SOLDIER BOY (History + Powers + The Boys Ending) EXPLAINED 

I like this take from season 3 it's more nuanced than the stormfront stuff where they make it seem like homelander is the lesser evil just cuz he cares for his kid. Where as you actually know and kind of agree with soldier boy in season 3 when he needs to get revenge on payback for what they put him through that incidentally gave him PTSD, it's a nice touch that he doesn't acknowledge that he's been killing people around him because his mental disorder wasn't checked out, some might chalk it up to a generation thing but I know people out there who doesn't want to acknowledge that they or their family has a particular mental illness when it goes against traditional values or them not wanting to admit their flaws. He seems like how a real person would act and not just some shitty Nazi strawman like stormfront was and I think the show was in dire need of him+ temp v because season 2 derailed the plot so much that by the end when stormfront was getting stomped it felt like the goonies or a Stephen king novel.

It’s good to know people in high places. If the writer didn’t love his Supernaturals stars so much, the role might’ve been given to someone else. But Jensen Ackles is one of his boys and owes a good deal of success to him and Jared. On that note, when is Jared Padalecki going to show up on the show, and what role will he play?

@@mrdude88 It was like watching Dean when he was possessed by Michael the archangel it was the perfect casting

Or when dean was a knight of hell

Soldierboy is basically a human Godzilla. no other role is worthy of Dean Winchester.

Homelander was the upgrade in every manner particularly the perversion.

Soldier boy had a deal with butcher. That's the only reason he went ahead and try to fulfill that deal.

@@petboy5839 It was deeper than that. Soldier Boy said “I wish I could’ve been there to raise you, then maybe you wouldn’t be a weak sniveling pussy.” Homelander replied “Weak? I’m you.” Solider Boy visibly sad replies “I know.” Soldier Boy looks down on him since Soldier Boy considers himself weak, all of his weak qualities are worse in Homelander. Soldier Boy has a lot of insecurities because of how his father raised him which led him to being such a broken person, he didn’t want that for his child.

@@victornieves1794 C'mon. Soldier boy know better than that. You won't always raised a child to be exactly like you. Children will have their own personality. Maybe they'll be like you maybe they won't.

@@petboy5839 I don’t think you get what I was trying to say. Basically Soldier Boy is a bad person but he always wanted a family and he wanted his children to be better than himself. He wasn’t there to raise Homelander and Homelander came out worse which is what Soldier Boy never wanted. Soldier Boy was saying that he wished he was there to raise Homelander to be a good person.

thats a cool fact, thanks for sharing.

Chris was the perfect cap! With Soldier boy, all I see is Dean Winchester with bigger balls and zero regrets

Jensen would of done well as cao

​@@nadine8764just like dean without sam

I wouldn't call him evil. At least after the expieriments the russians did on him. The show really wants you to randomly start hating him near the end for some stupid reason but I think that the ending was terrible because soldier boy is one of the ONLY supes who doesn't currently want to harm anyone and just wants to live a normal life at this point but they valued killing him over killing homelander who threatens to destroy the entire earth ON THE DAILY.

Harder to like him knowing the comic noir. ( I know they're different people ), he'll probably ba revived by Stan in some BS comeback Gus fring always comes back.

@@WILLPORKER I’m SO, sooooooo glad they didn’t go with comic Noir lol

He survived like a quarter of his brain being taken out(when his face was melted) , so maybe survives guts hanging out?

I really was hoping they'd use Noir's history with Soldier Boy, and Soldier Boy's return to play with the idea of Noir harboring a deep hatred and slowly grew mad over the source of season 3. I was hoping he wouldn't go back to Vought tower until the finale. Imagine that there was a momentary truce between The Boys and Soldier Boy, and Homelander for a minute, then suddenly Noir shows up to kill Soldier Boy. Starts fighting him, and then towards the middle of the fight (maybe Soldier Boy gets the upper hand, which I'm sure he would) and then Noir pulls out a customized version of compound v which acts as a steroid for supes. This makes him just slightly stronger than Soldier Boy off a single dose, but Noir maybe takes 3, so he's basically gotta get jumped by everyone present.

