The Boys: The Biggest Differences Between The Show And The Comics
Adapting comic books to the big or small screen is so common as to be meaningless, saying that some new show is based on a comic gives no significant impression to the average viewer. It's still few and far between that adaptations manage to improve on their comic source material, but when it happens, it's a big deal.
The Boys began life as a comic book by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson which fleshed out Ennis's well-known distaste for superheroes into a full franchise. Supernatural creator Eric Kripke took that humble beginning and turned it into the beloved Amazon Prime series that's about to enter its hotly anticipated third season.
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The narrative of both versions of The Boys follows a very similar general premise. A group of armed men seeks to keep the immoral and selfish superheroes of their world in line. The supes in question are owned by a global mega-corporation called Vought which serves as antagonist alongside the villainous superheroes. The eponymous Boys hunt and do battle with super-group The Seven, struggling against their immense physical power and their tremendous public fame. It's a story about fighting an impossible foe and triumphing through underhanded tactics and sheer determination. The differences, as always, are in the fine details.
The first big difference between the original and the adaptation is the presentation of the titular team. The comic's iteration of the group sees them as CIA agents who are tasked by the US government with keeping supes in line. To that end, they dose themselves heavily with a dangerous chemical called Compound V, which grants them superhuman strength and peak human conditioning. This allows them
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