'The Boys' is about to get 'Supernatural': Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins join final season

Turns retired a “Supernatural” reunion is happening aft each — conscionable for a wholly antithetic series.

Amazon Prime Video’s deed (anti-) superhero bid “The Boys” revealed Wednesday it volition reunite “Supernatural” alumni Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins with co-star Jensen Ackles for its 5th and last season. The newest play besides volition reunite the “Supernatural” trio with showrunner Eric Kripke, who created the deed CW series.

Collins and Padalecki volition marque impermanent appearances, Prime Video confirmed without divulging details astir their characters. The streamer besides confirmed that the 2 actors volition stock surface clip with Ackles. “Supernatural” aired connected the CW from 2005 to 2020 and starred Ackles and Padalecki arsenic demon-fighting brothers Dean Winchester and Sam Winchester, respectively. The bid besides starred Collins arsenic angel Castiel, who accompanies the Winchesters connected their exorcisms.

Ackles joined the formed of “The Boys” for its 3rd play successful 2020. He plays Soldier Boy, an unhinged supe who was erstwhile a mighty plus successful the titular gang’s combat against the sadistic supe-remacist Homelander (Antony Starr).

Ackles, Padalecki and Collins each teased the “Supernatural” reunion successful an Instagram video for the series’ account. “We got enactment to do,” Ackles and Padalecki accidental successful abstracted snippets. In the inheritance of his video, Padalecki shows disconnected the Winchesters’ signature Chevy Impala.

“What are we doing?”Collins asks astatine the extremity of the video.

Kripke besides shared the video to his Instagram and mulled: “WhatGrossThingsAmIGonnaMakeJaredAndMishaDo?” For readers unfamiliar with “The Boys,” the Prime Video bid has earned rather the estimation for its gory acheronian humor; deliberation exploding genitalia and man-eating, flying sheep. “The Boys” besides has earned praise for its not-so subtle critiques of media and governmental extremism.

“There a batch of radical who astir apt initially thought a amusement called ‘The Boys’ astir atrocious superheroes won’t truly person thing for me,” Vernon Sanders, caput of tv astatine Amazon MGM Studio, told The Times successful 2024. “And arsenic they support proceeding astir it, they springiness it a changeable and recognize however affluent and analyzable it is.”

“The Boys” besides stars Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Erin Moriarty, Karen Fukuhara, Laz Alonso and Tomer Capone. Prime Video has yet to uncover the premiere day for the series’ last season.