Dirty Mike and The Boys shirt

The Boys is famous for taking the usual trappings of traditional superheroes and turning them on their heads, revealing the heroes who soar above us as the craven, perverted, despicable, and sometimes murderous frauds they are. But while the foul-mouthed comic and its less parodic TV adaptation are great at skewering pop-culture icons, the companies who actually created these characters haven’t been afraid to experiment with their dark sides.