'The Boys Presents: Diabolical' Features Teases for Season 3 of the Live-Action Show

Mar. 7 2022, Published 6:21 p.m. ET

Spoiler alert: This article contains spoilers for The Boys Presents: Diabolical.

Violent, intense, and irreverent, The Boys Presents: Diabolical is a derivative of bloody proportions. The wacky anthology series is tied to the Prime Video show The Boys; both take place in a world where superheroes are not most effective real, but extremely commercialized, and harbor darkish secrets and salacious non-public lives. But is Diabolical canon to the unique?

The authentic show is in response to a comic series that ran from 2006 to 2012. It follows the titular "Boys," a ragtag team of people that were wronged by corrupt superheroes and their debatable homeowners at Vought International. Led by the spiteful and problematic Billy Butcher (Karl Urban), the Boys paintings to reveal the wrongdoings of superheroes while making an attempt no longer to let their personal vendettas get in the approach.

Diabolical expands the scope of the series and has ties to The Boys.

Is 'The Boys Presents: Diabolical' canon to the major tale?

Like Star Wars: Visions, which got here before it, Diabolical is an animated anthology series. It features eight other animated shorts, every helmed via other creators, including Justin Roiland of Rick and Morty popularity. And again, like Star Wars: Visions, now not the whole lot about Diabolical is made to fit into the timeline of The Boys. This is smart, taking into consideration that shorts like "Laser Baby's Day Out" appear some distance too outlandish to be considered canon, even through The Boys' requirements.

For his section, The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke mentioned in an interview with Variety that the creators of each and every brief had free vary to do whatever they sought after with the established mythology, regardless of whether or not or no longer their storyline meshed cleanly with the original.

"We felt like, if everything has to exist canonically with the mothership show, it would have limited a lot of the creativity of Diabolical," Eric advised Variety. "We wouldn't be able to go quite as broad and crazy as we wanted to go."

For the maximum part, Diabolical isn't completely canon to The Boys. Outlets like Screen Rant have advised that sure episodes could conceivably happen in the past or between The Boys seasons, but now not every episode is intended to be married to the display.

Of direction, there is one exception.

The finale for Diabolical, "One Plus One Equals Two," is the most effective short with an particular connection to the unique show. "One Plus One Equals Two" explores Homelander, the all-American poster boy for Vought International.

In his first days as part of The Seven, Homelander must deal with a hostage scenario at an influence plant. After the crisis escalates and leaves blood on his hands, Homelander's challenge spouse Black Noir covers up their tracks and coaches him on what to tell the press.

The short was written via Diabolical showrunner Simon Racioppa or even has Antony Starr reprising his live-action role as Homelander, together with several extra live-action co-stars.

Eric Kripke printed that the Homelander quick wasn't to begin with meant to be canon, however he loved it such a lot that he retroactively made it so.

"I don't think we had any specific plans going in for it to for sure be canon," Eric admitted to Variety. "But [Simon] just did such a good job writing and directing it that watching it, I was like, 'This is for sure what happened.'"

He even went so far as to suggest that the quick ties into Season 3 of the live-action show, teasing new personality threads.

"There is a certain amount of background setup of really understanding the relationship between Homelander and Black Noir and giving us a deeper understanding before Season 3," he mentioned.

Simon Racioppa himself confirmed that he wanted to make the short "as close to the show as possible." "We wanted to try and make that like a good America-action-animation-influenced episode that feels like it's really connected to the mothership," he defined.

The Boys Presents: Diabolical is these days streaming Prime Video. Season 3 of The Boys is expected to premiere on June 3.

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