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The Boys S04: Call of Duty Trailer Has Us Worried About Firecracker

The trailer for The Boys/Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3-Season 1 Reloaded offers an ominous preview of what Firecracker might have in store.

With 2024 bringing the fourth season of EP/Showrunner Eric Kripke's The Boys, you can only imagine the excitement & expectations that have been built up so far. Helping things in a big way was the success of Michele Fazekas' Gen V (returning for a second season) and the early buzz building around the recently-announced "The Boys: Mexico" from Diego Luna & Gael García Bernal. Of course, that means that we've tuned up our radars to be on the lookout for anything & everything that's out there that could shed some light on what's to come. Now, six months after Homelander, Starlight, and Black Noir invaded the universe of the popular video games franchise, the trio are back for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3/Season 1 Reloaded – but things are a bit different.

Starlight is fighting for the heroes now, with Homelander and Black Noir being joined by A-Train and Firecracker – a new character set to be played by Valorie Curry during the fourth season, officially announced back in August 2022. Curry's Firecracker and Susan Heyward's Sister Sage are expected to be introduced in the fourth season opener, "Department of Dirty Tricks" – but thanks to the trailer above for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3/Season 1 Reloaded, we get a chance to see her video game persona in action. Here's a look at some screencaps – along with a quick note. If the video game version of Firecracker is in line with the Prime Video series version, then we might have another "Homelander" on our hands.

Now, here's a look back at the official fourth season teaser for Prime Video's The Boys, landing on streaming screens in 2024:

The world is on the brink. Victoria Neuman is closer than ever to the Oval Office and under the muscly thumb of Homelander, who is consolidating his power. Butcher, with only months to live, has lost Becca's son as well as his job as The Boys' leader. The rest of the team are fed up with his lies. With the stakes higher than ever, they have to find a way to work together and save the world before it's too late.

The Boys Showrunner/EP Eric Kripke Discusses Season 4 & Beyond

In July 2022, Kripke covered a ton of topics in his interview with Variety (check out the complete interview with a ton of other details here), with highlights focused on Butcher (Urban), Ryan (Cameron Crovetti), Queen Maeve (Dominique McElligott), Starlight (Erin Moriarty), Soldier Boy (Ackles), and Black Noir (Nathan Mitchell):

So Should We Be Expecting Ryan to Go "Brightburn"? "Ryan is a really important piece of the story because he's half Becca, half Homelander. If Butcher can figure out how to get his shit together and get the kid back, that could be the single best weapon they have against Homelander. But vice versa. If Homelander wins the kid over, that's apocalyptic because then there's two Homelanders. It's like a child drama with apocalyptic stakes. It's like 'Kramer vs. Kramer' meets 'Avengers: Endgame.' So that will be a really rich story moving forward."

How Will Butcher React to Knowing He's on a "Crazy Ticking Clock"? "He's got so much to do that he hasn't done. And everything that he's tried to do up to this point has exploded in the most horrible way. What we find fascinating about the question we're asking about Butcher is, is he self-aware enough to realize that he's causing his own misfortune? Is he self-aware enough to actually see if he can change? Those are some of the interesting conversations we're starting to have for Season 4."

Maeve's Leaving Will Make Things Tougher for Starlight… at Least Until She Returns? "I don't think 'The Boys' will end without Maeve showing up again… We needed a way to sort of gracefully get Maeve out of the show, let her head for the exit. Obviously, we didn't want to kill her and fall into the tropes of gay characters and bisexual characters in shows getting killed. We wanted to do the opposite of that and send her off and give her a happy ending with Elena. The best way to do that was, well, take away her powers, and she's not useful in the fight anymore. And we did that because Annie can't really grow into her own until all the characters that are around to protect her are gone. It was important for her next step for her mentor characters and her protector characters to go away. And so it's only up to Annie. There's no one left but Annie. So what is she going to do?"

Black Noir Is Dead! Long Live Black Noir! "Without spoiling anything, I will just say this: When you have a silent character in a mask, he's reasonably easy to recast… If you notice in the flashbacks of this season, it was a different actor [Fritzy-Klevans Destine], and perhaps the reason we did that is so that if we were to recast Noir, we could recast him with Nathan [Mitchell, the original Black Noir actor].

Just Because Soldier Boy's on Ice Doesn't Mean He Can't Return… Right? "The old TV adage is like, never kill anyone unless you really, really have to. Never close a door, open a window. We'll all have to wait and see, but I can't imagine the series ending without Soldier Boy making another appearance."

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