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MonsterMashGraveyard Apr 3, 2026 +106

Rewatching Season 1, the best parts of the Show were learning about the World of The Boys and the backstory of the Characters and their motivations. Not sure why they push the "Gruesome" angle so much for marketing. Either way, I've loved this series for 7 years, really hope Season 5 Sticks the landing.

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maxplaysmusic Apr 3, 2026 +23

I always took the "Gruesome" marketing to be the "THING" that marketing was looking for to differentiate it from everything else on the market at the time. A bit of "Here's why we're different from those other Superhero shows with evil corporations"

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sk4v3n Apr 3, 2026 +9

Is there anyone who watches the show because of the gore? I know people who stopped watching it because of it… I don’t mind it but most of the time it is totally pointless and adds nothing to the story.

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maxplaysmusic Apr 3, 2026 +7

I personally don't mind it as for the most part, and bear with me on this one, it makes "sense" in how it's used for the most part. But I can totally get how a person would be turned off by it.

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Mallonia Apr 4, 2026 +1

I didn't have a problem with the gore and actually liked how dark and daring the show was until the octopus scene. I fast forwarded through it and finished the season but didn't come back for the next one. Guess I found my personal limit.

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YugoB Apr 3, 2026 +3

It's all about superheroes gone wrong, what do you mean that it doesn't add anything?

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BromaEmpire Apr 3, 2026 +3

I think it adds a lot to the comedic elements if you don't mind it. I mean a shrinking man exploding inside another guy's p**** because he sneezed is completely fucked up but also hilarious

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flcinusa Apr 3, 2026 +3

Honestly, my wife does, she's all for people getting blow up in extraordinary extravagant ways, the mini guy in the d*** was the high water mark

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Steven_The_Sloth Apr 3, 2026 +3

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Dapper_Recognition50 Apr 3, 2026 +5

I disagree. It add to the realism that these people are walking weapons of mass destruction. It’s totally part of the story.

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NooNygooTh Apr 3, 2026 +1

Did you read the comics? Or any of Garth Ennis' other work? The gore is as important to the identity of his comics and art style as the story itself.

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St0n3yM33rkat Apr 4, 2026 +2

And they don't even begin to really touch 1/100th of the gore and sexuality that the comics showed 🤣

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hindusoul Apr 3, 2026 +1

New streaming needed to differentiate somehow and they needed their own ‘HBO’ show

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Nickerdoodle Apr 3, 2026 +7

Because at the time The Boys was first releasing, Marvel’s “clean,” “family-friendly” image was the dominating image of comic book properties, so to differentiate and gain some traction they pushed the adult, violent, gruesome angle and just stuck with it.

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hindusoul Apr 3, 2026 +2

It was Amazons HBO show

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Extension_Mix6896 Apr 4, 2026 +2

What does that mean and what other examples are there of it?

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hindusoul Apr 4, 2026 +1

HBO always had the premium shows with TV-MA, stuff you couldn’t put on regular tv, and Amazon needed their own TV-MA product

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indistrustofmerits Apr 3, 2026 +2

The main thing I knew about the show before I started watching it was "exploding p****" so I think they leaned into the stuff that got people talking even if it was to register absolute horror I'm super pumped for season 5, I'm just kinda in for the ride wherever it goes at this point

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WEEGEMAN Apr 3, 2026 +2

Yeah. I’m pretty much over the shock gore / sex stuff It adds nothing

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Galahad_the_Ranger Apr 4, 2026 +1

Well they couldn’t push the parody angle after real life got more absurd than the show

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suff0cat Apr 5, 2026 +1

I’ve got this hunch that the extreme gore is kind of the point. Almost like they are trying to push the uncanny valley line to creep ever so much closer to appearing to be a “real” snuff film for the generation that grew up in the age of bloodless PG-13 horror. Just look at stuff like “Faces Of Death” being turned from a gore compilation to a feature film about the people who have to sort through the real “Faces of Death”. Almost like someone intends to use it as part of some propaganda program. Perhaps THAT’s the real reason Elon had such a f****** boner for “X”. Not any of the autistic shit he said about math and numbers or whatever. It’s so HE can be the one who controls all the “X” rated content. Essentially making X the White House endorsed version of LiveLeak…where the “Real” News gets reported on. Or whatever edgelord ass slogan they would use. They seem to have forgotten that some of us still remember Rotten and Ogrish.

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MagicHarmony Apr 6, 2026 +1

It's because they wanted to be edgelords, can't do this on televesion mentality. Then it just got worse because sadly they wanted to just push a message rather than just telling astory, it's find to want to push a "message" if you can keep it entertaining but when they are trying to force 1:1 comparisons it just ruins the flow of the story because it's dusrupted by the director/writers wanting to be on their soapbox pushing their ideals on others rather than just being entertainers.

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amo1337 Apr 3, 2026 +1

It's a comic book

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boatloadoffunk Apr 3, 2026 +20

I thought Peacemaker filled the void pretty well while waiting for this last season.

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BingJ2700 Apr 4, 2026 +5

I need Jack Quaid to be Plasticman

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cactusdotpizza Apr 4, 2026 +3

It was getting in the way of his Red Letter Media work tbh

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Huge_Struggle9672 Apr 3, 2026 +18

Good actor . Pity his father is a maga d***

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mmkaywhatevers Apr 3, 2026 +2

I read somewhere that they are gonna conclude the boys and the gen v with this season, but another spinoff about the solider boy is in the works?

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Obvious-Train9746 Apr 4, 2026

Jensen Ackles is a parasite

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Few-Gap-2350 Apr 6, 2026 +1

Now he has more time to hang out with those hack frauds.

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Top_Report_4895 Apr 3, 2026

Would've been if he became Akira meet Dr. Manhattan in the finale

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naughtyshark79 Apr 4, 2026 -1

Anyone still watching?

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Blacknite45 Apr 3, 2026 -11

Yet another garth ennis property down the drain It's really depressing how they decided to do away with all of the good character moments from the comic series that probably would've gotten the series an award (specifically the butcher baker and the candlestick maker mini series) in favor of glorified cut away gags, celeb cameos and the showrunners fixation on American political figures. Half the characters don't have a reason to even be their anymore. Respect to both Karl Urban and Anthony Starr, they clearly try to emulate how their characters were written in the comic and made the effort to bring them to the screen Edit: prove me wrong . Tell me where there's significant character development that isn't dropped 3 eps later

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UtopianEnforcement Apr 4, 2026 +3

Garth Ennis’ works can’t go down the drain, considering they already start off living in a sewage treatment plant. Edgy piles of edgelord teenage wankery that they are.

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Blacknite45 Apr 4, 2026 +1

Where did the show do any of the characters better. If its truly wank as you say then you should have some good examples of how the show made the characters better

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UtopianEnforcement Apr 4, 2026 +1

That wasn’t what I was saying, take a read of my comment again.

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dman45103 Apr 3, 2026 -35

One of the worst characters in any shows I’ve watched 4 seasons of

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UntouchableAshley Apr 3, 2026 +9

He’s genuinely my favourite by far, I can’t understand why some folks don’t like him

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Lopsided_architect Apr 3, 2026 +6

If only a bunch of terrible things happened to his character eh?

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Grace_Lannister Apr 3, 2026

I need to catch up

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