The Boys Called Out the Power Imbalance in Nightwing & Starfire's Romance
Amid the many, many pieces of commentary on the superhero genre offered in The Boys, the story has a bit to say about the relationship on Nightwing and Starfire and their place among their usual Titans team.
Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's infamous comic series tells the story of the titular Boys, a government-backed crew of operatives assembled to keep tabs on the «Supe» community. The powerful individuals are portrayed as fraught with a number of personal issues and many of them are nowhere near being the sort of hero one would expect to find in the pages of a Marvel or DC comic. Most Supes in The Boys are transparent pastiches of popular heroes, allowing the creators to level some harsh critiques towards superheroes and the entire genre for that matter. Practically no trope or convention in comics was spared criticism and that includes the relationship between DC heroes Nightwing and Starfire.
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The Boys #61 introduces the off-putting crew known as Team Titanic, a thinly-veiled parody of the Teen Titans. Among the imitations are Jimmy the One, an older, out-of-shape take on Nightwing, and the Starlike, a barely cognizant and skimpily dressed riff on Starfire. Though they're not the most prominently featured Supe characters in the story, they do play a particularly vital role when Frenchie and the Female come to confront them. A battle breaks out, but unlike the heroic Nightwing, Jimmy hides behind his version of Starfire who wantonly shoots energy bolts with no sense of direction. Jimmy gets fed up and is able to get control of the Starlike's beams, using her abilities to slice off a sizeable chunk of Frenchie's right arm.
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