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this is gonna be my video for the boys season two
episode five there was so much messed up stuff during this so many easter eggs so
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from the episode on the video so we'll do top 10 and easter eggs as we go
along there were way extra easter egg so this video probably a little bit longer
too careful for spoilers from everything
from the episode starting with number 10 the dawn of the
seven movie in the joss whedon rewrite so obviously this is hilarious it was a
very on the nose easter egg about justice league and batman v
superman the episode starts with them filming a scene from the dawn of the
seven movie that they've been teasing all season
it's basically the movie about the justice league about the seven within
the universe of the boys but they're parodying the making of the justice
league movie and joss whedon coming on to do the rewrites for zack snyder after
he was forced to leave the project they incorporate all this cheesy
dialogue for maeve in this character named ruby who's a hacker
just the worst dialogue you could possibly think of so this is obviously
them making fun of joss whedon and making fun of justice league at the
same time but the whole reason they have all those scenes with maeve and her
quote unquote lover is because of what homelander is doing just completely
messing with her just trying to twist the knife that becomes a really big
subplot later in the episode though because maeve has her own plan to get
rid of homelander which is really important for later this season
but while this dawn of the seven movie shoot stuff is going on it's just
completely hilarious pj byrne is playing the director you saw
him earlier this season when he was pitching the movie to them and they were
talking about the script inside vaught's tower
obviously homelander doesn't care about the movie he's just there to watch maeve
get tortured on screen and watch her go
through all this crap but then greg grunberg shows up in another celebrity
cameo there's all kinds of celebrities showing up all over the boys season two
we find out that they're riding a train out of the seven but he tries to rewrite
his dialogue because that's all about them kicking him off the team so they're
writing that into the movie and he doesn't want to do that
can we leave it open-ended so pj burn has to deal with him
i love the fact that he reluctantly agrees because they basically tell him
that if you don't do this we're going to fire you and it's going
to be a big scandal but when he's filming his final scene
it's just a stand-in homelander doesn't even bother to show up to film the scene
with him because they're filming him from his back so he doesn't have to be
there that's another real world thing that
happens all the time when they make big movies
if you've ever watched the behind the scenes for a big marvel movie like
avengers end game for instance benedict cumberbatch was actually
filming other stuff while they were filming a lot of the big battle scenes
so during some of the big final battle scenes that they were filming
with all these people running at each other on screen with this big green
screen behind them they would have stand-ins for some of
the actors with dots on their faces and they would just
swap in like benedict cumberbatch's face or any of the other actors that couldn't
be there at the time because of scheduling conflicts
another funny easter egg and a big callback to season one one of the
screenwriters on dawn of the seven is one of the guys from the therapy
group who got his junk frozen off by the cold-based superhero
last season they're also part of vots pr team that wants to turn maeve's
relationship in real life within the context of the
show into a big pr event obviously her girlfriend doesn't
want to have anything to do with that and she's trying to explain to her no
homelander will kill you if you don't do what he wants
you to do so this is where her plan to take down homelanders starts which takes
her to the deep so she's going to manipulate the deep and use him as a
pawn in her bid whatever her plan winds up
being to get rid of homelander it's also a bit of a hat tip for her
helping out the boys which is a comic book thing
eventually in the comics she does the same thing she wants to turn on the
seven turn on homelander so you just have one more potential
person inside the seven that's helping the boys out in addition to starlight
now the number nine homelander gets caught
on tape with a big collateral damage situation
the footage of his save is hilarious too so he flies to a foreign country to take
down a fake compound v super villain remember
they're also creating the super villains he was responsible for running this
compound v all over the world so he himself created
the person that he's there to take down but while he's doing that while he's
lasering him on the spot in under five seconds
he accidentally kills another random person in the village
it turns into a whole big thing and you see more of the vot pr machine behind
the scenes please don't say anything until we have
a pr team on this he gets more and more pissed off at the ceo giancarlo
esposito's character from blocking him ordering him not to say
anything until they do what they want to do behind the scenes and get everything
ready it's just another example of him slowly
feeling like he's losing control like he thinks he's in control at the beginning
of the season cut to a couple episodes later and he
has absolutely zero control over the situation
they used that to get him on team stormfront like i said at the beginning
of the season alya cash said that homelander basically hates her character
for the first couple of episodes but she slowly wins him over and this is the
episode where that happens where he totally gets on board
with her big social media campaign machine it was hilarious
watching him try to listen and understand what she was telling him he
clearly has no idea what's going on with social media he just loves that it works
so well and another callback to season one
if you remember butcher's wife becca was actually hired
by vaude to be his social media manager in season
one or before the events of season one and before everything happened with the
superboy and her getting pregnant but then number eight butcher is
torturing himself after what happened with becca just gets into a giant fight
