With Amazon’s dark superhero series The Boys, showrunner Eric Kripke has taken aim not just at superhero movie cliches, but Hollywood culture in general.
“A lot of that came from our executive producer, Rebecca Sonneshine, who came in after the weekend Endgame opened.
And I think in the way that pop-culture conditions people subtly, I think it’s conditioning them the wrong way – because there’s just too much of it.
Still, despite making fun of Avengers: Endgame on The Boys, and Homelander being a pastiche of Captain America and Superman, Kripke clarified that he is not actually against the MCU.