THE BOYS Season 5 Adds STRANGER THINGS Actor Mason Dye as Bombsight
The Boys Season 5 has added Stranger Things actor Mason Dye to its cast and he is set to play an illusive Supe who was mentioned in the fourth season… Bombsight.
The casting was announced on social media: "Let’s give a warm welcome to Mason Dye, joining as Bombsight in Season 5. More details, you ask? Ya know better by now."
Dye is best known for playing Jason in Stranger Things Season 4 and he also starred in the horror movie Truth or Dare, and Flowers in the Attic.
Bombsight is not from the comics, but what we do know is that he is the third oldest Supe in The Boys universe.
Shortly after his birth, his parents accepted Vought's offer to inject him with Compound V, subsequently transforming him into a Supe and granting him superhuman powers and abilities.
Bombsight was named at Vought's V52 Expo as the star of Vought's early superhero films in 1953 called The Curse of Fu Manchu.
It is not clear how big of a role he will have in the show, but there’s also a chance he could appear in the prequel series Vought Rising, alongside Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy and Aya Cash as Stormfront. That show is set in the ‘50s, so it would make sense to include Bombsight in that series as well.
But, since the news broke, Variety has reported that the new Supe may also appear in the upcoming prequel series Vought Rising, alongside Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy and Aya Cash as Stormfront. The show is set in the ‘50s, which makes sense as Bombsight seems to be an ageless Supe too just like Soldier Boy. Who knows, this may mean that Ackles’ Supe and Bombsight might team up in the Boys season 5 too.
The fifth season will be the final season of the series, and when talking about that, creator and showrunner, Eric Kripke teased:
"You know, I think the finale of season four 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. As far as we're concerned, it's our show's version of the apocalypse."
The series is described as follows: “The world is on the brink. Victoria Neuman is closer than ever to the Oval Office and under the muscly thumb of Homelander, who is consolidating his power.
“Butcher, with only months to live, has lost Becca's son as well as his job as The Boys' leader. The rest of the team are fed up with his lies. With the stakes higher than ever, they have to find a way to work together and save the world before it's too late.”
Dye joins the recently cast Daveed Diggs (Hamilton, Snowpiercer) in the series.