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The Boys on Prime Video is plenty irreverent about our world today, but the show's sensitive handling of mental illnesses like OCD has been a point that fans have rallied around in recent years. 

With the show's fifth and final season coming later this year, two of The Boys, Karl Urban (Billy Butcher) and Laz Alonso (MM), assembled at Emerald City Comic Con 2026 in Seattle to reflect on the journey so far. When answering a fan question, Laz Alonso shared how meaningful it has been for him as an actor to play a character with OCD that fans with the condition have felt represented by.  

"Season 3 was when Mother's Milk explained the source of his OCD. And to this day, I still get, at all these conventions, people coming up to me and thanking me for articulating to the world a little more depth behind OCD. That it's not just what you see on the surface, but that it's rooted in other forms of trauma. The symptom might be what you see, but the root of the symptom is something a lot deeper. And so I feel like we've been able to build on that and to show OCD as something that's real, something that deserves a certain amount of respect and thought," Alonso began.

"It feels good to be able to represent something bigger than yourself and speak for a community of people that have felt like they haven't been able to really- their story hasn't been properly told." 

The Boys season 5 lands on Prime Video on April 8, 2026. 

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