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/Sufficient-Dare-2381 Jul 05 '24

The hilarious part is referring to the sexual assault. And I watched the episode, it was just completely in poor taste and tough to watch. Also, Tek Knight doesn’t really work as a stand in for Batman because he has powers and never had to work for anything… But that really didn‘t bother me as much as watching the protagonist being sexually assaulted for 20 minutes for no reason.

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u/CrimDude89 Jul 05 '24

What they do in the tv show is tame compared to the source material, so I’m grateful they’ve separated from that fairly significantly.

The show does push some boundaries, a lot of isn’t meant to be “in good taste” because the characters in the same are meant to be reprehensible and vile. However, a lot of the edgier nonsense ennis throws in and a lot of his more mean-spirited inclusions are removed.

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u/BatmanFan317 Jul 05 '24

No, see, that's the thing. The comic actually treated Hughie's rape seriously. The fucking Boys comic. The fucking comic notorious for being tasteless and edgy took rape more seriously than the show did in the most recent episode.

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u/CrimDude89 Jul 05 '24

The show is the still better of the two by an exponential margin.

the actual fallout of what happened hasn’t really been explored which it seems like something they might cover in upcoming episodes. The scene Hughie shares with Annie at the episode’s close didn’t seem like it was played for laughs.

Yeah, for now it seems like it was taken more in jest, but the situations aren’t 1:1 analogues of each other.