A-Train’s The Boys Season 3 Dick Joke Is Colder Than You Think
WARNING: Spoilers ahead for The Boys season 3
A-Train's insulting swipe at a Vought employee in The Boys season 3 is actually an ice-cold callback to season 1. Across two-and-a-bit seasons, Amazon's The Boys has crafted a depressingly believable, impressively rich world full of corrupt superheroes and corporate executives who are somehow even worse. While the likes of Billy Butcher and Starlight understandably snatch headlines, The Boys is full of unsung heroes — minor characters who make this universe more colorful and vivid. Played by Malcolm Barrett, Seth Reed is one such unsung hero. A PR guy working for Vought, Seth has been around since The Boys' debut season, often surfacing to offer marketing ideas that are terrible, offensive, or terribly offensive.
But Seth isn't the one offending folk in The Boys season 3's «The Only Man In The Sky.» The long-suffering marketer is drafted by a desperate A-Train to help revive his post-running career. Among the misguided ideas A-Train makes Seth present is a «getting in touch with my roots» docuseries titled «A-Train To Africa,» and a virtual reality video game based on the slave trade called «The Middle Passage.» After the pitch goes terribly, Seth points out how A-Train "couldn't care less about [his] African roots," to which the not-so-speedy speedster replies, "Yeah? You don't have a f**king dick."
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At first glance, the insult seems like a basic, juvenile, low-brow jab about Seth's confidence and masculinity, but the line actually references a scene from way back in The Boys season 1. When Billy Butcher and Hugh Campbell attended a support meeting for victims of supe collateral damage, Seth
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