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Welcome back everyone this is going to be my full video for the boys season
episodes one through three there's a whole bunch of easter eggs for marvel and dc
everyone better hide their milk if you're brand new to the channel i will be doing videos for
all the episodes be sure to subscribe to get them all careful for spoilers from episodes
1 to 3 if you haven't seen them yet but i'll start at the beginning in episode 1 and we'll
work our way through shot by shot talking about easter eggs and moments as we go along so i'll
try to keep this video from turning into like an hour long video because there's so much to
talk about and they are really long episodes they cover a bunch of brand new stuff and introduce a
bunch of new characters like soldier boy jensen ackles for instance but the title of episode 1
is payback that's meant to be a reference to the payback team in the comics that's meant to be an
avengers marvel reference payback as in revenge or the revengers if you want to make jokes about that
in the comics stormfront was the leader of that team they're meant to be like the second backup
team to the seven on the show they're saying the payback was the team that soldier boy led during
the 80s before he was put on ice effectively the way they're using him on the tv show is that he's
meant to be like the prototype for homelander so he's a little bit different from the comic book
version there are a couple different versions in the comics and they kind of combined both of those
to form jensen ackle's character vought wound up using him as a prototype for what eventually
became the homelander character like they created him in a test tube as he says i don't even know
what my own birthday is there's this whole subplot with him refining the compound v formula over time
to present day when he develops that temporary version of the formula which is actually a really
big deal with butcher getting powers which is all part of this larger ploy that he's
been engineering to try and get superheroes in the military and just become a more profitable company
that gets into more of the white house plot don't worry i'll talk about that because that's like a
subplot that's running across all these different story lines through the first couple of episodes
it all comes back around to this four-dimensional chess game that stan edgar has been playing all
the way since the flashbacks the actual opening scene of episode one is that hilarious seven movie
that they were shooting all of last season dawn of the seven is meant to be a big justice league
snyder cut easter egg but the title is meant to be a reference to batman v superman dawn of justice
the way they use the movie and the jokes they make are meant to be both marvel avengers end game and
justice league snyder cup parodies bigger surprise they recat charlize the ron as the stormfront
character and just re-shot all of her scenes they also make a bit of a star wars rogue one joke too
when they were making the rogue one movie the original director gareth edwards kind of got
pushed aside and brought in tony gilroy to rewrite and re-shoot a ton of it they make
all these jokes about release the board cut released the snyder cut obviously even zack
snyder got in on the jokes tweeting about it like haha yeah i'm so happy to see your vision realized
when they all team up to fight stormfront they also make an avengers endgame portals joke like
when all the other heroes of the seven show up the ironic thing with having charlize theron play this
villain stormfront character obviously is that we just saw her and doctor strange too in the
post credit scene she's not going to be clia inside the mcu i did a whole bunch of videos
about that so i'll post them in the description below because that's meant to be a big secret wars
teaser obviously very different from what's going on during the universe of the boys but you also
notice in the background of this scene there's this very prominent ad ad placement for turbo rush
which is a train soft drink and it's just showing you how vought has cleverly manipulated the movie
after the big stormfront incident to capitalize on all the pr and earn even more money there's
this whole subplot throughout the episode that just kind of shows you that everything that vod
does is all about making money they're meant to be this pharmaceutical company as stan edgar says
they don't really care about superheroes it's all just about earning more money the only difference
now in present day is that stan edgar wants to transition them to become more of a pharmaceutical
and more of a defense contractor and just forget about all the superhero in the merchandising stuff
but like there's all these jokes about the tv networks they own all the branded entertainment
all the ad placements that they put within all of their media it's meant to seem like they have
their tendrils in everything they're controlling everything that you see everything that you hear
and now everything that you believe because the stan edgar eventually tells starlight real power
is all about influencing people it's not about actually having real superpowers then they confirm
pretty much all of our theories about what's going on with victoria newman she is working with stan
edgar although it goes way deeper than i thought in the past the full backstory on her character
is that we find out that vought has this facility called red river where they send all their failed
superheroes so like they give compound v to a bunch of babies hoping that they'll have
powers that they can profit off of but sometimes the children's powers manifest before they learn
how to control them and they accidentally kill their parents also sometimes they don't know what
