The Boys: Who is new to the season 3 cast?-Tori Brazier-Entertainment – Metro

There’s some new supes on the block in The Boys’ third season (Picture: Amazon Prime)

Amazon Prime’s highly popular and irreverent superhero series The Boys is back for season 3 and even more diabolical than before.

With events picking up a year after the events of season two, there’s a lot to unpack for members of both The Seven – corrupt superheroes working for powerful corporation Vought International and abusing their powers – and The Boys, a group of vigilantes set up to bring down the company and its corrupt, fake heroes.

With another all-new eight episodes in store (although only the first three drop on June 3), the cast has seen a swelling among its ranks.

Alongside established characters including Homelander (Anthony Starr), Billy Butcher (Karl Urban), Hughie Campbell (Jack Quaid), The Deep (Chace Crawford) and Queen Maeve (Dominique McElligott), we’ve got new blood from the likes of actors Jensen Ackles and Laurie Holden.

Who are the new additions to The Boys for season three though, and which characters do they play?

Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy

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Supernatural star Jensen stars as Soldier Boy, the first-ever superhero, and a parody-style figure of Captain America.

In the original graphic novels by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, Soldier Boy has an enigmatic backstory. 

After being injected with Compound V formula in 1944, he fought and killed German soldiers at the height of conflict across Europe.

In season three, The Boys’ pursuit of a mysterious anti-supe weapon leads them to chasing Soldier Boy.

Laurie Holden as Crimson Countess

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Laurie Holden’s Crimson Countess is a spoof of Marvel’s Scarlet Witch, a.k.a. Wanda Maximoff, made particularly popular by Disney Plus’s WandaVision, starring Elizabeth Olsen in the role alongside Paul Bettany as Vision, and Wanda’s return in the recent Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

Crimson Countess’ other half is similar too – Mind-Droid.

She is a member of Payback.  

Miles Gaston Villanueva as Supersonic

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Supersonic, as played by Miles Gaston Villanueva, is Starlight’s (Erin Moriarty) ex-boyfriend.

He is also a member of Payback, although not much is known about him.

 In promotional material for the show, a peek was given at him through Tucker Carson parody Seven on 7 by Cameron Coleman, with it being suggested he’s making a major comeback.

He is based on the original comics’ character of Drummer Boy.

Nick Weschler as Blue Hawk

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Blue Hawk, another member of the Payback superhero team, is portrayed by Nick Weschler.

Not much is known about him, as a freshly created character to the universe, but there’s feeling he could be based on Wolverine parody Ground Hawk (who wears a blue hawk helmet) in the comics.

Sean Patrick Flanery as Gunpowder

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Gunpowder, as played by Sean Patrick Flanery is – surprise, surprise – yet another Payback team member.

A character in the comics, he is a firearms enthusiast and is able to manipulate projectiles and conjure weapons from thin air.

He was also Soldier Boy’s sidekick.

Katia Winter as Little Nina

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A non-superhero new addition, Little Nina (Katia Winter) is in fact a notorious Russian gangster.

In the comics, her nickname comes form her short stature and fondness for vibrators.

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She has also worked with Vought and made her own supes using a derived version of Compound V, which keeps failing. In the show, however, her story is said to have been quite drastically altered.

The Boys seasons 1 and 2 are available to watch on Amazon’s Prime Video. Season 3 streams on Prime on Friday, June 3.

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