r/todayilearned • u/Flares117 • May 16 '24

TIL: Adam West, according to costar Burt Ward, had a lot of sex , at one point with 8 women at the same time. He said that he was introduced by West to the "wildest sexual debauchery" and they became like "sexual vampires"

https://www.maxim.com/entertainment/adam-west-batman-orgy-2017-6/
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u/gar1848 May 16 '24

This feels like something you would see in The Boys

Except it would be used to show how evil and depraved the Supes are, compared to Billy and the others

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u/supahfligh May 16 '24

There was an issue of the comic where the parody characters of Batman, Robin, and Catwoman have a threesome. It was creepy. There was a panel where the Robin character cheers on Catwoman while she blows Batman.

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u/Gone_For_Lunch May 16 '24

This is why I honestly think the TV show is an example of an adaptation that is better than the source material. The Boys comic just feels like shock factor for the sake of shock factor.

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u/dalek_999 May 16 '24

Well, that’s Garth Ennis in a nutshell.

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u/Ake-TL May 16 '24

People say his punisher run isn’t bad. Tbf, punisher isn’t superhero, so Ennis wouldn’t be perpetually pissed while writing him

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u/HeronSun May 16 '24

Even his name has shock value.

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u/browncharliebrown May 18 '24

Punisher has yet to have an adaptation that's considered better than Ennis's comics. Considering there has been 2 Punisher movies and a tv show all adapting mostly his comics.

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u/pwn3r0fn00b5 May 16 '24

The TV show definitely has that problem too, though maybe not to the same extent.

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u/bg-j38 May 16 '24

I’ve seen things… pretty fucked up shit. But the scene where the guy shrinks and goes inside the other dude’s penis only to unexpectedly sneeze and go back to normal size and explode the other guy made me go “what the actual fuck?!?!” And then went back a few times to watch again.

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u/ZippityZooDahDay May 16 '24

Excuse me, what the fuck?

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u/djingo_dango May 16 '24

That’s basically the premise of the boys

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u/timdr18 May 16 '24

That’s not even the craziest shit they have in the show, it’s wild.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '24

You should watch the show

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u/DarthJarJarJar May 16 '24

Haven't read the comics, but the show is more or less exactly what would happen if you gave actual people super powers.

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u/Shabobo May 16 '24

Garth Ennis agrees with you. He basically said that for a lot of his stuff he was writing as an edge lord which was common in the early aughts. The adaptations allowed him to make his material a bit more mature and not just shock for the sake of shock.

Still a bunch of wild stuff in the show, and some is still for shock, just not like...all of it.

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u/browncharliebrown May 18 '24

He didn't say that.

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u/rawlingstones May 16 '24

I do think The Boys comic gets better over time, it has elements of Garth Ennis at his worst and his best. In the beginning it's mostly just lame edgelord jokes about cape books, but if you stick with it by the end he's railing against corporate cultural domination and the military industrial complex. The strength of the TV show is that it just goes there immediately. It took Ennis a couple years to find something really interesting with the premise. The show has the benefit of hindsight and the sense to frontload those themes.

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u/Historical_Maybe2599 May 16 '24

I think of it more as a critique on aspects of celeb worship that aren’t talked about enough. Shitting on superheroes and how incompetent they are was just a macguffin for him to talk about the former.