In an August 2025 interview with The Wrap, Esposito suggested Edgar would be back for “The Boys” season 5, and his appearance on “Gen V” all but confirms that. During “The Boys” season 5, Edgar is probably going to be an ally (of convenience) to the anti-Homelander resistance. When Starlight last appeared, she mentioned that she’s been on the run since the rest of the Boys were captured by Homelander’s forces. Edgar’s bunker is the exact kind of home base that Annie needs right now.
Edgar definitely disapproves of Homelander’s regime (if only because he’s human himself) and he reveals in “Cooking Lessons” that he intends to retake control of Vought. Once he does, he wants Marie by his side. She literally has the exact same powers as his dead daughter, so she could step easily into the role Neuman once played for Edgar.
Homelander’s coup probably has Edgar more convinced than ever that his plans, to turn Vought from a “superhero company” into a “proper” defense and pharma company, were the right ones. But remember, while Edgar is helpful and polite to Marie & friends, he is not a good guy. He authorized all sorts of shady doings, assassinations included, when he was head of Vought. In “Cooking Lessons,” he implores Marie to embrace that she’s more powerful, and valuable, than her friends, who he considers disposable.
“When the dust settles, those that remain will reshape the world,” Edgar says to Marie, recalling a similar speech he gave Starlight about power back in “The Boys” season 3. Speaking of power, could “The Boys” end with Edgar back on top of the corporate world? “The Boys” is too cynical a show for a pure happy ending; Edgar is a lesser evil than Homelander (just like how corporate capitalism is a one-degree lesser evil than fascism), but he’s still evil.
Stan Edgar staying alive and empowered would be a fitting message for this story all about how capitalism and conservatism have rotted out the world; the rot goes so deep that its most ingrained symptoms can’t be cured. (For what it’s worth — and spoilers for the comic here — the original “The Boys” comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson ended with Vought bigwig James Stillwell escaping any justice.)
Then there’s Zoe. While Edgar is generally too detached for vengeance, I think Zoe will want revenge on Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) for killing her mom. She’s unlikely to be the one who does Butcher in, since that role seems reserved for Hughie (Jack Quaid) or Ryan (Cameron Crovetti), but she could become more blood on Butcher’s hands.
“Gen V” is streaming on Prime Video with new episodes debuting on Wednesdays. “The Boys” season 5 is set to premiere on Prime Video in 2026.