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I feel like with most super powers super durability/strength is something you either get as part of the package or you don't survive to adulthood. Like a non-durable speedster's heart ain't making it out of being a toddler.
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Oct 14, 2023 15:34
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:I feel like with most super powers super durability/strength is something you either get as part of the package or you don't survive to adulthood. Like a non-durable speedster's heart ain't making it out of being a toddler. That would make sense why most adults taking V end up dying
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Oct 14, 2023 16:02
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:I feel like with most super powers super durability/strength is something you either get as part of the package or you don't survive to adulthood. Like a non-durable speedster's heart ain't making it out of being a toddler. All XMen are either peak human or at least Olympic level in everything they do unless their mutation specifically gets in the way. Part of the mutation is that, so it looks like The Boys is mostly going with that logic. It was said a few times as well, with A Train being surprised that he was punched through his natural durability or them all having a level of enhanced hearing.
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Oct 14, 2023 18:05
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I bet there's an in-universe porno titled Running A Train.
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Oct 14, 2023 18:46
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That's crazy that so many people didn't see that Andre was only moving metal. I thought they were lampshading it pretty hard with him manipulating metal objects so much early in the season.
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Oct 14, 2023 18:58
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Marsupial Ape posted:Same. Ya but thats me and probably most people here too. I could totally be a heavy hitter if I wasn't so stoned and addled by mental health lol, most people could be heavy hitters if they weren't under the boot of capitalism
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Oct 14, 2023 20:04
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There are very successful people who aren't exceptionally smart or strong, but they're able to work and train for 100 hours a week without seeming to get hurt or burnt out. Of course they're outnumbered by all those successful people who inherited a lot of money, bought real estate, and then claimed to be part of the first category. There's a fanfiction, though I can't find it now, where Superman wrestles with guilt that any time he spends resting is time that people he could potentially save are dying. He spends all of his time either helping people, selling his services to the highest bidder (flying satellites into space or super-fast canal digging), or in therapy. Chamale fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Oct 14, 2023 |
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Oct 14, 2023 20:21
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Holy poo poo was that soldier boy in the next episode preview? Just our luck it's some gimmick like the shape-shifting twerp or a flashback. Kinda like that scene of Homelander eye lasering an entire crowd.
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Oct 15, 2023 05:18
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Just be thankful we've got a  shape shifter in this show instead of a "Homelander wearing lingerie" one.
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Oct 15, 2023 05:33
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As a Supernatural fan, I don't care if this show writes out every other character and makes this the Soldier Boy Show. Give me more Jenson Ackles!!!!!
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Oct 15, 2023 08:31
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I'm so grateful that they went all out on producing the full version of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9qbAuNnFU0 
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Oct 15, 2023 09:03
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Right, I'll check it out, thanks. Just a note that if you scroll down past the episodes and trailers on I’m a Virgo, there’s some bonus content. There are short interviews with Boots about each episode. They’re pretty short but interesting.
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Oct 15, 2023 09:09
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I think the new theory is that the Dean has some kind of mind control/persuasion powers herself. This theory is explicitly countermanded by what the show presented as an amazing, well connected detective.
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Oct 15, 2023 09:53
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The show, both Gen V and The Boys, have always been explicit in showing the supes are idiots. They the saying "if the only tool you have is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail" writ large. But regular people don't have 'hammers' so they have to use their brains. And that's why they're in charge.
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Oct 15, 2023 10:23
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There are plenty of smart superheroes... Starlight, Neuman, Maeve and Homelander. They're at least not dumb. That said, Vought's not interested in encouraging intelligent, questioning minds among its rank and file.
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Oct 15, 2023 10:34
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Could we call Neuman a superhero? She has powers but she doesn't really use them for superhero poo poo
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Oct 15, 2023 23:39
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mutantIke posted:Could we call Neuman a superhero? She has powers but she doesn't really use them for superhero poo poo She exploded dozens of politician's heads. What more do you want?
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Oct 15, 2023 23:47
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alexandriao posted:Ya but thats me and probably most people here too. I don't have Magneto powers, though. I mean, yeah, you're right. If I was operating at my full capacity I'd be making, I dunno, 3 or more 5k a year.
