‘The Boys’ Officially Recasts Homelander for New Release

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Antony Starr as Homelander in The Boys Image via Prime Video

Published Oct 16, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT

Adam Blevins began working in the entertainment industry in 2022 as a Staff Writer for Agents of Fandom, where he progressed to Senior Editor and interviewed talent from Marvel Studios, House of the Dragon, and Planet of the Apes. He joined Collider as a News Author in April 2024, was promoted to a Senior position in December 2024, and has written over 3,000 articles for the site, including exclusives relating to Avengers: Doomsday, The Penguin, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, and more. He primarily writes about the latest box office numbers and the hottest movies and TV shows on streaming, while also covering superhero and sci-fi news. He has completed a set visit for The Chosen and even has several months of experience writing Gaming Features at ScreenRant. You can find him on X, LinkedIn, and Muckrack.

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Prime Video has released dozens of successful shows in the last 5–10 years, but few have reached the same level of fame as The Boys, which first arrived in 2019. Prime Video puts out a new season of The Boys almost every year, which is as good of a turnaround timeline as you can ask for in the modern streaming era, when shows often go on a years-long hiatus between seasons. When the first season of The Boys arrived on streaming less than a year before the COVID-19 pandemic, there was no way to predict it would go on to become as popular as it did over the next seven years. When the fifth and final season of The Boys hit streaming earlier this year, millions of fans were tuning in every week to see how the story of Butcher and Homelander was going to come to a head.

Prime Video has already released one spin-off of The Boys, Gen V, but the show was canceled after only one season — it’s also unclear if any of the characters from Gen V will ever show up in-universe again. Prime Video does have bigger plans for The Boys in the future, though, including the next spin-off, Vought Rising, starring Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy and Aya Cash as Clara Vought, years before her rise as Stormfront. Another project set in the world of The Boys was released earlier this year, though, and you may not have even realized it. We’re talking, of course, about Trigger Warning, the VR game that’s now available on platforms like Meta Quest and even PlayStation VR.

Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which Superhero Team Should You Join? Avengers · X-Men · Teen Titans · The Boys

Every team is a personality test with a uniform. One saves the world and argues about it the whole way home. One has been fighting for the right to exist since the day it formed. One is still working out who it is while the fighting happens. And one has no powers at all, plus no intention of playing fair. Eight questions decide where you actually belong.

🛡️Avengers(Marvel Studios)

🧬X-Men(Marvel)

🐦Teen Titans(DC)

💊The Boys(Prime Video)

FIND YOUR TEAM →

01

What kind of power would you actually want? The power matters less than what you would be willing to do with it.

ASomething enormous and obvious. I would not hide it. BSomething I was born with, whether I wanted it or not. CSomething still growing that I cannot quite control. DNone at all. I would rather nobody sees me coming.

NEXT QUESTION →

02

Why join a team at all? Nobody puts on the suit for the reason they say out loud.

ABecause some threats are too big for anyone alone. BBecause people like me are safer together than apart. CBecause I did not want to do any of this alone. DBecause somebody has to hold these people accountable.

NEXT QUESTION →

03

How do you feel about the people in charge? Every team has a chain of command. Very few of them survive contact.

AI will follow a good leader and argue with a bad one. BThey have never protected people like me. I expect nothing. CI am still learning who to trust, and getting it wrong. DThey are the problem. That is the entire point.

NEXT QUESTION →

04

What is your role inside a group? Every roster needs the same handful of people to function.

AThe big personality. I take up room and I earn it. BThe one who protects whoever arrived most recently. CThe heart. I keep everybody talking to each other. DThe one who says the uncomfortable thing out loud.

NEXT QUESTION →

05

How do you win a fight you should lose? This is the scene the entire film gets built around.

AOverwhelming force, and a very good landing. BWorking together in a way nobody saw coming. CRefusing to give up long after I should have. DPreparation, leverage, and one extremely dirty trick.

NEXT QUESTION →

06

What is this work costing you? Nobody does this for free. The bill just arrives differently for everyone.

