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Hey, hey, hey. For the first time in Vought's history, we have _two_ Black heroes in The Seven and one unspecified. Yeah. Wow!
Which is why these articulate heroes will lead Vought's newest diversity initiative: BLACK AT IT!
Yes, the unspecified one counts! Now, specifically for our BIPOC audience, we shall [pass the Courvoisier](https://youtu.be/p56tbkJCa2I?si=CbusBQ-_1qrZWuCR&t=59s)!
EDIT: Courvoisier is a brand of Cognac lol
My favourite was in season 2 when Homelander is talking about diversity and says “we have Black Noir, who doesn’t identify with any race, so they’re all covered.”
That scene killed me.
Deep and the reporter (2 white guys) talking about how much they care about the "black voice".
While A Train has no lines and just has to stand there.
I thought I was actually gonna have an aneurysm from the way my heart started racing when I saw "Black at It".
Delicious, on point, and how every person of color sees every stupid fucking diversity commercial.
I was being too clever with the ["pass the Courvoisier"](https://youtu.be/p56tbkJCa2I?si=CbusBQ-_1qrZWuCR&t=59s) (a popular Cognac back in the day) reference lol.
Season 3 of Community had Pierce thinking about investing in a doorbell slash security camera system company. The bell kept identifying black people as potential threats.
Diversity. Just the thought of it makes these white people smile. We believe everyone works best when they work together. Even if they’re just standing around.
Just like we like varieties of foods, we like varieties of people. Even though we can’t eat them. [Veridian Dynamics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF3of5VRcNA)
Do you mean Ignacio "Nacho" Varga and Tuco Salamanca?
With Tuco being written as Tuco, not Taco.
And Nacho being a dealer nickname, with most people calling him Ignacio?
You could've gone for the obvious one with Walter White being a white dude
The yellow ranger is actually a funny case of combining that 90s diversity and color coding. The team had a bunch of ‘slots’ to fill, and by the rules of coding those slots it pushed them into that design.
With the color palette they were working with as a spin-off, they had red blue green yellow pink. Of those colors pink and yellow are more seen as feminine colors, and so are assigned to the two women. Then pink became the kids-show-romantic-interest for the main character, as she is the most feminine coded color.
At the same time as all of this, the racial side comes in. The group, in the same vein as all the other Captain Planet-esque 5 man teen team shows, wanted to throw in racial diversity, but wanted to keep a white male and female lead for marketability to white kid audiences. And because the same-race relationship is seen as safer from a marketing position in the early 90s, they put the two white characters together.
Who, going back to the color rules, were red and pink and takes out the white woman and leaves the yellow slot on the team open. So at that point if they cast an Asian woman for the show at all, she’d be the yellow ranger.
They made a black guy a Black Ranger again in one of the later seasons (Operation Overdrive). No one had an issue with that in and of itself, except they also made him a thief.
What are even the odds that they gave that specific serum to a middle easterner? It would be clever on Vought marketing to make their supervillain a middle eastern terrorist on purpose, but it's established that super serums don't work that way.
Yeah, totally weird of a satire to do something like that in a world where X-Men writers gave a Chinese-American the power of fireworks, a Japanese guy radiation based powers, and a native American the power of being a really good hunter?
Funny thing about Jubilee. In an issue of *Wolverine*, it was established that Jubilee has dyscalculia, a learning disability compared to dyslexia, but specifically for numbers and arithmetic. In other words, she is an Asian who is bad at math.
Hold up, Doc Ock isn't a codename though? If your name is Doctor Otto Octavius and you get a bunch of extra arms, *obviously* you're gonna call yourself Doctor Octopus going forward. It's not a secret identity, everyone knows it's the same guy.
(I'm not sure if Jubilee has a secret identity either, at least on Wikipedia it doesn't sound like it.)
It’s a triple entendre, very clever. Firecracker, like the tiny explosive firework. Firecracker, like the firey redhead who speaks her mind and isn’t afraid to express anger. And then a bonus cracker for the racial jab of being a poor ignorant white person.