it seems like a british metal bar just letting the crowd beat
him like it's some sort of hellish mosh pit
he finally makes nice with huey a little bit and tries to duck the boys so he's
obviously got this plan he's going to continue to try and get becca back but
it seems like he's really going to throw himself on some sort of grenade
that comes back around later in the episode too where he's just like alright
i'm at the end of my rope here i'm just gonna do everything i can to try and
save my friends so as bad as butcher got the first
couple of episodes it does seem like he's coming back from the brink of
darkness at least a little bit there are a couple funny jokes that they
weave into some of these moments too as crazy as they are like in the background
you see mother's milk watching an episode of outlander
and refuses to explain himself to huey like why are you watching that
the number seven frenchie's trying to stop kimiko from turning into a true
monster like she was in the comics so kimiko is actually starting to turn
more into her comic book self she was way crazier in the comic book
we find out that just like butcher she's trying to deal with her grief over what
just happened in a really messed up way but she's turned into a hitman or hit
woman for the albanians because remember she does have superpowers so she's
actually a really good hit person frenchie finds out about it when he
follows her and sees that she pulls a hit on a bunch of russian mobsters who
are all busy arguing about the merits of the hamilton play i thought that was
kind of funny like they're just casually arguing about hamilton he's
also horrified to find out that his ex-girlfriend who he was just with is
the one that's passing along the information on the hits to kimiko
she'll probably also eventually come back from the brink like clearly he
wants to help her and she wants to communicate with him
but he doesn't understand the special sign language that she created with her
brother so she's not doing real sign language that's actually a language that
they created by themselves when they were in a camp a
long time ago as children i think eventually what'll wind up
happening is that frenchie will learn a little bit of that he'll start to
understand her then like her brother said a long time
ago she just stopped talking so she can actually still
talk she just hasn't talked in a long time then number six they go to
butcher's aunt in the suburbs and you learn a lot about his backstory some of
it's really funny some of it's messed up and they bring terror onto the show from
the comics everybody was wondering if they were going to do terror
we find out that his aunt is every bit as messed up as him so it sounds like it
runs in the family like she seems like this sweet old lady
but then as you learn more and more about her
she becomes more and more hardcore like she's a dealer she has a bit of a chem
lab in her basement with prescription pills
and she swears like a sailor she tells huey all about butcher's little brother
and how basically huey looks kind of like him
and is sort of a surrogate version of his
little brother and in present day on the boys they have the same sort of
relationship that butcher had with his little brother
he was his original canary in the coal mine the person that would bring
butcher back from the brink of darkness it was just a moment meant to humanize
butcher a little bit more and bring huey closer to him help him
understand why butcher was so messed up and why he was so important
inside the boys because remember at the beginning of the season he's like i
could be the harry potter of the group i could be the person that nobody thinks
is special but winds up being the most special boy
so he's starting to realize where he fits into the boys at least right now
his role could always change in the future but right now
it's really just balancing out butcher the number five the boys versus black
noir there are a couple really funny
moments during all this and obviously they have a big
standoff with the ceo as well when huey suggests that they just take
off in the car he can never catch us mother's milk reminds him no he's faster
than the car so it's just another superpower that you didn't know that
black noir had we knew he was quick but we didn't know how quick
butcher actually tries to throw himself on the grenade and just sacrifice
himself to black noir in order to save his friends
they blow the hell out of his aunt's house she doesn't seem to care at all by
the end of the episode she takes it like a champ
and butcher's only able to save them by making the ceo
believe that he has evidence against homelander about his
son and what he did to his wife it's pretty clear from his conversation with
huey after black noir takes off that he does not have that evidence like oh yeah
i totally wink wink have it i have all those pictures that i'll totally
release if they try to hurt us there's also a big black noir comic book
easter egg here too they've already changed the character
a lot from the comics but during this scene here where he's
almost like a finger puppet for the ceo obeying every one of his commands
that is a big comic book thing it just lets you know that within the seven
there are people who are more loyal to vot than others
like homelander is really combative with the ceo he wants to do what he wants to
do but black noir seems like he'll do
anything at the drop of a hat that the ceo says
almost like he's his finger puppet if they wind up going more down the black
noir comic book path that'll become a bigger thing later this season maybe
during season three so just remember that
i love the final scene that butcher has with terror as well where he replaces
the pig that he humps with a homeland or doll that's also
right out of the comics the trigger word that he says to tara to get him to start
humping stuff that's right out of the comics but in the comics it's way more
messed up because it's actually happening to real superheroes he tells
terror to start screwing real superheroes number four the
deep's propaganda commercial for the cult another celebrity guest cameo by
goran viznich you probably recognized him at least a little bit i don't know
how big of a character he's going to be this season
because of this whole storyline with the church of the collective in the deep
