"The Boys" Leaves Behind Its Homophobic Past To Find Greatness
***This post contains major spoilers for both The Boys comic and television adaptation.***In the opening episodes of the third and latest season of The Boys, a man shrinks down to the size of a pin, and enters another man's penis in a sexual act.
Shortly after, the shrunken man, who had just done some drugs, sneezes and accidentally goes back to normal size while still inside his sex partner, killing him in a gruesome fashion.This may seem insane, and it is, but for this Amazon Prime hit, it's par for the course.
For the uninitiated, this may scream "bury your gays," however, this random duo came and went as fast as their fun, and isn't necessarily a good depiction of the show's overall treatment toward its queer characters.
The Boys at its core is a satire about superheroes, yet this show often comes frighteningly close to reality, and includes LGBTQ+ representation that often hits home.In the original 2006 comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, LGBTQ+ people and queerness were often only included as slurs or terrible events and murders.
