Last night I completed the second season of Gen V, a spinoff of The Boys show set in the same universe and tying into its overarching story. Prompted by Dispatch toward this strange genre, I suddenly realized there are very few stories like it, especially among video games.
In the realm of TV shows, there are actually quite a few of these so-called "subversive superhero" stories. Most of them come from comic books, which is only natural given the sheer dominance of superheroes in the medium. These include The Boys and Invincible as the most prominent examples, both as comics and as TV shows, but we've now also got Peacemaker and Gen V to boot.
