Spoilers for “The Boys” collection finale observe.
To recap: “The Boys” Season 4 was set completely within the run-up between the top of a presidential election and inauguration. Democratic nominee Robert “Dakota Bob” Singer (Jim Beaver) had gained the election, however made the error of choosing Victoria Neuman (Claudia Doumit) — a blood-bending supe who can explode individuals’s heads on command — as his VP. Season 4 was a race towards for the Boys — working with Singer — to neutralize Neuman earlier than she took workplace, head popped her approach to the presidency, and handed America over to Homelander (Antony Starr).
Nicely, Billy Butcher (Karl City) took care of Neuman (learn Claudia Doumit’s ideas on her character’s dying right here), however Singer was framed for the homicide. He went from President-elect to convict, permitting Homelander puppet Steve Calhoun (David Andrews) to take the White Home.
By the collection finale “Blood and Bone,” Homelander and Calhoun are each useless, and the regime is toppled. VP turned President Ashley Barrett (Colby Minifie, although Doumit initially auditioned for Ashley earlier than touchdown the a part of Neuman) tried to carry on to energy, however she was impeached. Who changed her? Dakota Bob.
Singer exhibits up within the final scene of the collection, calling up Hughie (Jack Quaid) with a job provide. The collection glosses over how he obtained freed, however he is lastly serving as President. Since Vought hasn’t been toppled and there are nonetheless loads of dangerous supes on the market, Singer affords Hughie a job directing a reinstated Federal Bureau of Superhuman Affairs (the place he had been working again in Season 3, earlier than studying Neuman was a supe). However Hughie is out of the sport, even when which means saying no to the president.
The Boys ends with Robert ‘Dakota Bob’ Singer because the President
Whereas Bob Singer’s destiny was removed from probably the most urgent unfastened finish “The Boys” needed to tie up, it is a good little bit of continuity to convey him again. He was an harmless man wrongly imprisoned for against the law he did not commit, so this corrects an injustice. Plus, he is most likely going to be a greater president than Homelander or his puppets had been, and this enables “The Boys” to indicate issues have returned to relative normalcy within the U.S. After all, Singer was by no means a major sufficient character to get his personal spot within the collection’ closing epilogue, so his cameo is rightly about underlining Hughie’s joyful ending.
There’s most likely a superb purpose that “The Boys” creator Eric Kripke did not neglect to disclose Singer’s destiny. Jim Beaver had a recurring function on his earlier collection, “Supernatural,” because the demon hunter Bobby Singer, a father determine to the heroes Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles). Singer’s identify in “The Boys” is even a reference to Beaver’s identically named character on “Supernatural.” (In “The Boys” comics, President Dakota Bob’s full identify is Robert Schaefer.)
Jim Beaver is much from the one “Supernatural” actor on “The Boys.” Ackles is probably the most distinguished alum on the present as Soldier Boy, and “The Boys” Seasons 4-5 featured Jeffrey Dean Morgan (who performed Sam and Dean’s father, John) as Joe Kessler. “The Boys” Season 5 Episode 5 was a full-on “Supernatural” reunion, pairing Soldier Boy with Mr. Marathon (performed by Padalecki) and Malchemical (Misha Collins, greatest often called the angel Castiel on “Supernatural”). Kripke soared to new heights with “The Boys,” however he hasn’t forgotten the place he began.
“The Boys” is streaming on Prime Video.
