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Major Spoilers For The Boys Season One
The Boys hit Amazon Prime on Friday, the 26th. Before it was even available to watch, the series had been renewed for a second season. Adapted from a comic book of the same name, showrunner Eric Kripke worked alongside Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg on this successful series. Kripke knew that Amazon gave the green light for another season, which would explain the very open-ended season finale. The cliffhanger involved finding out that main character Billy Butcher’s missing wife was alive. Not only that, but had been living in some sort of suburban house with a child that we all are pretty sure is Homelander’s.
In the comics, both Becca (Butcher’s wife) and her child die. So it is certainly a deviation from the source material to have them both alive. In an interview with Collider, Kripke explains the ending and why they decided to change the story:
“You have this kid who’s half-human and half monster; half the person Butcher loves most in the world and half the person Butcher hates most in the world. That’s just too perfect a character to not keep alive.”
Kripke then went on to say that this change will also change the dynamic between Butcher and Hughie. Originally, the two were similar in the fact that both had loved ones who were taken from them due to a “supe’s” ill intentions. Kripke explains that Butcher and Hughie will discover they do not have that much in common in season two:
“Is there a way that we can still honor the comic but then pull the rug out to say they don’t have the same backstory at all, they just thought they did? And if we could throw a left hook like that, we could really shock readers of the comic but also present this notion of, though these characters have so much in common, suddenly they find themselves in two different spaces. What does that do to them heading into season 2?”
We’re still enjoying season one, but season two is already shifting the pieces into place. Aya Cash will be joining as the superhero Stormfront. Kripke also teased that the character Terror, Butcher’s trusty dog; may appear in season two:
“We felt, as the writers, the fans need him. We had to bite the bullet and have one fucking pain-in-the-ass episode to shoot with the dog, and then at the end the dog will return to the safe and comfortable place it’s been. But it does come out of retirement for one more mission with Butcher, and so we can at least put Butcher with Terror for one big episode.”
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