- Will be the hit series' final installment
- Releasing on Prime Video in April
- First trailer unveiled in December 2025
- Main cast set to return
- New cast additions announced in late 2024 and early 2025
- Picks up after The Boys season 4 and Gen V season 2
- A prequel spin-off is in development
- No information on how it could set up future projects
It's official: The Boys season 5 will be with us on April 8. And, with the hugely successful Prime Video show drawing to a close after its fifth installment, it'll be up to the main series' various spin-off projects to keep The Boys franchise going once it ends.
Ahead of its grand finale, you'll want to know more about the satirical superhero show's last entry. With that in mind, I've compiled the biggest and latest news on The Boys 5 in this guide. That way, you can learn more about its confirmed cast, story details, and the franchise's future on Amazon's streaming platform.
Full spoilers follow for The Boys season 4 and Gen V season 2. You have been warned.
The Boys season 5 release date
Scorched earth.Shock and awe.Blood and bone. pic.twitter.com/zdAFQIoBN8December 3, 2025
As I mentioned above, The Boys' final hurrah will premiere worldwide on Wednesday, April 8. Its launch date was revealed alongside The Boys season 5's first trailer, which we'll discuss later, in December 2025 and came just three days after Prime Video unveiled season 5's explosive first posters.
The series' fifth chapter will drop with a two-episode premiere on launch day, with new episodes airing on one of the world's best streaming services weekly until its last-ever entry arrives on May 20.
The Boys season 5 trailer
Revealed at Brazil Comic-Con 2025, The Boys season 5's first trailer teased a grimdark final runout for the Amazon TV Original.
Indeed, with Homelander continuing to assert his tyrannical dominance over the US, and the titular Supe-fighting group scattered to the wind after last season's finale, it's going to take an almighty effort on our heroes' part to win the day. We'll have to wait and see if they'll triumph, though.
The Boys season 5 cast: confirmed and rumored
Major spoilers follow for The Boys season 4.
Here's the confirmed cast for The Boys season 5 thus far:
- 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, so it's not a surprise to everyone else return for one last ride.
Of the newcomers, 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.
We’ve been informed these two may know each other pic.twitter.com/TgJqcncpLIDecember 7, 2025
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 synopsis
Full spoilers follow for The Boys season 4 and Gen V season 2.
Here's the official logline for The Boys season 5: "It’s Homelander’s world [and people are] completely subject to his erratic, egomaniacal whims.
"Hughie, Mother’s Milk, and Frenchie are imprisoned in a 'Freedom Camp'. Annie struggles to mount a resistance against the overwhelming Supe force [and] Kimiko is nowhere to be found.
"But, when Butcher reappears, ready and willing to use a virus that will wipe all Supes off the map, he sets in motion a chain of events that will forever change the world and everyone in it. It’s the climax, people. Big stuff’s gonna happen."
Want more information on what to expect from this season's plot? My articles explaining The Boys season 4's ending and Gen V season 2's finale will refresh your memory about where each show left off, and how they'll set up events to come.
Other details about season 5 have emerged prior to its release, too.
For one, Kripke has confirmed (via The Wrap) that it'll take place six months after Gen V season 2 episode 8, so some time will have passed between The Boys' primary offshoot and the start of the main show's final outing.
Meanwhile, 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.
Catchin our breath from yesterday, let’s recap what we learned, shall we?- @genv Season 2 officially arrives 2025, with Hamish Linklater as the new God U dean and Chace Crawford guest starring.- We’ve cast an up-and-coming actor named Jensen Ackles for The Boys Season 5.… pic.twitter.com/eHTqi5c29dJuly 27, 2024
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 continued. "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.”
How will The Boys franchise continue after its main show ends?
Introducing the next deranged entry into the world of The Boys: VOUGHT RISING, starring Jensen Ackles and Aya Cash. Set in the 1950s, exploring the early exploits of Soldier Boy and a supe you know as Stormfront. Only advice for now is keep your hands off the fucking shield. pic.twitter.com/Ss9lqnnbP3July 26, 2024
It'll be a sad day when The Boys ends, but that doesn't mean that Prime Video's retelling of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's graphic novel namesake will be done and dusted.
Indeed, as the above X/Twitter post reveals, a prequel spin-off called Vought Rising is on the way. 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.
Once upon a time, these four were as American as apple pie. Say hello to the supes of VOUGHT RISING - a new origin story set in the world of The Boys - in production this month.First up, Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy… pic.twitter.com/eqbHTi00kNAugust 14, 2025
Additionally, 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 order.
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, Kripke has since confirmed another installment isn'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. Unless we hear more about how successful it was, we'll have to wait for official confirmation from Amazon to learn if Gen V will return.
For more Prime Video-based coverage, read our guides on The Rings of Power season 3, Reacher season 4, Invincible season 4, and Mr & Mrs Smith season 2.
