Culture news “I was never a fan” the biggest surprise of The Boys comics was not adapted into the Amazon Prime Video series
The biggest twist in The Boys comics was not adapted for the screen by Amazon. A choice completely accepted by Showrunner Eric Kripke who wanted to take a completely different direction for the Prime Video series. Beware of spoilers here which concern the series, but also the comics.
Down with the masks
The craziest anti-supe team of all time is back on Prime Video as the first episodes of season 4 of The Boys have just been broadcast. A new season that is still trashy and irreverent which already offers some revelations and twists. And another important point: one of the members of the Seven who lost his life during the previous season is nevertheless back here. It is of course Black Noir, a mute and enigmatic character, who is played here by someone who would probably be an actor hired by Vought in order to hide his death.
Little reminder. In season 3, Homelander learned that Black Noir had hidden his father’s identity from him. Mad with rage, he then killed his former partner in a known excess of anger. In this previous season, we learned that Black Noir was in fact a hero who served alongside Soldier Boy, the superhero who gave birth to Homelander. But in the comics, Black Noir is a completely different character. A divergence assumed by showrunner Eric Kripke.
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Adapt to better criticize
Recently interviewed by Variety On this change, Eric Kripke explained why he made the decision to completely move away from the original material in shaping Black Noir. In the comics, the supe is in fact a clone of Homelander and it is he who is at the origin of all the atrocities that occur during the story. But this plot twist did not suit the showrunner, who preferred to focus on a single antagonist.
In the comics, he (Black Noir) is a clone of Homelander this whole time and he is the one committing all these atrocities. And it’s really quite a twist. But it’s ultimately saying “wait, the bad guy I followed isn’t really the bad guy.” (…) I’m sure the fans are furious that I’m not going in this direction, but it wasn’t satisfying enough in my opinion. I’m the type to say that if I’m focusing on this villain, I want him to be the real antagonist. So I was never really a fan of this clone idea.
With the series, Eric Kripke can therefore fully concentrate on Homelander, a terrible and perfidious figure who embodies on screen the American right of Trump and his supporters. Season 4 exploits this idea more head-on by openly quoting figures associated with the party of the former American president, while further plunging the viewer into the grotesque and absurd of this racist, puritanical and conspiratorial America. With the series The Boys, the satire comes through new characters like Firecracker, but is fully expressed with Homelander, a real antagonist who also shone again with episode 4 of season 4 aired last Thursday.
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