The Boys Photo Confirms the Show Actually Built a Giant [SPOILER] for the Reverse-Thanus Scene (original) (raw)
This story contains spoilers for The Boys Season 3, Episode 1, "Payback."
A behind-the-scenes photo from Prime Video's The Boys confirms that the show practically constructed a giant penis for a scene in the Season 3 premiere.
Brett Geddes, who played the superhero Termite in The Boys, shared a series of photos on Instagram showing off the entrance to the colossal NSFW prop that was featured in the first episode of the show's third season, "Payback." "For those wondering…the dick is real," the actor wrote in the caption. "Me and my stunt double [Alex Armbruster] after each taking a turn jumping on the trampoline of coke."
The Boys Season 3 Episode 1, "Payback", introduced Geddes' Termite, a supe with the ability to become smaller than that of an insect. During a party that the titular Boys were attempting to infiltrate, Termite and his lover privately began engaging in a sexual encounter that involved the hero becoming small enough to fit inside his partner's urethra. However, while inside, Termite sneezed and exploded the entire lower half of his partner's body. Still small and newly traumatized, Butcher (Karl Urban) scoops Termite into a tiny bag of cocaine.
Eric Kripke, showrunner of The Boys, confirmed that this already infamous scene was inspired directly by the "Thanus" fan theory, which suggested that Paul Rudd's Ant-Man could use his unique size-altering abilities to defeat Thanos in 2019's Avengers: Endgame.
"These evolve in a writers' room and the evolution of that sequence started with, 'We need The Boys to fight a superhero,'" Kripke explained. "So then we ask, 'What big superhero haven't we done yet?' Someone says, 'We haven't done Ant-Man.' And then someone else says, 'There's that meme of Ant-Man climbing up Thanos' butt and blowing him up. So we should do that. We should give the audience the thing that Marvel can't give to them.'"
Whereas Marvel Studios has been criticized by fans over its reliance on CGI as opposed to practical effects, Prime Video's The Boys has leaned into using practical effects for some of its more absurd stunts. This includes using practical effects for things like constructing a "10-foot animatronic dick puppet" in Season 1 or using 150 gallons of fake blood for Season 2's infamous whale scene. With the show's version of the "Herogasm" event on the horizon, fans should expect nothing less than the highest attention to detail for the upcoming superpowered sex orgy.
New episodes of The Boys Season 3 release on Prime Video every Friday. The first two seasons are currently available to stream.
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