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There are many seasons of The Boys that I need to add to my data set, and I don’t recommend watching them unless you have a strong stomach. They are gross and disturbing in ways that tv shows in the past never were. I don’t know why it was decided to tell stories with this much brutality. The alternative is comedy, as in Friends or The Hangover films where abject horror is dressed up in laugh tracks and slapstick.
It is easier to get a sense of the scale of things when the percentages are plotted out and one calculates that 8% is average for the genre with a standard deviation of 5%. Anything above 33% is more than 5 sigma away from the mean. When this happens again and again, the likelihood of this being a random, spontaneous occurrence drops.
As always, the percentages are calculated based on wordcounts that are created based on categorizing plot events according to whether or not they also occurred within a text that appears to have been used as training data in a popular, AI writing tool that gave rise to similar tales in Stephen King’s The Institute and in a recent movie called, The Darkest Minds that is reminiscent of Gen V. The cast of The Boys seems more like it tracks the people on Homelander Magneto’s crew in X-Men while Butcher Apocalypse, Frenchie Xavier, and Hughie Stryker seek to exterminate all mutants/supes/drugaddicts, including Starlight Rogue. The blame for the massacre is outsourced/inverted in the two franchises, yet in both, Frenchie Xavier is the trigger and controller of the massacre-tech.
The Boys S4E1 (2024) vs. My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 240
- A person pukes at work.
- A man wants to drug a woman to sabotage he career. They’d had a failed romance.
- A woman’s marriage to a man who leads the institute where she works ends with her reputation getting publicly trashed. She was portrayed as insane when she’d been the academic one who had crafted his image while he was secretly an idiot.
- The protagonist (X) made it to the top of his/her organization and has white hair while presenting as a young person. X is ashamed of X’s hair and wants to visit the salon often. Despite success, X is miserable and uses a woman who knows everything as a therapist. She develops a detailed theory of X’s mind and is offered the opportunity to use X as a political puppet within a powerful scientific institute that applies mind control to the masses. She thinks the world and the protagonist’s psyche requires seeded chaos so that the protagonist can save everyone from it.
- X’s only surviving parent is dying and X had been neglecting this parent to focus on work.
- X confronts X’s identity in another life/universe and kills that identity.
- X is given therapy by a disembodied, female voice.
- X has dreams of disappearing from the institute by escaping into the ocean.
- X is haunted by hallucinations of a ghost of a little sister/daughter/wife who died.
- X is threatened by a brain altering parasite.
The Boys S4E1 (2024) vs. not in My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 300
- The Indian lady politician who hurt/drugged her own daughter to make her super/psycho is on the campaign trail and the rebels make poisoned eyedrops for her. She rejects Homelander because he’s famous for murdering a protestor.
- Butcher pukes from cancer and Homelander teaches his son that regular people are toys for their amusement. Butcher offers to hide the son from Homelander and the son declines.
- The politician’s daughter kills the CIA team trying to poison her mom. The politician can’t be killed and mocks Butcher’s team for trying.
- Butcher’s old friend asks him why he didn’t kill Homelander when he had the chance.
- Deep attacks his ex-wife’s claims that he brought an octopus/child to bed by telling the world that she pooped in his bed. (Johnny Depp)
- Homelander needs to hire new heroes and the candidates are rejected for their sexual histories or for being too smart. He hates his existing group of yes-men and privately consults a smart woman.
- Butcher’s team wants to oust him as the scapegoat for their failure to kill the politician. Butcher makes a deal with the politician. He notes that everyone rushes to support Hughie when his dad has a stroke but no one supports him when he’s dying of cancer.
- Kimiko knows Frenchie is having sex with a black boy-girl from a teen addict outreach center and tells him to pursue the relationship. Frenchie wonders why an ugly guy has a pretty girlfriend and knows he’s exploiting an engineered identity crisis.
- Homelander instructs his team to kill their real-world alter-egos. tough guy Frenchie is really a dweeby writer, young Hughie is really an old man, literary Deep is really a low-class redneck, and Homelander is really bald. Noir or A-Train’s MM identity survives. None of them wants to lose their real selves.
- The smart lady starts a riot after Homelander is declared innocent of a crime he committed in front of a crowd. He attributes the deaths to the riot.
- Homelander is upset that his son won’t hate Butcher. Hughie’s mom returns from death. Butcher’s wife returns from death. Butcher chose a life of competing with Homelander over his wife and son. He’s infected with worms that eat his cancer.
To get a frame of reference, I translate the characters into another franchise — in this case RED: Retired and Extremely Dangerous. Frenchie Picard is the Bruce Willis character, Bruce’s girlfriend is Kimiko, and Malkovitch is Hughie Deep.
The Boys S4E2 (2024) vs. My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 50
- X rejects a love interest in favor of work.
- A new person’s complexion is fetishized.
- X is insecure about X’s appearance.
- X visits old friends and gets brochures about conspiracy theories related to X’s job.
- X has flashbacks of memories from a life she forgot. She was violent in that life.
- A person has multiple selves.
The Boys S4E2 (2024) vs. not in My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 400
- Will Ferrell (Rick) is in a racist tv show as a coach who invites Usher (A-Train) to dinner. Noir asks A-Train for advice about getting comfortable with murdering people. A-Train’s family shuns him because all of his rescues were faked.
- Hughie’s mom is old-Jess and he’s angry that she abandoned him when he was six. He’s angry that she still has custody of his dad/son and complains that she promised to go to a Billie Joel concert with him but didn’t. He threatens to sue her.
- Frenchie treats the black boy-girl like a hooker and sneaks out after giving him-her a bad injury. Kimiko kills the boy-girl’s therapist so that the crime is forgotten. Kimiko gets drunk on the job and keeps asking Frenchie about his new boy-girlfriend. Frenchie goes home, snorts pills, and calls his rich girlfriend who manages his money to re-establish their connection. He apologizes to the rich version of Kimiko who criticizes him for taking in strays. She reminds him that now they have to murder the girl-boy’s family in order to access their bank accounts. Kimiko is angry that her old terrorist cell is in the news.
- Homelander wants his son to start dressing like him. Smartlady Storm wants the boy to have a chosen-one identity. Red-headed Ashley feels threatened by her because she gives painfully good advice and undermines her. Deep asks to be part of the boy’s PR when he’s on a PETA watch list. The boy’s rescuing debut is scripted and rehearsed. The actors don’t know they’re going to be killed during the performance. Homelander unexpectedly inserts himself into the performance and causes the son to accidentally kill an actor. Homelander gives him a milkshake and fails to register that the boy is upset over having killed his friend.
- Smartlady Storm and the rebels attend a cult’s rally accusing Starlight of pedophilia. Hughie asks Starlight to return to her Starlight identity and she agrees.
- Smartlady Storm tells the cult’s leader that if she can get her cult to kill the rebels, then she’ll get a job with Homelander. Instead, the rebels kill her cult and one of her cultists can multiply his presence/identity. He exposes his naked body to kids at a bat mitzvah and is killed. Butcher is still trying to work with his old team after he was fired. He uses his responsibility for the boy he never cared about as his excuse.
Based on faces and how this story plays out in other franchises, I think Hughie’s dad is adoptive while Butcher is his real dad, but based on the situation with Starlight, I think Hughie’s dad stole his son’s identity and killed his son while making his son look like an old man by stealing his blood for rejuvenation.
The Boys S4E3 (2024) vs. My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 200
- A new girl doesn’t like being used for her institute’s PR.
- X is bleeding out of X’s ears.
- A woman’s boyfriend is always high and hallucinating.
- A circle jerk is mentioned/portrayed at a conference.
- Something horrible happens in a back room.
- X wants to show the world who a white haired girl’s true self is.
- X enters an air shaft.
- An octopus mother slumps on the sea floor after giving birth and prepares to die without putting up a fight.
- A woman who looked like another woman got a permanent injury that had been intended for the other woman.
- A woman’s image is used in an absurd public spectacle. She had officially died within their institute even though she continued to live with a different identity.
- X has an epiphany about personal responsibility for what X does in X’s work. X’s job hurt people and families. It facilitated the removal/kidnapping of children from their families for the benefit of X’s institute.
- X was exposed to prostitution at a young age.
- X came from a broken home with a ne’r do well father.
- X speaks with X’s self in a mirror and has X’s sense of self shattered into many identities.
The Boys S4E3 (2024) vs. not in My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 710
- Homelander grandstands to introduce his new workers: Smartlady Storm and racist cult leader Firecracker. They are driving protests to stage a coup. Ashley is kicked out and narcoleptic Noir begs for micromanagement. Ashley moonlights as a dominatrix for their oversight guy. Homelander shoots a particle beam through the head of a child named Annika because she had been contacted by Starlight. Firecracker hates Starlight because she’d told everyone that a fat slut like Firecracker had only gotten her job because she’d let all of the judges at a pageant buttfuck her. Firecracker’s goal is to show the world Starlight’s true self.
- A Queen Maeve lookalike performs an ice capades passion play with baby Jesus in which she trumpets alt right themes and drinks peppermint lattes.
- Butcher is confronted by his old friend (real-self?) who doesn’t think kidnapping the boy and deprogramming him is the answer. Butcher is worried that his old friend will train the boy to kill Homelander. He accesses the boy by befriending him via an ultraviolent videogame and preparing drugged cookies. The boy is wracked with guilt over feeling responsible for a person who faked his death and feels like no one should want him. Butcher tells the boy not to take his rejection personally because Butcher rejects people to protect them from his badness. The boy has no one else.
- Frenchie Picard tells the teen girl-boy that their relationship is over at the same time that the teen addict center is raided by people who believe they are trafficking at risk kids. Very old man Frenchie knocks the raider out and has sex with the teen girl-boy in the bathroom.
- Kimiko wants to murder everyone from the southeast Asian human trafficking gang she founded so that her past doesn’t catch up to her fancy, European identity. She and Frenchie decide to do this without any oversight. They visit the warehouse where child-trafficking victims sleep on the floor, but the kids have already been sedated and packed into crates for shipment. Kimiko kills the men who did the work and Frenchie hallucinates the families of the children they are selling. He had killed their families. He knows he’s not sorry because he did it so many times. He imagines the Russian mob woman who once used him as her goon and is reminded that no one owns him anymore. He can choose what he does.
- Deep is keeping his sex octopus/child in a dirty cage in his closet. (She’s like Alita Battle Angel)
- Smartlady Storm and Deep start an affair based on their love of fried food.
- VPolitician arrives in a meeting with her plan to regulate corporate/brainwashed supes/psychos and finds that that others are planning on using anti-trust laws to forbid the company’s employees from being in any military or police force. They want to separate the entertainment, pharmaceutical, and law enforcement agencies and she pretends like she doesn’t object. Smartlady Storm offers to support VPolitician if she protects supes from regulation and comes out as a supe herself. Hughie hears and Homelander accidentally chops the Queen Maeve lookalike in half while trying to kill Hughie. Another girl loses her fingers.
- MM reminds A-Train that he could fix a big problem. A-Train rescues Hughie.
- Hughie visits his comatose child/dad and ex-wife/mom. He wants to know why she left him after 6 years and she reminds him that she married him because he’d gotten a 22 year old girl pregnant when she was completely alone in the world and he threw her in the garbage while taking her baby. Someone needed to look out for the baby because he was notoriously selfish, but she couldn’t stay because she was suicidal. The abuse of the baby started when she was 6 years old.
- Butcher is trying to get the boy into a safe place before he dies and the world falls apart but he’s trying not to resort to kidnapping. If he’s kidnapped, then Butcher’s old friend will turn him into an asset to kill Homelander and feel like he was saving the world while preventing himself from having to kill him later on.
- Homelander throws a tantrum because his son visited Butcher.
