10 Recent TV Scenes That Shocked The World

3. The Whale Gets Obliterated - The Boys

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The Boys hasn't ever once dared to shy away from violence, whether against human or animal, as it made clear beyond any and all doubt in the third episode of its second season, "Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men."

The Deep (Chace Crawford) tries to apprehend Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) and company, who are on open water in a speedboat, on the promise of being welcomed back into The Seven.

The Deep enlists the help of a gigantic sperm whale, Lucy, to block their path onto the shore, only for Butcher to go full-throttle towards the shore, driving the speedboat straight into the poor, innocent whale.

The impact immediately impales and kills Lucy, sending gory whale innards all over the place and leaving a traumatised Hughie (Jack Quaid) trembling inside the whale's hollowed-out remains.

Compounding the obvious insanity of the sequence is the fact that the show's crew actually built a 50-foot whale prop for the scene, which only makes it that much more visceral and unsettling.

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