How The Boys Season 3 Sets Up The Comics’ X-Men Parody
WARNING: Spoilers ahead for The Boys season 3
Is a budget version of the X-Men coming in The Boys season 3? A host of supes have been afforded the live-action treatment since The Boys first aired in 2019, from the patriotic glory of Homelander to the limb-chopping gory of Gecko. Amazon's TV series has also either shown or mentioned a wide selection of Marvel and DC team parodies — the Seven, Payback, Teenage Kix, etc. Alas, one group from Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's original The Boys comic books yet to make any significant onscreen contribution is the G-Men. A parody of Marvel's X-Men (as you might've guessed from the title), the G-Men is Vought's second-best supe group after the Seven and consists largely of orphans.
Aside from 2022's animated The Boys Presents: Diabolical, a second spinoff is in the works at Amazon. The currently-untitled project will be loosely based on the G-Men, and takes place at a college not entirely unlike Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. Details remain scarce at present, but Eric Kripke (showrunner) did confirm The Boys season 3 would feature subtle Easter eggs and teases for this upcoming new show. Season 3's opening episodes make good on that promise by name-checking an X-traordinary amount of comic supes belonging to the G-Men and its splinter groups.
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Most prominent is Silver Kincaid — a British Muslim hero who Starlight champions for a spot on the Seven, only to be overruled by Homelander. Though she barely appears in The Boys season 3, Silver Kincaid is the G-Men's Emma Frost/Jean Grey psychic figure, and she's far from alone in representing her team onscreen. Europo can be spotted on a poster attached to MM's
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