Season 5 of The Boys will conclude Eric Kripke‘s flagship superhero sequence in a long-known plan for the present.
Followers attending the Gen V panel at Comedian-Con 2025 received a sneak peak at footage of the fifth and last season that performed within the room. Homelander (Antony Starr), now the de facto chief of America, stood in a crowded room proclaiming that the nation now underneath his management will probably be a “safer, God-fearing nation.” A really fast have a look at Jared Padalecki, who had beforehand revealed that he would seem in Season 5, was proven as nicely.
For every part we learn about The Boys Season 5, learn on under:
When will The Boys Season 5 come out?
In an interview from Season 4’s launch, showrunner Eric Kripke hinted that manufacturing on Season 5 would take not less than two years earlier than the ultimate product is full, so the earliest that the final season may come out can be in the midst of 2026.
Kripke instructed Deadline that the Season 5 author’s room had convened a month or 5 weeks earlier than the launch of Season 4, which was June 13.
“Often from about whenever you begin the writers room, and we began like a couple of month in the past, 5 weeks in the past, to when usually you hit the air, it’s about two years and alter,” he instructed Deadline. “I do know the place I would like it to finish up, however we spent the primary in all probability 4 weeks of the room simply speaking about like total mythology and the place we wish the story to go.”
Who will probably be in The Boys Season 5?
The established forged of the sequence contains Karl City, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capone, Karen Fukuhara, Colby Minifie, and Cameron Crovetti. Season 4 welcomed Susan Heyward, Valorie Curry, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan with cameos from Tilda Swinton and Will Ferrell.
As introduced at Comedian-Con on 2024 July 26, Jensen Ackles’ Soldier Boy will return to Season 5 as a sequence common.
(L-R) Antony Starr (Homelander), Claudia Doumit (Victoria Neuman)
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Claudia Doumit, who performed Vice President-elect Victoria Neuman for 3 seasons on the present, has confirmed her character’s dying, although with The Boys, there are inventive methods to get round such issues.
Daveed Diggs has additionally joined the present for the fifth and last season. Stranger Issues alum Mason Dye has additionally been forged in a visitor function for the fifth season — Bombsight. Dye portrayed Jason Carver within the fourth season of the supernatural Netflix Tentpole present.
Bombsight was beforehand talked about on The Boys because the third oldest recognized supe in historical past who was energetic within the ’50s.
Nobody is confirming however in line with sources, Bombsight is being launched on the The Boys earlier than migrating to the upcoming prequel spinoff sequence Vought Rising, with Dye poised to develop into a sequence common reverse Jensen Ackles and Aya Money.
“I feel it’s a reasonably everlasting dying,” she instructed Deadline tied to the Season 4 finale. The Australian actress additionally nodded to her forged members who will proceed the present’s arc.
“It’s time for Neuman’s story to be over. I totally consider that, as a result of you could have so many cool characters, that you need to wrap up their tales, and also you solely have one season left to do it. Truly, you solely have eight episodes left to do it,” she stated. “You wish to give them as a lot story time as these characters, like Butcher, Annie (Starlight) deserve. Individuals have been watching these cool characters for 4 seasons now, so they need to be the main focus within the last season.
Jared Padalecki, who labored with Eric Kripke on Supernatural, has already accepted the attainable invitation to work on Season 5 of The Boys.
“We’ve got talked [about a role]. I feel at this level in my performing life, I solely wish to work on initiatives that I actually care about or with those who I actually care about, and clearly Eric and I are indelibly related endlessly,” Padalecki instructed Deadline. “I am keen on him. I am keen on his humor. I am keen on him as an individual, his storytelling. So I can’t wait. I don’t assume [Season 5] movies till subsequent yr, however I will probably be prepared when he makes the telephone name. I’ll simply say ‘Okay, when am I flying out?’”
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Padalecki’s Supernatural costar Misha Collins is additionally set to seem in Season 5.
Is Season 5 the final season of The Boys?
Season 5 is the final season of the flagship sequence. Eric Kripke confirmed that this was his plan from the start.
Kripke instructed Deadline that he has the story’s finale ending in thoughts and easy methods to get there in broad strokes,
“I do know that second the place the title card comes up and it says six months later, and also you see the place everyone is,” he stated. “I do know that. I can actually write the final 10 pages of this story proper now.”
Are there extra seasons of Gen V?
Gen V is a by-product present of The Boys which was renewed for a second season, so the world will proceed there. The trailer for Season 2 debuted at Comedian-Con 2025, and Ethan Slater’s casting as Dr. Thomas Godolkin, founder and namesake of the college centered in Gen V was revealed.
Set at America’s solely faculty completely for young-adult superheroes, run by Vought Worldwide, the spinoff explores the lives of hormonal, aggressive Supes as they put their bodily, sexual and ethical boundaries to the check, competing for the varsity’s prime rating.
Manufacturing on the present’s second season has been delayed within the wake of the dying of star Likelihood Perdomo. Producers confirmed in a press release that they won’t recast Perdomo’s function of Andre Anderson after the actor’s premature dying in March.
Does The Boys produce other spinoff reveals?
At Comedian-Con 2024, Jensen Ackles attended the panel for The Boys on Friday July 26 to announce a spinoff of The Boys by which he’ll reprise the function of Soldier Boy alongside Aya Money, who performs Stormfront. Paul Grellong, govt producer on The Boys will function showrunner and govt producer of the brand new present, Vought Rising.
A derivative sequence, The Boys: Mexico, has additionally been introduced. The offshoot will hail from Blue Beetle author Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer with Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal set to govt produce. Luna and Bernal are additionally contemplating showing in smaller roles within the sequence. A search is presently underway for a co-showrunner to hitch creator, author and govt producer Dunnet-Alcocer, who’s now engaged on the script.
Will Eric Kripke be concerned in The Boys spinoffs?
Kripke hopes to be concerned within the growth of the world, however not as a showrunner.
“For these reveals, I received’t be the day-to-day showrunner,” he instructed Deadline. “I’ll give notes on scripts, and assist them break story once they want me, however not the 24/7 within the grind.”
