"The Boys" are back in town.
Well, almost.
When can you watch Season 3?
Who's going to be in it?
What, exactly, is Stumpfront?
Check it all out – and so much more – right here.
Amazon Prime announced the release date of Season 3 via a fictional news broadcast from
Vought News Network's "Seven on 7 with Cameron Coleman."
Vought International is the shady multi-billion-dollar conglomerate that oversees The Seven.
The online short includes a contentious and brief interview between Coleman and Hughie,
now a senior analyst for the Federal Bureau of Superhuman Affairs.
The search is also on for two new members to join The Seven via a reality series hosted
by Starlight.
The faux newscast concludes with a close-up of Homelander, who appears to be holding his
public persona together with a very thin thread ... before revealing the season's June 3 debut
date.
Deadline also reported that Season 3 of "The Boys" will return with a three-episode-premiere
on Friday, June 3.
New episodes will air every subsequent Friday and wrap up on July 8.
With that in mind, it looks like it's going to be an exciting summer.
The teaser trailer for "The Boys" Season 3 offered up plenty of glimpses of the action
to come, without giving much of the story away.
The trailer shows Starlight and Homelander in the midst of a promo shoot, and it's obvious
that Homelander has yet to recover from the events of Season 2.
We see Billy Butcher getting his first taste of superpowers.
We get a glimpse of what looks like the in-world reality show "American Hero."
And most importantly, we get a few shots of Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy in action.
Mostly, the teaser gives a vibe of tension and mayhem – which is pretty much on brand
for "The Boys."
But look closer, and there are actually a ton of clues of what's to come in the season.
Who is in the cast?
According to Deadline, the main cast is definitely returning for Season 3.
Homelander, Billy Butcher, Hughie, and all the rest of them will be back for even more
mayhem.
And yes, it looks like Black Noir wakes up from his candy-induced coma.
[Boys S2E7, same scene as above timecode, 43:57, "Was that an Almond Joy?"
"He has a tree nut allergy."]
A quick shot in the trailer confirms that Vought CEO Stan Edgar will return as well.
But there are also some incredible newcomers to the cast this season.
The most exciting new addition is "Supernatural" star Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy, the original
Homelander.
The new players don't end there, however.
In June 2021, Deadline reported that "The Boys" had added three new cast members in
recurring roles.
Sean Patrick Flanery portrays Gunpowder, Miles Gaston Villanueva is Supersonic, and Nick
Wechsler will play yet another new Supe named Blue Hawk.
Deadline has also confirmed that Frances Turner, Kristin Booth, and Jack Doolan are joining
the series.
Yet another Supe addition is Laurie Holden as Crimson Countess, a parody of Marvel's
Scarlet Witch.
In short, there will be plenty of new faces in Season 3, and it'll definitely be intriguing
to see this many Supes on one screen.
The Boys were cleared of all charges and came out of hiding at the end of Season 2, with
Hughie taking a job under Victoria Neuman, a congresswoman who's against Vought yet is
also a head-exploding Supe herself.
This likely means that Hughie will distance himself from the Boys — it's clear he's
joining the wrong team as Neuman isn't the picture-perfect person he believes her to
be.
It appears as though Hughie is in grave danger, and it's not out of the question that his
former associates will try to save him at some point.
Showrunner Eric Kripke has hinted that things will go south for Hughie during the upcoming
third season.
He told TV Guide:
"The thing about Hughie is [that] he's not particularly good at the ultra-violence, but
he's very competent, and I think we wanted to show that off [via Neuman].
He's very smart, he's a good investigator, he's amazing with technology, he has great
ideas.
[...] But of course, it's all going to go to s–t on him."
The Boys might be separated at first, but it's presumably only a matter of time before
the titular group teams up once again.
If you've been wondering how the upcoming third season of "The Boys" will kick off,
Eric Kripke has dropped a major hint, revealing the title of the first episode: "Payback."
While this could be a reference to the events of the previous season, Payback is actually
the name of a Supe team, one that was around before The Seven.
In an interview with The Illuminerdi, Kripke was asked which new characters fans should
look forward to seeing.
He said:
"All of them!
I mean, I think they all get amazing things to do.
Season 3's fun because it's not just about Soldier Boy, but it's about the team he was
a part of, which is called Payback.
[...] To dig into the history of the world, not just the present, has been a lot of fun."
"I don't know what they're going to do with Soldier Boy, because Soldier Boy, in the comics
at least, was an older Supe.
I believe he was the first Supe Vought ever injected with Compound V."
We'll have to wait and see what goes down in the Season 3 opener, but the fact that
the title of the episode and the name of Soldier Boy's team are both "Payback" is telling.
Fans of "The Boys" have been wondering if the TV show would dare touch the infamous
"Herogasm" miniseries ever since Amazon announced that the comic was getting an adaptation.
We now know that it will — and it will go down during the sixth episode of Season 3.
Kripke teased how crazy the "Herogasm" episode will be, telling told Entertainment Weekly:
"'Herogasm,' the dailies are bananas.
