The biggest missing cameo from The Boys season 5 finale turned it down

Maeve in The Boys — (Image credit: Amazon)

After seven years and five seasons, The Boys season 5 came to an end this week with a fiery series finale. However, aside from the Gen V kids and Ryan joining in on the fun in the very last episode, we were shocked to see some original characters stay out of the final fight.

Throughout The Boys' final season, there have been a few hints that Wonder Woman-like Supe Queen Maeve may show up to help the Boys take down Homelander. In The Boys season 5 episode 6, we see that Sister Sage has a Queen Maeve notepad in her desk, and then in the final installment, The Boys season 5 episode 8, Annie recalls how the Seven member was once her hero. However, the Supe never made an appearance.

But this wasn't because showrunner Eric Kripke didn't want her there, as he told Gold Derby, "I would have loved to have had Maeve. I was in conversation with [Dominique McElligott]. We still email once in a while. She's mostly retired from acting, and her schedule didn't work out. It was all a very friendly, non-controversial thing. I was like, 'If we wrote it, would you do it?' And she's like, 'I'm kind of out of it, and I'm busy, and unfortunately I can't, but send everyone my love.' That was sort of it."

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We met McElligott's super-strong Supe back in The Boys season. She was part of the Seven and Homelander's PR girlfriend, but underneath, she despised him. She eventually jumped ship to help the Boys take down Stormfront. The Supe eventually sacrificed herself at the end of The Boys season 3, and threw herself from Vought Tower in a bid to kill Soldier Boy. She survived, but as the whole world thought she was dead, she fled the city to live a normal life with her girlfriend.

It is unlikely we'll ever see Maeve again. However, her enemies, both Stormfront and Soldier Boy, will return in the upcoming spin-off Vought Rising. Set in the '50s, Vought Rising will take us right back to where it all began, when Frederick Vought used V-One to create the first set of Supes: Soldier Boy, Torpedo, Bombsight, Private Angel and his wife Clara Vought aka Liberty aka Stormfront. Vought Rising hits Prime Video sometime in 2027.