Earlier than he embarks on headlining The Boys prequel sequence Vought Rising alongside Aya Money, Jensen Ackles will probably be a serious half within the mothership’s upcoming fifth and remaining season.
Throughout The Boys‘ Comedian-Con panel, on which Ackles made a shock look to announce Vought Rising, The Boys developer, govt producer and showrunner Eric Kripke revealed that Ackles will probably be returning as a sequence common for Season 5 of the mothership sequence, reprising his Soldier Boy character.
“We are able to announce that Soldier Boy will probably be a daily in Season 5,” Kripke mentioned Friday. “The motherf*cker’s again.” (You’ll be able to watch the video under.)
Kripke had beforehand mentioned in a 2022 interview, “We’ll all have to attend and see, however I can’t think about the sequence ending with out Soldier Boy making one other look.”
Ackles’ return was teased within the latest Season 4 finale. Soldier Boy, who was a sequence common character when it was launched in Season 3, was MIA in Season 4 earlier than making a return in a finale post-credits scene. In it, after Senator Calhoun is sworn in as the brand new President, he takes Homelander to a chamber the place Soldier Boy — Homelander’s organic father– is mendacity in a drug-induced slumber he was put into by Grace Mallory within the Season 3 finale.
Throughout the panel, Ackles was requested what Soldier Boy was doing in that chamber, to which he had a succinct, NSFW reply. You’ll be able to watch that and Kripke’s Soldier Boy return announcement under:
