Boys The release date for season five has finally arrived, as well as the long-awaited teaser for the fifth and final season.
Season five launches 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 airs on May 20, 2026, marking the end of The Boys for good.
The trailer, shown below, revolves around Karl Urban's Butcher rallying the troops while the Boys fight back against Homelander, played by Antony Starr. It seems like everyone wants it, although it looks like not everyone will make it out of the end of season five alive. Follow Jensen Ackles' Boy Soldier as he returns to the ice under Homelander's care. Speaking of Homelander, we see him beating someone or something to a pulp. Perhaps this is a look at the death of a famous character?
We leave with a bang. Guys, this is a teaser for the final season of The Boys. Get ready for the climax on April 8th. pic.twitter.com/05lAd9VaZl
— THE BOYS (@TheBoysTV) December 7, 2025
Here's the official trailer for The Boys season 5:
In the fifth and final season, it is Homelander's world, completely subject to his eccentric, selfish whims. Huey, Mother's Milk and Frenchie are imprisoned at “Camp Freedom”. Annie struggles to resist the overwhelming Supe forces. Kimiko is nowhere to be found. But when the Butcher reappears, ready and willing to use a virus that will wipe all the Supes off the map, he sets off a chain of events that will change the world and everyone in it forever. This is the punchline, guys. Big things will happen.
The fifth season is not only a continuation of the end of the fourth, but also the second season of the spin-off Generation V. Fans wondered how the incredibly powerful Marie from Generation V would be able to hold her own against The Boys' powerful supervillain Homelander. Kripke, however, has said in the past 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 put it in several spoiler interviews for the Generation V season 2 finale, she's not Neo at the end of The Matrix.
For a deeper dive into all of this, visit IGN. Gen V Season 2 ending explained: How it sets up The Boys' final season article, but to summarize: Marie can control blood, potentially making her more powerful even than Homelander. For the uninitiated, Homelander is a sort of evil Superman, a character so powerful that few rivals dare question his word. But Marie Moreau, played by Jazz Sinclair, is able to kill him thanks to her ability to manipulate blood and use it as a weapon.
The big question, of course, is whether Homelander will actually die in The Boys season five. Kripke, of course, did not reveal this, but he still told it. TPP that Billy Butcher is “at the forefront” when it comes to characters wanting to destroy Homelander. But there are people like Stan Edgar, the aforementioned Marie, Annie and Hughie who will no doubt all enjoy the piece.
Also in the interview, Kripke said that Season 5 will have “this active and growing resistance led by Starlight, of which A-Train is a big part. They're really trying to push back against Homelander and this kind of fascist government.”
“They are trying to organize a real push, but they are outgunned and outnumbered,” he continued. “You are in an entire country that has drunk the Kool-Aid Homelander. They are dwarfed by the hundreds of superheroes that exist in every city across the country and are given power over the police. So this is really a real underground resistance to the fascist government that certainly has no comparison or parallel to anything happening anywhere in the world.”
Of course, after the end of the fifth season, there will be something more in the Boys universe. Bye The third season of Gen V remains in limboprequel, spin-off, Vought-Risingconfirmed. Vought Rising is said to explore the early days of The Boys' nefarious mega-corporation, Vought International. And then there is Boys: Mexicoexecutive produced by Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal and written by Blue Beetle screenwriter Gareth Dunnett-Alcocer.
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