Do you think The Boys is an accurate representation if real people had superpowers?

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• AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If people had superpowers, vats of trauma and ego issues, and megacorps wanted to wrangle it for profit and control… absolutely yes.

  This would totally happen in the US and other countries. 100%. No doubt.

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• JeSuisUnHombre@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The Boys is barely even satire, they pull so much from reality.

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  • 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I used to think it was over the top for expositional purposes. Used to.

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• Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The only thing stopping Homelander from going on a rampage, killing tens of thousands of people and seizing control of the world is that he cares what people think about him. He wants to be loved, not feared.

  He kills innocent people but he does it discreetly or when it looks like he can justify his actions.

  But can you imagine an absolute piece of shit like Stephen Miller getting super powers? He’d be far, far worse.

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• je_skirata@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The realistic thing about The Boys is that it isn’t a world where normal people get superpowers, it’s an evil company making superheroes into celebrities for profit.

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• MudMan@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No, it's much more interesting than that.

  It's an accurate representation of Garth Ennis being mad about having to work with superheroes despite not liking that at all and being a bit of a petty bitch with a bit of a dudebro sense of humor that, frankly, we all overrated at the time because when you were a teenager in the 90s you thought Preacher was hilarious and it got to his head a bit.

  And then it's an accurate representation of Eric Kripke who was very much the right age to have gone through that, taking the material and going "well, that Trump guy sure was a thing, huh?" and "aren't you kind of over all those MCU movies, also?" because superheroes in film were at the same point in 2019 than they were on comic books in 2006.

  Don't be the teenager we all were in the 90s and assume that "edgy and mean and over the top" is the same as "smart and realistic". It's not.

  I'll say that the show is at least less callous than the original material and it's at least trying to be political, which makes it slightly more plausible and internally consistent than Ennis' HR complaint of a comic book. Hollywood has a history of taking this edgelord crap (see also: every single Mark Millar adaptation) and making it palatable by applying the same mainstreaming and dumbing down that kills every Alan Moore adaptation. Turns out if the original material isn't that smart to begin with that's actually a good thing to do.

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• magnetosphere@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I like how Vought is (among other things) so much like American professional sports organizations, the NFL in particular.

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• Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Are superpowers analogous to money IRL? If so, I think you have your answer.

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• Godort@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No. I don’t think The Boys would be an accurate portrayal.

  I think it would be much worse. Like apocalyptic.

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• Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s not a direct comparison, but look at what happens to people that have money and power in our society. They become evil monsters. I think superpowers could have a similar effect. Although getting money and power requires you to be a monster already on some level, I don’t think suddenly gaining superpowers would have the exact same effect.

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  • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They become evil monsters.

    Most, sure, but far from all. The list of historical benevolent dictators isn't very long, but it's not short either.

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• TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think people would still be people, but the monsters would be unstoppable. Psychopaths and corporations would be just as bad as depicted in the show.

  However, normal people would still be normal. See extraordinary for more info. In this series, people have their mundane problems on top of whatever problems the powers cause.

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• snooggums@piefed.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It isn't the super powers that make them assholes, the seven just draws in assholes who abuse the ones that aren't.

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• njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The show or the comics? Cuz those are two vastly different things.

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

  Further especially with powers granted from an injectable serum, the kind of people naturally drawn to it will already be the kind of people seeking power for their own ends.

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• cmbabul@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If it were an X-Men sort of world then no, otherwise absolutely

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    x-men under xavier, is too goody two shoes, basically toeing the line of the us, realistically its more like Magnetos side that would be more realistic.

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    • cmbabul@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No i meant superpowers arose as a natural mutation and not the result of a chemical compound. Not ideologically

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  it parodies trump alot, i think kripke made hints about that when he was writing the shows.

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• baatliwala@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s somewhat exaggerated but I would definitely say yes

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