- Starlight and Frenchie realize that they never took responsibility for their actions. Kimiko feels responsible for a girl with a scar on her face. They all get drunk.
The Boys S4E4 (2024) vs. My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 50
- A person was burnt but didn’t die.
- A woman meets a copy of herself in another life.
- The protagonist keeps hallucinating a little sister.
- A woman explains to the protagonist that people often remain with a villain because they want to be loved by villains.
The Boys S4E4 (2024) vs. not in My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 530
- Homelander cuts the phone line and brings a chocolate Carvel cake to a group that works at his company. He asks them to call him by his title rather than his first name. They had tortured him when he was a child in the name of research. He remembers things they did with poop and wants to see Barbara who got promoted to be the director. He reminds Frank that he once put him into an oven and turned it on to scare him as an experiment. He puts Frank into the oven and kills him while everyone watches. He tells his jailor about the time he made fun of him for masturbating after being in a jail cell alone for days with constant surveillance and makes his jailor jerk off in front of all of the people in the office. Barbara arrives and asks Homelander to kill the suffering, humiliated man like a good boy. Homelander obediently smashes his brain. Barbara was never afraid of Homelander because she understood how they’d engineered his crippling need for approval from his torturers. She tells him he could have left at any time, but he stayed because he wanted the bad people to love him. This is a lie. He was a child. He tells her that now he is an adult and wants her to remember what she did to him when he was small. He locks her in a tiled room full of the dismembered corpses of all of her friends and leaves her there. (She is handed over to sadistic experimenters who attempt to torture her until she forgets that she had a baby.)
- Butcher passes out in the shower from his brain damage/worm/cancer and hallucinates his wife telling him to get up because the world is more important than his crappy life. He begs MM (in a big gun t-shirt) to get his wife’s son away from Homelander and raise him to be a good man. (The intern wakes up and remembers having had a baby. She doesn’t like the people who have taken the baby, but is barely able to function.)
- Hughie is asked to turn off his father’s life support and let him starve to death because his brain is inactive. His mother insists he wanted to die. Hughie notices that his father’s IV is full of sedatives that are suppressing his brain function and suspects his death is being faked. Hughie and Kimiko contact A-Train to get steroids and speed to wake up his dad. Hughie gets shot. (After being used in horrible ways requiring repairs to her pelvic floor and entrails, the intern is in a coma and a woman is trying to fake her death to return her to her real life with amnesia, but Hughie wants to keep her and torture her more.)
- Kimiko and Hughie are attacked by members of the cult that Kimiko started and that she now wants to exterminate. A young woman remembers when Kimiko kidnapped her into the trunk of her car and threw her into a fighting pit where she was told to fight or die. Kimiko gave her the long scar on her cheek. Hughie/Frenchie and Kimiko leave arm in arm. (After her lobotomy, childbirth, and disembowelment, the intern is used in a cage fight.)
- Frenchie’s brainwashed intern thinks he’s in love because of the drugs he’s being given and Frenchie feels mildly guilty because he intends to sell this kid into something worse than slavery and the kid keeps talking about his family without knowing that Frenchie intends to kill his remaining family and that Frenchie had tortured his mother, a federal judge who was ruling on a mafia case. Frenchie confesses this to him, but the intern can’t make himself kill or hurt him. He just tells Frenchie to go away. (The intern’s assigned husband/watchdog was gay for the man who was raping her body and soul.)
- Starlight visits a politician who is being called a deranged fascist in the media. He wants her to kill the supe politician who destroys her political enemies’ brains. She doesn’t think he’ll be able to pass the law that will keep the supe company out of the military and police, and she offers to rabble rouse for him instead, but Storm is planning to make Starlight look like a pedophile. (The intern isn’t willing to kill people as her trainers promised her buyers and a woman she works with is determined to destroy the intern’s reputation to curry favor with her bosses.)
- Butcher offers to help Starlight with her reputation, but she tells him to go drink himself to death. He threatens Starlight’s redheaded enemy with dirt he’s collected, but it doesn’t work. Instead, Starlight’s character is publicly trashed regarding an abortion that never happened and she freaks out in public, attacking the redhead who was spreading lies about her. Meanwhile, Butcher was getting choked by a bleach-blonde preacher who lost an arm and who suddenly exploded, getting guts on the floor in an echo of the exploded whale situation from a previous season. Frenchie was nearby and acted injured from having his head slammed against a wall and MM helped them leave the scene of the crime. (I think that when someone gets hurt, they were the perpetrator against an invisible intern character in the original situation that inspired the story. Butcher called her a drunk when she was drunk after one drink. Starlight spread horrible lies about her, Butcher choked her and told her to get up when she was dying, a preacher froze part of her brain and shattered it before or after tearing open her bowels and pulling a premature baby out of her, Frenchie slammed her head into the wall, MM helped hide the crime. The bowel injury was encouraged by someone who wanted to hide the damage he had previously done to her colon and get it blamed on someone else.)
- Smartlady Storm doesn’t like how people say the intern is smart and asks Deep to stab her brain with a metal spike to lobotomize her. He doesn’t want to do it until she says he can rape her butt as much as he wants afterwards. (With this interpretation, a bosslady lobotomized the smart intern so that a guy she worked with could rape the intern’s butt.)
- Kimiko gives up on re-learning how to speak. Hughie acts supportive of Starlight’s choice to get an abortion when she complains that her mother won’t speak to her. (Kimiko doesn’t plan to rehabilitate the now mute intern’s brain and Hughie is happy that the intern doesn’t remember having a baby that he intends to keep and instead thinks she had an abortion. The story makes sense if you read my asides from bottom to top. )
- Hughie buys speed and steroids from A-Train so that he can use them with his comatose/sedated/lobotomized dad/intern. Butcher tells him to let the intern go and he regrets that he didn’t stop Hughie from doing what he knew he was going to do. The only thing that could stop him was the woman guarding the intern’s comatose body as she sprouted chin hairs, got melanin injections, and began to look like an old, black man. When she wasn’t looking, he woke the intern up for another round in his torture circus.
The Boys S4E5 (2024) vs. My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 130
- A person remembers a marriage from a long ago life and vacationing in a hot, tropical place.
- A person is given a terrible reputation in the newsmedia after she loses her job with the powerful institute.
- Parents argue in front of their child.
- A person is offered fame and a political message to deliver but doesn’t want the job.
- A person meets their alter ego.
- A laboratory animal/person is set free but can’t survive in the wilderness.
- A person is deciding which of their identities will survive.
- A person is in a hospital bed after their spouse decided to end their life. They are given an injection that kills them. The person passively accepts this fate, even though they don’t want it.
- Feral children beat up a government regulator.
The Boys S4E5 (2024) vs. not in My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 720
- Hughie’s dad (the intern) wakes up from being switched off of life-support and feels better than ever after a dose of speed and hormones. His short-term memory is bad, but he remembers his catastrophic honeymoon in Mexico and the engagement ring Hughie got for Starlight. There is some confusion as Hughie’s mom, Barbara, encourages that marriage to happen and as Hughie’s dad encourages Hughie to remain with Hughie’s mom. Hughie is still upset that Hughie’s mom has power of attorney in life or death matters. He wants all of the power. She shouldn’t get to be the one to kill the intern, he should. They both want to be the one.
- Everyone thinks Starlight is a baby murderer and a pedophile because of Firecracker’s rumors.
- Butcher tells everyone about a virus that kills supes. He takes the ex-CEO out of jail to contain his politician daughter. The CEO didn’t know that the VPolitician had shot her daughter up with drugs to turn her into a supe. Butcher offers him custody of the little girl and he agrees to help Butcher.
- The CEO’s alter-ego as Deep (the pedophile with the intern/mother/octopus/child in his closet) is upset that he lost control of crime analytics, a powerful AI tool that he hacked so that he could access, lobotomize, and enslave pretty girls who had no criminal or political tendencies at all.
- The CEO’s alter-ego as the PR guy for Homelander’s son (the intern) sleazily compliments his assistant who is his girlfriend/third-wife, Kimiko, in his drug addict, Frenchie identity. The son refuses to work for him on his entertainment projects, even when offered lots of money. Homelander says that’s okay. He doesn’t have to be a slave who gets pimped out by PR people.
- The CEO is proud of his shoe collection and wears shoes that Prince Andrew gave him. He’s upset that his daughter turned his farm into a bio-weapons lab full of super chickens that attack when they visit. She’d tried to rehabilitate some of his used-up workers/chickens by giving them speed and hormones to help their brains recover.
- Butcher finds a rabbit he let out of a cage after it was drugged. It is alone in the woods with its entrails spilling out of its body, but it is still alive. He kills it.
- Someone snuck Hughie’s dad out of the hospital while Hughie wasn’t looking, but to make sure he’ll wind up in prison when he’s found, Hughie says his dad ripped out a man’s heart and developed the power of walking through walls to commit murders. Hughie is eliminating witnesses while everyone only remembers seeing Hughie’s dad (the intern) drenched in blood from the waist down after something horrible happened to some entrails due to a predatory man who tried to have sex with every woman he met.
- Hughie’s dad (the intern) no longer remembers who anyone is. He/she blames everything that happened on Hughie because he abandoned him/her and their baby and treated him/her like he/she was invisible. Hughie and Hughie’s mom are upset that all of their efforts to make hid dad/intern forget that she’d had his baby are now ruined. They’d tried to convince her that she was a man with a tumor. Hughie reminds his dad of how much he once liked him and his dad/intern returns to amnesia, waking up confused about what is going on and doesn’t understand why he’s drenched in blood from the waist down. It sounds like he lobotomized her, took speed, and tore a hole in her butt while partially eviscerating her. He tried to get her to forget the injury while remembering their good times but she forgets who everyone is while remembering the bad stuff, so he framed her for the murder of witnesses, gave her babies to his wives, and gave her lethal, brain killing medication while she was hospitalized. Meanwhile, his oversight guy thinks of him as a loyal coworker and friend and is in denial about the severity of what he has been doing to people. The oversight guy, just thinks he’s a womanizer who should apologize.
- Homelander encourages his son to make the PR guy apologize to the women he treats like conquests, but the PR guy’s t-shirt shows an oil rig with barrels containing human bodies floating nearby. Kimiko beats the PR guy up, but it changes nothing.
- PR Hughie’s alter-ego, Frenchie/Picard loves Catholicism but doesn’t believe he should be forgiven for his sins. No one knows all of his sins and he hates it when women forgive him for unforgivable crimes. Kimiko always forgives him. (In the Boba Fett series, Kimiko was there for all of this.)
- Back on the CEO’s farm, everyone is chased by bloodthirsty sheep and cringes when they see that the lab director is the father of the VPolitician’s daughter. She is defensive about the age at which she had her daughter and insists she was 20 rather than 10. When she was a teen, they gave her brain damage and a new identity before telling her she was 10 years older than she was. (Ryan and Kelly, Clooney and Amal, the bunker doctors in The 100, I’m not sure if the lab director is another incarnation of the CEO).
- Hughie and his CEO alter ego search for a drug that will make the angry chickens, the vampire sheep, and the blood-drenched father/intern less angry with him, the man who destroyed their bodies and brains before trapping them in servile roles. Instead, they all get sick with a virus and die.
- Hughie injects his father/intern with mind-eating poison because Hughie says that otherwise he’ll need to be institutionalized or put in jail after being framed for more of Hughie’s murders of witnesses. Hughie’s mom agrees with this decision and tells Hughie’s dad (the intern) that she’ll take good care of the baby. Hughie’s dad panics as the drug blots out his brain and everything goes black. To calm him, they talk about trips they’ll never take. There is no oversight as they euthanize the intern who had the baby they intend to adopt.
