The Boys

Now, fans of The Boys can make use of a Instagram effect inspired from the series, to create superpowered Reels and Stories. Instagram is one of the most ...

Amazon Prime Video's shocking and intense superhero series The Boys is back this week, and we've got everything you need to know about the cast of season 3.

Where have I seen Jensen Ackles before? Where have I seen Claudia Doumit before? Where have I seen Colby Minifie before? Where have I seen Karen Fukuhara before? Where have I seen Chace Crawford before? Where have I seen Dominique McElligott before? Where have I seen Jessie T Usher before? Where have I seen Erin Moriarty before? Where have I seen Antony Starr before? Where have I seen Jack Quaid before? Where have I seen Karl Urban before? Who is Queen Maeve? Queen Maeve is a leading member of the Seven who has previously gone along with Homelander's brutal actions.

The show may move away from the comic book source material, but it's done in a flawless way. Some of the moments seen in Garth Ennis' comic book may not have ...

Fans of The Boys can expect the season premiere to set the stage for what’s to come in season 3. The rest of The Seven are going to be doing their own things. As of now, this schedule will remain the same throughout the season, with new episodes releasing weekly. Some of the moments seen in Garth Ennis’ comic book may not have worked well in a TV show. The show may move away from the comic book source material, but it’s done in a flawless way. At first, fans ate up the violent nature and raunchy behavior of the so-called heroes.

Season 3 catches Butcher (Karl Urban), Hughie (Jack Quaid), Frenchie (Tomer Capone), M.M. (Laz Alonso), and Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) almost a year after Season ...

This season promised to be the bloodiest and most violent yet, which so far is irrefutable. Part of me wishes Season 3 let Hughie's pleasant little cubicle bubble last a bit longer — the other half relishes a continuation of Season 3 that confirms to action-horror fans they ain't seen nothin' yet. The Boys keeps the pedal pressed as tremendous acts of violence, fury, and revenge leave a wake of bodies in a mere few hours thus far. Commentary continues to be aces, as Season 3 initially pays homage to the Snyder Cut with its own "Bourke Cut" of Season 2's project-at-large, Vought's latest film, Dawn of the Seven, which features an appearance that adds thunderous star power. Season 3 doesn't allow any of its characters a moment to breathe, which is the bread and butter of The Boys. Starlight's (Erin Moriarty) required to be Hughie's confidant once more, but luckily, there’s enough added to the mix that it doesn't feel like a cheap retread of similar storylines in previous seasons. Butcher's working for Hughie at the Federal Bureau of Superhuman Affairs, but all that fleeting do-gooder hope in government-regulated Vought activities goes out the window because this is The Boys, and you're here to witness the pinnacle of "supe" depravity.

The Boys is a superhero series with a twist. The series tackles the age old question of; what if superheroes were real but not noble and heroic; ...

The Boys Season 3 Here is how you can watch the show on Amazon Prime Video. The Boys Season 3 Prime video

In the previous episode, i.e., "The Boys" Season 3: Episode 2, Soldier Boy's side-kick, Gunpowder, told Billy that the C.I.A. took them on a case job in.

But he ignored all of these, as for him, the only thing that mattered was to take revenge on all the superheroes in the world, especially Homelander. Mallory told Billy that she hid information about Operation Charly and the special superweapon because she knew that Billy would go hunting for it after Homelander raped Becca, and he probably wouldn’t just stop with Homelander, but would eventually turn himself into a “supe-terminator,” killing hundreds of innocent super-humans who were injected with Compound V without their will. Billy might have promised everyone around him that he would never turn out like his father, a ruthless, heartless man, but gradually he was falling prey to his genetics. Nina offered a job to Frenchie to work for her, but Frenchie didn’t want to get himself into that mess again. The Russians, on the other hand, used the diversion and triggered a special device to combat Soldier Boy and took his body away with them on a helicopter. In late 1984, when the operation was in full swing, the officials sent superhero team Payback to assist Mallory in her mission. In this flashback, we are also introduced to Black Noir, or Earving, who was an African-American hiding behind a mask as America wasn’t ready to accept a black superhero. Edgar shared a special bond with Noir, which is the reason why he entrusted him with the most crucial missions even in the present time and also made him a part of “The Seven” after Payback was disassembled. Billy took them to the location where Grace Mallory was living with Ryan, and finally asked her about her secret case job in Nicaragua in 1984. In simple words, the Reagan government buried their hands in all kinds of dirt in their fight against the Reds. There was also an unwritten policy according to which the smugglers were directed to sell cocaine strictly to the neighborhood of the minorities in order to take down two enemies with a single shot and thereby promote their agenda of white supremacy. Starlight was shocked to the core, yet kissed Homelander during the shoot just to buy some time for Hughie. Earlier in her childhood, she made compromises for her mother and now for her boyfriend. After this threat, Starlight wanted to leave the team as soon as possible, but Hughie requested her to stay in and buy some time for them so that they could find the ultimate weapon that Butcher had been hunting for to blow up Homelander’s head. People loved Homelander’s unfiltered speech that he gave during his birthday event, and as a result, his public rating increased by some 21 points, while Homelander and Starlight’s Q Rating touched the 98% mark, which gave Homelander the idea to torment her co-captain further.

