Everything we know about The Boys season 5

They promised to fight until they hit a “scorched Earth” outcome and with The Boys season 5 confirmed as the show’s grand finale, the scene has been set for Homelander and Billy Butcher’s ultimate showdown.

Since its debut in 2019, The Boys has emerged as one of Prime Video’s most popular series, largely thanks to its timely storylines and die-hard dedication to shocking audiences. In fact, across its four seasons, this show about humanity’s last line of defence against a race of super-powered stars with zero sense of responsibility has given us some of the most disturbing imagery ever to grace our precious tellies.

Luckily for us, showrunner Erik Kripke shows no signs of letting up. So with the recent arrival of season four and a fifth on the way, here’s everything we know about The Boys’ last dance.

When will The Boys season 5 be released?

The Boys season 5 has been confirmed and is currently in the works but we don’t know when it’ll make its superhero landing on Prime Video.

With season 4 only recently released, it’ll likely be a year or more before new episodes are ready for our hungry eyeballs. However, as soon as we get word of the show’s arrival, you’ll find all the details you need right here.

Is there a trailer for The Boys season 5?

There’s no trailer for The Boys season 5 yet. Cameras on the show are yet to roll, mainly due to the fact that season 4 has only just dropped.

Thankfully, that gives us plenty of time to rewatch the show’s previous series — and its super-high-school-set spin-off Gen V — so when The Boys season 5 does arrive, we’re clued up and ready.

What will happen in The Boys season 5?

After playing coy and suggesting that he wasn’t sure how long The Boys could potentially run for, series showrunner Kripke confirmed that season 5 would be its last just days before season 4 arrived on Prime Video.

Kripke wrote on X: “Season 5 will be the Final Season! Always my plan, I just had to be cagey till I got the final OK from Vought. Thrilled to bring the story to a gory, epic, moist climax.”

The post was accompanied by a script page of season 4’s final scene. All key information had been blanked out apart from the final line which read: “See you for our final season, motherf*ckers!”

​​During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter shortly after this announcement was made, Kripke confirmed that the plan had always been to end the show after five seasons — specifically wrapping up Homelander and Billy Butcher's storyline.

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Butcher is the leader of The Boys, a group hired by the government to keep irresponsible superheroes - or Super as they're known here — under control. The most powerful of all the Supes is Homelander, an unstoppable Superman with a fractured psyche who became Butcher's number one target after he abused his former wife.

Their tangled relationship became more complex following the arrival of Homelander's son and in recent episodes, he's given Trump a run for his money in regards to out-of-control public behaviour.

“The show is a serialised story that is about Butcher and Homelander slowly crashing into each other, and the show doesn’t work without either of those,” Kripke explained. “So, you just can’t keep that going on forever, you have to let them smash into each other.”

While Homelander and Butcher’s story arc is set to soon come to a close, Kripke didn’t rule out other spin-off shows appearing, much like last year’s Gen V which chronicled a batch of Supes-in-training on a super-powered campus.

“Hopefully Gen V will continue,” said Kripke. “It’s just this particular story, the Butcher vs. Homelander story, that needs to come to a close. But I think this universe is a big one, and I think there’s room for other stories and other corners of it.”

While plot details for The Boys season 5 are still locked away tighter than Homeland’s stash of bottled breast milk, the team behind the show insist they have an endpoint in mind.

”I know in a rough way,“ says Kripke of the show’s conclusion. ”We very intentionally leave a lot of space in there for the writers to surprise me and to take a left turn if we feel like it. I don’t totally know how we’re going to get there, but I know the destination.”

Who will be in The Boys season 5 cast?

A confirmed cast list for The Boys season 5 has yet to arrive but there are some names that feel all-but guaranteed. Among those are Antony Starr’s Homelander and Karl Urban’s Butcher, the punch-happy pair at the centre of the show’s drama.

Jack Quaid’s Hughie Campbell is also likely to be back, alongside Las Alonso’s Mother’s Milk, Tomer Capone’s Frenchie and Karen Fukuhara’s Kimiko — AKA the remainder of the team collectively known as The Boys.

Erin Moriarty may also be back as Annie January, AKA Starlight, a Supe we’ve followed since episode one who has since made some stark discoveries about the super-powered community. Season 4 sees her join forces with The Boys, so it’ll be interesting to see how that pans out.

Elsewhere, it’s still unclear who might pop-up in The Boys’ final season. In addition to other cast regulars, Kripke and his team aren’t afraid of adding in brand new Supes — or the odd big-name cameo — which could mean some new faces land on the scene for the show’s grand finale.

The Boys season 5 is coming soon to Prime Video.