The Boys – both the TV show and the original comic – is famous for its less-than-flattering portrayal of superheroes. The entire franchise is a commentary on the commercialization and cultural obsession of superheroes, both in those superheroes’ fictional worlds and in the real-world. However, The Boys wasn’t the first franchise to do this, as Marvel used a nearly identical method to parody superheroes long before The Boys – and Marvel did it with a team most fans have never even heard of: X-Statix.

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