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"The Boys": Let Butcher & Homelander Be YOUR Motivational Speakers [VIDEO]

Amazon Prime's adaptation of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's comic book series The Boys has us feeling a certain way – and that "certain way" is impatient. Can you blame us? We're talking about a series strong enough to make Bleeding Cool's The Bleeding Cool TV Top 10 Best of 2019 – and last year was filled with some righteous competition. Add a teaser that was dropped in December (see below) and Eric Kripke courting The Walking Dead star Jeffrey Dean Morgan for a future role, and it's safe to say that we would like the first episode of season 2 now… please.

Unfortunately, that's not the way Life works, so we have to wait – but as we go through our day-to-day lives, why not let the show's wisdom help you through the dark day? What follows are the (mostly) pearls of wisdom plucked out of the first season to serve as your "cat-hanging-by-a-branch" motivational tape to make your days a whole lot brighter – and probably a little bloodier:

The following second-season teaser picks up where things left off last time – with a bloody Homelander (Antony Starr) meeting his son (???), followed by 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 (Chace Crawford) still trying to not be so shallow; a quick look at Butcher's (Karl Urban) good boy Terror, and more.

So it looks like viewers will be getting at least a little "Payback" when the series returns, with the poster above dropping a ten-ton hint that Soldier Boy will definitely be a factor. Of course, there's the matter of which Soldier Boy – or all of them?

Modern version? He really wants to be part of The Seven – and Homelander knows it. But after Payback has a little run-in with The Boys, this Soldier Boy ends up "nasally deficient" and left in some very unfriendly hands.

Then there's WWII Soldier Boy of The Avenging Squad… and that went even worse…

In October, Kripke took to Twitter to tease the second-season appearance of The Crimson Countess – another piece in the Payback puzzle:

From her name alone, it should come as no surprise that the red-haired "hero" sports a red costume and cape and has heat-based powers. In the comics, the Payback member is involved with Mind Droid but was rumored to be having an affair with fellow team member Stormfront (which could make for an interesting dynamic considering the change in Stormfront's character for the series, but more on that below).

Unfortunately, Crimson makes the mistake of going after Butcher's dog and… well… it doesn't go well.

Kripke also teased an appearance from Patton Oswalt – though details on his role are being kept under wraps (#SecretRole):

Though it seemed pretty inevitable when news leaked that Aya Cash (You're The Worst) was in negotiations for the role of Stormfront if a second season was ordered, Amazon Prime made the second-season renewal official at San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) 2019 – one week before the highly-anticipated series premiered.

Joining Cash for the sophomore season are Goran Visnjic, Claudia Doumit, and a returning Malcolm Barrett – setting the stage for an unofficial Timeless reunion.

In the comic books series, Cash's Stormfront is a male character, a member of super team Payback – and representative of every nightmarish aspect of the Neo-Nazi agenda. Even scarier, his power levels put him on par with Homelander and Black Noir. Visnjic's Alistair Adana is the charismatic and shadowy leader of a mysterious church, while Doumit's Victoria Neuman is a young wunderkind congresswoman. Barrett returns as Seth Reed, a Vought Marketing executive who had a very "personal" run in with a supe.

A Look at Amazon Prime's "The Boys"…

Here's a look at the previous trailers and teasers for The Boys, with some serious eye-opening NSFW stuff:

(Check out Bleeding Cool's two-scoops-of-spoilers-filled review of the series premiere here.)

In a world where superheroes embrace the darker side of their massive celebrity and fame, THE BOYS centers on a group of vigilantes known informally as "The Boys," who set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than their blue-collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty.

THE BOYS is a fun and 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. It's the powerless against the super powerful as The Boys embark on a heroic quest to expose the truth about "The Seven," and Vought – the multi-billion dollar conglomerate that manages these superheroes.

On the side of The Boys, Karl Urban's Billy Butcher is mysterious and brutal, hiding a personal agenda as he approaches potential new recruit Hughie (Jack Quaid), claiming to be a shadowy government operative. Butcher capitalizes on Hughie's rage over his girlfriend Robin's accidental death at the hands of Superhero A-Train and enlists Hughie as part of his plan to bring down the super-hero franchise.

Rounding out Butcher's team are Laz Alonso (The Mysteries of Laura) as second-in-command Mother's Milk; Karen Fukuhara (Suicide Squad) as The Female, a young Asian assassin with blistering fighting skills who happens to have superpowers; and Tomer Capon as unpredictable wild card Frenchie, a brutal warrior when who lives a life of no attachments or responsibilities.

On the flip side, The Seven are Antony Starr (American Gothic) as The Homelander, leader of the main superhero team, The Seven; Dominique McElligott (The Last Tycoon) as Queen Maeve, a member of The Seven; Chace Crawford (Gossip Girl) as The Seven member The Deep, an aquatic hero; Jesse T. Usher (Survivor's Remorse) as speedster with a major PR problem, A-Train; Nathan Mitchell (iZombie) as Black Noir, a masked superhero with fighting and Set martial arts skills; Alex Hassell as perverted invisible hero Translucent (who's not really…you know… "translucent"); and Erin Moriarty (Jessica Jones) is Starlight/Annie, a young woman who can make lightning bolts flash from her eyes and dreams of being a "real superhero" like the famous Seven;

Elisabeth Shue's (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Karate Kid) super-hero handler Madelyn Stillwell was the Vice President of Hero Management for Vought and the person responsible for cleaning up after the "heroes." Jennifer Esposito (NCIS, Blindspot) has also been cast in the recurring role of CIA Agent Susan Raynor, with Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead) set as Hughie's father and Giancarlo Esposito (Better Call Saul) as the mysterious Mr. Edgar

Based on The New York Times best-selling comic by Ennis and Robertson, The Boys was developed by showrunner Eric Kripke (Supernatural), who also serves as writer, executive producer and directed the season finale. Joining Kripke as executive producers are Point Grey Pictures' Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and James Weaver (Preacher), Original Film's Neal H. Moritz (Prison Break), Pavun Shetty (New Girl), and Ori Marmur (Preacher), as well as Ken Levin and Jason Netter. Ennis and Robertson also co-executive produce, with the pilot episode directed by Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane).

Amazon Studios and Sony Pictures Television Studios co-produce the Amazon Prime Video with Point Grey Pictures, Kripke Enterprises and Original Film

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