The Boys are back in town, Hulu debuts a queer rom-com, MTV throws a big party, and more.

Friday, Starz, 9 p.m.: Katori Hall’s adaptation of her play Pussy Valley is back for a second season. Friday, Prime Video, 12:01 a.m.: It’s a good day to be a fan of superheroes and supervillains, because The Boys kicks off its third round of terror. Booster and director Andrew Ahn use Austen’s tale of class tension, a romantic comedy urtext, to laugh in the face of such standards, and introduce some new ones. Set in 1980s San Diego, the Rose Byrne-led dark comedy follows Sheila Rubin’s journey of self-discovery via aerobics. The Boys also learn about an Anti-Supe weapon that sends them crashing into the Seven and starts a war. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekly What’s On will publish on Sundays.]

Episode 3 includes important revelations regarding the season's biggest mystery, while also pushing the characters to their limits.

She implores Frenchie to run away with her, but that plan quickly goes out the window when Frenchie tells Butcher about his chat with Little Nina. Now that they know Soldier Boy was taken by Russian forces, Butcher thinks this is a perfect opportunity to call in a favor. Her old flame Supersonic (Miles Gaston Villanueva) is chosen as one of the winners, while Homelander strong-arms Starlight into letting The Deep (Chase Crawford) back into the Seven. Just when you think it can't get any worse, Homelander announces to everyone that he and Starlight are in love. He meets his old friend Cherie (Jordana Lajoie) in the park, where she tells him that she's run afoul of Little Nina (Katia Winter), a Russian crime boss and Frenchie's former employer. As the unlikely pair share a kiss, Starlight resorts to the same coping mechanisms that helped her power through as a child. At the end of the day, Butcher just wants to protect Ryan, but the boy is left more isolated than ever before. A distraught Crimson Countess (Laurie Holden) informs Mallory that the Russian forces used a special weapon to kill Soldier Boy. They watch in horror as his body is taken away in a helicopter and in the present, Butcher berates Mallory for hiding information that could have stopped Homelander years ago. However, Butcher can't help himself when Queen Maeve (Dominique McElligott) offers him the chance to level the playing field with a version of Compound V that gives the user powers for 24 hours. In the 1980s, she was stationed in Nicaragua, where the American government hoped to destabilize the Russian-supported Sandinista authority by funneling money and weapons to the rebel Contras (via History). The operation is put in jeopardy when a young Stan Edgar (Justiin Davis) arrives with Soldier Boy and the rest of the Payback team. Overwhelmed by grief and his desperation to kill Homelander, Butcher lashes out and Ryan suffers the consequences. He leaves unscathed, and although the interaction makes him rethink his priorities, it's clear we haven't seen the last of Little Nina. After the death of Becca (Shantel VanSanten), Butcher has been keeping an eye on her son, Ryan (Cameron Crovetti), who is living in a safe house with Mallory in order to protect him from Homelander. Since the end of Season 2, Ryan and Butcher have developed a sweet, family-like bond ... or as close to one as Butcher is capable of. After being cleared of all charges at the end of last season, Butcher (Karl Urban), Mother's Milk (Laz Alonso), Frenchie (Tomer Kapon), and Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) have been working covertly with Congresswoman Victoria Neuman's (Claudia Doumit) hero monitoring task force.

Ahead of The Boys Season 3 premiere, Inverse asked showrunner Eric Kripke and Homelander himself (Antony Starr) whether the character can die? As an added bonus ...

