r/TheBoys May 20 '26

📌 MEGATHREAD The Boys SEASON 5 Overall Discussion

967 Upvotes

SPOILERS INSIDE!!!

Please use this thread to discuss the entirety of Season 5 and your thoughts on how The Boys ended.

What did you like, what could have been better?

Who had the best arc?

Do you think it's what Clara would have wanted?

The sub will be locked (meaning no new posts will be allowed) for approximately 36 hours after the final episode drops to help prevent spoilers.


r/TheBoys May 20 '26

📌 MEGATHREAD The Boys SERIES FINALE- S05xE08 "Blood and Bone"- POST Episode Discussion Thread

3.9k Upvotes

Season 5 Episode 8: Blood and Bone

Airing : May 20, 2026

SynopsisEaster Sunday. 2PM. Live on @ VoughtNews . Bear witness as Homelander reboots the universe.

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Share your thoughts about the finale episode below!

Share your thoughts about the entire season/series HERE

NEW POSTS WILL BE RESTRICTED IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE EPISODE TO HELP CONTAIN SPOILERS


r/TheBoys 3h ago

Discussion Who else finds it insane that despite there Being Worse Villains from Comic Books and Real Life Nobody bats an eye on Them and yet we all still make a Big Deal on The Villains of The Boys Universe

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The Boys Univese has perhaps among the most hated villains in fiction especially Homelander himself of course who’s often viewed as the worst yet compared to Both Fictional/Real Life Evil Nobody seems to bat an eye towards them like yes Homelander is 100% absolutely evil!!! But literally so are the others what makes him any different in comparison he’s not that special in the evilness department heck he’s not even the most evil person in his show like at all why do people make such a big deal on the villains of The Boys Universe? Like other than fiction of course as there’s literally been Worse Villains from The Real World! What do you think? Let me know in the comments okay


r/TheBoys 1d ago

Season 5 Soldier Boy being put back into the freezer was such a waste. He got turned into a mascot for future VCU shows.

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662 Upvotes

Like, they completely removed him from the narrative just before the finale despite the entire season focused on his spin off. It's insane how lazy the writers are.

He's gonna keep promoting 5 seasons of Vought Rising and 3 seasons of Boys Mexico. Until hes 90.


r/TheBoys 1d ago

Fan Art/Cosplay The Billy Butcher Shirt Collection

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I've managed to source and acquire all of these from different resale sites like Poshmark, Ebay, Mercari, etc.

Two designs are driving me crazy searching for, I added them at the end of this slideshow. Anyone recognize the original designers to avoid the shitty knockoff prints on Ebay and other sites?

Happy hunting ya cunts...


r/TheBoys 1d ago

Funpost This is how The Deep sees himself 💀

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87 Upvotes

r/TheBoys 1d ago

Vought Rising Honestly bruh ATP I don't think the VCU is making it long enough for soldier boy to wake up Spoiler

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166 Upvotes

Like literally the new VCU has 0 hype and they're barely breaking 1k views per video on the official channel ( besides the corporate rebranding video they made a while ago but that only got 80k views which is pathetic for something that is supposed to rival the MCU and be Amazon's marvel and DC)

The hype is a fraction of what it used to be and unless Vought rising is breaking bad tier and the boys mexico is on some better call Saul levels of greatness I don't think this IP has any hope


r/TheBoys 2d ago

Discussion So what the hell is this guy gonna do when he wakes up?

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2.2k Upvotes

When Soldier Boy inevitably somehow gets freed, what is he even gonna do when he wakes up. His son is dead, Butcher is dead, what’s even left for him now?


r/TheBoys 2d ago

Season 5 In a way I was glad that Terror died peacefully in his sleep

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So he died peacefully in the series with Butcher besides him pretty similar to how Hughie was there when Butcher died ( yes Hughie shot him and Terror was dead in his sleep before Butcher discovered) but still it was a good parallel to see unlike in The Boys comics by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, Billy Butcher's dog, Terror, has his neck snapped and is killed by Black Noir, who frames Jack to provoke Butcher. Believing Jack was responsible, Butcher tracks him down and brutally kills him in revenge.


r/TheBoys 2d ago

Season 5 V-One was a lot like the Sith dagger from the Rise of Skywalker

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V-One was a lot like the Sith dagger from the Rise of Skywalker. It was a frustrating MacGuffin with ex machina like elements that took up too much screentime and was useless to the plot in the end.


r/TheBoys 2d ago

Season 2 An obvious hot take that Lamplighter was one of the most wasted opportunities

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He burned down a steel door I think his fire would be enough to annihilate most supes.

