Comment on Antony Starr had to knock down 'The Boys' fans glorifying Homelander: 'This guy is not the hero'
mriswith@lemmy.world 4 days agoLike, how did they not see this?
It’s about 50/50 between:
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They don’t see anything wrong with the things he did.
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They haven’t watched the show and have only heard that he’s disliked by “liberals”, so assume he’s great.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I think you missed the third option: they are borderline illiterate, and are literally incapable of “reading into” anything beyond surface level “powerful man blows shit up with his eye lasers is so cool!” type takes is beyond their grasp.
III@lemmy.world 3 days ago
There’s some truth to this but let’s not act like Homelander being the bad guy was fed to us through subtext.
13igTyme@lemmy.world 3 days ago
He had an American flag cape. He’s obviously the good guy.