The TV adaptation of The Boys, the comic book series co-created, designed, and illustrated by Darick Robertson and written by Garth Ennis, premiered on Amazon Prime in 2019. The show has borrowed heavily from the comics for both characters and plot points, but hasn’t been scared to satirise the ongoing political turmoil of the United States and poke fun at other superhero franchises. Season four of The Boys, which premiered in 2024, was set in election year, with the fate of the entire world seemingly hanging in the balance.
The comic book series of The Boys came to an end after 72 issues in 2012, with an eight-issue epilogue, Dear Becky, following in 2020. The Boys TV show will end after season five, which was green-lit prior to the premiere of season four. Showrunner Eric Kripke had hinted previously that he was looking to wrap up the series in the near future, but he used the renewal to finally confirm that season five would be the last.
The Boys follows the exploits of a rag-tag group, which tries to curtail the power and corruption of superheroes. Season four saw both The Boys and Homelander backing different political candidates during the election year. Homelander and his new army of supes declare The Boys enemies of the state, and the series ends with some of them trying to flee the country, while Butcher, last seen speeding down the highway, has a virus that could potentially cause a pandemic killing all super-powered individuals.
Season five of The Boys, which will air at some point in 2026, will feature confrontations that have been seeded across the show. Butcher is set to engage Homelander’s son Ryan, the only person capable of taking down the tyrannical Homelander. The show also addresses plot lines from The Boys Presents: Diabolical, an animated anthology that premiered in 2022. Moreover, Amazon is developing a Spanish-language take on The Boys set in Mexico City, showcasing that end doesn’t necessarily mean an end
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