The Boys’ Homelander Soldier Boy Twist Initially Wasn’t Part of The Plan
Warning: Spoilers for The Boys Season 3 Episode 7
The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke says season 3 episode 7's Soldier Boy twist wasn't always part of the plan. Based on Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's comic of the same name, The Boys season 3 added another deplorable super to its roster in Jensen Ackles' Soldier Boy. Unlike his comic book counterpart (s), who are incompetent and cowardly, Prime Video's creation was Vought International's Homelander before Homelander and the epitome of toxic masculinity.
Season 3 episode 7, «Here Comes a Candle to Light You to Bed,» takes that last sentence to a whole new level. Hughie, Butcher, and Soldier Boys' hunt ex-members of Payback who betrayed the faux Captain America in Nicaragua in 1984 leads them to Mindstorm—who (presumably) tells Soldier Boy that Stan Edgar wanted him gone because Vought scientist Jonah Vogelbaum's 3-year-old supe, Homelander, was already showing superior potential. In the episode's final moments, Soldier Boy calls Homelander and tells him how he shot his squadron of little soldiers into a cup for Vogelbaum, who lied about the experiment's purpose, citing "some sh*t about genetics." In short, Homelander has Daddy issues on top of his previous Mommy issues. Albeit surprising, Soldier Boy being Homelander's father makes perfect sense within the show's narrative and feels like an organic twist. However, The Boys' creators stumbled upon it in the writing of season 3 rather than planning it from the get-go.
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In a recent interview with Variety, Kripke said he and his team of writers didn't initially intend to reveal Soldier Boy as Homelander's father in season 3. It was a creative decision conceived amid the
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