- MM sends the CEO back to prison and the young, VPolitician panics because her boyfriend/father, the CEO, left her again. She collects the CEO from the prison wardens while Frenchie turns himself in to the police for his murders. He’s decided to play a different role going forward and spend time with his young, adopted daughter/girlfriend rather than his Asian assassin wife.
- Homelander expands his team with kids from Gen V and asks them to become wrathful gods in a war. They beat up Homelander’s oversight guy.
- Butcher and his alter-ego plans to get more anti-supe virus. He removes the lab director’s leg.
The lab director reminds me of the fake gay guy in Quantico who torments the new girl and some Muslim twins while he pretends to be a young student of crime fighting. He reminds me of the guy in Homeland who procured brain damaged mistresses for wealthy Arabs or of the guy in The Mandelorian who procured babies and bodies for research projects on organ donation. It is either the same actor or the same phenotype that keeps appearing.
The interpretation about the 20 year old who thinks she’s 30 comes from the most recent Terminator movie and clips like this one:
The Boys S4E6 (2024) vs. My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 110
- A person has a dog collar associated with orchids, a back room, and sadistic sexual practices.
- X goes crazy and meets X’s self from another life.
- X hallucinates a dead wife/sister.
- A room is depicted as coated in a sticky film of ejaculate.
- A man is addicted to drugs.
- A woman listens to a man with power espouse idiotic views about women’s capabilities. She smiles and bites her tongue.
- A person makes a political pitch that is rejected.
- X begs for a man to stop tickling X.
- A woman is horrified by the idea of a rich man’s torture dungeon.
- X meets a man who has an extended infancy/childhood.
The Boys S4E6 (2024) vs. not in My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 500
- Butcher sits on a cooler with a dead lamb/baby inside and asks the lab director for more virus.
- Starlight and Hughie want to go to a fancy, political party where Homelander is celebrated. Hughie dresses as a superhero to plant bugs everywhere. The guy who collected/framed students/workers from Gen V is there. He has old money from running Westworld prisons and bounty hunting. He keeps his prisons full of pretty slaves by framing people he wants to serve him. Homelander hates him. Storm still hates Ashley and knows she could cure cancer or save people but she hates people too much to do that. She wants destruction.
- Jesse of Breaking Bad has a leaking wound in his butt and requires pain meds that knock him out. MM delivers the drugs in his filthy, ejaculate-coated apartment. Westworld/TechKnight treats him like a special pet because he wants to torture him again.
- Homelander notes that the CEO broke out of prison.
- Kimiko keeps trying to visit Frenchie in prison, but he is never available. (because he’s the CEO/Westworld guy.)
- Westworld/TechKnight takes Hughie into his batcave where MM can’t monitor him. It is a torture chamber and his two assistants are there.
- Deep encourages Noir to let violence make him horny and talks about how killing or maiming people makes him feel great. (Deep is the hero identity of the Westworld guy.)
- Butcher is dying of cancer and talking to the ghost of his wife. He talks to his other self about how returning from a tour was harder than the tour because he kept seeing the faces of people he’d tortured and he felt that his real self liked being a monster while his original self was fake.
- The politician daughter listens to powerful officials talk about how women’s bodies reject unwanted pregnancies, making abortion illegitimate.
- Kimiko, MM, and Starlight attempt to rescue Hughie who is being forced to sit in chocolate cake and fart while TechKnight/Westworld chokes himself. Ashley sticks things up Hughie’s butt for Westworld’s entertainment. Starlight stops Westworld from vivisecting Hughie while Storm gets shot in the head and MM has a heart attack. Storm eats chocolate cake with her hands. Westworld’s previous torture victim shows them how to unlock all of Westworld’s bank accounts and empty them into charities and legal defense funds. Westworld admits that he provides internment camps for Homelander’s political dissidents who are given brain damage before being released. Alfred and Robin promise to get Batman under control. They didn’t know about the prison camps.
- Homelander pitches his crew of big-pharma hero henchpeople as an alternative to transgender illegal immigrants for hire to do the government’s illegal dirty work. He wants a homegrown monopoly in control of illegal acts, but the government people are afraid to piss off the countries which control the foreign, transgender/terrorized henchpeople: OPEC, UK, etc. VPolitician undermines Homelander by professing to have no faith in democracy and to only support corporate interests because billionaires are smarter than everyone else and deserve carte blanche. They applaud.
- Firecracker expresses her undying loyalty to Homelander because he gave her more followers. She babies him and he likes that.
The Boys S4E7 (2024) vs. My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 150
- A marionette is featured within an entertainment product.
- A woman was sexually abused by her employer and got a serious injury from a sex act but returned to the employer after recovering.
- A mother is incapable of sympathizing with her daughter’s struggles from working at an evil institute.
- A young person is parented by a relative who is dead.
- A girl’s boyfriend passes plagiarized poems off as his own. The girlfriend is hidden in a closet. He’s rich and she is of a different class/species.
- Technology that can cause mass death is threatened to be unleashed.
- A person’s apartment is haunted by a non-human who speaks via the intercom.
- A woman fires someone and they must hand over a chip.
- X is given a public role for propaganda but uses the stage to say things about the leaders that undermine them.
- A woman steals the diary of her new husband’s dead ex.
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- Deep/Aquarapist’s octopus flatters him for his poetry writing skills. He promises to take his prisoner on a fancy trip and then makes an appointment for his lover, Storm, to give a post buttsex/evisceration lobotomy to his prisoner. He locks the octopus in a box in his closet and lies to it about moving it into his home/life. It begs for food while he eats nearby. He refuses. She knows he hides his relationship with Storm from her.
- Hughie keeps his phone in a safe at Starlight’s. Her mother blames her for having rumors spread about her ending a pregnancy.
- Butcher/Mandelorian confesses the genocidal risks of using the virus and pulls Frenchie/BobaFett out of jail. Despite the risk, the others plan to use it only on Homelander and the VPolitician.
- Butcher’s alter-ego reminds him that he’s a disloyal jerk unless he’s avenging a dead person. He reminisces about his wife, about getting Maeve pregnant, and about cheating with a waitress.
- Butcher, Starlight, and Hughie enter a girl’s apartment and find/plant SS files for a political assassination. There is an abused girl/octopus/mother with a high fever locked in the closet. Hughie stays in the background. The girl stabs at Hughie’s hand with a makeshift weapon and runs like hell. They chase her. The girl’s blood gets smeared on everything as she runs or falls down the stairs and deliberately injures herself (shoulder, face, chest). They claim she was menstruating, but she was pregnant and there was a lot of blood. She is disguised as an old, black woman and disappears into a hospital while using the identity of her boss’s parent. Starlight tells Hughie she loves him and sends him to get stitches for his hand, but he treats it himself with a bandaid. He later portrays the injured woman as a powerful killing machine.
- Drunken Ashley feels guilty over killing her assistant in TechKnight’s torture dungeon and again in the hospital with a temporal lobe stroke and asks A-Train to run away with her. He won’t. MM sends his family to Belize for safety and plans to go with them. A-Train criticizes MM for skipping town and not bearing witness to the girl who is disguised as an old black woman and dying from ass rape and lobotomy. He reminds him about how to avoid self-hatred.
- Kimiko and Frenchie watch Samir prepare the virus to kill Homelander.
- Homelander wants to find the traitor/leak who bugged Batman/TechKnight’s party. Smartlady Storm has been replaced by Firecracker as Homelander’s favorite. Firecracker brings him Jesse Webweaver, who is in the hospital looking after a major butt and brain injury that has made a girl incontinent with diarrhea. She/he admits that she/he tells Butcher whatever he wants to know and that he gave Hughie his clothes as a disguise. Homelander tears her in half (by serving as judge and jury and sending her to a federal prison to get baby twins out of her in an off-grid prison hospital that will then execute her via brain electrocution and burn her body in an oven) and leaves.
- She doesn’t die in January. Kimiko tells Frenchie that she remembers bringing her to a cult where she was forced to fight another girl to the death. She killed her. Frenchie tells her she had no choice, but she protests that she kept killing new girls in fights to the death. Kimiko exaggerates. She says they belong together because they are the same. They seek to atone via a mass murder virus.
- She is returned to Deep and hidden in February. Deep argues with his octopus prisoner who is jealous of Storm because she has four limbs and flatters him more than she does. He’s sensitive about being addicted to flattery and deprives her of air. She takes a long time to die/drown while he listens to her profess her love. Someone else resuscitates her and takes her away. By July, she’s back in her real life.
- Deep agrees to kill anyone to whom Homelander points. Homelander is pleased.
- Hughie threatens to criticize the VPolitician for working with Homelander and ignoring (his) TechKnight’s internment camps. He tells her to quit. She tells him to leave and reminds him that she knows what he did to his dad/intern who just died.
- Starlight wonders where Hughie is and Deep shows up at her office. Butcher asks where his octopus/intern is. Deep hits Starlight because she had the gall to ask him to apologize for torturing their intern to death. A-Train and MM rescue her and confess to being the one who framed the intern with leaking classified information. They cancel their plans to flee the country after sending their families into hiding.
- Homelander is upset that he’d killed an innocent girl over something that one of his closest colleagues did before fleeing the country. Storm admits she’d misled him about the lobotomized/tortured girl being the leak and says he was stupid for believing the confession of a drugged person with a butt injury. He fires her. Deep learns that Storm was also having sex with Noir and feels betrayed.
- Samir tests his virus on Kimiko. Frenchie saws off her leg to save her from the poison.
- Butcher collapses from worms eating his brain.
- Starlight goes home to Hughie and puts on a sex costume so that he won’t start another fight. She steals his phone and the dead girl’s laptop while he sleeps and she wakes up shackled to the floor of a dungeon next to the corpse of a grey-haired woman she’d met in a bar where she’d been drugged and kidnapped.
This fits my belief that Hughie, Frenchie, TechKnight, and Deep are the same person: Picard Vader Xavier.
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- The white haired female protagonist meets her alter ego, an unprincipled monster who talks to herself in the mirror and abandons the abused to a horrible fate while thinking she’s a good person.
- She confronts a version of herself that chose to marry the doofus and associates this choice with a torture dungeon.
- She has access to a mind reading tool and learns horrible things about people.
- She aims to show the protagonist who she really is underneath the lies she tells herself.
- A strip club is mentioned.
- There is a person with an unnatural, pastel haircolor.
- The story ends with multiple versions of the female protagonist battling one another. Only one identity survives.
- She had been upset that her husband was cheating on her and lost her original sense of self, temporarily becoming another version of herself. One version was married to him and the other had forgotten she was married to him. She was afraid that he had caught an STD like syphilis.
- A person is keps in suspended animation in a capsule.
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- Homelander attacks his son for preferring Butcher as a dad. Butcher is dying and asks the boy to hide from Homelander with the CIA lady. The boy is furious when they tell him that Homelander raped his mother and ask him to kill Homelander. He kills the CIA lady and leaves.
- Starlight’s identity has been stolen by the abused shapeshifter which asks Hughie to marry her after being kept in Aquarapist’s closet. Starlight is kept in a basement. Hughie is concerned about politics and asks for Butcher’s help to murder a politician. Butcher tells him to visit a topless steakhouse and watch out for the girls he loves.
- Homelander publicly outs the VIP VP politicianlady as a secret super agent-hero and Firecracker portrays the politicianlady as a double agent taking down the deep state. Politicianlady is upset that she broke the law by keeping a secret identity and that she’s been given the job of arresting half of the country, since half of the superhero company is blatantly criminal. Homelander asks his assistant for leverage against anyone who has dirt on him. The assistant realizes she knows too much and uses supe serum to defend herself from the planned snap-decimation of the company’s ranks.