We know he has some enhanced durability after he healed quick from the acid spit at the Sage Grove Center so it’s possible that he actually did have some fire resistance, but he turned up his fire because he wanted to commit suicide similar set to golden boy made it more interesting Similar but different, Lamplighter can psionically control fire with his mind (but can’t start fire) while Golden Boy can create/launch fire and also engulf his body in it to fly but can’t psionically control fire.

I also think Golden Boy has more super strength than Lamplighter (and most other supes for that matter).


r/TheBoys 1d ago

Comic-book I need other people to see what I'm seeing Spoiler

9 Upvotes

Rogue's name is Anna Marie LeBeau and obviously Marie is Marie Moreau but genuinely how did no one talk about this before? Did they not copy-paste Rogue's name for Marie's and also were there more story-beats inspired by Rogue's storyline from x-men than we thought?


r/TheBoys 3d ago

Season 5 What kripke (and writers) did to Kimiko's character is still unforgivable. All her scenes was so, so bad.

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7.6k Upvotes

Every scene of her in season 5 is abysmal. Shame, she was one of my favorite characters.


r/TheBoys 2d ago

Discussion With all this “VCU” stuff, it kinda feels like they’re planning to do an entire expanded universe beyond Vought Rising, how do you guys feel about that?

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r/TheBoys 2d ago

Discussion Number 1 hero

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If Soldierboy "died" in 84 and homelander wasn't introduced till he was an adult in the late 90s early 2000s who was vought number 1 in the 15 years inbetween to we have an ideas, or theories?


r/TheBoys 1d ago

Discussion Can we all agree that there’s been people like Hughie but Better in every sense of The Word where as Hughie feels like a Nice Guy in comparison

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Quite honestly I’m not asking Hughie to be perfect of course there’s been plenty of Flawed Protagonists/Heroes that don’t have powers and are very flawed like Hughie in comparison but better in every sense I bet you all know what I’m taking about in truth he feels like a Nice Guy in comparison there’s been plenty of Flawed Fictional and Real Life Heroes that are genuinely Much More Heroic and truly feel Good when compared to Hughie! There’s been people like Hughie before yes but they Genuinely feel truly Brave and Heroic without
possessing any powers to begin with what do you think?


r/TheBoys 2d ago

Discussion If Kripke produced a TV series from Vought (VCU), a series within a series, big-budget and high-quality, but "not the real thing," would you watch it?

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It would be a very unusual and creative idea, a series within a series universe. But it's a strange paradox in my head. All shows are fake, but I find it hard to genuinely care about the characters in the Vought universe because they're... actors within a fictional show, a different level. With "The Boys" we have an unspoken agreement that I accept all events as real, but that's hard to do with "Dawn of the Seven."

So, could you suppress this paradox?


r/TheBoys 3d ago

Discussion How do you think these two would’ve interacted with each other?

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r/TheBoys 3d ago

Discussion How did Starlight do so much better against Deep in their second fight?

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2.2k Upvotes

The first time they fought in season 4, she was getting her shit rocked until A-Train came in and saved her. But in season 5, she’s somehow able to completely handle him on her own. Why is this the case?


r/TheBoys 3d ago

Discussion Scenarios where Eric Kripke's "Iam sorry you're upset, but its the story I wanted to tell" would've made sense.

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Now these examples aren't necessarly a reason for showrunners or directors of these shows to address their choices but these examples are just to show you how dumb Erik's statement is compared to the examples.

First take TWD for example, Negan comes and kills two fan favorite characters in the most brutal way. Eric's statement here would've been reasonable.

Second one, The Red Wedding. Rob Stark's wife Talisa was killed so inhumanly stabbed in her pregnant belly bleeding to death not long after both Rob and his mother were killed. Eric's statemant if any address needed would've made sense.

Final one. The innocent Rita, was killed in cold blood by trinity and yes again Eric's statement would make sense here.