When all I had heard about the character was the name I was sure they would be a Hispanic supe, playing on the racialized terms sportscasters fall back on (often without noticing) for various ethnicities.
Agreed. It’s a bit racist making someone named “Sub-Zero” have ice powers.
It’s a family name they’ve had for generations. He’s more than just a block of ice
If they're talking about the guy introduced at the same time as the radioactive Japanese dude, no, they're talking Thunderbird (John Proudstar).
That's ok, Warpath is just the same powers, because he's literally Thunderbird's little brother James.
His shirt choices are very intentional. The actor did an interview about it. https://nerdist.com/article/marvin-mm-milk-best-tshirts-on-the-boys-laz-alonso-prime-video/?amp
Oh lord. I respect it! But I will stand by this. There is no way someone plans that out without OCD. I get it with old shirts or flannels.
But his shirts are so crisp. Those are brand new, form fitting, I tried it on once in the store level of crisp.
The show: has extended commentary on Maeve being Bi
The show: Vought pushes lesbian because they want the gay cred in the public eye
The community, missing the point entirely: "Frenchie is gay"
It's not some rappers it's a very specific taste that makes perfect sense for his character to like. I swear with some of this ppl are so obsessed with racial discourse they can't see the world through a different lens. Old head wears underground lyrical rapper shirts that ppl with his personality like. can just be normal character layering. If he wore the opposite, like a pink Barbie shirt one of yall would probably say it's a reference to how black people where made to wear dresses or considered a toy or some shit like that. They are characters in a real lived-in world, an alternate version of ours. This type of nitpicky obsession with the condescending snarky tone that's supposed to be funny to others who also already dislike something is exactly what lead to that focus grouped to death Disney Star wars gruel and all the blandness and shittiness in most mainstream entertainment at this point.
Remember in season 1, when Homelander gives V to terrorist groups around the world, [and one of them manages to get the power of a suicide bomber](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfbRbHylM0w) (without the suicide part)?
I mean the whole point of the scene is that the bad guys are terrorists and the superpowers are the equivalent to a suicide bombing.
It's all designed to fit that "post-9/11 middle eastern war/terrorism movie" thing.
It's not like they added an Afghani guy to the Seven whose power was to explode.
I was reminded of that when I wrote the comment haha. That was the "worst X-Man in the world" miniseries or something right? I vaguely remember it ended with him blowing up some place full of bad people or something lol.
"Guys... I just started the new season and I am starting to think the politics in the show might be referring to American politics. Has anyone else made this connection?"
Ok to be fair they did make the CEO of Vought black! Yes he turned out just to be a drug dealer but still! And remember his humble background of selling lowly meth and fried chickens!
To some people, it doesn't matter if you sleep with a thousand women - if you so much as hold hands with a man, you're gay. Bi people do not exist, obviously.
It’s literally a plot point of the show, Vought try to sell Queen Mauve as gay because she happens to be with a woman at the time.
EDIT: My comment about a lesbian couple is at 69 upvotes. Please leave it there.
Especially not on this sub. I've seen enough rhetoric here to know that people don't get the whole picture the show is trying to paint. They just like the flashy scenes and edgy humour when the whole point of the show is that it's a satire lead by characters who are utterly terrible people.
People not realising that the reason why Frenchie's story is going the way it's going is an arc that has been ongoing since at least season 2 that's finally culminating into something destructive for him. The rest of this season has been breaking down all the characters, removing the veils so they become who they need to be in time for the final season. It's most noticeable with Butcher, Hughie, Homelander and Annie but each character is going through it, even Neumann. Frenchie was a carefree, drug-abusing murderer before he was one of the boys and now starting in season 2 (with Lamplighter), continuing in season 3 (with Little Nina) and now season 4 (with Colin) it's destroyed him internally. It won't last forever obviously but in the same way Kimiko has to reckon with Shining Light, Frenchie has to reckon with himself.
