The following article contains spoilers for The Boys, Season 3, Episode 6, “Herogasm,” now streaming on Prime Video.
Frenchie really wanted to attend The Boys‘ Herogasm event, so much so that he wants to write a book about it.
“The book Frenchie was plannin’ to write, had he been there,” The Boys‘ Twitter page wrote, previewing a new entry in the for Dummies guide series authored by Serge. Titled Herogasm For Dummies, the fictional book’s tagline offers “Top Tips For How to Survive Herogasm as a Non-Supe” if one receives an invitation to the event. Some of these tips, humorously offered by the iconic Dummies Man mascot, include bringing “flame-retardant condoms, electrolyte boosters,” and “UV protection goggles.”
During The Boys‘ highly-anticipated “Herogasm” episode, both Billy Butcher and Mother’s Milk confess that Frenchie “always wanted to see” the titular superpowered party in person. The episode’s B-plot, however, saw him, Kimiko and former love interest Cherie kidnapped by Frenchie’s old boss Little Nina, who sought to punish him for refusing to work under her again.
Following the episode’s debut, The Boys‘ social media released a post of stars Karl Urban, Jack Quaid and Laz Alonso mocking their co-star’s absence while jokingly flipping him off, writing “Dear Frenchie, you were right – #Herogasm was loads of fun. xoxo, The Boys.” Actor Tomer Capon joked that Frenchie would bring “an ass bomb” to the next event and that neither Urban nor Quaid sent him any on-set pictures, speculating “I think they were too fucking grossed out by it, they didn’t pick up the phone.”
First introduced in 2009 miniseries created by Garth Ennis, John McCrea and Keith Burns, The Boys‘ adaptation of “Herogasm” for TV differs quite a bit from the comics. In the source material, Herogasm is a Vought-paid, island-wide orgy for all supes, using the cover story of stopping a massive alien invasion to explain their public unavailability. In the show, Soldier Boy reveals that he founded Herogasm in 1952 alongside secret Nazi supe Stormfront, but the event is now attended by “C-listers” at a mansion owned by the TNT Twins, former members of Soldier Boy’s Payback team. The episode saw Starlight and Mother’s Milk, with Billy Butcher and Hughie’s assistance, attempt to prevent Soldier Boy, from murdering the twins as part of a deal to help them kill Homelander, only for things to go horribly wrong.
Showrunner Eric Kripke has admitted on social media that, in adapting “Herogasm’s obscenely explicit sexual imagery, he “overhyped the splooge, but underhyped the emotional splooge” leading up to its release. Quaid, however, offered tons of praise for the episode’s naked background extras, stating how “they were there longer than any of us doing things that would make most people squirm and be very, very uncomfortable with, and they just committed 1,000%.”
New episodes of The Boys air Fridays on Prime Video.
Source: Twitter