The Boys Creator On Why The TV Show Has This One Massive Departure From The Comics
Prime Video’s The Boys recently came back for its fourth season, and with just one more season to go before the series wraps up, many are wondering how it all might end. We still don’t know how it’ll wrap up, but series creator Eric Kripke has confirmed the show will not include one of the shocking twists from the comic series the show is based on. Massive spoilers for The Boys comic series follow below.
In the comic series, written by Garth Ennis and drawn by Darick Robertson, a major twist emerges that reveals Black Noir is actually a clone of Homelander. Black Noir is the one who has been perpetrating the horrific deeds everyone attributed to Homelander.
Kripke told Variety that he never wanted to go down this route with the TV show, however. “It’s a hell of a twist. But it’s like, well wait, the villain I’ve been following isn’t really the villain. And mileage varies, and I’m sure fans are mad I’m not going that way, but that felt not as satisfying to me.”