The Boys Creator On Why The TV Show Has This One Massive Departure From The Comics

Prime Video's The Boys recently came back for its fourth season, and with just one more season to go before the series wraps up, many are wondering how it all might end. We still don't know how it'll wrap up, but series creator Eric Kripke has confirmed the show will not include one of the shocking twists from the comic series the show is based on. Massive spoilers for The Boys comic series follow below.

In the comic series, written by Garth Ennis and drawn by Darick Robertson, a major twist emerges that reveals Black Noir is actually a clone of Homelander. Black Noir is the one who has been perpetrating the horrific deeds everyone attributed to Homelander.

Kripke told Variety that he never wanted to go down this route with the TV show, however. "It's a hell of a twist. But it's like, well wait, the villain I've been following isn't really the villain. And mileage varies, and I'm sure fans are mad I'm not going that way, but that felt not as satisfying to me."

Kripke went on to say that cloning feels "too magical" for the show, something he admits is a silly thing to say given all the other wacky and impossible things that happen on The Boys.

He added that the comic series has content in it that the show "couldn't do even if we wanted to." Kripke said the TV show doesn't include all the twists and turns in the comics, in part because they might not be as emotionally satisfying on screen. But what ending does Kripke have in mind for the show? He obviously isn't giving it away right now, but said it has "elements" inspired by how the comic ends, but "it's not the ending from the comics."

Black Noir is portrayed by Nathan Mitchell on the TV show. In Season 3, Homelander kills Black Noir by ripping his organs out. In Season 4, Vought brings in Black Noir II (also played by Mitchell), a much more talkative version of the original character.

New episodes of The Boys air Thursdays on Prime Video. The show will wrap up with its upcoming fifth season, but the franchise isn't ending, as the spin-off Gen V is continuing.