SEASON 5 of The Boys kicked off with a shocking character death – but the actor wasn’t surprised.

The final season of the hit Amazon show premiered on Wednesday.

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Season 5 of The Boys premiered on Wednesday with a shocking death in the first epsiode

A-Train was killed by Homelander after he avoided killing an innocent bystander, the completion of his redemption arcCredit: Alamy
Despite A-Train’s redemption arc in Season 4, Jessie T. Usher said he knew his character was doomed.

“I felt like we were just waiting to see how it was going to happen,” Jessie told TVLine.

A-Train kicked off the action in Season 1 by accidentally killing Hughie’s girlfriend, leading the character, played by Jack Quaid, to join The Boys.

In the Season 5 premiere, the Supe dives out of the way to avoid killing an innocent bystander, a direct inverse of Hughie’s girlfriend’s death.

“He had no allies, he had no one that he can depend on or manipulate or even ask a favor from who would put their life on the line to keep things going for him. So it was a long time coming,” Jessie added.

The actor he had a feeling that A-Train’s time on the show was over after a conversation with The Boys’ creator, Eric Kripke.

“Every decision he made dug his hole a little bit deeper, so I went to Eric Kripke and said, look, I personally don’t see a reasonable way out,” Jessie recalled.

“Like, I don’t see him surviving … what he’s doing right now in any shape or form. What are we going to do because, you know, we’re all expecting to do Season 5?

“And he was like, ‘To be honest with you, I don’t know. We’re not going to deal with it in Season 4, we’re going to just deal with it in Season 5.’ In that moment, I knew that that was the start of the end.”

A-Train’s split-second decision to save the woman means Homelander has time to catch up with the Supe and snap his neck.

“One thing I love about this show is that it’s never been afraid of taking big swings and risks, and unapologetically so, and [A-Train’s death] is one of those moments,” Homelander’s actor, Antony Starr, told TVLine.

“I know certain people are not going to be happy about that, but it makes for good TV.”