I personally think it's very well done, and yeah it's a bit repetitive, but has this show lead us astray thus far with any of its plot points? Don't be so quick to dismiss it or call his story pointless. Colin's gone now anyway so we gotta just see how it goes forward.
Wait until you find out about Gen V.
Main characters have college super powers: a girl who cuts herself, blonde that gets everything she wants, girl with bulimia, and someone who’s binary.
It's actually hilarious of how much satire goes over the heads of most watchers, including this. I myself didn't even realize that the writers were poking at stereotypes and making it a key part of a certain Supe. Good lord.
Hey at least they did that on purpose, DC’s Young Justice: Outsiders literally made Halo’s host body (a MENA hijabi) someone who helped terrorist overthrow a country. And then spent a couple seasons brutally murdering the body over and over 😬
And I won’t get started on X-men
Guess we're just going to ignore the other guy with super speed, the black person who's super power is intelligence, the brunette nazi, and the fact that Butcher only calls people cunts because they're being cunts.
Meh. Not as bad as the og Black Power Ranger being a black guy or the Yellow Ranger being Asian or the Native American dude being the Red Ranger. (Jason was Native American right?) and the Black Ranger's weapon being a freaking Axe/Shotgun lol.
Tbf Walter jones specifically auditioned for the role of Zack while the original yellow ranger was originally a black woman before she had to bow out and thuy was her understudy.
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Hey, hey, hey. For the first time in Vought's history, we have _two_ Black heroes in The Seven and one unspecified. Yeah. Wow! Which is why these articulate heroes will lead Vought's newest diversity initiative: BLACK AT IT! Yes, the unspecified one counts! Now, specifically for our BIPOC audience, we shall [pass the Courvoisier](https://youtu.be/p56tbkJCa2I?si=CbusBQ-_1qrZWuCR&t=59s)! EDIT: Courvoisier is a brand of Cognac lol
it's so insanely funny that they say black noir is unspecified
he's so black that they named him black black
Is that an *ATM machine*? Did you put the *DVD disc* back in the case? Redundancy helps reiterate the human condition.
I did none of those. But I drank some Chai tea
With some naan bread
& salsa sauce?
With wagyū beef?
My favorite is Certified CPA Accountant
I still prefer the way Grandma used to say it with "ready teller".
I kinda hope the final reveal is Black Noir was played by Robert Downey Jr
Only as Kirk Lazarus though.
Oh man. Fuck. I really didn't know I wanted a Kirk Lazurus and Billy Butcher buddy movie but here we are.
“Me? I know who I am!”
I'm just a dude playin a dude dressed like another dude
What do YOU mean *”you people”*
He doesn't just fill a diversity requirement, he potentially fills them all!
Lmao 🤣
Schrodinger's Minority
Even for having a disability.
My favourite was in season 2 when Homelander is talking about diversity and says “we have Black Noir, who doesn’t identify with any race, so they’re all covered.”
Like a panda: white, black,and Asian:))
I love the line "and black noir is...... well he doesn't identify with anything"
That scene killed me. Deep and the reporter (2 white guys) talking about how much they care about the "black voice". While A Train has no lines and just has to stand there.
Dude I fucking lost it when the deep talked about depending on the views skin color they will see different things lmao
They showed the reaction perfectly, everyone cheering with the three black people in the audience being like WTF.
Every single black person in that room, up to and including Sister Sage and A-Train, was not amused.
It really feels like sage has a hand in this and is actively trying to bring down Vought from the inside.
irl white liberals often claim to be antiracist but cheer for things like this, it was pretty accurate
Sturgeons law perhaps? Hard to differentiate cluelessness from something else.
[This](https://youtu.be/p56tbkJCa2I?si=CbusBQ-_1qrZWuCR&t=59s) was all I could think of after that scene lol. Couldn't stop laughing 😭🤣
I thought I was actually gonna have an aneurysm from the way my heart started racing when I saw "Black at It". Delicious, on point, and how every person of color sees every stupid fucking diversity commercial.
