6 things you may have missed in the third season of The Boys

The third season of the hit anti-superhero series The Boys have won plaudits from critics and fans alike and have been termed the most diabolical and violent season ever. So in today’s List hai toh hit hai, we list six things that you may have missed in season 3. Here we go

Billy Joel - Hughie

In the very first episode of the series, it is revealed that Jack Quaid’s character Hughie is a massive Billy Joel fan. However, it would evoke trauma in Hughie by the end of the episode as his then girlfriend, Robin, was accidentally killed right in front of him by the A-Train, just as Hughie was joking to Robin that she should never bismerche Joel. Joel and his music were never mentioned again in the series until the season premiere of the third season. A relatively upbeat and happy Hughie, who has turned his life around since the accident, walks into another gruesome death as Victoria Nueman explodes Tony’s head. In this scene Billy Joel’s Uptown Girl plays in the background, signifying Hughie is enduring the same trauma as he felt in the first episode of the series when Robin was blown to smithereens.

2A 4Ever - Gunpowder

The series has never shied away from discussing contemporary socio-political issues. The ‘super’ named Gunpowder, a gun-wielding member of Vought’s superhero program is shown as an ardent advocate of gun ownership. In the tense confrontation scene with Karl Urban’s Billy Butcher, Gunpowder is shown to drive a car with the number plate that reads 2A 4 Ever. The 2A is a reference to the controversial second amendment of the US constitution that allows gun ownership for civilians.

Hughie bloodied on the premiere of every season

In every season premiere of The Boys, Hughie has someone else’s blood and dismembered body parts sprayed onto him. In the first episode of season one, it was Robin’s after A-Train accidentally smashes into her in supersonic speed and nearly disintegrates her, in the second season it is the CIA director Susan Raynor's head that explodes onto Hughie's face after Victoria Neuman kills her with head-exploding powers. In the third season, Victoria Neuman is again the cause of Hughie’s trauma and misery as she explodes Tony’s head and the remains fall onto Hughie who was witnessing the murder hiding just a few yards away.

The return of Teddy Stillwell

One of season One’s main storylines was the complex and psychotic relationship shared between Anthony Starr’s Homelander and Elizabeth Shue’s Madaline Stillwell. After Homelander learns of Madaline’s deception vents his anger by frying her face with his laser vision. He also detonates an explosive in her house with her newborn baby still inside. But it is later revealed that the baby named Teddy is miraculously teleported away to safety and his fate was never discussed again in the series until season three. It is revealed that Teddy is super with teleporting abilities residing at a care home for orphaned ‘super’ babies.

Thanos/Ant-Man joke

The most popular fan debate surrounding Marvel’s Infinity Saga was as to why Ant-Man didn’t just shrink himself and go inside the body of Mad Titan Thanos and use his powers to become a giant and thereby killing the supervillain. The Boys took this idea and executed one of the most gruesome and explicit scenes in TV history. The size alternating Termite shrinks himself and goes inside a man for giving him sexual pleasure, but Termite accidentally sneezes while inside the man’s body and expands to full size disintegrating the man in the process. The scene is so disturbing it was censored when it was released in India.

Homelander mirror scene - Boys #4

Anthony Starr’s layered portrayal of the psychotic superman-archetype will go down in history as one of the most compelling villains portrayed on television. In one particular scene Homelander is seen talking to himself in the mirror where his two personalities have a debate about his need for approval and whether he can beat Soldier Boy. This is in fact taken from a similar scene from The Boys issue number 49.

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Written by Ryan Gomez