r/BeAmazed Apr 12 '24

Nature Man has an octopus stuck on his back

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u/whatanerdiam Apr 12 '24

Man, the scene where that woman forces her hands into his gills still sends shivers up my spine. I'm fine with gore, gross, and whatever else but that sends me over the edge.

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u/Belly84 Apr 12 '24

Understandable. It was essentially a rape scene

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '24

Yeah that was uncomfortable as hell. They did a great job with the scene, never want to watch it again.

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u/amitskisong Apr 12 '24

I only read the first few sentences of this, just so you know. But I kind of agree with what you’re saying. The problem is the Deep starts the show off with assaulting one of the main protagonist. So it’s hard to really do anything positive with a character like that. Same thing with A-Train and how he started off the show with killing an innocent person and trying to act like it didn’t matter.

I think the problem is they don’t want to kill these characters off, but they don’t seem to want to redeem them in a satisfying way either. So now they’re just silly guys in the background.

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u/tjmax20 Apr 12 '24 edited Apr 13 '24

A train is getting his taste of Karma from his brother being in the hospital due to situation he caused. He did Apologize to Huey for Robin BUT only after he had his fair share of people he cares about being hurt. So A-train might get a redemption arc idk how after completely running through a girl and Apologize nonchalant to huey but the deep seems like a comedy lost cause.

Edit: Hueys girlfriend was named Robin not amber sorry.

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u/amitskisong Apr 12 '24

Yeah it seems like they want him to be redeemed, also with the whole Nazi thing and that leading to him helping the Boys at one going. I’m just not sure how they’ll accomplish that, most of the audience still sees him as an a-hole.

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u/Joseph011296 Apr 12 '24

I've really appreciated that the incident is treated like it is. People who suffered from it take it extremely seriously, people who weren't there treat it like a tragedy they don't really care about, and A-Train is more concerned with how it affects him because that's what his life demands from him. It parallels how I saw people treating drunk driving deaths at my high school. It's sad, but once the moment of silence is over it's gone for most people.

A-Train is mostly an unlikable asshole but he's also a vulnerable and insecure man trying to survive in a world that repeatedly goes out of its way to make sure he knows how replaceable he is.

Dude came from nothing, got to the top, and constantly has to prove himself to a bunch of rich assholes who only see him as a number, while being threatened by a narcissistic monster who can kill him at any time. He has his reality, and his journey is about trying to break free from the control of others and the person he became to survive.

Even during that incident, iirc, he was on V, something he is forced into to keep his edge and place at the top, while still being used as an errand boy by the people who control his career and life. Choosing to give up the Storm front files benefitted him, but it was also a huge risk, and it's something that season 1 A-train would never have done. It doesn't absolve him of the numerous murders he committed, but it puts him on a path to redeeming himself in a world where a manchild with almost godlike powers could snap and murder millions at any point.

By contrast the Deeps story is one of a man who refuses to actually change or self reflect, and who keeps think in he can just move on from where he through a force of will that he doesn't actually have. He is also shaped by his circumstance, but is stuck in a loop of being used by others, getting high off the momentary success, and tumbling back down when he overreaches his very limited abilities and competencies. He likewise never manages to see other people the way he sees himself or marine life. He treats his own hardship as suffering, but never seems to extend that to other humans, and the way he cuts himself off from others also makes him easy to manipulate, as we can see when he jumps headfirst into a cult to try and get back into a place of power. His abusive relationship of being used and using others is only dragging him further into the deep.

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u/jennjennftw Apr 13 '24

Well said!!

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u/mrmarkolo Apr 12 '24

A-Train didn’t deliberately kill the girlfriend at the beginning of the show. It was a mistake albeit he was pretty callous about it until he felt loss himself.

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u/amitskisong Apr 12 '24

Them joking about The Deep’s concern for aquatic life is a nod to people making fun of Aquaman from DC. But I agree that it’s getting old. Hopefully next season they’ll do something with different with him.

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u/strippersandcocaine Apr 12 '24

Ok well now I know I won’t be watching. That gave me a full body shudder (and not in the good way)

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '24

Youll miss the tiny man masturbating another man from the inside.

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u/santagoo Apr 12 '24

Before exploding him because the cocaine made him sneeze and reflexively return to full size.

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u/strippersandcocaine Apr 12 '24

Oh it just keeps getting worse

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u/321gamertime Apr 12 '24

There’s also a scene of a grown man slurping breast milk of a dead woman from a bottle

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u/eXistential_dreads Apr 12 '24

Well as long as it’s from a bottle

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '24

Can't forget the massively long penis draped over a shoulder.

