If Homelander were psychologically conditioned to need other's approval, realistically, he'd be a reddit leftist, always chasing current thing for upvotes
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Lewis Warner
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The Boys never explained why Homelander's right wing
His motivation is that he was experimented on since birth and psychologically conditioned to need love and validation from others, so then he hates minorities and bans abortion because...?
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@TNOQuoProQuid I used to think the ending was so abrupt and out of nowhere, but now I get it. You already know how it ends. You know someday Calvin will grow up and get too old to play with Hobbs, but you don't need to see it, nor do you want to. You can just leave them playing in the snow
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Realistically, Homelander's followers would still idolize him after his death and he'd be revered by history as a Caesar like figure, admired for his accomplishments despite his flaws, taken too soon
Hence why they had him beg to suck dick and eat shit on live television
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@souljagoyteller Because the Apostles were scared shitless by the crucifixion
So they said Jesus' message was to pay your taxes to Caesar, carry a Roman's pack 2 miles, our kingdom art in heaven not any polity on Earth you need to squash, and Pontius Pilate did nothing wrong we love Romans!
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@crowbar_crow @BoldfaceJames That makes way more sense than fish being smart enough to know what a pipeline spill is and assign blame, remembering dates, and having a global communication network that even reaches ponds and lakes from the ocean
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@BoldfaceJames Obv its fanfiction, but the Deep's powers being "telepathy & enhancing marine life" could really just be him reflecting & projecting his mental state on them on top of enhancing them.
It becomes suicide by superpowers.
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It's amazing, almost every explanation people give me about questions I raise about the boys are fanfiction. So far i've gotten "The fish have superpowers from Vought dumping compound V in the ocean", "fear makes your superpowers stop working" and "it was a kraken"
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@BoldfaceJames And how are fish this intelligent? A shark says "Remember March 15th motherfucker!" like sharks keep calendars
He also says the Deep isn't safe in any water in the WORLD including rivers and ponds, as if the fish have global communication, even between ocean and freshwater
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They had Butcher crack open Homelander's skull, but left out the hardest line, where he picks up a piece of brain in his fist and says "Maybe this is the part that remembers what you did to my Becca"
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@dyingscribe Crazy for her to have a happy ending at Harry Potter world when she's the one who put Homelander in charge of America and told him about the V1
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This is stupid. Arnold is 78 years old. This should have been made in 2012 in his early 60s when he stopped being governor. He could still realistically play the part then.
There was no geriatric warrior kings in the bronze age that were 78.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger will return in KING CONAN from director Christopher McQuarrie, with filming set to begin next year. "Look at the movie by Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven. It will be a lot like that but with extraordinary battles," Schwarzenegger tells website The Arnold Fans.
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@bizlet7 Robert E. Howard said: Conan was about forty when he seized the crown of Aquilonia, and was about forty-four or forty-five at the time of "The Hour of the Dragon."
Not 78
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@OliverJia1014 Or that Aladdin ISN'T in the 1001 Nights
The translator Antoine Galland added it along with Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves because he heard them from Syrian storyteller Hanna Diyab, who may have been their original author
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They never tell you that in the original story of Aladdin, there is no “three wishes” limit with the genie.
If you rub the lamp, you can wish for whatever you want as many times as you want. We’ve been lied to by Disney and Hollywood for decades. An outrage.
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@dyingscribe If Eve is an experiment with Nolan's DNA, wouldn't that make her Mark's sister?
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No, Eve was an attempt to weaponize the limited smart atom technology Nolan shared with the GDA
Arguably Rex Splode too but that one’s a reach
Viltrumites modified themselves to all have smart atoms. They use them for everything when most species have only figured out how to use it for one thing
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@Fenrirtheicewo1 @MikeyNohMore What's really hilarious is that in supplementary materials, it is basically laid out that Viltrumites basically get their powers via a really scuffed version of Eve's ability('smart atoms' they unconsciously control). So she really should have just been Viltrumite+.
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@BanditBrigand It's one long aristocrats joke that takes itself way too seriously
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The Boys isn’t “realistic.” It’s pessimistic superhero fiction from a bitter guy trying way too hard to be edgy, carried by a show that started off as a huge improvement on the comics that then became the same corporate superhero machine it was parodying.
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@jbillinson George dividing one long script into the original trilogy has ballooned into the legend that he wrote the prequels and sequels in their entirety before before the first movie
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The greatest trick George Lucas ever pulled was retroactively making the first movie Episode IV and then convincing a shocking number of people that he had this whole thing planned out all along
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The fact that there are no guardrails in this area because the Death Star was designed by Geonosians that could just fly away in case of an emergency is honestly such a great detail.
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Christopher Nolan's Odyssey is like if Hercules and the Legendary Journey's demanded you take it seriously
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@jack_dayto @akachi_is But Homelander still has the spiky V, so even after taking V1, which the virus can't cling to, it should still be able to cling to the spiky V that was already there
And we do see him just shoot up V1, they never said he did a dialysis to trade the spiky V for V1
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@LewisBenWarner @akachi_is Not to defend the show since I haven’t really enjoyed this season but I think like with SB he would be killed by it but then just heal back to life
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This V1 thing is the dumbest thing they’ve ever introduced
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@AzzurraS4 Imagine a faithful Iliad movie where Achilles is just walking around with THIS shield
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@AzzurraS4 Imagine how awesome a movie it'd be if all these kinda boring descriptions of armor and shields and cups were FOLLOWED so you could SEE them on screen for the first time
Ya know, something that would make use of converting the poem into a visual medium
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Agamemnon armour description: "First he fitted about his legs ornate greaves with silver anklets;
then he strapped round his chest his cuirass [breastplate/corselet], a guest-gift from Cinyras [king of Cyprus]. ...
It was banded with ten strips of blue enamel [or dark cyan/kýanos], twelve of gold, and twenty of tin; and on either side three serpents writhed up towards the neck, their glittering enamel like Zeus’ rainbow in the sky, an omen for mortal men".
Agamemnon should've looked as the king of kings, bright as the Sun, not as Batman with a too large helmet!.
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Christopher Nolan is defending the historical accuracy of the armor in #TheOdyssey: “There are Mycenaean daggers that are blackened bronze. The theory is they probably could have blackened bronze in those days. You take bronze, you add more gold and silver to it and then use sulfur… With Agamemnon, Ellen [Mirojnick], our costume designer, is trying to communicate how elevated he is relative to everyone else. You do that through materials that would be very expensive.” (via Time) wp.me/pc8uak-1lHg5Q
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