The Boys Season 3 | Finale Review (SPOILERS) 

PLEASE this. I was hoping for some actual confirmation there but I love this idea

Didn’t notice this until you pointed it out!! Good catch!!

Yes I think this is setting up A-Train for the final blow. I think he will over load on compound V and run so fast he will phase his fist through HL's chest like what happened when Hughie teleported the first time. They made several references to HL's hearing and to A-Trains selfishness. HL will end up doing something so horrible that A-Train will sacrifices. This would also fit the movie pitch Ashley gave him when he woke up after heart surgery.

They have kept A-Train around for a reason. Also it would be another Captain America (his dead) reference "on your left"

It made it a point to muffle everything after he pulled the rod out and he seemed really disoriented after that so yeah I think he may have issues hearing now. I don't think HL has super healing factors , kinda like Maeve he has really good physical endurance.

I think the actor who plays A train does such a great job. He’s does a great job with subtlety whether it’s non verbal or verbal.

I thought it was so funny cause they had me too. I didn’t know where it was going but then I was like of course he wouldn’t respond well to homelander’s neediness and crying. Him calling him a pussy was just spot on given what we’ve seen lol.

bit corny after Soldier Boy literally showed he was really a pretty sensitive dude like the exact scene before but yeah it overall worked

@@aja3longhorn375 yeah thats was the point. He was too much like himself who he sees as a dissapointment

@@ZyroShadowPony I'm not an idiot, I get that. The fact he wouldn't recognize that though like a day later from talking about it is to me what is somewhat unrealistic.

@@aja3longhorn375 ah thats what you mean yeah you have a point there

Same goes for Queen Maeve.

I’d say so. You can survive certain head injuries though very unlikely and will permanently damage your Brian. But your guts being ripped out? Nah he dead especially after a day of Homelander not letting anyone help

@@ryanratchford2530 bro he lost like half his brain you mean to tell me with all the tech vautes got on top of his regenerative power he couldn't survive a bit of intestinal damage?

@@ryanratchford2530 you can survive so much damage to your guts. You can remove most of them and survive. You will have issues but they are very much removable. And this is a guy who can regenerate body parts. A human can survive partial disembowelment so a supe can definitely do so

​@@root_test9493 The thing is though, there's no way of knowing how accurate that depiction it was considering it was shown in an exxagerated cartoon form. Noir obviously got brain damage, and I wouldn't be suprises if he literally had the shield go through his skull, but I doubt it was as much damage as shown.

He also survived an Almond Joy

I wouldn't have stopped him the boy would survive

No but Ryan is beccas son and he made a promise to her one of the less than handful of people he has ever loved

Butcher can't be there for Ryan as much as Homelander wants to be, and he gives him the love and attention that Ryan craves since he lost his mom, so that's probably why he chose him over Butcher in the end. I'm sure Ryan still has love for Butcher though since he begged Homelander to leave knowing that it would prevent him from harming Butcher.

Ryan is way LESS butchers son than HL is to SB lol. Its literally a blood relation vrs a promise to his wife. Also SBs shield bash almost killed Ryan, the nuclear blast would have vaporized him

sb himself shows emotion to countess and when talking about his father.

Maybe they’ll modify him, we might get a form of the comic ending after all

Homelander reached in and pulled his heart out; you see it in his hand after the pullout. Unless he has god-level regen he's done.

@@BillH2949 yeah I thought they clearly showed him have his heart ripped out

show runners confirmed he's dead, but the actor (the guy who actually wears the suit, not the one in the flash back) will be returning. same suit, different character.

Anyone can wear the mask so there is no reason to tell the public about his death

I didn't even think about ryan is HLs lenny. I did think HL walked away not because Ryan said so but because HL seen how bad it hurt Butcher that Ryan chose him.

