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‘The Boys’ Got Bigger Than Ever. That Seemed Like the Time to End It.
“I really just wanted to go out on top,” said Eric Kripke, whose sex-and-violence-soaked superhero satire just began its fifth and final season.
With its distinctive approach to the superhero genre — for starters, most of the superpowered characters aren’t heroes — the satirical Amazon series “The Boys,” which returned to Prime Video on Wednesday for its fifth and final season, has provided a fantastical look at themes and events that many times felt eerily real.
Its chief antagonist, Homelander (Antony Starr), who wears a stars-and-stripes cape, is all-powerful but craves adoration, becoming an authoritarian leader who surrounds himself with yes-men. A police-themed hero, Blue Hawk, kills an unarmed Black man. A villain named Stormfront is a Nazi who grows her base by appealing to online extremists.
‘Nobody’s Safe’: ‘The Boys’ Creator on Killing [SPOILER], Kimiko Talking and Setting Up ‘Vought Rising’ Prequel With Season 5
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for the two-episode premiere of “The Boys” Season 5, now streaming on Prime Video.
The final season of “The Boys” is kicking things off with a bang — and by killing off one of its original supes.
After flipping sides and defecting from Vought to help the Boys last season, A-Train (Jessie T. Usher) is murdered by Homelander (Antony Starr) in the closing moments of the Season 5 premiere. A-Train selflessly saves Hughie (Jack Quaid) during his battle with Homelander at Vought’s “Freedom Camp,” then super-speeds away. However, he narrowly dodges a bystander during his dash and crashes in a forest. Homelander then catches up to the speedster and snaps his neck. It was a surprisingly heroic and full-circle ending for A-Train, who was introduced in the series premiere by killing Hughie’s girlfriend Robin during a drunken, high-speed run — which turned out to be the catalyst for Hughie’s revenge quest against Vought’s supes.
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The Boys creator was "initially resistant" to killing off season 5's first big casualty so early
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The Boys creator and showrunner Eric Kripke has long been vocal about not holding back in the Prime Video show's final season.
The premiere episode made good on that promise, bumping off one of the most prominent characters across the five-season run – even if Kripke didn't originally want it to happen so soon.
The final season's first episode came to a close with Starlight, Butcher, and Kimiko willingly walking into a trap at Vought's concentration camp so they could free Frenchie, Mother's Milk, and Hughie.
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