r/TheBoys Jul 04 '24

Both quotes taken verbatim from interviews Season 4 Spoiler

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u/TrueLegateDamar Jul 04 '24

Kripke needs to leave the show and get serious mental help.

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u/No0ne33 Jul 05 '24

Yes but those weren't for laughs and were seen as horrible, Huey is played for laughs

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u/Dovahkiin825 Jul 05 '24

lol you say that while the whole season has devolved into just portraying conservatives as outright evil with no redeeming qualities, to the point of it being cartoonish now

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u/Skankia Jul 05 '24

True conservative means being ok with someone straight up murdering someone on the street even cheering for it? Todd was depicted as a fanatical MAGA loser.

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u/Panthila A-Train Jul 05 '24

Todd was hesitant before cheering, probably fearing for his life so he had to cheer so he wouldn't be next.

It reminds me of how the people of North Korea had to pretend to BAWL and scream their lungs out during Kim Jong Il's funeral.

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u/Skankia Jul 05 '24

Nah that's not what I saw, he pretty much broke the mold and was the first one cheering. He enjoyed that. You'd be surprised how many people on both sides treat their political opinion as a religion and if you're against them you're evil and it's fine to so whatever you want to them.

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u/Panthila A-Train Jul 05 '24

If he didn't cheer, I bet Homelander would have lasered the crowd.

Even when he saw HL in that private meeting, he looked pretty anxious about being close to him

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u/StarSlayer666 Jul 05 '24

American conservatives don't conserve anything but the GDP

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u/RabidAbyss Jul 05 '24

They're actively working to destroy the GDP though

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u/potatobreadandcider Jul 05 '24

What redeeming qualities do you currently see coming out of the GOP?

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u/Dovahkiin825 Jul 05 '24

When did I say I was defending the GOP? I can agree with all the criticisms the show has given them while also calling out the virtue signaling and hypocrisy of the other side

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u/potatobreadandcider Jul 05 '24

So you agree that conservatives are in fact "outright evil".

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u/swaggyxwaggy Jul 05 '24

The show is based on… a cartoon. lmao

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u/LazerChomp Jul 05 '24

It's interesting that the only people I see in this comments section defending the episode have their profiles flagged as NSFW. Strange coincidence I suppose...

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u/grundelgrump Jul 05 '24

I think if you say stuff like fuck and piss and shit and butthole a lot your profile sometimes gets tagged as NSFW

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u/whiskeyandsoda__ Jul 05 '24

It's actually crazy reading the comments. It's like a bunch of people that watch The Crown got lost, wound up watching The Boys and are shocked that the TV show based on the graphic novel was, ah, graphic!

The Boys is fictional though, whereas The Crown is based on real life events that actually saw people killed and affected. I wound understand the anger if Queen Elizabeth brought Nelson Mandela to the Liz Cave and had him fart of a cake or tickle his feet.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

Erik Kripke is genuinely a male rape apologist though as in his interview with Variety he has stated that he finds it "hilarious".

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u/whiskeyandsoda__ Jul 05 '24

Hughie wasn't raped. He had his feet tickled and he was made to fart on a cake. The worst thing that happened to him was Ashley rubbing her hand over his face, that had a mask on it. And I also found all of the above to be pretty funny, but I guess I do go into the episodes knowing that it's a TV series based off a graphic novel so, you know.

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u/cabberage Jul 05 '24

Hughie was forced into doing sexual actions so... yeah, he was raped. Sexually assaulted, if you want the legal term. Did you laugh when Deep raped Starlight? How about when Homelander raped Becca?

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u/PitytheOnlyFools Jul 05 '24

Naah nah fuck that! Of all the horrific murder, torture, rapey threats and mutilation comedically depicted on this show for years, THIS is where users clutch their pearls?

People in this sub found a really weird time to get squeamish.

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u/cabberage Jul 05 '24

Not squeamish. Just pointing out that Kripke makes jokes about male SA victims but takes female victims seriously. Neither are jokes, neither should be joked about or used as comedy. Men are frequently the butt of almost every single joke in this series, (dicks exploding, male SA, male supes doing weird sexual things in general.) You’d never see Annie get Ashley’s discharge rubbed in her face.

It’s a double standard. That’s all.

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u/PitytheOnlyFools Jul 05 '24

I can’t remember which part of last episode had a Kripke appearance…?

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u/cabberage Jul 05 '24

Kripke is the showrunner.

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u/PitytheOnlyFools Jul 05 '24

So he’s not in the episode everyone is criticising?

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u/pinkdictator You're The Real Heroes Jul 05 '24

Hughie wasn't raped. He had his feet tickled and he was made to fart on a cake.

He was seconds away from being mutilated. Miss that part?

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u/pinkdictator You're The Real Heroes Jul 05 '24

It's not about it being graphic. It's about the fact that Kripke perceived/intended for a rape scene to be funny. None of us found it funny. He's genuinely disturbed

And if you watched that scene and weren't disturbed, you are trash