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It's a cheap and lazy critique. "We gave the Muslim the Blow Himself Up power, virtually no lines, no real story arc, as a cheap throw-away useful idiot character to advance a plot that's mostly about white people grappling for power".
The writing isn't particularly original or compelling anymore. It's like they just gave up after season 3. Now every episode just an excuse to have Homelander laserbeam people in the dick. Invincible has gone the same way. They've substituted gross-out visuals for all but the most basic-bitch "Bad Guys Are Bad, Good Guys Are Annoying and Conflicted" story arcs.
Yup. It doesn't have to be written well anymore, as long as they have long, brutal fight scenes to keep fans happy. The animators really have a thing for intestines this season. That said, I have to admit that I am one of those fans that's kept happy by those long, brutal fight scenes. Everyone on my couch was cheering while ____________ choked the fuck out of __________.
I think the biggest difference between the two shows for me is that The Boys is despairingly cynical, and Invincible is relatively optimistic. It seems like Robert Kirkman generally likes humanity, and Garth Ennis hates everyone and everything.
If I recall, this was season 2. Maybe even season 1.
Edit:
Becides you gave the reason in your own sarcastic quote.
It's a show mostly about white people grappling for power in the US. It's not about war or terrorism in the middle east. And there's nothing wrong with making a show that's not about that. This character and that whole part of the world wasn't important to the story. So wasn't given a full spotlight treatment.
If you think the show should be about sup-terrorists in the middle-east. That's a cool idea. There's plenty of story there. But that's not this story, and that's ok.