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Cast of Supacell
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In a world that’s saturated by the MCU or DCEU, Supacell (and obviously, The Boys) show extreme nuances when it comes to superheroes. The new Netflix series created by Rapman depicts 5 Black people living in South London who suddenly inherit a set of superpowers, but will they use it for their intended purposes?

Rapman explained that the main five characters get their powers through having a sickle-cell trait and that mutation is called Supacell. “It basically was turning a weakness into a strength,” Rapman told Blavity’s Shadow and Act. “And that strength is raising their awareness with it. That strength is, anybody who’s suffering with something [or] with a similar condition, can watch that and [be like], ‘Finally, people are going to understand what I’m going through.”

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He continued, “And imagine [thinking], ‘Something that made me, puts me down may make my children extraordinary…imagine what that would be like.’ So it was to make them feel seen, something to make them feel strong and something to raise awareness, because so many people have never heard of it. I think it’s such a great thing that the power comes from something…like it is crazy having a superpower from it as it is crazy having something that only affects someone with dark skin.”

The characters of Supacell goes through several epiphanies to understand their true power and whether to use it for good or for their own selfish purposes.

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