The Boys Star Says It Won't Have a 'Fairy Tale Ending'

Season five of Boys comes out in just over a week, heralding the beginning of the end for the show that turned the superhero genre on its head. At a time when we were all tired of Marvel and DC movies, the Amazon series gave us a more evil version of it where most, if not all, of the superheroes were like *****. Not to mention blood and gore.

Speaking of blood and gore, a show with so much death and violence can't just end with the good guys winning and the bad guys losing, right? With the way the odds are stacked against Butcher, Hughie and the gang, some fan favorites are bound to die. Even Hughie's actor, Jack Quaid, is asking fans to get ready for it.

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Quaid gave fans a clear warning of what to expect in the final season of The Boys on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (thanks, GamesRadar). When asked if the show would have a fairytale ending, Quaid couldn't help but laugh: “No, not at all,” he said. “No, it's The Boys. It's not going to be a fairytale ending by any means. This is the last season and we mean it. There are characters, I won't say who, that meet their end, and it's crazy, it's really, really nuts.”

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Quaid reflected on how the show is coming to an end and what it means to him after all these years. “And it was emotional,” he said. “I'm covered in blood a lot on the show and it was so weird to be covered in blood and gore and then to like it and also be emotional where I'm like 'I'm going to really miss this' and I'm soaked from head to toe. But it was just the honor of my life, I really love the show and everyone involved.”

It's not like we didn't already know things were going to be awful. In fact, one of the shots from the season five trailer shows the Homelander beating someone to a bloody pulp, and fans think it's his own son Ryan.