Even though Season 5 of The Boys is the finale of the series, there are still new Supes being introduced to the audience. In the last episode, there was a new adversary who looks like a tragic figure from Marvel.
Which Supe is it about? In Episode 2 of the 5th Season of The Boys, the main characters want to test the deadly virus to see if it actually works on Supes. They plan to use the Supe Rock Hard. He has been out of the public eye for a while after defiling the ear of the Lincoln Memorial with his bodily fluids.
In the episode, Butcher and crew find the Supe in the basement of the group Teenage Kix, a parody of the Teen Titans. There, he is completely petrified and can only communicate through a computer. As it turns out, this petrification is due to his own bodily fluid that he expels when he watches erupting volcanoes. That is his form of porn.
They can’t just poison him either, because he can hold his breath for hours. In the episode, Rock Hard continuously mocks the Boys with his computer voice, insults them, and does not take the whole situation seriously.
As a character, he is completely new and does not come from the comics by Garth Ennis. Did you recognize which Marvel character he is based on?
One of the most tragic Marvel heroes becomes a joke
Which Marvel hero is Rock Hard referencing? Rock Hard is a reference to The Thing from the Fantastic Four. Showrunner Eric Kripke confirmed this in an interview with Variety. They had not made such a stone figure before because it would have required a lot of CGI, which is why they opted for an immobile figure:
Let’s make him gain so much weight and become so huge that he can no longer move. So we actually only need two eyes, like in a “Scooby-Doo” picture, that move and that we can incorporate into this sculpture that we build, which can then be removed.
The episode’s writer, Jessica Chou, then came up with the idea to use an automatic computer voice, only that Rock Hard speaks disgustingly and repulsively
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Who is The Thing from Fantastic Four? Ben Grimm was, like the other three members of the Fantastic Four, an astronaut who received high radiation in space. Unlike his friends, he did not just gain a power; he also physically transformed into a Rock Man.
This is quite a powerful ability, as he not only has good protection but also cannot age as long as he remains a Rock Man.
Despite his appearance, he is a loving friend who helps anyone in need. However, his appearance is also a central conflict of his character that he struggles with. He mostly hates his appearance and tries to hide it so that people won’t be afraid of the monster
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He is continuously confronted with loneliness in his form and often has a different status in public than his Fantastic Four colleagues, who retained their human appearance.
Despite his rock-hard ability, Rock Hard is in trouble. However, he is not the first Supe of the new season to get taken down. In Episode 1, a character immortalizes himself with a heroic death: A heroic Supe shows in The Boys how to “injure” Homelander, even though one is actually much weaker
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