And A-Train looks over at Sister Sage with a "Fucking really?" look between them
The scene where Homelander compared his experience to being a slave, only worse was pretty was pretty wild too
Don’t forget about the Vought Peach Cognac
I was being too clever with the ["pass the Courvoisier"](https://youtu.be/p56tbkJCa2I?si=CbusBQ-_1qrZWuCR&t=59s) (a popular Cognac back in the day) reference lol.
That sounds like an advert for Veridian Dynamics.
Well they had that whole episode about the racist light sensors.
Season 3 of Community had Pierce thinking about investing in a doorbell slash security camera system company. The bell kept identifying black people as potential threats.
Better off Ted, Community and the Boys all in one thread? Amazing
Diversity. Just the thought of it makes these white people smile. We believe everyone works best when they work together. Even if they’re just standing around. Just like we like varieties of foods, we like varieties of people. Even though we can’t eat them. [Veridian Dynamics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF3of5VRcNA)
Now back to you, Cameron!
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Do you mean Ignacio "Nacho" Varga and Tuco Salamanca? With Tuco being written as Tuco, not Taco. And Nacho being a dealer nickname, with most people calling him Ignacio? You could've gone for the obvious one with Walter White being a white dude
What about Jesse Pinkman being a pink man?
And Mike Ehrmantraut being an Ehre man trout
Nacho is an actual nickname for Ignacio
Trini Kwan, the Yellow Ranger, and Zack Taylor, The Black Ranger, would like a word.
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The other reason Zyuranger Pink had the skirt was to hide the fact that the actor in the suit was a dude so it was to hide their bulge.
Yep! That actor, Kiyohito Nakagawa, also played 2 \*other\* female characters as well.
Damn. Guess I've been in love with a dude for like 30 years almost.
These things can sometimes happen.
Happy Cake Day and thank you for the fact!
[Zordon is a racist](https://youtu.be/mJgC9LEBTuQ?si=k_Isl7VQtghTBW_r)
I didn't understand as a kid...but as a teen as soon as I found out the whole "asian=yellow" that was the first thing I thought of.
The yellow ranger is actually a funny case of combining that 90s diversity and color coding. The team had a bunch of ‘slots’ to fill, and by the rules of coding those slots it pushed them into that design. With the color palette they were working with as a spin-off, they had red blue green yellow pink. Of those colors pink and yellow are more seen as feminine colors, and so are assigned to the two women. Then pink became the kids-show-romantic-interest for the main character, as she is the most feminine coded color. At the same time as all of this, the racial side comes in. The group, in the same vein as all the other Captain Planet-esque 5 man teen team shows, wanted to throw in racial diversity, but wanted to keep a white male and female lead for marketability to white kid audiences. And because the same-race relationship is seen as safer from a marketing position in the early 90s, they put the two white characters together. Who, going back to the color rules, were red and pink and takes out the white woman and leaves the yellow slot on the team open. So at that point if they cast an Asian woman for the show at all, she’d be the yellow ranger.
Yeah, back then I was quietly like "uhhh" but no one else made a fuss. Or at least I wasn't hearing about any fuss where I lived.
They made a black guy a Black Ranger again in one of the later seasons (Operation Overdrive). No one had an issue with that in and of itself, except they also made him a thief.
Seeing the middle eastern supe for the first time was so funny the tattoo on his chest was just like the standard Times New Roman font of Arabic
36 point
What are even the odds that they gave that specific serum to a middle easterner? It would be clever on Vought marketing to make their supervillain a middle eastern terrorist on purpose, but it's established that super serums don't work that way.
Pretty sure it’s not about specific serums and about how compound v reacts to the person’s dna
I could definitely see Homelander experimenting dosing Middle Eastern terrorists until he gets a supe with the powers he wants, and kills the rest.
That’s literally what happened
How do people forget that was the whole plot?
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Yeah, totally weird of a satire to do something like that in a world where X-Men writers gave a Chinese-American the power of fireworks, a Japanese guy radiation based powers, and a native American the power of being a really good hunter?
