The Boys season 5: everything we know so far about the popular Prime Video show's final entry

The Boys season 5's release date draws ever nearer. Sure, we don't actually know when the hit Prime Video show will return for its final chapter, but it's slated to arrive sometime in 2026, so the countdown is on to its premiere.

Before The Boys' final season makes its bow, there's lots for you to read about it. In this guide, you'll find plenty of information on one of the best Prime Video shows' last season, including its confirmed cast, story specifics, and where Amazon's franchise could go after it ends.

Full spoilers follow for The Boys season 4 and Gen V season 2. You have been warned.

The Boys season 5 release date: what we know

The Boys season 5 doesn't have a release date yet. However, Amazon confirmed the popular Prime Video show's fifth and final season in May 2024 and, after a lengthy shoot, principal photography wrapped in July 2025. As showrunner Eric Kripke revealed in the above Instagram post, season 5 is "coming (reasonably) soon", too.

Right now, Amazon has only confirmed (via X/Twitter) that it'll arrive sometime in 2026. My best guess? It'll arrive next May or June, which is when all but one new season of The Boys have premiered on one of the world's best streaming services. Hopefully, we'll get an actual release date in the near future.

The Boys season 5 trailer: is there one?

Nope. I don't expect to see a trailer for The Boys season 5 until early 2026, too. Once one is released, I'll update this section.

The Boys season 5 cast: confirmed and rumored

Major spoilers follow for The Boys season 4.

Based on how The Boys season 4 and Gen V season 2 ended, plus cast additions that have been announced for the show's final entry, here's who I expect to see this season:

• Karl Urban as William 'Billy' Butcher
• Jack Quaid as Hugh 'Hughie' Campbell
• Antony Starr as Homelander
• Erin Moriarty as Annie January/Starlight
• Laz Alonso as Marvin Milk/Mother's Milk
• Jessie T Usher as Reggie Franklin/A-Train
• Chace Crawford as Kevin Moskowitz/The Deep
• Tomer Capone as Serge/Frenchie
• Karen Fukuhara as Kimiko Miyashiro
• Nathan Mitchell as Black Noir 2.0
• Colby Minifie as Ashley Barrett
• Cameron Crovetti as Ryan Butcher
• Susan Heyward as Jessica Bradley/Sister Sage
• Valorie Curry as Misty Gray/Firecracker
• Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy
• Jaz Sinclair as Marie Moreau
• Lizze Broadway as Emma Meyers
• London Thor and Derek Luh as Jordan Li
• Maddie Phillips as Cate Dunlap
• Asa Germann as Sam Riordan
• Keeya King as Annabeth Moreau
• Giancarlo Esposito as Stan Edgar
• Mason Dye as Bombsight
• Jared Padalecki as TBC
• Misha Collins as TBC
• Daveed Diggs as TBC

Everyone except the final four actors have appeared in The Boys and/or Gen V.

Of that quartet, the headline news is that Prime Video has put a Supernatural spin on The Boys season 5 cast with the additions of Padalecki and Collins. They've reunited with Kripke, who was Supernatural's showrunner, and fellow Supernatural alumnus Jensen Ackles. The pair's roles in proceedings are yet to be publicly revealed.

Elsewhere, Diggs (Snowpiercer, Hamilton) has signed on in an undisclosed role (per X/Twitter) and Dye (Stranger Things, Finding Carter) is on board as a new Supe called Bombsight (again, via X/Twitter). The latter is also involved in The Boys' next spin-off Vought Rising, but more on that later.

The above list isn't an exhaustive one, either. Shantel VanShanten, who's portrayed Becca Butcher throughout the show, could feature as the imaginary angel on Billy's shoulder if he ever stops listening to the devilish mirage that is Morgan's Kessler.

Two other individuals who won't be back are Laila Robins' Grace Mallory and Claudia Doumit's Victoria Neuman. They were killed by Ryan and Billy respectively in last season's finale. Unless they cameo in flashback sequences or as hallucinatory figures, we've seen the last of them.

