Yes it's based on a comic by Garth Ennis. Superheroes become mainstream enough that there's a superhero industry and their brands are managed by a corporation because they're celebrities now instead of vigilantes. Crazy guy with a grudge gets a team together to eradicate the supes because 99% of them are flawed, egotistical maniacs as they're basically groomed from young age like Nickelodeon stars but they're walking WMDs instead. So it's "anti cape-shit" but effectively still ends up being cape shit most of the time because most characters are supes.
It's sorta in the same vein as The Watchmen where it poses the question "what if superheroes were real?" and proceeds to answer "pretty much nothing good and a whole lot of bad." With way more sexual debauchery.
As much as I enjoy The Boys, I actually hope it comes to a good conclusion soon. Because I feel like there's a line between capeshit critique and regular capeshit, and that line is somewhere around when we get to season 11 of "anti-capeshit" promising "the most bombastic superhero fights yet."
Still, I'm a sucker for Karl Urban's acting and general dunking on chuds lol
I really like Karl Urban's acting too. He's one of those "tough guy" actors where he genuinely seems like a tough dude in the mold of fellas like Charles Bronson, Toshiro Mifune, or Liev Schrieber. It adds believability.
It's capeshit insofar that it has superheroes and sometimes they fight with lasers. It is not at all like actual capeshit I think, the last Marvel movie I actually saw was Ironman.
Is The Boys cape shit? I’ve not seen it
Yes it's based on a comic by Garth Ennis. Superheroes become mainstream enough that there's a superhero industry and their brands are managed by a corporation because they're celebrities now instead of vigilantes. Crazy guy with a grudge gets a team together to eradicate the supes because 99% of them are flawed, egotistical maniacs as they're basically groomed from young age like Nickelodeon stars but they're walking WMDs instead. So it's "anti cape-shit" but effectively still ends up being cape shit most of the time because most characters are supes.
It's sorta in the same vein as The Watchmen where it poses the question "what if superheroes were real?" and proceeds to answer "pretty much nothing good and a whole lot of bad." With way more sexual debauchery.
Don't forget the gratuitous gore! The show effectively cold opens with the in universe "Flash" running through someone and turning them to paste.
I honestly laughed my ass off when
(Plot spoilers)
spoiler
the Scientology guy got owned after cracking a Fresca. I did not see that coming.
It is the rare capeshit that criticizes capeshit enough that non capeshit likers such as myself can enjoy it
As much as I enjoy The Boys, I actually hope it comes to a good conclusion soon. Because I feel like there's a line between capeshit critique and regular capeshit, and that line is somewhere around when we get to season 11 of "anti-capeshit" promising "the most bombastic superhero fights yet."
Still, I'm a sucker for Karl Urban's acting and general dunking on chuds lol
I really like Karl Urban's acting too. He's one of those "tough guy" actors where he genuinely seems like a tough dude in the mold of fellas like Charles Bronson, Toshiro Mifune, or Liev Schrieber. It adds believability.
I think they're doing one more season and that's it, at least I saw a headline that said that.
No. CIA saves the world, harvey weinstein BAD, jeff bezos BAD, celebrities BAD, bald female psychic woman, nazi breastfeeding, orange man politics
I saved you 4 seasons
It's capeshit insofar that it has superheroes and sometimes they fight with lasers. It is not at all like actual capeshit I think, the last Marvel movie I actually saw was Ironman.
Yeah, there's no Josh Wedon/Disney bullshit here
Imagine cape shit but “what if corporations BAD?”
Extremely boring, surface level criticism of le crony capitalism. If you want to watch good cape shit, watch Birdman because it isnt capeshit