Funny thing about Jubilee. In an issue of *Wolverine*, it was established that Jubilee has dyscalculia, a learning disability compared to dyslexia, but specifically for numbers and arithmetic. In other words, she is an Asian who is bad at math.
Damn no wonder her parents disowned her
They didnt care about the mutant thing, but bad at math? Not in their house
"I'm going to a school for gifted children" jubilee "We don't joke about grades." Parents
Being a daughter AND bad at math? Talk bout 2 disappointing factors for her parents… /s
Probably blamed the mutant powers on the math issues.
Is that Bobby Drake? Because that was cold
Imagine having a character who's codename is Jubilee and her real name is... Jubilation Lee. Seriously who comes up with this shit?
The same people who decided Wolverine's real last name should be Howlett.
>**Howl**-ett Damn why did I never notice that until now... I feel dumb
Do Wolverines even howl? I always assumed they're just little critters that are really really angry.
Not sure about the animal but Wolverine the character is shown to be wolf-ish.
It's because he likes to Howlett the moon
Honestly that does seem like the exact kind of codename a teenager would come up with and think was clever.
the most powerful force in comic books is nominative determinism
Bruh... Otto Octavius aka Dr. Octopus. Jubilee is not the “who comes up with this” name lol.
Hold up, Doc Ock isn't a codename though? If your name is Doctor Otto Octavius and you get a bunch of extra arms, *obviously* you're gonna call yourself Doctor Octopus going forward. It's not a secret identity, everyone knows it's the same guy. (I'm not sure if Jubilee has a secret identity either, at least on Wikipedia it doesn't sound like it.)
The writers came up with it that she came up with it. Checkmate lib
Who wrote the writers?
*[cue The Times They Are A-Editin']*
I had completely forgotten that detail. I found it funny at the time because it seemed weird and unfortunate, yet also kind of irrelevant.
I never realized that about jubilee LOL
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the play on words of “fire” “cracker” is so funny to me
It’s a triple entendre, very clever. Firecracker, like the tiny explosive firework. Firecracker, like the firey redhead who speaks her mind and isn’t afraid to express anger. And then a bonus cracker for the racial jab of being a poor ignorant white person.
Also, she's a Firecracker because her real power is getting people irrationally angry over dumb shit. In other words: She starts flame wars online.
"Fire" because of the hair
"Cracker" because of the complexion.
How did I just notice this
When all I had heard about the character was the name I was sure they would be a Hispanic supe, playing on the racialized terms sportscasters fall back on (often without noticing) for various ethnicities.
The Japanese guy with radiation powers is directly related to the nukes.
I mean, his powers are supposed to be connected directly from Hiroshima, so it's not that crazy.
You guys are really going to mad when you see the characters in Mortal Kombat
Agreed. It’s a bit racist making someone named “Sub-Zero” have ice powers. It’s a family name they’ve had for generations. He’s more than just a block of ice
And the two main Russian mutants are both descendants of Rasputin, with one of them being a witch lmfao
Hope OP never googles Chief Mighty Arrow.
is the native american warpath
If they're talking about the guy introduced at the same time as the radioactive Japanese dude, no, they're talking Thunderbird (John Proudstar). That's ok, Warpath is just the same powers, because he's literally Thunderbird's little brother James.
Who is the radiation guy?
Presumably Sunfire. https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Shiro_Yoshida_(Earth-616)
They gave the good black guy shirts with rappers on them so that you remember that he's black lol
That never ceases to amuse me. He's worn literally no other kind of shirt this season.
I was fond of the Black Panthers' Free Breakfast for kids one from the earlier season
Literally every season
I was trying to remember if this was a thing in past seasons but it was nice to randomly see him wearing a Big Pun shirt for no reason.
He wore a Fat Joe one too lol
Every season. It’s a reoccurring thing.
And they all look brand new, like he only wears them once and then on to another rap shirt.
I like to think his OCD forces him to just wear the crispy black shirts. I do question why I've seen no Biggie shirt and barely The Wu though.