their powers are or they have really weird powers that they can't control and the parents abandoned
them and victoria newman was one of these kids that accidentally wound up killing her parents
when she was a child and was sent to the facility but eventually stan edgar saw that there was
potential in her and kind of adopted her and she became his surrogate daughter eventually using her
as sort of his ploy on the other side of things in the government to try and get a foothold in the
actual us government it's all about stan edgar's plan to basically control all different aspects
of the game he wants real power and what that means and this kind of dovetails with the comic
book plot is being able to control the white house there's also the supernatural easter eggs of this
too there's a lot of supernatural stuff going on in this show with a bunch of different characters
everyone knows about jim beaver's robert singer character from the government he was on during
season two robert singer was one of the producers of supernatural that's why they use that name for
this character because the showrunner of the boys the creator of the boys tv show
is the original creator of the supernatural tv show that's the connection back to jensen ackles
as well too and jeffrey dean morgan who is on that show is gonna cameo during season four
but boston edgar is revealing this grand plan about getting superheroes in the military
he's kind of soft revealing his plan to control public policy in the white house and the entire
government when he reveals that he's also funding robert singer's presidential campaign oh people
love a cowboy in the white house also revealing that he kind of controls congress because of
victoria newman because like right after he says oh i can grease the wheels in congress they cut
straight to victoria newman also revealing what's going on with this new department of superheroes
working within the cia is all stan edgar's four-dimensional chess game controlling every
aspect of the game what he's trying to do with victoria newman's department is basically show
her being successful in the public eye to make her more popular making it easier for her to gain
more power in congress and like they have that really big famous scene don't worry i'll get to
that there's so much we could say about that stan edgar is basically having them go after bottom
feeder superheroes that he doesn't care about anymore or who he can't profit off of because the
minute that their ant-man parody character winds up becoming profitable again he tells them to go
find another superhero like oh we can't arrest him because vat just said he got a merchandising deal
but the whole reason he's doing this trying to turn the company into more of a defense contractor
a true pharmaceutical company is because literally is just more profitable he wants to sell the
military doses of this new version of compound fee 2 million dollars of pop which essentially works
out to 600 million dollars per squad and there are many squads in the military so even just having a
month-long campaign vought is going to be earning many many billions of dollars he's not lying when
he's telling robert singer's character that this business of being in superheroes is just way too
much trouble than it's worth so when he says in the next couple of years he says that he does not
plan to be in the superhero game that's basically him foreshadowing the end of the series like in
a couple years when we get to like season four season five whatever their final season winds up
being that's gonna be the end quote unquote of everything that also dovetails with this whole
homelander plot when he goes to butcher and they talk about getting all biblical like don't you
want to go all scorched dirt on this like just you versus me that's basically what homelander sees as
the boys end game so with stan edgar planning on phasing out superheroes just in general wanting to
get rid of them and homelander wanted to just completely lose it on the rest of the world
you see this all culminating in the next couple of years battle royale for the planet of the boys
we gotta talk about that thanos scene though obviously it wasn't exactly like the thanos but
it basically is a faintest scene the character that frenchie and kimiko go after is meant to
be an ant-man parody they call him termite on the show he winds up killing his partner accidentally
because he sneezes but in the thanos way all the funny scenes of him fighting kimiko and frenchie
is just meant to show you how much trouble ant-man could cause how powerful he could be if he really
went off the chain i'm sure if you really tried you could also probably take out ant-man with a
giant bag of coke too throughout all the episodes there are a billion different marvel and dc parody
characters that they name off but like in episode one when they talk about the different ones that
they're going after there's cold snap which i think is meant to be a captain cold parody
stacker and air burst i think the air burst is meant to be another tornado twins easter egg
but there is a pair of twins on the payback team back in the 80s i think that they're actually
meant to be the direct tornado twins easter egg don't worry i'll talk about the payback
team in a second they don't really get into their backstory till you get to episode three
but you see early on with this whole temporary compound v formula plot that they're trying to
set up a parallel between butcher and homelanders arc both of them are totally nuts in the comics
butcher is supposed to be as terrible as homelanders just in a completely different
direction he goes off the rails just the same way that home later also goes off the rails
