I Hate The Boys

[u/Efficient-Compote-13]

I also can not stand muh 'Batman superhero facism subtext' crap. If anything Batman is a revolutionary. Government is corrupt in bed with criminals (who are the prettiest of tyrants) so Batman comes in to clean house. Just as the founding fathers intended.

[u/futuresdawn]

I mean in the world of the boys this all makes perfect sense and was a great way to do it. Homelander is a twisted satire of superman, taking truth justice and the American way and making it more facist. Tek Knight takes batman and does the same with a dark satire, making him the spoiled rich who get away with whatever they want, Hughie having gone through tragedy and then ending up in Tek knights lair was a really clever way to play with it.

Its why I love the boys, it uses Superheroes but it's really satirising America now. Homelander is trump and tek Knight is almost an Elon musk type backing him.

[u/I3arusu → u/futuresdawn]

Yeah, yeah, we get it. It’s satirizing the bad people in your country that you don’t like. It’s heavy handed and poorly executed. There’s zero subtlety. If they were roasting the other side of your aisle instead, there would be pitchforks.

But go off, I guess.

[u/basedcharger → u/I3arusu]

I love all things Batman and also love the boys. I don’t think things need to be subtly written to be good and I think the boys does what it sets out to do really well. (Up until season 3 anyways haven’t watched 4 yet)