Ryan’s Return Confirms A Huge Boys Season 2 Black Noir Theory
Warning: spoilers ahead for The Boys season 3
An intriguing Ryan Butcher theory gets a major boost in The Boys season 3's opening episodes. In a massive deviation from the original comics, Ryan Butcher — son of Becca and Homelander - debuted during the final moments of The Boys season 1. Young Cameron Crovetti was then cast as the terrifying tyke, and season 2 showed Ryan to be a caring, gentle boy who hadn't yet harnessed the immense power running through his veins. Regardless, Ryan is immensely powerful, and shares many of his old man's tricks — super-strength, invulnerability, heat vision, etc. So limitless is Ryan's potential, he sliced up Stormfront like a fascist salami.
Defeating Stormfront (albeit accidentally) sparked theories about Ryan Butcher's The Boys future. When Homelander first hooked up with his Nazi mistress, she asked him to seductively laser her skin. When Homelander protested out of fear for his girlfriend's intestines, she promised her body was strong enough to take it, and take it she did. Ryan's heat vision cutting right through Stormfront, therefore, strongly suggests his superhero potential is greater than his father's. In Garth Ennis' The Boys comic books, Black Noir is secretly a Homelander clone designed as a fail-safe should the Seven leader ever lose control. A post-season 2 The Boys theory proposed that Ryan's power would allow him to eventually assume the Black Noir comic mantle of an anti-Homelander safeguard.
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The Boys season 3 leans precariously in that very direction. When Karl Urban's Billy Butcher visits Ryan in «Payback,» the youngster confesses to suffering nightmares about Homelander. Over a game of
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