- MM, Frenchie, and Kimiko are still preparing to commit mass-murder with a virus. Hughie panics because the abused shapeshifter had erased the database of blackmail material that he used to control politicians. They protect the president in a bunker so that the supe/mutant VP doesn’t take power. Hughie realizes that the version of Starlight which remembers being his abused shapeshifter torture prisoner is the woman he married and who he has to trust with the president’s life. His training program relied on her forgetting the abuse. When Starlight attacks her coworkers, Kimiko protects the president by locking him in a vault.
- Firecracker’s effort to satisfy Homelander’s kink gives her a high fever and he ostrasices her for being gross and sick.
- Homelander intends to use the VP as his puppet as he executes the snap-decimation of the hero company. He will use the VP’s daughter as a hostage. She asks Hughie to protect her daughter. He asks Kimiko, MM, and Frenchie to be merciful and human with the VP. Kimiko equates forgiving her (their scapegoat) with forgiving themselves.
- Kimiko forgives Frenchie for cheating on her with the black boy from rehab because he understands her need for constant compliments.
- Starlight is upset that Hughie cheats on her because he can’t tell the difference between her and another woman. She’s upset that he married another woman and claimed it meant nothing.
- Deep reminisces about the good times he had with his sex octopus. The snap-decimation begins and Deep uses his status as executioner to get compliments about his intelligence from people who are smarter than him. He kills a writer and gets a murder boner.
- Rehab black boy, old man Hugh, Hughie’s dead girlfriend, and Deep’s abused octopus all represent the same, female intern.
- The VP’s daughter gets hit on by Frenchie but accepts his help if he will protect her from Homelander. Butcher shows up and his cancer rips the VP in half.
- The president is arrested for having ordered a hit on the VP and Smartlady Storm takes credit for handing political power to Homelander. Martial law is declared and Homelander is given control of the country with his superheroes as deputies. He blames the VP’s murder on deep state superheroes embedded in government.
- Kimiko, Frenchie, Hughie, and Starlight get new identities-passports but fail to escape attacks from Gen V.
- Homelander reawakens Soldier Boy.
This season has the same ending as the X-Men movie in which Magneto Homelander surrounds the White House with his mutant army because a president planned an attack on (identification of) mutants-supes throughout the country. He thinks this is the same thing as Nazis making Jews wear stars. That movie ended with Kimiko Mystique saving the president who had been locked in a vault for his protection.
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- A villain arrives at a beach hideout via a shark he controls.
- People make out within a barracks as a prisoner makes an escape.
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- Homelander rallies MAGAs who love Vought profits while Starlight fights Noir and releases a video of Homelander abandoning a sinking ship full of passengers. Smartlady Storm prevents him from mind wiping the audience. She and Ashley call the video AI disinformation and deny the existence of internment camps for dissidents. Homelander’s vanished son is officially at boarding school in Svaalbard.
- Homelander wants his bad press banned and executions of Hughie (Adonis), Frenchie (Hermes), Kimiko (Hecate), and MM (Cupid). He hates that people are afraid of him. Soldier Boy (Kronos) is on ice.
- Kimiko is in hiding while Frenchie thrives in prison where rapes occur in public and a suicide door tempts everyone. Hughie doesn’t give up hope and plans a prison break.
- Butcher visits his cancer-stricken father and reminisces over how hard his little brother tried only for their father to hurt him. Butcher visits Kimiko, A-Train, and stinky Starlight (Elektra) to announce his improved health and get Frenchie out of prison. He visits a dickless writer who Kimiko hates but who can sneak them into the prison where Homelander is expecting them.
- Ashley/Hera married a black pastor (Zeus) and criticizes Smartlady Storm (Athena) for screwing Deep/Hermes while deporting all service workers and purging all civil servants with the wrong politics.
- A-Train taunts Deep for doing what Homelander says.
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- I can’t watch more of this stupid show.
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- Zeus gives a sermon. Butcher cooks up a virus.
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While Magneto Homelander leads a crew of professional psychos/heroes in The Boys, the younger, wannabe X-Men are back at Xavier’s institute in Gen V.
Gen V S1E1 (2023) vs. My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 470
- X sees X’s self on tv and is used as an example of progressive policies at an institute that isn’t progressive.
- There is a tragic death in X’s family and X goes to live in a high security institute.
- X has intrusive memories from another life that X forgot.
- People tell X she is pretty.
- She finds the people she has to work with stupid.
- She wants to go to college and not be such an outsider forever.
- She’s grossed out by porn.
- She goes to a place which she thinks is paradise. There are statues outside. She sees people doing drugs.
- She wants to be important and matter. Her college roommate doesn’t understand what it is like to be an outsider or understand the need to be ambitious and prove one’s self. The roommate only cares about boys and sex.
- X is viewed as weird since she doesn’t have a phone/online identity. The only people who do that are the Amish.
- Her roommate has her own show on the internet.
- A guy cries that he doesn’t want to go back to the terrarium/woods.
- She meets a fashionable local girl who finds her weird since she doesn’t come from their world. The locals wear weird styles and she prides herself on not caring so much about that stuff. She wants to do serious stuff. Her hairstyle is different from everyone else’s.
- She is not accepted by the institute director’s wife and second in command.
- A guy gets a promotion that should’ve gone to a woman.
- She’s invited on a date with people who do threesomes.
- She’s invited on a date to hang out with cool kids who do drugs. The guys in this crowd wear virtual identities with fake abdominal muscles. She feels out of place and goes up to the roof to look at the stars. Her date offers her drugs and she takes a hallucinogen to be polite and not feel so sleepy.
- She feels guilty because of her lost sister, when what happened wasn’t her fault.
- On the date, a person hallucinates a dead person about whom they feel guilty — a little sibling who died. In the morning, the voice from the previous night repeats and the person goes into a fugue state, walking through an imaginary space.
- A guy’s back hair is featured.
- A person is set on fire on a public stage but lives.
- A guy she’d gone on a date with literally explodes and it is indirectly her fault. The boy is blamed for taking drugs.
- A person is described as exploding like a firework while everyone watches.
- After the disaster, the institute comes right back online as though nothing happened. It has a good PR operation.
- It is implied that a professor’s handsome, male student was sexually harassed or abused by him.
Gen V S1E1 (2023) vs. not in My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 860
- MM watches A-Train get press for joining a superhero team as its first black man. The kids don’t care. They are taking photos of each other posed as Rue from the Hunger Games. His daughter has a stomachache and the mother is extra concerned. She’s afraid to see her blood float up in the air and stab her mother. She screams and her blood stabs her father.
- This was just a nightmare/memory. She’s living in an institution. She cuts her hands and practices using her blood as a weapon.
- She sees a girl fight being taken from the children’s institute to the adult institute.
- The kids watch porn at her institute.
- She gets into a college marketed to ‘supes’ for careers in Lamplighter’s law enforcement group or an entertainment group. It is her chance to avoid going to the adult institute and being locked up for the rest of her life.
- Her roommate can make herself tiny and televises her fights with a gerbil. She lies to her roommate about growing up in a prison.
- The students gather to watch golden boy beat up a guy with superhealing abilities. He really hurts him. She wants to be on a stage in the top ten. Her roommate doesn’t want that kind of pressure.
- She signed up for a famous prof’s crimefighting class and was rejected because she has no online profile. She’s upset and directly asks the prof to be added to the class because she’s driven. He tells her performing arts is her future.
- She sees a student running from the school’s security staff. She stops him with her blood. He cries that he’s not going back to the woods. They electrocute him and sedate him. She doesn’t understand what is going on. He’s put in a prison cell and begs not to be put in the woods.
- A girl brags about getting a job studying sitcoms with Zack Braff (Scrubs) and compliments her roommate’s YouTube show. She finds it wierd that the protagonist has no resume.
- GoldenBoy is hugged by the famous prof who congratulates him on his promotion to the seven. He can have Maeve’s or Starlight’s old apartment.
- The famous prof’s son asks the protagonist on a date to find out if she remembered the guy who had gotten arrested. She’s invited to break curfew and hang out with the cool kids. She declines. Her roommate tells her she’s crazy for turning him down. She gives her a slutty outfit to wear and pushes her out the door. She’s starstruck. They have drugs and she still gets into the car. She loves the view from the top of the tower and declines to get drunk. Goldenboy thought she always dreamed of a career as an entertainer. She admits she never did but is getting used to the idea. She lies about her past and then commiserates over the death of her parents’ and goldenboy’s brother’s death. He tells her to pursue the career for herself, not to prove anything to family. She declines to take the shrooms he offers her, but then takes a tiny bit. They tell goldenboy he deserved the promotion. She has fun dancing with goldenboy’s girlfriend while high.
- Her roommate reads feedback on her YouTube channel and feels bad, so she finds a guy to have sex with. He fetishizes her smallness and wants to do something that could seriously hurt her because she’s small. She runs to the bathroom with towels and pukes until she feels smaller. For him, sex was about telling her what to do and getting compliments.
- X’s date hits on another woman and shows her his superpower of freezing things. He accidentally kills a girl and the party is over. He leaves without helping the girl. The protagonist stays and saves her life. Everyone films her and calls her a hero. Her roommate congratulates her and she’s called to the professor’s office. The professor calls himself an expert in superheroes and tells her about a man he knows in Britain and about how being a hero involves jumping in the ocean to rescue someone, even when you could drown. He expels her and pins the crime his protégé committed on her, blaming her for cutting the woman’s throat. He tells her that being a hero is about sacrifice. She was a hero. She cries and is angry because she’s afraid of being sent to the adult prison. He tells her she’ll be fine and has no choice. She cuts her hands and knows she wasn’t responsible for her parents’ deaths.
- Goldenboy wakes up with a hangover and hears the voice of someone who died.
- X returns to the professor’s office and sees goldenboy killing him by hugging him while naked. He asks her not to say anything since she doesn’t know what the professor does to people in the woods. She promises she’ll keep a secret, but then he chases her with murderous intent. Two kids in the hall defend her. She tells her date that goldenboy killed the professor. Her date hugs goldenboy and they tell each other they love one another. Goldenboy lights himself on fire and blows himself up in front of everyone.
The prof is styled like the leader of the Hunger Games and the guy who recruited the girl in Peripheral. Perhaps in Harry Potter, he’s Dumbledore and in Star Wars, he’s the emperor, Han Solo. This is a very upsetting version of the story. I think the protagonist had forgotten some things that happened when she was in Britain and this was a waystation to close a time loop. They were done using her and she felt rejected but she didn’t understand how many bad things had happened to her that the other people remembered. She’d drowned and died. She’d had men pretend to love her only so that they could hurt her. She’d been sold and abandoned, hunted, and treated like an animal. She’d seen death she was powerless to prevent. In other stories, goldenboy was her ‘uncle’ and the guy sleeping with her roommate was her ‘father’ while the professor’s secretary was her ‘mother’. She’d ‘killed’ them by telling someone what they’d done to her butt while trying to frame her ‘uncle’.
The other characters are styled like the kids in the X-Men spinoff, even as far as their superpowers go. The handsome boy’s body bursts into flames and he likes the psycho, blonde diamond who won’t let him touch her. Her superpower is influencing people. The androgynous girl defends the female protagonist who has been selected for death to hide the crimes committed against her.
Gen V S1E2 (2023) vs. My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 130
- X intends to bury herself in work to deal with the death of a sibling/schoolmate.
- A person is obsessed with being ranked in the top ten at X’s institute. (sequel)
- On X’s first day at the institute, she is given a tracking device that will record everything she does, including her bodily functions.
- A boy who uses crutches/a cane follow her around school on her first day.
- She gets some new clothes.
- A girl gets angry when someone else gets credit and praise for something she did.
- She dislikes being famous and is told to stay on script in her statements to the press.
