'Big Stuff's Gonna Happen' — The Boys Season 5 Finally Has a Release Date and a Teaser Trailer

The Boys Season 5 yet has a merchandise day arsenic good arsenic the long-awaited teaser trailer for the 5th and last season.

Season 5 kicks disconnected connected April 8, 2026 connected Prime Video, showrunner and enforcement shaper Eric Kripke announced astatine CCXP Brazil, with 2 episodes, followed by a caller occurrence each week. The bid finale has a merchandise day of May 20, 2026, marking the extremity of The Boys for good.

The trailer, below, revolves astir Karl Urban’s Butcher rallying the troops arsenic The Boys equine a fightback against Homelander, played by Antony Starr. Everyone seems up for it, though it precise overmuch looks similar not everyone volition marque it retired of the extremity of Season 5 alive. Keep an oculus retired for Jensen Ackles‘ Soldier Boy, who is backmost connected crystal and watched implicit by Homelander. Speaking of Homelander, we spot him bushed someone, oregon something, to a bloody pulp. A glimpse astatine a large sanction quality death, perhaps?

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Here’s the authoritative blurb connected The Boys Season 5:

In the 5th and last season, it’s Homelander’s world, wholly taxable to his erratic, egomaniacal whims. Hughie, Mother’s Milk, and Frenchie are imprisoned successful a “Freedom Camp.” Annie struggles to equine a absorption against the overwhelming Supe force. Kimiko is obscurity to beryllium found. But erstwhile Butcher reappears, acceptable and consenting to usage a microorganism that volition hitch each Supes disconnected the map, helium sets successful question a concatenation of events that volition everlastingly alteration the satellite and everyone successful it. It’s the climax, people. Big stuff’s gonna happen.

Season 5 not lone follows connected from the extremity of Season 4, but Season 2 of spinoff Gen V. Fans were near wondering however the incredibly almighty Marie from Gen V mightiness fare successful a showdown with overpowered The Boys supervillain Homelander. Kripke has said successful the past, however, that fans shouldn’t expect Marie to look successful The Boys Season 5 arsenic a Captain Marvel-style deus ex machina who kicks Homelander’s ass. That’s due to the fact that Marie inactive hasn’t mastered her powers, oregon arsenic Kripke has enactment it successful a fig of Gen V Season 2 finale spoiler interviews, she’s not Neo astatine the extremity of The Matrix.

Who volition beryllium near lasting astatine the extremity of The Boys Season 5? Image credit: Prime Video.

For a overmuch deeper dive connected each this, cheque retired IGN’s Gen V Season 2 Ending Explained: How It Sets Up the Final Season of The Boys article, but to summarize, Marie tin power blood, which perchance makes her much almighty adjacent than Homelander. Homelander, for the uninitiated, is simply a benignant of evil Superman, a quality truthful overpowered that fewer rivals situation question his word. But Marie Moreau, played by Jaz Sinclair, has the imaginable to termination him owed to her quality to bid and weaponize blood.

The large question, of course, is whether Homelander really dies successful The Boys Season 5. Kripke wouldn’t springiness that away, of course, but did archer THR that Billy Butcher is “front of that line” erstwhile it comes to characters wanting to instrumentality Homelander out. But past there’s the likes of Stan Edgar, the aforementioned Marie, Annie, and Huey who would nary uncertainty each similar a piece.

Also successful that interview, Kripke said Season 5 would spot “this progressive and increasing absorption led by Starlight that A-Train is an important portion of. They’re truly trying to instrumentality the combat backmost to Homelander and this benignant of fascist government.”

“They’re trying to equine a existent push, but they’re besides outgunned, outmanned," helium continued. "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.”

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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