dominated Prime Video following its 2019 launch. Flipping off the superhero genre, the series was directed by “Supernatural” creator Eric Kripke and drawn from the unfiltered, deeply provocative comic book series of the same title by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. First published in 2012, it presented a world not entirely dissimilar to ours, where superheroes are real and, to our disillusionment, made up of self-absorbed, contemptible, and frequently deranged individuals. This is the primary concern of a group that identifies itself as The Boys, an unofficial CIA team that strives to shatter the conspiracy cloaked in a superhero façade.
Now in its fourth season, the series has successfully captured Ennis’ often astonishingly crude universe, with much of the praise directed towards the supes-despising antihero, Billy Butcher (Karl Urban), and his sworn star-spangled foe, Homelander (Antony Starr, who featured in the underappreciated horror film “Cobweb”), the unhinged counterpart to Superman in this universe. Despite the abundance of violence and R-rated mayhem that occurs within this superhero narrative, there exist several story elements from the original comic that were omitted. Compiling a selection of these, here are five specific plot points that were too significant to overlook.
