The Boys' Superpowers Twist Saves Season 3 From The Worst Comics Story
The Boys' season 3 sees Billy Butcher gain superpowers, which could be the set-up needed to avoid one of the comic's worst storylines. While the original comics used Compound V early on to level the playing field between Butcher's gang and the Supes, Prime Video's The Boys has avoided using it until now. Instead, the titular The Boys have mostly defeated their enemies with well-placed explosives and damning video footage. However, season 3 of Amazon's hit show seems to be correcting their comic book deviation, albeit with some slight changes.
Despite still committing heinous acts, The Boys' Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) is a lot more centered than his comic book counterpart to date, with Butcher keeping a promise to his dying wife to protect Homelander's (Antony Starr) biological son, Ryan (despite the boy being a Supe). The Boys season 3 trailer also reveals that Billy Butcher has been on the straight and narrow between seasons, indicating that he is a changed man, though it seems the Butcher's season 3 plotline of becoming a Supe himself will change that. Yet inThe Boys comic series, Billy Butcher gets to a point where his hate corrupts him beyond redemption before mercilessly turning on his own team. Butcher becomes broken when Jack From Jupiter — who isn't in the Amazon production - kills Terror, Billy's bulldog. Following Terror's death, Butcher pays Jack From Jupiter a visit, grabbing him by the throat and repeatedly stabbing him. It remains one of The Boys comics' most violent scenes — made all the more horrifying when Billy says "It ain't me son, I'm somewhere else watching it happen," to his already deceased victim.
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