Amazon Prime Video‘s ‘The Boys’ will release its third season later this year; but before it does, this brilliant superhero series is dropping a new spinoff web series. However, this spinoff is not the X-Men styled superhero academy type TV series that was being teased for over a year, no – this is going to be an animated anthology series featuring a megastar voice cast. The trailer for this new series, ‘The Boys Presents: Diabolical’, dropped a couple of days ago and in true “Boys’ fashion” – it is brilliantly twisted and nasty. However, with ‘The Boys’ regularly making fun of superhero tropes over the years, we can’t help but wonder if this spinoff series is a subtle dig at the MCU web series, ‘What If…?!’.
Back in July 2019, Amazon Prime Video dropped a brilliant dark comedy Superhero TV series titled, ‘The Boys’, – and it was a huge hit worldwide. The web series gave us a different glimpse into the world of superheroes – a darker, grittier version varying from the DCE Universe and definitely the MCU one as well. The show also took subtle digs at superhero cliches and built a universe worth exploring. This is why many of us think that this upcoming animated anthology series could be a dig at Marvel’s own animated anthology series, ‘What If…?!’.
While we do not know how this series will be a satire of the above mentioned MCU web series, knowing the creators of ‘The Boys’, it should be something spectacular. And similar to ‘What If…?!’, this series also has an all-star cast including Awkwafina, Michael Cera, Don Cheadle, Chace Crawford, Kieran Culkin, Giancarlo Esposito, Eliot Glazer, Jason Isaacs, Kumail Nanjiani, Justin Roiland, Seth Rogen, Andy Samberg, Ben Schwartz, Elisabeth Shue, Christian Slater, Kevin Smith, Antony Starr, Nasim Pedrad, Simon Pegg, Kenan Thompson, Aisha Tyler, and Academy Award-winner Youn Yuh Jung. With a semi-nonsensical trailer that can be considered an in-universe advertisement, this show looks like it will be worth a watch. Check out the trailer towards the end of this article.
The animated spinoff anthology series, ‘The Boys Presents: Diabolical’, will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on March 4th 2022.
The first three episodes of the third season of the original series, ‘The Boys’ will drop on June 3rd 2022.