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The Boys: Jensen Ackles's Soldier Boy Has Your Back, Homelander!

Look, we're not usually the kinda folks that are constantly needing everything to be tagged as being canon or not, but we're about to discuss Amazon Prime's The Boys so we're making an exception. With the series wrapping up its second season this weekend (we'll avoid spoilers for a few more days), we're already pretty starving for any and all intel on the third season. To that end, we're taking the following clip as canon. Are there some ways to easily argue that it isn't because of who may or may not be in the video? Absolutely. But we're making the call strictly based on the overall geek coolness factor, and because then we can say it's Supernatural star Jensen Ackles in his first official turn as his third-season role Soldier Boy. Of course, a certain team of badasses might have something to say about all of it.

The Boys will be back for season 3 (Image: EW screencap)
The Boys will be back for season 3 (Image: EW screencap)

Check out the clip below, courtesy of the fine folks over at EW (and stay for a glimpse of "tough Hughie"), where The Seven got for a more "regular person" look to reassure the people that supes are A-OK and that everything at Vought is just fine. You can imagine how well that goes…

The Boys: A Look (Back) at Season 2 (Oh, How Things Changed…)

A more intense, more desperate Season 2 of The Boys finds Butcher (Karl Urban), Hughie (Jack Quaid), and the crew wanted by anything and everything with a superpower for the mess that was the first season. So what better time for our heroes to take the fight directly to Vought? Speaking of supes, it's not like Homelander (Antony Starr) has it any easier: Stormfront (Aya Cash) has her eyes on his leadership spot on The Seven- but her plans are much more "global" in nature. An even bigger "wild card" in all of this? The return of "retired" The Seven member Lamplighter (Shawn Ashmore), who ignites some painful memories and righteous anger.

A look at The Boys Season 2 (Image: Prime Video-screencap)
A look at The Boys Season 2 (Image: Prime Video-screencap)

The following second-season teaser picks up where things left off last time: a bloody Homelander meeting his son. From there, we have a bloody mess that finds A-Train (Jessie T. Usher) not doing so well; Homelander taking on Starlight (Erin Moriarty); Mr. Edgar (Giancarlo Esposito) stepping up his presence, The Deep (Chase Crawford) still trying to not be so shallow; a quick look at Butcher's good boy Terror, and more.

Amazon Prime Video also released a preview introducing Stormfront in all of her social media glory. In the opening scene, we get to see Vought's PR campaign making the public feel comfy about supes in the military just before the set gets a visitor, much to the chagrin of Homelander, Queen Maeve (Dominique McElligott), and public relation powerhouse Ashley (Colby Minifie). But Stormfront's not just there to make a name for herself, because she's already done that. That's because Mr. Edgar just named her as the late, not-so-great Translucent's (Alex Hassell) replacement- and Homelander's not happy.

Speaking of Mr. Edgar, during "The Boys F**kin' Reunion," Kripke previewed the first three minutes of the second season opener (at around the 47:30 mark) that plans are moving forward to embed supes with the military, with the Vought CEO and Secretary of Defense Robert Singer (Jim Beaver) negotiating "collateral damage" while Black Noir (Nathan Mitchell) takes care of a first-season threat.

In this clip, Butcher is reunited with the team- just in enough time to take off again to meet with a contact. To say that doesn't sit well with Hughie would be an understatement: he wants answers- and a new plan. Of course, there's no way that doesn't come across to Butcher as a challenge to his leadership. Yeah, Butcher isn't a big fan of being questioned. Following that, we see what happens post-whale impaling (yup): As The Deep mourns the loss of Lucy, he looks to convince Starlight that one day she might welcome him back on the team. Yeah, that's not gonna happen- until Stormfront steps in. Meanwhile, Homelander looks to go underground to continue the hunt:


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Ray FlookAbout Ray Flook

Serving as Television Editor since 2018, Ray began five years earlier as a contributing writer/photographer before being brought onto the core BC team in 2017.
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