The Boys is over, long live The Boys. Eric Kripke’s satirical comic adaptation was meant to take down the superhero movie machine evident in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the DC Cinematic Universe, and after seven years and five seasons, it came to an end with a bang, not a whimper, in an epic finale full of casualties from the satisfying (Homelander) to the tragic (Butcher’s beloved dog Terror). But while we’ve seen the happily ever after of these characters, the greater Boys universe is still going on.
In fact, in an interview Eric Kripke did last month, he even gave this world a brand new name. For a while, people have called this franchise the BCU, aka the Boys Cinematic Universe. But in a recent interview with SFX’s Jack Shepherd, Kripke clarified a key point.
