“This episode features an orgy of superheroes, aerial penetrations, vibrator-induced mutilations, heavy-duty lube, phalluses and swearing. Not appropriate for any audience.”
‘The Boys’ has shown us season after season that it has no limits, but in its next episode they will have to put on some: the Amazon Prime Video series faces this Friday, June 24 his wildest, most explicit, sexual, violent and controversial episode, entitled ‘Herogasm’. At least, that’s all there is to the source material from the Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson comics that fans hope to see now adapted for the small screen.
One of the signings of this third season of ‘The Boys’, Jensen Ackles, stated in an interview about ‘Herogasm’: “Even the director said, ‘I don’t know what I’m shooting anymore.’ Our crew seemed traumatized. You can’t stop watching it. That toothpaste won’t go back in the tube.”. For now, statements like this is all we have from this long-awaited sixth episode. And this clip that, they say, is the only thing they have been allowed to show:
As the clip says: “This episode features a massive superhero orgy, aerial penetrations, vibrator-induced mutilation, extra-strength lube, icy phalluses, and swearing. Not appropriate for any audience”.
Now, perhaps the biggest problem that the showrunner Eric Kripke and his team of writers is not all the crazy things that happen in this passage of history, one of the most controversial in the history of comics, but how to fit some of its most iconic aspects into the history that the company has been building. series, which differs from the publications. There will necessarily be differences. But where does this superheroic orgasm come from?
‘The Boys’: what is ‘Herogasm’?
Ennis and Robertson’s comics are no strangers to sex and violence, but with ‘Herogasm’ they reached unprecedented levels that caused a lot of controversy. It is a spin off miniseries of the comics, between volume #30 and #31 of the main story, which reveals the existence of Herogasm, an annual festival where most of Vought’s superheroes secretly gather on a remote tropical island for a company-sponsored orgy. The world’s most powerful superheroes tell the public that they are solving a global crisis and they all have to work together, but in reality they spend a whole weekend practicing all kinds of sexual acts, some of them probably illegal in many countries.
As we can imagine, everything happens there: disastrous drunkenness, violent fights, unrestrained sex, unlimited degradation, aggression… In the comics, moreover, the superheroes are accompanied by a group of sex workers who are paid around 100,000 dollars to be available and ready for anything. Wow, a true festival of debauchery in which Ennis and Robertson took the opportunity to incorporate references to well-known superheroes from Marvel and DC Comics and put them in the most uncomfortable situations possible. For example, a kind of group in the style of the Fantastic Four has its own particular orgy, although it seems that there are only three because Sue Storm (the Invisible Woman) is in the middle of all.
What will change in its adaptation to ‘The Boys’, the series?
There are two fundamental aspects that will have to change, or that, at least, it would be difficult to include in the history of the series at this point. For one thing, we already know there’s a famous scene from the comics that won’t be there: the one that shows Soldier Boy and Patriot having sex. The series team has already confirmed that this scene would not be included in the adaptation, possibly because it clashes with the series’ narrative. On the other hand, there is the most controversial aspect of the publication, and that has to do with September 11, 2001.
The miniseries ‘Herogasm’ told that The Seven were involved in the attack on the Twin Towers in New York. They prevented one of the hijacked planes from crashing into the World Trade Center, but since we know they are a real disaster, they ended up redirecting it towards the Brooklyn Bridge. We’re not likely to see this issue in the series, as it hasn’t incorporated this part of America’s alternate history from the comics, instead filling it in with the incident on the plane with Patriot and Maeve.
“I think we definitely stayed true to the comic. I can’t really say much about Herogasm. I think the joy of Herogasm is finding out what exactly that means, seeing it for yourself, seeing it unfold. That goes places where you wouldn’t necessarily expect it to go“, Kripke said in Entertainment Weekly. We will see it this Friday.
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Camila Luna is a writer at Gossipify, where she covers the latest movies and television series. With a passion for all things entertainment, Camila brings her unique perspective to her writing and offers readers an inside look at the industry. Camila is a graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a degree in English and is also a avid movie watcher.