To add onto this, as a POC with brain injury, it felt really nice to see someone else like that on TV, especially on a show like The Boys. It's even better to see people in the comments of videos and posts being empathetic towards Black Noir's brain trauma, something I've been discriminated against for ever since my car accident. It gives me hope that the world is making progress.

Indeed.

I may be biased (big supernatural fan lol) but he carried this season...not that the other actors were bad but damn his character is so badass

I thought his voice was thicker or something

@@funtourhawk Having a presidential candidate named “Robert Singer”, played by Jim Beaver, was a nice touch by Kripke. The small stop and look that Soldier Boy gave when he saw the campaign poster (when he was walking the streets for the first time after being captive) was a nice little addition as well.

@@funtourhawk No he did carry the whole season, I haven't watched supernatural but fell in love with Jensen and the character

He is what would happen if they gave it to Gilmore Hodges instead of Steve.

He's what that asshole soldier Colonel Phillips wanted to test the Super Soldier Serum on in First Avenger would have been like as Captain America.

Lol.

Facts. I like him and homlander. They both got fuck with as youngsters

@@kenbines2199 Doesnt give them the right to do what they do. Past trauma is such a pathetic excuse for current actions. At least have the balls to admit youre a piece of garbage, dont blame the past.

Yes it was and I loved every minute of it !

I realized that the humor in the show has slowly been sapped out and is being replaced with this gut wrenching anxiety. I love it.

They dropped the damn ball.

I wasn't really surprised by the reveal of their parentage given all of the clues and breadcrumbs left in this season, but otherwise yes this whole season was a rollercoster of emotions and unexpected outcomes. Nobody (besides Starlight and Mother's Milk being loyal to their kwn principles, hubrises and pathos as usual) was truly what they liked to show to be, as once stated Hughie about S.B. . Truly absolutely *nobody.* Hughie relapsed into his tendencies for revenge and the thrilling of being cauggt into a dangerous adventure with a more macho, life-weary surrogate cool-older-brother figure. Homelander's would-be confident, tyrannous, borderline unhinged narcopathic facade cracked at last and showed to the whole world his cowardice, self doubt and violent histrionic impulses while also mirroing the generational curse of such hubris and flaws being passed down by both Soldier Boy and Voight Industry's corporate zetegeist as the season arc unfolds. Soldier Boy was not the Darker, Cooler Cynical Captain America-slash-Winter-Soldier-slash-Havoc-slash-The-Comedian-slash-kinda-Doctor-Manhattan with the heart of a knight we expected to see, but a bruised youngboy behind the veneer of a selfish war-frenzy monster behind the corporate veneer of another American Exceptionalism Propaganda fueled Noble Hero archetype who wounded up by relapsing into his darker personality traits and becoming a danger even for Ryan Butcher and the general populace (as intently seeking to ?%%%er his own 11-years old grandson proved that Starlight was ultimately right about Soldier Boy's carelelessness and lack of value for human life, although not absolute as his carelessness did actually festered as the episodes went on and on) . Kimiko is not always that Tough Girl we all love to see beat the mess out of the Boys's opponents, and Frenchie had a hard time to get rid of his own cowardice and self guilt as he starts to get his own sense of agency and manhood back after years of humiliation and shame from most every single person involved in his life (including the hypocritical Mallory, who still blame him for his unprofessional carelessness and sentimental distractions having costed the (accidental) m%%%er of her young grandsons at the hands of a pyrokinetic Supes, when she was responsible of millions of uoung lives ruined to this day over the past forty-so yeaes by the CIA's operations in Latin America and against the African American neighborhoods - their OWN cocitizens and compatriotes - in USA, leading partly to the mess that made Mother's Milk the man he is) . Mallory, again, a hypocrite. Butcher was exactly what his now-gone wife Becca foresee about him using the Supes as an excuse to get the world burnt down into an all-out brawl he felt better comfortable within because he spite himself to be the spitting image of his violent bully of father and not being capable to save his younger brother from abuse and trauma. Whom to Maeve? She showed being capable once again of selfless heroism at the lasting seconds of the fight and to stop thinkinf about her (justifiable) revenge and grudges against Homelander by thinking about the *true* greater good for once. It was magnificent.

