Here's Who Might Finally Kill Homelander on 'The Boys'
The Boys season 3 spoilers follow.
The third season of The Boys has come to an end and it's safe to say it was the wildest ride the show has taken us on thus far. And that's really saying something.
Between the exploding penis, Herogasm, The Deep's sick octopus fetish and Ashley giving A-Train Blue Hawk's heart (too far), you have to wonder what the F else is going on in Eric Kripke's mind.
Now that season four is set to start filming this August, it doesn't look like it'll be too long before we find out either. So brace yourselves.
One thing we do know, though, is that it will involve yet another ploy to kill Antony Starr's Homelander, who's basically Superman if he was an evil little shit.
Butcher and The Boys (and now Annie) have been attempting to end The Seven leader's reign of terror since the show's debut, and although it really looked like they had him for a moment, he unfortunately lives on.
However, Kripke has stated that the show won't end until the blue-eyed supe is put in the ground for good.
"There's no way the series ends without Homelander dying," he told Metacritic. "I'm just not comfortable with keeping that guy alive in the universe. We have to do something!"
We know Homelander has to die, and quite frankly, we're not sure how many more seasons this formula of plotting and failing to kill him can go on for.
So the question is, who's gonna be the one to finally off Homelander?
Here's who we think are the potential candidates.
Black Noir (2.0)
We know, we know. Black Noir was murdered at the hands of Homelander.
It was a shocking turn of events given that the silent enigma remained loyal to his leader no matter (and we mean no matter) what.
Episode seven's Looney-Tunes sketch solved that mystery by revealing that The Seven's previous leader, Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles), was an even bigger dick than Homelander and Noir helped detain him, Captain America-style.
But when Noir admits that he knew Soldier Boy was Homelander's biological father all along, the latter gruesomely rips out his insides and leaves him to die while his cartoon buddies comfort him.
This isn't the end of Black Noir, though. Not entirely.
"It's definitely not the last we've seen of Black Noir as a hero," Kripke told Entertainment Weekly. "It's just that the guy who was inside [the Noir suit] in season three, he's gone. But we have Nathan [Mitchell] playing a really interesting and hilarious character who wears the suit next season."
Fans of the comics will recognize that the show's Black Noir is not the same as the one in the comics. Comic Noir is actually revealed to be a Homelander clone, created by Vought as a backup plan in case their star supe were to go rogue.
The silent killer eventually murders Homelander, and he is able to do so because he possesses the same lethal abilities as him.
Of course, Kripke has stated that Mitchell will play Noir 2.0, ruling out the Homelander-clone aspect. But who's to say Vought didn't just clone Homelander's powers and not the entire person?
As we know by now, Vought likes to keep a good face, and putting someone else in the Noir suit will be their way of hiding his death from the public.
But Homelander killed him before Soldier Boy showed up, so surely it would have been easier for them to just say that Noir died sacrificing himself with Queen Maeve?
Or they could put someone else in the suit who is actually a match for Homelander and who, as a member of The Seven, can be close to him at all times with no questions asked.
So maybe Noir 2.0 will be the answer to Homelander's eventual demise...
Ryan
That's right, Homelander's baby boy.
In season one, viewers found out that Homelander had raped Butcher's wife Becca (Shantel VanSanten) years before, causing her to disappear while pregnant.
Ryan, the result of that pregnancy, was revealed to be a natural-born supe rather than having been injected with Compound V like the others.
Cameron Crovetti's character pretty much possesses all the same abilities as his dad, including heat vision and more recently, flying. And that's why he's the ideal opponent.
As previously mentioned, Comic Noir was able to kill Homelander because he was a clone and they had the same powers. Ryan may not be a clone, but he and Homelander share the same DNA, similar abilities and he's proven himself to be pretty deadly, even when that's not been his intention.
The extent of his powers was first revealed in the season-two finale when he barbecued Stormfront (Aya Cash) after she threatened to kill his mother, though Becca was also caught in the crossfire.
Kripke also explained that when in a fit of rage Ryan is even more powerful than his father.
"The strength of Ryan’s lasers — which were surprisingly powerful — are way more powerful than even Homelander’s when Ryan gets angry enough," he told TV Guide.
With Soldier Boy down (again), it looks like he's the only other supe powerful enough to kill Homelander – if he's willing to.
Becca strived to protect her son from his psycho father, and she did a pretty good job of raising a sweet boy who makes Lego movies of The Blind Side and Terms of Endearment, considering.
But with the guilt of his mother's death, Butcher pushing him away as a result, Homelander as a father and Soldier Boy as a grandfather, the kid is bound to be a bit messed up.
If his wicked smile when Homelander beamed a "Believe Starlight" protester to death in the season-three finale is any indication, he could be the new big bad of season four.
However, if Butcher manages to bring him back to into the (albeit shadowy) light, then perhaps he and The Boys will be able to convince Ryan to help them take down Homelander once and for all.
Butcher
Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) is certainly no angel, but it would be so satisfying to see him finally kill Homelander.
Butcher's hatred and desire for vengeance on the monster who hurt his wife underpins the entire premise of The Boys.
The fact that his days are literally numbered after shooting up Temp V throughout season three means that season four could well be the show's final run.
The gritty supe slayer has nothing to lose now, and he'll likely be even more motivated so he can stop his wife's son from becoming another supe d-bag now that he's sided with his old man.
So it wouldn't be surprising if Butcher pumped some more V for one last fight with his adversary and we get to watch them fight it out to the death, bringing the show's primary conflict to a close.
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