Vought has a history of playing into racist stereotypes in the narrative, so they probably overlooked more powerful/capable candidates in whatever experiments they were doing once they got this guy.

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.

Invincible has gone the same way

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.

This is usually used in the sense it's just a coincidence and not purposeful. In this case, I'm 90% sure it's intentionally making a point about real life.

If he dies this season, his last words will be "Ruthkanda Forever"

There's a lot to hate about Obama but there is one thing he did establish that Malcolm X would nod grimly at; something that may justify his inclusion on a wall of revolutionaries:

Even if a black man who becomes President rules the country like a moderate Republican and is the absolute exemplar of their Christian values, he won't be accepted by the majority of white men. Not only that, they will churn themselves into a frenzy of over-reaction. They will elect a new Hitler just to make themselves feel better. They will lose their goddamn minds like rabid animals, like their grandparents who took their kids to see lynchings and get photographed next to the naked, brutalised corpse.

This point could not have been demonstrated if Obama had not done everything to dance to their tune.

It demonstrates the sheer self-destructive, nihilistic racism inherent in the American system. It shows that electoral politics is not going to fix it.

Obama did not mean to do this. Many revolutionary figures do not. And he did not suffer like the others. So it's still a questionable choice, but perhaps not an indefensible one.

don't feel like finishing the show now. not even though 🏴‍☠️

I mean, what if he does have actual sorrow, though? Sometimes people can take evasive means in public to deal with guilt. We can't use just body language to guess his actual thoughts.

Buddy you misunderstood the point. The whole show is a massive criticism of both capitalism and racism. The fact that this guy was a caricature was intentional, both in the boys and as a meta statement by the author. It's saying that western fear of middle eastern terrorists is driven by racist propaganda meant to trick people into accepting forever wars to fund the military industrial complex.

What's that based on, and how recent?