![]() ![]() In The Boys, we expect the tone to be full irony there’s no good name to soil when America’s heroes are murderous psychopaths. Of course, in the MCU the moment plays out as a corruption of character, a soiling of the good name of Steve Rogers. Season 3 promised to take things even further, with the trailer already alluding to a recent Marvel moment-with Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles) playing the part of John Walker (Wyatt Russell), who in Marvel’s Falcon and the Winter Soldier bludgeons a baddie with Captain America’s shield. For the hero fatigued, The Boys is like a shot of super-soldier serum straight to our cynical veins and, good god, does it feel good. Or the Deep-Aquaman, but as a sexual predator. Think Homelander-Superman, but a Neo-Nazi-flirting war criminal. There’s a satisfying catharsis in The Boys’ perversion of classic comic superheroes.
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