If you’ve seen the The Boys series finale, then you know what I’m talking about — but how can Vought International possibly save the entire concept of “superheroes” after everything that’s happened?
Sure, a lot of people probably still feel like “not everyone in that group is the same.” Characters from Gen V are genuinely good people, and Starlight is obviously one of the few real heroes. But still, like Billy Butcher said, the next Homelander is always right around the corner.
Even if Stan Edgar and Vought were suddenly like, “Okay, we can’t make the same mistakes again,” and both Vought and the government genuinely tried to make superheroes more controlled and decent, how do you even fix public trust at that point?
And honestly, it doesn’t even have to come from a good place. If Homelander wanted to, he could literally destroy the world. Corporate executives and government officials are still human beings living on Earth — they wouldn’t want to die either. So logically, it makes sense they’d try to create a system where superheroes are at least somewhat stable and manageable.
But my question is: in-universe, how the hell do you actually save it after all this? Most people probably wouldn’t trust superheroes ever again.
“We can turn you into a super hero, in exchange you’ll have this explosive device implanted in your brain which is on a dead man’s switch”
Has nobody here noticed the similarity to current us politics? The homelabder Messiah vs Trump Jesus? The extreme lying media? The themes that vought uses to lie to the people? The government controlling most of the violence… Its a persiflage on current political events.
The fact you are asking how they would get out of that shows directly how fucked America really is. There is no way out of that. Its done. Better hope butcher and friends win.
Shortly before it released, the writers came out and said “a lot of this was written prior to 2025, keep that in mind, but most of this is going to seem way too on the nose given current events”
Thanks, didn’t know that. Might be a copout though, they don’t want ice knocking down their doors and shutting them down.
I mean, I don’t think so but could be. Filming started awhile ago at this point and final episode aired yesterday. They were already doing the internment camp stuff in the prior season as well. There’s a ton in there that hit way too close to the point that there’s no way someone would think to write it if they thought it could happen or would.
That show has always been a hyperbole of what current events can lead to, but as far as I remember they’ve never done any writing that was intended to be 1:1 and a ton was inadvertently that way, at least that’s their claim.
Yeah the final episode had elon killed in space. The dark maga hat was not that long ago. So yeah, im going with copout.
Feb 2025, and that’s the last episode. The writing in the show was never friendly to the right. Definitely not impossible, but a stretch in my mind. That’s also an extremely small plot point, something that could be added in without any thought or changing story, other writing decisions would have to be further out, but I’ve been wrong about less
The same way oil companies fix public trust after an oil spill. Or Amazon after countless reports of worker abuse. Or Google after privacy violations. Or wealthy people after being on a certain island. Or fine, Jared the Subway guy.
Vought is so large and embedded in every sector it does not matter to them.
when you have a monopoly on ultraviolence, why even care what the public thinks?