Supernatural Reunion Confirmed for The Boys: ‘We Got Work to Do’
The fifth and final season of ‘The Boys’ has something special planned for fans of the Winchester brothers
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The Boys are getting Supernatural.
On Wednesday, Feb. 26, former Supernatural stars Jared Padalecki, Misha Collins and Jensen Ackles got together for an announcement that has fans of long-running series thrilled.
“Season 5 just got a bit more supernatural,” a joint Instagram Reel shared by The Boys and Prime Video revealed.
“Hey, Jared,” Ackles, 46, said at the beginning of the clip. “We got work to do…again.”
Padalecki, 42, then appeared on camera, adding, “Okay. I’ll tell Misha.” While speaking, he panned the camera over to what appeared to be a very special Chevrolet Impala with witchcraft symbols drawn on the open trunk.
Finally, Collins, 50, made a cameo, replying, “Okay,” while giving a thumbs up and flashing a smile.
“What are we doing?” he hesitantly asked as the promo ended.
Supernatural starred Padalecki and Ackles as brothers Sam and Dean Westchester, who hunted down supernatural beings for 15 seasons on The WB and is successor network, The CW, from 2005 to 2020. Collins joined the show in its fourth season as Castiel. Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who starred in The Boys season 4, played Sam and Dean’s father John.
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Ackles joined The Boys in season 3 as Soldier Boy and is expected to lead the spinoff Vought Rising alongside Aya Cash. Ackles also served as the narrator for The Winchesters, a short-lived spinoff about Dean and Sam’s parents that ran on The CW in 2022 and 2023.
When The Boys season 4 premiered, show creator Eric Kripke announced that season 5 would be the final installment of the beloved series. (Kripke also created Supernatural.)
“Always my plan, I just had to be cagey till I got the final OK from Vought. Thrilled to bring the story to a gory, epic, moist climax,” he wrote on X with a nod to the evil corporation at the center of his series.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, both Padalecki and Collins will appear in guest roles during season 5. Additional details are not immediately available.
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While speaking to the outlet in 2024, Kripke pointed out how The Boys franchise isn’t just another superhero project.
“The Boys and their spinoffs, none of them are really superhero shows,” Kripke previously told THR. “They have the suits and powers, but The Boys is a show about celebrity politics and late-stage capitalism.”
The shows, which have seen characters who were good, bad and everything in between, have also formed strong bonds within the cast.
Since Supernatural wrapped, its stars have remained close.
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“I love Jensen deeply,” Padelecki told The New York Times in 2021. He’s my brother — he has been for many years, and he always will be, no matter what. He’s spent more time with me on camera than anybody probably ever will, so he knows my strengths and weaknesses more than I do, and vice versa.”
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‘The Boys’ Final Season Casts Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins in ‘Supernatural’ Reunion With Jensen Ackles
By Ethan Shanfeld
Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins have joined the fifth and final season of “The Boys” as guest stars, reuniting with their fellow “Supernatural” alum, Jensen Ackles.
Details on their roles are being kept under wraps.
“The Boys” creator Eric Kripke has long expressed a desire to cast Padalecki on the satirical superhero drama, telling Variety last year, “I feel like I have to complete my game of ‘Supernatural’ Pokémon and I have my one big one — very big one — left to catch.” He later told Variety he was talking to Padalecki about a role on the final season, saying, “I love him and you try to work with people that you love.”
In addition to Ackles, who plays Soldier Boy, “The Boys” has also featured “Supernatural” actors Jim Beaver (playing Robert Singer), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (playing Joe Kessler) and Rob Benedict (playing Splinter).
Padalecki starred alongside Ackles on the CW sci-fi drama for 15 seasons, from its debut on what was then the WB in 2005 through its series finale in 2020. Collins also starred on “Supernatural” for 12 seasons, playing Castiel and eight other roles.
“The Boys” is currently in production on its fifth and final season. It stars Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Laz Alonso, Tomer Capone, Karen Fukuhara, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Dominique McElligott, Jessie T. Usher, Nathan Mitchell, Chace Crawford, Colby Minifie, Claudia Doumit and Giancarlo Esposito.
The college-set spinoff “Gen V” debuted in 2023 and was renewed for a second season. There was also an adult animated spinoff titled “The Boys Presents: Diabolical” and the upcoming show “Vought Rising” starring Padalecki.
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Padalecki is not the star of Vought Rising, Jensen Ackles is.
This is going to be the best season ever!!!
Vought Rising stars Jensen, not Jared.
YOU WROTE WRONG LOL. JENSEN IS STARRING IN VOUGHT RISING NOT JARED
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Supernatural vets Jared Padalecki, Misha Collins officially reunite with Jensen Ackles on The Boys final season
Padalecki and Collins will share scenes with Ackles, the latter returning as Soldier Boy.
The Boys final season is officially one big Supernatural reunion.
After showrunner Eric Kripke signaled that a role for Jared Padalecki seemed possible for season 5, Amazon officially announced Padalecki would be joined by fellow alum Misha Collins. They are even confirmed to share scenes with Jensen Ackles, who will return as Soldier Boy.
“Hey, Jared. We got work to do…again,” Ackles says in a video message to his Supernatural counterpart.
“Okay. I’ll tell Misha,” Padalecki responds before Collins pops in a separate screen.
Details on Padalecki and Collins’ roles are being kept under wraps, but they will be in a guest-appearance capacity. Kripke, who created Supernatural and worked with this trio of gents as that series’ original showrunner, long talked about getting Padalecki on The Boys. He admitted to Entertainment Weekly in one such previous interview that he fully recognized getting him together on screen with Ackles again would “break the internet.” And when the CW canceled Walker, it seemed like a reunion was in the bag. We just didn’t see the Collins curveball.
It’s unclear if they will also share scenes with another big Supernatural veteran, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who joined the ranks of The Boys in season 4 as Joe Kessler. Though, the character proved to be a bit more complicated than just a figure from Butcher’s past.
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The Boys season 5 will now also include Hamilton and The Little Mermaid star Daveed Diggs in an undisclosed role, as well as actor Mason Dye in the guest role of supe Bombsight. Kripke told EW the fourth season, which ended in a January 6-level coup that saw Homelander (Antony Starr) and the supes take over the U.S. government, triggers “the endgame.”
“Instead of having a villain talk about a thing they’re going to do, which then our heroes stop from coming to pass, it’s just so fun that he really did it,” he said. “He took over the country. It’s his country now. What does that look like in season 5, and how do our characters fight against it? Which has led to a lot of fun in the writer’s room. I’m really excited with what we’re coming up with.”
Also returning are series stars Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Erin Moriarty, Karen Fukuhara, Laz Alonso, Tomer Capone, Jessie T. Usher, Chace Crawford, Cameron Crovetti, and Colby Minifie. Season 4 newcomers Susan Heyward and Valorie Curry will also return.
A season 4 post-credits scene in the finale revealed Ackles’ Soldier Boy return for season 5, but the actor has a larger future within the world of The Boys beyond that. He will headline an upcoming prequel spinoff called Vought Rising with Aya Cash as Stormfront. The series, marking the third offshoot from the mothership show after animated anthology Diabolical and the college-set Gen V, will take place in the 1950s at the dawn of the superhero age.
