The Boys Season 3 Trailer Secretly Reveals How Powerful Soldier Boy Will Be
One of the most anticipated aspects ofThe Boys season 3 trailer is the appearance of Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy. The social media marketing of the show heavily emphasizes the importance of Soldier Boy within the world of The Boys, and he finally makes an appearance in the trailer for the new season. Upon careful inspection, the trailer reveals several important hints as to Soldier Boy’s powers, implying that he may be the most difficult antagonist that Billy Butcher and company come up against in season 3.
In the original comics by Garth Ennis, Soldier Boy parodies Captain America. He is an incompetent American World War II soldier imbued with super strength and speed courtesy of Vought’s Compound V superhero formula. The television adaptation of The Boys by Eric Kripke changes many characters’ plotlines and, in all likelihood, he's changing Soldier Boy’s backstory as well. The Boys season 3 trailer implies this iteration of Soldier Boy, like MCU's Captain America, is as a man out of time. Stan Edgar, the head of Vought, explains in The Boys season 2, episode 1, “The Big Ride” that Soldier Boy is one of Vought’s earliest and greatest superheroes, foreshadowing his importance within the show itself. This signifies he is graduating from a minor comic book character to a central character in the show.
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The season 3 trailer of The Boys reveals Soldier Boy will be the most powerful enemy the series has seen thus far by deliberately contrasting the music and images of Soldier Boy with the music and images of the other characters. The Boys is one of the biggest returning shows of 2022 because the show's creative team is very deliberate in its
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