Ok so The Boys Diabolical is an animated anthology series set
somewhat in the Boys universe that explores the characters and the Vought Corporation.
The series is packed with Easter Eggs, hidden details and a lot of things you
missed that callback to the comic book series. Even the title Diabolical is named after Billy
Butcher's catchphrase and there's some major motifs they take from the source material.
This is seen early on in the title sequence for the episodes which heavily features Billy
Butcher's dog Terror. Though he appeared at one point in the live action show he's pretty much
been missing from the main series. However this little guy was in a lot of the comics
constantly trying to f**k anything he could find which he does in a number of these openers.
Quick disclaimer, Amazon actually sent out the episodes for review earlier in
the week in a slightly different order than the way they've been released.
I haven't had a chance to work on my part 2 video yet as my personal life has been pretty hectic
so this will be slightly re-ordered from the way you probably watched them.
Throughout this video we'll be going over I'm your pusher, followed by An Animated
Short Where Pissed-Off Supes Kill Their Parents, then Nubian vs Nubian before finishing with Laser
Baby's Day Out. Our second video will cover the episodes that we don't talk about in
this one and you'll still get everything broken down when you fix this damn door.
Now I'm Your Pusher very much feels like a love letter to the comics and each character
here carries their original comic design including Hughie who was based upon Simon Pegg.
Pegg initially was gonna play him in live action but he aged up a bit and
thus they cast Jack Quaid instead. However, Pegg appeared as his father throughout the series.
Like what we hear, Hughie in the comics is Scottish and Billy also
doesn't have a beard but he does have a much thicker cockney accent.
They open in what I believe is Vinnie's Comics which is where
we met The Legend in the source material. A Stan Lee parody, this comic book creator
pretty much detailed the entire life of the boys to Hughie including Homelander's origin story.
Whilst doing this he held up an orange covered comic with the seven on the front that is
somewhat similar to the one The Legend held up to Hughie. In the background is a plane and it
was during this moment in the comics that Legend told Hughie about what the Seven did on 9/11.
Issue 21 detailed how they were sent in by Vought as a publicity stunt to help a hijacked plane but
they ended up having no idea what they were doing and thus it crashed. The plane crash
scene was of course referenced in the show but it's way more messed up in the source material.
There's also a one for the Boys graphic novel and amongst the books we can catch the titles.
This includes The G-men who are basically an X-men parody that have their own show coming up.
There's Cold Snap, a G-man member as well as black noir but what we're here for is I'm your pusher,
which is playing on the song I'm your pusherman by Curtis Mayfield.
This appears at the end of the entry and it is about a drug dealer which sets the tone for what's
to come. We meet one called OD who runs narcotics for all the supes, whatever you want, he got it.
In the comics we learn that most of the Supes are sexual sadists that
have sordid parties and we drop in on one. Butcher hired Hughie to run surveillance
on several of these and early on these were the missions that he tended to take part in.
We can catch several parodies including a Gemini Man kissing two people, pyro using his flame
powers to spark up a straaange substance under a spoon. Next is an elephant man,
A groot parody that grows weed and it seems like the kind of party you'd never want to leave.
The next mornign he opens the door to Terror and is greeted by Billy Butcher.
During their conversation he brings up Jack From Jupiter and also A-train who speeds by
and snags the packet that has a shark on it. This could also be a nod to the Deep
though he doesn't appear in the entry. Jack from Jupiter is a Martian Manhunter
esque hero that appeared in the comics and at one point during the porn parody that
lamplighter watched. He shows up later in the entry and was a founding member of the seven.
There's also a nod to Queen Maeves depression, and we catch her drinking a Martini which she
constantly used to nurse in the comics. Who Butcher is interested in though is
The Great Wide Wonder who he's cooked something up for using Frenchie's help.
After hanging him out the window, Billy says 'youll believe a c**t can fly'
which is playing on the tagline from the original superman movie.
