Karl Urban has officially sparked panic throughout the fandom after speaking with Variety on February 18, 2026, where he revealed that The Boys Season 5 will be like “every season, but particularly this season, from Episode 1, you’re like, ‘wow nobody is safe.’ Fatalities right from the get-go. Let’s go! Last season! It’s all on!”
Karl Urban says The Boys Season 5 begins with a deadly premiere
Urban, who plays Billy Butcher, revealed that in Season 5, fans will get a sense of the endgame right from the first episode. This statement should, of course, come as no surprise, especially given where Season 4 left off, with characters scattered, in prison, and Butcher fully bonded with the Supe-killer virus entity inside of him. In fact, Butcher could become just as deadly as Homelander if the show chooses to go down a darker path.
The premiere of Season 5 will be titled “Fifteen Inches of Sheer Dynamite,” and the title alone suggests a lot of explosions and fatalities in the premiere episode. Given that most of the team will be scattered and in prison, fans are speculating that a rescue mission will go horribly wrong, and one of the older team members, such as Frenchie or Mother’s Milk, could meet their demise in the premiere episode.
Release plans are set in stone, and the final season will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on April 8, 2026, with a two-episode premiere, followed by a weekly release every Wednesday, culminating in the season finale on May 20, 2026.
The fifth season, dubbed “Scorched Earth,” promises more political mayhem, with Homelander having taken authoritarian control of the United States, and Starlight and the A-Train at the forefront of the resistance movement against him. The moral conflict of the season will be Butcher’s willingness to unleash the anti-Supe virus, which will wipe out every Compound V host, including his friends Annie and Kimiko.
More chaos will come in the form of the long-awaited return of Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki, and Misha Collins, reuniting under showrunner Eric Kripke, with Soldier Boy’s return to the scene adding to the mix.
Homelander’s fate has long been rumored to be meeting his maker in the mid-season finale, but most people expect the long-awaited confrontation between Butcher and Homelander to be the basis of the season finale. However, if Urban’s words are to be taken seriously, the road to the finale will be lined with corpses, and sentimentality will not save the day.
