A mainstay of the cast is stepping into a slightly different role, according to showrunner Eric Kripke.
Warning: This article contains spoilers fromThe Boysseason 3 finale.
Fans ofAmazon’sThe Boysmight’ve noticed a strange twist in an early episode of season 3.
Nathan Mitchell appears in the Black Noir costume in ‘The Boys’ season 3.Amazon Studios
Instead, it was Fritzy-Klevans Destine, known for roles onBatwomanandSuperman & Lois.
Kripke and the writers decided that Black Noir would die in season 3.
“It’s definitely not the last we’ve seen of Black Noir as a hero.
But we have Nathan playing a really interesting and hilarious character who wears the suit next season.”
This is all dramatized in an animated sequence with Noir’s imaginary friends.
“Young Noir grew up going to this pizza chain called Buster Beavers.
It’s like a Chucky Cheese,” Kripke explains.
“He sees the animated characters.
They come to life and they have a lot of interaction with him.”
Each of the animated characters is also voiced by an actor from the Payback flashbacks in episode 3.
Destine voices the Black Noir cartoon ram.
“We wanted to see Noir sort ofDark Knight of the Soul.
It’s hard to do that because he doesn’t communicate.
And then someone said, ‘Well, it might be a little corny.
What about like a Chucky Cheese?’
So it just evolves.”
Kripke considers himself to be a big animation geek.
He admits it was perhaps this that kept animation on his mind for Noir’s friends in season 3.
And that just brings me no end of pleasure."
Find out more behind-the-scenes secrets to the making ofThe Boysseason 3 inEW’sOn Setvideo series.
