yingyang590
East of eerie, North of normal, West of weird
Skimming the article for The Boys is Vought-America generic evil mega corp #38294?
With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Twelve)
- Thread starter Mr Zoat
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Oh I am slain!
Wynaut?
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- Tatooine
Personally, I'm quite partial to currant superheroes. Yum! ^_^
*looks at list of powers*
"Attractive Female"
They seem to be the worst combined aspects of Cauldron and Monsanto.
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- Orange County, California
Oh my lord. Oh dear. No, as mentioned above this is from The Boys by Garth Ennis and Darrick Robertson.
I mean, it could have been ... Worse(???). It could have been The Pro, though perhaps skirting SV's rules there. The Boys are getting pretty close, too. No chance of The Dicks, but possibly Kev ....
*looks at list of powers*
"Attractive Female"
In ComicVine's defense, they also consider Attractive Male to be a power.
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I've been lurking for a long time, and I made an account specifically to laugh at this post.
This is The Boys. It is written by Garth Ennis. That should tell you all you need to know about how silver age it is.
Stormbringer117
Soulless
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- Australia
It was kinda annoying to google every character, and having no clue to the setting. Maybe in future, the lesser known works can get a short introduction, to facilitate the flow of the story. without the constant googling to figure out what everyone is talking about.
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- California
If anyplace needed the personal attention of the proselyte more, I'm not sure what it is.
Oh I am slain!
Wynaut?
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- Tatooine
Ah, that makes a bit more sense then. I wasn't sure how tongue in cheek they were being.
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- Hampden Park
He claims that after being raised on a diet of Judge Dredd, he just finds them too ridiculous.
Not far wrong.
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And so he decided to write a comic where they're all sex-addicted assholes who don't think things through, are tools of a corrupt higher order, and kill people without consequence or care. Makes perfect sense.
You know, I think soap operas are ridiculous. But I don't treat soap operas like Ennis treats superheroes. I don't watch them. There. That was easy.
EDIT: Like I said, guys, read Invincible if you want a good superhero comic that deconstructs and reconstructs superheroes.
Jamie Roberts
Hávamál 127
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I too am interested in knowing what the rest of Paul's sentence was about to be.
yingyang590
East of eerie, North of normal, West of weird
Looking at tvtropes I'll say they're more Cauldron as run by 4chan, Monsanto at least is good at what they do.
Like the SCP foundation without a reason d'être.
Well this is a setting which will go interesting places longterm, I honestly don't know what Indigo Paul will do with this setting but it promises to be unique.
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Ganurath
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This is speculation, but considering the clues in the dialogue, I'm guessing that Herogasm was some sort of massive sex party for heroes, with prostitutes filling out the ranks. Trouble is, The Boys is the sort of setting that would play Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex straight enough that such a party would require medical facilities. Ideally that would be provided by the hosts, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was just sending the battered and broken whore to the nearest healer who wasn't busy locking hips with someone. In other words, Paul. I suspect that Paul is currently trying to gripe about how some of the party's guests were doing the sexual assault equivalent of spawn-camping at wherever the girls were getting healed.
Kind of a hallmark of Zoat's interpretation of lanterns. Negative effects are downplayed along with general power levels.
Massgamer
Advance toward the Future
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- The Future
Would be neat if any other versions of Paul were in those comics you mentioned.
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- Canada
Jesus I thought the last update was dark.
And his response to this doesn't include any red text and he's sure the ring has had no effect on his mind, huh?
I'd love to see a Paul in Invincible or Iredeemable. Invincible would be a world that would play wonderfully with Paul's worldview.
I suspect that like Blue!Pauls's world, Indigo's!Paul's world isn't quite as bad as the written version just because a real society wouldn't work like that.
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"what he was doing"
Well, he did think that, then immediately notice a woman being attracted to him, and flirted back instinctively.
I'm a little surprised no-one is shouting about the eldritch abomination in a paul suit.
Roadie
A plate full of blins and a cat nearby.
From what I understand, a big part of it is that super-crime, alien invasions, world-ending crises, and other such stuff for the most part just doesn't exist.
Like, sure, there's a bit of it, but most superhumans in the setting are basically superfluous, because it turns out that being able to breathe fire or run real fast doesn't actually make you much better at handling most problems than normal first responders or the military. Because of that, most superhumans in the setting end up mainly serving as props for patriotic propaganda, marketing, and mass entertainment.
Unlike Cauldron, they don't have any real end goal in mind, other than "we need to stay on top of superhuman research because what if somebody else produces a better Homelander?" and "so what do we do with all these extra rejects?".
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could be the lack of soul cushioning the effect, could be an existing inclination to help others, could be a different type of indigo ring or the brainwashing could just be really really subtle.
yes, because that is the only reason for someone to blush when a handsome and moderately famous and well off member of the opposite sex treats you like you matter. It seems his romantic outlook remains unchanged.
the more things change the more they stay the same. It will be interesting to see how being the only person who isn't stupid evil in a position of power works out for him.
not all that far off really.
I get the feeling this would be important if I knew anything about the boys.
I wonder how he's staying charged without a lantern.
He has his staff. That's the Indigo Tribe's version of a lantern.
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