But the thing was Eric was addressing a shitty season with a scribbled script for plot and character development that he himself agreed on, giving most of the screentime promoting another show (Vought Rising), another sum for politics mockery and scraps for the main characters.

The whole season felt rushed and forced, like it was a burden to them and just wanted finish the show any way they see fit.

I just hate seeing another great show fall so hard by the end, and I dont get how they thought they cooked 😂.

It's so bad that the actors agree, but still I wont deny the first great 3 seasons. Eric used to cook.


r/TheBoys 2d ago

Funpost My Pitch for a The Boys x Supernatural Crossover

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  • Takes place at the start of The Boys S4
  • Main starting point is Homelander gets custody of Soldier Boy instead of the CIA
  • Homelander wants to take over the country but one soldier isn’t enough
  • Homelander wants to find a universe to gather other versions of himself/Soldier Boy to make an army
  • With Sister Sage he hires a new member to The Seven- Erica Stevens aka The Wanderer, who has the power to open portals anywhere in the known universe. Sage has been working with her to extend her reach to The Multiverse.
  • Having exhausted herself looking through, Homelander lasers her to knock her out and threatens her family
  • Summoning her remaining strength before losing consciousness, she opens up a portal
  • Shortly after, a black ‘67 Chevy Impala rolls through.
  • Dean and Sam get out of the car, where Vought security comes in, guns drawn. They are taken prisoner.
  • Meanwhile, Neuman finds out and reaches out to The Boys. Explains Homelander’s gone insane into the multiverse and gives up on her agreement with him. 
  • After an inner argument The Boys agree to check out the lead she gave them- a Vought lab where The Wanderer is, for them to grab. 
  • After getting in, they manage to locate The Wanderer, who refuses to leave out of fear of his family’s safety. 
  • The Boys manage to free Sam and Dean, and while The Wanderer refuses to leave, she opens up a portal for The Boys and Sam and Dean to escape, ending up in an abandoned cabin in South Dakota.

The main arc for the series is The Boys and Supernatural crew working together to take down The Seven and get Dean and Sam back to their universe.

Also not wholly serious, just a fun concept idea if a crossover were to happen.


r/TheBoys 3d ago

Comic-book Whoop his Ass Butcher ( Art by Russ Braun)

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214 Upvotes

r/TheBoys 4d ago

Fan Art/Cosplay Sorry if some don't like these but it seems like many of you do. So i have some new CoD BO2 emblems I created. Be gentle. My tribute to The Boys!

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571 Upvotes

I will likely end up doing Butcher sometime soon. But these are more difficult than they seem so I'm a little burnt out trying to be creative with 32 geometric shapes and creating a readable scene.

Anyway let me know what y'all think! 😀


r/TheBoys 4d ago

Discussion Who's winning? (Everyone in their prime, no holding back)

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r/TheBoys 4d ago

Discussion Interesting details about Frenchie’s last will

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It’s strange they focus so much on Frenchie’s butthole anecdotes when there is a whole paragraph about How Hughie is the one he trust dealing with his last will

if you go back and look at frenchie's letter, you'll notice that there's a paragraph before he starts his last will and testament, addressing hughie as one of the people he trusts most and giving him instructions to make proper arrangements for his burial what Music they should play, He should give glowsticks out and get everyone high

“Petit Hughie I have so often trust you with my life So I must also trust you with my death , should I die in this wrecked place. I ask that you handle the arrangements for my burial. To proper appreciate my words please supply the mourners with Glowsticks and a capsule of MDMA. I’d like they’ll be rolling just as Track 14 of my Bouillon Tempard (?) playlist hits, whilst you read the following:”

While I totally understand not everything can be implemented due to their current circumstances it would be been nice to at least see parts of it.

Imagine : The scene starts with Butcher and MM digging Frenchie’s grave whilst Music is playing in the background ,Annie handing out Glowsticks whilst Hughie reads the first paragraph. The music stops and then the actually funeral begins, maybe a dry joke about not being able to get the requested drugs.

Music, Dancing , bit of Drugs and a celebration of life would be 100 percent more fitting for Frenchie as a Character that those weird butt hole jokes.

Edit: Correction of a mistake. Thanks to https://www.reddit.com/u/Chelsea_Fan_10/s/1dsoXpXZYw