- A woman leader at the institute offers to be her counselor even though she doesn’t have her best interests at heart.
- Unwanted oral sex involving mind control is mentioned.
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- The protagonist (X) cries while goldenboy’s body is scooped into a bucket.
- PR discusses using the new girl and her date as the headliners for their story about goldenboy’s death. The project leader brags that she hasn’t had any suicides while testing their new drug.. until now.
- Her roommate bought vodka to deal with X’s grief. X refuses and says she intends to deal with her emotions by burying herself in work. The roommate had been told to make X look like a drunk to get rid of her.
- People want selfies with her and are jealous of her ranking. They take videos of themselves fake grieving for the professor. They start fights instead of consoling one another. The blonde tells a boy to hit himself in the nuts and yell Jumanji. He does it.
- The school gifts her a phone and a bunch of gadgets, including a wifi enabled vibrator to keep track of her masturbation. She’s told she’s famous for fighting goldenboy and is interviewed by a famous reporter. She’s given a script in which she’s told to pretend her story is Pretty Woman without the buttfucking for money part. Her date is told to be thankful for the opportunity goldenboy’s death gave him to become famous. His dad tells him to be made of steel. She has fun at their photoshoot. They are now supposed to act like a famous couple. The date is concerned about what goldenboy said to him before he died, “your dad has it”. There is some secret documentation of what really happened.
- She doesn’t want to investigate this with him. As far as she is concerned, she’s met this guy once and doesn’t intend to be his partner in this.
- Her acting teacher asks everyone to use the tragedy to become better actors. He says nothing is more important than art and the artist. He blows a kiss to her roommate and tells everyone to partner up and act out a scene. She follows him after class and he blows her off, even though they’d recently had sex. A girl who knows what he does to the new girls offers to be her partner.
- She’s excited to be invited into the exclusive, third-year crimefighting class taught by the leader of the seven who compliments her despite her lateness and even though it is her first year. The androgynous cokehead girl she covered for even after she rejected her is jealous, and X reminds her that she’s returning from a low and takes any positivity she can get. The androgynous girl asks her to go off script and talk him/her up. X agrees to put in a word.
- The roommate does bong hits and watches movies with the Zack Braff girl who keeps getting type cast in his girls gone wild porn films as the sexy teen who fucks the dad or teacher and attacks the mom. The roommate admits she hates ‘getting small/sodomized’ and admits she’s bulimic. She just wanted to be like Queen Maeve. The porn girl makes a video telling everyone the roommate’s secrets and whenever someone sees her, they tell her to ‘get help’, like she has a disease. She’s criticized for complaining.
- The porn girl gets a new girl who has a tail to be filmed deepthroating it.
- The dean who teaches the crimefighting course asks the new girl to open up about what she remembers. The dean reminds her that any time she opens up (tells the truth), the people she tells die. She tells the dean that she isn’t there to reconnect with her trauma. She is there to learn something that can help her survive/get a job and make her sister proud of her. She wants to find her and be a family again. The dean looks disappointed about that.
- The dean goes down to the high security part of the building where there is a picture of ‘the woods’ and her forgotten ex-boyfriend strapped to a gurney, hyperventilating in pain. She warns the boy that trying to leave makes it all much worse. A handsome man hammers a nail into his back. It won’t leave much of a scar.
- The blonde visits goldenboy’s rom which has been scrubbed down with bleach. Someone scrawled murderer across his door. The blonde says goldenboy had a desk drawer full of dildoes for some reason. The date helps her find a clue hidden in the statue of goldenboy. It is a video of goldenboy saying that his ‘brother’ was taken to the torture room called ‘the woods’ and needs to be rescued. Officially, his brother died in a psychiatric facility and had schizophrenia. They decide that the safest thing to do is to tell themselves that goldenboy was also schizophrenic and that he probably killed his brother too. She tells him to shoot for a job in management and not investigate the mystery. He breaks into the professor’s office to access a fingerprint database. He realizes he knows goldenboy’s brother from that night when X helped stop him from running from the campus cops. Campus cops come in to confiscate the computer and he hides. He goes to the basement to investigate and sees a campus cop murder a janitor. He’s rescued by the blonde who tells the murderer’s coworker to sodomize him with his flashlight until he sees god. Then she passes out.
- The script X is asked to read makes golden boy look like a monster and her a hero. She decides to go off script to say who really fought goldenboy. The date is late for the interview and his father is furious. The reporter tells X that her sister was contacted for the interview and she said she wants nothing to do with X. X is crushed. X freezes when asked to lie and then reads the script. She reaches out to her roommate for support and cries when she looks at a picture of her lost family. Her roommate is puking. She visits the dean to ask if she knew her sister had disowned her. The dean consoles her to become her new family.
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- A woman has unusually white hair for her age.
- X is invited to a party with elites.
- X is encouraged to eat possibly drugged food by her captor.
- Sexually transmitted diseases threaten women in this community.
- X is used as a figurehead to show how supportive the institute is of women/minorities.
- A person who is stuck in an underground madhouse is confronted by a creature he/she assumes isn’t human and thinks it is a god or manifestation of his/her own mind. He/she creates tests to prove it isn’t a manifestation of his/her own mind and it fails to pass them. He/she asks it personal questions to which only he/she would know the answer.. about childhood pets.
- X is warned that those who investigate forbidden matters will be killed.
- A white haired girl is haunted by her sense of responsibility for her little siblings death when she was a child.
- X’s roommate is promiscuous and let a man hurt her for his gratification. She aspires to be like a famous woman who makes her jealous.
- A woman pukes a lot.
- X thinks X hallucinated X’s roommate within an underground laboratory.
- Alice in Wonderland is referenced.
- A woman gets stuck with a crazy man who rants and raves.
- A person has unwanted contact with their ear from another person.
- A person gets shocked by a man portable electrical device.
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- There’s a flashback to goldenboy visiting his brother while he freaks out after learning that their parents drugged them to make them stronger/freakish. He calms down, but a guard shoots him and he kills the guard. The blonde was there and sedated him. She asks for her pills to deal with the memory.
- The date wants to rescue goldenboy’s brother and the blonde discourages him and kisses him.
- X finds her roommate on the floor after puking and pisses her off by asking her to get help.
- The dean compliments X for remaining poised when giving triggering information about her sister. She’s invited to a party. PR people plan out her public appearances and call her a natural. Her date’s dad mocks her blood powers and worries she has hepatitis C. He wants his son on the stage instead. The son would rather do something genuinely heroic.
- The roommate’s mother is bringing her to the party as well. The mother asks her if she’s limiting her calories. Her mom found her a job in a reality show featuring her eating disorder. her mother encourages her to exploit herself. She smokes a joint.
- X apologizes to the blonde for slandering goldenboy. The blonde remembers him from three years earlier when he thought his brother had killed himself. He asked her to make him feel better with her drugs. She refused and hugged him.
- Androgynous girl kicks a boy out of her room when her parents visit. She turns into a boy when they show up. He is rejected for the entertainment job he wanted and told that his special relationship with the dead professor won’t help him anymore. The dad wants him to be a boy all of the time and not turn into a girl to spite him. She says she never changes, its only her appearance.
- X lies about who her parents are at the party and the dean supports her in lying. People give her their cards. She meets her roommate in the bathroom and tells her she doesn’t pity her and really wants to be friends. They hug.
- The blonde shows up at the party uninvited.
- The date introduces himself to the roommate and asks for her help with his investigation of the woods. She gets small and sneaks into the woods while still stoned. Everyone is in solitary confinement in the woods. The brother traps her in his room and she’s afraid. She tells him she’s there to help him leave and he is too afraid to leave because of the punishment for escaping. He would leave for his brother and doesn’t know he’s dead. He gives her the security door codes and calls her pretty and brave.
- The party showcases photos of the professor and his past proteges/victims. Aquarapist credits him with sharpening his mind.
- The date’s father warns him to stop investigating the underground hospital or else he’ll be killed.
- The dean thanks X for helping at their fundraiser. People have been throwing money at her because of X’s smile. X leaves. Jealous students mock her performance and she tells them she deserves pity not jealousy because of her sad backstory. They agree and invite her to commiserate. The blonde accidentally killed her little brother. She blames her parents for giving her an experimental drug to make her superior.
- The date warns the girls that he messed up by sending the roommate into the high security area to rescue the brother. An alarm was tripped and the brother was electrocuted by the floor of his cell to knock him out. He tells the roommate to hide and run. She sees him get electrocuted again and crawls into the guard’s ear to kill him.
The PR guy with crutches looks like Kenneth from 30 Rock and it is odd that he’s spreading the story that the protagonist consented to sodomy because she wanted money.
The Asian mom and dad who are disappointed that their son would prefer to be a girl remind me of the mom in Stranger Things and the character called Micheal. I interpreted that Micheal paid the mom to brainwash a girl to pretend to be a boy while using method acting and fear to keep her in character to the extent that she would eventually become trans. They were disappointed that their procedure failed because the last thing their test subject said to them was, “I was always the same inside.”
Gen V S1E4 (2023) vs. My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 80
- There is cannibalism.
- A man mentions a rabbit hole.
- A guy visits a girl’s apartment while on lots of drugs.
- There is a horrible sex accident involving rape.
- A male villain intends to use an unwitting new girl in the institute to take the blame for crimes he wants to commit.
- Someone eating puke is mentioned.
- A girl being wierded out by a guy’s nipples is mentioned.
- A person is tormented by an animal he/she thinks is talking to him/her from a screen.
Gen V S1E4 (2023) vs. not in My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 580
- The brother is blamed for the death of half of the guards on staff. The dean finds the tiny shoe of the roommate. The girls and date go looking for the escaped brother and roommate.
- The brother is upset to hear that goldenboy is dead. He breaks things and is afraid of being left alone.
- A fake detective (TechKnight) has a tv show about the death of goldenboy. He visits the dean. She notes that many of his subjects of investigation end up killing themselves after interrogation or getting beaten into comas. She gives him access to students. He thinks he’s Sherlock Holmes, but his primary purpose is protecting the institute/himself by finding a patsy for his crimes and destroying their life. He’ll target one of the top students.
- The date goes to the blonde for advice. He’s afraid of his father, but the detective is the real threat.
- X goes to a MattDamon psychic who watches the detective’s shows. She asks him to help find her roommate, but he uses a drug on her and she wakes up in his room with him naked. Something is inside of his penis and it explodes, covering her in blood. The girlboy rescues her and tells him he deserved it. They attribute it to her accidental superpowers.
- The detective interviews the date and girlboy, goading them to admit they were driven by ambition and jealousy. Girlboy’s patron had been killed by goldenboy.
- Goldenboy’s girlfriend had wanted to be his manager and the detective notices that the date is sleeping with the girlfriend. The detective gets the date to rant about how his father isn’t a real hero.
- The roommate and goldenboy’s brother hide out and joke about their insecurities. She tells him she’d still like him if he had fifty nipples under his shirt. He hears Aquarapist’s voice telling him he needs to kill the torture doctor in the woods so that the roommate will be safe. He yells and runs out of their hiding place.
- X lies about her roommate’s whereabouts to the dean who is following her closely. The detective visits her class and brags about his credentials. He interrogates her in front of the class. He notes her pupil’s reactions to his question and her pulse rate. He tells the class she visited the professor because she was insecure and wanted validation. He tells everyone she was going to be expelled and might have helped goldenboy kill the professor. She admits that the boygirl was the real hero who fought goldenboy. The detective loves watching public shame, but acknowledges he hasn’t found a good patsy, so he’ll pin the crime on the dean. She’s afraid of him.
- Boygirl is angry with X for ruining her own image for no gain. X thinks she’s trying to be honest and not play some game. X kisses boygirl when roommate returns with news about the torture doctor.
