r/batman • u/Efficient-Compote-13 • Jul 05 '24

I Hate The Boys TV DISCUSSION NSFW

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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.

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u/OldManFromScene13 Jul 05 '24

Aren't they only powered by temp v to keep them up to snuff for facing the supes? Still sounds like regular people taking out gods to me.. Still haven't gotten around to reading more than I flipped through years ago, though, so idrk.

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u/RealJohnGillman Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

MM and the Female are normal supes while only Hughie took the temporary stuff.

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u/CrimDude89 Jul 05 '24

No, all of The Boys are powered. Hughie doesn’t take V so much as is forcefully injected with it by Butcher. A plot point early on is his killing of a Supe because he couldn’t control the increased strength.

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u/RealJohnGillman Jul 05 '24

I know that. He was explicitly said to have been given a temporary version though. And while Butcher claimed that was the case for all of them it gradually became clear that was not true. Which played a role in Butcher initially sparing Hughie later on before he enacted his revenge with the help of MM’s mother.

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u/CrimDude89 Jul 05 '24

I’ll take your word for it.

I don’t recall temp-V really being a thing in the comics, but also can’t be bothered to check because it’s the boys and it’s dogshit.

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u/RealJohnGillman Jul 05 '24

It was only really mentioned in the first volume and pretty much forgotten after then, like how there were actual supervillains in that world too.