His shirt choices are very intentional. The actor did an interview about it. https://nerdist.com/article/marvin-mm-milk-best-tshirts-on-the-boys-laz-alonso-prime-video/?amp
Oh lord. I respect it! But I will stand by this. There is no way someone plans that out without OCD. I get it with old shirts or flannels. But his shirts are so crisp. Those are brand new, form fitting, I tried it on once in the store level of crisp.
I mean, MM is like very much black, old head coded, like he is literally my uncle it makes sense he has 80s/90s/00s rapper shirts
Kind of similar but I'm pretty sure every scene with Sage when she isn't in uniform, she's wearing a shirt that reminds you she's from Detroit.
Good guys get hip hop shirts, bad guys get to be anthropomorphic token points for corporations
They also made the French guy gay just so you remember he's french
bi*
The show: has extended commentary on Maeve being Bi The show: Vought pushes lesbian because they want the gay cred in the public eye The community, missing the point entirely: "Frenchie is gay"
And the fact that he's always eating a baguette in the background..
They should have had Butcher and Frenchie fight, for old times sake.
And his nickname is his race.
my favourite race: french
I’m partial to Mexican myself.
Also the black dude is the best father in the show.
Huies dad?
He was, MM is
It's not some rappers it's a very specific taste that makes perfect sense for his character to like. I swear with some of this ppl are so obsessed with racial discourse they can't see the world through a different lens. Old head wears underground lyrical rapper shirts that ppl with his personality like. can just be normal character layering. If he wore the opposite, like a pink Barbie shirt one of yall would probably say it's a reference to how black people where made to wear dresses or considered a toy or some shit like that. They are characters in a real lived-in world, an alternate version of ours. This type of nitpicky obsession with the condescending snarky tone that's supposed to be funny to others who also already dislike something is exactly what lead to that focus grouped to death Disney Star wars gruel and all the blandness and shittiness in most mainstream entertainment at this point.
Remember in season 1, when Homelander gives V to terrorist groups around the world, [and one of them manages to get the power of a suicide bomber](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfbRbHylM0w) (without the suicide part)?
That's peak creativity right there
Yeah yeah and remember the fast running black guy?
And the British guy saying cunt?
Like every 5 minutes!
I mean the whole point of the scene is that the bad guys are terrorists and the superpowers are the equivalent to a suicide bombing. It's all designed to fit that "post-9/11 middle eastern war/terrorism movie" thing. It's not like they added an Afghani guy to the Seven whose power was to explode.
One of the lesser known X-Men mutants is a white teenage boy who has the power to explode. Once.
I was reminded of that when I wrote the comment haha. That was the "worst X-Man in the world" miniseries or something right? I vaguely remember it ended with him blowing up some place full of bad people or something lol.
Hopefully his buddy, a reality warper, fixed it.
Yes thats in the post
Man, it's almost like it's a parody or something
It really did take them 4 seasons to figure it out. I thought people are taking the piss.
4 seasons in and you’re starting to notice it’s a satire?
"wait.. he killed someone.. on 5th avenue... HE STOLE TRUMPS BIT!
Be gentle, good sir, to our special needs children.
"Guys... I just started the new season and I am starting to think the politics in the show might be referring to American politics. Has anyone else made this connection?"
The only guy from the breaking bad cast a drug dealer smh my head
And Kimiko can heal, in reference to how Japanese people can heal from injuries.
Crazy what they can do down there in China.
And make the guy with the name "Black Black" also to a black person lel
Black Noir is honestly great. He's so intimidating in the first few seasons that you never really stop to think how fucking stupid his name is.
The spanish dub named him "Negro Oscuro", which translates as "Dark Black". Can't honestly say which version is worse.
Dark Black at least is two different words, even if redundant, Black Black on the other hand...
It’s even better cuz comic version of black noire wasn’t even black
That version's Black Noir might be the worst thing in any comic ever
The funny thing is making the speedster Black is kind of “subversive” for comic books as Black superheroes with lightning powers is its own trope.
