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Starlight said someone else's name before she got the phone call at the beginning, how many other people were involved in the "we need to replace Lamplighter" super search?
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Sep 9, 2019 04:12
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bring back old gbs posted:Also there probably are conspiracy theorists who think superheros are clones created in a lab or on super drugs, why not? they'd get labelled as crazy fringe personalities. just ranting on youtube. Vought most like has a few personalities on the payroll too
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Sep 9, 2019 05:05
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Yeah in the year of "of course epstein offed himself sometimes u get sad in jail  " I'm pretty willing to suspend disbelief on a grand conspiracy to make supernerds.
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Sep 9, 2019 05:34
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But these conspiracies don't involve highly powerful and influential people, they're parents of a wide range of social and economic backgrounds. And the conspiracy The Boys uncover isn't met with "oh huh I guess those fringe theories were right" it's met with "holy poo poo this is the biggest secret in the history of forever." "nothing matters lol" cynicism is a lovely way to excuse bad writing of fiction, where consequences are supposed to exist so that the dramatic action has, well, meaning. Also what about the parents who were offered the deal to inject their child with superdrug and were like "lol no"? Were they made an offer they couldn't refuse? SpiderHyphenMan fucked around with this message at 13:00 on Sep 9, 2019 |
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Sep 9, 2019 12:54
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I don’t follow how it’s “bad writing” to suggest powerful and influential people can get away with something like this but “normal parents” would cause this to be a huge issue. Vought clearly runs the entertainment industry, meaning their media influence is effectively total. Nothing is going to break the story if they don’t want it to. Also it’s not cynicism when it’s literally happening, I’m not some flouride-chem trails lizard person, I’m an American Citizen living in a time when our sitting President was implicated by a victim of sex trafficking in the biggest pedofile scandal of our lifetime and literally nothing happened (until the pedofile mysteriously committed suicide during a camera malfunction) Frankly, I’m being serious when I say this story breaking out and becoming a big deal would be the least believable outcome.
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Sep 9, 2019 13:00
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Bust Rodd posted:I don’t follow how it’s “bad writing” to suggest powerful and influential people can get away with something like this but “normal parents” would cause this to be a huge issue. They paid them money, they'd sue them into the stone age and /or probably have them killed.
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Sep 9, 2019 13:54
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I guess the deputy director of the loving CIA was just a naive normie when she thought something would matter, and that the supervillain didn't need to show up at all because Vought will never experience consequences ever.
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Sep 9, 2019 14:25
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Really, if you ever thought it was possible for the protagonists of this TV show to foil the schemes of a megacorporation, you're a liberal cuck who is voting for Biden or maybe Harris in the primary.
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Sep 9, 2019 14:28
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:Really, if you ever thought it was possible for the protagonists of this TV show to foil the schemes of a megacorporation, you're a liberal cuck who is voting for Biden or maybe Harris in the primary. Nothing matters lol (also a theme in a lot Ennis' work, christ that Nick Fury miniseries about Cold War was dark)
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Sep 9, 2019 14:35
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:Really, if you ever thought it was possible for the protagonists of this TV show to foil the schemes of a megacorporation, you're a liberal cuck who is voting for Biden or maybe Harris in the primary. Sure, but a supe's family isn't the protagonist of this TV show, nor is the CIA.
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Sep 9, 2019 16:00
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:But these conspiracies don't involve highly powerful and influential people, they're parents of a wide range of social and economic backgrounds. And the conspiracy The Boys uncover isn't met with "oh huh I guess those fringe theories were right" it's met with "holy poo poo this is the biggest secret in the history of forever." Seriously? Parents are easier to disappear than powerful and influential people! It's backwards. I could see them being willing to kill some parents but not willing to kill a senator, but if Homelander is willing to laser-eye some senator's plane when he's in the middle of US airspace these people have ZERO limits. And clearly they can get away with them. As to the Boys, seriously? That's just being human. Its cognitive bias. They would have ignored any conspiracy theories as bunk when they heard them because they weren't authoritative sources. Then when something happens, its only human to go "oh poo poo" and not instantly jump back to that time 4 years ago you saw a crazy on TV claiming this same thing. People not being perfect memory recall robots is bad writing?? You think every human has Eidetic memory? loving lmao. I'm sorry but study some psychology SpiderHyphenMan that's not how human beings work. And they even likely would alter how they looked at things in retrospect to deal with cognitive bias. "No, those crazy people weren't on to the conspiracy, they just got lucky. It wasn't that we didn't listen to them. Those people were crazy. But this, this is real." Its ALL too easy for human beings to roll with stuff like that. Sheesh. SpiderHyphenMan posted:Also what about the parents who were offered the deal to inject their child with superdrug and were like "lol no"? Were they made an offer they couldn't refuse? Zaphod42 posted:Vought probably does their homework on the parents, finds ones who are totally lifetime believers  we're going in circles.