It’s still unclear who Black Noire actually is in The Boys show. But I've always said that for Homelander, his humanity is his Kryptonite. Ultimately, the human side of it is his mortality. “Hmm, I think everyone can die,” Starr concurs. Just the sheer fact that he ages says that, eventually, the guy can die. As an added bonus, we also asked series newcomer Jensen Ackles whether his character Soldier Boy could die, too So grab some Compound V and let’s dive in! It’s a question that haunts Billy Butcher’s nightmares and ignites debates among fans of The Boys. With the Amazon Prime series officially back for Season 3, it’s worth revisiting the question once again.

The show is based on the comic book by writer Garth Ennis and artist Darick Robertson, which ran for 72 issues from 2006 to 2012. Here is everything you need to ...

She also has heat vision and is immune to fire. Soldier Boy, played by Jensen Ackles, is the original superhero. The show is based on the comic book by writer Garth Ennis and artist Darick Robertson, which ran for 72 issues from 2006 to 2012. The duo have a shared power that they activate by holding hands. Gunpowder is also a member of Payback and is played by Sean Patrick Flanery. Mindstorm is another member of Soldier Boy's team who appears in the third season of The Boys. He is played by Ryan Blakely.

The Boys season 3 has left fans stunned after Charlize Theron made a cameo as Stormfront in the superhero series.

The superhero series focuses on two groups – the Seven and the Boys, who are rivalling against one another. Charlize Theron makes surprise cameo in The Boys The Boys season 3 has fans stunned after Charlize Theron made a surprise cameo as Stormfront in the superhero series.

Preview episodes for Amazon Prime Video's The Boys come with very specific instructions on what you can and can't reveal.

The Boys has laid its foundation. That speaks to The Boys’ ballsy attitude in how it executes its ambitious vision. Or the second season’s introduction of Stormfront, a charismatic populist superhero whose hidden agenda was fascism.

The Boys season 3 episode 1 includes the show's most absurd and disgusting sex scene yet. And it's all thanks to Ant-Man in Avengers: Endgame.

Because back when fans first suggested that Ant-Man should explore Thanos' most safely-guarded gem, the Marvel star said this was a "lost opportunity" for his character. "At the time, there was that sort of meme going around of: why didn’t Ant-Man just crawl up Thanos’s butt and blow him up? "Shooting it was so bananas," adds Kripke, "because we built that penis practically. However, the regular-sized guy probably wishes he was a size queen in hindsight, because all of a sudden, the man inside sneezes, thereby losing control of his powers. And there was a lot less blood then too. And "at great expense" too, showrunner Eric Kripke adds during our exclusive chat with him about that scene.

The Boys premiere recap: Damn, we've missed this show! To say the first three episodes of season 3 are "shocking" is an understatement.

In the climax of the prior episode, he injected himself with V-24 in order to take on Gunpowder. But now… - As much as I love Hughie and Starlight together, the writers have done a great job of making me invested in the Supersonic/Starlight relationship. In classic Butcher fashion, he makes a bold move to push Ryan away for good — not by opening up about his feelings — by telling Ryan that he can't stand to look at the monster who killed his wife. But there's one person who might know: Payback's CIA handler — and Butcher's mentor — Grace Mallory. With that intel in hand, Butcher has a chance to let Gunpowder walk free, but with the combination of V-24 and blind rage flowing through his veins, he can't help himself — and he beats Gunpowder to death. Hughie, however, is unaware of this encroaching romantic threat, as he's busy with Butcher and the Boys — including Mother's Milk ( Laz Alonso) who's back in the ring after a few episodes of daddy-daughter time — pressing CIA agent Grace Mallory for insight into the cause of Soldier Boy's death. In the last episode, Queen Maeve gave him a valuable piece of intel that could help him eliminate Homelander once and for all — but that's not all she gave him. Back in the world of Vaught, there's a bunch of super-powered shenanigans going on. Instead, Gunpowder tries to murder Butcher in the parking lot after the convention, and nearly succeeds. After failing to arrest a superhero named Termite (in what's perhaps the most hilariously outlandish sequence thus far in all of The Boys, and that's saying something), Queen Maeve (Dominique McElligott) steps in with a potentially game-changing piece of intel: Regardless, Homelander's thrilled to celebrate his greatness and to do, as he puts it: "Whatever the hell I want." But in the world of The Boys, good things don't last. It's been a year and a half since the explosive finale of The Boys season 2, and they haven't missed a beat, kicking off season 3 with a premiere that's as shocking as it is…

Amazon has premiered the first three episodes of The Boys season 3 today, and it plans to launch the rest of them weekly to extend the conversation about ...

