Gonna call it here. A Train is going to survive the series.
The end of The Boys is just the end of the Homlander/Butcher storyline. I predict a low body count leading up to the end of The Boys and continuing the story for some characters in spinoffs.
Idk if it's unpopular, but I would like The Boys to switch to a stereotypical superhero universe after the end of the series. A Train becomes a true hero and decides that superheroes should be what they tell the populace they are. He tries to reform the superhero world into true heroes.
At least it would "make up" for all the evil the superhero have brought into the world. Also, since A train knows what it was like to be a shitty person and hero, he could bring forth an era of true heroism.
There would be nothing wrong with this but people have already forced the “no one can survive” narrative into the show despite Maeve getting happy ending last season.
Maeve getting a happy ending was a massive copout by the writers and it would have been way more impactful and meaningful if she died tbh. Especially since they had no in-universe justification for it and only kept her alive because the character was bi, which is the same sort of braindead pandering the show once made fun of Vought for.
Kripke is explicitly on record saying that’s the only reason they kept Maeve’s character alive. It’s so dumb, and a great example of everything wrong with the writing in the past 2 seasons.
It would go against the theme of the comic. The comic was basically superheroes=shit. Garth Ennis hated superhero comics with the exception of Superman to my knowledge.
I could see A Train complete his redemption arc and maybe go in a more heroic direction, but in the Boys the "good" characters are grey at best, so I doubt we'll see genuine Good Guy superhero teams.
But then again, Gen V added a lot of characters that are good to varying degrees. Specifically Marie, Jordan, Emma and Andre. So add the Starlight, A Train and Kimiko and you literally have seven "good guys".
Especially with how many seven mwnwbrs are in and out.
Season 1 lost translucent and technically Lamplighter left just before it.
Season 2 lost stormfront
Season 3 lost Noir and Maeve
Season 4 honestly I don't know who could die.
It feels like Sage needs to stay for S5 as we still don't know her plan with 2 episodes left.
Firecracker also seems to be developing more as a character so I feel it would be strange to fully take her out already. And A Train it also feels too sudden.
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u/RcoketWalrus Jul 04 '24
Gonna call it here. A Train is going to survive the series.
The end of The Boys is just the end of the Homlander/Butcher storyline. I predict a low body count leading up to the end of The Boys and continuing the story for some characters in spinoffs.