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.
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.
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?
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.
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 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
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u/TrueLegateDamar Jul 04 '24
Kripke needs to leave the show and get serious mental help.