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THE BOYS is an irreverent take on what happens when superheroes, who are as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians and as revered as Gods, abuse their superpowers rather than use them for good. It’s the powerless against the super powerful as The Boys embark on a heroic quest to expose the truth about “The Seven,” and their formidable Vought backing. We also discuss the satellite shows Diabolical and Gen V.
THE BOYS is an irreverent take on what happens when superheroes, who are as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians and as revered as Gods, abuse their superpowers rather than use them for good. It’s the powerless against the super powerful as The Boys embark on a heroic quest to expose the truth about “The Seven,” and their formidable Vought backing. We also discuss the satellite shows Diabolical and Gen V.
Rules
See the Complete Rules for full explanations.
A very brief summary of the rules is below:
1. Spoiler Policy
Everything from the current season, including the first episode, until two weeks after the season ends is considered a spoiler.
Comics are always a spoiler and must be marked/tagged in comments and posts.
Leaks are permitted, but must be contained to posts flaired LEAKS only. DO NOT DISCUSS LEAKS IN OTHER POSTS. Intentionally spoiling for others will result in a ban.
FULL SPOILER POLICY CAN BE FOUND HERE
2. No Illegal Content/Piracy
Anything that violates Reddit's content policy is strictly forbidden. This includes pirated material. Do not provide, request or encourage piracy.
Failure to follow this rule will result in a ban.
3. Be Civil
While the show itself often contains content and themes that are explicit, divisive, or otherwise objectionable, Discussion, debate, criticism, and disagreement are encouraged, but you must remain civil when doing so.
Harassment of any kind will not be accepted.
4. No misogyny, homophobia, misandry, transphobia, racism, sexism, body shaming, ableism, etc.
We won't tolerate hatred of any kind against anyone. This overlaps with the civility policy of rule number three. Use of ANY slurs is strictly prohibited.
NO Discriminatory speech, hate speech, or stereotypes
NO Body shaming, gossip, or speculation
5. Content Policy
Any content that violates the subreddit rules, site-wide rules, or breaches redditquette may be removed.
This also includes ensuring proper credit for Fan Art and Cosplay.
Refer to our Content Policy for full details.
6. Self Promotion
While we do love to see fan-created content, we also don't want the subreddit to become an endless deluge of users promoting their YouTube channels, Etsy stores, etc. Posts that result in direct financial gain for yourself will be removed.
Review the Self-Promotion Policy here
7. Politics Unrelated
While The Boys covers many political topics and themes, this is not an inherently political subreddit.
For further clarification and some examples of what is considered relevant under this policy and what is not, see this thread
8. Repost or Spam
Full description can be found here
In an effort to keep the discussion from being too repetitive and fractured, the moderation team will remove duplicate discussions if a similar submission has been made in the last several days or near the top of the subreddit.
For a non-exhaustive list of frequent posts that may be removed under this policy, please see our list of common reposts.
9. Low-effort
Most forms of low-effort content will be removed. This includes self-posts with little to no text, cast-spotting and generic joke posts.
Other examples: low quality memes, reaction images, other roles played by the cast, or low effort content. Posts that do not contain significant commentary relevant to the show will be removed.
Full description can be found here
10. Rape/SA denial or Minimization
Do not deny or minimize instances of sexual assault, play "devil's advocate", or attempt in any way to conflate assault with consensual sex acts. This is strictly prohibited and WILL result in a ban.
This rule covers acts depicted in the show and non-consensual acts in real life.
To clear up any confusion specifically around Becca: In Season 2, Episode 4 at timestamp 57:21 Becca explicitly states that Homelander raped her.
11. Discuss the show, not the Fandom
Submissions that contain meta-commentary by other users (either from within reddit or other sources) are prohibited.
There is no need to bring outside drama to the subreddit; we are not here to call-out bad behavior, unpopular opinions, or “hot takes”.
These type of posts do not promote good discussion and can instigate a witch-hunt or brigade, or contribute to review bombing. This includes criticism about Audience scores and IMDB ratings.
12. Social Media Commentary
Social media commentary posts outside of cast, crew, or a reputable source will be removed.
Sharing a screenshot of commentary from youtube, instagram, twitter, etc will be removed. We encourage healthy debate and discourse, so take the time to form your own opinion instead of using another’s voice (even when using it as a springboard to disagree.)
SPOILER YOUR TEXT
Please review the full Spoiler Policy HERE. When in doubt, hide your text and flag your posts.
To make a spoiler comment, put the part of your text that contains a potential spoiler within the following format:
>!You guys are the real heroes!<
Add the scope of the spoiler in the brackets. For example: You guys are the real heroes
To view the spoiler, simply click on the shaded box.
