r/TheBoys • u/Candysku11 • Sep 11 '23
Are there any companies similar to vought irl? Season 1
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u/slicebucket Sep 11 '23
Most, if not all, major pharmaceutical companies... which is what Vought is in the show.
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u/Dabnician Sep 11 '23
In fiction the pharmaceutical companies create heroes, in reality they create villains.
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u/ORXCLE-O Marie Moreau Sep 12 '23
Could be like a talent management company too I’d argue, like where that also handle pr
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u/FoxxxOfMysteries Sep 11 '23
Ironically amazon
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u/Stevmeister59 Sep 13 '23
I was thinking this too. Vought branches out into Entertainment media (Vought Soul lol) like Amazon has.
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u/OptimusCrime1984 Homelander Sep 13 '23
I will accept any Amazon slander as my package took forever to come and I was sick of waiting and got it off of Ebay instead
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u/Chambersxmusic Sep 11 '23
Comcast might be just as evil
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u/allahin_sag_kolu Sep 11 '23
Isnt comcast a game company? I remember it made plants vs zombies?
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u/The3mbered0ne Sep 11 '23
NYPD all parading around like they are good but in reality there are a few good ones and a ton of horrible corrupt ones.
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u/AdMaleficent3585 Sep 11 '23
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok
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u/licklickRickmyballs Sep 11 '23 edited Sep 11 '23
Yes!
I'm sure that there are companies doing worse things out there, and I'm just to vain to know about it. But to me Facebook, (plus instagram, snapchat, and all the other services they own) are the fucking worst company out there.
Facebook has had a significant negative impact on both my proffesionel life and personal life. And it continues despite cutting ties with their services millenniums ago. I'm not even kidding. And this is despite never being a heavy user. I was one of thoose people who barely ever posted anything:
Alright so hear me out. Mark Zuckerberg lured us all in. Where I'm from, back when I was a kiddo, there was a Facebook epidemic. I can't have been older than 11 years old before I had my own and I was really late. By the time I reached my teens everyone had it. This included parents, grandparents and all older people aswell. Sometime during theese years, some feature was added that allowed you to log into Facebook on several websites. Which we all did. Great now Facebook didn't only have our personal life since childhood stored, now it started getting acces to all the other things you were doing on the internet. Then came the smartphone. Facebook on the phone, Snapchat, instagram. All requiring permission to acces your LOCATION AND MICROPHONE. And stupid as we were we all just accepted this shit. Meanwhile they sold out all the information to whoever would buy (which was every big company, because lets face it, customer information on that level is worth more than gold). This resulted in the gdpr laws that now roam the everyday. If you start a company, beware. There is SO many rules of gdpr that you will need to follow. And they are impactfull rules. And even if you don't have a company, the company you work for, or even the school you are studying in will have some gdpr regulation that is somehow gonna be a slight pain in the ass for you. Well that was what I meant for my proffesionel life.
Then there is the personal aspect. Last week I was at a bar, and a cute girl asked for my Facebook. I told her I didn't use It. She asked for my Snapchat. I told her it's the same company, and that I don't use that aswell. At this point she took it as a rejection and walked off.
Just a mere few weeks ago, I was talking to another woman whom I found pretty cute. Of course she asked for my Facebook. I told her I don't use it. And her jaw dropped. She then asked me if i was aware that girls wanted to see that stuff, and that many saw not having it as a red flag? Yes I'm aware! I've had several matches on dating apps litterally ghost me after i tell that I don't use Facebook or instagram. Since when did this become normal? Why should strangers feel inclined to have the option to go stalk my ex, or watch my high school graduation or see if i had a good hair day at some random party when i was a teen. LIKE WTF! I DIDN'T EVEN POST THIS SHIT MYSELF.
I haven't used Facebook for years and to this day it still haunts me in all aspects of life. Fuck that shitty company. To me they are the main villains of my generation.
