‘Big Stuff’s Gonna Happen’ — The Boys Season 5 Finally Has a Release Date and a Teaser Trailer
The Boys Season 5 finally has a release date as well as the long-awaited teaser trailer for the fifth and final season.
Season 5 kicks off on April 8, 2026 on Prime Video, showrunner and executive producer Eric Kripke announced at CCXP Brazil, with two episodes, followed by a new episode each week. The series finale has a release date of May 20, 2026, marking the end of The Boys for good.
The trailer, below, revolves around Karl Urban’s Butcher rallying the troops as The Boys mount a fightback against Homelander, played by Antony Starr. Everyone seems up for it, although it very much looks like not everyone will make it out of the end of Season 5 alive. Keep an eye out for Jensen Ackles‘ Soldier Boy, who is back on ice and watched over by Homelander. Speaking of Homelander, we see him beat someone, or something, to a bloody pulp. A glimpse at a big name character death, perhaps?
We’re going out with a fuckin’ bang. It’s The Boys final season teaser trailer, folks. Get ready to climax April 8. pic.twitter.com/05lAd9VaZl
— THE BOYS (@TheBoysTV) December 7, 2025
Here’s the official blurb on The Boys Season 5:
In the fifth and final season, it’s Homelander’s world, 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. 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.
Season 5 not only follows on from the end of Season 4, but Season 2 of spinoff Gen V. Fans were left wondering how the incredibly powerful Marie from Gen V might fare in a showdown with overpowered The Boys supervillain Homelander. Kripke has said in the past, however, that fans shouldn’t expect Marie to appear in The Boys Season 5 as a Captain Marvel-style deus ex machina who kicks Homelander’s ass. That’s because Marie still hasn’t mastered her powers, or as Kripke has put it in a number of Gen V Season 2 finale spoiler interviews, she’s not Neo at the end of The Matrix.
Who will be left standing at the end of The Boys Season 5? Image credit: Prime Video.
For a much deeper dive on all this, check out IGN’s Gen V Season 2 Ending Explained: How It Sets Up the Final Season of The Boys article, but to summarize, Marie can control blood, which potentially makes her more powerful even than Homelander. Homelander, for the uninitiated, is a sort of evil Superman, a character so overpowered that few rivals dare question his word. But Marie Moreau, played by Jaz Sinclair, has the potential to kill him due to her ability to command and weaponize blood.
The big question, of course, is whether Homelander actually dies in The Boys Season 5. Kripke wouldn’t give that away, of course, but did tell THR that Billy Butcher is “front of that line” when it comes to characters wanting to take Homelander out. But then there’s the likes of Stan Edgar, the aforementioned Marie, Annie, and Huey who would no doubt all like a piece.
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Also in that interview, Kripke said Season 5 would see “this active and growing resistance led by Starlight that A-Train is an important part of. They’re really trying to take the fight back to Homelander and this sort of fascist government.”
“They’re trying to mount a real push, but they’re also outgunned, outmanned,” he continued. “You’re in an entire country that has drunk Homelander’s Kool-Aid. They’re outmatched by the size of the hundreds of superheroes that are in every town across the country, who have been given authority over the police. So it really is a true underground resistance against a fascist government, which definitely has no comparison or parallel to anything going on anywhere in the world.”
There’s more to come from The Boys universe after Season 5 ends, of course. While Gen V Season 3 remains up in the air, prequel spinoff, Vought Rising, is confirmed. Vought Rising is said to explore the early days of The Boys’ nefarious mega corporation, Vought International. And then there’s The Boys: Mexico, executive produced by Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal and written by Blue Beetle scribe Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer.
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