“To actually have lasers shooting out of your eyeballs, it was a double edged sword,” Urban explains. “It came at a high cost to use these super powers for Butcher. He pays a high price for it.” It’s an ironic turn of fate for a character who’s normally caught up in making the supes pay a high price of their own. Urban says it plays into the ethos that showrunner Eric Kripke has already established for the show, though, adding, “I think that is very in line with Kripke’s motto of ‘You make the right choice, you get rewarded. You make the wrong choice and you get punished.'”

Even if the episodes we’ve seen mark the end of Butcher’s run with Temp V, the new season of “The Boys” still has plenty more messed-up stuff in store. “Supernatural” star Jensen Ackles has already made his debut as World War II-era supe Soldier Boy. Meanwhile, Kripke has teased that the new season will include an adaptation of one of the comic books’ most extreme plotlines, titled “Herogasm.”

The first three episodes of “The Boys” season 3 are available on Prime Video, with new episodes each Friday.