[7.0/10] Hoo boy. The sensibilities of *Rick and Morty* and *The Boys* make a surprising amount of sense together. Though for one thing, watching things written by Justin Roiland feels uncomfortable after everything that's come out about him, and you can also see what his collaborators from *R&M* bring to the table to help balance him out. Which is to say that this is a mixed bag. On the one hand, there’s the kind of loony and irreverent humor I enjoy. The narrator turning out to be a Christian Slater-voiced child, who adds his particular oratory is a chuckle, and the sweaty improvisational yak of a Supe whose only power is the ability to find papers is a random source of yuks. The use of a superhero whose only power is to play “I Only Want to be with You” is the kind of absurd addition that tickles my funny bone. But there’s also a lot of dumb edgelord nonsense in this. The list of rejected Supes we get feels like the kind of mix of the random and puerile that would have made me laugh when I was fourteen, but feels pretty tiresome now. And you can see instances in which the creative team is just adding sophomoric shtick or gore, not because it’s really a part of a joke or adds anything, but just because they can. That sort of “look what we’re getting away with!” style of comedy is weaker when there’s so many distribution channels available and a lot fewer moral panics over it. But there’s also some cleverness and genuine laughs here! For however much I roll my eyes at the collection of misfit superheroes and their tepid joke characteristics, the ways the show finds for each to slay their parents is actually really amusing and even clever. I got a particular kick out of Mo-Slow very gradually taking out his dad, with running commentary, and there’s other creative choices there too. And despite all the cheap jokes and gross out humor, there’s as uprising amount of pathos in Ghost’s story. Her sense of feeling abandoned and rejected, wanting to destroy the last part of her that feels anything, is legitimately sad. The short does just enough to vindicate that to give this out there story a little bit of ballast. Homelander coming to blast the lot of them is an appropriately grim ending for something *Boys*-adjacent. But Ghost wanting to die and being the only who can't thanks to her powers is a particularly poignant kind of tragic irony. These ten minutes aren’t big on emotion, but the approach to Ghost’s relationship to her parents, her circumstances, and herself hit me harder than I was expecting. The short deserves credit for that. Overall, I wouldn’t necessarily recommend this for most folks, since the style of comedy seems specifically tailored to a particular “extremely online” set beyond even what fans of *The Boys* and *Rick and Morty* are used to. But there’s some legitimate diamonds in the rough in this as well.