass being in the belly of the beast while being the leak for the heroes, and Butcher at least takes this "fight the heroes" crap more seriously than everyone else, and yes, his dynamic with Homelander is one of the few redeemable aspects about the story. At least I want to see how it's concluded.
Kimiko? She's probably one of the few good characters left on that team.
Meh, I can take her or leave her. She doesn't really strike me as anything special.
Frenchie? Colin subplot dragged him down a lot, could potentially be better.
Like I said before, that Colin subplot could've worked better if Sister Sage had something to do with it, like say, having her be the one to tell Colin that Frenchie offed his parents, as a plot to make Frenchie wracked with so much guilt that he quits the team.
MM? Very meh character, can't have strong feelings about him one way or the other.
Dude gets cucked by a capeshit fanboy, then gets jizzed upon and turkey-slapped by a white cock. The dude is so humiliated he makes Finn from Force Awakens look like Morgan Freeman in comparison.
Why blacks aren't up in arms about the one black dude in the team getting such disgusting things be done to him is beyond me.
Hughie? Unfortunate character who has good potential that is hampered by Kripke being a massive hack.
Hughie, like I said before, is a massive wimp. Dude doesn't even feel bad that Starlight killed their child. Firecracker had to call her out on that. Hughie never comes out of the bitch-made zone; he always has to be a wimp so that he can be Starlight's bitch. Can't take Temp-V, that's toxic masculinity that winds up becoming literally toxic. He has to be made to feel bad for falling for a literal shapeshifter who can copy a person's look, smell, and memory. And he doesn't get a break after getting sexually humiliated in a sex dungeon.
There's characters like Amuro Ray that start off being pansies, but they grow out of it and become functioning contributors to society. Then there's people like Hughie who will always be a pansy because the plot says so, and the plot gods will strike him down if he tries to deviate from that path.
CIA Lady? Pretty dumb
Ryan? Flip-flops more like a fish on land.
They're about as important as wet toast. Just props to move Butcher and the Boys' story along.
Starlight? Absolute worst character in the show who has gotten worse since she flipped sides and exists as a walking soapbox for Kripke's political opinions. Closest thing to a live action Lisa Simpson. It's not that she has liberal opinions, she acts like a complete asshole to everyone in her team and reprimands people for reasonable decisions like how dare Hughie want to actually have a fighting chance (it didn't help she acted like this before she found out V24 was toxic), or victim blames Hughie regularly for being assaulted. If she ends up killing Homelander, it is going to really ruin the quality of the show.
And what's worse is that the author and the story expects us to take her side always, when she's such an unlikeable bitch that would make Peter Griffin look loveable by comparison. And yes, she probably will wind up killing Homelander just so the story could "own the chuds".
Which is unintentionally hilarious if you remember she's supposed to be a superhuman genius. You write what you know.
Stupid people can't write smart characters. Hence why Mallory comes off as an idiot when any moron with brain cells would've tried to lure Homelander to a trap where he gets jumped by 50 dudes with Temp V. They already had the formula in their hands last time, they could've made more of it and given it to karatekas or other men trained in CQC, then lured Homelander to something using an excuse so that these men could rip his head off. After Maeve nearly killed him during the fight with Soldier Boy, Homelander has been shown to be vulnerable. And a smart person would've seized the day to kill him.
Biggest problem of Tek Knight is how boring his concept is. You want to write asshole Batman so... he's a white dude who makes money from the prison-industrial complex, has a sex dungeon and Alfred is (of course) black? That's it, a buck-breaking stereotype from Tariq Nasheed's wet dreams? It's like a hot summer day of stupidity when shower runs out of water.
Like I said before in another thread, you can easily make an evil Batman. Have it so that in standard, he's the guy who beats up bad guys, but refuses to kill them and throws them into a revolving-door prison where they usually escape from to kill more dudes. Except.......you can also have it so that this "hero" owns the hospitals the bad guys are sent to, so he has no incentive to kill them, when the state pays HIS hospitals to put these people back together. Then have him own the funeral homes too, so that whenever civilians get killed by these villains, he profits from their literal deaths. Which means that he has no incentive to actually stop these criminals from killing people, because he profits from every death.
There you go. A Batman-esque villain who has every reason to keep the cycle going, where villains kill people, he beats up the villains and puts them away, refusing to kill them, they escape, and kill more people. And the hero doesn't do this because of any higher moral code, but because he literally profits from the continuation of human suffering, on the part of both the victims and the criminals. Every civilian who loses a family member to these villains, and every time these villains get beat up by this hero, the hero profits.
