Erik Kripke, showrunner of Amazon Prime's comic-based The Boys, tweeted out another photo of some background decor from the new season, revealing another of the world's superheroes: Solider Boy.
Soldier Boy, an obvious Captain America parody, is seen in what looks to be a 1970s era magazine ad for Smooth Smokers cigarettes. The cancer sticks are, of course, a product of Vought Industries.
The in comic book series, Solider Boy is a member of the team Payback (roughly the equivalent of Marvel's Avengers) who Vought tasks with retaliating against Billy Butcher and his squad. Soldier Boy is the figurehead leader of Payback, though the character Stormfront actually calls the shot.
It's not clear that Soldier Boy or Payback are in season 2, but Aya Cash has been announced as the gender-swapped (and Thor-esque) Stormfront. It's not the first time Kripke has revealed Payback characters in background elements. A month ago he tweeted out an image of Crimson Countess, the team's analogue for the Scarlet Witch.
Amazon has not yet announced the release date for season two, but we know principal photography wrapped earlier this week.
The Boys is the 2019 TV adaptation of the comic series created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson.
The show is an irreverent take on what happens when superheroes, who are as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians and as revered as Gods, abuse their superpowers rather than use them for good. Hughie's (Jack Quaid) ordinary life is upended when A-Train (Jessie Usher), the speedster superhero, kills Hughie's girlfriend in an accidental collision. Not placated by the payout from the super team "The Seven" and their corporate masters a Vought Industries, Hughie falls under the spell of Billy Butcher (Karl Urban). Like him Butcher is bitter about the way supers trample over regular people. Unlike Hughie, Butcher has the training and resources to actually do something about it. Hughie joins Butcher's squad, informally known as "the Boys," and begins a campaign to take down The Seven.
The cast also includes Elisabeth Shue, Erin Moriarty, Antony Starr, Dominique McElligott, Chace Crawford, Nathan Mitchell, Laz Alonso, Karen Fukuhara and Tomer Kapon.
The Boys was developed for television by Eric Kripke, Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen. The series streams on Amazon.
