>"DUUUUUUDE, WHAT IF SUPERHEROES WERE ASSHOLES!?!?!?"
Why do people keep thinking that this is a creative , unexplored concept & not the most overdone story in decades? When Watchmen did it, it was relatively new & novel, but everyone has done it, now, & it's uninteresting.
Superheroes being typical, by-the-book superheroes is far more overdone and far less creative.
Not merely assholes but murderous psychopaths, which is exactly what real superheroes would be.
Meh, I think the way The Boys does it is fine. It connects it to the problems today of police brutality, corruption in Hollywood, and the inherent problems of privatizing things that shouldn't be privatized. It's got elements of Watchmen but I think it does the concept better.
baby brain
Basically right after I posted this I realized it can be summed up as, Alan Moore was a negative, contrarian jackass just trying to be edgy with Watchmen, whereas The Boys is actually topical and a realistic portrayal of exactly what real superheroes would be like. It would definitely be a giant privatized industry with no oversight.
Why psychopaths? Doesn’t seem that common
Watchmen was a story about the Cold War using superheroes to represent different concepts. The Boys is a story about realistically evil superheroes. The Boys does realistic superheroes better because that wasn't what Moore was trying to achieve.
I’m not in the least bit tired of such concepts. I still pray we see Injustice live action someday. It was so wild seeing Cavill laser the fuck out of people in BvS.
>just trying to be edgy with Watchmen
like not even wanting to try and get into a comparison argument but Ennis has said part of his inspiration for the Boys was just to be as edgy as he can.
also Watchmen had 1 super powered individual
In positions of power it is. Just look at the Jeffrey Epstein crap. user is being dramatic calling them murderous psychopaths, because none of them are really serial killers, just people with god complexes that don't see your average person's life as anything inherently meaningful. That's pretty much the case with anyone with a significant amount of power.
>1 super powered individual
How was Silk Spectre 2 so strong? It wasn't just martial arts she was using; she literally had super-strength.
when does she use super strength?
When she smashed Dr Manhattan's flying crystal thing. She was pounding on it until the whole thing cracked apart and shattered.
people who doesn't read comic books shouldn't post on Zig Forums, just my humble opinion.
Well, shit. That explains the completely over the top violence.
I don't think it takes away from the point that it's more topical. Alan Moore didn't really even get that. He didn't even say what he was meaning to say with the series. He gets pissed off that everyone found Rorschach the hero of the series, when he was the only one to speak out against the corrupt crap the others pulled.
No you fucking retard, she threw Adrian's glass Millennium bottle at it. Why would you try to dissect Watchmen when you're literally a movie-only?
>I don't think it takes away from the point that it's more topical
this is insane and I think you're mistake is that Watchmen has become a period piece. like the cold war is over NOW but not when it was being published.
Kill yourself
fuck i used the wrong your, whatever.
So she threw something at it and the whole thing broke. How does that not also prove my point?
OK, user. I'll bite. What do you think it said about the Cold War that makes it so topical, other than just acknowledging its existence?
And no, "the world will always fight unless they have a mutual enemy" wasn't that topical even for the time, and is pleb-tier at best about actually sending a real message about international relations.
Does it look like the glass bottle blew straight through the fucking thing, or did it just create a small crack over the point of impact that caused the shaky foundations to collapse, as glass tends to do?
This is the kind of shit you post when you're both autistic and stupid.
Ennis being a shit writer doesn't mean that the TV show is shit.
How do you know Dr Manhattan's creation was made of glass and not something like crystal?
Rising Stars presented it better as superheroes running the whole gamut of human personalities and behaviors, but The Boys presents a 'worst-case scenario' where the most famous and beloved superheroes of the land are simply not good people at heart and are, in fact, the face of an exploitative, for-profit megacorp that undermines the very fabric of the nation itself. I think that's a pretty good take on it, myself, even if Rising Stars is still my favorite alternative superhero-driven series.
First worlders think the idea of people with authority using uniform being evil sociopaths is revolutionary lol
The comic is fine. It's an interesting take on the whole idea and ultimately more about The Boys themselves than anyone else involved.
Lol, agree my third worlder bro!
You eaten yet? I'm hungry...
Lmao didn't they fuck?
How did I never notice that incest going down
I always thought Dr. Manhattan let/made the whole thing come crashing down so Laurie could cope, or as a metaphor to his own emotion, like a big ol' dramatic sigh
Always funny watching fags get triggered over this concept. If you look at real life, humans aren't great at handling Power and/or Authority. I am in full belief that if super beings existed they wouldn't be far off from this.
Then they arent superheroes