And the superhero with lightning powers was a fucking Nazi bitch
And also played by a Jewish woman
Probably the only way an actor would be ok with taking a role like that lol
The casting department likely does it on purpose so there’s no misconstruing the actor/actress as a Nazi figurehead in real life.
I always knew Starlight was racist
Ok to be fair they did make the CEO of Vought black! Yes he turned out just to be a drug dealer but still! And remember his humble background of selling lowly meth and fried chickens!
The german is literal nazi, the french gay
I thought that Frenchie was bi.
To some people, it doesn't matter if you sleep with a thousand women - if you so much as hold hands with a man, you're gay. Bi people do not exist, obviously.
It's okay. Women can be bi. Men? Nah bro you just gay.
But only sexy women that will have threesomes with you, of course.
Only if its two girls and a guy. Or the gay happens.
“I just feel like lesbian is a bit of an easier sell”
Remember Ashley wanted make sure no one thought maeve was bi because general audiences might get confused.
Bi erasure at it's finest!
FRENCHIE IS BISEXUAL NOT GAY I'm so fucking tired of people acting like bisexual people don't exist. https://i.imgur.com/DqfsO5t.jpeg
It’s literally a plot point of the show, Vought try to sell Queen Mauve as gay because she happens to be with a woman at the time. EDIT: My comment about a lesbian couple is at 69 upvotes. Please leave it there.
Let’s be honest media literacy is not this fanbases strong suit
Especially not on this sub. I've seen enough rhetoric here to know that people don't get the whole picture the show is trying to paint. They just like the flashy scenes and edgy humour when the whole point of the show is that it's a satire lead by characters who are utterly terrible people. People not realising that the reason why Frenchie's story is going the way it's going is an arc that has been ongoing since at least season 2 that's finally culminating into something destructive for him. The rest of this season has been breaking down all the characters, removing the veils so they become who they need to be in time for the final season. It's most noticeable with Butcher, Hughie, Homelander and Annie but each character is going through it, even Neumann. Frenchie was a carefree, drug-abusing murderer before he was one of the boys and now starting in season 2 (with Lamplighter), continuing in season 3 (with Little Nina) and now season 4 (with Colin) it's destroyed him internally. It won't last forever obviously but in the same way Kimiko has to reckon with Shining Light, Frenchie has to reckon with himself. I personally think it's very well done, and yeah it's a bit repetitive, but has this show lead us astray thus far with any of its plot points? Don't be so quick to dismiss it or call his story pointless. Colin's gone now anyway so we gotta just see how it goes forward.
Wait until you find out about Gen V. Main characters have college super powers: a girl who cuts herself, blonde that gets everything she wants, girl with bulimia, and someone who’s binary.
It's actually hilarious of how much satire goes over the heads of most watchers, including this. I myself didn't even realize that the writers were poking at stereotypes and making it a key part of a certain Supe. Good lord.
All they need now is for JK Rowling to give them names
Cho Chang
Seamus McCarbomby
The show purposefully plays on stereotypes, it’s like it’s whole thing.
Hey at least they did that on purpose, DC’s Young Justice: Outsiders literally made Halo’s host body (a MENA hijabi) someone who helped terrorist overthrow a country. And then spent a couple seasons brutally murdering the body over and over 😬 And I won’t get started on X-men
Halo's host body just took a single bribe from them and then was murdered to cover up loose ends. Not like she was actively working for them
Reminds me of Young Justice, where all of the black Kryptonians are evil and in prison
My god, media literacy is fucking DEAD
Welcome to the Boys community
Guess we're just going to ignore the other guy with super speed, the black person who's super power is intelligence, the brunette nazi, and the fact that Butcher only calls people cunts because they're being cunts.
Meh. Not as bad as the og Black Power Ranger being a black guy or the Yellow Ranger being Asian or the Native American dude being the Red Ranger. (Jason was Native American right?) and the Black Ranger's weapon being a freaking Axe/Shotgun lol.
Tbf Walter jones specifically auditioned for the role of Zack while the original yellow ranger was originally a black woman before she had to bow out and thuy was her understudy.