I have a free Amazon prime account and I sift through mounds of shit to watch old westerns and whatnot. I just opened the home page and I see they're advertising a new episode of 'The Boys' coming this Thursday.
What do they show to entice viewers to watch it? Two women. A redhead and a dyke looking black chick with braids.
Fucking lol not even a show that's explicity called 'The Boys' is immune. I know this isn't surprising in the slightest and just because a show is called the boys doesn't mean it's only dudes. But still I got a good chuckle when I saw it.
I watched season one and thought it was okay considering how low my expectations were. Then I heard about season two and never even gave it a chance.
I didn't watch the show; did they do the bit where Homelander buggers Soldier Boy every year at Herogasm because Soldier Boy thinks it'll get him into the Seven if he does a good enough job, but it never does?
In the show Soldier Boy is Homelander's father and spent the last Captain America in ice years locked up in some random country prison. The show very quickly diverted from the comic material so most things from the comics don't happen.
A lot of the show differs from the comic.
Supers are far less widespread, and season 1 starts with Compound V not even being a known thing until part way through.
The comic not only has more supers in general, but also far more widespread knowledge and use of V to make them as happens to the entire lineup of The Boys prior to the story starting, and eventually Stewie.
In the show 'The Female' is the only one of the team who has powers.
Herogasm doesn't exist.
All the other parody teams don't exist.
Stormfront isn't literal Nazi Superman still living in the modern day, but he is a female Nazi with superpowers from WW2 so part of that concept was retained if then horribly adapted.
There was no botched 9/11 op, but there is a scene where Homelander and Maeve, who can't fly in the show, try and stop a plane high-jacking but not only make it worse and cause the plane to crash, but get caught on camera fucking the whole thing up.
No, they changed SB a bit from what I heard they did in the comics.
That said in the series Solider Boy really isn't a bad guy. He's basically just your every-guy from 1980 plus he does a shit ton of drugs which don't do shit for him anyway because he's basically immune to everything.
They tried to make.him into some "oh my gerd he's worse than the guy who literally kills hundreds of innocent people because he says things that are possibly racially insensitive"