After convincing him to do it Hughie and Billy meet him at a park bench which is a location that
appeared at several points in the comics. This was where the former met Billy and also Starlight.
This town needs an Enema and it comes in the form of the Great
Wide Wonder who's being inducted into the superhero hall of fame.
In attendance are Jack From Jupiter, Queen Maeve and also Homelander who introduces Iron
Cast, who I believe is a play on the Superman character Steele with a name based on Iron Man.
Now the great wide wonder very much has his own Superman moment as he jets up into space
and then flies through the ear. High as a kite he creates deafening sonic booms
and flies through Iron Casts stomach which is somewhat ironic as we found out that he
used to drink the blood of kids who suffered from life ending diseases.
Amongst the dead we can also catch the catwoman from OD's
party who looks like she's based on Cheetah.
It's a PR disaster but as with all things Vought, the Seven members play up that something else
is afoot and they say that Galaxius has returned. Galaxis is a parody of Galactus,
a giant space dude that travels through the cosmos feasting on planets.
Speaking of feasting we get Iron Cast's blood everywhere and just in the way that he feasted
on the blood of children, a seagull now feasts on him. This calls back to the beginning with Terror
who grabbed a blood bag out the trash and it brings it all together to show it's all connected.
Now if you're enjoying the video so far I'd love for you to be a pusherman for that like button
and also don't forget to subscribe for videos like this every day. I'm your host Paul the Supes who's
an A-hole that likes to Milk a good video now lets' get into the rest of these deep breakdowns.
Episode 2
Now the next one we're covering is called an Animated Short Where
Pissed Off Supes Kill Their Parents.
Written by Justin Roiland this episode has the exact same animation style as
Rick and Morty and Justin even voices a character called Papers later on.
As we learned from the comic and series, compound v was used to try and give kids
super human abilities but what they ended up being was completely random. The more
useless ones were sent to the Red River Assisted Living for the gifted child centre.
This is very much playing on Xaviers school for gifted Youngsters which
is of course where parents that couldn't handle their kids being mutants sent them.
I dunno if we can show cartoon boobs on Youtube so I'm not gonna but there's several
comic book parodies including a quoute unquote reverse flash that moves at super slow speeds.
There's a beast boy one that can turn into any animal but he also gets their brain too.
There's Aqua Agua a water based character parody that's of course playing on Aquaman,
Sunspot from the New Mutants and X-men except this guy melts stuff with his balls,
a hulk figure, the human tongue and Ghost who's probably playing on Ghost from the MCU.
Telling us all of this is slick Narrator who's voiced by Christian Slater.
(but I'm not a rappa)
After learning the truth about Compound V they seek revenge on their self centred
parents and head out on a killing spree. This is to the sound of Hootie and The Blowfish,
I only wanna be with you which we learned at the start was the only song that Boom box could play.
We see mo slo choke his dad and there's actually a picture of him
crossing a finish line at a race which is a bit I ronic as his son movies so slow.
Fangs dad has a cap that says Fangs dad, behind him is a poster for A-train and we can
also see that Ghost's parents have several queen maeve wine bottles in their fridge.
After murdering her dad in a very brutal manner, the home lander shows up probably to take the
milk from her parents fridge and he spam attacks his eye lasers wiping everyone out except ghost.
She swears to her mother she'll be back and we close out with the narrator narrating
his dads death and how he scooped his face off with a spoon before wearing it.
We cut to his baby pics with a smile being put across with a blood stain like the joker.
Joker is known as an unreliable narrator and is that...is that an easter egg...let's
move on before we think too much. Now that takes us into Nubian Vs Nubian,
the both of which are major parodies of Storm and Black Panther.
Incase you don't know the pair are actually married in the comics and they they even put
on the African accent at points from the MCU movies. She appeared in the comics whilst he
showed up in season 1 and they're voiced by Aisha Tyler and Don Cheadle respectively.
We open with Ground Hawk robbing a bank and if you're familiar with the source material
you'll likely recognise him as being the leader of the G-Men.
