The Boys Girl Power Moment Blows Avengers Endgame Out Of The Water

The Boys’ Girl Power Moment Blows Avengers: Endgame Out Of The Water

The Boys season 2 finale includes its own version of Avengers: Endgame’s girl power moment — and it’s infinitely more successful and enjoyable.

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The Boys Girl Power Moment Blows Avengers Endgame Out Of The Water

Warning: SPOILERS ahead for The Boys season 2, episode 8, “What I Know”.

The Boys season 2 finale brought things to a thrilling conclusion and featured several standout moments — with one in particular completely eclipsing a similar event from Avengers: Endgame. As the episode opened, Billy Butcher and his crew prepared to enact a murderous quest in retaliation for the brutal, superpowered attack on Congress. Those plans changed, however, when Becca arrived with the news that her son had been taken by Homelander and Stormfront. Promising to reunite the two, Butcher headed up a rescue mission that not only tested his own humanity but brought them into direct conflict with the two deranged superheroes.

As Butcher led Ryan and Becca on an escape through the woods, the group vowed to keep an attacking Stormfront at bay. Unfortunately, M.M, Hughie, and Frenchie proved largely ineffectual. Unable to get a hold of their more specialized weaponry, their attacks were little more than a nuisance to the century-old Stormfront. As a result, Starlight and Kimiko stepped up to lead the charge. Despite worrying that she would freeze again, Kimiko ended up relishing the opportunity to fight her brother’s murderer. Similarly, Starlight didn’t hold back in unleashing her powers on the virulent Nazi. For a brief moment, however, it seemed as though even that wouldn’t be enough. Thankfully, Queen Maeve showed up to turn the tide. What followed was an epic montage of all three women beating Stormfront bloody until she was forced to flee.

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The whole moment was a more successful take on the Avengers: Endgame scene that united several female heroes. In Marvel’s ambitious team-up movie, Captain Marvel was tasked with transporting the Infinity Gauntlet. Asked by Spider-Man how she intended to get through Thanos’ forces, it was announced that “she’s got help” and the camera tracked across a line-up of female heroes including Pepper Potts, Shuri, The Wasp, and Valkyrie. Despite its positive intentions, the moment has often been called out as overtly cheesy and forced in its execution. It has also been deemed nonsensical, for them to all randomly be in the same place during an outright war. It has also been considered pandering that added little to the story or action — since they did little more than walk together and fight individually. Whatever one’s view of the moment, however, there’s no denying that The Boys delivered it in a much more successful fashion.

A large reason for this was because nothing about the moment was random. It was a moment born from an established history and character dynamics. Equally, like most things in The Boys season 2 finale, it felt like an organic payoff of tension that had been steadily built. Each character had a compelling individual and collective reason for being there and doing what they were doing. As a result, the moment they finally clashed with Stormfront was packed with relevance on character and emotional levels. The moment was also imbued with more than a touch of long-overdue catharsis. Therefore, it was able to elicit a reaction more akin to the cheers provoked by Captain America catching Mjölnir than the potential eye-rolls of the A-Force moment. In short, it felt earned… which made the female empowerment and general sense of triumph land a lot more securely.

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The move was also a humorously ironic follow-up to earlier in The Boys season 2. Throughout the episodes, several members of The Seven were seen filming a new Vought Cinematic Universe movie: The Dawn of The Seven. One scene in question featured Stormfront, Starlight, and Maeve uniting in a similarly manufactured way as in Avengers: Endgame. At that moment, the line “girls get it done” felt like an empty mantra devised by a marketing department. However, when uttered by Frenchie as he watched Maeve, Starlight, and Kimiko stomp the hell out of Stormfront, it felt yet again empowering and successful because it was built on a foundation rather than existing for the mere sake of it. Such has been the true superpower of The Boys — it skewers the superhero genre while also giving fans superhero moments done well.

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