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soldier boy did not need to be in season 5 of the boys

i swear i’m not even trying to hate (this time) but i genuinely can’t think of anything he did to serve the plot other than to make homelander realize v1 makes you immune to the virus, give the v1 to homelander and promote his spin off (while actively retconning his character to do it) that i personally could not care less about

one of the main issues homelanders had with himself is that even though he’s the most powerful he still ages like any other person, wouldn’t that have been motivation enough to want to seek out the v1?

if gets his hands on the v1, he’ll be immortal, and being immortal means nothing can kill you, including the virus. he didn’t need soldier boy to figure that out 😭😭

everyday i grow more hatred for vought rising and its not even here yet

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yk that feeling where you finish an episode and you enjoyed it until you actually start thinking about it for 5 minutes. yea i felt that with the boys finale

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one thing i just thought about and now kinda wished season 4 of the boys did differently was to give ryan more of an arc/subplot that didn’t entirely revolve around his relationship with homelander or butcher

like for example, how he would interact with other kids his age. in season 4 the social and LITERAL power he had compared to every other kid his age would’ve had to have affected his ability to make friends in some way. maybe some kids feared him because of how powerful he was and how little control he had over it, maybe some kids only liked him because he’s homelanders son and thought that being friends with him would make them popular, maybe some kids secretly or openly hated him for how “good” he has it, which is far from the truth (and that would open the door for a lot of insight on homelanders abuse towards ryan cuz for some reason people think he’s a good father lmao)

it honestly would’ve made a lot of sense for his character and his eventual friendship with zoe a lot more interesting

but idk i’m just thinking sighh

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my favs who are mentioned almost every episode but are barely in season 5 at all

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and ryan could’ve easily joined and fit in the gen v cast like zoe did mannnn i’m irritated again

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my favs who are mentioned almost every episode but are barely in season 5 at all

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bruh when did this entire season just become a vought rising promo it’s getting ridiculous

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why are some people convinced that butcher was justified bringing ryan into his mission of killing homelander with the virus convincing him to kill himself in the process saying it's some noble sacrifice ryan has to make for the "greater good" and “justice” for his mom. that was literally just butchers way of manipulating ryan into agreeing with the plan 💀butcher doesn't gaf about saving the world, he wasn't even worried about the possibility that the virus could have had an effect on normal humans too guys can we please use our brains

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spoilers for the boys season 5, episode 3

There’s something extremely evil about Butcher convincing Ryan to kill Homelander in the third episode. It’s how he tells Ryan that it’s better to dive head first into a literal war on a self destructive quest to kill Homelander rather than motivating him to be better than his father… by saying supes are horrible for the planet and deserve to basically be killed in a genocide by the virus. He feeds into Ryan’s insecurities to further his own cause, which are his powers—being a supe. Ever since Homelander entered Ryan’s life and twisted it in such a way where he had so much pent up anger he accidentally lasered his own mom, Ryan was literally never the same. He feels like he’s just as horrible as Homelander for merely being related to him, even more so after killing Mallory and it doesn’t help that Butcher keeps beating their deaths into his head.

He seemed mildly surprised when Ryan looked like a battered tomato after Homelander. Like he didn’t send the lamb right to the slaughterhouse, like Ryan walked in there with his own intentions that totally weren’t drilled into his head by Butcher. I hope this british rat dies WITH Homelander

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can i be honest for a second

if ryan DOES survive this last season of the boys how are they going to end his character 😭 i’m already fully confident that he’s gonna be those characters that break the cycle of abuse, but where that’ll leave him at the END, he could go in literally any direction

ik many people theorize that he’ll end up being adopted by annie and hughie (or anyone at all) but i find that extremely bland so

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ryan’s face card this season good lord

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will byers is stronger than me cause if the person i had a crush on for a LONG time told their gf that their life started the day they found her which also happens to be the day after i went missing i’m killing them so fast bro

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one of my favorite things about spideypool is when peter acknowledges that he could’ve turned out like deadpool. even the ultimate spider-man show points it out 😭

like if you look at them on a surface level you’d think spider-man is LEAGUES above deadpool in every way imaginable (and you’d be absolutely right. deadpool has no chance LOL), but when you look into them as characters they have quite a few similarities that nobody really talks about and it’s. jarring

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“aged up mcu spider-man” and the comics/andrew garfield/peter b parker are right there 💀

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the infantilization of peter parker in spideypool needs to be seriously discussed as a community cause why do y’all be making peter a virgin. 💀 the same dude who bagged mj, gwen, black cat, kitty pride, betty brant, and even captain marvel at some point i think??

i’d get it if it was his first time exploring his bisexuality and never slept with a dude before, but he’s not a virgin bro yall can’t be fr

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i feel like in The Boys why ryan has such a hard time controlling his powers is because he doesn’t like them. he doesn’t accept them. he associates his powers with destruction and hurting the people he cares about, and i feel like that mindset will be dialed up to 11 in season 5 especially after finding out what homelander did to his mom and killing grace.

me thinking about him just being all alone thinking of himself as an unstable unpredictable weapon that everyone wants to use for their own personal agenda. ryan they will never understand you 💔

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help him...

(credit to @kingpreussen for the Spidey dialogue 💥)

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i tired to imagine deadpool sleeping and i was torn between him snoring like REALLYY loud or being so silent you’d think he’s dead.

or maybe he’s both, who knows