SW in Gen V
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Gen V is an Amazon Video spinoff series from The Boys featuring college-age superheroes, premiering in 2023. Check out the trailer at 0m42s for a tiny girl getting trapped under a plastic cup.
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@Olo ooo! As someone who’s rather into the suuuper tiny sizes this is relevant to my interests
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@littlest-lily Be warned: The Boys is notorious for graphic violence and explicit sex, and judging from the trailer we can expect the same from Gen V.
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Aye. We remember the season 3 opening.
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@Olo I’m a fan of The Boys and the fact that there’s size-change only makes me want to watch this more.
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@Olo This might just be my self-loathing, but I always get a little nervous when my kinks start getting mainstream attention.
Like, reading a story on a website like this about guys taking revenge on a Karen-esc store manager by putting her in a jar and cercal jerk into it until she drowns is fun. But the idea of seeing it filmed with famous actors on a subscription website that is meant for the world to see, makes me a little weirded out.
Now that was probably an extreme example, but considering that this is a The Boys spin-off it’s more than likely. I guess that the point I’m trying to make is that I’m afraid that some stuff that should stay on sites like this being made into mainstream content is kinda worrying.
I mean, the Sequal Trilogy of Star Wars movies took their romantic subplot straight from fetish forms, and it’s the signal most toxic thing in the franchise.
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@Mrgoblinging7 I have complicated thoughts and feelings about this. My formative years occurred before the Internet, so I thought I was the only size perv on the planet. Mainstream size content was all I had. I developed a keen sense for determining what sort of TV shows, movies, books, and comics might feature size content, and how likely such content might contain risqué hints. The best you could realistically hope for was a lingering handheld, a little unaware contact, or some lewd innuendo. Since no one acknowledged size as a fetish, any such scenario would most likely occur in a humorous or horrific context. Cartoons in adult magazines were the best bet, but even there it was very slim pickings.
The other aspect of being reliant on mainstream size content was knowing that if a given TV show or comic series ever did feature a size scenario, it would almost certainly be the last time it did, because the normies would become bored if the show kept returning to the size well. This made those rare size episodes even more fraught, as I knew this was the only chance I might ever get to see, say, a tiny Mork in the same frame with a normal-sized Mindy or a shrunken Diana Rigg crawling about on a giant desktop. Children’s shows were more frequent in their use of size themes because they didn’t expect their audiences either to remember the last time or to care if they repeated themselves, but they were also much less likely to even hint at sizey sexytimes.
In recent decades, however, the Internet has revealed us size pervs to each other and, so-very-slightly, to popular culture. There’s also simply more entertainment content out there (including previously-inaccessible foreign sources), and size content has increased commensurately. There are therefore many more opportunities to encounter mainstream size content, and just as many opportunities for it to be more embarrassing than arousing.
Perhaps because I “imprinted” on mainstream size content, I am still often satisfied when a size encounter keeps the sexual possibilities as subtext. As the volume of size content grows and special effects become cheaper, there will always be opportunities for lascivious leering, indecent proposals, and inappropriate handling. It’s a fine line for mainstream content producers to walk, and I share the Goblin King’s worry that explicit sizey sexytimes can come across as mockery.
The Boys surprised me with Termite. They retconned his character to include a throwaway sight gag from the first season opener, and I was certain that the big splash he made in the third season opener would be the last we would see of him. That they brought him back for “Herogasm” made me worry that either a) mainstream fans would (justly) complain that the show was running out of ideas or b) they were making fun of size pervs. Fortunately, his appearance was just decorative and didn’t derail the plot.
This was also a worry with Downsizing. An R-rated movie from a director with a history of shooting comical nude scenes had the potential to be either miraculous or catastrophic in its presentation of size sexytimes. An early draft of the screenplay had a brief sex scene between different-size characters, mostly off-screen but leaving no doubt about what was happening. I suppose we should be grateful that the finished film ignored the possibilities of giant-tiny sex altogether.
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Well on a lighter note, what would you like to see them do with SW?
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@BryTheGuy Well, first of all, we have no reason to believe that the tiny woman in the trailer will be a recurring character. We’ll have to keep an eye on the characters’ names when they are released (although the credits may just give their civilian identities).
As much as we all might like it, I would be surprised if they just did a female version of Termite: a supe who can shrink at will. There has to be something new and different, or it would seem repetitive. She could be permanently tiny, but that would make all of her appearances rather expensive (and therefore probably infrequent).
If I knew nothing about the universe of The Boys, I’d guess that the tiny girl is a victim of someone with the power to shrink others. That doesn’t seem to be the kind of power that Compound V has produced so far, but who knows. If such a shrinker were a recurring character, I’d expect to see more tiny people in the trailer. I therefore think any such shrinker would be a short-term (heh) villain and not a major character.
Setting the trailer aside, I’d like to see a female supe who can shrink, but she has to stay shrunken for a minimum period of time. Even more fun: anyone she is touching when she is using this power also shrinks with her.
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So, I was checking Wikipedia to see if the release dates for certain TV series had been updated, and I spotted the following on the page for Gen V:
- Lizze Broadway as Emma Meyer, a YouTuber that can shrink to 5 inches.
Vexingly, I couldn’t find any citation for an external source that would confirm the shrinking aspect of this character. Ms. Broadway’s pinned tweet features a still from the series trailer depicting a blood-drenched Emma looking up. Note that in the brief shot from the trailer at the top of this thread depicts a shrunken woman much smaller than 5 inches.
Further bulletins as events warrant.
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I would not put much stake in what the Wikipedia article says about the characters. I’ve seen it change from “shrinks to 5 inches” to “shrinks to 0.5 inches”, and presently it says “half-inch tall, with the power to grow to human size”.
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Welp, guess it was good timing to bring this topic back up, because the new trailer just released.
Brief sfw scene with the little girl (I think she’s the main girls roommate?)
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@BryTheGuy Looks really good–I needed something to be hyped about!
On a non-sizey note, I’m gratified by the homage to Real Genius with the sled and the iced-over hallway.
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Gen V Official Redband Trailer just dropped.
SW at 0:07, 1:18, 1:37, and 1:52.
It’s implied that Ashley is the one who drops the dixie cup on our tiny girl (who also seems to perform a grisly cranial autopsy).
I’ll try to get a GIF up later (having trouble downloading the MP4).
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Looks like she also has a boyfriend. Hmmmm… opportunities…
