Throughout its run, Prime Video’s The Boys has been adding Supernatural alums to its cast. Both shows share Eric Kripke as a creator and showrunner, and he’s made it his mission to bring in actors from his former show into his new one. Former Dean Winchester Jensen Ackles was the big get as Soldier Boy, and now the superhero show’s final season has brought in his two big former co-stars, Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins.
On Friday, Prime Video released an alternate cut from the scene in last week’s episode “One-Shots” where the three Supernatural stars share a scene together. In the episode proper, Padalecki’s Mister Marathon and Collins’ Malchemical knock out Homelander and pitch Soldier Boy on turning against his son. But the newly released video plays it differently: instead of Marathon and Malchemical, Padalecki and Collins are Sam and Castiel are trying to turn Dean to their side by highlighting every bad thing Homelander’s done, in a very Supernatural way.
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“He’s taking Chuck’s name in vain!” cries Sam/Marathon, followed by Cas/Mal going, “They wanna ban porn! They wanna ban Busty Asian Beauties!” To anyone who had Supernatural in their heart like that (or at least watched the first five seasons), the digression is a fun bit of “doing the thing” that lets The Boys get off a good amount of jokes in a short bit of time, as long as you ignore how ADR’d it comes off. It’s also meta in another way, as one of Supernatural’s most famous episodes—the season five episode “Changing Channels”—saw the Winchesters forced into participating in several TV shows.
Given how things end for Marathon and Malchemical, it’s probably good the Winchesters aren’t in The Boys. And in these final two episodes, we’ll see how well Soldier Boy gets off.
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