- The dean meets the detective, TechKnight, in the woods to negotiate. She shows that his medical file reveals a tumor in his head that he blames for his sex crimes involving ‘skull fucking’. He’s ashamed of the videos she has of him and stops threatening her.
- The torture doctor goes home to see goldenboy’s brother scaring his daughter and gay lover. Goldenboy’s friends show up to contain/rescue him. X realizes that the doctor has been keeping her little sister in his house. She blacks out and wakes up naked in girlboy’s bed.
Gen V S1E5 (2023) vs. My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 80
- Someone has an implant in their spine.
- X lost chunks of memories. The institute is responsible. Everyone is managed via erased memories and lies.
- A girl is famous but it isn’t good for her.
- A person meets a woman who forgot that they ever had a romantic relationship.
- Prisoners in a place where porn is made have tracking implants installed in their bodies that prevent them from escaping.
- A group has all of their forgotten memories return.
Gen V S1E5 (2023) vs. not in My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 470
- The date wakes up naked in the blonde’s bed with goo dripping from the ceiling in an unfamiliar house with graffiti on the walls, and Translucent leading a baby alpaca into a bedroom. They find X and girlboy in bed and a room full of people doing drugs. Everyone assumes there was a wild party but remembers nothing. They’re confused since they’ve never blacked out before and days are missing from their memories.
- Goldenboy’s brother arrives and tells them he’s okay now. X reminds him that they don’t know each other in real life. He realizes they got a forgetting treatment. He wants them to remember that they are heroes. X thinks he’s crazy.
- The blonde blames the psychic for drugging them. This has happened to her before. She woke up with three days of her life missing and a camera pointed at her. The man said, “Make this weird and I’ll wipe/zap you again.” The girlboy says, “The body remembers.” They chase down the psychic after seeing him with the dean. The date locks him in his room and threatens him but then blacks out, waking up in a fast food restaurant.
- The doctor threatens to quit but claims he is close to perfecting a virus that will control all of the students’ powers. He wants to use X in his experiments. The dean refuses because someone else wants to buy her.
- The roommate likes being famous and pressures X to drink redbulls and tell her if she likes the girlboy. X has no idea how she feels about anything. Everything is moving too fast. Roommate remembers where the brother hides out. X finds a tracking chip in her shoulder. X realizes that the blonde is in cahoots with the people doing this to her, but then the blonde erases her memory of her discovery. She meets the boygirl and has no memory of their relationship, confusing the boygirl who blames the psychic rather than the blonde girl. X helps boygirl identify the location of her tracking implant.
- The blonde cries to the dean about having to erase so many memories. The dean tells her that the erasures are compassionate and keeping them safe.
- The blonde watches movies with the date and smokes weed to confuse fantasy and reality.
- The brother is hallucinating puppets and swat teams that he massacres. Then he thinks what happened was real. The roommate visits his hideout and admits she doesn’t remember him but she does believe him. He knows the blonde is the one behind the forgetting. She even made goldenboy forget he had a brother.
- The girlboy and X confront the psychic., but the roommate tells them it is really the blonde girl. They have to stop the date from killing the psychic. The blonde confesses. The date cries from the truth and calls her a monster.
What if all of the badguys are just the detective’s patsies?
Gen V S1E6 (2023) vs. My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 180
- A girl develops the ability to read minds.
- A girl at the institute was rejected by her mother after her little sibling died and she was unjustly blamed for it. She is haunted by this memory.
- X’s mind is flooded by another person’s memories.
- X meets an imaginary boyfriend.
- X is in danger of getting stuck inside a simulation.
- There is a group mind that threatens anyone who is a part of it. There could be a mass-death of anyone connected to a particular delusion. A white haired girl created one that threatens a large number of people at an institute.
- A professor threatens to inject a confused student with something that will knock them out.
- A girl confronts another version of herself and has a discussion about who she really is. Only one of them can survive.
- X has an epiphany about personal responsibility that saves herself and everyone in her world.
- The institute was doing experiments with blood transfusions from kids.
- There is a horrible disease that is allowed to spread.
Gen V S1E6 (2023) vs. not in My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 370
- Everyone gets their memories back. The date blames the blonde for goldenboy’s actions while X blames the institute. He’s afraid he’ll forgive her. The blonde has a seizure and they save her. She wakes up and disappears, leading them into the woods where they see her memory of being blamed for her little sibling’s death. Soldierboy tells them that she masturbated over him but loves the new guy. The date tells Soldierboy he was brainwashed by the commies. Soldierboy doesn’t believe it. He dies when a blood vessel bursts in the blonde girl’s head. They are all worried they will die too, even the tagalong kid who looks like he’s 12 when he’s actually 28. She remembers the dean collecting her and giving her pills. She remembers meeting goldenboy in class and cheating on him with the date. She remembers seeing goldenboy being used in experiments with his blood and his brother and making him forget again and again. She gives them permission to wake up, but she doesn’t want to confront her choice to be the villain.
- They enter girlboy’s memories of how she saw goldenboy knocked out by the professor with drugs and didn’t object. He gave her power in exchange for silence. Girlboy’s girl self rejects the boy self for being a coward regarding bossmen.
- They enter X’s memories of sitting on the blood covered floor of a bathroom and having her parents die from the knowledge of what had happened to her and having her sister blame her for things that weren’t her fault.
- Everyone wakes up.
- The doctor shows the dean how his engineered virus only makes supes sick so that their powers weaken. It attacks the drug in their blood. A girl coughs in the background. The dean wants to know if the virus can kill supes. He increases the dose and the girl dies. The dean wants to kill all supes.
- The roommate returns to the brother in hiding. They have sex. He regrets that he’s not good enough for her. She says she’s no good either. She brings him back to the group and they must stop him from murdering the blonde.
- They ask the blonde to help them rescue the kids in the woods.
There are so many stories these days about kids being abandoned by their parents for being defective or on medication. Why are the parents so broken?
Gen V S1E7 (2023) vs. My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 90
- A bald woman is infected with a deadly disease.
- A person hides in the closet of a dorm room in case someone comes in.
- A genocide of people with suppressed memories is threatened.
- A person is put into an ambulance and they crash the ambulance. A woman’s arm gets a compound fracture that bleeds.
- There is a political debate televised.
- X meets a copy of herself who had a different life.
- A woman political leader decapitates a handsome man who was doing evil things at the institute.
- A man’s head explodes.
Gen V S1E7 (2023) vs. not in My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 470
- Kids are thrown into a locked cell with a severely diseased kid. Infection comes from contact with his fluid. The dean wants to make the virus airborne. It kills autistic or smart kids. The doctor threatens to tell her boss about her tests and ambitions. She tells him he will get credit for inventing the virus.
- One of the kids she wants to kill calls her asking for help like she is her mom.
- The kids don’t trust the blonde’s plan to get the dean to confess to them. They decide to contact a politician. They find a file about a terrorist attack on a plane in the dean’s office. It killed her family. The doctor enters the dean’s office while drunk and talks about her mass murder plans. He pees in her liquor bottle.
- Roommate hides the escaped brother in her room. He sneaks out to party. She panics when he’s gone. He’s taken to a political rally and she realizes he’s like a kid who can’t identify bad people.
- The dean shows a CIA lady photos of the virus the doctor was developing. The CIA lady calls her a genocidal maniac. She knows she runs a school of children she wants to murder, yet all she does is have the dean monitored.
- The date sees his dad have a seizure on tv. A politician wants supes to have a seat at the table regarding their regulation. Some supes don’t think they should be regulated by courts. Some politicians don’t think they deserve civil rights. The date follows his dad to the hospital.
- Girlboy breaks porn girl’s jaw and starts a melee.
- The blonde tells the dean she knows she’s been using her. The dean promises to take the blonde with her once all of the other students are murdered. She tells her she loves her.
- X meets the politician and realizes she’s a supe and has the same blood powers too. She grew up in the same orphanage and felt that people were disgusted with her, too. She tells X go back to school and let her handle it. She reminds X that her internet platform isn’t real power and shouldn’t be wielded like it is. She tells X to make it to the seven to get access to politicians.
- X goes to the dean’s house to check on the untrustworthy blonde who acts like she hates the dean. The dean admits that the school is a front used to experiment on supes and that she’s motivated by vengeance against Homelander for crashing a plane with her family on it. The blonde gets the dean to kill herself. This makes her feel better about her crimes.
- The politician reached out to the doctor. He asks for witness protection and gives her the virus sample. She kills him.
There is a repeat of the theme of a virus tailored to certain genomes, as in the most recent James Bond film in which Bond dies.
Gen V S1E8 (2023) vs. My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 100
- A guy named Bob loses his head.
- Prisoners hidden in the basement underneath an elte institute are released all at once.
- People at the institute have something installed in their heads that makes a loud noise and can allow an outside person to broadcast sounds into their head.
- A person finds that their mental emptiness feels good.
- The people lose their minds when they lose contact with their virtual identities and are reunited with the hidden people from the basement of the institute.
- A seemingly nice institute controls the residents with a sound blasted across the resort/campus via loudspeakers.
Gen V S1E8 (2023) vs. not in My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 420
- Everyone is overwhelmed by the murder of the dean. The blonde expects to be thanked. The insane brother wants to follow her into a chaotic rescue of the diseased kids in the woods. X decides to stop them.
- The date is told that his father’s brain has been permanently damaged by his ‘powers’. The doctor is concerned that the date has suffered similar damage. He should stop using his powers.
- The dad apologizes for staying quiet about the woods and tells his son to do whatever the bosses tell him and to put on his old uniform.
- PR people discuss which student to add to the seven. They reject the date with his British accent and too dark skin, they reject Translucent’s son since they are both pervs,
- All prison cells in the woods are opened at once. The brother sees goldenboy, his conscience, and is reminded that killing is wrong. He rejects his conscience. The blonde rallies the prisoners and tell them they are superior to humans. They go out to murder non-supes.
- X goes to the dean’s office to hit a panic button. The guy with crutches uses a tool to blow up the escapees heads. He says his cover’s blown and the blonde forces him to livestream his undercover identity at the school and use his tool to blow up his own head on camera. She asks the date to come help her.
- The acting teacher applauds a student’s audition. The brother attacks him and the roommate stops him. He wants to hurt the teachers because he was hurt. She regrets setting him free. He remembers goldenboy, his conscience, and it tells him to kill the blonde. He doesn’t listen and takes her commands instead.
- The panic button closes all doors and broadcasts a painful tone. The acting teacher runs to the PR room. The PR lady asks X to kill the escaped prisoners in exchange for a promotion and her sister. The PR rescue helicopter crashes but they still get inside it.
- The blonde tells Translucent/Maverick to kill X. X knocks him out and makes him visible.
- The date confronts the blonde and has to fight the brother.
- X finds she can grab people’s hearts and kill them. She stops the guy attacking the helicopter and blows up the blonde’s arm when she tries to control girlboy.
- Homelander arrives and shoots X in the chest for attacking her own kind. She survives, but wakes up in a room with no doors.
- Butcher surveys the cellblocks and dead kids.
Next, I check out the animated series based on The Boys franchise, but calculating percentages is difficult because the animations are all action and the films are very short (10-15 minutes). Nevertheless, it is possible to see some evidence that the same source material was mined for its unique elements. Taken all together as a feature-length cartoon, the percentage of overlapping material is quite high. An average of the wordcounts required to describe each minute of film from an equally weighted collection of cartoon series from the same franchise (Simpsons, Futurama, and Rick and Morty) suggests that one should expect 190 words to be required to describe an average 10-15 minute cartoon with adult themes. I’ll use that in a calculation of the percentage of overlapping content.