Ryan will Kill Homelander. Ryan is already stronger than him. Knocked him on his ass. HL couldn't hurt StormFront with his eye lasers, just tickled a bit, and Ryan destroyed her. Homelander needs to convince the boy early that he isn't that powerful or free. HL is ruthless and Ryan is hurting over losing Becca and inexperienced in life, he is stronger but doesn't know how to harness it yet. I bet Butcher will be his mentor in the long run. They have to turn Butcher into a supe to save him.

Hell I’m pretty sure Beau at least watched the whole season 2 months ago but just only ever reviewed each episode as it happened and never gave anything away. I know for a fact I would be reviewing episode 3 and be like “and just wait for later on when this gets explained”

Would love this

I hope he lived but this could be him in flashbacks? With him having his own scenes to explain his past etc. he had a bit of an arc and maybe that was it? Hope not though. I want more of him.

@@alexravella7849 also he could be given the stormfront treatment 💁🏾‍♂️

I think he will continue to play the character it will just be a new sup pretending to be noir

Not sure if he's officially signed yet, although the show runner basically confirmed that he would be returning during an interview where he shared a discussion that he had with Nathan Mitchell regarding them killing Noir and he told him that he should let someone else play him in the Nicaragua scenes where he removes his mask so if and when there's a season 4 (season 4 just got the green light a few days ago) and they need to recast the character, he would still have the opportunity to play the role since we've never seen his face on the show. Vought will probably tell the world that Noir isn't dead and just have someone else in his suit. Could be a supe, but also doesn't have to be. They may have several people assume his identity throughout the series, who knows.

That had me hoping for more Maeve + Butcher action damn

I love how hueys niceness just fundamentally annoys Maeve and when she insults him he has no idea how to come back lol (You can almost see his inner dialogue going, “Im not a twink, but if i were there’d be nothing wrong with that”

@@Getwright- That made me laugh @ 6:36am GMT.

Wasn't that your high school yearbook quote?

I get what you mean and I agree in general but I think A-Train continues to be one of the best side characters, that scene with his brother this episode was outstanding, and he's been set up to continue an interesting arc next season. I think the better choice would have been for Maeve to truly die. Especially since it seems like she's not coming back for the next season. At that point, it just feels like a contrived happy ending, which is not something I expected the boys to indulge in.

Yep, it turned into generic capeshit and steered way too far from the original comics. No real stakes, we can probably just forget about the goop coming from Hughie's ear as well.

A-Train will kill homelander

@@isaacshur4787 i was expecting maeve and super soldier to die this episode, and they both lived after fakeout deaths. i hope the directors arent pulling a game of thrones with the "subverting expectations"

@@gevoian Soldier Boy's wasn't a fake out, we know he can't die from his own blasts because... you know, he would have died in the first scene he was in

I'm not sure home lander was referring to Becca I think he was talking about storm front she betrayed him by "leaving" so she became a thing

@@jeffrey7282000 he was talking about becca.

Nior dosnt have a super "healing" factor. Sure, he has above average healing due to the V, but hes not unstoppable or unkillable. He simply feels no pain. I thoguht they were pretty clear with that, I thoght it was pretty clear THAT was why they showed his face being scared up. He almost died from a peanut(almong whatever) but nowhere NOWHERE has it shown he has "super healing abilities" like Kimiko When Kimiko heals, her scars where instantly gone however Nior was shown with very clear skin and brain damage. I think its time for this Nior to exit. His story arch is complete. Hes no longer a "faceless assassin" ala batman (if you live in Batmans universe)... Hes a brain damaged scared kid. They will put someone else in his suit. Probably many "someones" until the season is over. They will probably start dropping niors like flys then just having them show back up in the same suit. All the way down until we get a better version of the clone in the suit (im hoping its a time jumped ryan).

@@spoons250 that’s actually interesting you say they vought would put someone else in black noirs suit. That’d be really cool. You could pick up on it on subtle differences in noirs non verbals. Definitely a lot of setup for next season.

