The Boys: Every Marvel & DC Character Parodied In Amazon's Series

[Craig Elvy, Tom Russell]

The Boys stands as a phenomenal dark superhero show in its own right, but part of its charm is also that it is a parody of Marvel and DC superheroes gone bad. In the original comic book series by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, The Boys served as a bloody and grossly satirical take on the superhero genre, subverting long-established tropes and toying with readers' expectations. However, the story also took direct shots at the giants of the comic book world, Marvel and DC. Many of the biggest, most outrageous superheroes in The Boys are parodies of the comic book world's biggest names.

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