THE BOYS Season 3 Character Photo Reveals The Newest Supe, Blue Hawk
We’ve got a new character photo to share with you today for Amazon’s The Boys Season 3 and it offers a first look at its newest Supe, Blue Hawk, who is played by Nick Wechsler.
The character has been described as a “patriotic” Supe who is the new spokesman for ‘For Freedom’, which is a new range of products from the fictional company OurSheet, which includes toilet paper. That information was revealed in the monthly round of in-universe ‘broadcasts’ on Vought News Network.
Blue Hawk is kind of sporting a motorcycle cop look and he even comes complete with a baton.
Some of the other new characters set to debut in The Boys Season 3 includes The Walking Dead star Laurie Holden as Crimson Countess and Supernatural's Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy. There are also two more Supes that will be introduced including Gunpowder and Supersonic.
The series creator and showrunner Eric Kripke previously opened up about the upcoming third season and what fans can expect from it. He shared:
“I can say that we spent the first two seasons exploring a lot of things that are going on in the United States, and in the third season we got interested in the history of the Vought universe and its fractured reflection of the United States. It’s like how people say that there are ‘good old days’ and that somehow there’s some sort of past that we need to be great again and return to; the issues we talk about on the show — racism, white supremacy, violence and sexual predation — have always been here. Make America great again for who exactly?
We have this character Soldier Boy, played by Jensen Ackles, who has been around since World War II, and through him we’re able to delve into issues as disparate as toxic masculinity and racism and some of the wars we’ve been through. We’ve been able to explore not just the here and now but the past — and that’s exciting.”
Kripke went on to discuss how current events inspired him to address and explore certain topics in the series, saying:
“It was the daily headlines that inspired it. We drew from them pretty extensively. Those were the early days of the Trump administration. A really toxic xenophobia was just starting to spread. And then there was Charlottesville. White supremacy and Nazis, they scare the living fuck out of me. And it’s just so insane that it’s a controversial opinion that, like, Nazis are bad. It’s just fucking insane to me! I really walked into season two with the direction of ‘We’re going to tell a story about a modern-day white supremacist.’ The books have a Stormfront, but it’s a man and he’s very German. It’s all pretty much what you see is what you get. But modern-day white supremacy is so insidious with social media and the way it draws people in. It’s not weird dudes with strange mustaches — it’s cute girls on YouTube talking about how they’re independent thinkers. I think that’s so scary and really needed to be talked about. And again, yes, it’s a superhero show — but we have a show where we can actually talk about that stuff. I was really passionate about exploring that.”
In a previous interview, Kripke shared some insight on the two timelines Soldier Boy’s story takes place in. The character was originally active during World War II. Kripke said, “There are different time periods, but not in the way you would think.”
“Thematically, we really got interested in the history of the country through this one superhero’s eyes. We delve into a little bit of how we got to the spot we’re in. I think we got inspired by this idea that we have to somehow return America to this great thing that it was in the past, and that it was better then. It’s a nostalgic misconception. It’s always been a struggle, and it’s always been conflict. You’re not supposed to look backwards, you’re supposed to look forward. We wanted to get into that, and having a hero who’s moved through the history of the country like Soldier Boy gave us an opportunity.”
The show will, of course, also feature some crazy moments in the new season, which fans are looking forward to. I have no doubt that Season 3 will be even more bonkers than the first two seasons.