Links
Gen V Season 1 episode discussions
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Related Subreddits
r/OkBuddyFresca - a sub for The Boys memes
r/TheBoysFanFic - for all your fanfics, rewrites, and to see fans' creativity shine
r/TheBoysMemes - for all your The Boys memes outside the main sub
r/GenV - Dedicated to the spin-off show Gen V
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Imagine if in season 5, they will discover an antidote to compound v called "Anti V", which will basically completely depower supes and turn them into normal humans. and just like the normal V is blue and the Temporary V is green, the anti V is red
14:36 UTC
Which of these 3 is the best villain?
11:56 UTC
I know this concept has been done before but what if it’s possible to combine multiple supes to have one supe with all of their powers?
07:35 UTC
What was your favorite scene from all of season 3?
01:14 UTC
These two were arguably the first people A-Train saved. They would've gotten life in prison or death penalty
23:08 UTC
Do you think that season 2 will introduce a Forge-like character (someone who can build crazy super advanced tech like portal guns or cybernetics) or someone like Number man from the Parahuman web series? You do not know how dangerous someone can be with the power to calculate every way to kill you?
17:26 UTC
they literally showed us a-trains toe sucking fetish not too far into the show and never brought it up again 🙏😭😭😭😭
15:49 UTC
What was the best season so far?
15:29 UTC
What was your favorite subplot from season 3?
14:18 UTC
Butcher vs HL fight in S5, if they keep the same energy as S4
08:49 UTC
How many episodes should season 5 have?
01:59 UTC
Question: How powerful and dangerous would a grizzly bear injected with compound V (I don't mean the modern shit, I mean the good potent stuff they gave Stormfront and soldier boy in WW2) be if introduced in the verse? Would they be able to kill Homelander?
01:05 UTC
I was already a nervous flyer.
00:59 UTC
Which Homelander is stronger, the one in the comics or the one in the series?
00:54 UTC
He just wanted some milk
00:47 UTC
Could Homelander destroy an entire city or even the world?
23:32 UTC
What’s a the boys opinion ( be it the show , the comic , the spin offs like Gen V and diabolical ) you have that’ll get you in starlights position?
I actually have quite a few , I liked season 4 and either that or season 3 might be my favorite. As bad as they are , I like the comics , that being said the show is still better. I didn’t mind the Frenchie and Collin plot-line .
19:21 UTC
What's gonna happen??
19:05 UTC
Favorite newcomer of season 4?
I gotta go with Joe, has the least amount of screentime but had the best dialogues, well, monologues...
17:47 UTC
So Ryan is likely homeless now
I mean, he obviously won't be going to Mallory or Butcher any time soon but apparently he didn't go back to his his father as their telling him how much of a monster Homelander is combined with the not so subtle hints of it that the guy himself had been giving him for a whole year and how he had already realized what he was teaching him contradicted everything his mom had taught him apparently sunk in (thus making Ryan slightly less dense than the average American) so he won't be going back to him either. Knowing him, his mind went red and he decided to run away thoughtlessly into the streets after escaping the safe house filled with guilt (perhaps numbing it with the coping mechanims his old man taught him, though likely with limited success), fear and anger with no guardian figures to take him in so he likely ended up in the streets.
He is probably using his powers to steal food and defend himself from whatever poor sap tries to mug him or from police wanting to arrest him for the aforementioned stealing, so overall he'll survive but given his fear of people and his wanting to avoid his father finding him he likely will be avoiding people, perhaps sleeping in some abandoned building. If he wants company he might end up running into other homeless kids perhaps some of which would be supes but if he doesn't he might just run into the wilderness to remember the simple life he had with his mom outside major cities...at least until his heat vision causes a forest fire. Either way, he'd be now living the exact opposite of the sheltered life Homelander lived and is bound to see first hand the repression he is causing in the country.
For that matter, the Gen V kids are bound to run into a similar situation once they escape the facility they're currently trapped in (I'm betting on Andre dying on the process) so I think it would be interesting for the two stories to connect by Ryan running into them.
17:22 UTC
Physical for the win!
14:17 UTC
Vought announces their plan to solve the Egg crisis
14:04 UTC
what if there was a supe that can make two cIones of their bodies when they’re killed (and only when they’re killed, unlike splinter)
#and the cIones are about half of the age of the original supe/recently killed cIone and have the same knowledge but without any memories from their recently killed predecessor.
07:11 UTC
Dude kickstarted everything but he 100% has the best-written arc in the show and was the highlight of season 4
01:15 UTC