The Boys dropped its season three finale on Friday and now it’s time to look to what’s next. While we don’t have any real news on what’s coming in season four, series creator Eric Kripke is revealing some news about the upcoming spinoff and it appears that it will feature crossovers with the The Boys’ main series.
According to Eric Kripke, via Deadline, The Boys: Varsity will crossover with its parent show in some ways but he didn’t make it known which specific characters from The Boys would appear. He also revealed that the spinoff takes place during the third season of The Boys as it heads into its fourth season:
“There’s definitely crossover, and we’re doing our best to design a universe that sees some of the issues and storylines in Season 3 hand off to the first season in Varsity. Like there’s a presidential campaign happening in the background of that season, and there’s certain things that are happening at that school that are both in reaction to Season 3 of The Boys. There’s Soldier Boy, etcetera, but also some new storylines that are happening in that season of the spinoff that we have to pick up and take into Season 4 of the show.”
The Varisty spinoff will also take aim at Marvel’s X-Men through its very own G-Men, a superhero group from The Boys comic books that parody various X-Men characters. The series will follow young superheroes in training as they learn to use their powers responsibly and they are led by a character that is their very own version of Professor X. When speaking on creating his own universe via The Boys, Kripke says he now has even more respect for Marvel’s Kevin Feige when it comes to universe building:
“I mean, it’s a very different corner of the world and it’s a different concern and thematic but it has been interesting. I give Kevin Feige a lot of credit because now that we’re dipping our toe into trying to build a universe and trying to do it well I mean, the amount that you end up trying to not just telling the same mega story, and it’s hard enough to keep one fucking show straight but to try to keep two shows straight, have them each be entertaining and their own animal but they still lock together like Voltron or something is a whole new layer of challenge that.”
Will YOU be watching the spinoff series The Boys: Varsity, waiting for all those crossovers? Season three of The Boys, which just dropped its season finale, is currently available in its entirety on Prime Video.