'We Need to Prepare America for My Ascension' — The Boys Season 5 Trailer Shows Homelander Sitting Pretty in the Oval Office
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The Boys Season 5 has its final trailer, showing off Homelander's attempt to realize what he believes to be his true destiny.
The trailer reveals The Boys' resistance to Homelander's rule. They believe the ultra powerful supervillain is looking for V1, Vought’s first iteration of Compound V. If Homelander gets some, he’d become immortal.
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The Boys’ plan is to use a virus to wipe out every supe on the planet. We see Billy Butcher doing his tentacle thing, once again (gross). Homelander wakes up Soldier Boy, as he threatened to do in the previous trailer. “I need you, father,” Homelander says. Soldier Boy responds with something entirely in keeping with the shock value we’ve come to expect from The Boys.
“We need to prepare America for my ascension,” Homelander goes on to declare. A super-powered Butcher goes up against Soldier Boy, throwing a car at him. All of the major characters are present and correct in the trailer, setting the Prime Video series up for its grand finale. I'm worried about Ryan Butcher, who we see as Homelander mentions "the backstabbers." A-Train feels in trouble, too.
Meanwhile, Homelander seems thrilled in his position as ruler of the United States, and even affords himself a smile while sitting in the Oval Office. And yes, Kimiko talks now, which perhaps shouldn't come as much of a surprise given how she reacted to what happened to Frenchie last season.
Last month, Karl Urban, who plays Billy Butcher, teased that character deaths will come thick and fast in Season 5 — and insisted "nobody is safe."
Speaking to Variety, Urban told fans they should look forward to The Boys “coming to a big crescendo” when the fifth and final season hits Prime Video on April 8 with a two-episode launch. He wouldn’t point to any specific moment as jaw-dropping, no doubt to avoid spoilers, but did say there are plenty of shocking moments to come.
“Every season, but particularly this season, from episode one, you’re like, oh wow,” he said. “Nobody is safe. Fatalities right from the get-go. Let’s go! Last season! It’s all on!”
Shocking moments are The Boys’ trademark, so we can expect plenty of over-the-top, gore-filled scenes. But who might die? The main character fans are wondering about here is Homelander, who starts Season 5 ruling over the United States with an iron fist.
Here’s the official blurb on The Boys Season 5:
In the fifth and final season, it’s Homelander’s world, completely subject to his erratic, egomaniacal whims. Hughie, Mother’s Milk, and Frenchie are imprisoned in a “Freedom Camp.” Annie struggles to mount a resistance against the overwhelming Supe force. Kimiko is nowhere to be found. But when Butcher reappears, ready and willing to use a virus that will wipe all Supes off the map, he sets in motion a chain of events that will forever change the world and everyone in it. It’s the climax, people. Big stuff’s gonna happen.
Season 5 not only follows on from the end of Season 4, but Season 2 of spinoff Gen V. Fans were left wondering how the incredibly powerful Marie from Gen V might fare in a showdown with overpowered The Boys supervillain Homelander. Showrunner and executive producer Eric Kripke has said in the past, however, 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 has put it in a number of Gen V Season 2 finale spoiler interviews, she’s not Neo at the end of The Matrix.
For a much deeper dive on all this, check out IGN’s Gen V Season 2 Ending Explained: How It Sets Up the Final Season of The Boys article, but to summarize, Marie can control blood, which potentially makes her more powerful even than Homelander. Homelander, for the uninitiated, is a sort of evil Superman, a character so overpowered that few rivals dare question his word. But Marie Moreau, played by Jaz Sinclair, has the potential to kill him due to her ability to command and weaponize blood.
The big question, of course, is whether Homelander actually dies in The Boys Season 5. Kripke told THR last year that Butcher is “front of that line” when it comes to characters wanting to take Homelander out. But then there’s the likes of Stan Edgar, the aforementioned Marie, Annie, and Huey who would no doubt all like a piece of the action.
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