Eric Kripke Rules Out Black Noir Path as Frenchie The Boys Eyes Deaths
frenchie the boys is heading toward its finish line, and the episode titles are being read as clues that major characters could die before the end. Eric Kripke has already ruled out one of the comic’s bleakest turns, the Black Noir storyline, which narrows the field for what the last episodes may borrow from the source material.
Kripke and Black Noir
Eric Kripke said he would not use the Black Noir storyline from the comic, where Black Noir was a clone of Homelander. That leaves the show’s final stretch without the series’ most extreme comic detour, and it pushes attention back to the other deaths that comic readers already know are on the board.
In volume 11 of The Boys, Billy Butcher gets revenge for Becky, but the final volume changes the frame entirely. In The Bloody Doors Off, readers learn Butcher had been working toward a solution to his supe problem since the end of The Boys: Glorious Five Year Plan, and that solution is not selective.
Butcher’s Compound V Plan
Butcher’s plan is to kill anyone with Compound V in their system. He kills M.M. with a grenade and then suffocates him, then kills Frenchie and the Female with a bomb. Hughie is the only one left alive, which is the kind of endgame that makes the episode-title clues feel less like a tease and more like a map.
Colin McCormick’s piece on the characters most likely to die leans on that comic structure, and the likely pressure point is obvious: the closer the show gets to the source material’s final-volume logic, the fewer major characters are safe. If the series follows that path at all, the names that matter most are Butcher, M.M., Frenchie, the Female, and Hughie, because the comics already show how far the story is willing to go.
The Bloody Doors Off Ending
The cleanest read is that the show is using the comic not as a script, but as a warning label. Kripke has already stepped away from Black Noir’s comic fate, but the remaining deaths in The Bloody Doors Off still point to a final run built around losses, not a tidy victory.
