In 1 episode, comedian Rory Scovel had a cooking phase in which he significantly received upset and wrecked his work station when rapper T-Pain sang the Star Spangled Banner and fired a gun in the air. The Boys is set in a universe in which superpowered people, referred to as Supes, are regarded as heroes by the standard public and work for a powerful corporation recognized as Vought International that marketplaces and monetizes them.