You’ll see. You’ll see. Amazon Prime Video has had fewer hits than its high profile competitors, but they’ve landed a few knockout punches.

What does peacetime look like for The Boys? A recap of 'Payback,' episode 1 of the third season of 'The Boys' on Amazon Prime Video.

But perhaps the peacetime that both Vought and Neuman are so keen to maintain isn’t peacetime at all; it’s just stasis. For all his high-and-mightiness about the work he and Neuman have been doing — and, to be fair, they have contributed to a steep drop in “suit collateral” — the rich and famous still rarely face any repercussions. Of course, Butcher refuses to pass along Becca’s son Ryan’s location to Homelander; he’s bonded a lot with the kid over the year of Ryan’s isolated stay with Boys founder Grace Mallory. For all Butcher’s fears of becoming his father, he’s becoming a surprisingly good one himself. The two men agree to commit to their own favored brand of warfare: scorched earth, with only one left standing at the end. Neuman is complicit in sweeping the first death of the episode under the rug. “Think about what that would mean to millions of girls,” she tells Hughie, momentarily forgetting the real end goal here. It’s nice to see the big secret about Hughie’s new boss come out so early on, instead of after a few episodes of wheel-spinning. Creative violence is this show’s bread and butter, especially as it intersects with sex, so you can imagine the writer’s room laughing their asses off coming up with each beat of this scene. There’s no point in putting it off, so let’s dive in (no pun intended): at his boyfriend’s request, Termite shrinks down and squeezes through his urethra, stroking the inner walls of his dick as he meanders toward the prostate. Only two people die in the episode (a low body count in this show), and neither character was featured before this episode, anyway. It’s clear from the beginning of the episode that this ceasefire is temporary (if it even exists at all). In fact, much of “Payback” feels like the calm before the storm. What has happened in the last twelve months, and can an uneasy truce be sustained based on the threat of mutually assured destruction alone?

The Boys introduces this highly anticipated character (played by Jensen Ackles) through a few interesting flashbacks and videos. We don't get to meet Soldier ...

And maybe we can meet more of the Payback in the future. But, while Stormfront ultimately runs the comic Payback show, Soldier Boy is in charge in the TV lineup. We don’t get confirmation if Soldier Boy is still alive in present time. Grace says she doesn’t know where the supe gun is nor does she know where the others are. We uncover our first bits of information about the TV version of Soldier Boy in The Boys first episode of season three. Well, we know where Noir is because he’s in the Seven. And Swatto died during that battle where 160 men died and Vought wasn’t held responsible. Soldier Boy was born poor in South Philly and allegedly became a war hero (thanks to Compound V) against the Red Menace. He is Vought’s very first superhero (using that word loosely here). Soldier Boy is super strong, fast, can fight hand to hand, and has a shield in addition to his powers. The chosen supes were Payback, including Crimson Countess, Gunpowder, Soldier Boy, Noir, Mindstorm, the TNT Twins, and Swatto. So Payback and Soldier Boy are essentially the older version of Seven and Homelander. As with all these heroes, Crimson Countess does borrow from Marvel/DC with some Scarlet Witch-esque powers. (Butcher blackmails her into honesty.) She was into some shady drug trafficking business in Nicaragua during Operation Charlie. The “higher ups” decided to bring a crew of supes into an active war zone. Gunpowder, another Payback member, is a “rights to bear arms” dude who ends up tussling with Butcher after the latter says he would tell people that Soldier Boy allegedly abused him. Soldier Boy is here and he’s definitely no Captain America. The Boys introduces this highly anticipated character (played by Jensen Ackles) through a few interesting flashbacks and videos.

Spoiler Alert. Amazon Studios. [Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for The Boys Season 3 premiere, “Payback.”] Of course, of ...

A man shows up at Neuman’s office demanding to talk to “Nadia,” and while Hughie doesn’t think much of it at first, it’s a massive clue as to Neuman’s true identity. “I look forward to it,” Homelander says, and then he vanishes. If Butcher can find out what it was, he can use it to, as Maeve puts it, “blow his brains out.” She also hands him three vials of V-24, and leaves after telling him not to “f**k up” their one chance to kill Homelander. Stan pitches it to a presidential candidate as “V-24,” a temporary Compound V: It gives soldiers powers to complete a mission, and then it wears off after a day. When the premiere kicks off, shockingly, things are actually pretty OK for Hughie ( Jack Quaid). He has no clue his boss at the Bureau of Superhuman Affairs is a head-exploding supe, he and Annie, a.k.a. Starlight ( Erin Moriarty), have gone public, and he’s committed to taking down bad guys the right way. (If you require context, this involves a supe with shrinking powers who’s high as a kite, a sex thing, and an unfortunately timed sneeze.)

