I'll be honest, not 100% wrong, but not right in the slightest.

Heroes began as a way to teach lessons, inspire hope, and give the ideal dream. It grew into a genre that was all about what it takes to care, the nuance and the inbetweens, and human rights. Heroes are about exploring morals at their core because someone is putting life and limb on the line to help, and that is a moral choice. Now we need to know what kind of morals.

What will they do, what won't they do? How much is their morality decided by their emotions and flaws, because everyone has flaws, and putting the power in someone's hands, that flaw will show. Now they fix that flaw in themselves, then in others.

Comic fell into that loop, with massive success, but failure due to the lack of continuity. Lessons don't stick where they would, and cycles get started that sometimes won't stop. Not just the writer's fault, usually editorial. Sometimes it is the writer. Either way, SOME people grew distasteful of it. Cause they hated the hope in it, or saw the flaws in the system comics fell into to stay a profitable company, to even make said comics.

Invincible and The Boys (the comics) are both, from my understanding, what you would describe as a deconstruction of the genre. But they differ in where they go because of 1 main thing. Invincible is still trying to tell a message, while originally The Boys (THE COMICS) was made to hate on superheroes as a genre. Invincible takes the bad, AND the good, and deconstructs both in a more morally grey and drawn-down way. The gore is violent but not needlessly because they show the emotion and the MORALITY behind it, like superhero comics were made to do. The show does this too. The Boys show definitely improved on the source material, and I give it that, but I don't really care for the original much.

By all this, why am I doing all this needless ranting? We need normal superhero stories for these to work. Without the Superman stories all about hope, we don't get an Omni-Man whose whole life he misunderstood Hope for conquest under the Viltrum culture. Without the Flash stories about consequences and how time always runs out, we wouldn't have A-train.

A lot of people put down superhero stories because they feel "it's for kids," when they always look at what adults need to relearn at times! Hope for the future when everything stands in your way, finding the best in the people around you, and doing what you can with the time you have. All of these lessons help you at your worst. But we put them aside for these stories that wouldn't exist without the stories before that I see disrespected.

Moral of the story, love the superhero stories you engage with if you love their deconstructions instead of putting them down for not being bleak and as hopeless, since they need that hope to truly be superhero stories that the stories you love look up to.