We continue to learn details about The Boys and its season 2 that we love them and that the last episode aired on Amazon Prime Video a few weeks ago. The new one has to do with a certain scene starring women that represents, according to one of its leaders, a parody of another very famous blockbuster Avengers: Endgame. Do you already have in mind what we mean?
The Boys, the boldest look of superheroes
We will not tell you anything new if we tell you that The Boys It has been like a good breath of fresh air in an audiovisual world in which we are oversaturated with superheroes who are candidates to win the Nobel Peace Prize. In the Amazon fiction, based on the comic of the same name, we know a reality parallel to the marvel world and dc universe in which these superhumans with special abilities represent an image facing the gallery, but in reality they are (usually) beings despicable, egomaniacal and mean they only care about themselves.
To shape the characters it is clear that the creators of the comic were inspired by others already existing in popular culture. Homelander (Patriot) is clearly based on Superman; queen maeve in Wonder Woman; translucent in the Invisible Man, deep in Aquaman and Dark Black is a kind of Batman no cape. Our super athlete A-Train represents Flash while Starlight is starfire. In the case of Stormfront, who on paper is a man and not a woman, his clear reference is not in DC Comics but in Marvel, with Thor
They all continue to be substitutes for the most famous superheroes and in many cases represent a parody of the heroic character we all know (Deep is one of the dice for this, possibly). But the mockery does not end here for The Boys. Now we have learned that in the series they took the liberty of setting up a certain scene inspired by another very famous one from Avengers: Endgame... to laugh at it.
All One: Girls Do It!
Specifically, the scene we are talking about occurs during the supposed recording of a new movie that some of the supers of The Boys. In a moment of test shooting, a character asks Reina Maeve how she will do to avoid everyone and while she advances towards Starlight and Stormfront, the latter tells her: "Don't worry, girls get it done!" (Don't worry, the girls do/will do it.) Then heroic music plays and the three of them pose somewhat ridiculously until they yell "Cut!" and the recording stops.
https://youtu.be/tARhNyES5nU?t=19
Since this scene was seen, speculation did not stop: was it a parody of the scene in which all the superheroines meet in the great final battle of Avengers: Endgame?
Well, the person in charge of the series and showrunner, Eric Kripke, has confessed in an interview that although he is a big fan of the Marvel world, indeed, it is a mockery of that moment in the Avengers movie:
Much of it comes from our executive producer, Rebecca Sonneshine, who came in after Endgame opened over the weekend. […] She was just furious. I saw it too, and my position was "That was the dumbest, most artificial thing." And she said, "Don't get me started." […] She found it condescending and I agreed. So that just created a target for us, a satirical target. When there's something really ridiculous in superhero, celebrity, or Hollywood culture, we go for it immediately. It's an easy shot.
So if you also thought the same when you saw the scene in The Boys, you already have an answer: it was an intentional parody and they do not hesitate to admit it.