the tv show is trying to be a little bit more subtle about it but that's the whole struggle with
him trying to decide whether or not to take the compound v which he eventually does i love the way
that he also hallucinates talking to himself as a young person to homelander to huey when he thinks
about taking it for the first time he doesn't want to turn into someone as bad as homelander
but he's being pushed in that direction like towards the end of episode three they literally
say we can't do things above board anymore we have to be just as terrible as the other guys
in the comic book they do way crazier stuff so if you want like the full dose of craziness just read
the comic they reveal that starlight and huey are still in a relationship they're living together
but there's this whole subplot with her becoming co-captain of the seven and kind of having to sit
within the belly of the beast also slowly losing it in the same way that homelander is slowly
losing it there's a big flashback during episode three where they show you her as a child being
forced to do all these pageants for vaude you see her clench her fist to try and suppress her rage
she also does that in present day after she's forced to stay within the seven and put up with
all this craziness like she has to pretend to be homelanders girlfriend now in the public
they also bring back huey's dad played by simon pegg the big easter egg here is that originally
the creator of the boys comic book designed huey to look like simon pegg and originally he was
gonna play huey if they had made the boys tv show back in the early 2000s but because he got too old
he just wound up playing his dad but they just did a boys diabolical animated short series and during
one of those episodes they actually had simon pegg playing a version of huey from the comics and it
was more accurate to the comic books the brand new super sonic character they introduced used
to be starlight's boyfriend when they were on the teenage kicks which is like their version of the
teen titans they have this big reality show called american superhero which they're using to find the
next member of the seven but really i mean it's just vought trying to earn more money the other
heroes that were competing on the team were meant to be moon shadow which i think is meant to be
a moon dragon parody in silver kinkade which i believe is meant to be a silver sable reference
if you're a big fan of reality tv they also spend a lot of time making fun of different
aspects of reality tv and it's all true probably one of the bigger wtf's especially early on though
is the reveal that stormfront's still alive the showrunner said that she was still supposed to
be alive but didn't reveal exactly how they were going to use her they reveal she's being kept in
homelanders apartment in the tower of the seven but she's basically an invalid like she's full
anakin skywalker burnt toast she has the one working hand but essentially it's a living hell
for her they make a joke about her still giving hand jobs to homelander and it's just completely
not working because she's still going full nazi on him and obviously the revealed that stormfront
killed herself rather than surviving in that state like it became a living nightmare for her
when ashley makes the joke about stormfront million dollar babying herself during that
movie the protagonist bites out her own tongue attempting to bleed to death that's how stormfront
was able to kill herself they said that this whole running storyline with soldier boy's character
most of it is meant to be a misdirect like maeve kind of tips him off like oh they told
this story about him dying in a nuclear meltdown in the mid-80s but that's all a lie soldier boy
obviously jensen ackle's character we've seen him in the trailer we know he's coming back in
present day but it sounds like we don't see him in present day till at least episode 4 or episode 5.
they changed him a little bit from the comics but essentially soulja boy was meant to be the
americans first version of a superhero whereas stormfront was the first version of the nazi's
superhero soulja boy is meant to be a big captain america parody his backstory is pretty much the
same as captain america's he's meant to be the douchiest version of captain america you
could possibly imagine you get that kind of vibe when he's talking to mallory in the flashbacks
when they explain mallory's history with him in the iran contra incident that is them trying to do
a version of the comics just using a different war because everything happening is happening later in
the timeline that it was in the comics you see the old version of soldier boy during world war
ii era looks like then the young version of stan edgar makes it sound like soulja boy was also
present for the korean war but for some reason wasn't involved in the vietnam war
because when the young version of stan edgar is talking to malory in the mid-80s he says that it's
been almost 30 years since they've had a superhero inside the military they have a parody of the wasp
they have a professor x parody who's a telepath they have a tornado twins parody like i said
gunpowder is more of a judge dread parody but the way they're using him is more of a bucky parody
because he's the sidekick of soldier boy their version of lori holden is playing crimson countess
she's meant to be a scarlet witch parody obviously kind of funny after seeing doctor strange 2 with
that version of scarlet witch in the mcu and they reveal a whole bunch about black noir's
backstory apparently he just used to be totally normal i think they want to juxtapose his tragic
backstory with a train's backstory like they want to show what could potentially happen to a train