@@elykspuz6596 L

I know !

Made the last fight pathetic

And the music matches :), also epic, i watched s3 in 1 Day lol

They could do a spin-off about his acting and singing career

Ackles is highly rated

Jensen is a great actor. I don’t think he’s underrated by any means. He was the co-star of one of the biggest tv franchises to ever exists. (Supernatural). The reason his career had stagnated was because of Supernatural. He was Dean Winchester so long, that he basically became Dean. It was hard for anyone too see him as anyone else for a long time. Just like it was hard for any of the actors from Harry Potter, or Twilight to break free from their past roles. Im glad to see him in other things now because he is such a great actor. I look forward to seeing him in more projects going forward, whether it has to do with The Boys, or other stand alone projects.

@@DrunkinDonuts97 true, and supernatural should have ended a long time ago. 20+ episode formulaic tv shows went out of style many years ago, and after the first 5 or 6 seasons the episodes became very bland and repetitive. cant believe the actors let it go on, no way they signed on for more than a couple seasons at a time after season 5.

​@Logan-dk8of The only season that felt bland and repetitive was when that whole secret society stuff got implemented.. other than that, they did an amazing job exploring everything from limbo to a unique take on biblical leviathans to witchcraft to a gnostic interpretation of God itself.

When compared to the reboot of "Walker Texas Ranger", Soldier Boy looks like a shoe-in for an Emmy.

Even though I'd love for him to return in s4, it's very likely that soldier boy's story is all wrapped up and he won't be a recurring character.

@@refinedcactus5688 but that doesn’t make sense why the would capture him at the end then they could’ve just had him blow up or something and say he died if they didn’t want him to come back

Yeah with all the positive feedback, this isn’t the last of SB.

the glorious beard man, it made him even more attractive, plus longer hair.

I think Ben being a bully similar to Butchers dad may of turned John into Butcher, anger and full of rage. Ben was in no way fit to be a father with his own insecurities and daddy issues.

@@mitchjames9350 Maybe, maybe not. It seems that Soldier Boy didn’t want his children to come out like him so he might’ve treated Homelander differently. Even Homelander despite how evil he is, is actually a pretty good dad to Ryan, same thing applies to Butcher and Ryan. Either way, Homelander wouldn’t likely be as screwed up as he is if he grew up with 2 parents instead of by scientists in a lab where he was isolated and experiment on during his childhood.

@@victornieves1794 John is a loving father but a terrible father.

>>Stan Edgar, this is not a over all smart character in terms of long game or consideration of consequences

Yeah. The writers were getting high off their own fumes. Yes Herogasm was good. The way they handled Hughie was a shame. I get what they were doing. And Toxic Masculinity isnt going to make you kill your own son.

@@elykspuz6596 stfu about toxic masculinity u both clearly weren't watching or listening to the show well enough to know why he wants to kill homelander

It was flawed. Soldier Boy was written in a somewhat disappointing way, although acted superbly by Ackles. It seems like they forgot their wheelhouse is deconstructing the genre in a fun and disturbing way, and it all went a bit generic this season, despite some good moments.

@@rageagainstmyhairline5574 I mean they retconned tf outta him from what Stan told Homelander, that was just stupid writing. They could have kept him a serious douchebag while also leaving him an actual soldier who fought Nazis. They also kept trying to convey this sense that taking the moral high ground and winning "the right way" was the way to go even though they tried actively doing that in season 2 with congress and got multiple people killed as a result, it's like did the writers this season even watch season 2, tf? And that's just a couple issues I had.

