The Boys Season 3's Super-Powered Butcher Teases The Show's Endgame
If The Boys season 3's super-powered Billy Butcher tease holds up, Amazon's adaptation could be building towards its mind-blowing endgame. In the warped world of The Boys, Compound-V — the blue drug created by Adolf Hitler's personal friend, Dr. Frederick Vought — is the sole reason supes exist. That's true for both Garth Ennis' original comic books, and Amazon's The Boys TV series, but the live-action adaptation takes an important detour. In the source material, Billy Butcher's gang use Compound-V as a stimulant, giving themselves a fighting chance against actual supes. In Eric Kripke's The Boys TV series, only Kimiko (The Female) is V-powered, and certainly not by choice. The idea of Hughie, Butcher, MM and Frenchie using Vought's infamous drug hasn't even been broached.
That status quo looks set to change, as a brand new poster for The Boys season 3 shows Butcher with glowing laser eyes. As if that wasn't foreboding enough, the poster dropped alongside an accompanying caption, "Time to level the playing field." This potent combination of words and image strongly suggests The Boys season 3 will adapt Garth Ennis' comic notion of protagonists injecting Compound-V to compete evenly against Vought's finest. Because of the direction Amazon's The Boys has taken, however, that story can't play out verbatim to the comics.
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Butcher's team already fuel themselves with Compound-V when The Boys' comic narrative begins, so doping is only a big deal to Hughie (and he gets used to it eventually). Because Karl Urban's team have spent 2 whole seasons fighting against Compound-V, however, taking the stuff would carry a way bigger ethical burden in The Boys' TV universe.
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