The Boys Season 3 Trailer Confirms 5 Details About Soldier Boy's Origin

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Here are the 5 biggest details we learned about Soldier Boy's origin and backstory in Amazon's first The Boys season 3 trailer. The class of 2022 brings a host of exciting super-powered additions to The Boys, but by far the most eagerly anticipated is Soldier Boy. A minor character in Garth Ennis' original story, The Boys' comic books depict Soldier Boy as a World War II Compound-V hero killed by Mallory for being woefully incompetent and getting his entire squad murdered by Nazi soldiers. In the present day, Vought has assigned its «Soldier Boy» title to another hero — a man who's terrified of his own shadow, and will quite literally do anything to impress Homelander enough to join the Seven.

That's not the Soldier Boy we're getting in The Boys season 3. Reuniting with Supernatural creator Eric Kripke (now The Boys showrunner) is Dean Winchester himself, Jensen Ackles. Although The Boys' marketing folks have already showcased Soldier Boy's live-action costume, firm character details have been conspicuously scarce, with only the odd vague interview comment from Kripke/Ackles to base our assumptions on.

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Amazon's The Boys season 3 trailer has now arrived, debuting Soldier Boy in all his patriotic glory. There's no dialogue, but an outline of the supe veteran's backstory can be pieced together from the footage regardless. Firstly, the trailer shows grainy video footage of Soldier Boy giving some kind of public speech. From Stan Edgar in The Boys season 2, we know Ackles' incarnation of Soldier Boy fought during World War II, but this image quality looks closer to the 1960s. It stands to reason that after debuting against the Nazis, Soldier