The Boys Series Finale Resolves The Fate Of One Forgotten Character – SlashFilm

Spoilers for “The Boys” collection finale comply with.

To recap: “The Boys” Season 4 was set solely within the run-up between the tip of a presidential election and inauguration. Democratic nominee Robert “Dakota Bob” Singer (Jim Beaver) had gained the election, however made the error of selecting Victoria Neuman (Claudia Doumit) — a blood-bending supe who can explode folks’s heads on command — as his VP. Season 4 was a race in opposition to for the Boys — working with Singer — to neutralize Neuman earlier than she took workplace, head popped her strategy to the presidency, and handed America over to Homelander (Antony Starr).

Properly, Billy Butcher (Karl City) took care of Neuman (learn Claudia Doumit’s ideas on her character’s dying right here), however Singer was framed for the homicide. He went from President-elect to convict, permitting Homelander puppet Steve Calhoun (David Andrews) to take the White Home.

By the collection finale “Blood and Bone,” Homelander and Calhoun are each useless, and the regime is toppled. VP turned President Ashley Barrett (Colby Minifie, although Doumit initially auditioned for Ashley earlier than touchdown the a part of Neuman) tried to carry on to energy, however she was impeached. Who changed her? Dakota Bob.

Singer reveals up within the final scene of the collection, calling up Hughie (Jack Quaid) with a job supply. The collection glosses over how he acquired freed, however he is lastly serving as President. Since Vought hasn’t been toppled and there are nonetheless loads of unhealthy supes on the market, Singer presents Hughie a job directing a reinstated Federal Bureau of Superhuman Affairs (the place he had been working again in Season 3, earlier than studying Neuman was a supe). However Hughie is out of the sport, even when meaning saying no to the president.

Whereas Bob Singer’s destiny was removed from probably the most urgent free finish “The Boys” needed to tie up, it is a good little bit of continuity to deliver him again. He was an harmless man wrongly imprisoned for a criminal offense he did not commit, so this corrects an injustice. Plus, he is in all probability going to be a greater president than Homelander or his puppets have been, and this enables “The Boys” to indicate issues have returned to relative normalcy within the U.S. Of course, Singer was by no means a major sufficient character to get his personal spot within the collection’ closing epilogue, so his cameo is rightly about underlining Hughie’s comfortable ending.

There’s in all probability cause that “The Boys” creator Eric Kripke did not overlook to disclose Singer’s destiny. Jim Beaver had a recurring function on his earlier collection, “Supernatural,” because the demon hunter Bobby Singer, a father determine to the heroes Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles). Singer’s identify in “The Boys” is even a reference to Beaver’s identically named character on “Supernatural.” (In “The Boys” comics, President Dakota Bob’s full identify is Robert Schaefer.)

Jim Beaver is way from the one “Supernatural” actor on “The Boys.” Ackles is probably the most outstanding alum on the present as Soldier Boy, and “The Boys” Seasons 4-5 featured Jeffrey Dean Morgan (who performed Sam and Dean’s father, John) as Joe Kessler. “The Boys” Season 5 Episode 5 was a full-on “Supernatural” reunion, pairing Soldier Boy with Mr. Marathon (performed by Padalecki) and Malchemical (Misha Collins, greatest referred to as the angel Castiel on “Supernatural”). Kripke soared to new heights with “The Boys,” however he hasn’t forgotten the place he began.

“The Boys” is streaming on Prime Video.