The Boys season 3 will include Herogasm episode
January 19, 2021 by:
If you ve been paying attention to the last two seasons of
The Boys, you ll know that the series rarely pulls its punches when it comes to raunchy content and over-the-top violence, but there is one storyline from the comics that many believed the TV series wouldn t touch Herogasm.
Each year, Vought brings together all of their superheroes under the guise of a fake crisis that needs their attention, but in reality, the superheroes are actually taking part in a huge orgy at a remote tropical resort where anything goes, and I do mean
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What could “Herogasm” refer to? Well, as you expect, it’s the title of the
very R-rated,
very raunchy comics storyline about a superhero orgy. Specifically, the story arc follows the Boys as they infiltrate Vought’s secret annual party known only as “Herogasm,” where it turns out the Seven including Homelander and other Vought superheroes have retreated while under the cover mission of leaving Earth to fight alien threats. The superheroes instead go to an island resort for a weekend filled with sex, drugs, and every kind of debauchery imaginable. Butcher and the Boys naturally follow them in order to gain evidence on the evils of Vought.
Those familiar with
The Boys comics will know that the run titled “Herogasm” is
a lot, even for a series known for needing every warning label imaginable. The eponymous six-issue spinoff is written by Gareth Ennis and illustrated by John McCrea, and involves the supes galivanting off for a drug-fueled orgy under the pretense they are off-planet fighting an evil alien race.
Given how graphic the first two seasons of
The Boys is, Kripke’s suggestion that the “Herogasm” episode might be even more NSFW is impressive. The show stars Antony Starr (Homelander), Jack Quaid (Hughie), Karl Urban (Billy Butcher), Erin Moriarty (Starlight), Laz Alonso (Mother s Milk), and Karen Fukuhara (Kimiko).
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