The Boys Season 3 Scene Was Inspired By Ant-Man In Thanos' Butt Meme

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Warning: spoilers ahead for The Boys season 3

The Boys season 3 is off to a wild start with a scene that drew morbid inspiration from the meme of Ant-Man defeating Thanos through an unconventional solution: his butt. The 'Thanus' theory began circulating the internet in 2019 ahead of the Avengers: Endgame premiere when fans posited that Ant-Man could defeat the Mad Titan by shrinking down, crawling up his sphincter, and suddenly enlarging, destroying Thanos from the inside. The theory did what all insane things on the internet do and inspired a plethora of Thanus memes and even a catchy theme song.

Now, within the first 15 minutes of the season 3 premiere of Amazon's twisted superhero show, that idea has been taken to new heights (or lows). In the scene, a superhero (or 'Supe' in the parlance of the show) named Termite shrinks down and enters the urethra of his significant other in order to pleasure him from the inside. Termite accidentally sneezes, and he instantly expands, exploding through his lover's pelvis and instantly killing him, leaving the Supe bloody and shellshocked.

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While savvy viewers might have pegged the Thanus meme as the inspiration for the Termite scene, it's now been confirmed by The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke in an interview with Variety. He details how one writer in particular spearheaded the idea in an effort to up the ante on the meme and give superhero fans something that Marvel would never in a million years sign off on. He also delights in what, exactly, he got his bosses to put money into making a reality. Kripke's full account is below:

Craig Rosenberg wrote the script and deserves most of the blame for it. These evolve in a writers’ room and