Let's talk about that cameo from the first 60 seconds of 'The Boys' season 3 premiere.

Then there were mutants attacking New York City. And now in the final cut, Stormfront is the real villain of the movie. (Outside the show, Gilroy, the screenwriter of Michael Clayton, was hired by Lucasfilm to oversee reshoots of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.) complicated. It was meant as a fake dramatization of the Seven's origins, uniting Homelander, Stormfront, Queen Maeve (Dominique McElligott), Starlight (Erin Moriarty), Black Noir (Nathan Mitchell), A-Train ( Jessie Usher), and Translucent over a common threat. Kripke and his writers like to use the world of The Boys to satirize our own culture, including superhero culture. The actress showed up in one of two end-credits scenes as the comic book character Clea. Showrunner Eric Kripke and his stars have been keeping a major season 3 casting secret under wraps for months, and it was finally revealed within the opening minute of season 3's first episode.

The Boys is back for eight more blood-soaked episodes in Season 3. Billy Butcher, Homelander, Hughie, and more are back for more fun.

The Boys Season 3, like Seasons 1 and 2, will be eight episodes in total. The cursing. It's the violence. Season 3 picks up right where Season 2 left off; Billy Butcher ( Karl Urban) and Hughie Campbell ( Jack Quaid) have both gone legit in their fight against the Supes, with Butcher's crew working under the CIA umbrella and Hughie working as the right hand to Victoria Neumann (Claudia Doumit)—who may or may not be the mysterious figure who can make people's heads explode whenever the hell she feels like it. It's been a while since the last blood-soaked, gut-filled season of Amazon Prime Video's superhero send-up The Boys, but man are we glad to have it back. Not good at all!

The Boys Season 3 premiere sets up the potential for an all-new, all-terrifying version of Homelander. Here's what it means for The Boys, Starlight, ...

What he might do next is a chilling thing to ponder, but, as in the real world, the scariest part is asking ourselves how the “good guys” will redirect a monster that has grown much, much bigger than any one person. Other options may include the many other unstable supes that exist in a secret government bunker, but perhaps most likely is the chance of a partnership with Soldier Boy, “the first superhero.” Referred to as “Homelander before there was Homelander,” it should be clear that his politics are dicey and he’s not exactly a team player, but his well-earned hostility toward Vought could entail him allying with The Boys. At this rate, it looks like they’re going to need all the help they can get. This is disturbingly reminiscent of his interactions with Queen Maeve in the first two seasons, and as with Maeve, he’s keeping Starlight off-balance in order to keep the upper hand. Homelander’s increasingly public revelations of his rotten core have only led to a surge in his ratings, putting the rest of The Seven and The Boys in similar positions attempting to navigate his ever-escalating bad behavior. Having already gone above and beyond to make an enemy of Queen Maeve, he’s moved on to attempting to break Starlight while continuing to bully the others. Nowhere is that more true than Homelander, whose anger at being “subdued” has encouraged bolder acts that go beyond cruelty and into outright fascism.

The Boys season three returns with ample blood, NSFW moments, and all the weirdness you can handle. Here are the wildest moments this season.

Speaking of the Deep, Homelander hosts a dinner to celebrate his return. We get that he’s the man of the sea and all but ewww. He’s done a lot of disturbing things and this is one of the worst. “Homelander Makes Starlight Miserable” continues with Homelander using his “restored” image to bring the Deep back. Homelander’s birthday party goes awry when he declares that he’s not “like the rest of us.” And he will, in fact, not donate money to Starlight’s organization. The docuseries A-Train to Africa on VoughtSoul (a play on BET Soul) and a game about the slave trade. She refuses and he tells her to lighten the f*** up, but Stan interjects and says she doesn’t have to do it. And of course, this is when he discovers that his boss is the head popping supe. Frenchie and Miko are on a mission to learn more about Solider Boy and the Payback collective. It’s even harder to see her chop it up with her ex, who happens to be a contestant on a show to be a part of the Seven. He’s a handsome boy band kind of guy cracking his lady up with inside jokes. The Deep is a terrible person. He’s apparently not small all the time and is able to shrink himself down.

