Every Supernatural Actor Who Appeared on The Boys

Eric Kripke is no stranger when it comes to making entertaining television, and his latest show, The Boys, has taken the world by storm since its debut in 2019. The highly anticipated fourth season recently finished airing, and its explosive season finale set up Avengers: Endgame-level stakes for the show’s fifth and final season.

Similar to the MCU, The Boys has an all-star cast and continues to cast well-known actors in guest-starring or recurring roles to add to the entertainment value of the satirical show. Since Kripke is also the creator of one of the most popular television shows of the past 20 years, there have been many cameos from Supernatural.

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The show has countless Supernatural Easter eggs and references littered throughout the four seasons, and more former Supernatural actors have been on the show then you may have realized. With season 5 being the series’ final season, it is likely that we will see more Supernatural veterans join the cast and enter Kripke’s newest playground.

For now, here is every Supernatural actor that has appeared on The Boys.

Christian Keyes

In The Boys universe, Christian Keyes plays A-Train’s (Jesse T. Usher) brother and coach, Nathan. Being his older brother and wanting what’s best for him, Nathan has always encouraged A-Train to forgo the antics of The Seven and instead fight for their community. In the third season, A-Train listens to his brother and has the racist supe Blue Hawk apologize for over-policing black neighborhoods. Unfortunately, his apology was insincere and Blue Hawk ended up paralyzing Nathan for life.

From Angel to Athlete

While on Supernatural, Keyes played the archangel Michael in Apocalypse World, a parallel universe where angels and demons were fighting a war that destroyed the planet. After meeting the Winchester boys and discovering their universe was not plagued by endless war, Michael’s goal became overtaking the main universe. He appeared in four episodes in season 13 before the angel was able to possess Dean (Jensen Ackles) and use his true vessel.

Nathan Mitchell

Nathan Mitchell plays the replacement for the original Black Noir, Black Noir II. He is an actor supe that was hired by Homelander (Anthony Starr) after he literally punched through the original Black Noir and ripped his intestines out. (He also played the original character, though never had any spoken lines of dialogue.)

Black Noir II was brought in to keep The Seven’s image intact and to avoid letting word get out that Homelander had once again killed someone. In season 4, he struggles to understand the role of Black Noir and often turns to The Deep (Chase Crawford) for guidance.

From Angle to Sup

Mitchell had a two-episode stint on season 12 of Supernatural as the angel Kelvin. Kelvin was a friendlier, more open-minded angel who briefly teamed up with Castiel (Misha Collins) in episodes 15 and 19. He helped Cas in his quest to find and protect Kelly Kline (Courtney Ford) as she was rapidly approaching giving birth to Lucifer’s son.

Isaiah Adam

Some of the actors that have appeared on both of Kripke’s shows have played smaller roles, but that doesn’t mean you may not recognize them. In the first episode of season 2 of The Boys, Homelander and Queen Maeve (Dominque McElligott) are shown walking alongside a soldier.

Isaiah Adam plays this soldier, Lance Corporal Dan Miller, although as the camera pans away it is revealed that they are just on another Vought movie set. Stormfront (Aya Cash) quickly notes that he is simply an actor playing a role in another attempt to make Vought look more heroic than they really are.

Movie Sets and Crime Scenes

Before stepping into the corrupt world of Vought, Adam had another brief appearance in season 7 of Supernatural. In the second episode of the season, titled “Hello, Cruel World,” the Leviathans have destroyed Cas’ vessel and have been let loose in the world. While Dean is investigating murders caused by the Leviathans, he encounters a forensics technician played by Adam.

Kai Bradbury

A huge part of Kimiko’s (Karen Fukuhara) backstory on The Boys is that she was raised to fight other kids to the death in the Shining Light Liberation Army. Her trauma there is what caused her to become mute. In the sixth episode of season 1, we are shown a series of flashbacks that include memories of her younger brother, Kenji, played by Kai Bradbury. Her brother was incredibly important to her, and she would sacrifice her food to help keep him nourished.

From Clerk to Fighter

Another small role that you may or not have missed, Bradbury appeared in one episode of Supernatural in season 13. He was in episode 15, titled “A Most Holy Man,” as a clerk courier. His character is visited by one of that episode’s many villains, as it was a parody of classic film noirs.

Lesley Nichol

Perhaps best known for playing Mrs. Patmore on Downton Abbey, Lesley Nichol is an established actor on television. On The Boys, she plays Connie Butcher, Billy Butcher’s (Karl Urban) mother. She guest starred in season 2, episode 7, where she visited from England to see Billy. She attempted to persuade Billy to bury the hatchet with his abusive father. While Billy refused to do that, he did leave on good terms with Connie.

From an Actual Butcher to a Butcher in Name

Before that, Nichol appeared in the tenth season of Supernatural. She was in the 12th episode of the season, titled “About a Boy,” where she played Katja, a cannibalistic witch from the Hansel and Gretel fable. In the episode, she briefly reverts Dean to his teenage self.

Adrian Holmes

Fans might recognize Adrian Holmes from the Star Trek show Strange New Worlds as Admiral Robert April, but he has also appeared on both of Kirpke’s shows. In The Boys, he appeared in a small off-screen role in episode 2 of season 2. He played scientist Dr. Park who oversaw the Vought compound that housed Billy’s wife, Becca (Shantel VanSanten), and eventually, her son, Ryan (Cameron Crovetti).

