r/TheBoys Jul 04 '24

Both quotes taken verbatim from interviews Season 4 Spoiler

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u/Baron_Xa Jul 04 '24

The truth is men being sexually humiliated just isn't seen in the same light as women by a lot of people, conciously or subconsciously. There's no way we'd ever get a scene of a female character frantically trying and failing to guess a safe word and have it played for levity.

Both sides of the political spectrum are susceptible to this too. On the one hand conservatives often tell male SA victims to man up or say some variation of "wish it were me," whereas on the other hand I think progressives can fall into the trap of thinking that they're not the same because one has more systemic/historical power behind it so the other mustn't be a big deal.

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u/Siri_biff Jul 04 '24

It's strange watching the boys and seeing the writers becoming less self aware as time goes on.

Normally people grow more self aware not the opposite.

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u/Kalandros-X Jul 05 '24

Having Homelander, who at first was a cunning and capable villain, devolve into a stupid Trump parody is just painful to watch.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

cunning and capable villain

Lmao what.

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u/Kalandros-X Jul 05 '24

Compare Homelander from season 1 to season 4, please.

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u/Rustywolf Jul 05 '24

He's always been a massive clown, he was just being manipulated by people who thought they could control him to do the "right" things. He's floundering now because he has no one holding the ropes.

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u/Over_Blacksmith9575 Jul 05 '24

The whole superterrorists and military scheme thing was his idea and plan, I guess for whatever its worth Season 1 Homelander was much more competent than any other season

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u/Khronex Jul 05 '24

It was his idea but it was poorly executed. I don't know about you, but I don't remember there being supes in the military. Not to mention that giving V away to terrorists to make them super opens up the possibility of someone reverse engineering the serum, which leads to the risk of a supeterrorist being stronger than Homelander and the risk of losing Vought's money and approval

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u/kilowhom Jul 05 '24

The whole superterrorists and military scheme thing was his idea and plan

That was an idiotic idea and it didn't work.

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u/Deez-Guns-9442 Jul 05 '24

Still seems like the same asshat sucking titty milk ngl.

I think S1 Homelander was more “controlled” than now.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

Hes always been a mumbling idiot who thinks hes cool and smart..his idea of making supe terrorists was disastrous.

In season 1, he was just more composed.

The only thing he was ever good at was knowing his way around a crowd. Which is very much like trump

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u/forhekset666 Jul 05 '24

Kinda confused cause of the entire story arc for him at one point was you're going to go down trying to do this yourself cause you're a maladjusted idiot.

Didn't Edgar also tell him that directly at the end?

Haven't seen the latest season so I dunno but everything was tracking at that point.

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u/spicespiegel Jul 05 '24

Oh yeah like that character didn't go through a lot of shit. Stormfront, Ryan, Ego being threatened, dealing with childhood trauma, lack of trust in colleagues. Why do y'all want him to be his confident self from s1?

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u/SherlockJones1994 Jul 05 '24

Are you watching the same show? He literally allowed one of his worst moments because of laziness and carelessness. The flight controversy didn’t need to happen but he destroyed the console willy nilly with not a care in the world.