New The Boys Season 3 Poster Gives Karl Urban's Billy Butcher Superpowers
Since it first started streaming on Amazon Prime, The Boys prided itself on bringing fresh material to the superhero genre. In anticipation of the show's upcoming third season, Amazon released a new poster with an added twist that is sure to get the fans not only excited but also wildly speculating where this season is headed.
While the poster for The Boys itself is a pretty simple headshot of Karl Urban's Billy Butcher, Butcher's eyes have a bright orange glow in them, giving off the impression that he has laser vision, something he previously never had last time viewers saw him. As if that wasn't enough noteworthy material, the tagline for the Tweet itself reads, «It's time to level the playing field.»
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This poster for The Boys season 3 will only fuel speculation that our protagonists, who up to this point have never had superpowers before (sans Starlight and Kimiko), will acquire them through the super-powered drug Compound V sometime during this upcoming season. Or, at the very least, Billy Butcher will. It would make sense if the show went this route seeing as how their comic counterparts did exactly that to combat the superheroes in the graphic novel.
This would also be quite the twist for Billy Butcher's sake seeing as how what fuels his cause to expose the supes at Vought for the despicable beings they are is his hatred of superheroes (or more specifically, Homelander). Then again, seeing how Homelander and the other superheroes at Vought are basically invincible beings who can't physically be stopped by anything, perhaps his reason for acquiring superpowers would be because he and the rest of the boys have no other option to truly defeat them than to fight
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