Those tuning into the final season of The Boys and those who quit the Amazon Prime Video series, or fell behind, but can’t seem to let go of morbid curiosity about how it ends might want to keep track of every fatality. No matter your situation, here’s a breakdown of every character who dies on The Boys season five. Updated after the episodes have dropped, obviously, so no spoilers if you are keeping up.
The Boys is such a violent and cynical show that the final season simply has to kill off some major characters. Nobody is safe. Will this be the end of Homelander (Anthony Starr)? Can Hughie (Jack Quaid) possibly survive? Will Starlight (Erin Moriarty) make the ultimate sacrifice? What about Stan Edgar (Giancarlo Esposito), Ashley (Colbie Minifie), Butcher (Karl Urban), Frenchie (Tomer Capone) or Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara)? It really feels like anything can happen.
A-Train
Died in: Season 5, Episode 1
The final season began with a major death, just in case you thought The Boys was going to pull its punches. A-Train (Jessie T. Usher) has been on the show since the very beginning. The speedster started off as an antagonist and grew increasingly frustrated with how Vought treated him, especially as a former athlete. He joined Starlight’s rebellion, recruited some youths at the end of Gen V season 2, but in the season 5 premiere, gets killed by Homelander himself.
Love Sausage
Died in: Season 5, Episode 1
This character from The Boys comics appeared sporadically on the show and Gen V and returns here for the longest (no pun intended) and last time. He uses his supernaturally big d*ck as a weapon and gets killed in the premiere’s big battle thanks to Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso) and his own appendix.
Jetstreak
Died in: Season 5, Episode 2
The fifth season introduced some young influencer-y antagonists and almost immediately killed one off. Jetstreak (Dylan Colton) was the leader of the Teenage Kix and used rounding up Starlight’s allies as an excuse to create content. His powers included flight and super hearing. Unfortunately for him, Jetstreak got hit with the test run of the anti-V supe-killing virus that Butcher (Karl Urban) plans to use against Homelander and quickly succumbed.
Rock Hard
Died in: Season 5, Episode 2
This freaky antagonist (Andrew Iles) got got by the virus. One of his powers is immortality, so his death is kind good news for Frenchie, Butcher and the rest of The Boys’ master plan. The only survivor of that attack was Soldier Boy, who is immune due to the V1 in his bloodstream.
Maverick
Died in: Season 5, Episode 3
Maverick (Nicholas Hamilton), the son of the late Translucent (Alex Hassell) is killed by The Deep’s (Chace Crawford) henchperson Cindy (Ess Hödlmoser) just after learning that Hughie killed his father. The character showed up on the first Gen V as well, and briefly in the second season.
Cindy
Died in: Season 5, Episode 3
In turn, Starlight takes out the Eleven-from-Stranger-Things wannabe Cindy–who tried to kill Starlight in a previous season. At the beginning of the final season, we see Cindy stationed at a Vought internment camp and killing an escapee. So the death of this ruthless character is not exactly super sad.
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