The Boys creator Eric Kripke says there aren't "full battle scenes" in the final season "because we still don’t have Game of Thrones’ budget"

Antony Starr as Homelander in The Boys season 5 trailer — (Image credit: Prime Video)

The Boys creator Eric Kripke says there won't be any epic Avengers: Endgame-style battles in the fifth and final season because they just don't have the budget.

"It's just a totally transformed world. It’s Homelander’s world and, unfortunately, we’re all living in it," Kripke says in the latest issue of SFX. "Starlight is mounting a desperate resistance, but The Boys are scattered. Frenchie, Mother’s Milk, and Hughie have been captured. We talked a lot about the French Resistance and prison camp breaks. We were really working our way through that kind of season. I mean, there are not full battle scenes because we still don’t have Game of Thrones' budget, but there are a lot of very direct confrontations; a lot of the people that you want to see smashing into each other smash into each other. I hope it’s cathartic and emotionally satisfying, but I’m a tiny bit terrified."

It's kind of wild to think that The Boys doesn't have a big enough budget, as it's been one of Prime Video's most popular original shows since its July 2019 premiere. The satirical action drama-comedy, based on the comic book series of the same name, not only has a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score for all four seasons (and won an Emmy for Outstanding Drama in 2021)... but amassed somewhere around 1 billion streaming minutes for the first four episodes of its fourth season.