After screening a new Gen V season 2 trailer packed with The Boys crossovers and some new casting, Amazon’s Comic-Con panel in Ballroom 20 on Friday afternoon left one major reveal for the very end: the first teaser trailer for the fifth and final season of the mothership series.
The Gen V stars and their showrunner, Michele Fazekas, exited the stage, at which point panel host Adam Bourke, who plays Vought filmmaker P.J. Byrne across both shows, announced Amazon would screen the footage in the room only.
It’s unclear how long fans not in San Diego will have to wait to see it online, but here’s what we saw.
The first teaser trailer for any season of The Boys or Gen V follows a similar structure: a series of dramatic shots all rapidly cut together, with a few stirring lines of dialogue thrown in the mix. This one was no different. Among the fast flashes of various characters, we saw a first look at Supernatural alum Jared Padalecki in his undisclosed role. It was a single image of Padalecki flashing a charming smile at someone off screen.
We also see a glimpse of the actor’s Supernatural partner in crime, Jensen Ackles, returning as Soldier Boy. He is still locked in cryogenic slumber, still watched over by Homelander (Antony Starr). We’re also expecting Misha Collins on The Boys final season, though we don’t see him in the trailer. However, we do know that all three Supernatural bros will share scenes together.
Most of the main members of the Boys — Hughie (Jack Quaid), MM (Laz Alonso), Frenchie (Tomer Capone), and Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) — were all captured by Homelander’s supe cronies at the end of season 4. Fazekas, however, teased during the Gen V panel that season 2 of the college-set spinoff will feature cameos from many of The Boys stars to explain what happened to some of them since then.
In The Boys season 5 Comic-Con trailer, we find the gang back together, including with Karl Urban’s newly supe-charged Butcher and Erin Moriarty’s Starlight. Some of the Gen V folks are coming along for the ride. The Boys track down blood-bender Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair) and the gender-shifting Jordan Li (London Thor portrays Jordan’s female form in the footage), who watch cautiously from the porch of some house.
Beyond that, it’s a lot of blood. Some are drenched in it. Some, like Cameron Crovetti’s Ryan, now more grown up, have blood smeared on their faces. There are explosions, too, and lots of NSFW supe antics, like one unidentified supe hacking up a disgusting ball of…something from her throat that splatters on Kimiko’s cheek.
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Karl Urban (Billy Butcher) on ‘The Boys’ season 4
We also get a glimpse of Hamilton and The Little Mermaid star Daveed Diggs in an all-white, Elton John-esque stage outfit, performing what looks to be some kind of musical act.
And then there’s Ashley (Colby Minifie). Poor, poor Ashley. The camera lingers on her face as her expression slowly transitions from all smiles to utter despair. Another rapid-cut snapshot shows she has just about pulled every single strand of hair off of her head due to stress.
“This is a safer, more god-fearing nation!” Homelander shouts like the egomaniacal dictator he has become.
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“The shows talk to each other, so season 4 of The Boys sets us up in season 2 of Gen V,” Fazekas said during the Gen V portion of the panel. “So Homelander has taken over America, and now we get to see what that looks like in the country, what that looks like at the school, and then what the resistance is going to start to look like. And there will be some important cameos. Where are some of these people from The Boys? Where did they end up? So there will answers to that and how they all play into the resistance to Homelander.”
The Boys season 5 finished filming and will likely premiere in 2026 on Amazon’s Prime Video. Gen V season 2’s first three episodes premiere Sept. 17.
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