AMy private life. Everybody knows my face now. BMy safety. The world is frightened of me. CMy childhood. I grew up faster than I should have. DMy peace. I cannot stop now that I know.

NEXT QUESTION →

07

How should the world see your team? Half of this job is public relations, and everybody knows it.

AAs icons. The team everyone is relieved to see arrive. BAs people. Just people, which is all we ever asked. CAs proof the next generation is going to be fine. DThey should not see us at all until it is done.

NEXT QUESTION →

08

The offer arrives. What makes you say yes? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides your team.

AThe scale. If the world is ending, I want to be there. BThe promise that I would not have to hide anymore. CThe people. I would be joining friends, not an employer. DThe chance to take down somebody who deserves it.

REVEAL MY TEAM →

Recruitment Is Complete Your Team Is…

Four teams, four completely different reasons to put yourself in danger for strangers. This is the roster you actually belong on, what they would want from you, and what it would cost you to stay.

The Avengers

You belong where the stakes are largest and the personalities are loudest. This is a team of people who are all used to being the most important person in the room, which is exactly why it works and exactly why it keeps nearly falling apart.

  • The Avengers are not friends who became a team. They are a team that slowly and reluctantly became friends, and you would recognise every stage of that process.
  • You can hold your own among big egos without needing to win every exchange, which is the real entry requirement here.
  • The arguing is part of the method. This group does its best thinking mid-disagreement, usually at volume, usually in a very expensive building.
  • When the sky opens, they are who shows up. You would want to be standing in that line.

The X-Men

You have never had the luxury of being thanked for this. The X-Men protect a world that has never once been comfortable with them existing, and something in you understands exactly why they keep doing it anyway.

  • This is the only team on the list whose central conflict is not a villain. It is being wanted gone by the same people they keep saving.
  • You know what it is to be the outsider in a room and to decide, anyway, that you will not make yourself smaller so everyone else is comfortable.
  • The X-Men are the most genuine found family in comics. People arrive with nowhere else to go and are never once asked to explain themselves.
  • You would not be joining for the glory. There has never been any.

The Teen Titans

You do not want colleagues, you want your people. The Titans are the team where the friendship came first and the world-saving turned up afterwards as an inconvenient side effect.

  • Every Titan is somebody's sidekick who decided to stop being one. That decision, not the villain of the week, is what the team is actually about.
  • You would be joining people who are all working themselves out at the same time as you, which is far less lonely than being the only one.
  • The Titans lose regularly. Then they eat together and come back better, which is a more honest model of growing up than any other team here manages.
  • The tower would be loud, chaotic, and the first place that ever felt like yours.

The Boys

You are not asking who to trust. You worked out the answer a while ago and it was nobody in a cape. This is where you go once you have decided the people in charge need watching, and that nobody else is going to do it.

  • The Boys have no powers, no mandate and no funding. What they have is leverage, patience, and a very high tolerance for consequences.
  • You are the person in the room who notices the thing everybody else has quietly agreed not to mention.
  • This is not a heroic team and it has never pretended otherwise. It is a group of damaged people doing necessary work in ways nobody would call clean.
  • You would not sleep well. You would keep going anyway.

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Say Goodbye to Antony Starr as Homelander in ‘The Boys’

Several original stars from the first five seasons of The Boys appear in the new project, Trigger Warning, including Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy and Laz Alonso as Mother's Milk. However, Antony Starr was recast as Homelander for the new release, with Jake Green voicing the iconic villainous supe in the game. Green is a widely known voice actor who has done work for other recent projects including Marvel’s Wolverine, Young Jedi Adventures, and even Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. The Boys: Trigger Warning is an original story set within the world of The Boys that fits seamlessly into the existing canon.

Check out all five seasons of The Boys on Prime Video and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of future projects like Vought Rising.

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Release Date 2019 - 2026-00-00

Showrunner Eric Kripke

Writers Eric Kripke

Franchise(s) The Boys

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