Watch Karl Urban in the Bloody Final Trailer for The Boys
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The final trailer for Amazon’s forthcoming series The Boys is here, and it’s wickedly funny, irreverent and just very bloody. But what are you going to expect from a show based on a Garth Ennis comic?
The trailer begins with the words, “People love superheroes,” and introduces us to the facade we all know and love. Superheroes, compassionate and patriotic in all their shimmering glory, putting on a show for us, walking red carpets, swooping out of the sky to save the day.
But things aren’t always as they seem.
That facade comes crashing down as we first see Hughie (Jack Quaid), out with his girlfriend when A-Train (Jessie T. Usher), a speedster of superhero group the Seven, zips straight through her, leaving a trail of blood and guts in his wake. Hughie is left with his girlfriend’s blood on his face and her severed hands in his own, and we’re left with the realization of what these heroes really are: narcissistic, sociopathic assholes.
“Supes lose hundreds of people each year to collateral damage,” Karl Urban’s character, Billy Butcher, tells us. “It’s fucking diabolical.”
“Pardon my French,” he adds. “Fuck those fuckers.”
Billy leads a group of vigilantes with one goal: “Spank the bastards,” i.e. take out the Seven in the most violent ways possible.