Spoilers ahead for the comic run of The Boys, as well as potentially Season 5, you’ve been warned
Season 4 of The Boys wrapped up yesterday, and what a finale it was with several surprise twists we didn’t see coming.
However, fans of the comics are coming to the startling realisation that they already know how Season 5 is going to end, and they’re already horrified.
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Take a look at Season 4 of The Boys below
Up until yesterday The Boys Season 4 was a little hit or miss with fans, with many saying the season seemed to focus primarily on how it can disturb or shock the viewer rather than tell a good story.
But this season’s finale was an emotional rollercoaster, and possibly one of the best finales of the show so far depending on who you ask.
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The way things ended also seem to be tying into the comic run, in which Billy Butcher, in his never-ending crusade to kill all superheroes, goes rogue.
Not only does he succeed in killing an army of supes, including Homelander, he also takes out The Boys before having a final confrontation with Hughie atop the Empire State building.
The TV series has obviously gone in a slightly different direction, with Butcher controlled by a Compound V brain tumour that he’ll likely use to take a crack at Homelander and finally get what he’s always wanted.
Of course this could just be a bit of clever misdirection from the writers, especially since the comics didn’t have a living version of Soldier Boy that could burn out the Compound V in a superhero’s blood…just saying.
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Only time will tell, and hopefully the Season 5 finale leans a bit further away from the comics, otherwise there’ll be a lot of viewers who already know how the show will end.
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