You Need to Remember These The Boys Facts Before Watching Season 5

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If you’re looking for a refresher before The Boys Season 5, look no further. It’s been two years since the fourth season ended in 2024, while Gen V Season 2 finished six months ago on October 2025. So it’s worth taking a look back to remember the major plot points for both superhero series before we head into the double-sized two-episode premiere for the fifth and final season of The Boys that is set to air on Wednesday, April 8. Amazon Prime Video has revealed several trailers as well that have provided some spare details about the upcoming showdown between the resistance headed by Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) and the government as controlled by Homelander (Antony Starr). It’s going to be a bloodbath, and as Urban puts it, “nobody is safe.”

5 things to remember for The Boys Season 5

1. The Boys are back together but many of them were captured

At the end of The Boys Season 4, many members of the titular team were captured despite their best attempts at fleeing. After Butcher leaves the group upon killing Victoria Neuman (Claudia Doumit) with his newfound tentacle powers, the former Speaker of the House Steven Calhoun (David Andrews) becomes president and enacts martial law across America while giving Homelander, The Seven, and any Vought-aligned Supes the authority to arrest and detain anyone who opposes them. That includes Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso) who is knocked out by Love Sausage, Frenchie (Tomer Capone) and Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) who are captured by Cate Dunlap (Maddie Phillips) and Sam Riordan (Asa Germann) from Gen V, and Hughie (Jack Quaid) who is forcibly detained after his car crashes. Fortunately, Starlight / Annie January (Erin Moriarty) is able to fly away before being snatched herself.

The good news is that the gang will be getting back together again. The final season trailer for Season 5 released in early March shows Butcher leading Hughie, Frenchie, Kimiko, MM, and Annie into The Boys’ new headquarters, so it looks like they will be rescued at some point near the beginning of the season. That might take a good chunk of time, though, since the teaser trailer released in December 2025 shows Hughie at a “Freedom Camp” owned by Vernon Correctional Services Corporation (which was headed by the now deceased Tek Knight) that is effectively an internment camp for any dissidents, Starlighters, and other resistance members. We have no idea where Frenchie, Kimiko, and MM are being held either, but we’re sure that Butcher, Starlight, and A-Train (Jessie T. Usher) will be able to figure out how to break them out in short time.

2. The Supes from Gen V, and notably Marie Moreau, have joined the resistance

Don’t worry if you haven’t seen the The Boys spinoff, Gen V — we’ve got your covered. There’s only a couple of things that you need to know from what happens in the second season of the show that takes place at superhero school Godolkin University (or God U). In the finale, Starlight and A-Train convince now students-on-the-run Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair), her oracle sister Annabeth Moreau (Keeya King), the super-strong Sam, the psychic Cate, the power-twins-in-one Jordan Li (Derek Luh and London Thor), and the size-shifting Emma Meyer (Lizze Broadway) to join the resistance.

It’s unclear whether they are brought into the fold before or after The Boys are rescued, but either way, they bring a lot of much-needed firepower. The most powerful of the bunch is Marie, whose blood-controlling biokinetic powers can give people heart attacks or heal and revive anyone she touches. Much of Gen V Season 2 is about the teenagers figuring out that Project Odessa was a 1960s Vought program to create god-like Supes and the only successful participants that came out of the experiment were Marie and Homelander. So not only can she potentially heal or suppress Butcher’s sentient tumor that’s giving him powers (so maybe he doesn’t die from “super cancer”), but the series is setting up a showdown between her and Homelander.

3. Homelander is searching for the compound V-One

As revealed in the trailers, Homelander is trying to become immortal by finding or creating the compound V-One. This is the same substance that made his father Soldier Boy (more on him later), Stormfront, and several other Supes ageless. It’s also the chemical that Thomas Godolkin, the founder of Godolkin University, injected himself with, though he was fortunately dealt with by the Gen V gang at the end of season two. We suspect that Homelander wants V-One to become even more powerful and try to get closer to his biological father.

This search for immortality may also be a part of “Phase Two,” as Sister Sage (Susan Heyward) puts it in the fourth season. The World’s Smartest Person shared in Gen V Season 2 that Homelander is essential to her upcoming scheme, which is why she betrays Godolkin in the finale, so having him be ageless could be a part of whatever 50-step plan she has concocted. There’s a method to her madness, and we likely won’t see the full extent of her machinations until the very last episode.

4. Yep, Soldier Boy is back…

The post-credits scene for The Boys Season 4 shows Homelander finding that Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles) did not actually die in the third season but has been (yet again) tucked away in a cryogenic container. The trailer then reveals Homelander opening his chamber, though Soldier Boy ruins the reunion by asking if his revival is some kind of “incest thing.”

He is later seen in his original suit taunting Butcher for becoming a Supe, the thing he wants to kill most, before they begin fighting. So it would seem that Soldier Boy is on Homelander’s side, though he has been known to switch sides before. At any rate, his chances of surviving until the end isn’t terribly high (perhaps he’ll be stuck in a tube again?), but at least he’ll be the main star in the upcoming prequel Vought Rising.

5. …and expect a Supernatural reunion

The fifth season will also be a reunion of sorts for Supernatural, the popular CW drama that was created by The Boys’ Eric Kripke. Jared Padalecki (who played young brother Sam Winchester to Jared Ackles’ Dean Winchester) is expected to be in the role of Mister Marathon, though this hasn’t been outright confirmed. This Supe was the original speedster for The Seven before he was replaced by A-Train.

Meanwhile, Misha Collins (who played the angel Castiel in Supernatural) will be in the role of a yet undisclosed character in Season 5. And let’s not forget Jeffrey Dean Morgan (who plays Sam and Dean’s father John Winchester), who acts as Joe Kessler or Butcher’s sentient tumor from Season 4 (we imagine he’ll appear again this season). We’ll have to see if these four actors will meet each other in the same scene, but whatever the case, Supernatural fans will be delighted to see them back together again.

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