THE BOYS Season 5 Showrunner Eric Kripke Warns “There Will Probably Be Lots of Deaths”
It’s almost time to say goodbye to The Boys, and if recent comments from showrunner Eric Kripke are anything to go by, the final season is shaping up to be a brutal farewell.
Spotted at the Prime Experience event, the first poster for Season 5 sets the tone with Homelander coldly confident, standing in front of the White House, glancing back at the camera like he knows exactly what’s coming… and we won’t like it.
Season 4 ended in a dark place. Homelander escalated his power grab by moving to detain anti-Supe protestors in prison camps. Hughie, Frenchie, Kimiko, and MM were taken. Starlight remains on the run. And Butcher? Whatever scraps of his moral compass were left are hanging by a thread.
Speaking with Deadline, Kripke teased fans with an ominous promise:
“There will probably be lots of deaths. There’s no guarantee of who’s gonna survive.”
Nathan Mitchell, who plays Black Noir (or at least a version of him), didn’t help soothe nerves either:
“There are some things that are coming in Season 5 that you’re not going to have in your bingo card.”
Even Antony Starr, who continues to deliver one of TV’s most terrifying performances as Homelander, framed the final season as a climactic payoff:
“I look at the last two seasons … like an accordion. One piece of the accordion is going out and then this is the compression going back in. There was a lot of setup in Season 4 for Season 5. Everything is gunning towards that climactic end. So it’s exciting at the moment because we’re filming all that.”
So what does this all mean? If you haven’t read the comic, don’t keep reading. Spoilers ahead!
In the original Boys comics, nearly every major character ends up dead, including most of Butcher’s team. Butcher himself becomes a full-on villain. Only Hughie and Starlight really make it out alive. But Kripke’s version has always taken its own path, remixing and reimagining Garth Ennis’ source material in unexpected ways.
That said… the odds of both Butcher and Homelander surviving this? Slim to none. And if either of them do go out, we know it won’t be quietly.
What do you want to see in the final season? Who do you think makes it out alive?