@@ThePartisan13 Agreed.

Pun intended

Except he can't fly which let's be honest. If Soldier Boy" could?. He'd be arguably a bigger threat than Homelander"

@@user-xs5bl9dy6d he might not be as powerful as homelander but he’s already a bigger threat. The boys knew this and knew they had to take him out eventually. Homelander is easy to control but soldier boys is downright impossible to get a hold of.

​@@allahuakbar3639 What the hell you mean solider boy cab be reasoned with he can be normal for a day or two whilist home lander cant be normal for more than 10s and threatened to destroy the entire world.

Agreed, the martial arts thing is so overdone and not likely to be the fighting style of someone of that era. Yes a brawler in the true sense of the word.

I understand MM biased but it made him insufferable when Butcher clearly stated he can have SB after killing HL. With Starlight its because its the "heroic" thing to do. Hughie: He is our weapon to defeating HL; Starlight: you are just exchanging one psycho for another Hughie: They are going to Vought Tower to kill HL Starlight: If he SB pulled another Herogasm, thousands of workers would die SB: I'm not going back to that fcking box; Starlight: If you don't, you'll kill everyone For Frenchie and Kimiko, the reasons I can come up with is that they are just tag along who only saw MM and Starlight side of the story. And also SB accidentally nuking Kimiko.

I don't think Soilder Boy's blast would kill Homelander I do think it would remove his powers. Same with Ryan.

@@BrokenSIMGlasses Didn't Hughie have all the workers evacuate during the fight?

@@charzanboo9940 not all but mostly correct but you have to remember This episode has dumb writing Though other reason I can see why the rest of The Boys are ganging up on SB is bc they see SB fighting Butcher when they came in the room so they immediately supported Butcher though very dumb that everyone is ignoring that QM is fighting HL alone in the background

@@BrokenSIMGlasses Agreed, dumb writing. Should've written SB's character differently or hired a less charismatic actor lol.

Yeah they shoulda made soldier boy more hatable if that’s the direction they wanted to go.

Yeah that finale was weird and rushed a bit, maybe explore more on just how bad SB was before this version him got deiced before pulling the twist, I am not saying The Boys turning on him isn't out of character or anything but it felt far too quick with him just saying "I will kill my Grandson too".

im not so sure, the best villains ive seen always had a motive that was to help or protect in thier eyes. They just went about it in a bad way wich you can apply to almost everything . We kill inmates with injections for killing people. We understand this and most people feel its justified. Toy with that idea in your head and you will start seeing it everywhere wich shows you the flaw in humans, and why we can relate to vilians.

Because the boys is a critique of US, not the superheroes. That's why homelander constantly says "You're the real heroes". It's OUR ignorant fascination with heroes and villains the show is ripping on and vought represents our western capitalist system as being the manifestation of our subconscious juvenile fantasies: We see homelander as the villain but who made him? and why? Vought, so they could control him and use him. Why isn't homelander working on a building site? He could whip skyscrapers up with his bare hands, why isn't he useful or productive to the economy why is he fighting crime? Who would even commit crime if someone as powerful as him was there to stop it? The same could be said of superman. The truth is in order to have a hero you MUST have a villain and that doesn't mean that the world is full of heroes and villains, we are all the product of our upbrinigng as the show CLEARLY demonstrates with homelander, butcher and soldierboy if these people want a villain to fight they need to villainize someone... and that's what we as humans do... we make villains of each other because we are not intelligent enough to help each other.

I thought it was perfect. SB had his mission and his word. He stuck to both, acting like a bit of am arsehole along the way. He stuck to his word even after butcher told him not to.

I think it was more that he was willing to kill Ryan as long as he killed Homelander with him that turned everybody against him.

The writers and every outlet they are undoubtedly paying keep trying to sell the logic that soldier boy is worse. He's not. They dropped the ball and know they did.

Or consider that EVERY character in that situation is flawed and in the wrong.