@@spoons250 In an interview with Entertainment Weekly about the episode, Eric Kripke was discussing Black Noir being played by a different actor in the Nicaragua scenes where he had his mask off, and people asking why he wasn't played by Black Noir's main actor, Nathan Mitchell. Apparently that decision came out of a conversation he had with Nathan where he told him, "we're going to kill Noir but he's an easily re-castable character, so if I were you, I would have someone else be the face of Noir, we'll kill that guy off, then if and when there's a season 4 and we have to recast the character......" implying they could just cast him again for the role. So, it sounds like Vought may decide to keep Black Noir alive with another supe in his suit so the public doesn't know that he's dead, which would still give Nathan Mitchell the opportunity to play the character. I don't think Homelander would want Ryan to wear a mask and assume the identity of another supe. The public already knows who he is, so he doesn't have to hide and I'm pretty sure Homelander would want his son to be in the spotlight.

Yo you're probably right about that

Yeah, because Ryan's eyebeam knocked SB clear across the room (he's still a kid) Butcher only heated up his shield, it took HL and Butcher to knock SB through the glass door. That's the way I saw it.

I dont think thats true about everything being the same at the end. The boys are standing up for themselves a bit more against butcher, maeve is out, soldier boy is under american control, ryan is with homelander, ashley has finally grown a bit of a backbone, A-train now has no one, startlight is out of the seven for good, and the deep is in the seven now, butcher is dying and is finally showing he has a heart. Pretty much every character is in a different place right now than at the beginning of the season. Youre other points i disagree with two but thats your opinion so fair enough but things have changed in the storyline

Yeah, but hollywood will shoe horn the "mary sue strong wahmen" over good story telling.. just like GOT

@@zacbouch42 you have got to be a troll

@@michaelferrell7924 it's getting harder and harder to tell nowadays...

Or they have a homelander like clone similar to the comics that they try and pass off as being noir. That'd be interesting to see. Especially because homelander would have to know it wasn't the real noir but the public and other supes would have zero idea

But they can literally put anyone in the Noir suit and say it’s him. He doesn’t even have to be a good fighter they can just use him as a mascot

ditto + noir; if noir is dead it would be so disappointing (even if the scene was good). But on the point of Maeve, she would've lost her powers 500 ft in the air and then hit the ground. I think it would've fit her story more to become Maeve Soup splattered all over the block and then all her metal gear is sitting on her guts it undamaged - i think that could've been powerful in a boys way. That visual would show Maeve becoming human and separating from Queen Maeve behind in a gruesome and funny way.

Soldier boys energy bomb is funny. Such a big explosion with a nuke cloud but nothing really happens.i felt as though it should had been an ultimate kill shot with Maeve. But at the same time I think that once someone is hit with the blast it slowly reduces their powers until E. Being charitable I would say that Maeve only survived with the remaining V she had in her system before hitting the ground.

@@solomonlyons10 I think when SB fires it willingly it burns off the V like radiation poisoning kills you in a couple days but when he heard the music playing and fired the blast unwillingly its like a nuclear power plant meltdown/ explosion

Its the first time it's felt like a "normal" comic book ending. No one really died, the "bad" guy lost, but didn't die. None of the good guys died. The guy with super healing died, but there's no way they write Noir out like that. It just felt like they had to hold back for the next season.

I just don't understand how Maeve survived, she was literally holding Soldier Boy when the blast went off. This blast basically seems the equivalent of a nuclear bomb, other heroes have been turned into skeletons by it. Soldier Boy literally emits radiation. Maybe Soldier Boy was "powering down" when he knew he wouldn't hit anyone? Maybe Maeve is way stronger when we realise but I don't think we've ever really seen that so just pretty crazy to me that she's alive at all, plot armour I guess

Same reason kemiko and others survived at a certain soup power level it only takes ur powers not kills you. This has been explained multiple times in the show

@@michaelferrell7924 Surviving the blast is one thing, but they were multiple stories in the sky. The powers being taken just reinforces the fact Maeve should be dead.

