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Following the release of the first two episodes of The Boys Season 5 today, it has been confirmed that one of the hit show’s major characters has been killed off by Antony Starr’s Homelander. At the end of the final season’s Episode 1, Jessie T. Usher’s A-Train sacrifices himself to save Hughie from Homelander, fully redeeming himself after accidentally killing Hughie’s girlfriend during the first season.
The Boys creator talks about major Season 5 death
During a recent interview with THR, The Boys creator Eric Kripke explained the reason why A-Train was the first major character that they decided to kill off in Season 5, revealing that he originally didn’t want him to die that early. However, the writers felt that a major character death in Episode 1 would really set the tone for the rest of the final season.
“I was initially resistant to killing him off that early,” Kripke shared. “It was a little scary to kill him off so soon. We had actually broken out [an alternate storyline] that was like: Where is he now, what is he doing, and how can he help The Boys? — All that stuff was in process, so it’s not like we didn’t have it. We knew that he was going to be the first big death. At the time, I think we were thinking maybe episode three.”
He continued, “And it was the writers who really campaigned for it — it’s their fault. They campaigned. They were like, ‘You keep saying that nobody’s safe, and that it’s going to be a season where anything can happen at any time. So with all due respect, put your fucking money where your mouth and show that you’re willing to drop a major character in the first episode. Because if you do that, then for the rest of the season, no one is going to feel safe.’ And I thought it was a winning argument.”
Before the writers decided to kill off A-Train in Episode 1, Kripke initially planned a three-episode arc for The Seven member, which would have featured the character reuniting with his estranged brother.
Kripke added, “So some of the storylines we were talking about — like reuniting with his brother and really choosing to be a hero after starting out as kind of Han Solo character — were this three-episode arc, and we did the greatest hits version to get it down to an appropriate sendoff in the premiere.”
The Boys is created and executive-produced by Kripke, based on the comic book series created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. The fifth and final season stars Karl Urban, Antony Starr, Jack Quaid, Laz Alonso, Tomer Capone, Karen Fukuhara, Erin Moriarty, Dominique McElligott, Chace Crawford, Nathan Mitchell, Colby Minifie, Cameron Crovetti, Valorie Curry, Susan Heyward, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Daveed Diggs, Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki, Misha Collins, and more.
The first two episodes of The Boys Season 5 are now streaming on Prime Video.
(Source: THR)