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Sep 10, 2019 00:29
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:Really, if you ever thought it was possible for the protagonists of this TV show to foil the schemes of a megacorporation, you're a liberal cuck who is voting for Biden or maybe Harris in the primary. This is a colossally bad and toxic post. Shame on you.
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Sep 10, 2019 00:29
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:Really, if you ever thought it was possible for the protagonists of this TV show to foil the schemes of a megacorporation, you're a liberal cuck who is voting for Biden or maybe Harris in the primary. Yes because megacorps are invulnerable that's why we still have Rockefeller Steel running everything
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Sep 10, 2019 06:27
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Doltos posted:Yes because megacorps are invulnerable that's why we still have Rockefeller Steel running everything I can only assume you mean Carnegie Steel since Rockefeller was the oil baron. It's still the second largest steel producer in the US and it only really declined due to the overall steel decline in America, not due to some scandal or something
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Sep 10, 2019 06:47
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Doltos posted:Yes because megacorps are invulnerable that's why we still have Rockefeller Steel running everything lmao, just lmao Corporations are immortal nowadays. The name may change, but the assets and infrastructure just change hands. Meanwhile, the debts and the liabilities and employee pensions get shaken off like a layer of dead skin.
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Sep 10, 2019 06:52
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Fly Molo posted:lmao, just lmao Hell at the end of the comic, after the "superhero uprising" Vought-American Consolidated renames itself and promptly goes into reinventing the remaining supes they have into a new team
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Sep 10, 2019 07:07
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MarcusSA posted:Also that and like how many babies die from this poo poo? Like sure the parents sign an NDA or whatever but it only takes one leak to blow it open. Maybe they only approach the parents of babies who get superpowers instead of dying
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Sep 10, 2019 07:59
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pile of brown posted:Maybe they only approach the parents of babies who get superpowers instead of dying Wait wasn’t she premature? Maybe they only hit up parents who kids don’t have a good chance?
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Sep 10, 2019 08:00
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I’ll also suggest the possibility that soon-to-be parents are hormonal ape-faced morons who are probably half crazed by the time Vought approaches them and they just kind of agree to whatever bullshit the doctor says. It’s the same reason that more than half the US is circumcised, doctors just come in and be like “yeah were gonna cut the baby’s wiener into pieces just to make it look weird” and the mom and dad are like “cool cool cool”
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Sep 10, 2019 14:08
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Bust Rodd posted:I’ll also suggest the possibility that soon-to-be parents are hormonal ape-faced morons who are probably half crazed by the time Vought approaches them and they just kind of agree to whatever bullshit the doctor says. It’s the same reason that more than half the US is circumcised, doctors just come in and be like “yeah were gonna cut the baby’s wiener into pieces just to make it look weird” and the mom and dad are like “cool cool cool” Maybe the kids are secondary, they aren't just dosing random babies to see what they get. The parents are selected based on vanity / greed qualifiers, anybody who doesn't meet the right psychological profile doesn't get the offer. But if you're sociopathic/pageant parent types, Vought straight up lies and say "We have detected your child has the potential for superpowers!!! This is a huge opportunity and if we intervene now with this classified procedure, they could become the next Homelander. What do you think??" And of course they accept, Vought knew they would the entire time. Over the years some parents have a change of heart about the entire thing and get disappeared like Starlight's dad, but most don't. So now the parents are in on the grift but also believe their child was special in the first place because not every child has the super hero gene, even if we did enhance it.