The Boys season 5 story speculation

Full spoilers follow for The Boys season 4 and Gen V season 2.

The Boys season 5 doesn't have an official plot synopsis yet.

However, last season's finale and what happened in Gen V's latest chapter have given us some big clues about where things are heading. You can read about the biggest spoilers in the latest episode of each show, plus how they set up this season's story, by checking out my articles explaining The Boys season 4's ending and Gen V season 2's finale.

Other details about season 5 have emerged over the past 12 months, too. For one, Kripke has confirmed (via The Wrap) that The Boys 5 will take place six months after Gen V season 2 episode 8. He's also revealed the title for season 5 episode 1, which you can view above.

Elsewhere, The Boys' X/Twitter account has teased other storylines that'll be covered in season 5. That includes the return of Jensen Ackles' Soldier Boy and further exploration of his strained father-son dynamic with Homelander.

Furthermore, Kripke told LadBible that he always envisaged ending The Boys after five seasons, especially after last season's emotionally deflating finale. "I think... [it] really shows you that we've been planning five years all along, because there's no way a show goes one more season after the events of that finale", he said. "As far as we're concerned, it's our show's version of the apocalypse.

"I always look at it as of the five seasons," Kripke contined. "we're kind of at that point, that's sort of the end of the second act of a movie where everyone's really at their low point, and they've all faced their own personal demons. Now, they need to really come together in the fifth season and save the world."

As for how The Boys' story will end, Kripke is well aware of the perils of not giving the mainline show the send-off that it deserves.

"It’s so hard to land that plane, much less we’re landing eight different planes [with the storylines we need to tie up]," he told Collider. "I am appropriately respectful and have an appropriate amount of trepidation for how hard that job is. I’m not walking into it cocky at all. I’m walking into it like 'Okay, let’s second and triple guess every single decision because we really wanna land this plane'... I’ve got to make sure I stick that moment.”

Has Prime Video announced The Boys season 6 yet?

If it wasn't abundantly clear by now, there won't be a sixth season because Amazon's live-action adaptation of The Boys will end after five installments.

That doesn't mean that Prime Video's retelling of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's graphic novel namesake will stop here. Indeed, as the above X/Twitter post revealed last July, a prequel spin-off called Vought Rising is on the way, albeit no release date has been announced yet.

Set in the 1950s, the murder mystery-style series will explore the origins of the Supe-developing corporation Vought Inc. and the not-so-humble beginnings of Ackles' Soldier Boy. Stormfront, who was played by Aya Cash in The Boys season 2, will also feature heavily throughout. Mason Dye's Bombsight, who'll appear in The Boys season 5, is also on board. Two new Supes – Private Angel and Torpedo, who'll played by Elizabeth Posey and Will Hochman – round out its primary cast.

Meanwhile, there were rumors that another The Boys spin-off show was in the works, which involves Star Wars: Andor's lead Diego Luna as an executive producer and is based in Mexico. Chatting to Collider at the Gen V season 2 premiere, Kripke said its pilot is being developed, but there's no guarantee it'll receive a full season ordeer.

Speaking to Collider in November 2022, The Boys executive producer Seth Rogen also expressed his wish to make a second season of animated anthology spin-off The Boys Presents: Diabolical. However, per The Wrap, Kripke confirmed that, despite the creative team's best efforts, another installment wasn't in the pipeline.

Lastly, Gen V could return for a third season, but two main factors dictate whether it will: one, how The Boys ends, and two, whether there's audience appetite for another chapter.

Where the latter is concerned, Kripke told The Wrap there's a "plan" for another season of Gen V set in a post-The Boys season 5 world, but people needed to tune into Gen V season 2 to justify a follow-up. Until audience analytics powerhouse Nielsen publishes its third-party data on how well Gen V's second season performed, we won't know if Gen V season 3 will be greenlit.

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