We see how true that is in The Boys season 3 episode 8 “The Instant White-Hot Wild.” Butcher (Karl Urban) makes a deal with the devil, Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles), to take down the red, white, and blue super fascist. The thing about deals with the devil, however, is that the devil is bad, you see. Butcher realizes his scorched Earth plan has gone too far when Soldier Boy carelessly tosses Butcher and Homelander’s shared son, Ryan (Cameron Crovetti), aside, bloodying the young lad’s face.
Still, it’s hard to blame Butcher for trying. Homelander quite simply has to go. And while the audience knows he likely won’t die in this finale because there is still at least one more season to come on Prime Video (and probably several more after that), Butcher isn’t privy to that information. Therefore he and the rest of The Boys season 3 finale attempts to do what every Boys season finale attempts to do: kill Homelander.
Naturally, Butcher fails. But he fails in a new, interesting way that signals that The Boys just might be ready to enter its endgame…however far away that might be. Here is what you need to know about the ending of The Boys season 3.
What’s Next for Homelander?
If the series-long arc of The Boys is all about preparing Homelander to become the world-destroying monster that we all know he can be, then how do the events of this episode play into that mission? Well, according to Kripke, turning Homelander into an extinction-level threat isn’t about adding evil layers to his persona but rather taking the human ones away.
“You could really track the entire mythology of the series as the slow unraveling of Homelander,” Kripke says. “He has these guardrails that keep him from destroying the planet. He’s a sociopath, but he still needs love. He still loves Ryan. He still needs approval from the audience. There’s all these things that keep him from being an apocalyptic problem.”
Simply put: The Boys season 3 takes a lot of guardrails away for Homelander. This finale alone removes all the complications surrounding his various relationships. His son, Ryan, definitively decides to love him. His father, Soldier Boy, definitively decides to hate him. And most importantly: his fans decide that no amount of violence will keep them from supporting their American god.
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