"An Animated Short Where Pissed-Off Supes Kill Their Parents" is the second episode of the first season of the animated anthology series, The Boys Presents: Diabolical. Its animation is based on Justin Roiland's own style, as most famously seen in Rick and Morty. It was released on March 4, 2022 on Amazon Prime Video.
Summary[]
The title says it all and reveals the ending. Let's just say it's cathartic and a real mess.
Plot[]
The episode opens at the Red River Assisted Living for the Gifted Child where a narrator explains that this is the center where parents dump their kids with "shit powers". He introduces Mo-Slo, who walks extremely slow. Boombox has a speaker for a face. Fang has teeth that can cut through almost anything. Kingdom can turn into any animal, but he transforms body and mind. Aqua Agua can just turn into water. Big is just really big. His best friend is Human Tongue - a Supe with 100% muscle and no bones. Picante Balls can melt anything with his testicles. Ranch Dressing Cum Squirter and Boobie Face are two other Supes - their powers are explainable. Ghost is a ghost who can move through walls. Another Supe, Flashback, can visualize flashbacks. In a flashback, Ghost's parents are angry at Vought because they thought their Supe child would make them rich. All of the Supes find out about Compound V and that they were man-made. They are furious that their parents made them like this. "It's time for a family fucking reunion!" screams Ghost. They get in a car and go to try and find their parents. Some of the kids did not take part in Ghost's campaign for vengeance. The head nurse Barb calls someone on her phone to notify Vought of what happened. Finally, The Narrator introduces himself as the one that has been doing the talking and his power is the power to tell people what is happening. Barb wheels him away as he states how she wanted to suck his huge balls only to be cut off by Barb who quotes "Oh come on Paul".
Ghost's group drive to their first stop. They stop at Denis' house to get the files on where their parents are located at the time when he was on the phone with a parent whose child can poop poison. Another Supe named Papers walks in, with the ability to find any papers any time. He’s not very good at finding papers though, but Big and Fang manages to find them.
First, Tongue kills her parents by strangling them. Then, Aqua Aqua kills their parents. Boombox kills his parents. Kingdom kills his parents. After Flashback shows a flashback about Boobie Face's mom, Boobie Face shoots her and rescues his dog in the process. Mo-Slo takes a really long time to kill his dad. Big kills his parents. Fang kills her dad. Picante Balls kills his dad.
Ghost's dad seems to have known she would've come around eventually because of the Compound V news. Human Tongue and Mo-Slo help Ghost kill him in the garage. However, Homelander shows up and kills everyone immediately - except for Ghost who can’t die. Ghost's mom walks out and sees her husband dead. She tells Ghost, "I wish you were never born!" Ghost tells her she'll return one day.
The news reports that Homelander saved Ghost's mom from a natural gas explosion that killed her husband. The Narrator goes on to say that "Vought's shitty cover-up" worked and thanks to Ghost, all the kids have the addresses to their parents. The Narrator has arrived to kill his dad who tries to reason with him by stating that they only did it because he was special. The Narrator states that he wasn't special enough to keep. He proceeds to narrate by taking a spoon to his father's face enough to cut it off as some blood hits a picture of a younger Narrator with his parents. The Narrator states that he took his father's face, looked in the mirror with it on him, and pretended that his father was apologizing to him and that he loves him.
Cast[]
Starring[]
- Christian Slater as The Narrator
- Frances Conroy as Barb
- Asjha Cooper as Ghost
- Xolo Maridueña as Aqua Agua
- Caleb McLaughlin as Mo-Slo
- Eugene Mirman as Denis
- Justin Roiland as Papers
- Parker Simmons as Kingdom
- Kevin Smith as Boobie Face
- Parker Simmons as Aqua Aqua's Dad
- Kenan Thompson as Mo-Slo's Dad
- Ben Schwartz as Kingdom's Dad
- Angela Marie Volpe as Boombox's Mom
- Gary Anthony Williams as Ghost's Dad
Quotes[]
| “ | It's time for a family fucking reunion!
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Trivia[]
- This episode possibly takes place after "Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men", as Compound V has been exposed by the mainstream media.
- The animation style of this episode is inspired by Rick and Morty, which Justin Roiland served as the creator and the voice of titular protagonists.
- Posters of Homelander and Black Noir appeared in this episode.
- Homelander appeared in this episode in a non-speaking role.