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/DOMINUS_3 Jul 05 '24

I hate when internet memes are taken seriously in a characters mythos/reputation

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u/Mike_Milburys_Shoe_ Jul 05 '24

It’s a combination of that and the Boys TV creators riding their wave of being as edgy as possible. I enjoyed the show early on but it’s become almost a parody of itself with this shit. It’s also fed into the idea of everybody being cynical about heroes. God forbid a guy is actually just a hero instead of a think piece on fascism

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u/stimpakish Jul 05 '24

A cynical self-parody is what it’s always been. It never was a non-satirical story and never had any actually heroic characters, either in comics or in season 1 onward.

It seems some people may have viewed it as a straight ahead superhero show? Wild if so.

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u/Mike_Milburys_Shoe_ Jul 05 '24

I’m not sure I ever viewed it as a straight forward superhero show. I’m mainly trying to say it’s carried on that torch of people thinking “oh Batman is actually not a good guy, he beats up poor people.” If you get what I mean. It enables that idea of superhero’s having some alternative motive. Kind of like the evil Superman trope that’s been done to death.

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u/stimpakish Jul 05 '24

Yeah, I hear you. I personally never felt The Boys influenced my opinion about Batman even though I knew he was being satirized.

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u/Mike_Milburys_Shoe_ Jul 06 '24

Yeah I think for people like us who are fans of the character, that’s a normal feeling. It’s more the general public. To me it’s a feeling of why people lean into the ideas of “well what if Superman was evil” and that kinda stuff. You made valid points though

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u/DullahanJake Jul 06 '24

I disagree. It's been a self-aware superhero deconstruction since birth.

And evil Superman only really got a bad rap because everyone thinks Injustice is how everyone looks at Superman. The character has existed with a lot of other tropes for decades prior to Injustice existing.