Leave it to the darkly satirical superhero show The Boys to comically roast the real-life shenanigans of Warner Bros. Discovery, whose recent handling of DC properties and streaming service consolidation plans have come under great public scrutiny lately.
In the world of The Boys — which is produced by Amazon Prime Video, a “prime” source of corporate criticism in its own right — superheroes are real, but they’ve been artificially created by a nefarious pharmaceutical company, called Vought International. With Vought, the company serves as a stand-in within the show for movie studios such as Marvel and DC and highlights their constant attempts at crafting “cinematic universes.” However, in The Boys, the people who star in the films Vought makes have superpowers in real life. The public is meant to think they’re superheroes, but many are secretly corrupt and downright villainous psychopaths themselves, in particular Anthony Starr’s Homelander.
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