Jack Quaid Warns of Major Character Deaths in “The Boys”' Final Season: 'Not a Fairytale Ending in Any Regard'

Brenton BlanchetTue, March 31, 2026 at 4:45 PM UTC

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Jack Quaid in 'The Boys'Credit: Jan Thijs/Prime Video -

Jack Quaid is teasing the final chapter of The Boys

During his Monday, March 30, appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Quaid confirmed that there's no "happily ever after" in the show's fifth and final season

"There are characters, I won't say who, but [they] meet their end," he said

Jack Quaid isn't promising any happily-ever-afters.

While appearing on the Monday, March 30 episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Quaid teased the ending of The Boys as the hit Prime Video series approaches its final chapter.

"In a normal superhero show, everyone usually lives happily ever after at the end," Fallon said. "Is that something we can expect?"

"No," Quaid, 33, said with a laugh.

As Quaid put it, the final season of The Boys — which arrives on April 8 — is "not going to be a fairytale ending in any regard."

"But yeah, this is the final season, and we really do mean that," he added. "There are characters, I won't say who, but [they] meet their end and it's crazy. It's really, really nuts. And it was emotional."

He added, "I'm covered in blood a lot on the show. And it was so weird to be covered in blood and various goos and then just also be emotional about that. Like, 'I'm really gonna miss this.' And I'm just drenched, head to toe. But it's just been the honor of my life. I truly love this show and everyone involved."

Jack Quaid and the cast of 'The Boys'Credit: Jasper Savage/Prime Video

Quaid first appeared in The Boys as Hughie Campbell in 2019 and stars alongside Karl Urban, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty and more. Ahead of season 5, Moriarty told Collider she believes fans will have "mixed" reactions to the show's ending.

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"Oh, I just got chills," Moriarty, 31, said. "I think it's going to be mixed. You think with The Boys it would just be like, 'Holy f---,' but I think it's going to be emotional."

"I think it's going to be emotional because the thing about the show that I really enjoy watching as an audience member — because so many of the scenes that I'm not in, I just watch as if I wasn't in the show — is watching Antony [Starr] and Homelander," she added. "The way he plays that character is brilliant."

Moriarty added that the show's creator Eric Kripke also "warned that no one is safe this season," which will feature "a lot of shock, there’s going to be a lot of laughter, there's humor."

Urban, who plays Billy Butcher, told Variety that fans can look forward to "the whole thing coming to a big crescendo."

“Every season, but particularly this season, from episode one, you’re like, oh wow,” he said. “Nobody is safe. Fatalities right from the get-go. Let’s go, last season. It’s all on.”

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Prime Video dropped the trailer for the final season of The Boys on March 5.

The Boys season 5 will premiere on Prime Video April 8.

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