The Boys Confirms Homelander's Connection To Season 3 Villain Soldier Boy
The Boys Presents: Diabolical confirms a potentially game-changing link between Homelander and Soldier Boy ahead of the latter's live-action debut in The Boys season 3. Even after two seasons of Vought vigilantism, The Boys still has a wealth of characters from Garth Ennis' original comic series to call upon. Among the new additions for The Boys season 3 is Soldier Boy, played by Jensen Ackles, who's swapping Supernatural for supe collateral. A parody of Marvel's Captain America, we know Soldier Boy joins The Boys having spent years out of the public eye, and a statue glimpsed in season 2 indicates the wider world believe their wartime hero died in the 1980s.
Building towards Ackles' highly-anticipated arrival, The Boys: Diabolical drops a timely Soldier Boy reference — and draws an intriguing parallel between he and Homelander that could foreshadow events to come in Amazon's main show. The Boys: Diabolical episode 8 («One Plus One Equals Two») shows Homelander's very first press conference as a Vought supe, and reveals how his maiden mission was, unsurprisingly, an unmitigated disaster.
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The animated offering features a young Madelyn Stillwell, and takes place in a distinctly unfamiliar pre-Seven landscape, which makes the Soldier Boy nod stand out all the more. As Homelander descends heroically from an opening in the roof, Madelyn Stillwell proudly claims, "Not since Soldier Boy has Vought been so excited to work with a superhero of The Homelander's caliber."
The line tacitly confirms Soldier Boy was, presumably for a very long time, the most popular and prestigious hero on Vought's books. Elsewhere in the same episode,
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