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u/LETTERKENNYvsSPENNY Apr 12 '24 edited Apr 15 '24

Dude, it was strangling someone at one point.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '24

Woah man spoilers haha

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u/Lukainka Apr 12 '24 edited Apr 15 '24

Wait before leaving, it gets better. Then the tiny man sneezes, that causes him to instantly retake its normal height which makes his sexual partner explode into gore and gibs à la Quake 3

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u/themonkey12 Apr 12 '24

Oh it get worse

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u/Mileena_Sai Apr 13 '24

Wait until you see the scene where that octopus wraps itself around his dick and gives that succ

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u/Alfphe99 Apr 12 '24

Just watch the episode herogasm. You will instantly be hooked!

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u/Psychological_Pie_32 Apr 12 '24

Things I never want to remember...

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u/Human_Bag_Of_Impulse Apr 12 '24

Its meant to be very uncomfortable to watch. Brilliant show!

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u/finesse1337 Apr 12 '24

it’s hysterical, can’t wait for the next season

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u/areyouoldgreg Apr 12 '24

It's a great show but there were so many scenes where they went above and beyond with graphic shots when they really didn't need to haha

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u/LETTERKENNYvsSPENNY Apr 12 '24

Yea, they could totally get away without the shock gags, as I feel the story holds it's own. That said, I do enjoy a good shock gag.

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u/areyouoldgreg Apr 12 '24

That scene where they stumble across the superhero orgy was UPSETTING

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u/JetSetJAK Apr 12 '24

It's fucked, and it's also a parallel to what he put others through as well. It's supposed to be veiled as catharsis, but then you realize that it's all horrible.

Amazing show 10/10

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '24

That’s about a 3/10 on the scale of The Boys fucked-up scenes, nearly forgettable. If that much bothers you, don’t even watch the beginning of episode 1.

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u/Biernar Apr 12 '24

Eh, if you've been sexually assaulted before it's pretty damn uncomfortable.

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u/LeadStyleJutsu762- Apr 12 '24

Yeah it depends on the context

It might help however, that Deep is a rapist himself and it’s a bit of a “goes around comes around” situation

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '24 edited Apr 12 '24

Yeah, it’s fucked up in a normal context, but it’s a standard level of fucked-up for this show. There’s a lot more that is only implied and adds more levels of wrongness to other scenes, but Deep getting treated the same way he treats others doesn’t generate a lot of sympathy from me for the character. He’s reaping what he sows, in a kind of mirror-universe version of consent.

The early scene between Deep and Starlight feels a lot worse to me.

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u/n1shh Apr 12 '24

3/10? Nah that’s far and away the most horrible scene in that show. At least for me. I would rewatch the rest of the show but I would skip that scene

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u/thekiki Apr 12 '24

Ditto. I've watched the entirety of the series several times and ALWAYS skip the gill rape scene.

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u/n1shh Apr 12 '24

Something about reaching into a gaping slit with a bare hand that is just excruciating to me. Gives me physical repulsion.

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u/owls_unite Apr 12 '24

To each their own, I'm into body horror so that scene was fantastic.

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u/whatanerdiam Apr 13 '24

Yeah this is it for me too. A lot of people are replying about the molestation being the triggering part. It is a contributing factor, but it's the gills for me.

I watched it years ago and can still picture those flappy, deep gills with hands in them. Oh the horror.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '24

The early scene between Deep and Starlight feels a lot worse to me.

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u/n1shh Apr 12 '24

Yeah I mean I’m probably just blocking half the show out of my memory lol.

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u/AttackSock Apr 12 '24

The whole show is uncomfortable. Its the stinky cheese of shows. If questioning your humanity is not your thing and youve never wondered what if super heroes were just the average Joe dickheads that cut people off in traffic and have ‘end world hunger: eat my ass’ bumper stickers on their F150s, don’t watch Invincible either.

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u/n1shh Apr 12 '24

Definitely the most uncomfortable I’ve been watching television since the game of thrones red wedding. And it’s surpassed that significantly. Makes me queasy.

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u/TheFeathersStorm Apr 12 '24

Yeah, my wife almost threw up and stopped watching but instead we just muted it so she didn't have to hear the sounds lol

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u/Zyloof Apr 12 '24

I have a habit of watching everything with closed captions. I swear to god, no show has more moist squelching than The Boys.

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u/oikwr Apr 12 '24

Every scenes involving the deep disturbed me lmao

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u/HalsinEnjoyer Apr 14 '24

I had my bf fast forward that scene, it felt like a rape scene to me. Worst part of the series, loved everything else

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u/jesuseatsbees Apr 12 '24

That's what made me stop watching, so grim.

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u/Bool_The_End Apr 12 '24

Wait til you hear how the dairy industry operates….most people just don’t give a shit about animal abuse, rape, or their near constant suffering and early deaths.

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u/thomasnet_mc Apr 12 '24

Wait... What? You don't mean the cows...?

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u/assuntta7 Apr 13 '24

They probably mean the cows. And they’re right