{"id":3242,"date":"2026-05-06T17:08:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/?p=3242"},"modified":"2026-05-06T17:08:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:08:50","slug":"the-boys-season-5-episode-6-why-did-soldier-boy-give-homelander-v1-ending-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2026\/05\/06\/the-boys-season-5-episode-6-why-did-soldier-boy-give-homelander-v1-ending-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Wait, why did Soldier Boy give Homelander V1? Baffling The Boys twist ending explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After locking him up in a supe-proof cell, punching him in the face, and expressing disdain for him at any given moment, Soldier Boy just\u2026 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gave<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Homelander the V1 at the end of <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/tag\/the-boys\/\">The Boys<\/a> season five episode six.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s getting real close to crunch time in the <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/tag\/prime-video\/\">Prime Video<\/a> superhero series, with just two episodes left until the show wraps up for good. So far, there have only been a couple of noteworthy deaths, including <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2026\/04\/30\/the-boys-showrunner-real-life-reason-why-homelander-killed-firecracker\/\">Firecracker<\/a> and now Black Noir 2.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Random side quests aside, the main storyline has been Butcher and co. wanting to kill Homelander using the supe virus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s a slight issue, however &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2026\/04\/28\/omg-did-the-boys-showrunner-just-give-away-a-massive-homelander-spoiler\/\">Homelander<\/a> has been trying to get a hold of the last remaining sample of V1 (Frederick Vought\u2019s original Compound V, which essentially makes extra strong, biologically immortal supes).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Soldier Boy has been trying to stop Homelander from getting his hands on it &#8211; he\u2019s not particularly fond of his weird son and his delusions of grandeur.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But this all changes at the end of the latest episode when he gives Homelander the V1. It\u2019s a little confusing &#8211; even Sister Sage, the smartest person on the planet, didn\u2019t see it coming.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Let\u2019s look at the surface level reason Soldier Boy gives Homelander the V1<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3247\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3247\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3247\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/why-did-soldier-boy-give-homelander-v1-the-boys-season-5-episode-6-1.jpg\" alt=\"Soldier Boy in The Boys\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/why-did-soldier-boy-give-homelander-v1-the-boys-season-5-episode-6-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/why-did-soldier-boy-give-homelander-v1-the-boys-season-5-episode-6-1-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/why-did-soldier-boy-give-homelander-v1-the-boys-season-5-episode-6-1-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Prime Video<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ultimately, Soldier Boy\u2019s conversation with Bombsight changes how he thinks about love and legacy, and that in turn seemingly makes him reconsider Homelander.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier in <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2026\/05\/04\/this-throwback-the-boys-scene-shows-its-becoming-the-very-thing-it-hates-on\/\">The Boys<\/a> season five, Soldier Boy is firmly against Homelander getting the V1. He doesn\u2019t believe his son deserves to be an immortal god.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But after the Fort Harmony visit and being forced to confront his past, he started to see things differently. This ramped up after witnessing <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2026\/05\/06\/golden-geisha-bombsight-explained-new-supes-accused-of-ruining-the-boys-season-5\/\">Bombsight\u2019s love for Golden Geisha<\/a>, which made him think about Clara Vought, aka Stormfront.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Soldier Boy and Bombsight reunite, they initially start fighting, only to then stop and have a real conversation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bombsight admits that he resented him for always being the number one supe. \u201cYou were always everyone&#8217;s fave from the start,\u201d he says. \u201cEspecially Clara. Everything they wanted us to be, everything they were working towards, they saw it in you. I f**king hated you for it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3248\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3248\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3248\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/why-did-soldier-boy-give-homelander-v1-the-boys-season-5-episode-6-2.jpg\" alt=\"Bombsight in The Boys\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/why-did-soldier-boy-give-homelander-v1-the-boys-season-5-episode-6-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/why-did-soldier-boy-give-homelander-v1-the-boys-season-5-episode-6-2-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/why-did-soldier-boy-give-homelander-v1-the-boys-season-5-episode-6-2-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Prime Video<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But Soldier Boy responds, \u201cNo, I wasn\u2019t everything Clara wanted. I didn\u2019t know how to be.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eventually, they come to an agreement: Soldier Boy takes away Bombsights powers so he can spend his remaining years with Goldie in exchange for the V1.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They go their separate ways and Homelander shows up, threatening to beat him to get his hands on the dose. But Soldier Boy explains, \u201cClara used to say the craziest sh*t. That I was the strongest supe alive. The ultimate expression of what we could be.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBut she was wrong. She hadn\u2019t met you yet.\u201d He then hands the V1 to Homelander, who proceeds to inject it and level up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Soldier Boy stops looking at Homelander purely as his unstable son and starts seeing him as Clara\u2019s legacy &#8211; the \u201cperfect\u201d supe she always believed in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At least, that\u2019s what his actions appear to reflect. However, there could be a different explanation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Maybe Soldier Boy has another plan up his sleeve<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3250\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3250\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3250\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/why-did-soldier-boy-give-homelander-v1-the-boys-season-5-episode-6-4.jpg\" alt=\"Homelander in The Boys\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/why-did-soldier-boy-give-homelander-v1-the-boys-season-5-episode-6-4.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/why-did-soldier-boy-give-homelander-v1-the-boys-season-5-episode-6-4-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/why-did-soldier-boy-give-homelander-v1-the-boys-season-5-episode-6-4-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Prime Video<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Either Soldier Boy really had a change of heart, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> he\u2019s simply waiting to eventually depower Homelander and end him once and for all.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Think about it: Homelander has demonstrated that he\u2019ll stop at nothing to get a hold of the V1. Rather than getting in his way, why not let him take it so he thinks he has all the power?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through this action, Soldier Boy\u2019s gained his trust completely. Maybe he\u2019ll keep him on side until an opportune moment, only to then use his powers to take Homelander\u2019s away for good.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s always said that the best punishment for Homelander wouldn\u2019t be death, but rather having to live his life as a human.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps Bombsight was a test run &#8211; now he knows his depowering abilities work on supes with V1 in their blood, he can do the same to Homelander.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stranger things have happened in the world of The Boys.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>For all the latest film and TV updates and hot takes, <\/i><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FilmShrine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">like our Facebook page<\/a><\/i><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image credit: Prime Video<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He might have a secret plan up his sleeve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15,33,32,11],"coauthors":[17],"class_list":["post-3242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-explained","tag-now-showing","tag-prime-video","tag-the-boys","tag-tv"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.4 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wait, why did Soldier Boy give Homelander V1? 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