The Boys Is Just Getting Started: Every Spinoff On The Way

The Boys is done. Seven years of exploding heads, milk chugs, and miraculously un-canceled corporate PR later, the main show has wrapped. But Prime Video is not packing up its Supe toys. The Vought Cinematic Universe (yes, VCU) is very much alive.

Spoilers ahead for the series finale.

The finale doesn’t burn time teeing up spinoffs; it locks in on the core story and actually ends it. Homelander and Butcher are dead. No clear path for Hughie, Starlight, or the rest to pop back in tomorrow. Still, two new projects are already moving, with more ideas percolating in the background.

Vought Rising: the 1950s prequel

This one rewinds to the early days of Vought in the 1950s, right as the company is tinkering its way into the first big wave of Supes. The pitch is a dark, pulpy murder mystery anchored by Jensen Ackles back as Soldier Boy. It is a prequel, but do not be shocked if the show plays with time a bit.

• Jensen Ackles returns as Soldier Boy.
• Aya Cash is back as Clara Vought, better known as Stormfront.
• Ethan Slater reprises Thomas Godolkin, the God U founder tied to how Compound V scaled up, following Gen V Season 2.
• Season 5 of The Boys quietly loaded the bench for this era: it name-dropped or introduced figures from Soldier Boy’s past like Quinn (with whom he clearly has history) and Bombsight, with Mason Dye confirmed to return.
• Two more confirmed Supes here: Elizabeth Posey as Private Angel and Will Hochman as Torpedo.
• There is chatter (not confirmed) that the show could also peek into the present day after The Boys ends, which would be convenient given Soldier Boy is technically still alive in cryo-freeze.
• Target release: 2027 on Prime Video.

Worth noting: the main series finale did not hand this prequel a baton. Season 5 did that work earlier by sprinkling in names and mythology that Vought Rising can now pick up.

The Boys: Mexico

The other confirmed spinoff is in development: The Boys: Mexico. As the title not-so-subtly suggests, it is set in Mexico, which is interesting on its own because the franchise has barely shown us what a Supe ecosystem looks like outside the U.S. Blue Beetle writer Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer is leading the charge, with Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal on board as executive producers. Both could appear on screen, but if they do, do not expect them to headline.

What about Gen V and more?

Eric Kripke has made it clear he is not done kicking the tires on other corners of this world. He specifically wants to keep the Gen V story alive in some form, and he is open to more spinoffs as long as they are not cookie-cutter remixes of the main show.

"I’d love to continue that story. I think we have left money on the table. There’s more there in terms of how those characters can evolve into fully realized heroes."

"A couple of the senior writers from The Boys, and also from Vought Rising, are putting together ideas that they are passionate about. We will only do them if one, they are totally different from The Boys. Two, if somebody is really passionate about it and it’s not just a piece of commerce, if it’s idiosyncratic and weirdly shaped and something somebody loves. I know that makes a difference."

For now, the scoreboard looks like this: The Boys is finished, the animated Diabolical and the college-set Gen V are also done, Vought Rising is in the pipeline for 2027, and The Boys: Mexico is being built. And if those writer-room experiments pay off, we will probably hear about a couple more projects stalking the runway.

All five seasons of The Boys are streaming on Prime Video.