How Black Noir Is Alive In The Boys Season 4 (There’s 1 Simple Explanation)

Black Noir appears to have returned from the dead in The Boys season 4’s trailer, but there is a simpler explanation for this twist. Black Noir is a major player in both The Boys comics and their TV show adaptation, but the character’s arc is very different in these two incarnations. In the comics, Black Noir is arguably a bigger antagonist than Homelander himself as he turns out to be responsible for inciting Billy Butcher’s entire rampage against supes. In the TV series, he is much less unambiguously villainous. While he is a loyal companion to the megalomaniacal Homelander, the show’s version of Noir is conflicted about the nature of his work for Vought.