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Sep 10, 2019 14:28
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It also raises the question of parental DNA being some kind of signifier. Was Starlight a good candidate for Compound V because of her mother and father or all babies equally susceptible to the DA JOOCE? Starlight’s dad being absent is never mentioned right?
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Sep 10, 2019 14:34
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bring back old gbs posted:Maybe the kids are secondary, they aren't just dosing random babies to see what they get. The parents are selected based on vanity / greed qualifiers, anybody who doesn't meet the right psychological profile doesn't get the offer.
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Sep 10, 2019 14:48
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Bust Rodd posted:It also raises the question of parental DNA being some kind of signifier. Was Starlight a good candidate for Compound V because of her mother and father or all babies equally susceptible to the DA JOOCE? They literally argued about her dad leaving because of Compound V in the last episode, he got the guilts and left. Annie says maybe he didn't want to lie to her.
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Sep 10, 2019 14:56
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Bust Rodd posted:I’ll also suggest the possibility that soon-to-be parents are hormonal ape-faced morons who are probably half crazed by the time Vought approaches them and they just kind of agree to whatever bullshit the doctor says. It’s the same reason that more than half the US is circumcised, doctors just come in and be like “yeah were gonna cut the baby’s wiener into pieces just to make it look weird” and the mom and dad are like “cool cool cool” Comic book superheroes actually had a crossover about it. 
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Sep 10, 2019 16:19
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Man, Silent Hill got weird.
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Sep 10, 2019 16:45
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I'd expect Foreskin Man's costume to be a lot looser than that.
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Sep 10, 2019 18:42
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Julio Cruz posted:I'd expect Foreskin Man's costume to be a lot looser than that. Phimosis is a serious issue
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Sep 10, 2019 18:46
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Owlbear Camus posted:Comic book superheroes actually had a crossover about it. This looks like its from the 90s Penthouse comics.
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Sep 10, 2019 19:16
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Julio Cruz posted:I'd expect Foreskin Man's costume to be a lot looser than that. Lack of a hood also an interesting choice.
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Sep 10, 2019 23:23
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May have been posted already, but still https://twitter.com/ashleyfeinberg/status/1157846994980937728?s=19
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Sep 11, 2019 01:40
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Rocksicles posted:They literally argued about her dad leaving because of Compound V in the last episode, he got the guilts and left. Annie says maybe he didn't want to lie to her. My guess is that this is a cover story for Dad being a good stand up guy who wanted to go public and wound up getting turbo-murdered by supes. This is wholly baseless, but it does fit in with starlight bring the show's vehicle for total disillusionment.
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Sep 11, 2019 02:27
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Man, Silent Hill got weird. I got this joke.
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Sep 11, 2019 04:18
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El Padrino posted:Hell at the end of the comic, after the "superhero uprising" Vought-American Consolidated renames itself and promptly goes into reinventing the remaining supes they have into a new team "And that one is clearly The Deep." was probably my favorite line of the entire series and it was like on the last couple of pages. It looks like they are going in a completely different direction with Homelander and Butcher which I don't mind, but I guess that means we are not getting the "You gently caress! You hosed My Entire loving Life!" scene, which is sad since it was so great.
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Sep 15, 2019 03:33
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This is the kind of excitement I had for Runaways on Hulu. It goes off in a direction that is inspired by the comic run but keeps you guessing.
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Sep 15, 2019 05:22
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BTS look at Black Noir and his powers: https://i.imgur.com/FKfbLrz.mp4
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Oct 21, 2019 19:08
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Oct 21, 2019 19:32
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:BTS look at Black Noir and his powers: https://i.imgur.com/FKfbLrz.mp4 HE IS doing great.
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Oct 21, 2019 19:55
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Urban really makes that whole thing.
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Oct 21, 2019 19:55
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Rhyno posted:Urban really makes that whole thing. still in character even between takes, a true professional
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Oct 21, 2019 19:57
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Yeah, but let's see how well Dot does in 6 inch heels
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