Season 3 of The Boys may hold an incredibly shocking twist, should one spot of foreshadowing prove to be true. The Boys has never been a show that shied away from its often grisly and shocking comic roots, and – while avoiding any content that would lead to it being downright taken off-air – the series has brought some of the comic book adaptation world’s most outrageous moments.
Over the course of the current two seasons, there have been explosives placed in notably vulnerable parts of the human body, a substantial spot or two of full-frontal nudity, exploding heads, and the reveal of Homelander’s vaguely concerning interest in breastfeeding, to name not even the most surreal and scandalous moments from the show. The comics take things even further, to a degree that has proved problematic at times over the years and the show’s creators have already confirmed that at least one notorious scene – involving Soldier Boy and Homelander – will be left out.
But Season 3 may hold more shocking scenes than just The Boys’ infamous Herogasm. With the show having dealt predominantly with Billy Butcher and Homelander’s backstories so far, but not the supporting characters, there’s an opportunity to look there for more story opportunities. And while the show is far from being canceled (particularly as it’s so successful), M.M’s storyline needs to be finished up before it does end. Intriguingly, everything shown thus far in The Boys suggests this will include his mother, much as it did in the comics, and that means that season 3 could include one of the most unsettling moments imaginable for the show to pull off.
Thus far, what has been revealed of Marvin’s family has largely focused around his wife, his daughter, and his father, who Marvin believes passed away as a result of overworking himself to try and sue Vought for a mysterious wrong the company had done. While the show is sure to be different from the comics in its details – as it has purposefully been in order to differentiate the two versions of The Boys – there is a good chance elements of the comic will remain the same for this storyline, specifically in regards to the bad blood between Marvin’s family and Vought.
Shockingly, the comics establish that M.M’s mother worked in a factory that handled Compound V, which ultimately transferred into her system over time due to exposure to it. This in turn resulted in one of her children dying when his superpowers became uncontrollable, and her other – Mother’s Milk – becoming reliant on his mother’s breast milk presumably because of Compound V dependence, hence the nickname. More grotesquely, Marvin’s mother also transformed as a result of her exposure to Compound V, which both sabotaged her mind and her body into a surreal “Mister Fantastic gone wrong” nightmare.
As the show has established that M.M.’s father attempted to sue Vought, it stands to reason that in the show universe, this dire event and its diabolical impacts are in some way the same. This means that Season 3 of The Boys (or at least a future point) is also likely to show the disturbing effect this complication had on both Marvin and his poor mother, which should prove to be the show’s most disturbing moment. As the show makes M.M’s family feel significantly more real, even if just as background characters, it stands to reason this version of events will actually be substantially more unsettling, both because the characters feel more like real people, and because a CGI creation will inevitably look more horrifying than any drawing.
The Boys has taken a far more serious approach with many of the characters’ backstories and points of personal suffering than the comics, which makes this possibility all the more intriguing. In that respect, it is even more interesting to consider how the show will grapple with the idea of the damage done to M.M.’s family as a result of their inadvertent crossing paths with Vought. The revelation of the transformation of M.M’s mother was framed partially as an attempt at shock humor in the comic, which proved to be a shame as it meant the short time she was shown didn’t focus on the absolute horror and injustice of what was done to her. The Boys has a real chance to provide not only one of its most disturbing scenes by using this character, but also one of its most vitally tragic, as nowhere is the human cost of Vought’s experiments quite so apparent.
Originally from https://screenrant.com/boys-season-3-mothers-milk-disturbing-plot-twist-already-revealed/