​@@Xehanort10 Maeve didn't turn on SB for that. She only pushed SB out the window once he was going to explode and nuke everyone.

@@NobenStudio that's already well known and obvious, and makes it make even less sense.....because Homelander told men women and children that he would laser them if they got close to him as they were all about to die from an Airplane Crash. the same guy who Slapped a blind Supes head and took away his hearing, he has killed, and bullied, and threatened, and jesus poor Ashley. ........there is no Justification for this, unless he's is about to do something much worse making him more irredeemable later.

@@estebanbr7596 I never said SB was stronger than Homelander just underpowered in his fight with him. Further, Edgar was talking about a SB before Russian experimentation...current SB =/ past SB.

Do you remember what recap episode this was said in?

Bullshit. That was never stated

Wierd that's what happens to me as well.

@@dizk5283 oh

I mentioned this in another comment, but there are heaps of actors from supernatural in this!

@@filmcomicsexplained absolutely loads! I'm not complaining, Eric Kripke knew he worked with some straight powerhouses at Supernatural. Jim Beaver playing Robert Singer after playing Bobby Singer?! Just Brilliant. And jesus, Jensen Ackles is crazy underrated - I hope this blows him into the stratosphere.

Hopefully the fanbase isn't invaded by fangirls who want Soldier Boy to fuck Homelander like the Supernatural shippers who claimed that the straight Sam and Dean not having a gay threesome with Castiel was somehow homophobia just because they didn't get their own way.

that last part about nuclear detonations is crazy idk for sure but i bet soldier boy was the one who blew up hiroshima and nagasaki during WW2

@@purrpple.singapore9974he only got that ability after getting captured and experimented on by the soviets in the 80's

@@Darkpara1 aw dang nvm then lol

@@purrpple.singapore9974it was actually me

If it bleeds, we can kill it!

Deadpool bleeds but does not die

Well like solider boy said homelander is a cheap fucking knockoff.

I don’t think Black Noir is dead.

@@filmcomicsexplained I'm sure he is. Yeah hes a tank but all his blood was going to be on the floor. That whole him having imaginary friends telling him he going to go to heaven. This will make it more tradgic when Vought doesnt allow him to.

@@elykspuz6596 Have you read the comics? If not.. Spoilers! Compound V can revive Supes into zombie like beings. Given Black Noir's history in the show of surviving losing part of his brain, it's possible he's still alive in one form or another.

@@ZNotFound yeah i know who. Thats why i thought of the theory. And it seems some level of conciousness is there. Noirs friends may be there too. And much like Cartmans.

@@michaelpipkin9942 i just think its become too frequent in media anymore. Weve had Logan and Deadpool around for years. And Kimiko is X23 aka is Laura, Logans daughter.

I noticed this. the amount of Overall Damage Absorption he possesses is Absurd.

@@silverenigma9527 I think the only thing that managed to hurt him is Butcher's lasers

@@bigboss4993 i think the cut on his cheek was from the Overall Assault from all directions but even with the supercharged blast from Starlight he just stood up and shook it off

@@silverenigma9527 he only gets the cut after Butcher lasers him in the face

@@bigboss4993 thats odd tho because the cut is on the side of his face and billy lasers the front

It was amazing Damian!

@@filmcomicsexplained you should do more boys videos like this !

I thought the season sucked except soldier boy so the ending was especially painful with their writing choice haha.

Plus he was Homelander's buttboy, in the hopes of joining the Seven

Thanks Winston!

I agree about the durability to strength dichotomy between homelander and soldier boy! That compound v + radiation has turned Soldier Boy into super supe though. He has the power to not only kill supes but disempower them too. I wonder what else he’s hiding 🫣

@@filmcomicsexplained I feel that once he uses that blast he's a little weakened by it, after torching the TNT twins and then on joining Butcher he had supported himself along a wall as he came down the stairs. It was a small gesture but an indication of how emitting such an energy burst takes it toll, whilst making it harder for him to power up again easily.

