The Boys, based on Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s Wildstorm and Dynamite comics, has been a gory, anarchic frolic with its own loyal fans and critical praise since it premiered on Prime Video in 2019. Season three appears to be as gory and bizarre as ever, with Supernatural alum Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy, dubbed “Captain America, but a jerk,” adding to the insanity.

Series creator Eric Kripke and Ackles spoke to Entertainment Weekly about reconciling and what’s to come with Soldier before of the show’s return next week. He’s supposed to be an opponent who, like Stormfront last season, complicates matters for the Boys and the superhero organisation The Seven. He was built by the Vought Corporation during WWII and hailed as the world’s first superhero in the show’s reality.

As a result, Kripke claims that he’s “this walking, talking figure of macho American history. The figures that they’re using to create fear and panic and to manipulate and control the population are other Americans.”

The Boys has never been shy to parody and mock America’s society and government, and it appears like the next season will be no exception. Without saying so, Kripke acknowledged that “a pretty worrying event” in the nation, most likely last year’s failed January 6 insurgency, was on his mind while he and the writers plotted out the season’s plot.

In recent years, America’s government and right-wing media sources have been effective in instilling increased feelings of xenophobia and racism across the country, which is the ideal theme for the programme to tackle.

Kripke acknowledged,  “They got very good at making you scared about these foreign ‘others’ who are coming to kill you,” added, “Now they’re saying the people that are coming to get you are your neighbor—the other political party… We’re trying to call attention to what bullshit that is.”

Soldier Boy, as Ackles refers to him, will be the greatest method to do this, “Captain America if he gave up superheroism and was just your drunk and inappropriate uncle.”

It seems like a big difference from the wisecracking, affable Dean Winchester that fans of the actor have grown up seeing on Supernatural. Soldier has cracked skulls in previous teasers, but it seems like there’s some gnarly stuff on the road for a programme that’s already not afraid to go a little naughty.

According to Ackles, there was one scene in his character’s journey that caused him to phone Kripke and express his dissatisfaction with the screenplay, “As a father of three, and a son and a husband and a self-respecting human being, I can’t do this,” Ackles recalled. “I didn’t know where my line was, but you found it.”

On June 3, three episodes of The Boys will be released on Prime Video, followed by one episode every week.

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