The Boys season 5 drops a very Supernatural reunion teaser – details explored in depth

Promo photo from The Boys Season 4 + Supernatural logo (Collage by Beatrix Kondo) | Source: Amazonb MGM Studios
Promo photo from The Boys Season 4 + Supernatural logo (Collage by Beatrix Kondo) | Source: Amazon MGM Studios

The Boys + Supernatural?

"We got work to do… again."

That’s all it took. One sentence. One video. Two giant franchises. Equals? Fandoms-wide meltdown.

The official The Boys X account just detonated the internet with a teaser that no one was emotionally prepared for. Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins are officially joining season 5, standing side by side with Jensen Ackles. For years, Eric Kripke has been slowly pulling actors from Supernatural into his twisted superhero playground. First, he brought in Ackles as Soldier Boy. Then came Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Now, he’s completed the unholy trinity.

Season 5 was already confirmed as the final ride for The Boys, but this? This just turned the endgame into something bigger, wilder, and infinitely more insane. Because if Kripke is bringing these three back together, he’s not doing it just for fun.

"We got work to do… and it’s going to get messy" — The Boys goes full Supernatural?

The teaser doesn’t hold back. It drops in like a grenade, no explanation, no warning, just pure chaos. Ackles casually dials up Padalecki and drops the Winchester classic.

"Hey, Jared, we got work to do… again."
Jared Padalecki @ Austin City Limits Celebrates 50 Years: A Special Anniversary Taping - Source: Getty
Jared Padalecki @ Austin City Limits Celebrates 50 Years: A Special Anniversary Taping - Source: Getty

Padalecki smirks, because of course he does.

"Okay, I’ll tell Misha."
The CW Network's 2022 Upfront Arrivals - Source: Getty
The CW Network's 2022 Upfront Arrivals - Source: Getty

And then Collins, ever the wildcard, pops in with the perfect mix of confusion and reluctant enthusiasm.

"Okay… what are we doing?"

Then comes the final gut punch, the logo of The Boys comes flashing on the screen like a taunt. The tagline for the post is:

"Season 5 just got a bit more Supernatural."

That’s it. No context. No character reveals. Just three actors who spent fifteen years fighting demons and the apocalypse, now stepping into a world where superheroes are the real monsters. And if you think Kripke won’t lean into that? You haven’t been paying attention.

This video wasn’t just a hey, look who’s here a moment—it was a statement. It means something huge is coming.

Hunters in supe territory — The road so far...

Walker Stalker Convention Kills it in Philadelphia - Source: Getty
Walker Stalker Convention Kills it in Philadelphia - Source: Getty

If Padalecki and Collins are stepping into The Boys, it means one of two things. Either they’re here to burn this world to the ground, or they’re about to be chewed up and spit out by it. This isn’t Supernatural. There’s no Impala (really?), no Kansas soundtrack, no cosmic resets. Here, people explode for standing in the wrong place.

Amazon hasn’t revealed who they’re playing, but the possibilities are endless.

Maybe Padalecki is a supe who was engineered to be the perfect hero, but, like everything in The Boys, it went wrong. Maybe Collins is the voice of a twisted AI running Vought’s latest abomination. Maybe they’re not even playing new characters—maybe Kripke is going full meta and throwing them into this world as themselves, the most cursed kind of celebrity guest stars imaginable.

One of the biggest fan theories? That their characters will be tied directly to Soldier Boy’s past. We already know season 4 introduced Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s character, a man with deep connections to Butcher. If Kripke is following his usual chaotic formula, then Padalecki and Collins could be more than just one-episode cameos. They could be the last piece of the puzzle, the ultimate wildcard in Vought’s crumbling empire.

What really matters is that all three of them will share screen time. And that means something huge is coming.


Kripke’s endgame – the reunion was never a question, just a matter of time

Kripke doesn’t do nostalgia just for the sake of it. If he’s bringing in Padalecki and Collins, it’s because there’s a plan. And let’s be real, he’s been scheming this for a while.

For years, he’s been joking in interviews about how he wanted to get Padalecki into The Boys. When Ackles joined in season 3, Kripke straight-up admitted that he’d find a way to bring Sam Winchester back into the mix. The only problem? Scheduling.

The CW Network's 2022 Upfront Presentation - Source: Getty
The CW Network's 2022 Upfront Presentation - Source: Getty

Padalecki was busy leading Walker, and Collins had just jumped into Gotham Knights. But then Walker ended. Gotham Knights got axed. And suddenly, Kripke had an opening.


It wasn’t a matter of if—it was a matter of when

Misha Collins and Jared Padalecki @Comic-Con International 2018 - "Supernatural" Special Video Presentation and Q&A - Source: Getty
Misha Collins and Jared Padalecki @Comic-Con International 2018 - "Supernatural" Special Video Presentation and Q&A - Source: Getty
"The value of that is to break the internet… putting those two in a scene together would destroy much of the world, and that’s appealing."

He wasn’t wrong. The second the teaser dropped, Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit—every corner of the internet lit up like Butcher’s Compound V overdose. The Supernatural fandom, The Boys fandom, people who hadn’t even thought about Supernatural in years—everyone collectively lost their minds.

And this is just the beginning.


The final hunt

Season 5 was already shaping up to be absolute chaos. Jeffrey Dean Morgan is locked in after making his debut in season 4. Soldier Boy is back in action. Homelander is still one bad day away from ending humanity as we know it. And now, with Padalecki and Collins entering the fray, everything just got a hundred times more unpredictable.

There’s no way Kripke just throws them in for a cameo and calls it a day. Not when the show is ending. Not when the hype is this insane.

The teaser already did its job. It didn’t have to tell us anything. It just had to confirm what fans have been dreaming about since Supernatural ended—that we’re getting one last hunt.

The only question now is, how much damage is Kripke about to do?

Considering this is The Boys, the answer is probably: all of it.

Edited by Tanisha Aggarwal
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