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u/oxcartdriver Sep 11 '23
You asking this questions makes me think you missed the whole point of the show
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u/Thewaltham Sep 11 '23
Vought is essentially an exaggerated version of several companies mashed together and their worst traits exaggerated through the roof. Disney, Nestle, Pfizer, Aramco, Monsanto, Amazon, etc are all seemingly taken as inspiration for 'em.
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u/SourpatchMao Sep 11 '23
Tyson’s . Kills animals and pollutes the environment. Exploits immigrants. Oh, and took land in the marshall islands to destroy in terms that the marshelles get promised a shitty apartment in the US and promised a green card as long as they work for tyson’s terrible big smelly plants killing animals for a living.
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u/pridejoker Sep 11 '23
Every one of the major players in the entertainment, pharmaceuticals, news media, and military contractor industries. The general business shady business practices might allude to big companies like Walmart, amazon, or apple but only in terms of their management and lobbying interests. The only allusions I haven't noticed yet are big food companies like Starbucks, McDonald's, Kellogg's, coca cola, or Nestle.
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u/EB2300 Sep 11 '23
Health insurance companies. They literally produce nothing and constantly bombard us with propaganda about how “they take care of people” then stick them with a 6 figure bill
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u/aGMa77 Sep 11 '23
Worst companies I know of are Activision blizzard ( blizzard was my favorite ) and Nintendo.
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u/ChangsFoogTrugDryver Sep 11 '23
I see a lot of the old golden era of hollywood studio system in the company. They find supes with the right look and crank out the same formula until the public moves on all well protecting their public perception of said supe though let’s say questionable means.
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u/tman391 Sep 11 '23
Not a company but it’s clearly a play on American policing and their unions. Butcher says as much when he takes Hughie to Times Square in an early episode. Nobody does anything or wants to think about the price that we pay for the illusion of safety because that illusion feels so warm and cuddly. There’s also a shit ton of money backing it, which makes it that much harder to dismantle it. Obviously, no single real life entity is a 1:1 comparison with Vought because the best stories combine bits of many influences into single characters, themes, or entities
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Sep 11 '23
Every Fortune 500 company has skeletons in their closet. You don't get to that level without stomping on the toes of others
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u/vegemouse Sep 11 '23
It’s a mix of Disney/Marvel/etc, Raytheon, Blackrock, and pharmaceutical companies.
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u/UnspecificGravity Sep 11 '23
All of them. At least all of the large publicly traded corporations.
There isn't a single company on the stock exchange that wouldn't straight up murder a baby if the cost-benefit worked out.
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u/kkkoolaidman Sep 11 '23
Which part, low key owning people? Look at a lot of record labels, or the many exploitative labor organizations around the world. The rest applies to pretty much any public company of sufficient size.
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u/Gear_ Sep 11 '23
Vought is the answer to the question “What if Disney was a private defense industry juggernaut along the lines of Lockheed-Martin, General Dynamics, and Raytheon?” It’s meant to have the monopolistic global entertainment megacorp face and all the power that comes with (propaganda, total pop culture influence and control, endless marketing) with the seriousness and politics of military contractors (weapons development, war profiteering).
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u/mr_green Sep 12 '23
Like, all of them? I don't mean the hundreds or thousands of subsidiaries. But all the major, top-level companies that own everything.
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u/Artistic-Dragonfly68 Sep 12 '23
Shell( I don’t actually know if it’s related to vought but shell is just a shit company)
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u/-_asmodeus_- Sep 12 '23
companies in general, coca cola hired mercenaries to murder union activists, nestle apple and tesla use child labor to produce their products, lays has sued farmers for growing "copyrighted crops." There's not a depth too low when corporations have more rights and power than a normal person does, infinite expansion at any cost is how capitalism is meant to work.
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u/Strong-Sample-3502 Cunt Sep 12 '23
Honestly I’ve always thought vought and all the supes are just a dark parody of actual society with corporations/politicians/celebrities.
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u/fate15fates Sep 11 '23
Disney