‘The Boys’: Jensen Ackles To Return As Series Regular In Fifth & Final Season

Before he embarks on headlining The Boys prequel series Vought Rising alongside Aya Cash, Jensen Ackles will be a major part in the mothership’s upcoming fifth and final season.

During The Boys’ Comic-Con panel, on which Ackles made a surprise appearance to announce Vought Rising, The Boys developer, executive producer and showrunner Eric Kripke revealed that Ackles will be returning as a series regular for Season 5 of the mothership series, reprising his Soldier Boy character.

“We can announce that Soldier Boy will be a regular in Season 5,” Kripke said. “The motherf*cker’s back.” (You can watch the video below.)

Kripke had previously said in a 2022 interview, “We’ll all have to wait and see, but I can’t imagine the series ending without Soldier Boy making another appearance.”

Ackles’ return was teased in the recent Season 4 finale. Soldier Boy, who was a series regular character when it was introduced in Season 3, was MIA in Season 4 before making a return in a finale post-credits scene. In it, after Senator Calhoun is sworn in as the new President, he takes Homelander to a chamber where Soldier Boy — Homelander’s biological father– is lying in a drug-induced slumber he was put into by Grace Mallory in the Season 3 finale.

During the panel, Ackles was asked what Soldier Boy was doing in that chamber, to which he had a succinct, NSFW reply. You can watch that and Kripke’s Soldier Boy return announcement below: