How 'The Boys' gave its oblivious Black superhero a long-overdue awakening
Jessie T. Usher knows what you think of A-Train, his character on Prime Video's hit series "The Boys." And he agrees: For someone so fast on his feet, A-Train is a little slow on the uptake:"I've been waiting for his brain to catch up to his legs … this whole time."
A-Train is the only visibly Black member of the Seven, a superpowered group whose mantra seems to be "want, take, have." The conglomerate for which the group works has used him and his likeness to shill products to the Black community: beer, sugary cereal, energy drinks. You get the picture.
The confused A-Train just, ahem, runs along. And in one bloody moment, he speeds right through a woman and into the first of many jaw-dropping scenes in "The Boys." The woman's boyfriend, Hughie (Jack Quaid), is left holding nothing but her hands. Enter
