THE BOYS on Amazon Prime

[gwhh]

That was a Great series.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/Uber

Based on what u have said here..,..oooh man.....you should read a comic series called UBER.

[obatalla]

Do you think this story would be better if "the boys" had abilities? Seems like hey are constantly running, ducking, and diving...not much of of even gorund even with the underpowered star bright.

[j9ac9k]

Do you think this story would be better if "the boys" had abilities? Seems like hey are constantly running, ducking, and diving...not much of of even gorund even with the underpowered star bright.

If they each had a laser-baby....

[Revolutionary_Jack]

Do you think this story would be better if "the boys" had abilities? Seems like hey are constantly running, ducking, and diving...not much of of even gorund even with the underpowered star bright.

Well Kimiko has superpowers, she has a healing factor and super strength.

Obviously if the show had a bigger budget for effects and everything, maybe they could have done that, go for the episodic format of Ennis' original, have them be in the Flatiron Building.

In some respects, The Boys having no powers and few resources and going against the supes using plain old cloak and dagger spy stuff makes for a David v. Goliath underdog versus overpowered matchup.

The second season with the Boys underground and on the run (though somehow also able to be in the same room as a US House of Representative without consequences) is an interesting hook and setup but it can't last for good and my guess is the Season Finale and Next Season will introduce a new status-quo.

The Boys is so successful that it can now last for five seasons as Kripke proposed, maybe more than five. So it will get its ending, but what that means is that Butcher can't quite kill Homelander yet and they need to drag and pad stuff out. And I think the next season will be more episodic as a result.

[Denkota]

The Exploding Stchick seems a game changer if the supe who possesses the power can work their magic on the Seven also. Maybe Homelander and company are not invulnerable from inside. Queen Mauve's deal with deep will be of no further interest to her as her GF has left and she doesn't feel like joining the other side just for revenge as seen when asked by starlight to join her unless she is playing a longer game. Butcher slamming his ******* dad around and having a tender moment with his mum was nice. Black Noir being black seems a little strange after Homelander declared him to be asexual and doesn't represent any particular race or something like that. Guess he was speaking rhetorically but I took that literally and thought that he would be some kind of freaking humanoid who was barely human but it seems they have thrown out the comic book origin right out. Wonder why he was crying then though so maybe there is something wrong with him apart from his ridiculous weakness. Frenchie and Kimiko seem to be bonding again but he should be wary that she doesn't pull him back into the criminal world he seems to have left behind. It seems like the final episode may be about the boys and the seven teaming up to take out the TK supe if he is not on their payroll though he may be representing a third party manipulating both sides to their advantage like the church.

[The Cool Thatguy]

Do you think this story would be better if "the boys" had abilities? Seems like hey are constantly running, ducking, and diving...not much of of even gorund even with the underpowered star bright.

I don't mind the lack of powers on The Boy's part, but I do wish that they'd add some tactical skill/cunning into the battles

[Cyke]

In some respects, The Boys having no powers and few resources and going against the supes using plain old cloak and dagger spy stuff makes for a David v. Goliath underdog versus overpowered matchup.

Frankly, this is what I wanted and expected out of Agents of SHIELD, but then they tossed that all aside with the Inhumans, and that was handled pretty...terribly. It would take years for the writers to regain that feeling but they never went back to a totally normal human team ever again.

The Boys so far seem to be pulling it off well, relying on their wits and knowledge of their super opponents just a bit more than the AoS team.

[Killerbee911]

Do you think this story would be better if "the boys" had abilities? Seems like hey are constantly running, ducking, and diving...not much of of even gorund even with the underpowered star bright.

No powers has been okay, The show has been fine until this point. Now that they appear to be directly conflicting with the supers and that is where it is going to suffer some if they handle it wrong. Homelander and Stormfront are clearly on a other level and lets hope the shows doesn't have a logic lapse in a fights. That said they can give them powers if they wanted to "The stabilizing compound V in adults" is a hint they can do it. So you can almost see the boys being utterly defeated finale and next season maybe they get powers and start to go after Supers.

I am fine if they don't get powers as well and plus I think between Maeve, Starlight, Kimiko right now there is enough fire power to where they shouldn't get runover that badly.

[Revolutionary_Jack]

Frankly, this is what I wanted and expected out of Agents of SHIELD, but then they tossed that all aside with the Inhumans, and that was handled pretty...terribly. It would take years for the writers to regain that feeling but they never went back to a totally normal human team ever again.

The Boys so far seem to be pulling it off well, relying on their wits and knowledge of their super opponents just a bit more than the AoS team.

Part of the subtext of the original The Boys series is that Ennis was commenting on how the action movie heroes of old -- Bond, The A-Team, your Schwarzenegger, your Stallone, your Eastwood etc -- were displaced or about to be displaced by superheroes. The crew of The Boys -- multinational eccentric murderous types, one guy knows explosives, another guy knows tech, the leader is a master blackmailer and so on is very much a bag of cliches from action movies and heist movies and so on.

Removing the powers makes that come across well and even better on the show.

At the same time, I don't know if that will stay that way for long. The thread of Season 2 is Vought making these Compound V pills to make more supes right, and The Boys want to stop them from building that army, who's to say the climax won't have the Boys take those pills?

[gwhh]

Stormfront could have been given V and it put it into a coma until after the war. Or it did not activate her powers until the war was over. Or her powers got stronger over the years. And in the beginning her powers was very weak. Maybe she keep taking V and getting stronger and stronger.

Supposed to, but the comic Boys had their own Justice League, Teen Titans, Avengers and X-Men with all the various members parodied.

I do wonder though, if Stormfront was the first successful superhuman, how the Nazis lost. Not like the Allies would have had any answer to her, and her designer was said to be successful long before the Atom Bomb

[Midvillian1322]

Part of the subtext of the original The Boys series is that Ennis was commenting on how the action movie heroes of old -- Bond, The A-Team, your Schwarzenegger, your Stallone, your Eastwood etc -- were displaced or about to be displaced by superheroes. The crew of The Boys -- multinational eccentric murderous types, one guy knows explosives, another guy knows tech, the leader is a master blackmailer and so on is very much a bag of cliches from action movies and heist movies and so on.

Removing the powers makes that come across well and even better on the show.

At the same time, I don't know if that will stay that way for long. The thread of Season 2 is Vought making these Compound V pills to make more supes right, and The Boys want to stop them from building that army, who's to say the climax won't have the Boys take those pills?

Iono if they change the powerless situation anytime soon. But I think thats the climax of the series. Butcher becoming what he hates just to kill Homelander.

[Nate Grey]

Are we sure Mother's Milk/Marvin is powerless? They kept the part about his dad fighting Vought in the courts intact, what about where he got his name from? Has his flask been shown in the background, in his pocket, etc?

[Midvillian1322]

Are we sure Mother's Milk/Marvin is powerless? They kept the part about his dad fighting Vought in the courts intact, what about where he got his name from? Has his flask been shown in the background, in his pocket, etc?

Its possible, he defiantly doesn't have powers yet but like the source material they could randomly develop. And yea iono haven't seen him sipping on anything suspect.

[The Cool Thatguy]

Its possible, he defiantly doesn't have powers yet but like the source material they could randomly develop. And yea iono haven't seen him sipping on anything suspect.

Homelander stole his breast milk gig

[Midvillian1322]

Homelander stole his breast milk gig

And made it 100x weirder