Warning: This article contains major spoilers for season 1 of AmazonsThe Boys.
(Yes,new episodes are already in the works.)
Terror
First things first: What happened to Terror?
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But theres good news, Terror stans.
EW can exclusively confirm that Terror will star in an episode alongside Billy in season 2.
We felt, as the writers, the fans need him, the showrunner adds.
Dynamite
As we learn, Compound V is a substance that, when administered, develops superpowers in humans.
To me, all the best science fiction, fantasy is 90 percent reality.
Thats a Rod Serling, Kripke notes.
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No gods from mythology, no aliens from other planets, Kripke says.
Its only humans who suddenly found themselves with these extraordinary abilities.
About that ending
Compound V also allowed for Homelanders big reveal in the season 1 finale.
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Adding salt to the festering wound, Homelander is now claiming Becca and their child as his new family.
Thats just too perfect a character to not keep alive.
Kripke wanted to also avoid fridging, which seeswomen being killed off as motivation for male heroes.
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It always nudged us a little in the writers room.
Then theres the Hughie (Jack Quaid) of it all.
He and Billy gravitate to one another because they share the same backstory: Superheroes killed their loved ones.
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What does that do to them heading into season 2?
Super cameos
Seth Rogenexecutive-producesThe BoyswithEvan Goldberg, as they do another Ennis-based TV series, AMCsPreacher.
So a cameo from the funnyman was easy to pull off.
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In fact, all the superheroes have their own movies.
(The Deeps is calledThe Rising Tide.)
This was a little nugget planted in season 1 that Kripke hopes to expand next year.
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If his schedule is clear, well do that.
Sure enough, in season 2, that becomes a really important character, Kripke confirms.
Now I need you for four to five more episodes.
To his credit, thank God, hes available and enthusiastic.
Shes introduced in the comics and then promptly sexually assaulted by Homelander, A Train, and Black Noir.
The show changed again.
When the Weinstein scandal broke, the room saw society change in real time.
Suddenly, Kripke says, youcouldspeak, and you could actually bring a really powerful motherf down.
The dolphins name is Fresh Meat.
Well, not officially.
And, yes, a mechanical dolphin exists.
That, believe it or not, didnt get rejected because anyone clutched their pearls.
It was rejected because it was logistically too difficult to mount on our budget, the showrunner says.
But now hes writing that down as something to hopefully take on in season 2.
What hecantease is what we already gather after watching the finale.
So far, weve been doing that and its been turning out well.
We have this real quirk of the show that it keeps reflecting reality.
The Boysseason 1 is now available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.
