The latest season of the Amazon Prime Video hit show, The Boys, premiered last week with the release of its first three episodes. However, fans of the superhero series were left scratching their heads after the cliffhanger ending of episode three. The Boys, based on a comic book series by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, follows a group of vigilantes as they fight against corrupt super-powered individuals who abuse their positions for personal gain.
The trailer for season four, which was released last month, saw the leader of The Boys, Billy Butcher (played by Karl Urban), announce that he does not have long to live after abusing drugs that temporarily grant superpowers during the previous season. Meanwhile, as Butcher rallies his team for an assault on the corrupt superhero leader Homelander (Anthony Starr), nefarious groups start to make moves in the shadows.
In the final moments of episode three, Homelander is seen arguing with himself in his penthouse apartment. Presumably a result of his psychotic personality, four versions of Homelander’s face give him different advice until one silences the rest and says, “It’s time to overcome this need for love, this sickness – Once and for all. You’re never gonna be your true self until you transcend your humanity… You need to go back to the start. John, you need to go home.” The viewer is then shown snapshot images from Homelander’s memory, including a shadowy red door and someone in a lab coat handling scientific tools before cutting to black.
The red door could be a key to Homelander’s past. A lab-created superhero, Homelander, was engineered by the sinister corporation Vought in the 1980s and is leader of their elite superhero force, The Seven, marketed as mankind’s protectors, despite their actions revealing the abuse of power behind the scenes. The secret to Vought’s superpowers is eventually revealed to the public, causing more revealing storylines to develop in spin-off series Gen V.
It is established in Gen V that Vought has been testing and torturing some of their students in the hopes of creating a virus that can kill them. In the latest episode of Diabolical, an animated anthology episode, viewers received confirmation that Homelander was tortured by Vought scientists testing the extent of his powers. The red door may be a memory of the lab where Homelander’s experiments took place during his childhood and adolescence before he became the villain fans know as Homelander
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