The Boys Season 5, Episode 5 Video Teases a Supernatural Reunion and an Up Close View of Homelander's Ass

With The Boys nearing its conclusion, Prime Video has released a teaser video for this week’s episode, confirming the instauration of 2 caller characters with conscionable a fewer episodes near of the full series. Oh, and we besides get a person look astatine Homelander's ass than anyone asked for.

Warning! Spoilers for The Boys Season 5, Episode 5 follow:

One of these characters we cognize about: Jared Padalecki plays Mister Marathon, who appears present alongside Jensen Ackles’ Soldier Boy. But there’s besides different caller quality introduced with conscionable a fewer episodes near of the full series: Misha Collins’ enigma role.

In the show, Mister Marathon was The Seven's archetypal ace accelerated superhero (supervillain), but was replaced by A-Train due to the fact that helium slowed down arsenic helium aged. But wherefore does Mister Marathon, antecedently lone mentioned up to this point, instrumentality now?

Based connected the teaser, Soldier Boy and Homelander sojourn Mister Marathon and this enigma quality looking for accusation connected V-One. V-One, let’s remember, is the archetypal ace serum, and Homelander is hopeless for it successful bid to execute immortality. “What bash you cognize astir V-One?” Homelander asks. Mister Marathon replies: “You’ve travel to the close place.” I’m not definite Misha Collins’ quality is going to past precise long, based connected the grip Soldier Boy has connected his cervix — and the glimpse we get of a gory explosion. Someone blows up each implicit Mister Marathon. Is it Misha Collins’ character? Or is this teaser trying to marque america happening it is?

Showrunner Eric Kripke has teased that Mister Marathon’s quality is much than a cameo, saying: “I privation a meaty, amusive relation that truly turns the story." “He utilized to beryllium astatine Seven Tower, helium was successful that league room, helium was a portion of the lore,” Kripke told Entertainment Weekly. “So I thought that was perfect. And portion of maine conscionable loved the thought of him playing a coke-blowing scumbag due to the fact that he's specified a bully feline some successful existent beingness and successful each the roles helium plays. I conscionable wanted him to beryllium truly sleazy, and helium crushed it."

Fans are already wondering however The Boys tin get distant with adding caller characters into the premix truthful precocious successful the day, particularly for a amusement with truthful galore established characters already. And Mister Marathon and his enigma companion aren’t adjacent the lone 2 caller characters acceptable to look successful Season 5, either. We’ll soon spot Bombsite, played by Stranger Things prima Mason Dye. Bombsite, mentioned successful Season 4 and precocious successful Season 5, is simply a supe who starred successful the aboriginal Vought superhero movie The Curse of Fu Manchu successful the 1950s.

Elsewhere successful the teaser, we spot Terror, Billy Butcher's loyal English Bulldog, enjoying himself a spot excessively much, Homelander showing disconnected his rear extremity uncomfortably adjacent to the camera (is this someone's fantasy?!), a very, VERY unfortunate toilet experience, and Giancarlo Esposito’s Stan Edgar teasing a “delightful reunion.” This is simply a wide motion to the information 3 of the actors successful Episode 5 were stars connected CW amusement Supernatural, which ran from 2005 to 2020. Jensen Ackles played Dean Winchester, Jared Padalecki played Sam Winchester, and Misha Collins played Castiel.

We’ve got plentifulness much connected The Boys portion you hold for Episode 5, including comments from Kripke connected however it’s go progressively hard to contiguous satire, fixed everything that’s happening successful the existent world.

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