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Before he was the award-winning showrunner of The Boys, Erik Kripke had another long-running hit on his hands with Supernatural. He already brought one Winchester boy into The Boys when he cast Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy, and we’ve known for a while that the other brother, Jared Padalecki, was going to be joining the cast for The Boys Season 5. However, we didn’t know until just recently who Padalecki would be playing in the final season of The Boys… until this weekend.

During a panel at the FACTS Comic-Con convention in Belgium over the weekend, Jared Padalecki was asked about his role in The Boys Season 5. We’ve seen bits of it in trailers, but his character hasn’t appeared in any of the episodes that have been aired so far. He was initially hesitant to confirm the speculation that he was playing Mister Marathon, but he visibly relaxed when it was noted that there was enough information out there to confirm it.

“Oh, so we know that?” he said, laughing. “I can finally say it. We shot it a year ago. We shot in April of 2025, and I’ve been terrified of saying shit because I was like, ‘Jeff Bezos is going to send a SWAT team after me,’ or something. Okay. Yeah. I’m Mister Marathon.”

That name might not be significant to most fans, but it sets up a rather interesting divergence from The Boys comic, where Mister Marathon is killed before the events of the comics. Here, it seems that the speedster is still alive and well. We fully expect a scene where Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles share at least some screen time together to satisfy all those Supernatural fans out there who have been craving a reunion for years now.

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