{"id":1938955,"date":"2026-05-16T14:47:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T11:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1938955"},"modified":"2026-05-16T14:47:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T11:47:17","slug":"the-boys-showrunner-says-season-5-vought-rising-nods-were-not-the-result-of-craven-commercialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1938955","title":{"rendered":"The Boys Showrunner Says Season 5 Vought Rising Nods Were Not the Result of ‘Craven Commercialism’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Boys<\/u><\/a> showrunner Eric Kripke has said that the recent nods to the Vought Rising<\/u><\/a> spinoff show in Season 5 were not the result of “craven commercialism.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Fans of the gory Prime Video superhero show seem to be split about where the story is heading ahead of next week’s series finale, but one of the prevailing talking points surrounding recent episodes involves how it’s handled side characters like Soldier Boy and Bombsight. While some viewers fear they only played a role in Season 5 to pique interest ahead of the upcoming Vought Rising prequel series, Kripke has said that this isn’t the case.<\/p>\n

The Boys showrunner opened up about his team’s process during a recent interview with The Watch<\/u><\/a>. While Vought Rising will turn back the clock to the 1950s to explore the origins of some of the show’s most evil characters, Kripke said he was more focused on giving the characters from the main series a fitting sendoff when developing Season 5.<\/p>\n

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Warning! Spoilers for The Boys Season 5 follow.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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“How do you do enough that you can touch on it, but not so much that you feel like it’s homework or you feel like it’s just a commercial?” he said when asked about balancing The Boys with Vought Rising. “Where it really came from, honestly, was we had this notion of this V-One McGuffin, and we knew Soldier Boy was going to be a character this season.<\/p>\n

“Why is he immortal? Why is Stormfront immortal? What is it about whatever they had, right? Once you come up with V-One\u2026 we didn’t start it like, ‘We gotta get Bombsight in there, guys! We gotta set up our thing!'”<\/p>\n

Vought Rising was announced<\/u><\/a> in 2024 as a prequel show that would feature Jensen Ackles’ Soldier Boy and Aya Cash’s Stormfront, two characters who have shown up for past seasons of the mainline series. Casting for additional supes, such as Mason Dye as Bombsight and Elizabeth Posey as Private Angel, was then revealed<\/u><\/a> in August 2025. Some were happy to see Dye make his first on-screen appearance as his character in The Boys Season 5, Episode 6, but others felt Kripke and company were trying a little too hard to force Vought Rising into the conversation.<\/p>\n