Spoilers below for anyone who hasn’t yet streamed The Boys ’ Season 4 finale with an Amazon Prime subscription , so be warned! Life is now a lot more complicated for quite a few characters, both Supes and normies, going into The Boys Season 5 . The Season 4 finale left things extremely ominous for Butcher’s intentions with Ryan and the virus, while Ashley faced a Compound V-induced cliffhanger , and most of the protagonists were rounded up under the country’s new martial law status. Someone who didn’t get the short and tragic end of the plotline stick was Black Noir, who achieved his biggest breakthrough to becoming his namesake Supe: the murder-boner.
Black Noir actor Nathan Mitchell, who’s been under the mask and muscled-up costume for all four seasons, spoke with CinemaBlend going into Season 4’s swan song. He told me about finally getting to talk to other characters , and shared his thoughts on my puppet-related Gen V theory , and also shared his thoughts on just how morally corrupted the New Noir is by the time all of Season 4’s blood has spilled. As he put it: The way I see him, it's like he's a good bad guy, you know? He doesn't wanna kill people to, like, kill people.
He just has to for his job, right? So he's like, 'I gotta commit to my role. I gotta kill you. It's just.
..I'm sorry.
' And so there's obviously a corruption in that, but I think that it's more out of necessity. It's like, 'Ah, I didn't know this was what I was signing up for, but I'm here.