In Episode 3 of the new season of The Boys, a suped-up Billy Butcher gets the gang back together to desperately find a way to kill Homelander, leader of the ...

Now that Season 3 is out, we get to go a bit deeper into one of the first superhero groups in the history of The Boys. The loudmouth parody of Marvel's Captain America is the leader of Payback. And he has the strength to help America win World War II—and presumably has strength comparable to Homelander. His anti-aging ability preserves not only his skin, but also the sexist norms of the 1940s, when telling a female case officer for the CIA she needs to smile was acceptable to him. Until we see Orphan Black's Ryan Blakely do more than protrude his large forehead for a pose, we'll reserve judgment on how useful Mind-Storm is in The Boys universe. So far on this season of The Boys, she's only shot a few fireballs, but in the comics, she has Homelander-style heat vision lasers and can manipulate fire on a greater level than Season 2 standout Lamplighter. We may not have seen the last of what Crimson can do. In Episode 3 of the new season of The Boys, a suped-up Billy Butcher gets the gang back together to desperately find a way to kill Homelander, leader of the more popular Avengers spin-off The Seven, once and for all. Through her recollection of that catastrophic event, we find out about one of the first groups of superheroes Vought tried to shove into military action—Payback.

Karl Urban plays Butcher, a man who had his family destroyed by superheroes, and is now on a mission to put supes away. He founded his (literal) anti-hero group ...

Everyone is an arsehole, and this is just brutality for the sake of one-upsmanship, for the shock factor that, at this point, isn’t that shocking, and is probably just gross. This show is the kind of storytelling that comes out of the idea that everyone is an arsehole, waiting to fuck you over. This drama is just part of the fabric of our world, and even exploding penises and mental ménages à trois with octopi can’t top the absolute horrorshow that is our nightly news. It shows people in power destroying the world; it idolizes people who find moments of peace, levity, or strength amid the overwhelmingly horrible situations and systems; and instead of exposing the hypocrisy of corporations who attempt to capitalise on the neoliberal “wokeness” of society, it merely reminds us that it happens, and isn’t that funny? This is the world of The Boys. Nobody is coming to save you. Because Butcher values individualism over society, because he is a neoliberal who wishes for the obscure “better,” but rejects the society he seeks to save, he disregards the social norms of that society, instead embracing the wonton violence and destruction he believes is the problem with superheroes. What is the point of The Boys if it just emphasises that all this is just the way the world is? In season three, this is perfectly exemplified by the fact that he takes V24 — a compound that gives him superpowers, despite his saying in earlier seasons that the reason he founded the Boys is because “no individual should have that much power.” Butcher is so full of himself, so absurdly focused on his own goals, that he becomes what he used to hate, and that’s fine, actually, because he’s still an individual. The neoliberal individualist does things for themselves because of a belief that society will not, or can not, help them. Because he is, at the core, the poster-boy for the fantasy of the self-successful neoliberal individualist. The world is brutal and unkind. When you present a fictionalized, satirical view of the world, or make an attempt to do so, you hold up a mirror to the society we already live in.

The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke discusses how Jensen Ackles was cast as Soldier Boy for Season 3 — and how the Supernatural actor fought for the role.

He can be scary, he can be emotional, he can be a credible action star. So it hadn't occurred to me to think of Jensen because he plays as younger, but it wasn't until I was on the phone with him that I was like, 'Wait a minute, are you interested in this part? The hopelessly smarmy supe is played by Jensen Ackles, and the role reunites him with show creator Eric Kripke — the two worked together for a time on Supernatural when the series was first taking off on the now-CW — and let's just say that Soldier Boy is a pretty far cry from anything Dean Winchester ever was, even on his worst day.

The Seven are some of the most powerful "supes" on The Boys. But who's the most powerful of them all? We rank them here.

