The Boys’ “Jamie” Easter Egg Is WAY Grosser Than You Think

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WARNING: Spoilers ahead for The Boys season 3, episode 4

Here's where that cute little hamster in The Boys season 3 comes from, and why it's a smellier Easter egg than you might think. Coming to the business end of their mission to locate whatever weapon killed Soldier Boy, Billy Butcher and his trusty Boys find themselves in a secret Russian laboratory. This facility has spent decades conducting experiments on the all-American legacy hero following his 1980s capture in Nicaragua, and although The Boys doesn't reveal precisely what the Russians were trying to achieve, viewers can safely assume it relates to Compound-V.

But Soldier Boy isn't the only experiment subject in The Boys season 3's lab scene. Exploring the area, Frenchie spots a cage containing a light brown, furry hamster, and he calls over MM who translates the critter's Russian name tag as «Jamie.» Tapping on the glass provokes Jamie into a frenzy, and as the hamster smashes wildly into its confines, Frenchie and MM realize this cute little pet has been imbued with Compound-V. Fortunately, he's on the Boys' side, as when a Russian soldier has Frenchie cornered, a floating Jamie rides to the rescue with vengeance in his tiny little heart.

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The Boys' hairy new recruit brings the franchise's trademark gross-out humor to an otherwise serious action scene. The image of Jamie violently ramming himself into nearby soldiers in a hail of blood is as gory as it is raucously ridiculous. Far from a total newcomer, however, wee little Jamie has history in Garth Ennis' original The Boys comic books — and you'll not be surprised to learn it's even grosser than the «death by angry hamster» moment