if he stays with the seven the same way that black noir has stayed with the seven this should also
show you that the black noir on the tv show isn't meant to be like the comic book version so they're
probably not gonna have the same type of ending for that character with the ending for homelander
that the comics did i think when we talk about what ultimately happens to homelander it's all
about what's going on with ryan's character he is meant to be the homelander deterrent but there's
this whole subplot with what really happened to soldier boy during that incident and even
mallory has the wool pulled over her eyes and she believes that he's dead which obviously isn't true
because we've seen him in the trailer but they believe there's some secret weapon that killed
soldier boy that the russians somehow have access to when really i think it's all about some crazy
twist behind soldier boy's powers and stan edgar really trying to put him on ice and just use him
as research material to try and create a better superhero which winds up culminating in homelander
so this whole subplot with them thinking that there's a weapon that they're going to find is
probably going to lead to actual soldier boy like wait a minute what are you doing here
love all the funny moments with them going around to the different payback members and just things
going completely off the rails trying to get more information about it too butcher had made the
decision to try the compound v before he learned about the truth of victoria newman though even
though it seemed like that pushed him over the edge lego that's it gloves are off now probably
one of the most messed up moments though is when homelander loses it on the girl that he's supposed
to be saving like oh maybe you should jump no seriously you should definitely jump right now
that happens during episode 2 the title of that episode is the man in the sky which is a reference
to homelander because he flies he is the man in the sky but it's also a reference to god like
the big guy up there in homelanders whole speech about how people are essentially killing their god
and now there is no god he is the only man in the sky so everyone should start bowing to him that's
also meant to connect with the conversation he has with starlight challenging her to actually
release the video of the plane because he doesn't care anymore either way he's thirsty for the love
and attention of the entire world but he's just fine in having everyone fear him meaning that he
doesn't care about anything anymore so they have no leverage anymore all bringing it back around
to that conversation that he has with butcher in episode one about his scorched earth policy
like literally scorching the earth because he talks about destroying all these big population
centers remember that's like end game for the boys show in a couple seasons that is unless ryan is
eventually able to challenge and stop him when we start learning more about the truth of what
really happened with the payback team and soldier boy in the past we learned that soldier boy all
those superheroes are incompetent just like the ones in present-day cause just as much collateral
damage bot tries to cover it up just the same we learned that during that period in the 80s soldier
boy wound up killing mother's milk's family and it just drove him crazy this whole time trying to
figure out what actually happened and how to get back at them you think that butcher is hardcore
i cannot wait to see what mother's milk tries to do to soldier boy but they end episode 3 with this
huge reveal that homelander now just completely lost it has brought deep back to the seven there's
so many messed up moments with that character but they bring him back onto the seven for the
same reason why homelander tries to announce to the public that he's now in a relationship with
starlight because it's all a big ratings ploy and it places that same base that loved him losing
his mind on live television and if it wasn't clear during that celebratory dinner where he basically
forces him to eat his friends like he has him eat all this shellfish like please give me some bread
don't make me eat my friends homelander forces the deep to eat his friend timothy the octopus
who he was getting it on with while he was doing it with his wife like as messed up as that scene
was with him in the octopus and his wife he also has to eat that octopus alive and wally's doing
it he basically narrates everything the octopus is saying as it's in the process of dying like oh
my god he has a wife and family that he's caring about he's begging for his life he's praying now
as he crunches down on him the boys is one of those tv shows where like each moment is more
messed up than the last and you think that they can't top themselves but somehow it gets even
crazier and we're only at episode 3 right now and speaking of messed up things that the boys
is getting ready to do the global wellness retreat in malibu the victoria newman talks about is the
boy's tv show version of the herogasm vot lies to the public telling him that it's this learning
experience that superheroes go to every year but really it's meant to be like the most debaucherous
version of superhero spring break that you've ever seen but there are a billion things that happen in
these first couple of episodes i didn't include everything in this video just because i didn't
want it to turn into like an hour long video so if there's anything that i didn't talk about that
you have questions about just write it below in the comments and we'll cover it in the comments
my full video for the boys season 3 episode 4 will post next week on friday it'll be a friday show
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