Location from The Boys by Eric Kripke
The gleaming, propaganda-soaked megacity where Vought International runs its superhero empire — equal parts corporate playground and surveillance state.
New York in The Boys is New York turned up to eleven on the corporate dystopia dial. The air smells like hot dogs, exhaust, and Vought-branded energy drinks. Supe sightings are tourist attractions. Property damage from 'hero encounters' is a regular insurance claim. The Vought Tower gleams above it all like a golden middle finger. Underneath the branding, it's still a city of regular people trying to survive in a world where a careless god could vaporize their block on the way to a press conference. The disconnect between Vought's marketed utopia and the actual danger of living near Supes is the city's defining tension.
Manhattan's skyline dominates but every surface is branded — Vought billboards, Seven merchandise stores, Dawn of the Seven movie posters. The city looks like Times Square expanded to cover all five boroughs. At street level, the gleam gives way to the same urban grit as the real NYC, just with occasional Supe-related property damage.
Also known as: NYC, New York, The City