Skip to main content
  1. Home
  2. Entertainment
  3. News

Butcher gets his powers in The Boys season 3 teaser trailer

Blair Marnell
By

During the first two seasons of Amazon Prime Video’s The Boys, William “Billy” Butcher has been severely outmatched by his nemesis, Homelander. But in the first teaser trailer for The Boys season 3, it looks like Billy is changing the equation. The previous seasons have established that Compound V can give regular people superhuman powers. If the new footage is any indication, Butcher has finally used Compound V to become superhuman himself. And he’s putting the hurt on Homelander. Unfortunately for Butcher, that power doesn’t come without a price.

The Boys – Official Season 3 REDBAND Teaser Trailer | Prime Video

Curiously, there isn’t a single line of dialogue in this trailer. Regardless, Homelander’s anger is palpable, both with Butcher and with his own teammates on The Seven. Additionally, The Deep looks like he’s going for a fishy fetish, while A-Train’s new cola commercial is a direct parody of Kendall Jenner’s infamous Pepsi ad. After all, there are no bigger celebrities in this fictional world than The Seven. And that’s what makes Homelander’s apparent mental break so frightening.

Recommended Videos

Additionally, the trailer offers the first real glimpse at Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy, a World War II veteran who was essentially Homelander before Homelander. And if you can believe it, Soldier Boy may be even worse than the hot-headed villain, who at least tries to hide his mental instability and his utter contempt for humanity. That said, Homelander looks like he’s having a hard time bottling up his emotions this season. That could be bad news for everyone.

Related
Karl Urban in The Boys.
Image used with permission by copyright holder

Karl Urban headlines The Boys as Butcher, alongside Jack Quaid as Hugh “Hughie” Campbell Jr., Laz Alonso as Marvin T. “Mother’s” Milk, Karen Fukuhara as Kimiko Miyashiro, and Tomer Capon as Frenchie. Antony Starr also stars in the series as Homelander, with Dominique McElligott as Queen Maeve, Chace Crawford as The Deep, Erin Moriarty as Starlight, and Jessie T. Usher as A-Train.

The Boys season 3 will premiere on Prime Video on Friday, June 3.

Editors' Recommendations

Topics
Blair Marnell
Blair Marnell
Blair Marnell has been an entertainment journalist for over 15 years. His bylines have appeared in Wizard Magazine, Geek…
First trailer for Thirteen Lives recreates the Thai cave rescue
The cast of Thirteen Lives.

In 2018, the eyes of the world were on Thailand when a youth soccer team and their coach were trapped in a flooded cave with little hope for rescue. What should have been a joyous field trip turned into a life or death struggle to get the boys and their coach out safely. Now, director Ron Howard is tackling the true story of the Thai cave rescue in his new film, Thirteen Lives. And in the first trailer, an international team of experts attempt to find a way to pull off the impossible. But even the most generous risk assessment suggests that there will be causalities.

Thirteen Lives - Official Trailer | Prime Video

Read more
Don’t Make Me Go trailer previews tearjerker of the summer
Mia Isaac and John Cho in Don't Make Me Go.

The problem with a lot of modern movies is that they tend to lose sight of the fact that good drama doesn't always need spectacle. It can just be two people in a room at cross-purposes with each other. Or in the case of Don't Make Me Go, it's two people in a car together. The upcoming Amazon Prime Video original film stars John Cho as Max, the single father of a teenage daughter named Wally (Mia Isaac). Parenting Wally is hard enough, but Max also has to deal with the knowledge that he is terminally ill and he doesn't have a lot of time left.

Don't Make Me Go - Official Trailer | Prime Video

Read more
The Boys season 3 review: Superhero torture porn
Erin Moriarty as Starlight looks upset in a scene from The Boys season 3.

The typical formula for television dramas is to raise the stakes with each season, pitting the series' protagonists against increasingly potent threats that rise from the ashes of prior seasons' triumphs. There's an unspoken agreement between the show and its fans that, at some point, all of the dangers the characters have faced and the losses they've incurred along the way will receive some accounting at the end of their ordeal -- offering a cathartic resolution to everyone involved on both sides of the screen.

In the modern TV era, shows like Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad have pushed the boundaries of how much suffering we're willing to watch characters endure, with varying results.

Read more