being caught in this cult obviously the commercial is meant to be
really bad on purpose it's super on the nose it's just hilarious watching him go
through all these different steps but remember this is meant to be a
parody of a lot of real world religious organizations trying to get a toe hold
in hollywood and other major organizations so they want the deep back
on the seven so that they can have someone from the church
on the seven and someone they can control or at least that they think that
they can control there's also that funny interview with
katie kurick another celebrity guest cameo where he's talking about his
marriage obviously this is gonna probably blow up
in the most fantastic way for the deep but then things slowly start to get more
and more messed up as the episode gets on so number three homelander goes
to the ante homelander protest it almost lasers every single person so
obviously this is him just slowly losing his grip
on reality it just seems like he's going crazier and crazier which is a bit of a
comic book easter egg but the big twist here is that he's just
fantasizing about killing all these people so i did wonder how
they were going to play this because i didn't think they were going to go off
the rails quite so fast quite so soon if you've read the comics
obviously we don't want to get too ahead of ourselves because i don't know
how many seasons of the boys they'll be before things completely go off the
rails but this kind of gives you a preview
for what things might look like when homelander eventually just completely
loses it right now he's still obsessed with his
popularity and people loving him like he tells stormfront after her campaign
works i went up five points in the polls thank you so much i totally owe you
but then number two this is actually a bit of a teaser for future episodes we
find out that stormfront is talking to lamplighter who seems like he's in a
psychiatric hospital who's played by sean ashmore aka
iceman from the x-men movies so lamplighter is a fire-based hero it's
kind of funny that sean ashbor ice-based hero is now playing a
fire-based hero what they're implying is going on here is that stormfront had
something to do with lamplighter probably winding up in
the psychiatric hospital and that's probably tied to him being
kicked off the seven before the events of season one
and killing all those children that frenchie was actually talking about to
his ex-girlfriend a couple episodes ago they keep making references to all these
messed up things that lamplighter did and remember the woman who started the
boys with butcher her grandchildren were killed by a lamplighter that was the
reason why she started the boys in the first place
we'll get more lamplighter in future episodes but this is just a clue to what
stormfront seems like she does to people that she quote-unquote
controls like she implies when she's talking to starlight that she's going to
be quote-unquote useful to her in the future she's going to use
her in some nefarious way or manipulate her as part of her
terror social media campaigns so it just becomes clear that stormfront is a
master at manipulating people this is also a potential future for
homelander too if lamplighter completely drank her kool-aid and wound up in the
psychiatric hospital what's going to happen to homelander when she completely
works him over then obviously number one was
homelander and stormfront going full gente and there are actually i
think some deeper easter eggs going on here
too in addition to just the obvious really crazy stuff that they do together
so he comes to thank her because her campaign works so well there was a funny
moment too where she's like when it winds up on your uncle's facebook page
that's when you know that it's working any sort of laughs kind of nervously
because he has no uncle he doesn't even have parents that he knows about
that'll be really important in just a second but clearly they're both
degenerates and she wants something from him to get her hooks into him
to manipulate him in some way and sort of use her body to twist him
to her purposes it's not really clear if she actually has any genuine interest in
him or if she's just using him but they go full b**m and you find out
that she's way more powerful than you thought that she was
she can soak a bunch of his heat damage from his heat vision like she says see
you can't hurt me very easily and then they just proceed to have superhero
across her entire apartment destroying the entire place
obviously it's super messed up but the even more messed up theory here is that
if they're going to stick even closer to stormfront in the comics talking about
easter eggs in the comics stormfront was the genetic
template that they used that vaught used to create homelander
vaude american and vogelbaum may have used some of stormfront's dna
to help create homelander and make him powerful because they share a lot of the
same abilities they're almost the same power level so
stormfront might actually be the closest thing that homelander has
to a mother and think about it this way with all the mommy issues that
homelander has the milk fetish doesn't it seem like
sleeping with his mother accidentally feels like the most homelander thing you
could possibly do there's a lot of other stormfront stuff
going on in the episode in the background too like we find out about
her quote-unquote mother adele but the thing about her mother like
starlight uses that as the password to crack her email and finds out all the
emails that she's been sending to that group that she uses for those social
media campaigns the adele person in the picture that
she's with is actually a recent picture and she does look like she could be her
mother in present day but remember stormfront is 70 years old the woman in
the picture seems like she's in her 70s so instead
of her mother she might be lying and this might wind
up being her little sister or something like that
but post all your homelanders stormfront theories in the comics
do you think that she's going to secretly wind up being a version of his
mother not his traditional mother like didn't
give birth to him but just used a lot of her dna
to create him so effectively they're kind of related
it'd be a very game of thrones twist for the boys in the boys trades in really
messed up stuff like that but my episode 6 video will post next week as long as
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