‘The Boys’ Receives Backlash For Mocking ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Female-Empowerment Scene
On October 17, Eric Kripke, the showrunner and creator of the popular Amazon Prime television series The Boys received strong backlash on Twitter when he revealed that one of the scenes in the season 2 finale was meant to make fun of a female-empowerment scene from Avengers: Endgame. In the particular scene from Avengers: Endgame, Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) is joined by all of the surviving female superheroes such as as Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), Scarlett Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) and many others as they move through Thanos’ (Josh Brolin) army. This scene and team-up has been referred to ...