Yes, absolutely. I’ve seen people. They would be even worse than the show.

No. If it’s just the getting powers and it’s not like a toxin thing that actually corrupts/poisons.

Absolutley there will be those that need to be put down hard, but I don’t think it would be as set up in The Boys

Part of why that world works the way it does is Vought. The other is that Homelander is tiers above the other characters and he is a psychopath raised by an evil organization. Given that no one was able to compare to Homelander he couldn’t be challenged. His treatment of other supes is a large reason why he is as bad as he is, and why others end up doing so many bad things. They do things because of shareholders profits not for doing of good and they have a monopoly on supers

There would still be chaos, but it wouldn’t be like that show, I don’t think because there are many people that would actually just want to be helpful

Fame and fortune already makes people nutty, or rewards bad behavior maybe, but I don’t think the powers themselves would corrupt people and make them evil.

If the super were Americans yes, probably.

Depends on who gets superpowers, and how such powers are acquired.

The broad strokes of The Boys makes some degree of sense if we start with the premise that some megacorporation controls the manufacture and publicity of all supers. However, if supers can come from other sources, then what limitations are we putting on the premise?

I am of the opinion that most people are inherently good. Most people are also inherently stupid and cowardly, but keep in mind that these circles on the venn diagram are independent of each other despite some overlap. However, if given an opportunity to choose between helping and hurting, without any fear of repercussions either way, most people would choose to help.

There’s a popular quote: “power corrupts”, which is a shortened version of “absolute power corrupts absolutely”. I think this quote misses something fundamental: “power attracts the corruptable”. In a world without gods, no one I’d ever trust to be one would ever actively make the choice to become one unless it was forced on them somehow.

If superpowers were distributed more randomly, then the odds of us getting a superman instead of a homelander improve greatly. Still a dice throw though.

It’s been proven that power corrupts humans and just recently even in a medical / biological way that empathy is lost.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/social-empathy/201909/power-blocks-empathy

So, absolutely.

Watchmen was a pretty good depiction of this as well.

Someone with literal godlike powers would probably lose touch with human concerns eventually. People who put on masks and start fights with criminals are deeply unwell.

They aren’t paragons of society. They’re deeply fucked up people.

No. I don’t think The Boys would be an accurate portrayal.

I think it would be much worse. Like apocalyptic.

Are superpowers analogous to money IRL? If so, I think you have your answer.

Nope, cause pharmaceutical company would produce a drug that you take for a short time and never need again. Not enough profit. And they would have no actual control over the superheros. In the boys, all of the sups seemed to care what the public thought of them so much, they would do what the corp wanted. In reality, the ones who didn’t care would outnumber the ones who did. And they would just kill whoever they wanted, and threaten to kill others to get what they wanted. Kinda like the oligarchy we have today, but with far less constraint, and no need to even try to hide things like being pedos and racists and such.

The comic series, yes. The TV started similar, but I think it has been very gradually Marvelizing. S1of Boys was fairly loyal and realistic.

I expect a viltrimite scenario

If it were an X-Men sort of world then no, otherwise absolutely

It’s somewhat exaggerated but I would definitely say yes

The show or the comics? Cuz those are two vastly different things.