The Boys Drops Its Biggest Hint At The Comic's Dark Ending Happening
WARNING: Spoilers ahead for The Boys season 3, episode 5
Amazon's The Boys has dropped its strongest indication yet that the dark ending from Garth Ennis' original comic books will happen. Whether it be the Dynamite comics or Eric Kripke's live-action TV series, The Boys rests upon the relatively straightforward premise of one man seeking revenge against the world's greatest superhero. The source material's final volumes see Billy Butcher finally achieve this aim, but he refuses to stop at avenging Becca. In a dark twist, The Boys' final issues follow Butcher as he embarks on a crusade to indiscriminately wipe out all supes — friend or foe; evil or not.
Karl Urban's live-action Butcher has shown just as much disdain for supes as his comic counterpart since The Boys began in 2019, but Amazon's adaptation looking to be veering away from outright genocide. First, Butcher came around to Kimiko, before he and Starlight bonded over a shared love of Hughie in The Boys season 2, bringing the unlikely pair much closer than the comics ever did. Most significantly, The Boys' TV show introduced Ryan Butcher — Becca's supe son. From Connect 4 to LEGO videos, Billy Butcher has become a definite father figure in The Boys season 3. Despite his inner rage towards supes, therefore, these moments surely prove Butcher's Compound-V kill-switch comic finale moment can't happen… right?
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The Boys season 3, episode 5 («The Last Time To Look On This World Of Lies») sees Billy Butcher rendezvous with Queen Maeve -yet another supe he's come to trust — to debrief after the Moscow mission. They get drunk, and the alcoholic brain haze momentarily lowers Butcher's guard. With complete
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