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Oct 15, 2023 23:53
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Whenever there's an establishing shot of Godolkin in this show it looks like one of those technical colleges you see on the side of highways, or a community college with a bit of a facelift. But whenever they show students walking around the campus, the architecture all looks like Princeton University. Looking it up, they picked a bunch of different universities around Toronto to film for the various locations, but it's hard not to realize the huge architectural difference between overhead and ground level shots.
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Oct 16, 2023 00:05
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I hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
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Oct 16, 2023 00:17
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Maybe one of the groundskeepers is a supe whose power is building facades
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Oct 16, 2023 00:47
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Maybe there's teleporters all over the place and they're actually at several different campuses
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Oct 16, 2023 02:03
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Someone a few pages ago remarked on how often people just get smashed into a bloodspray in these shows I invite you to watch any Youtube of an NFL kicker/punter booting a piece of fruit, that's how
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Oct 16, 2023 05:56
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Yeah, at a certain speed, supes aren’t so much hitting a meat bag as popping a blood balloon.
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Oct 16, 2023 10:43
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I was curious if anyone from The Boys was on Cameo: https://www.cameo.com/homebanger
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Oct 16, 2023 18:31
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Outrail posted:Maybe there's teleporters all over the place and they're actually at several different campuses I only commented on it cause this week was the most noticeable, you get this establishing shot,  and then the next shot they're at ground level in these surroundings  And yeah, it could be that the buildings that look like that are just off camera or something in the first shot, but the contrast was funny
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Oct 17, 2023 00:10
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Campuses typically sprawl out and have buildings built at different times, resulting in some campuses being pretty big with a mix of classic and modern architecture.
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Oct 17, 2023 00:20
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which is exactly what you see here, that's U of T - Mississauga and St. George campuses in those two shots
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Oct 17, 2023 01:45
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yeah my school has brutalist buildings across the street from ultramodern glass buildings its pretty wild, but thats how some colleges really are
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Oct 17, 2023 01:54
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I understand why they picked the two styles for different types of shots, because the overhead shot looks much more like what you'd expect to see from a school created for superheros, a thing that has only existed for like 60-70 years in The Boys universe, and probably wasn't widespread enough for a university infrastructure until recently. But the second architectural style is much nicer looking to have characters walk through and instantly gives that "university" vibe.
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Oct 17, 2023 02:34
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It’d be hilarious if Vought bought some historic land grant university and Disneyland-ed it. Has the state or town that the campus is in been established?
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Oct 17, 2023 02:41
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Huh? the first building is the crimefighting school and there have been many ground level scenes filmed in and around it
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Oct 17, 2023 02:44
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OctaMurk posted:yeah my school has brutalist buildings across the street from ultramodern glass buildings its pretty wild, but thats how some colleges really are Yep, my uni had plenty of disgusting 60s architecture right next to the new buildings. There are at least four different architectural styles on one campus.
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Oct 17, 2023 15:38
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Marsupial Ape posted:It’d be hilarious if Vought bought some historic land grant university and Disneyland-ed it. I'd have like to have seen it back when all the kids thought they were literally blessed by god. Also, needs a ridiculous fascinator. Like a Cathedral of Learning.
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Oct 17, 2023 15:53
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Truly I have been blessed by the lord. *strangles bystander with giant prehensile penis*
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Oct 17, 2023 16:00
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Imagine prosperity gospel, but with super powers. If that doesn't terrify the loving poo poo out of you, I don't know what would.
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Oct 17, 2023 17:53
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That giant prehensile penis would terrify the loving poo poo out of me tbqh
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Oct 17, 2023 18:02
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I'd have like to have seen it back when all the kids thought they were literally blessed by god. This is how modern Christianity interpreted the existence of superheroes in the Boys universe. They also used supes like Starlight and Ezekiel to prosletize. Starlight used to be a part of "capes for christ". Golden Boy as well possibly.
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Oct 18, 2023 12:55
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Yeah, and I'd really like to see how that looked. The creators of The Boys have been pretty good at showing the dangers of toxic masculinity, race supremacy and capitalism. But I suppose getting into toxic Christianity would just get their offices firebombed or shot up.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:
They kind of did that already in season 1 with that evangelist guy.
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Oct 18, 2023 19:06
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