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The Boys: A Subversive Tale of Superheroes
What if superheroes are actually evil, not the paragon of goodness we are often led to believe?
In the TV series The Boys, we look at how the commodification of heroism hides the ugly underbelly of the truth to keep up the veneer that we need superheroes and that they are good.
*Spoilers below*
In this highly watchable TV series based on the comic series by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, humor, gore, and really bad superheroes are the fascinating highlight while the real heroes, The Boys, are actually a ragtag group of regular folk without powers but a whole lot of street smarts led by Karl Urban’s Billy Butcher.
All of them have a stake in taking down the “Supes”, as Butcher coins them.
Hughie Campbell (Jack Quaid) lost his fiance to A-Train (Jessie T. Usher), a speedster supe, who killed her in the most flippant manner. I don’t think I’ve seen a death like that on TV.
Serge, aka Frenchie (Tomer Capon), carries the guilt for not stopping Lamplighter (Shawn Ashmore) from killing the…