As the wife of Frederick Vought, she became the first known superhero, and she is by far one of the most powerful. Just a few of the powers we see from Noir, but his main ability is his high martial arts prowess. The only other supe we see with this ability is Homelander, and he is clearly impressed by this as he falls for her. The ability to turn completely invisible is his trademark power, but it's arguably his carbon skin that makes him so formidable. One of the few on this list that is a consistent member of The Seven, Queen Maeve (Dominique McElligott) is a great all-rounder. He is able to send a girl in the tunnel flying through the wall, and is also to send Starlight flying through the air, which is very impressive considering she's pretty strong herself. After spending years as a local hero, she is attracted by the glamour of The Seven, but quickly discovers the dark reality of being a member. Noir is definitely one of the most feared in the group and is highly reliable, but he has one unfortunate weakness that lets him down: Tree nuts. Her alliance to The Boys massively helps them in their pursuit of taking down The Seven, providing them with intelligence and working from the inside to bring them down. One of the earlier members of The Seven, Lamplighter (Shawn Ashmore) was replaced by Starlight, with not much being known about him in the first season. One of the first heroes we meet, The Deep (Chace Crawford) finds himself sinking toward the bottom of the rankings. Kicking things off, we have Shockwave (Mishka Thébaud). Although he never really made it to The Seven, he was all set to join as the replacement to A-Train after the latter's forced retirement.

The Boys had maybe its most disgusting scene ever, featuring an Ant-Man-esque hero named Termite and an exploding penis.

This is Termite's first major inclusion in the show by Kripke and company, though he was previously seen in the secret Supe sex club that Butcher and Hughie walked through in the very first episode. "Then silicon viscera was created, from blood to intestines, to assorted organs, and packed into the dummy's hollow rib cage, so that when it flopped onto the bed, the blood and guts would spill out of it." He tells Termite he didn't see anything, but then Termite doesn't have any interest in word of this getting out—he shrinks down to bug size, and, in a lovely reference to the famous Ant-Man Endgame theory, tries to fly into Frenchie's behind to explode him. And then the romantic suitor tells Termite that he wants to take things to the next level. Luckily, Billy Butcher ( Karl Urban) is monitoring from afar, and comes in to save the day: throwing Termite into a bag of cocaine and shaking him up like a powdered sugar dispenser for a delicious Sunday waffle. So, after the premiere for a movie called Pocket Romance, we find Frenchie (Tomer Capone) monitoring the afterparty for its hard-partying, showboating star, Termite (Brett Geddes). Termite has the power to grow very small and (presumably) very large, and shows this off in front of his adoring party guests.

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Let us know in the comments! and they're all given a proper spin to fit into the world. "Where The Boys continues to excel is in its ability to totally lampoon real-life events, both the insane reality of modern politics and the nature of corporate branding/capitalism," ComicBook critic Spencer Perry writes.

New and crazy adventures await William Butcher (Karl Urban) and his team in their attempt to eliminate Vought's Supes. Plus, Billy seems more relentless than ...

Let us know in the comments section below. The task to portray the first live-action adaptation of Soldier Boy has been entrusted to Jensen Ackles. 44-year-old Ackles is coming off a fifteen-year run as Dean Winchester, the demon hunter in The CW’s Supernatural. His credits also include voicing Bruce Wayne in the Batman: The Long Halloween animation movies. In the comics, Soldier Boy was introduced in 2009’s Herogasm miniseries created by Garth Ennis, John McCrea, and Keith Burns. Soldier Boy’s role and powers mock pretty much the ones of Marvel’s Steve Rogers, including his shield as a melee weapon.

Amazon's adaptation of The Boys remains just as violent and over-the-top in season 3. New this season is Soldier Boy (played by Supernatural's Jensen ...

This straightforward throughline makes the season’s highs hit harder and its lows easier to ride out — particularly when The Boys is riffing on current events that, in our incredibly rapid news cycle, will feel stale by the time it airs. But in 2022, our disasters are more diffuse, and our leaders less prone to forcing the same arguments ad infinitum. After all, the series, which kicks off its third season with three episodes this Friday, isn’t best read as a takedown of superheroes — or as a violent satire on current events, even as the show lambasts celebrity culture, right-wing media, and yes, the Trump presidency.

Prime Video's action-packed satire asks, "What do the good guys do when the bad guys just keep winning?"

What makes The Boys’ approach to this familiar territory stick—like a speedboat plunging straight into the innards of Lucy the Whale stick—is its unrelenting winks to the world in which we actually live. But generally speaking, The Boys remains one of the more in-touch satires in streaming, putting a fine point on a metaphoric dagger too many other shows wield like a blunt butter knife. So to get what they want, The Boys have to decide what parts of themselves they’re willing to lose. (If there’s an argument to be made for a The Boys movie, then it’s seeing those cruel, icy orbs on the big screen.) So, in a painful action-packed dramedy of errors that never lets up, The Boys season three takes aim at a daunting question: What do the good guys do when the bad guys just keep winning? Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso), Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara), Frenchie (Tomer Kapon), and even Butcher (Karl Urban) try to do the same.

