Discussion YMMV / TheBoys2019

Added a Shallow Parody entry, which admittedly got very wordy but I've seen discussions about this with the show and the comic that inspired it, so it seemed fitting to include and was surprised it hadn't already, especially as elsewhere had already noted that its parody nature seems better targeted at celebrity culture than superhero fandom.

But with it being a particularly critical entry I figured I'd post here in case there's any need to discuss it.

As much as I find the irony of trumpsters dressing as homelander hilarious, Anthony said he never called them ignorant and used different words so should this section be reworked

This was removed for not fitting the trope:

• Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped:
  • Starlight is barely a member of The Seven when she's sexually coerced by The Deep. According showrunner Eric Kripke, the women in the production team and writers room insisted on including this storyline, to reflect real-life experiences of being a woman in a male-dominated industry.
  • The way that Vought Industries micromanage the public appearances of its Supes is a thinly-veiled analogue to how corporations like Disney are often possessive and controlling of actors and actresses' lifestyles.

The trope describes that this only applies if the story needed to be as anvilicious as it was because a more subtle approach would've been a desservice. Both examples though fit that.

In the former, as explained the writers initially wanted to reduce or downplay the subplot, but the female writers pushed it because it reflected their real life experiences. That fits this trope in a nutshell; had it been downplayed as originally planned, it wouldn't have properly reflected the real experiences they're depicting.

In the second, the entire point of the show's version of superheroes is to critique the way capitalist entities like Vought operate and how they would likely treat superheroes. If this was downplayed, the show would have just been a toothless superhero parody.

I can add more description in entries to properly justify their place, but just wanted it explained why these are here.