The Boys showrunner, Eric Kripke, has spilled the beans about who will die in the upcoming season 5, and the easy answer is “anyone.” When asked which character is most likely to meet their maker in the final season of Prime Video’s superhero series, he didn’t hesitate to say there is no guarantee of any popular characters surviving. It seems that as the series reaches its conclusion, not even the titular Boys are safe from what is sure to be a glorious and gory bloodbath. Per Kripke’s own words of excitement:
That’s the fun of the final season. You can blow the doors off it.
While speaking to Games Radar at the San Diego Comic-Con, Kripke was open to the idea of killing off any characters because they won’t come back again for another season:
“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.”
Kripke appears to be more concerned about delivering a worthy finale to a show that’s been so appealing to fans of the superhero genre. Noting the one thing he doesn’t want to do with the final episodes, he said:
“So many series finales suck. It’s really hard to land the plane. I am very grateful to Amazon for giving me the opportunity to end it on our own terms but, for sure, I feel lots and lots of pressure to end it well. Because if we can stick the landing, then people will be like, ‘That was a great show.’ But if we sh*t the bed, people will say: ‘It was a good show, but then it sh*t the bed.”
Who is Most Likely to Die in Season 5 of The Boys?
As far as superhero arcs go, there is usally a simple answer to the question of who will die: the “villains.” After all, the good guys should always win, right? However, in the case of The Boys, traditional story arcs are thrown straight out the window from the 100th floor. The things that are supposed to happen usually don’t, and the people who should win the fight end up in a twisted heap bleeding out on the floor.
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The series is inspired by the highly-praised comic book series, but there have already been several big deviations from the source material, so it is hard to gauge whether things will pan out in quite the same way. While Kripke has already hinted that the only way the show can end is with a final showdown between Butcher and Homelander, we can only wait and see who will be caught in the crossfire.
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