Showrunner Eric Kripke explains how that explosive scene from the Season 3 premiere has a surprising practical effect.

That tunnel inside is really the urethra inside that giant penis. What was supposed to be an act of pleasure turns into a bloody mess. The Boys has never been shy about its gratuitous violence or sexual exploits ever since it first premiered on Prime Video back in 2019.

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The fight scenes continue to be well-blocked and well-staged, in particular a few in the season’s back half that are less about splashy choreography and more about brawny brutalism between their participants. Whatever can happen will happen, and whatever can go wrong will go wrong — but not wrong enough to leave a lasting impact in the world of The Boys. Sadism is still there: brain matter splooging out of a skull, the sticky smear of a body dragged along pavement, a supe punching through another person’s abdomen (a scene that happens twice with two different sets of characters). Fatherhood as a burden is still there: more memories of Butcher’s abusive father, and two more story lines with the same dynamics. But whatever wounds these men inflict upon each other are wiped away by The Boys’ unwillingness to genuinely change the structures in which its characters operate: Vought is still untouchable, the American government is still duplicitous, the criminal underworld is still full of Russians. There’s a rinse-and-repeat quality to both the heroes and the villains that means nothing much changes by the end of this season, as The Boys settles into the same cyclical narrative patterns as the cinematic universes it claims to be mocking. That American freedom is a myth and that the country’s gung ho ideology is built on propaganda and lies? Combine those decades of political awfulness with the concurrent superhero monoculture takeover of movies and TV, and certain patterns of stasis begin to emerge.

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Could he actually develop some empathy for the supes he’s always thought of as inherently wrong? But it’s hard to know how Kimiko could’ve avoided the public violence, especially since it’s a Countess fireball that makes the biggest mess. Poking and prodding him with the suggestion that Soldier Boy routinely molested him, Butcher winds up provoking a gunfight that he barely escapes. He gets the information he wants — whatever happened to Soldier Boy happened during a mission in Nicaragua, working under none other than Grace Mallory! (Oh, and Soldier Boy did slap him around a little, but it never went further than that.) He tries to resist Butcher’s invitation back — he can’t abandon his family again — but we know it’s only a matter of time. She knows that he does want to be with his family, but he can’t be at peace when he still has unfinished business. After getting shot by Gunpowder (more on that later) and watching Ryan’s emotional stop-motion animation of Becca’s voice-mail, he realizes Grace Mallory might be right, it might be time to get out of the game like Mother’s Milk did. Thankfully, the fight ends with an honest admission: Hughie thought things were finally going his way, but the Neuman revelation has shown him how blind he was to the truth. But the couple’s fake fight is organic enough to morph into a real one, tied to Hughie’s awareness of his relative physical weakness. While Annie is preoccupied with the birthday boy, Hughie is too impatient — and too insecure about his reliance on his superhero girlfriend — to wait for her to investigate Neuman further. But as soon as he hears the news, he pivots from bored obligation to actively encouraging the woman to go through with the suicide. He pays a visit to the Red River Institute, a group home for the super-abled owned by Vought, where it turns out Neuman (and her latest victim, Tony) grew up.

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While Soldier Boy could impact how the series moves forward, he could also have a lot to do with how certain characters’ stories continue to develop. Season 3 is an exploration of Soldier Boy but also how Vought operated in the early days of the company. The trailer for the series has given fans several clues into what the arc of Soldier Boy could be this season. With Soldier Boy breaking out from captivity, several other members may be alive, too, with glimpses of Crimson Countess (Laurie Holden) and Gunpowder (Sean Patrick Flanery) in the trailer. It is possible that past connections could still be alive, giving Soldier Boy the chance to call in some favors and find new ways to interact in the world he’s just woken up in. Season 3 of The Boys is about to hit Amazon Prime, and the long-awaited arrival of the Captain America counterpart, Soldier Boy, is almost here.

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After revealing Supersonic and the Deep ( Chace Crawford) as the new members, Homelander announces on-air on American Hero that he and Starlight are in love. Starlight assures him nothing is going on between them and never will, but Hughie seems to have a tough time getting over the fact that she and Supersonic have a lot of history. No, he joins because he still cares about Starlight, and if she's ever in danger, he will have her back. Though shaken by this revelation, Starlight soon goes along with it by kissing him. After all the chaos that came with Season 2 of The Boys, things seem to finally be peaceful. Although their individual storylines start out on a high note, things progressively decline for the pair.