Eric Kripke, the showrunner for The Boys, shares an update on Jared Padalecki’s appearance in the series. With Jensen Ackles playing Soldier Boy in The Boys and the spinoff series Gen V, there is a lot of interest in Padalecki joining the franchise to reunite with his Supernatural co-star.

Season 5 of The Boys has been confirmed as the last season, which means that the Sam and Dean Winchester actors will get one last chance to reconcile before the main series concludes.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Kripke, the creator of Supernatural, voiced his desire to see a reunion and said that he is now in active and positive discussions with Padalecki about The Boys season 5. Despite this, he emphasizes that nothing has been confirmed, including who Padalecki will play in the final season of the Prime Video series. Check out Kripke’s remarks on the probable reunion below:

The value of that is to break the internet. So we’ll see whether it’s right for the story. But yes, it’s occurred to me that putting those two in a scene together would destroy much of the world, and that’s appealing.

We both have now seen that it looks like our schedules will line up . I don’t have the role for him yet just because we haven’t cooked it up. We’re still really early in the season 5 break, but it does seem like the planets are aligning. Barring any unforeseen disaster, it seems like it’ll happen. Again, I don’t know what the character is, I don’t know if it’s one episode or more, I genuinely know a total of zero about all of that. I’m not being coy. I really don’t know.

Padalecki’s role should follow the pattern of other supernatural actors who joined the boys.

Solider Boy and Dean couldn’t be more different.

One of the best parts of seeing so many Supernatural actors join The Boys is that they have not been typecast and are instead playing drastically different characters. While Ackles’ Supernatural character Dean is ultimately a loyal hero, Soldier Boy only presents the facade of a superhero, and is in actuality a bigoted, selfish individual who is the epitome of toxic masculinity. The juxtaposition between Dean and Soldier Boy is part of what helps Ackles steal the show in The Boys season 3 and in Gen V.

Ackles is not the only example of this, with The Boys casting two Supernatural actors who played God as disgusting humans. In Generation V, Alexander Calvert plays Rufus, a Godolkin University student who drugs and attempts to 𝓈ℯ𝓍ually assault Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair), before she causes his penis to explode. The second is Rob Benedict, Splinter in The Boys season 4, an assistant to the highly troublesome Firecracker (Valorie Curry). He is responsible for a deeply uncomfortable sauna scene in episode 2.

Padalecki’s portrayal of a villainous character in season 5 of The Boys could contrast with his portrayal of Sam in Supernatural, which was sympathetic and caring. The reunion of Ackles and Padalecki in The Boys would be a “break the internet” moment, as they would portray unlikable characters instead of the likable duo they are known for on Supernatural. The boorish Soldier Boy has already generated numerous memes and GIFs, which will only increase if he appears with Padalecki’s yet-to-be-determined persona.