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‘The Boys’ Got Even More Meta With Its ‘Supernatural’ Reunion

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Throughout its run, Prime Video’s The Boys has been adding Supernatural alums to its cast. Both shows share Eric Kripke as a creator and showrunner, and he’s made it his mission to bring in actors from his former show into his new one. Former Dean Winchester Jensen Ackles was the big get as Soldier Boy, and now the superhero show’s final season has brought in his two big former co-stars, Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins.

On Friday, Prime Video released an alternate cut from the scene in last week’s episode “One-Shots” where the three Supernatural stars share a scene together. In the episode proper, Padalecki’s Mister Marathon and Collins’ Malchemical knock out Homelander and pitch Soldier Boy on turning against his son. But the newly released video plays it differently: instead of Marathon and Malchemical, Padalecki and Collins are Sam and Castiel are trying to turn Dean to their side by highlighting every bad thing Homelander’s done, in a very Supernatural way.

“He’s taking Chuck’s name in vain!” cries Sam/Marathon, followed by Cas/Mal going, “They wanna ban porn! They wanna ban Busty Asian Beauties!” To anyone who had Supernatural in their heart like that (or at least watched the first five seasons), the digression is a fun bit of “doing the thing” that lets The Boys get off a good amount of jokes in a short bit of time, as long as you ignore how ADR’d it comes off. It’s also meta in another way, as one of Supernatural’s most famous episodes—the season five episode “Changing Channels”—saw the Winchesters forced into participating in several TV shows.

Given how things end for Marathon and Malchemical, it’s probably good the Winchesters aren’t in The Boys. And in these final two episodes, we’ll see how well Soldier Boy gets off.

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Gen V Adds Some Mysterious New Stars to Its Season 2 Cast

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The Boys got a dose of college-age heroics with Gen V, which focuses on a group of Supes in training attending the prestigious Godolkin University. While the main show is coming to a close, the spinoff is going back to class, and it’s bringing some new students along for the ride.

Per Deadline, actors Keeya King (Yellowjackets), Julia Knope (In the Dark), Tait Fletcher (The Mandalorian), Stephen Kalyn (Warrior Strong), Stacey McGunnigle (This Hour Has 22 Minutes), Wyatt Dorian (Eerie Hall), and Georgie Murphy (Accused) will have recurring roles during Gen V’s sophomore outing. What roles will they have to play in the show’s story, and who will they be at Godolkin? Prime Video’s not saying yet, but season one stars Derek Luh and Maddie Phillips revealed production on the new season wrapped earlier this week. This past March, production paused following the death of Chance Perdomo, who played Andre. In May, Prime Video said his role wouldn’t be recast, and plotlines for the season were subsequently rewritten. Fellow season one stars Jaz Sinclar, Lizzie Broadway, London Thor, Asa Germann will reprise their roles from the previous season.

Both Gen V and The Boys are expected to come back to Prime Video sometime in 2025. The streamer’s also got other spinoffs cooked up: at SDCC, it revealed Jensen Ackles’ Soldier Boy and Aya Cash’s Stormfront are set to headline Vought Rising, a prequel series set in the 1950s about the birth of the titular Corporation and its rise to creating superheroes. That’ll also joined by a show set in Mexico and executive produced by Gael Garcia Bernal and Andor’s Diego Luna. After that, who knows—maybe a movie?

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