If you gave me a hundred chances to guess what the next spin-off of The Boys would be called, I can’t say I would have ever made my way to where we are now, The Boys: Mexico.

Deadline reported that the spin-off is in the works with Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal executive producing and potentially starring. This comes after the success of Gen V, the college-based spin-off that was renewed for a second season, and ahead of The Boys season 4. But there’s no timeline for The Boys: Mexico yet. Nor is their any sort of plot synopsis other than this is the universe of The Boys, but in Mexico.

While I do understand the desire to expand The Boys to other places around the world, just flat-out calling it The Boys: Mexico is pretty bizarre. I suppose that leaves the door open to The Boys: Britain, The Boys: Japan, The Boys: Iceland, whatever. All just as weird.

It is true that The Boys is very, very US-centric. The entire show is based around superheroes being assigned cities to protect in the US, while The Seven are the grand Justice League that are indeed based in America, and run by US company Vought. A current storyline is about a Super ascending the ranks to the presidency. And Homelander has become close to a 1:1 Donald Trump allegory down to the red hats, and he has an actual American flag for a cape. So yeah, you could say The Boys is mainly about the US.

Once you get past the title, I can see the appeal. Diego Luna is fantastic, as we’ve just seen him be excellent in Andor, and this is no doubt what he plans to move to after season 2 is over, delayed by the strikes. The same goes for Gael Garcia Bernal, with a long list of work, but most recently Werewolf by Night and Station Eleven, two great projects. Both actors are from Mexico.

There is some concern, however, that The Boys is becoming the thing it’s parodying, sprawling superhero universes idolizing their heroes, by continually expanding its “Voughtverse” like this, or whatever they first started calling it as a joke, but it’s now very real. But Amazon has to take its hits where it can find them, and with The Boys an unequivocal success, and Gen V proving people will watch spin-offs, sure I mean, I’d watch a Boys series in Mexico starring those two guys. And that’s what they’re hoping for.

Just, maybe a new name?

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