Warning, this article contains spoilers for The Boys Season 3 Episode 7!
If Black Noir has always been as hush-hush as it is mysterious, then Season 3 of The Boys, currently airing on Prime Video, has revealed some secrets about the character. Specifically, in episode 3, flashbacks showed him in his younger days when he was a member of the Payback team and no longer wanted to hide behind the mask.
But after an operation gone wrong, he was found completely disfigured. A turning point in his life, which episode 7 revisited during sequences where Super is surrounded by animated animals such as Snow White. A concept that greatly amused series creator Eric Kripke.
that TVLineThe latter also explained why he decided to integrate animated characters into his story: “If there’s an idiosyncratic way to tell a story, I’ll take it because it’s a lot more fun to think outside the box and say something outright. The idea that when Black is alone, he looks like Snow White, with cute animals flying around him, made me laugh..”
After escaping, learning that Soldier Boy is alive, Black Noir takes refuge in an abandoned Buster Beaver restaurant (a parody of the American chain Chuck E. Cheese), whose mascots come to life.
“When you look at all the layers of this cartoon, there are these animated characters that only he can see and that he’s probably been seeing since season one. They had been around him all this time. That’s what we’re talking about in this episode.“, admits the screenwriter in an interview variety.
And let’s add about animals: “They are cute, aren’t they? I kept saying it was going to be Martin Scorsese’s Snow White. Beloved Disney characters, but whose bodies are anatomically realistically deformed from beatings, how a real human body reacts when subjected to this kind of abuse. And it’s an explosive combination.“
Indeed, it is these animated characters that bring to life the scene that was not shown in Episode 3: the one where the boy soldier’s comrades confront him to hand him over to the Russians, but not before his death. Very violently, until permanently disfigured, forcing him to never remove his mask again.
And it might be animation, you have to have a strong heart to watch this particularly gory series! Note also that Black Noir’s imaginary friends then come to greet the public in a very brief post-credits scene.
Eric Kripke also took advantage of the tumultuous scene to develop Homelander’s friend, as he says: “We wanted to explore the origins of noir and really show who he was and where he came from. In flashbacks, he was a young, handsome superhero who wanted to be the next Eddie Murphy, but was targeted by a boy soldier in such extreme ways that he ended up physically deformed.
We believe that once he recovered from his injuries and secured the mask, he only took it off very rarely, Darth Vader-style. None of this is natural. And we played with it. Does he take off his mask when he is in this restaurant? But why should you? He’s so ashamed of who he’s become that he just doesn’t fit.“
To find out if Soldier Boy will finally find Black Noir to pay for his betrayal, tune in to Prime Video this Friday, July 8.
Source: allocine
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