@@gemqueen1866 that would also explain how they were able to put him back into captivity at the end following his full nuclear explosion. Maybe that knocked him out, just long enough, for the government to find him and put him back on "ice" so to speak. How soldier boy went from explosion, to captured again left me curious... but the explosion sapping him briefly or leaving him KO'd would explain it perfectly

Also soldier had just been released after 40 years so i understand if he wasnt at 100%

Herogasm isn't even a fair measure of strength for SB. First real fight after being back from 40 years of imprisonment.

Thanks Killer!

You're so welcome!

Glad you enjoy it!

You know whats weird, Nathan Mitchell who plays black noir is also in supernatural, so is Lesley Nicol who plays connie Butcher, Jim Beaver who is their unofficial father in supernatural that guides the brothers is also Secretary of Defense Robert A. Singer, his name is also a supernatural easter egg haha Theres a few more I havent listed too!

@@filmcomicsexplained I swear Robert A. Singer gotta play every single Singer character is any type movie.

No Sam became a Texas lawman and now hangs out on a ranch.

@@filmcomicsexplained Hah! I just went and searched. Its true. I guess we are moving into the Kripkeverse.

Thanks Ben!

I actually did one on Homelander 2 years ago. Its in the description above. Also here lol - Homelander (DIABOLICAL SUPERMAN) The Boys Explored - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zTI-m7seLJo.html Compund V is definitely on the list!

there already is one on homelander, but it's from season 1

@@filmcomicsexplained k

You mean Green Lantern

Thanks Joey!

they did everyone dirty too. plust it became obvious they are padding and dragging out the plot. the whole season coud have been 3 times as short without pointless subplots that went nowhere (do we really need that much time on the russian mobsters?)

@@CoolGobyFish I agree. The Russian Mobsters were so obsolete that they posed no threat in my mind whatsoever. At least not at all compared to the supes. Also, this whole flip-flop BS of one second Butcher's team are with him and next they aren't was a little much. It's like come on, why are you surprised now that Butcher is the way he is?

@@Writing-With-Dyslexia The Russian mobsters weren’t really supposed to be threats. That sub plot was to reveal more about Frenchie’s past and psychology so he can stop being a follower, and it was the experience that made Kimiko decide to get her powers back.

Saw Jensen for the first time in dark angel as a genetically enhanced soldier called Alec he was the best character

I assume the radiation specifically targets the Compound V in the Supe's body and completely burns it out. Hence why Kimiko had to get injected with it again to get her powers back

@@mayordong4655 homelander even tells Maeve after herogasm that soldier boy had fried the V out of the blood of the ones who survived

"Chi block power" ?? More like radiation-based Compound V nullification/Supes disempowerment power. Had been a Chi block that he would have deleted every single animate lifeform and object, for as Chi is, by principle, pouring and transcending all things within the natural world and the very ether of the cosmos-- unless you've been talking about Qi block disempowerment power, which is neither his power.

@@ptolemeeselenion1542 that's the joke. Lmao wtf

@@ptolemeeselenion1542 are you ok man? What else could you better compare it to than the Avatar blocking the chi? Yes functionally different things happening but the end result is a depowered individual.

Its on the to do list Cam Boom!

👍

They didn’t survive he explosion, they weren’t even in the blast radius.

@@victornieves1794 Maive and Soldier Boy are in the center of it

@@ironreed2654 Oh, I though you were talking about The Boys and Homelander. It makes sense that they would survive though. Soldier Boy should be tough enough to survive his own blast since his body produced it. Queen Maeve is almost as strong as Soldier Boy and Homelander.

@@victornieves1794 It takes the edge out of the shows premise; If Maive could survive the blast then Homelanders was never in much danger since he is stronger.

@@ironreed2654 But she’s powerless now so Homelander was always and still is in danger. If Soldier Boy blasted Homelander he probably wouldn’t be injured that badly but he’d be completely powerless and easy to kill.