Scientists & Psychics

While on Supernatural, Holmes actually had two separate roles. The first role came during season 3 in the 15th episode, “Time is On My Side.” Holmes played an unnamed demon that Dean tortured for information.

Ten seasons later, Holmes returned in season 13 as James Turner, the estranged son of psychic Missouri Moseley (Loretta Devine). Moseley was a longtime ally of the Winchester boys, and they helped him reconcile his differences with his mother and accept that his daughter, Patience (Clark Backo) could use her psychic ability for good.

Alvina August

Marvin Milk (Laz Alonso) a.k.a. “Mother’s Milk” is one of The Boys‘ crucial team members, and by season 4, the leader of the vigilante team. MM does what he does with Hughie (Jack Quaid) and the gang to ensure his family’s safety.

His wife, Monique, was played by Alvina August in season 1 and ends up being forced into federal protection and getting remarried to a man named Todd, who ended up being a staunch Homelander supporter. However, August was replaced by Frances Turner after season 1.

From Witch to Civilian

August appeared on one episode of Supernatural as a good-natured witch named Tasha in the season 12 episode “Twigs & Twine & Tasha Banes.” In the episode, Tasha goes missing and her daughter Alicia (Kara Royster) asks Mary Winchester (Samantha Smith) for help finding her. Tasha dies, resurrects, and dies again in this episode, preventing her from ever appearing again.

Rob Benedict

If you are even a slight Supernatural fan, then you know who Rob Benedict is and most definitely geeked out when he showed up in season 4 of The Boys. In the second episode of the season, MM, Frenchie, and Kimiko infiltrate Firecracker’s (Valorie Curry) convention and end up getting a surprise sneak peek at what her supe friend Splinter (Benedict) likes to do when he’s alone.

Splinter can essentially create clones of himself by splitting himself apart, and the gang is disturbed by what he chooses to do with that power. The Boys end up getting into a fight with Firecracker and Splinter, and the prime Splinter is killed.

From God to Pervy Supe

Benedict first appeared on Supernatural in season 4 as Carver Edlund, the author of the Supernatural books about the Winchesters’ lives and a prophet of God. He played an essential role in helping the Winchesters take on Lucifer and Michael to stop the apocalypse.

By season 11, however, it was revealed he was actually God the entire time and had been writing every detail of Sam and Dean’s lives. God, or Chuck as he preferred to be called, ended up being the worst villain the boys ever had to face off with.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Another well-known Supernatural alum is none other than Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Many of us know him as John Winchester, Negan, or even Denny Duquette. On The Boys, he plays Joe Kessler, a former U.S. soldier and CIA officer. Kessler was Butcher’s comrade overseas, but he was left for dead. As a result of abusing Temp V and Compound V, Butcher hallucinated Kessler as a manifestation of his more sinister intentions.

A Demon Hunter and a Soldier

JDM was, of course, the patriarch of the Winchester family in season 1 of the show and in multiple episodes afterward, either in flashbacks, as a ghost, or even brought back to life in one episode. John was hard on his boys after Mary died, and especially hard on Dean. He raised him to be a fighter and a soldier, but because John was often hunting and looking for the demon that killed Mary, Dean was left to be both a parent and a sibling to Sam.

Jim Beaver

Jim Beaver plays significant roles in both Supernatural and The Boys. His characters’ names in both shows are even the same. Beaver plays the former Secretary of Defense and President-elect Robert A. Singer, an eventual ally of The Boys and a strong advocate against Vought and Homelander. He was given the nickname “Dakota Bob” by Homelander supporters because he has his main home in South Dakota, yet another reference to his Supernatural character.

Bobby Singer & Dakota Bob

On Supernatural, Beaver played Bobby Singer, short for Robert Singer, who also lived in South Dakota. He was Sam and Dean’s most trusted ally and acted as an adoptive father to the boys. Bobby frequently helped them with cases and aided with research since he had years of experience. Two of Bobby’s favorite words were “idjit” and “balls,” which Robert Singer actually says a few times in the season 4 finale of The Boys.

Jensen Ackles

The most well-known actor to appear in both The Boys and Supernatural is none other than Jensen Ackles. The talented and handsome veteran actor played crucial roles in both shows. Appearing for the duration of The Boys‘ third season as Soldier Boy, Ackles made it the most exciting season of the show.

Soldier Boy was the former leader of Vought’s first superhero team, Payback, and supposedly died during a botched military operation in Nicaruaga in 1984. However, he was actually sold out by his teammates and Vought due to his aggressive behavior and handed over to the Russians to have experiments done on him for the next 30 years. It was also revealed that he was Homelander’s father, causing much of the turmoil in season 3.

From Hero to Villain

If you watched Supernatural for even one episode, you know that Ackles is one half of the show’s iconic Winchester duo. For 15 seasons, Ackles played Dean Winchester with intensity and charisma. Being the oldest of the two brothers, Dean was the natural leader and sacrificed everything he ever cared about to protect the ones he loved. From Hell, to Purgatory, to battling God himself, Dean was the charming, funny, brave hero who always put others first.