The X-Ray trivia feature on Prime Video showcases obscure details and behind-the-scenes information from all four seasons of The Boys.
X-Ray trivia covers shocking moments like Splinter’s attitude of compromise in Season 4.
The Boys create a richly detailed parallel universe that is rife with allusions, easter eggs, and comic book links.
From the show’s clever use of social media promotion to its political and pop cultural allusions, the creators of The Boys have always been meticulous with the little things. Even while the satire on the program may have been less subtle in subsequent seasons, there are still a lot of shrewd nuances that Prime Video’s X-Ray function highlights that viewers would miss when viewing the show. With the help of IMDb, X-Ray gives users access to a wealth of information about the TV series and/or movies they’re watching, including cast bios, song titles, and tidbits of extra knowledge. For The Boys, this is the case going all the way back to Season 1, and the X-Ray trivia section identifies references to the comics and provides succinct explanations of how specific scenes were recorded, as well as little particulars you could have overlooked.
Watchers have recently been drawing attention to a certain piece of information concerning Rob Benedict, the actor who plays Splinter in Season 4, Episode 2, which, to put it politely, depicts him in a precarious situation. If you haven’t used the X-Ray function much, it’s worth looking over the past seasons’ and episodes’ trivia sections to get a better understanding of all the preparation and thought that goes into The Boys behind the scenes.
X-Ray Trivia on Prime Video Illuminates a Few of ‘The Boys’ Most Startling Episodes
The curiosity to see what type of stunning, gory, violent action The Boys can pull off next is part of what draws viewers in. Though Season 4 hasn’t held back thus far, it will be difficult to top “Herogasm,” from Season 3. When the Boys go to TruthCon in Episode 2 in order to spy on Susan Heyward’s character Sister Sage, they find that she’s trying to get Firecracker (Valorie Curry) to join The Seven. One of Firecracker’s closest friends and biggest admirers is Splinter (Benedict), a superhuman who has the ability to duplicate himself. Upon breaking into a locker room at the convention center, Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) and Frenchie (Tomer Capone) discover Splinter indulging in a picture of Firecracker, utilizing several of his copies to Construct a human centipede and add realistic slurping noises for a truly uncomfortable experience.
The X-Ray information that goes with this unsettling scenario says, “We should all be reminded that actor Rob Benedict attended Northwestern University to study Shakespeare. We are not required by contract to fulfill this request. This is only an act of kindness.” Benedict has been in show business for decades, and while being known as “the human centipede guy from The Boys” is probably not how he would want to be remembered, the people who created the Prime Video X-Ray feature did him the favor of educating fans about his extensive resume.
Back in Season 2, it really was Karl Urban driving that speedboat across the turbulent waters of Lake Ontario, and the massive whale commandeered by The Deep (Chace Crawford) that Butcher rams into was 56 feet long and weighed approximately 3,500 pounds. The X-Ray feature also offers behind-the-scenes information about some of the other jaw-dropping moments throughout the series, like Season 3’s Herogasm, which took tremendous planning and five days of shooting to pull off. It credits stunt coordinator John Koyama, who later makes an appearance in Season 4 as Koy, the stuntman Ryan (Cameron Crovetti) accidentally kills by launching him into the side of a building a bit too hard Five puppeteers controlled the internal organs and movements of the soft foam skin that was covered in silicon. This is the kind of information that you might be overlooking!
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Throughout the series, there are many overt allusions to actual political figures, motion pictures, and online phenomena; however, The Boys’ worldbuilding is enhanced by perhaps just as many subtle yet thoughtful details. Throughout the episodes, the X-Ray trivia function highlights Easter eggs, allusions to the comics, and ties to the spin-off series Gen V that you might have missed.
Certain episode names, such as “The Bloody Doors Off,” are taken straight out of the graphic novels. The backstories of superheroes, such as Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles), who is trapped in the past, frequently reference a different interpretation of American history. He first makes the decision to make up for all the drinking and smoking he has missed since he “died” in 1984 when the Boys wake him from his cryogenic slumber in Season 3. In the Season 3 conclusion, Soldier Boy comes in and pours a can of Coca-Cola into a glass of milk after a night of binge drinking. Although this seems like an odd choice of beverage for an odd man, as the X-Ray trivia shows, this mixture was apparently used as a hangover remedy as early as the 1930s; it was originally served in 1938 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in New York City, which seems like just the kind of establishment that Soldier Boy would have visited back in the day.
The Boys goes to tremendous measures to fully engross viewers in its superhero-run alternate reality of American society. Vought International even has a YouTube account, and the episode descriptions are written like PSAs or product commercials for Vought. The X-Ray trivia defies convention by providing us viewers with the strange and entertaining facts we crave as well as an inside look into the behind-the-scenes operations of some of the most outrageous TV moments this year.
New episodes of The Boys Season 4 premiere every week on Prime Video in the United States.