Curious about all the Easter eggs hidden throughout The Boys Season 5 and how they set up the show’s endgame? As Billy Butcher and his team race to take down Homelander, the first two episodes pack in legacy callbacks, pop culture references, and deep-cut comic nods that raise the stakes heading into the final season.
Here’s a breakdown of every Easter egg and reference featured in The Boys Season 5 Episodes 1 and 2.
List of all major easter eggs in The Boys Season 5 Episode 1 and 2
Episode 1: Freedom Camp 47 Background Details
Frenchie carries The Deep’s autobiography Deeper inside the camp, while Vought-A-Burger serves a Homelander special, and inmates watch Dawn of the Seven screenings.
Episode 1: The Deep Fake Dismissal
Annie’s Flight 37 video is immediately labelled a “deep fake” by Ashley and Sister Sage, mirroring today’s AI landscape where tools like Sora 2.0 make fabricated videos near-impossible to disprove.
Episode 1: A-Train’s Quicksilver Moment
A-Train freezes time across the entire battle, directly echoing Evan Peters’s Quicksilver sequences in X-Men: Days of Future Past and X-Men: Apocalypse.
Episode 1: A-Train Avoids Robin’s Fate
A-Train stops just short of hitting a young woman on the road, directly mirroring Season 1 when he ran straight through Hughie’s girlfriend, Robin.
Episode 1: Godolkin Cover-Up
Firecracker’s show claims Starlight orchestrated the Godolkin massacre and labels the entire event a deep fake. The segment directly callbacks to the events of Gen V Season 2.
Episode 1: Soldier Boy on Ice
Homelander keeps Soldier Boy frozen in the background of his lair. The shot confirms his status has not changed since the Season 4 finale.
Episode 2: Oh-Father’s Sorcerer Archetype
Oh-Father’s divine voice power echoes both Doctor Strange’s mystical authority and DC’s Doctor Fate, framing him as the show’s sorcerer-deity archetype.
Episode 2: Ashley’s Second Face
Ashley’s hidden second face directly references Professor Quirrell’s Voldemort reveal in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. James Wan’s Malignant also shares the same parasitic, hidden-face body horror the show draws from here.
Episode 2: Rock Hard as The Thing
Rock Hard is a 30,000lb immovable granite mass, an unmistakable riff on Marvel’s The Thing taken to a far more grotesque extreme.
Episode 2: The Kix Crib Influencer Satire
The Teenage Kix shared house lampoons real influencer content houses, with Sheline and Jetstreak hawking Lean Lady Diet Water and Turbo Rush energy drinks on a TikTok-style platform.
Episode 2: “I Got You… I Know”
Starlight catching Hughie mid-air quietly mirrors the Han Solo and Princess Leia exchange from The Empire Strikes Back, with the genders swapped.
Episode 2: Soldier Boy’s Resurrection
Soldier Boy apparently dies from the Supe Virus before sitting bolt upright in his body bag. The moment mirrors classic comic book and horror resurrection tropes.
