The Boys season 3 trailer promises the rivalry between Homelander and Billy Butcher is reaching new levels of diabolical. Alongside Hughie Campbell (Jack Quaid), Homelander (Anthony Starr) and Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) are the main characters ofThe Boys. Throughout seasons 1 and 2 audiences witness how the vendetta between these two brings out the worst in each other, and The Boys season 3 trailer confirms they're about to get a lot worse.
At the end of The Boys season 2, both Homelander and Billy Butcher’s worlds are shattered. Billy Butcher witnesses the death of his wife Becca (Shantel VanSanten), and in the aftermath his friends drift apart. Meanwhile, Homelander’s lover Stormfront (Aya Cash) is burnt to a crisp, his estranged son Ryan (Cameron Crovetti) abandons him, and Queen Maeve (Dominique McElligott) blackmails him. The show is not a direct adaptation of the Garth Ennis comics, but their influence is never far away. In the comics, both Homelander and Butcher commit atrocities yet unseen in the show, but now that their television counterparts find themselves in a state of emotional freefall, they could be capable of committing such acts in The Boys season 3.
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The editing of the music and images in The Boys season 3 trailer indicates Billy Butcher and Homelander are darker and more unhinged than ever before. The trailer song “Bones” by Imagine Dragons is all about a powerful person losing control of reality, and that's exactly what is happening to Billy Butcher and Homelander in the upcoming season. Now that Butcher's wife Becca is dead, Butcher has made it clear he doesn’t care who gets in his way iin his mission to take down Supes.
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