‘The Boys’ Universe Goes Full Retro as New In-Universe Posters Tease the 1950s Supes of ‘Vought Rising’
The superhero satire machine that made ‘The Boys‘ one of the most talked-about shows on streaming has always found its sharpest edges in the details, from branded merchandise to corporate propaganda, and the franchise is leaning hard into that same creative language as it builds out its next chapter.
‘Vought Rising,’ the forthcoming prequel spinoff, is set in the 1950s and focuses on the early days of the Vought corporation, including the return of Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy and Aya Cash as Stormfront, alongside a new generation of vintage supes. The series has been described as a twisted murder mystery and is expected to premiere on Prime Video in 2027, with Paul Grellong serving as showrunner and ‘The Boys’ creator Eric Kripke executive producing.
Now, in a marketing move as clever as anything Vought’s fictional PR department would dream up, a new set of in-universe promotional images has surfaced showing off three key characters through the lens of old-school Hollywood. The retro-style posters offer first stylized looks at Bombsight and a younger Golden Geisha featured together in a pulpy black-and-white film called “Moonshine Thunder,” and a separate vintage wartime poster for Private Angel under a film titled “Savior of Saipan.” The presentation captures Vought’s long history of wrapping its supes in cinematic glamour, treating these powered soldiers like silver screen idols.
Bombsight will be played by Mason Dye, while Elizabeth Posey takes on the role of Private Angel, joining Ackles and Cash as one of the central figures in ‘Vought Rising.’ The timing of the reveal is deliberate. Bombsight has been a key figure in the final stretch of ‘The Boys’ Season 5, with the character making his physical debut in episode six as the last known keeper of the V1 compound, an original version of Compound V that grants its recipients effective immortality.
Bombsight had been holding onto the V1 with the hope that his longtime love, Golden Geisha, would eventually agree to take it so the two could spend eternity together. She refused, choosing a mortal life instead, and Soldier Boy ultimately depowered Bombsight in exchange for the vial. Played by Naoko Mori in the present-day timeline of ‘The Boys,’ Golden Geisha already feels like a fascinating figure thanks to the quiet relationship she develops with Kimiko, coming across as something like the Queen Maeve of her era.
Private Angel, meanwhile, is confirmed to be one of the original five subjects injected with V1 by Frederick Vought himself, granting her immortality and making her one of the earliest supes in the franchise’s mythology. Her powers beyond that remain largely unknown, which makes the wartime pin-up framing of the “Savior of Saipan” poster all the more intriguing as a piece of in-universe storytelling, and as a tease for what Posey will bring to the role.
Some fans have pushed back on the time spent establishing these legacy supes during ‘The Boys’ penultimate episodes, with one viewer writing online that they hate how the spinoffs feel like they are taking over the final season. Others, however, have noted that the groundwork being laid for ‘Vought Rising’ is working precisely as intended, giving new characters enough texture to make audiences genuinely curious about their earlier days. The three most important characters in the V1 storyline that defined episode six, namely Bombsight, Soldier Boy, and Clara Vought, are all central cast members in ‘Vought Rising,’ suggesting the connective tissue is far more intentional than it might appear.
With ‘The Boys’ now in its final two episodes and ‘Vought Rising’ still a year out, these pulpy vintage posters are doing double duty as both fan service and franchise groundwork. Whether you think that hustle is earning its place in the story or stealing precious screen time from Butcher and Homelander is a debate worth having, so what side of it are you on?