@@michaelferrell7924 yes but his normal burst was like a beam of energy, this one was more like a mini supernova and they were 20-30 stories in the air. If it only took her powers she should’ve fell to her death at the very least. The finale felt cheap cause everyone survived (Minus Noir but he may come back)

@@pickleshall02 I didn’t think it felt cheap at all. The stakes got raised with homelander being able to just kill fools to a cheering crowd now. Maeve getting her happy ending is just fun

One possible explanation: once they were out of the window she just had to push off of soldier boy. She would still be caught in the explosion and lose her powers but she wouldn’t have take the blast itself she also would’ve fell out of a building. But if kimiko can be blown through a wall while losing her powers and survive, Meave can survive falling from. Great height

I dont think homelander really wanted to kill her because he definitely could. He kept trying to dismiss her attacks because she wasn't his concern right then.

@@WzrdofZoz wanted them eggs

he was definitely holding back

@@WzrdofZoz why would he hold back when theyre all trying to kill him and his son...doesnt really matter if he was weak physically or weak emotionally, he still looked weak overall.

I think he still loves Maeve and didn’t want to fight back more just fight her off. He could have killed her so many times even when he imprisoned her. But he didn’t want to. He has a soft spot for her.

I think that was just cuz it’s Soldier Boy tho. If it was anyone else it would’ve killed them but Soldier boy is strong enough that it knocks him on his ass. That’s how I took it. SB literally took Butcher’s lasers right to the face

Hughie should of taken the temp v which he still has and teleported in he owes soldier boy a hit plus it would of been cool to see him use the shield after failing to lift it

She lost her powers halfway through falling she should’ve lost her powers mid fall and died but I’m fine with the ending

Kimiko survived one at point blank range and shes not super tough she just has super strength speed and healing. She definitely not bulletproof like Meave

@@Getwright- yea but almost died to the damage she took after

She got protected by plot armour because she became human mid fall. Doesn’t make sense

@@badgasaurus4211 they can't kill off their only prominent LGBT character, think of what twitter would say

You don’t lose your powers immediately when soldier boy blasts you. Otherwise Kimiko wouldn’t have survived being blown through a wall at all. (she would’ve been pancaked across the wall.)

@@Getwright- it’s a few seconds after at least. And that fall is at least a few seconds, not to add the potential of her getting blasted into the building as she was close to the wall when they found her. I just think this a step down from the normal quality we have come to expect.

Think of it like radiation sickness it kills your body's ability to fight off anything and then kills you a few days later

Cuz she's a strong independent lesbian

Definitely!! Barry is a great show!

I honestly think he did , you could see it on his face especially when Ryan came out.

So John/Homelander is a male Mord'Sith. I buy it.

I wouldn't call it the status quo. Homelander now literally runs all of vought, has control of the us government by Newman being the VP. His fanatics literally don't care if he lasers someone in the street kn national television and now Ryan's completely went to Homelanders side. That's a complete flip on all fronts from where the last season ended. They can't take temp v anymore and with butcher dying im almost certain they'll have to take the regular V in order to take homelander out. I thought there were be more casualties in the finale but to say its back to the status quo just isn't true.

ryan needs to be taken down now too, sad shit

Just remember this is a man who left at least 100 people to die in a plan crash and did absolutely nothing to save them.

Season 2 when they go to the asylum the bald head chick that escapes from her room can also crush things.

I've heard you're better off picking the standout episodes from diabolical.

I do think a reveal of Stormfront being his mum is not beyond them, I mean they are OK with graphic beastiality whats a little incest gunna hurt lol. At least they are both human.

Amen

I think the fights where fine. The choreography was great. You felt the weight of the punches interesting twists. Maeve survived cause she deserved a happy ending. She was the second strongest after homelander that’s why she lived. Soldier boy haveing the ability to kill homelander outright was always a question mark. At a certain power level like kemiko you just get ur power zapped then ya know a bullet wins. I do agree they over edited the fight scenes, that’s a chronic Hollywood problem. But Maeve living is totally viable. As for vought tower it did get fucked by soldier boys explosion.

