Why Naqib in The Boys sucked
Image description: fictional character Naqib in Amazon Prime’s show The Boys. (Is the fire in the background an excuse to use racist Yellow Filter to show how exotic he is? Hmm.) WHY NAQIB SUCKS . - This was the first post here on my blog back in Dec 2020, and as I've just added the same post to my new tumblr account , I've done some very minor edits and added links to my other posts. And I'm going to keep talking about Naqib in The Boys, because nobody else does. So, without further ado: - I was a big fan of The Boys season 1; I love superheroes, I love deconstructing a genre. Sure, it has its problems, but overall I enjoyed season 1 and thought the show had potential. (That’ll learn me for being hopeful!) When season 1 ended with this big build up of mostly nameless brown and background characters as Muslim terrorists (deep sigh) we the audience are left thinking this one Muslim character, Naqib , whose superpower is to blow himself up repeatedly (insert...