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The cast of The Boys and showrunner Eric Kripke have filed into the Den of Geek SXSW interview studio to discuss their festival appearance and the triumphant release of season 3’s much-anticipated trailer. But as Kripke, Karl Urban (Billy Butcher), Karen Fukuhara (Kimiko Miyashiro), and Laz Alonso (Mother’s Milk) take their places on the hopefully comfortable stools we’ve provided, the conversation eventually goes to where most conversations about The Boys inevitably end up: the verisimilitude of superhero orgies.

“It all comes from this very logical place of ‘if there really was a superhero orgy, what would it look like? How would you depict it in the most honest way possible?’” Kripke says. “Because we’re all about integrity here. We’re just telling the truth, man.”

Depicting the outlandish in the most honest way possible has become a hallmark of Amazon’s massively successful superhero satire. Adapted from Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s 2006 comic series of the same name, The Boys imagines a world in which the public is obsessed with superheroes. Sounds familiar, no? Yet in the world of The Boys, superheroes or “supes” are very much real.

Inside The Boys' Season of Payback

Karl Urban, Jensen Ackles, and the cast of The Boys walk us through the bloody good times to come in season 3.

www.denofgeek.com

 

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The first three third-season episodes dropped today. I know what I'll be watching tonight.

 

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The first three third-season episodes dropped today. I know what I'll be watching tonight.

I already watched. Waiting for your post, but I'll say this. They could have posted them on a weekly basis and used the momentum of what is happening to really build up the story, instead of us having the whole shebang out of the bag from the get go.

There are way too many things to be singled out in one post. Way too many. But I have to say I like it. Not love it, but I like it. The one thing that I don't like, the involvement of the conflict country. But I guess they couldn't cut it out because it has been written into the story. So, I feel a bit like Starlight at the end of the episode 3.

 

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Even more of a gorefest than I remember!

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This is definitely not a show for children or anyone with a low tolerance for graphic violence. The scene with Termite was almost too nasty to watch.
To say something is "seriously wrong" with Homelander is quite an understatement. With no image to maintain, all controls are gone. He's fully embracing his deranged personality, which is even more potentially catastrophic in a supe than in a politician.
It looks like the season is going to boil down to the boys finding the mysterious weapon capable of killing Homelander before he can take over the world.
If there's an award out there for "best portrayal of a psychopath," I nominate Antony Starr.

 

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To say something is "seriously wrong" with Homelander is quite an understatement. With no image to maintain, all controls are gone. He's fully embracing his deranged personality, which is even more potentially catastrophic in a supe than in a politician.

It wasn't just Homelander going nuts, it was Butcher showing glowing eyes and slicing that gunner in half. He went berserk like Homelander in his daydreams, and I suspect that he could barely hold it all inside him.

Telling his son to piss off made me so angry. I get why, but it doesn't give him right to treat the boy like dirt.

The scene with Termite was almost too nasty to watch.

Which scene, shagging a doll, getting inside a penis and then exploding the owner to bits or the chase afterward inside Frenchies pants? I thought it was hilarious and definitely one of the best scenes in the whole series.

 

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Frenchie in the first ep was hilarious. The octopus scene in the third ep though... couldn't watch that.

 

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Frenchie in the first ep was hilarious. The octopus scene in the third ep though... couldn't watch that.

Poor Timmy! R.I.P.

 

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You can always count on The Boys to make a splash—or in some cases a squish, as it were. Amazon’s superhero show has become known for its novel takes on blood and gore, whether it’s exploring what it would mean to have a superfast hero run literally through someone, or the physics of driving a speedboat full blast through a beached sperm whale.

True to form, its third-season premiere, “Payback,” came through with one of the show’s most punchy scenes yet. (There are spoilers for the episode after this sentence. You’ve been warned.) In it, a previously unknown B-level superhero named Termite (Brett Geddes) gets amorous with a partner at a party. As things begin to heat up, Termite shrinks down, Ant-Man-style, in order to climb inside his partner’s urethra to give him extra-intense pleasure. (Apparently, Termite’s prostate massages are really next level.) Unfortunately, things don’t go exactly to plan. Termite sneezes and reverts to his original size, tearing his partner in half from the inside and leaving the mini-hero shellshocked just as he’s about to go up against The Boys’ Frenchie (Tomer Capone), Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara), and Butcher (Karl Urban).

It’s a gasp- and gag-worthy scene that got viewers talking, and one that we wanted to know more about. WIRED talked to showrunner Eric Kripke about penile physics, “Thanus,” and why he says he works in a “dream factory.”

'The Boys' Made a Tribute to Ant-Man. It Was Explosive

Let's just say Amazon can send superheroes where Marvel can't. We talked to the showrunner about how that scene from the third season opener came to be.

www.wired.co.uk

How did you, um, create that scene?

My favorite fact about shooting it is that, even though it was sweetened with VFX, it actually is a practical giant penis. We built that sucker. It’s 11 feet high and 20 feet long, and that’s really the urethra tunnel. We built all of it at great expense, and the fact that we did is yet another reason I love my job.

 

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“Hughie, it’s not power. It’s punishment. And you don’t deserve none of it,” Butcher says.

Butcher’s words are powerful but they ultimately fall flat with the power-hungry Hughie – and not only because they resemble Tim Meadows’ “you don’t want no part of this sh*t” speech from Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.