@@michaelferrell7924 making a character live because they deserve it is not good. the thing that made the boys stand out from other shows is the fact that it was a more realistic take and showed that the actions of these supes leads to death and consequences. a character getting tons of death flags and literally jumps into soldier boys explosion lives is not good writing. And the fact that ashley deleted that video of them taking maeve was another out of character moment, we just saw a scene of her terrified of what hiding a secret to homelander does, and then we see her do something behind homelanders back? the character that was the most loyal to homelander in these 3 seasons? nah fam.

anybody just getting more and more dissappointed by Starlight's weak ass superpowers? She supercharged herself and did a lil light blast at soldier boy...which did no damage to him.

@@MalcomMalediction oh god, I know! I thought she was going to blast him through a couple of walls but he got pushed 3 ft lol and please don't tell me that that's a sign of how strong SB. Homelander has flight advantage over all of them and he didn't use it once during this fight!

Shut up pleb, get excited to consume the next season and stop thinking.

Very good point

Its not a very good point, its an awful point, he was about to shoot her and Butcher and Hughie was literally bleeding out on the side of the road. She pushes the dude away and he hits his head on the ground.

@@kielanwade5096 we have no idea whether he was about to shoot them they were carjacking him and he was defending himself. Annie even says it herself that guy was just in the way.

@@caseyhart4999 no, after he dies, she actually shouts at Butcher because she told him to stay out of it, you're acting like she viciously attacked this guy and then walked off like, "he was just in my way" I dunno what show you're watching but that never happened

I really like what they did with Soldier Boy. His energy blast is nearly instantaneous, except when it would actually influence the story in a real way, for example by disabling a main character supe's powers. Also Novichok is shown to completely knock him out on seconds, but I guess it doesn't work if he really doesn't want to go back into the box, because that's how nerve agents work.

A Train should have died in episode 6, felt like a perfect ending for him.

He would have cleaned house that is correct

He couldn't be bothered - he felt so ashamed to have been part of such a shit finale that he just walked away with his son.

we cant have homelander kill the main cast after they killed soldier boy because plot armor. but, if we had soldier boy and butcher go with their plan instead of him pulling an 180 they could have avoided writing themselves into a corner, 1. homelander runs away again, and we dont have an ending very similar to last season with stormfront being taken care of in the finale. 2. homelander wins but is too injured/weak so runs. 3. homelander makes a deal with butcher. Also as cool as it was seeing homelander blast a dudes brains out in the public for once, i think we should have seen a split reaction. some fans/citizens should have screamed and ran, while others applaud. the fact that literally everybody applauds suspended my disbelief.

Actions have consequences which this season highlighted

Woes for the Hitler youth 😂

Noir was dead the second he pulled the tracker out and abandoned homelander

@@jeffrey7282000 homelander don't forgive lol

I don't think adults can take regular V and survive.

I expect Butcher taking the Blue V to be a thing next season.

Edgar will never be mentioned again in the show.

No doubt

They mean the one with telekinesis, who blew open her cell door in that hospital/test centre that Lamplighter was working at, and then burst a guard's entire body. Christina or something?

I think she "impoldes" & her name was Cindy...? Edit: the bald girl

Shut your gob you dumb bird, or I'll bollocks you.

Now that you point that out; yeah that is weird

When you think of the Boys, who's the first character that comes to your mind? It's most likely Billy Butcher. Black Noir is a niche characer, which means his plot armour is incredibly weak. He should've gotten himself a better contract.

Black Noir isn’t as tough as a V’d up Butcher. Hes not as tough as Soldier Boy or probably Maeve.

I don't think noir was as resistant to damage as other supes

I think the brain damage turned off his ability to feel pain

Wow i forgot Black Noire is next weakest also