The Boys Season 5 Could Kill Off Everyone, Says Showrunner Eric Kripke

Everyone might be killed off in The Boys season 5, teases showrunner Eric Kripke.

The fifth and final season of Prime Video’s popular superhero satire is currently in pre-production, and is set to go out with a bang in 2026.

“That’s the fun of the final season,” Kripke tells GamesRadar. “You can blow the doors off it. There’s no guarantee who’s going to survive because you don’t have to keep [the cast] for another season. So you can have really shocking, big things happen all the time. The writers, as we’re starting to cook it up, we’re really enjoying that.”

The Boys season four’s death toll was high, and includes some big names, but if Kripke means what he says, its follow-up might be even more brutal. Without having to juggle the fallout of all these deaths in later seasons, Kripke and his team are free to slaughter everyone.

Homelander and Billy Butcher seem like they’re on the chopping block. The former is the primary villain and is too dangerous to be left alive, while the latter is infected with a deadly virus that’s slowly killing him.

Previously, Eric Kripke and Anthony Starr teased The Boys season 5. "I think the finale of season four really shows you that we've been planning five years all along," Kripke told LadBible. “there's no way a show goes one more season after the events of that finale." Starr even likened it to "trying to take down the empire" in Star Wars.

As well as deaths, we also know about returns. Jensen Ackles is coming back as Soldier Boy, aka Homelander’s dad, for The Boys season 5.