Butcher’s Season 3 Ending Completely Changes The Boys’ Future
WARNING: Spoilers ahead for The Boys season 3's finale
Billy Butcher's grim diagnosis completely changes The Boys' future direction — here's how. When Queen Maeve first brought V-24 to Butcher's attention in The Boys season 3's premiere, Karl Urban's supe-kicker must've thought Christmas arrived early. A drug that lets him fight supes on a level playing field without technically becoming a supe himself? Sounds too good to be true...
As Starlight later discovers, it is. V-24's side-effects involve way more than just vomiting and leaky ears. Anywhere between 3-5 doses of the green stuff is enough for malignant tumors to begin rapidly forming inside the body. Hughie Campbell managed a quartet of doses, but appears to have got lucky after Butcher prevented him injecting a fatal fifth. Butcher himself, on the other hand, isn't so lucky. Unwisely taking all five allotted doses (Gunpowder, Russia, Crimson Countess, Herogasm, and Mindstorm), he injects a foolhardy sixth ahead of The Boys season 3's final battle.
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To the surprise of absolutely nobody, Billy Butcher promptly collapses after the Battle of Vought Tower, and he awakens to a doctor giving him 12-18 months. Those hyper-accelerated malignant tumors mentioned in the Vought research Starlight found have obviously taken hold.
The Boys has provided Amazon's Prime Video streaming service with one of its biggest hits. The platform hardly would've allowed a giant close-up of a penis in season 3's premiere if The Boys wasn't drawing viewers, after all. The Boys season 4 has already been green-lit, and multiple spinoffs are also in the works, demonstrating just how highly Amazon values The Boys as a
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