[This story contains a MAJOR spoiler from Prime Video’s The Boys season five premiere, “Fifteen Inches of Sheer Dynamite.”]
The Boys kicked off its final season with a major character death, as one of The Seven was mercilessly murdered by Homelander.
In the first episode of season five, A-Train a.k.a. Reggie Franklin (Jessie T. Usher) was killed off in the episode’s final minutes. Homelander chased down the Fastest Man Alive after A-Train, having newly grown a conscience, swerved to avoid killing an innocent bystander — a callback to when the character accidentally killed Hughie’s (Jack Quaid) girlfriend in the series premiere. Furious with A-Train’s repeated betrayals, Homelander executed his formerly close colleague.
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