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Guess the director (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 29 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Yes and no. Vought made a terrorist supervillain for the reasons you described, yes, but they couldn't control what kinds of powers he'd get. The ones who decided he'd blow himself up were the show writers.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Vought has a history of playing into racist stereotypes in the narrative, so they probably overlooked more powerful/capable candidates in whatever experiments they were doing once they got this guy.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    This feels like a thermian argument. In-universe explanations don't justify racist stereotypes as written by the author. Plus, this is The Boys we're talking about... Kripke had Hughie raped last season because he thought it was funny. Don't give them any credit

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