Greetings nerdy list aficionados welcome back and it’s time for yet another list about
the boys at the time I’m recording this I still haven’t had a chance to watch it
so I have yet to know the thrill, the meh or the soul crushing disappointment that may
be this adaptation.
If you’ve seen it please let me know what you thought down below also I like spoilers
but other people don’t so be mindful be kind rewind.
I’m Sasha and we’re going to look at some more cool factoids about the Boys with our
list of The Top 10 Scary The Boys facts you need to know part 2 and yes grammar is still
dead.
And also spoilers, maybe always.
Number 10 – victory Comics we touched on this a titch in part one when we talked about
how The Boys as series is disparaging to the comic book myth making machine but let’s
look a little closer.
Victory Comics is the company detailing the fake exploits of the Superheroes in the boys
universe publishing them and straddling the line between fiction and reality.
While they are not news papers or even regarded as such they still are paradoxically viewed
as factual in some capacity by those who consume them with those who have feeling that they
know the true flow of events.
Victory Comics as a name very much speaks to the early golden era of comics and their
eventual turn into also being propaganda magazine after the start of world war 2.
The boys despite being a comic view comics as a bit of a danger as they can be consumed
without thought and provide people with a world view.
Remember this is just one outlook though some will claim it is the only and one that denies
agency and critical though and it can also conflate correlation with causation if people
were truly all such mindless sheeple books like the boys wouldn’t exist still makes
you think provokes discussion.
Number 9 – The Adaptation Think It’s New – Now in the lead up to the boys series
there has been the usual press tour the interviews with creators etc and one thing that’s a
little scary about Kripke’s interviews is that it seems like it’s very much pressing
the omg this is the first dark deconstruction ever and ok no it’s not it’s an interesting
one and a gory one at that but it’s not the first and also what it’s saying is not
a brand new shocking revelation.
Like hey guys superheroes are people too and maybe their jerks is not a stop the presses
moment but I hey that’s a cynic.
Also people keep comparing the watchmen and the boys and guys they have very different
theses just cause they both have an assault scene and deconstruct heroes the deconstructions
are very different.
Number 8 – A defective Product in the boys universe as we mentioned in part one the seven
the not justice league are essential bought and paid for by the vought corporation who
are using them to advance their own power grabbing goals.
However, what this means is that the Seven are a product this aspect has actually aged
quite well in an influencer age in fact it actually plays better although one has to
wonder how so much debauchery would be kept under wraps in a social media age but I’ll
suspend my disbelief.
I mean a lot is hidden now.
Still this means that when things go wrong the seven are viewed as defective products
by their handlers rather than people raised in such a warped environment is it really
a wonder they went so wrong.
Number 7 Issue 40 so the boys is divided into story arcs that overall tell an overarching
narrative and is also eventually punctuated by mini series that expand upon the characters
or events.
Or are just well there to push the boundaries looking at you herogasm.
However, a turning point for a level of depravity is reached in issue 40 when the homelander
receives his blackmail photos and we get to see what’s in them.
And I can’t show you but I can tell you.
Babies are eaten cannibalism.
Are we still monetized.
People don’t like baby eaters.
Just when you thought it couldn’t go any higher yeah this series is a lot and some
people are not hear for it, and it crosses that ugh you’re just doing this to do it
threshold.
Everybody has a different barrier they haven’t found a movie, bookie or anything that can
stop me from eating during it yet.
I’m like the boy who couldn’t get the shivers but with gore.
Body horror me!
Number 6 – No Origins – So as mentioned the superheroes are promoted through their
comics and other media and they all have origins similar to those of classic superheroes heres
the thing not only the homelanders’ is fake.
All of them are all the heroes have the same horrible origin.
And they all involve compound v that will give anyone powers.
So you too could be a corrupt hero rejoice and once it’s out there it can then be passed
down genetically.
So Fantastic four style kinda.
Number 5 Killer Babies speaking of children and passing down powers.
Now these superpowered pregnancies are quite dangerous because sometimes the powers can
manifest in the womb.
So these powers can actually kill the mother.
In fact spoiler time that’s part of the butcher’s backstory his wife is torn apart
by her superpowered pregnancy it rips through her womb with it’s laser vision.
So these babies and the deaths they cause need to be covered up.
Can’t let the people know, although some of these babies are also the result of assault
since the truth about compound v and what it does isn’t out there, there’s just
a lot of bad things happening.
Super powered children are terrifying Franklin Richards dark superman the movie aka brighburn
that also pretended it hadn’t been done a million times as well.
Sorry salty when people go on that something is groundbreaking and it’s about the 28th
time it’s happened it can still be good just don’t pretend it’s new.
Number 4 The Female Of The Species.
So the Boys aren’t all boys that’s just a colloquial term that isn’t actually gender
specific and had historical ties to a time when it would more likely have been boys but
even then no girls too.
So the most deadly member of the boys is the female and her name is actually a play on
the poem the female of the species by ruyard kipling written in 1911.
And Man knows it!
Knows, moreover, that the Woman that God gave him
Must command but may not govern -- shall enthrall but not enslave him.
And She knows, because She warns him, and Her instincts never fail,
That the Female of Her Species is more deadly than the Male.
So yeah people underestimate the female but they shouldn’t cause she’ll rip your face
off and not feel bad about it cause without fail the female of the species is deadlier
than the male.
Number 3 Homophobia – So the language used in the boys is a lot of a lot by modern standards
I mean it was a lot back then but now some people’s ears or rather eyes may bleed.
It’s quite crass but beyond that the series actually has some interesting things to say
about true prejudice and how people can get caught up in vulgarity and assume that is
where true hate lies when really it’s with the very people who pretend to care and say
all the right things case and point the heroes who do all kinds of outreach for lgbtq+ youth
but only because the company mandates it.
Again it’s that concept of perception vs reality which can be warped in more ways than
people think.
Ideas are nuanced not a one way street.
Number 2 – So this series has some twists and turns and oh boy are they twisty the whole
climax before the last arc well it’s a story breaker for some there are revelations on
both sides and I’m not going to ruin them cause I’m not Kelly.
No shade I also spoil stories all the time.
Let’s just say that some motivations aren’t what people though they were and not everyone
is who they say they are.
Am I hyping you up yet are you hype.
Number 1 Garth Ennis Hates Superheroes – So Garth Ennis wrote the boys and well he is
not here for superheroes.
He discussed it during his interviews leading up to this new series Well, I regard costume
superheroes really with a good deal of suspicion and disdain.
So I tended to follow my instincts in that regard.
One thing I would say is that in a way that the mainstream world of entertainment has
caught up with comic books, people have now been educated to the notions of shared universes,
of worlds of superheroes, of walking out your door one morning and seeing Spider-Man swing
past, and walking to work and seeing Iron Man battling somebody.
So why the disdain I mean yes but it’s a fictional idea does he know something we don’t
are they unveiling a real superman tomorrow.
It’s ok to like ideas and believe in them and it’s also ok to deconstruct them so
Ennis is a cynic and the boys reflects that it is unchecked cynicism but check it I mean
it’s just one person’s look you can create your own crowdfund it even if tom taylor’s
spider-man tells you not to.
Yeah there’s an issue where spider-man is anti crowdfunding.
So those were the top 10 scary the boys part 2 I’m finally going to go watch it thanks
to all of you who watched and liked part one we’re now going to be able to do more indie
properties you’re the real heroes.
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