\u201cI\u2019m totally bummed out to say we wrote it before the election. It sounds super naive now, but I swear the plan was, \u2018Let\u2019s write a 1984 version of what creeping authoritarianism looks like in America,\u2019 and maybe everyone will be like, \u2018Whew, we really dodged a bullet.\u2019 But instead, we got hit with the bullet,\u201d Kripke said.<\/p>\n
Kripke went on to say that the writers would come up with outlandish ideas that at the time seemed implausible, but have since become reality. \u201cAnd a lot of things that were far-fetched for us, we\u2019re like \u2014 \u2018That\u2019s crazy!\u2019 \u2014 have come to pass in a way that\u2019s really really f***ing troubling,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
And without spoiling the show, Kripke revealed that in Episode 7 of Season 5, Homelander says a line that the writers felt was the \u201ccraziest\u201d they could think of, but \u201cit\u2019s already happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a line \u2014 I won\u2019t give it away \u2014 but there\u2019s a line in Episode 7 that Homelander says that was the craziest line we could think of, and it\u2019s already happened,\u201d Kripke said.<\/p>\n
The Boys: The History of Soldier Boy and Payback <\/p>\n
The Boys is a super gory satire of the superhero genre based on the comic book of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. It follows the eponymous team of vigilantes who work to bring down a group of supervillains (The Seven). Homelander, played by Antony Starr, is a demented despot who rules The Seven with an iron fist. The other supes on the team live in fear of his mood swings and his overpowered abilities, which give him carte blanche to do whatever he wants, whenever he wants.<\/p>\n