The Boys Season 5 is still without a release date, but showrunner Eric Kripke has teased it’s coming to Prime Video “reasonably” soon.

We know the fifth and final season will come out at some point in 2026, but based on Kripke’s comments we can perhaps speculate that it’ll arrive in the early part of next year, maybe during the first quarter.

In a post on Instagram, Kripke said he and his team were “hard at work” finishing The Boys Season 5, and posted a picture of some of the VFX team doing their thing.

“Editing is all done, we're roughly halfway finished with VFX, Music, Color,” he added. “I'm really happy with how it's going and can't wait for you to see. We go out with a bang. COMING (reasonably) SOON.”

The update comes hot on the heels of the Season 2 finale of spinoff Gen V, which leads into The Boys Season 5. Fans were left wondering how the incredibly powerful Marie from Gen V might fare in a showdown with The Boys supervillain Homelander. 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 wouldn’t give that away, of course, but did tell THR that Billy Butcher is “front of that line.” But then there’s the likes of Stan Edgar, the aforementioned Marie, Annie, and Huey who would no doubt all like a piece.

Also in that interview, Kripke said Season 5 would see “this active and growing resistance led by Starlight that A-Train is an important part of. They’re really trying to take the fight back to Homelander and this sort of fascist government.”

“They’re trying to mount a real push, but they’re also outgunned, outmanned," he continued. "You’re in an entire country that has drunk Homelander’s Kool-Aid. They’re outmatched by the size of the hundreds of superheroes that are in every town across the country, who have been given authority over the police. So it really is a true underground resistance against a fascist government, which definitely has no comparison or parallel to anything going on anywhere in the world.”

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