Like the comics he has hammers for hands and can't even play his VS5
which is of course a vought games console. Voiced by John Dimaggio aka the man behind
Bender in Futurama we learn this opening is a staged Pr stunt carried out by Vought.
Nubia and The Prince fall in love whilst fighting him and we find out that they had
a daughter together. Over the last 8 years they've slowly fallen out of love and she
goes to Ground Hawk to ask for him to fight her parents once more to stop their divorce.
At night the prince reads his daughter a story and this somewhat feels like it's
in the same vein as the opening of Black Panther.
In her mothers phone she finds Ground Hawks number and amongst the contacts
we can see A-Train and Big Game the both of which appeared in the comics.
There's also Gunpowder, a retired supes that was once a member of Payback.
At one point Nubian Prince mentions The Young Americans,
another team from the graphic novels who like have their buttholes finger popped.
She goes directly to Ground Hawk and after convincing him to save her parent's marriage
the beat the SEVEN shades of s**t out of everyone.
They bring up that they're not even in the same continuity this season
and it's kinda a joke at this point how convoluted everything seems to be
with there being multiple versions of the same characters across different timelines.
Beating the crap out of him makes them fall in love and due to Nubias weather powers
she causes a storm that night. In the morning they get handed their
divorce papers after arguing about buying coffee, bringing the episode to a close.
Episode 4
The final episode we're breaking down this video is a Looney Tunes knock off
that seems to be pulling on the cartoon Buddy's day out. This was later adapted
into things like the Tom and Jerry Episode Busy Buddies and the movie Baby's Day out.
Initally we follow a vought worker who attends a lab where they super kids are created. Beside his
bed we can catch a Vought-a-burger cup and he goes past the adoption centre into one of the labs.
A similar enviornment popped up in the first season and much like what we have here,
there was a baby that could shoot lasers out of it's eyes.
Behind the holding doors we see an electrical kid,
a one that can spray poisonous gas and the titular baby.
This is the final day of her trial and he concludes she has no control over her powers.
In his office we see a poster for Starlight and after finding out the
baby is due to be terminated he launches a rescue attempt.
The villain of this episode is a Supes with a giant brain
that feels like he's based upon the Hulk character The Leader.
He also wears an outfit similar to Darkwing Duck which if you're a 90s baby you should recognise.
If you don't you had no childhood and I dont want you watching this video. Get out of my sight.
See ya chump.
After going to the Zoo the swat team aim guns at her but she goes
atchoo and fires the lasers at...atchoo.
Best jokes around.
Inside the zoo we see crocodiles based on the one from the Disney Peter Pan film
and also Pirhanas that look like Flounder from the little mermaid.
There's a cardboard cut out of The Deep and a Gorilla which kills some of the Vought Soldiers.
The Baby in babies day out also got in a Gorilla Pen and this helped out
which I think this ending could be a homaaaage to.
One of the swat team members ends up burning themselves with a flamethrower
and they come out looking like Wiley Coyote who also used to have it happen to him quite a lot.
Things culimate at a construction site which is where a lot of these sorts of episodes often tend
to wind up with the baby crawling across a steel girder similar to Baby's day out.
She wants the big jitter bean ball which is a coffee company that appeared in the
previous episode and it shows up throughout these.
The leader arrives to kill them and the kid finally gets control of her
powers and she cuts his head in half. Calling him Dada the pair take down the
forces of Vought with her being aimed like Billy used the baby in the first season.
That's all boys and this concludes the first part of our Diabolical breakdown.
Have to say I really really enjoyed it and obviously I'd
love to hear your thoughts on show below.
We are gonna be dropping our part 2 video very soon so make
sure you're subscribed and if you want something else to watch then
check out our breakdown of The Batman which will be linked on screen now.
It's one of the best videos we've ever made and I'd love to see you over there right after this.
With that out the way, I've been Paul,
you've been the best and I'll see you on the next one. Take care, Peace.