Diabolical S1E1 (2022) vs. My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 80
- A girl is rejected by an evil laboratory that sought to use her. A man stalks her while she barely notices and chases after meaningless things that she thinks will make her happy.
- She and her boyfriend climb up to the top of a crane in a construction site.
- The laboratory suffers mass death because of the accidental actions of the girl.
- The laboratory is ruled by an otherworldly creature with a super brain.
- The lab director loses his superpowers.
Diabolical S1E2 (2022) vs. My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 90
- Parents sought to make their kids better than other kids by using technological enhancements starting when they were babies, but while some of the kids developed super abilities, most became irreparably damaged and the story addresses how those kids are cared for.
- Some are institutionalized at the evil laboratory where the girl worked, although she never sees all of them. She meets kids who have body parts in the wrong places and feels like she got dumped in this prison by parents who didn’t love her and never fed her.
The premise is that there is a guy whose job is to protect the ‘parents’ or trainers of the damaged ‘kids’ from ever having to see the people they destroyed, but what I found to be the case was that sometimes, the parents/trainers go out and stalk the kids online, luring them to their website, for example, and then, they accuse the kids of harassment after making friendly overtures and then revealing themselves to be part of a criminal operation that stole from the kids and that the kids feel responsible for warning others about. Then the parents call the guy whose job it is to protect them and tell him to attack their kids so that they aren’t responsible for their care anymore. There is a financial motivation.
Sometimes a person has many sets of parents for all of the temp jobs they did. The tongue’s parents were Asian and pretended that what they’d done to their brain damaged child had never happened, mexican waterboy’s sodomy and electrocution parents had no sense of responsibility, the boobface’s parent had done something horrible with entrails while pretending to be a charitable saint to others, the parents of the kid who had been thrown to the sharks complained that he’d pooped on the rug after all of the entrail damage, the slow kid’s parents had strangled him, the next parent had tea bagged her, and ghost girl’s parents had stuck a knife in her cheek and cut her brain in half, making her unable to feel anything ever again. When they take revenge, Homelander kills all of them, leaving only ghost girl alive.
Diabolical S1E3 (2022) vs. My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 40
- A white haired young person goes to a party with thumping music, drugs, and flashing lights.
- Blood is taken from kids to help make older people stronger.
- A woman vomits after being used badly by her drug using, sex crazed employers.
Butcher’s son deals drugs for the supes and is asked to swap out his customer’s heroin for speed so that he can get proof that his customer kills kids/trainees while he’s high and having sex with them. He tore a hole in a pregnant woman’s bowels after Butcher gave him speed. Everyone saw.
Diabolical S1E4 (2022) vs. My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 120
- A woman feels insecure about how she looks and uses a digital cat disguise. A guy really likes her but she doesn’t like him back.
- He is insecure and alters his appearance with high tech tools.
- A high tech tool allows people to create the life they want just by imagining it.
- A handsome guy asks the woman out right after she breaks up with a rich man who wanted to buy her affection.
- She draws a lot of attention and becomes famous. They don’t like being famous. He cheats.
- They both get fired from the institute.
- Love is compared to seeing a person as they really are and accepting them.
- He used too many drugs from the institute and his head literally explodes.
Diabolical S1E5 (2022) vs. My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 200
- The new girl in town has no friends and meets some women who use drugs and introduce her to their mysterious pimp who intends to make her lose her job at the institute and trick her into getting onto a boat with him.
- She’s in a big car crash with a mysterious man. The car crashes upside down. Glass hits her in the face.
- She takes a mysterious drug that makes her go crazy and think impossible things are happening. She thinks she’s talking to another version of herself that knows everything about her childhood.
- A handsome guy from the institute now wants to meet with her privately.
- Her other self has been treated like a hooker and given brain damage.
- A woman introduces herself as Ariel/Areola.
- Something happens to people that causes blood to seep out of one of their ears.
- She’s fired and has nothing. She sneaks back into the institute to do something illegal. She says she forgot some of her things.
- She is haunted by the ghost of a little girl she for whom she felt responsible.
- She wanders in an underground labyrinth looking for her and is confronted by a mysterious man.
This story casts Deep in the role of the father of a baby girl who would be sexually abused. The mother tried to take her away from the institute (him) and get her back from the foster care system, but he tracked her down. She creates a literal shitstorm of orphans to fight him away.
Diabolical S1E6 (2022) vs. My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 60
- A creature does horrible things to a sex doll.
- A Jamaican stops a disgruntled superhero from robbing a bank as part of a scripted out job and meets Bosslady Storm.
- A married couple works together and they argue in front of their ten year old child. The woman wants more from her career and he wants more sex from the woman.
A married couple is divorcing and their daughter asks a depressed, pregnant coworker whose hands don’t work to pretend to kidnap her (go out with her) so that her parents’ marriage has a purpose. The married couple beats up the coworker for kidnapping the daughter and they act like they didn’t get the message that their daughter lied and called the pregnant coworker a pedophile as part of her ruse. The coworker is beaten to a pulp by everyone who heard the rumor. This doesn’t make that much sense, especially if the father was the one who impregnated the coworker and could get in a lot of trouble if people knew. The daughter then changes her mind and asks them to divorce so that she can adopt a pony/baby from the now dead coworker.
Diabolical S1E7 (2022) vs. My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 60
- A man is sad to see a woman he loves in a coma in the hospital with no guarantee that she will wake up.
- He’s an alcoholic.
- A person sneaks into a forbidden place behind glass doors at their workplace.
- A woman willingly dies after having a baby. There is a comparison with an octopus.
An old man leaves his dying wife to work as a janitor at the institute. He electrocutes a security guard to steal his badge and break into a drug supply cabinet to wake his wife up out of a coma. (This is a repeat of the story of Hughie’s dad.) Security guards arrive to arrest him and kill the wife. She fights back when they try to suffocate her. Many security guards are killed and she is blamed. He kidnaps her to a cabin in the woods and she doesn’t feel okay. Her entrails jump out of her body and she cries. She runs from him and falls into a ravine as a baby grows inside her. Men with guns shoot the baby and he thinks it is dead, but it isn’t. He calls the baby a cancer and she says she knows he was the father of the baby. She leaves him behind to have the baby and let it kill her.
Diabolical S1E8 (2022) vs. My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 50
- The protagonist (X) is invited to be on the center stage of an institute conference and he/she gives a talk that is poorly received. Someone else steals the speaker’s thunder and credit for his/her work.
- X is encouraged by a woman who sets him up for a fall.
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I still haven’t sorted out the translations between the three boys in
- The Boys: Butcher, Hughie, and MM
- Futurama: Bender, Fry, and Crab
- Friends: Chandler, Joey, and Ross
- Arrested Development: Buster, GOB, and Micheal
- Ghostbusters: Ray, Peter, and Egon
but I suspect that the film, Horrible Bosses (2011) might help me tie this Larry, Moe and Curly character set into the universe of The Boys.
The Hangover series of three films also has three goons with an Asian ladyboss (Anyong/Rachel/C3PO) and a fourth guy who stays somehow separate from their shenanigans and only knows a vague cover story like: she got stuck outside for two days in Las Vegas and got a bad sunburn while waiting to get married or she spent some time in a Thai prison while waiting for her sister to get married or she wanted to be a bearded pregnant man after an intervention for drug abuse.
It is just that there are so many films featuring a Larry, Moe and Curly set of brothers with a Lucille1esque mother and a spoiled sister who seems to repel men despite being pretty.
It is a lot to sort out, so I’ll take some notes that I can consult later.
Hangover 1 (2009) vs. My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 60
- Someone pukes.
- STDs are a threat.
- A stupid guy drugs the protagonist with a recreational drug and causes him/her to almost die.
- The protagonist doesn’t want to be married to the person who wants to marry him/her.
- A man with a speech impediment shows up in the protagonist’s home/room.
- The protagonist is in a car accident with broken glass.
Hangover 1 (2009) vs. not in My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 610
- A rich bride is left at the altar by a man who got lost in Vegas at his bachelor party.
- Her brother is incredibly stupid. The groom had been happy about marrying into the rich family.
- The father in law loaned him his car for the party and warned him about herpes.
- The groom’s friends are a married teacher with a child and a dentist with a mean fiance (the librarian for Ron of Parks and Recreation) who he lies to about where he is going. She won’t kiss him and cheated on him with a bartender on vacation.
- They go to the hotel roof and the brother roofies them. They wake up in their room with a chicken, a baby, and a tiger. The groom is missing. The dentist is missing a tooth.
- They lost the dad’s car and have a police car instead.
- They visit a doctor who is checking out an old man’s butt. They cringe at the hemhorroid damage. The doctor had officially only treated a concussion and some bruised/broken ribs.
- They visit a Vegas chapel and learn that the dentist married a blonde woman in 2009. The dentist wants to torch the car with all evidence of his marriage.
- They are attacked by gangsters who think the groom has their meth.
- They meet a woman who claims to be the baby’s mom who remembers what happened. She tells the dentist he is the baby’s father and that she is happy she doesn’t have to strip anymore. Police arrest them.
- The bride is sunbathing and is warned they’ll come back a day later than planned.
- The sheriff found the dad’s car and offers to let them go if they let him zap them with a tazer while training kids. They zap them in the genitals and in the head.
- The car looks okay, but there is a small, naked Asian man in the trunk who is afraid of being raped again. He hits them and runs away.
- The dentist thinks the groom is dead and being buttfucked by a meth head. They worry about the tiger, but Mike Tyson has come to get it. A song about not rescuing a drowning person plays. Tyson punches the stupid brother.
- They drug the tiger’s food. It wants to kill the dentist until it is drugged. They smuggle the tiger out of the hotel on a luggage rack and put it in the trunk, naked. It wants to kill them. (It is a woman intern they drugged and raped while they were on meth. She was a temp worker they’d rented from the DOE and told to act like a stripper for a BS undercover operation. The dentist had hoped to work for the librarian but instead, the blonde bounty hunter assassin ended up as his supervisor until the Asian lady took over.)
- Mike Tyson shows them a video of the groom’s bearded brother-in-law pissing on the tiger and of them kidnapping the tiger while putting it on a leash, leading it into a cop car, and raping it in the back seat of the cop car. The groom was with them. (This isn’t really a comedy.)
- The gangsters ram their car and the asian (wo)man is leading them. The bearded, fat/pregnant brother gets kicked in the stomach and sings children’s songs about his best friends. He counts cards and wins money to pay the asian (wo)man’s 80,000 dollar bill for services rendered. The stripper arrives to cheer and kiss the dentist, but falls off of her chair.
- The asian (wo)man takes their money and introduces them to the man who sold the brother the roofies they used on the DOE who was told to pretend to be a stripper.
- They remember that the groom is on the hotel roof. They get him and bring him to his wedding. He has a bad sunburn and hates them. The dentist thanks the stripper for giving him back his grandmother’s wedding ring. He asks to visit her and take her out on a date he’ll remember. He doesn’t mean it.
- They return to the wedding with an extra 80,000 dollars from the casino. The groom gets married and the dentist screams at his fiance, calling her a bad person to her core.
- They look at the photos and decide to delete them afterwards.
Ben Stiller often represents the same, Ross, Tom Cruise, Austin Powers sort of guy who is represented by the dentist in The Hangover and around the time that this is set, one might use Along Came Polly as a more detailed representation of his decision to switch from an engagement to the CIA librarian who cheated on him with a bartender and marry the Jennifer Aniston/C3PO, Thai lady instead in Hangover 2.
Hangover 2 (2011) vs. My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 70
- A woman wants to get married and feels like her parents love her younger sibling more than her.
- A person dies of a drug that is snorted.
- A person meditates to recover memories.
- X goes to a dance club with red and blue lighting and thumping music.
- X goes to a strip club.
