The Boys: Our Biggest Burning Questions After the Season 5 Teaser Trailer

If you’re already jonesing for different hole of The Boys present that the spinoff bid Gen V conscionable wrapped Season 2, you’re successful luck. Prime Video conscionable dropped the archetypal teaser trailer for The Boys Season 5 astatine CCXP Brazil. In the process, we’ve gotten our archetypal glimpse of a caller satellite bid wherever Antony Starr’s Homelander genuinely reigns supreme.

As immoderate bully teaser should, this footage raises much questions than it answers astir the caller season. So portion we hold for the May 2026 premiere, let’s interruption down the biggest burning questions surrounding the 5th and last play of The Boys.

Is the Team Really United This Time?

Season 4 ended connected a peculiarly acheronian enactment for our heroes. Now that the caller US President has pledged loyalty to Homelander, Vought’s superhuman figurehead is efficaciously successful complaint of the astir almighty federation connected Earth. Most of the squad has been captured by Vought and thrown into 1 of the company’s “Freedom Camps.” Erin Moriarty’s Starlight is present a fugitive, near to equine a hopeless absorption connected her own. And, arsenic ever, Karl Urban’s Billy Butcher remains the chaotic card. He’s got a deadly array of caller powers and a willingness to usage each limb astatine his disposal to yet bring down Homelander.

The teaser makes it wide that this is fundamentally the presumption quo heading into the caller season. However, it besides doesn’t creation astir the information that it’s lone going to beryllium a substance of clip earlier Starlight rescues her comrades and the squad gets backmost together. Even Butcher is hooking up with his aged friends again, contempt Season 4’s ending making it look similar helium was going to beryllium a chaotic escaped agent.

The question is however agelong this unity tin really last. The amusement has ever focused a large woody connected the hostility betwixt Butcher and his teammates. He’s consenting to spell to extremes they won’t successful the sanction of punishing Vought. That surely seems to beryllium the lawsuit with Season 5, arsenic we cognize Butcher is preparing to unleash a Thomas Godolkin-designed supe-killing microorganism connected the world. How agelong until the squad fractures again?

It’s an particularly pointed question successful the last play of the series, fixed however the comic ended. We won’t get into spoilers here, but arsenic overmuch arsenic Homelander is the main antagonist of some versions, the comic truly comes down to the rivalry betwixt Butcher and Hughie successful the end. Can this squad halt Vought and Homelander and inactive clasp their souls successful the process? Or is Butcher’s mode present a necessity successful this acheronian caller era?

Where Are the Gen V Characters?

Gen V Season 2 surely wrapped with a large twist, arsenic Jaz Sinclair’s Marie Moreau and her Godolkin University classmates coiled up gathering with Starlight and Jesse L. Usher’s A-Train and joining their fledgling absorption movement. It’s unclear whether Gen V has a aboriginal connected Prime Video, but it is harmless to accidental that these characters person a portion to play successful the last play of The Boys.

Unfortunately, the teaser doesn’t springiness america immoderate denotation of what that relation mightiness be. Marie and her friends are wholly MIA successful this footage. Does that mean we should expect them to play much of a supporting relation successful Season 5? Or is Kripke simply keeping his cards adjacent to the vest successful that regard?

“They’re trying to equine a existent push, but they’re besides outgunned, outmanned," Kripke told THR. "You’re successful an full state that has drunk Homelander’s Kool-Aid. They’re outmatched by the size of the hundreds of superheroes that are successful each municipality crossed the country, who person been fixed authorization implicit the police. So it truly is simply a existent underground absorption against a fascist government, which decidedly has nary examination oregon parallel to thing going connected anyplace successful the world.”

We bash expect Marie herself to beryllium an important fig successful Season 5, arsenic she’s efficaciously the champion limb the absorption has against Vought. She whitethorn beryllium the lone idiosyncratic connected Earth too Jensen Ackles’ Soldier Boy with the powerfulness to termination Homelander.One mode oregon another, we fishy that powerfulness volition beryllium enactment to the test.

Who Is Jared Padalecki Playing?

Supernatural fans are successful for a existent dainty successful Season 5, arsenic Kripke has orchestrated a full-fledged reunion of the beloved fearfulness series. Not lone is Ackles reprising his relation arsenic Soldier Boy, but the different Winchester brother, Jared Padalecki, is joining the cast. And if that weren’t enough, Misha Collins is besides joining the bid astatine immoderate constituent successful Season 5.

Unfortunately, we inactive don’t cognize the individuality of Padalecki’s quality aft watching the teaser. We lone spot him look successful a azygous changeable alongside Soldier Boy and Homelander, suggesting he’s playing a villain. So who is he? What transportation does helium person to this fearsome superhero family? Is helium erstwhile again playing the member of Ackles’ character, oregon idiosyncratic other entirely?

And what astir Collins’ character? We don’t spot him astatine each successful the caller teaser. We tin lone anticipation the amusement contrives immoderate mode of getting each 3 actors unneurotic on-screen for astatine slightest 1 scene.

What’s Sister Sage Up to Now?

Susan Heyward’s Sister Sage has easy been 1 of the champion additions to The Boys beingness successful caller years. She’s the smartest pistillate successful the world, and we saw impervious of that successful Season 4 erstwhile she managed to orchestrate Homelander’s emergence to the apical of the governmental nutrient chain. For Sage, it was thing much than an intelligence workout to interruption up an beingness dominated by boredom.

Sage besides coiled up playing a important relation successful Gen V Season 2, wherever she likewise helped Ethan Slater’s Thomas Godolkin manipulate his mode backmost to afloat health. In that case, Sage was motivated by much idiosyncratic desires, arsenic she and Godolkin were lovers. But, ultimately, Sage was forced to assistance sabotage Godolkin’s program aft it became wide helium wasn’t contented to simply bask his newfound freedom.

So what motivates Sage now? What does she want? How does she acceptable into Homelander’s regime? Is it imaginable that she regrets the chaos she helped wreak and volition commencement moving against Homelander? Or is she afloat connected board? If the latter, she mightiness good beryllium the astir unsafe force Annie and her squad person to look successful Season 5.

Who Is Homelander Punching?

The Season 5 teaser trailer is dominated by a recurring country of Homelander viciously, methodically punching an enemy. That raises the evident question - who is helium punching? Our archetypal thought would beryllium Butcher, but let’s not hide conscionable however ridiculously beardown Homelander is. For immoderate hostile to withstand aggregate blows, they would person to beryllium precise beardown themselves. Do Butcher’s caller powers widen that far?

There are surely different options. Homelander could beryllium warring beloved aged Dad, beating Soldier Boy to a bloody pulp. It could beryllium different of his superhero “allies,” arsenic Homelander is decidedly mercurial astatine the champion of times. All we tin accidental for definite is that helium seems to beryllium peculiarly invested successful this one-sided battle. We can’t hold until Season 5 drops truthful we tin find retired who the unlucky idiosyncratic is connected the receiving extremity of Homelander’s mighty fist.

The Boys Season 2 volition premiere connected Prime Video connected April 8, 2026, culminating successful the bid finale connected May 20.

There's much to travel from The Boys beingness aft Season 5 ends, of course. While Gen V Season 3 remains up successful the air, prequel spinoff, Vought Rising, is confirmed. Vought Rising is said to research the aboriginal days of The Boys’ nefarious mega corporation, Vought International. And past there's The Boys: Mexico, enforcement produced by Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal and written by Blue Beetle scribe Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer.

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