Disclaimer: The following is not to shoot down the idea. This is merely me providing some... verisimilitude on the premise.
One of the things that has always rubbed me wrong about deconstructions like The Boys and the rest like it is that it runs under the premise that absolutely none of the "Heroes" are actually heroes - they are in fact a bunch of bullies and negligents a la Captain Hammer from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.
But the thing is, this is the very antithesis to the four-color world.
Look at it this way. In a traditional four-color setting, what happens to someone like Captain Hammer when he pulls his BS? He gets called out as a villain. And it's not like it hasn't happened before - there have been characters that claimed to be a hero (I'm to tired to think of any off the top of my head), but once their true nature is exposed, they're quickly relegated to the ranks of Villainy, and either become ignominious one-off characters, or among the most horrible of reoccurring villains.
But in works like The Boys? Not only are all heroes universally bad, but the most powerful among them actively work to maintain this facade.
Now, I know that some people are thinking like, "But that's how real life is!"
Is it?
No. Really. Is real life actually that horrible? Because last I checked, there's been a lot of pushback against this kind of horrible behavior in law enforcement. And while there has been backlash, the pushback isn't something that's been going unnoticed or unremarked upon. In some places, there's even been some real, actual progress in reforms and reorganization.
I suppose that the point I'm trying to make is that the grittier and edgier takes on the four-color world are no less realistic than the OG-Flavor four-color world.
That said, I can easily imagine a character like Bruce Wayne trying to get the main character from Hench over to his side. Not only because she's good with managing the books, but also doing her own kind of detective work (something he REALLY admires), and that she wants to see actual justice be done. She'd be a great asset to have working under Lucious Fox, managing that gray area of Wayne Enterprises that supplies Batman and prompts Jack Nichelson's Joker to say, "Where does he get all those wonderful toys?"
One of the things that has always rubbed me wrong about deconstructions like The Boys and the rest like it is that it runs under the premise that absolutely none of the "Heroes" are actually heroes - they are in fact a bunch of bullies and negligents a la Captain Hammer from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.
But the thing is, this is the very antithesis to the four-color world.
Look at it this way. In a traditional four-color setting, what happens to someone like Captain Hammer when he pulls his BS? He gets called out as a villain. And it's not like it hasn't happened before - there have been characters that claimed to be a hero (I'm to tired to think of any off the top of my head), but once their true nature is exposed, they're quickly relegated to the ranks of Villainy, and either become ignominious one-off characters, or among the most horrible of reoccurring villains.
But in works like The Boys? Not only are all heroes universally bad, but the most powerful among them actively work to maintain this facade.
Now, I know that some people are thinking like, "But that's how real life is!"
Is it?
No. Really. Is real life actually that horrible? Because last I checked, there's been a lot of pushback against this kind of horrible behavior in law enforcement. And while there has been backlash, the pushback isn't something that's been going unnoticed or unremarked upon. In some places, there's even been some real, actual progress in reforms and reorganization.
I suppose that the point I'm trying to make is that the grittier and edgier takes on the four-color world are no less realistic than the OG-Flavor four-color world.
That said, I can easily imagine a character like Bruce Wayne trying to get the main character from Hench over to his side. Not only because she's good with managing the books, but also doing her own kind of detective work (something he REALLY admires), and that she wants to see actual justice be done. She'd be a great asset to have working under Lucious Fox, managing that gray area of Wayne Enterprises that supplies Batman and prompts Jack Nichelson's Joker to say, "Where does he get all those wonderful toys?"