# Amazon's 'the Boys' season 4 trailer just dropped **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, amazon-prime\ **Created:** [May 4, 2024, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-the-boys-season-4-trailer-just-dropped/1001126 "2024-05-04T04:31:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-the-boys-season-4-trailer-just-dropped/1001126/101 "2024-07-20T11:37:00Z")
That was kind of a dark ending. Now I’m fresh out of ideas as to why Homelander wouldn’t just kill them all. I assume that the next season of Gen V is going to be closely tied into this story line, so they had to come up with a reason for The Boys to remain out of sight for a while. I’m looking forward to seeing Super Ashley saving the day. ---
**Author:** ![Skypist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skypist/32/169_2.png) [@Skypist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skypist)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-the-boys-season-4-trailer-just-dropped/1001126/102 "2024-07-20T12:26:02Z")
> [@crazyjoe](#): > > Is anyone else thinking that FireCracker’s coughing isn’t because of the hormone drugs, but because of a much less conspicuous version of the virus (probably designed and produced by Sage) which she is passing along to HL via the milk? I like this idea. Supposedly the medication that Firecracker is supposed to be taking can cause symptoms like this, but maybe she has the virus also. Although a virus that was strong enough to take out Homelander through breast milk through repeated exposure would probably kill Firecracker outright. That ending really sucked! I really wanted to see what Ashley turned into. They could have at least given me that (whine, whine)! I want Ashley to kill Deep. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-the-boys-season-4-trailer-just-dropped/1001126/103 "2024-07-20T20:24:57Z")
I thought the ending was exciting and fun but… not sure how much sense it made. In particular, it doesn’t take much of an understanding of American civics to realize that the day that the election is certified and the day on which the Prez and VP elect are actually sworn in and inaugurated are two distinctly different days. Can someone remind me who the telekinetic Eleven-knockoff was? Butcher definitely looked much healthier, presumably because (fanwanking) he has now accepted the cancer-disease-hallucination part of his brain wholeheartedly, so is no longer in conflict with himself. Definitely looking forward to season 5. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-the-boys-season-4-trailer-just-dropped/1001126/104 "2024-07-20T21:12:09Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > Can someone remind me who the telekinetic Eleven-knockoff was? If we’re talking about the same person, she’s from S2 Ep 6 when The Boys visited that mental hospital where Stormfront and Lamplighter were making supe terrorists out of kids. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-the-boys-season-4-trailer-just-dropped/1001126/105 "2024-07-20T21:14:10Z")
She’s also a major character in Gen V (which is well worth watching by the way). ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-the-boys-season-4-trailer-just-dropped/1001126/106 "2024-07-20T21:23:05Z")
No, you’re thinking about the top person, but they are talking about the bottom person. [![](https://i.postimg.cc/zBmRRh8B/Screenshot-20240720-171937.jpg) ](https://i.postimg.cc/zBmRRh8B/Screenshot-20240720-171937.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-the-boys-season-4-trailer-just-dropped/1001126/107 "2024-07-20T22:35:50Z")
Well, Annie can finally fly for reals zippity doo, and Kimiko can finally talk. I missed the mid-credits scene the first time. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-the-boys-season-4-trailer-just-dropped/1001126/108 "2024-07-21T09:42:36Z")
Oh yeh… whoops. Not sure how I confused telekinesis with horse(human)-whisperer! ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-the-boys-season-4-trailer-just-dropped/1001126/109 "2024-07-21T17:04:30Z")
> [@crazyjoe](#): > > Interesting appearance by the TK at the end. Someone with that level of power (and ability to be recruited) should probably already have been on the 7, don’t ya think? The Seven is all about marketing, not ability. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-the-boys-season-4-trailer-just-dropped/1001126/110 "2024-07-23T18:30:44Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > That was kind of a dark ending. Now I’m fresh out of ideas as to why Homelander wouldn’t just kill them all. Same reason Big Brother never had Emmanuel Goldstein “killed.” Being officially on the loose keeps them in a position where they can be presented as a continuing threat, against whom constant vigilance is required. Yes, they _could_ do that with the team dead, but it might be necessary for them to put in an appearance some time. On an unrelated note, Claudia Doumit and Laila Robins are going to have to look for work now. 🙁 But I’m glad to see Kimono is talking. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-the-boys-season-4-trailer-just-dropped/1001126/111 "2024-07-23T18:42:32Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > But I’m glad to see Kimono is talking. Autocorrect? “Kimiko”. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-the-boys-season-4-trailer-just-dropped/1001126/112 "2024-07-23T18:44:24Z")
Dammit, yes! Out of Doper courtesy, I won’t change it. Well done, catching it so fast. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-the-boys-season-4-trailer-just-dropped/1001126/113 "2024-07-23T18:46:21Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Same reason Big Brother never had Emmanuel Goldstein “killed.” But if there ever was an Emmanuel Goldstein, the Party DID have him killed. As of the events of the book in all likelihood Emmanuel Goldstein didn’t exist and maybe never did. He didn’t have to exist to be a bogeyman. Homelander isn’t as clever as the Party, either. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-the-boys-season-4-trailer-just-dropped/1001126/114 "2024-07-23T18:47:45Z")
But Sister Sage might be. And he’s been shown the perils of not listening to her. Also: > [@RickJay](#): > > As of the events of the book in all likelihood Emmanuel Goldstein didn’t exist and maybe never did. I take the view that Goldstein never existed. That’s why I posted _“killed”_ instead of _killed_. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-the-boys-season-4-trailer-just-dropped/1001126/115 "2024-07-23T18:50:04Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Homelander isn’t as clever as the Party, either. That’s kind of important to point out. Some of the best little moments in the series, some of Anthony Starr’s best acting, are the moments when Homelander realizes his clever plan is backfiring and failing in ways he never anticipated. The slow-rising bafflement and frustration is \ perfect. His intellect is far behind his superpower prowess or his deformed ambitions. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-the-boys-season-4-trailer-just-dropped/1001126/116 "2024-07-25T23:58:11Z")
I kind of wonder if “Starlight’s” nude scenes were done with a body double. Because that would be sort of meta. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-the-boys-season-4-trailer-just-dropped/1001126/117 "2024-07-26T01:16:31Z")
That wasn’t Starlight, just a shape-shifter. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-the-boys-season-4-trailer-just-dropped/1001126/118 "2024-07-26T06:08:52Z")
Yeh I thought that was a ‘cheeky’ little in-joke. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-the-boys-season-4-trailer-just-dropped/1001126/119 "2024-07-26T13:20:23Z")
I know, hence my use of the quote marks. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-the-boys-season-4-trailer-just-dropped/1001126/120 "2024-07-26T21:54:39Z")
A prequel series is on the way. > **[Amazon is giving The Boys the prequel treatment](https://www.engadget.com/amazon-is-giving-the-boys-the-prequel-treatment-201058614.html)** > > The cast and crew of Amazon's The Boys announced a bunch of new spinoffs for the supe action series. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-the-boys-season-4-trailer-just-dropped/1001126.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-the-boys-season-4-trailer-just-dropped/1001126.md?page=7)