Since it first started streaming on Amazon Prime, The Boys prided itself on bringing fresh material to the superhero genre. In anticipation of the show's upcoming third season, Amazon released a new poster with an added twist that is sure to get the fans not only excited but also wildly speculating where this season is headed.
While the poster for The Boys itself is a pretty simple headshot of Karl Urban's Billy Butcher, Butcher's eyes have a bright orange glow in them, giving off the impression that he has laser vision, something he previously never had last time viewers saw him. As if that wasn't enough noteworthy material, the tagline for the Tweet itself reads, "It's time to level the playing field."
This poster for The Boys season 3 will only fuel speculation that our protagonists, who up to this point have never had superpowers before (sans Starlight and Kimiko), will acquire them through the super-powered drug Compound V sometime during this upcoming season. Or, at the very least, Billy Butcher will. It would make sense if the show went this route seeing as how their comic counterparts did exactly that to combat the superheroes in the graphic novel.
This would also be quite the twist for Billy Butcher's sake seeing as how what fuels his cause to expose the supes at Vought for the despicable beings they are is his hatred of superheroes (or more specifically, Homelander). Then again, seeing how Homelander and the other superheroes at Vought are basically invincible beings who can't physically be stopped by anything, perhaps his reason for acquiring superpowers would be because he and the rest of the boys have no other option to truly defeat them than to fight fire with fire. Or perhaps, there's an even worse danger on the horizon that fans won't know about until the third season airs.
Potentially giving this group of anti-superheroes superpowers opens up so many possibilities of where the show could go. The Boys' entire appeal as a show was making the superheroes the antagonists of the story because of how often they abuse their power with little to no repercussions. Now that they would potentially give the same powers to the ones who oppose them most, it could potentially flip everything on its head. If executed smoothly, this could give the superhero genre a level of nuance it's never had before.
No matter what happens, material like this will make the fans so much more excited for when the show finally comes back for its third season. The one thing shows like this cannot do is repeat the same formula because fans are sure to get bored with it if they do. Since they began their run in 2019, The Boys luckily hasn't fallen into that trap just yet, although the fans weren't as entranced by the show's second season as they were by the first. This new wrinkle could potentially put the show back on the pedestal it was on when the first season aired.
The Boys will start streaming its third season on Amazon Prime on June 3rd, 2022.
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