I've been around the block a few times.
I'm a seasoned producer.
Every single day on those dailies, my jaw was on the floor.
I just could not believe how insane those dailies were."
For those not in the know, the "Herogasm" miniseries is about an annual party held by
Supes.
Under the guise of combating an alien threat, they get together on a remote island for a
weekend of shameless debauchery.
"I'll do it for you.
For America."
Although Stormfront often appeared invincible in Season 2, the fascist Supe met her match
when she came face to face with Homelander's son Ryan, who displayed his powerful eye lasers
for the first time.
The result was the accidental death of Becca and Stormfront losing her limbs.
If Stormfront hadn't been juiced up on Compound V she probably wouldn't have survived the
encounter, but, according to showrunner Eric Kripke, she's still clinging to life somewhere.
He told The Wrap:
"She's not dead.
She's 'Stumpfront' now.
You know, no comment about whether she comes back, but she is forever going to be this
kind of mutilated, stubby little Nazi, which we thought was the right punishment for somebody
who so believed in Aryan purity."
"I did not see that coming from you."
According to Aya Cash, the actor who brought the vile Supe to life, Stormfront won't be
involved in Season 3, telling Metacritic:
"I'll be watching with the rest of you guys, unfortunately."
"So unfair."
Given everything The Seven has been through, not to mention the corruption that tends to
surround them, it would be a minor miracle for them to get back on the same page, let
alone the same team.
They'll no doubt continue to act like buddies while the cameras are rolling, but it's just
a charade.
As we know, The Seven is held together by marketing alone at this point.
And, of course, The Deep was still to be reunited with his fellow Supes at the end of Season
2.
However, with the Payback team set to take center stage, perhaps The Seven will at least
come together to achieve a common goal.
Homelander promised to leave Starlight, Butcher, and Ryan alone at the end of Season 2.
The Seven and Vought pin everything on Stormfront, and most of The Seven go back to being "superheroes"
at the end of Season 2.
It seems as though it will be business as usual, at least for a little while.
It's already been well established that Homelander has little to no regard for human life.
He does, however, thrive on the love of the public.
If someone comes in and takes his top spot, that someone could meet their demise — and
Soldier Boy may find himself in Homelander's crosshairs.
Soldier Boy may be better at charming the people, but he's not as powerful as Homelander.
And then there's Congresswoman Neuman.
Her supercharged Supe powers and tendency to explode important people's heads are still
unknown to the characters, despite being revealed to the audience.
Needless to say, there are plenty of threats entering Season 3, and it remains to be seen
who will clash, let alone who will live or die.
Though we don't exactly know how events will unfold, it's already been announced that Soldier
Boy isn't going to be a nice guy.
Kripke told Variety:
"I think anyone expecting Jensen to show up and be a good guy, they will be disappointed.
He's one of these guys that's been around for decades of Vought history.
And he was Homelander before Homelander, so he's from a different era, but he's got the
ego and the ambition — it just comes across in a different way because he's from a different
time."
When it comes to violence, "The Boys" isn't for the faint-hearted.
"Is that a human hand?"
"Yes it is.
Come on, we gotta go."
Did anyone expect the third chapter to be any different?
In a chat with Collider, actor Laz Alonso made it clear that Season 3 is going to be
a total bloodbath, saying:
"I was talking to the head makeup artist and she's in charge of ordering the blood — that's
one of her many jobs.
She told me that all of Season 2...
When you talk about bulk, I don't think they used over a gallon of blood in Season 2, believe
it or not.
Season 3, we're already at three and a half gallons of blood.
So that should give you a little indication of where it's going."
Given how Season 2 ended, Season 3 should be pretty wild, especially since there's going
to be more Supes than ever.
If there's one thing we know about Supes, it's that they can be unpredictable, cruel,
and lethal.
They can blow things up, including people, at any given moment.
The more Supes there are, the more messy events will be.
In the comics, Hughie takes Compound V in order to level the playing field, giving him
super strength.
The TV show appears to be giving that storyline to Butcher, as teaser trailers have shown
him shooting lasers from his eyes.
Butcher lost the love of his life not long after discovering that she was still alive
and had given birth to Homelander's child.
He's going to be gunning for Homelander like never before in Season 3, and the fact that
he now has some of the same – or, at least, very similar – powers makes their inevitable
showdown all the more exciting.
It's honestly getting hard to hold all this excitement in.
*Puking*
Speaking of Homelander, teaser trailers have also shown that he's still got a thing about
milk, and is apparently now going straight to the source.
We know that things are going to get tense as Soldier Boy and the Payback team enter
the picture, but little snippets like this have shown that Season 3 will still include
the dark humor the show is known for.
Another example is A-Train's energy drink music video, which appears to be a direct
parody of Kendall Jenner's much-maligned Pepsi ad.
"The Boys" knows how to shock us, but it never fails to make us laugh, either.
In the end, there's probably only one way to describe "The Boys" Season 3.
"F—ing diabolical,"
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