The Boys Season 3 Introduces Some Surprising New Powers

The beneficiaries of V24 discuss what it’s like to join the ranks of the super-powered.

www.denofgeek.com

This, I felt actually a bit scared on the fourth episode. Butcher was definitely power tripping and the same thing applied to Homelander. But I definitely loved the space hamster. "Go for eye Bo, Go for the eyes!"

It's just I've started to think along the lines that the Homelander has become a major d1ck and Butcher isn't far behind, as nobody seems to be able to stop either one of them. It is a scary prospect and very unlike the Superman, where the god was first and then the other dieties appeared.

Also, on what happened at the end, I think it was a null power.

 

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Spoiler: 3.4 Glorious Five Year Plan

There's nothing like retirement plans to hasten death. That is assuming that Kimiko remains dead and is not just a little slow to recover from the Soldier Boy energy blast.
So, does the fact that SB was only "on ice" and not killed by some super Russian weapon put plans to take out Homelander back to square one? Apparently, temporary V gives the user powers insufficient to kill Homelander.
Without a weapon and with Homelander countering Starlight's plans to get other supes to gang up on him, what will the Boys do next?

 

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Apparently, temporary V gives the user powers insufficient to kill Homelander.

I'm not so sure about it, and the show hasn't dealt with the overdose of V24. I assume it is coming, and it's going to be a quite nasty carnage, whatever happens. Furthermore, I also thought that maybe Kimoko could be helped with a dose, since in theory it could give her powers back. But whoever is going to inject it is going to get slapped.

 

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Spoiler: 3.5 The Last Time to Look on This World of Lies

That's one solution -- use the apparently unkillable Soldier Boy to kill the unkillable Homelander.
That should answer the question: What happens after you replace one superpowered psychopath with another superpowered psychopath? The best possible outcome would be mutual destruction.

 

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What happens after you replace one psychopath with another psychopath? The best possible outcome would be mutual destruction.

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That's what I'm betting on. Soldier Boy nullifies Homelander and then somehow he takes the dictatorship, because there's nobody that can kill him. Unless his power is used against him.

 

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I'm just glad

Kimiko's not dead

 

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You can say a lot of things about Amazon’s The Boys, but you can’t exactly call it subtle. The show, based on Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s acclaimed comics from Dynamite Entertainment, focuses on a group of corporate owned superheroes called The Seven, and a semi-covert group of average people named The Boys who’ve taken it upon themselves to kill the heroes. Across the show’s three seasons, it’s always been pretty upfront with the kind of satire it’s going for and who it tears down.

In the case of the show’s vengeful Superman-alike, Homelander (Anthony Starr), the show has said so many times in so many words that he was conceived as an analogue of former president Donald Trump. Season two even ended on him literally getting off to the idea of how much power he has over everyone else; and if that didn’t say it all, a cosplayer showing up as the character during a MAGA rally in 2020 would do the job. And should you have missed the text of the show, you’re in luck: showrunner Eric Kripke, Robertson, and even Starr himself have tried their damnedest to tell folks who Homelander really is.

The Boys' Eric Kripke Reminds Us Homelander's Just Donald Trump

I don't even watch this show, and I clocked that almost right away.

gizmodo.com

The comments are the best

 

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Yes, l despite all the gore, the show has redeeming social value. However, discussion of the satirical element here would be insanely political.

 

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System hiccup.

 

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Spoiler: S03E06 - Herogasm

Oh, Hughie. Man, he really did c*ck up things with the StarLight. But I do get him, he wants to me a man that Butcher represent, and not the skinny white guy, with no muscles and raw charisma. It is as if he wants to be a caveman and instead of a man from the future. The wimpy guy, who uses a brain and not a brawn. The nerd.

I know this is Herogasm, but it could as well be titled as Nerdgasm. There were so much detail stuffed and getting stuffed in the screen that it's going to need an eastern egg hunt to get it all cleared. But still, Hughie, man you c*cked up big time.

I like that he's the human in the superhuman relationship, but he could not help himself, when the frogs came out. And they were toads. The ugly ones that give you a stomach cramps, if you'll go to lick them. If not, something worse. But I also get why he's feeling in that way.

Even Frenchie is slicker than him, and he has scars to prove it. And I know if he's been able to free himself when the z-land b*tch did threaten his girls, he would have effed the whole crew and not be bothered if he'd got hurt in the process. It was amazing to see Kimiko to free herself and do the deed on Frenchie's behalf. But the way she went about it, told me that her powers are returning and therefore, Soldier Boys nullifying powers has a time-limit.

If he'll get to blast the Homelander, if the next fight, someone is going to need to double tap that S-o-b just to make sure that he's not coming back. But it was fun to finally see that having a super fight and going at it as if they meant it. Why is it that Homelander didn't go berserk? Is it because of his mental condition, that human-side holding him back from going nuclear?

 

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Good news: Homelander can be controlled by three or more supes holding him down, as long as they avoid his laser vision.

Bad news: Neither temporary supes Butcher nor Hugie was killed in ground-zero proximity to a Soldier Boy blast, so how effective would a blast be against Homelander?

 

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Neither temporary supes Butcher nor Hugie was killed in ground-zero proximity to a Soldier Boy blast, so how effective would a blast be against Homelander?

Neither of them got blasted. Hugie was with Starlight and MM was with Butcher and neither one of them were in the blast zone. A lot of normal humans and supes were there. But if it had gone off, before Homelander escaped, then they would most certain been in the zone. Why Butcher did laser Homelander's head when he was holding him down?

When they were doing the beaming thing, how they were so precise, because to my eyes, if they'd have gone slightly to the side, they'd beamed each other, right?