The Boys Season 3: Why One Character Had Surprising Reaction To V-24
WARNING: Spoilers ahead for The Boys season 3, episode 4
The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke explains Hughie’s surprising reaction to V-24 in season 3, episode 4, “Glorious Five Year Plan.” Based on Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s comic, Amazon Prime's The Boystakes place in a world where superheroes are injected with a drug, Compound-V, as children and then develop their abilities over time. Throughout its first two seasons, Billy Butcher, Hughie Campbell, and the titular boys have struggled to combat Vought International and its corrupt/abusive “Supes.” The Boys season 3 introduced Temp-V or V-24, which levels the playing field by giving the user powers for 24 hours.
At the beginning of The Boys season 3, Queen Maeve gives Butcher three vials of V-24. Despite his reluctance and hatred for Supes, Butcher takes a dose and easily overpowers Payback member Gunpowder while searching for the weapon that supposedly killed Soldier Boy. Ironically, Butcher gets laser eyes, super strength, and invulnerability, akin to his arch-nemesis, Homelander. After discovering Butcher's V-24 experiment, The Boys season 3, episode 4 sees Hughie ask to try some. Butcher refuses, saying “it’s not power. It’s punishment. You don’t deserve none of it.” However, Hughie ignores Butcher and grabs some of the V-24 for himself, gleefully teleporting away soon after.
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In a recent interview with TVLine, Kripke explains the dichotomy between Butcher and Hughie’s reactions to V-24. While Butcher views the drug as a necessary evil, Hughie wants a taste of the power he’s been subjected to for The Boys' two seasons. Read the full quote below:
“It was very intentional, and we specifically discussed
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