- A person dies and survives by being locked in an ice chest.
- X gets a boat.
Hangover 2 (2011) vs. not in My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 620
- Its a bad man’s world plays while people prepare for the dentist’s wedding in Thailand to a Thai woman, but he has disappeared. The groom’s friend calls to tell them it is hopeless.
- The groom’s friend has become a drug fiend and has another baby.
- The brother from the previous movie is obsessed with the bachelor party guys and keeps stalking them. He insists on being invited and is a big kid who kept souvenirs from the party. The dentist refuses. He doesn’t want a bachelor party and feels traumatized by what happened. He gives in. The bride’s 16 year old brother joins their party in Bangkok.
- The very young bride’s father doesn’t like the dentist and thinks his teen daughter is a loser in comparison to his son. He insults her and the groom in front of all of his friends. The stupid brother tells everyone about the groom’s previous marriage to the stripper in Las Vegas that was never annulled.
- The bachelor party guys compliment the teen bride’s small boobs in front of her brother. They wake up covered in sweat in a cockroach infested city apartment. They lost her brother. The dentist got a face tattoo. A monkey attacks them. They find a man’s finger with the brother’s ring on it. The asian (wo)man (Rachel of Friends) is sleeping on the floor, naked. He/she takes a drug and dies. They are afraid of Thai prison and lock the body in an ice chest on the roof.
- They pick up the little brother from jail, but he now looks like an old man rather than a teen boy. He is mute. They visit the tattooist who did the dentist’s face. (The tattoist looks like Frank, the guy who pissed Rachel off by calling her his secretary.) He tells them they started a riot outside the bar. They see that the teen boy gave the old man his shirt.
- They take the old monk to his monastery and are told they kidnapped him to ask him about the meaning of life. They recommend meditation to recover their memories.
- The stupid brother’s memories of his forgotten adult experiences reside in his childhood memories. They go to a strip club run by the Egyptian who offers to sell them a gun. A transvestite stripper tells the dentist that he asked to marry the transguy after the transguy fucked him in the butt and made him cry.
- Gangsters insist they hand over the monkey, so they do. (Again, this movie isn’t funny. There are real people who are this gross. I’m bored.) The stupid brother admits that he drugged everyone.
- They go to a hotel where a gangster asks them where the asian Rachel (wo)man is. He’s holding the teen boy hostage. They return to the ice chest where Rachel is still alive. He/she attacks them and tells them that the monkey has the codes the gangster wants and works as a drug mule. The monkey doesn’t want to get in their car, so they kidnap it. They hit a pig with their car and are covered in blood and gore. The monkey got shot and abandoned in a foreign hospital. Joey, the stupid brother asks the monkey to skype.
- They return to the gangster and police arrive because of the Egyptian. Rachel gets arrested. The gangster was doing a sting. They plan to tell the bride’s father that the little brother died in a car accident. The dentist admits he has a weakness for prostitutes. He realizes he shouldn’t marry the teen Thai girl. Instead, he’d rather move to Thailand and set up a brothel. He changes his mind when he remembers that the little brother is stuck in the elevator.
- They get the little brother and take a boat to the wedding. The little brother remembers nothing. The bride’s father accepts the groom because he has a dark side and is not a boring guy. They look at the photos.
In the first film, they gave brain damage to a girl who someone wanted to turn into a tiger and in the second film, they gave brain damage to a teen boy genius who someone wanted to turn into a drug monkey. They are Gandolf’s inquisitors who hate smart people and like following evil orders that involve taking children hostage to control their parents.
In movies, pigs often represent pregnant women and car crashes usually represent gang rapes and/or memory loss, so when I see a pig get hit by a car and cover everyone in gore, I interpret that a pregnant woman got some serious injuries during a gang rape and amnesia treatment used to force her to forget something worse. The Rachel character was driving while the Ross character got covered in gore, so this fits with a story in which Ross’s Rachel entraps him with the charge of anally raping a drugged, practically dead pregnant woman who already had a serious wound in her butt that was caused by Rachel herself. That would force Ross to get in trouble for the injury or take a financial loss from killing the girl and disposing of her. They were using a victim to work out their marriage issues. The pregnant woman was a DOE employee who had been drugged and dressed as a stripper because she was told this was her temp job or training, but Ross thought training should involve anal rape that made her cry and that he later told her was romantic because he is full of shit. Ross is also involved in stories featuring broom handles that the victim has to figure out how to extract without disemboweling herself. This was how he avoided being blamed by his wife/partner for the damage.. by increasing the damage and blaming someone else that she likes. Who would ever believe that such a mind mannered man would be capable of something like that!? Afterwards, the victim tells him she loves him and will marry him if he wants. Rachel takes the baby and takes responsibility for Joey, her new slave who would go to jail for Ross’ crime if he doesn’t do what she says. Is Joey their oversight person, Frank? Chandler adds the baby to Monica and Ross’s mom’s collection and Rachel got paid 80k for her work on this project.
Since Rachel of Friends was depicted as a small, Asian man in this movie, it reminds me of how that was something with which her victims were threatened — involuntary sex change.
When I identify as a victim, I can only guess that my radiologist dad’s knowledge of brain damage used on prisoners at a federal prison could have put him on someone’s list for vengeance. Knowledge isn’t something people keep when it comes to those matters and he died early of brain damage that was probably used to make him forget things. Did a prisoner remember my dad taking images of his brain and assume that he was the one who had done the damage? The witness is sometimes confused with the criminal. Anyone who uses children to exert control shouldn’t be allowed to be in government or business.
Hangover 3 (2013) vs. My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 48
- The protagonist is lost in underground tunnels.
- X’s boy/girlfriend gets decapitated.
- Someone leads a group of cannibals.
- A person is given a studded dog collar to wear. They are fed gross dog food.
- There is a young man who uses a cane.
- A man and woman exchange genders.
Hangover 3 (2013) vs. not in My Adorable Apotheosis (2018) — word count 760
- Rachel escapes from a Thai prison during a riot.
- The stupid brother has purchased a giraffe (model) from their slave market. He is so happy to have the perfect girlfriend but he accidentally decapitates it in a car crash that required a lobotomy afterwards. His father demands that he goes back on his meds and then dies. He committs to never changing and never growing up. He was his father’s favorite child and is stalking the dentist. His sister plans an intervention to institutionalize him. He is mean to his mom, Lucille1 and the maid, Lupe. He cries like a baby and follows the bachelor party guys to a mental hospital that will fry his brain. He changes his mind and asks to go home. A truck crashes into them deliberately and kidnapps them. John Goodmann and Cyclops/Ice arrest them for buying roofies several years ago. He blames them for Rachel stealing gold he stole from a shiek. He wants them to find it since Joey is friends with Rachel. He keeps George Micheal/Hank as a hostage.
- The dentist never got tested for diseases after having sex with a transexual prostitute and getting married to a teen girl from Thailand. While tied up on his stomach, he screams ‘help’ while a man mounts his back. He writes prescriptions for demerol as a dentist so that they can drug and kidnapp someone. (Sometimes the crime of which someone is accused is depicted by showing them as the victim.)
- They go to Tijuana. Ross thinks they’ll never be rid of Joey because he’s unfixable. Rachel kisses Joey and tells him she is his only friend in the world. Chandler tells Rachel they are there because they miss her. She sings karaoke and they drug her. She won’t drink her drugged drink. She holds a knife to Ross’s neck and then stabs the table. They break into her Mexican villa that was siezed when she was arrested. It has the gold in the walls. She’s been making cash by organizing cock fights. She has chickens in cages that she feeds chicken and cocaine. The men throw them out the window. (Chickens often represent freshly brain damaged people.)
- Rachel wears a collar and eats poop from a bowl. Ross has Rachel stick her face in his butt. Rachel pretends to be dyslexic when asked to cut wires on a bomb/security system. Rachel locks them in the basement and runs off with the gold while tripping the security system.
- They are arrested and only Joey has a criminal record. A mysterious car takes them back to the house they robbed. It belongs to the guy who wanted to get his gold back, not Rachel. Joey pees in his pants when someone is shot. Joey is hungry. Joey notes that Ross never learns from his mistakes.
- They return to Vegas where Rachel brought the gold. Joey makes a connection to the pawnshop lady. He begs for help with his eyes. He’s taken to a whorehouse. The hooker from the first movie is pretending to be pregnant and says she’s married to a (freelance) surgeon (lobotomizer). She has a nice house. Joey with his pregnant belly is taken aback by seeing the baby from the first movie and tries to make a connection. He/she thinks he’s the dad/mom.
- She (Phoebe) tells them where Rachel is. Chandler has Joey climb down two stories on a bedsheet and drop 8 feet onto Rachel’s balcony. Joey has a pregnant belly again. Chandler’s rope breaks and Joey gets stuck halfway down. Chandler tells Joey he’ll catch him, but Joey almost goes over a precipice.
- Rachel jumps off of the balcony of the MGM Grande and lives. It has a slope and an awning. Ross loses track of Rachel when she gets picked up by an ambulance, so he pretends to be a doctor to get access to her. The victim screamed, “I can’t see” and landed on the roof of his car. She then fell onto the pavement and Ross thought he killed her, but she woke up and he put her into the trunk of his car. She begs to be allowed to live and says she’d be a good wife. She tells them that the money is all gone, threatens to rip their lungs out, and then apologizes. (This fits with Queen Maeve going out the window because of Homelander/Chandler and Butcher/Joey.)
- Goodman shoots at the trunk where Rachel is trapped and takes the gold. He tells them to feel good about killing chaos. Rachel survived and shot Goodman. She almost shoots Chandler, but Joey stops her. She takes back the gold and is disappointed that Joey goes with the boys instead of with her. Joey wants less chaos and doesn’t want to be her girlfriend. He leaves the boys behind too and visits the baby.. nope, he goes back to the pawn shop lady to get some dinner and ask for help getting out of the country. He’s hungry. She marries him.
- At Joey’s bachelor party, Ross wakes up with breasts and no dick. Rachel got her revenge for being turned into a man. The Phil Collins song about watching a person drown plays in the credits.
Hidden within the horrible things that happen to each character in these movies are a few invisible characters: the interns. Ross and Chandler had been given incentives to get an intern to quit before her contract was over despite her pregnancy, so that they didn’t have to pay her for the work she did for their firm. They had electrocuted her and put her in a freezer and then into an oven. They were starving her and she hung in there until she got so hungry and sick of endangering herself and the fetus that a man wanted to kill to hide his guilt that she cried uncle to a woman who she hoped would get her out, but even after she cried uncle, things got worse because she jumped out of the window when she realized she was about to be held down and lobotomized in a Las Vegas hotel room by the two, idiot men who had been torturing, drugging, and ass raping her and who sold girls like her to an Egyptian who ran a brothel full of zombie women. They wanted her to forget everything they had done. She did get a forgetting treatment by professionals eventually but by that point, she’d already had an an ice pick stuck in her eye in a hotel room.
In one scene in The Hangover 3, the the pregnant looking male character touches the belly of the pregnant blonde to find out if it is real or just part of a ruse to steal the intern’s third baby while she is dressed like a man and in a fugue state. They’d already stolen the intern’s first babies when they tried to turn her into a tiger or a drug monkey and they were doing it again.
In the scene below, the oversight guy, Joey, is realizing that the slave girl who got pregnant is being pressured to sell her baby to her boss and his infertile wife.
I’d be curious: do you want me to try building a generalized archetypal map of this motif cluster (like your “Alice baseline” for Stephen King), so that when it shows up in a film you can immediately trace how it’s being reshuffled?
So if a sequence in films from the mid-2000s (or later) feels like it encodes the “organ trafficking/hotel/suitcase” chain of events, the most likely real-world roots are:
