The Boys' 2027 Return To Prime Video Sets Up The Next 10 Years

Despite The Boys ending with its fifth season, Prime Video's shocking superhero series is far from over. Not only will the franchise return in 2027 with the prequel Vought Rising, a Mexico-based spinoff remains in active development too. Beyond those two releases, it would be unwise to bet against other projects emerging from Amazon's The Boys umbrella.

While the expansion of The Boys as a franchise is hardly surprising, the path currently unfolding before it is. As a prequel set in the 1950s, Vought Rising looks from the outside like an isolated narrative. A tale about Soldier Boy, Stormfront, and other legacy supes that adds more color to The Boys' history. Quite unexpectedly, Vought Rising is actually the secret key to unlocking the future of the entire franchise, and could define Amazon's The Boys output for the next decade.

For starters, the idea that Vought Rising will be purely set in the past is a dangerous assumption to make, as The Boys season 5 left two curious plot threads unresolved. Soldier Boy, somewhat controversially, ended the main show back in his deep-freeze pod thanks to Homelander, leaving his story completely open. The simple fact that The Boys decided on an ambiguous finale for Jensen Ackles' character would seem to confirm plans for him beyond the '50s.

Slotting neatly alongside Soldier Boy's potential return are the constant teases of Stormfront's survival. Aya Cash's villain faking her own death has always been a possibility, and The Boys played into that with small Easter eggs during season 4's TruthCon episode. But The Boys season 5 added genuine weight to that theory when Soldier Boy insisted Stormfront couldn't have taken her own life. Given the obvious resilience of V-One subjects, he might have a point.

So, The Boys ends with Soldier Boy definitely alive and Stormfront possibly alive, and Vought Rising's two main characters are Soldier Boy and Stormfront...

The conspiracy theorist within us is screaming, and Eric Kripke hasn't exactly dampened the enthusiasm, replying with "no comment" when asked directly about the prospect of a dual timeline. Whether it happens in Vought Rising itself or Vought Rising maps out a route to a sequel series, the Soldier Boy/Stormfront issue has enough mileage to become a Homelander-level narrative in The Boys' universe.

Other Ways Vought Rising Sets Up The Boys' Next 10 Years

The arrival of Bombsight in The Boys' final season was a bigger deal than it seemed. After four-and-a-bit seasons, viewers would have been forgiven for assuming every top-tier supe had been revealed, but Bombsight crawling out of the woodwork proved otherwise. Vought Rising will unveil other V-One carriers and early test subjects whose powers render them virtually immortal, and that poses major questions over where those heroes are during The Boys' main timeline.

Are Soldier Boy, Stormfront, and Bombsight Vought Rising's only three survivors, or have others been waiting in the shadows for a perfect opportunity to emerge? A perfect opportunity like Homelander's death, for instance. If Amazon needs a new batch of supes to replenish its ranks after the massacre of season 5, Vought Rising has the means to do that.

One of the main purposes behind Vought Rising is exploring the earlier years of Vought as a company. The main series only ever showed Vought through the lens of its two dictators, Stan Edgar and Homelander, but Amazon's upcoming prequel will prove the company is bigger than any one man (or supe). Vought Rising will shed some light on the real endgame for Vought, because while Stormfront and Homelander each had their own agendas, the company itself spent decades working toward a different destination the audience never got to see.

In a major tease, The Boys ended with Stan Edgar retaking control of Vought, free to continue whatever plan he was masterminding before Homelander interrupted. It's yet another plot point that could either play out in a modern-day Vought Rising timeline, or a future sequel that Vought Rising tees up.

Everything is, of course, dependent on the success of Vought Rising itself, and Gen V's cancellation served as a stark reminder that The Boys is by no means untouchable. By going back to the 1950s, however, The Boys has given itself an ideal platform to build a long-term future that features familiar and fresh faces alike.