Homelander actor visits costume fitters ahead of The Boys season 5

The fourth season of The Boys just wrapped up on Amazon Prime Video. There's one season left, and everyone is expecting a bloodbath. The show has traded on blood and guts for years, with lots of morally challenged superheroes dying in all kinds of creative ways. Now, even main characters can die, and there are some characters on this show fans are just waiting to see meet their end.

"Anyone who dies in season five will richly deserve it, I'll just say that," showrunner Eric Kripke told TV Guide. That said, they haven't finished writing the final season yet, so things are subject to change. "We have a certain sense of who lives and who dies. We don't have it all totally figured out, but you get to do the final season of the show, and you get to go out on your own terms, so not everyone's making it through."

I think I'm safe in saying that Homelander, the sociopathic superhero who became the de facto president at the end season 4, is on the chopping block. People have been waiting a long time to watch him get some comeuppance. Antony Starr, who plays Homelander, recently posted a photo of himself visiting Laura Jean Shannon and her costume team, indicating that the groundwork is being laid for season 5 even if the writing isn't quite done yet:

"What's that on the horizon?" Kripke wrote alongside this image on his own Instagram. "Is that.... season 5?"

So Kripke and Starr and company are building hype for the final season pretty early. Unfortunately, it'll likely be a while before we get to watch new episodes, with star Karl Urban (Butcher) forecasting a two-year wait. So see you in 2026! Happily, Amazon is trying to get out a second season of The Boys spinoff series Gen V somewhere in the middle, so that should help tide fans over until the original show returns for its big finale.

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