The Boys is finally coming back for its fifth and last season on Prime Video on April 8, 2026, and fans who have been following The Boys know that one of the biggest questions left hanging from season 4 is what happened to Ashley Barrett after she injected herself with Compound V. The woman who played Ashley for all these years, actress Colby Minifie, has now given fans a little something to talk about ahead of the premiere, and what she said is making people very excited and a little nervous at the same time.In a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, Minifie shared a small but very telling hint about what Ashley's transformation and new powers are going to look like in the final season of The Boys. She said she can confirm that whatever power the writers gave Ashley, it is a perfect fit for the character."I can say that her power is perfect for her, I don't think they could have chosen anything better for her."She also added that she got to "explore some really fun physical stuff" while filming, and that she is genuinely excited to see how audiences react to it because, in her own words, "it's out there." That last part alone is enough to get any fan's imagination running.To fully get why this is so significant, you need to look back to how season 4 of The Boys ended. Ashley found out at the end of the season that Homelander had told The Seven to kill everyone at Vought who knew anything that could hurt them. She knew she was one of those people on the list, so out of desperation, Ashley injected herself with Compound V, the chemical that gives people their superpowers.The last thing people saw was Ashley lying on the floor, yelling at the top of her lungs with her wig coming off while her head was emerging, then the season ended. So, the people didn't know she was still alive or what she had turned into.What has Minifie said before about Ashley's powers?This is not the first time Minifie has talked about the transformation, but it is the most confident and positive she has sounded about it. Earlier, when speaking to TV Guide around the time The Boys season 4 was releasing, she had been much more uncertain.At that point, the writers had not even told her what the power would be, so she was pitching her own ideas, and all of them, she said, had to be "humiliating" and "disgusting," because that felt right for Ashley as a character. One of the ideas she mentioned was armpit hair that grows out rapidly and wraps around people, which she thought would be funny given Ashley's long-running struggle with hair loss throughout the show.Later, when speaking to Collider at the SXSW film festival while promoting another project, Minifie confirmed that she had gotten to embrace a lot more physical comedy in The Boys season 5, and that whatever power the writers came up with really allows her to have fun with the physical side of the performance, which she described as her favourite thing given her background in theatre.Piecing it all together, the hints about physical comedy, the confirmation that the power fits Ashley perfectly, and the suggestion that it is something "out there," fans have been running theories online ever since. The most popular one, based on the fact that Ashley's hair has been a recurring theme throughout the entire series, is that her power involves her hair in some way, possibly something like the Marvel character Medusa, who can control and weaponise her hair. Given how The Boys has always tied a character's powers back to something personal about them, that theory makes a lot of sense.What has The Boys Season 5 trailer and other clues already shown?The Boys Season 5 trailer gives viewers one specific shot of Ashley, and in this shot, she appears to be healthy and controlled, as well as very much like her old self on the surface. She is standing in front of what appears to be the White House sign, and many viewers and observers have concluded that Ashley will take on a press secretary role with the Calhoun Presidency, which would ultimately place her right back in the centre of the political storyline of the programme.Another point of the puzzle was added by Gen V season 2. It was revealed that Sister Sage has replaced Ashley as the Vought CEO, and she informed others that Ashley was too much in a state, which demonstrated the large, difficult transformation.All of this means that Ashley Barrett will be a character to look out for in the last season of The Boys. She began the series as a character who had little power to call her own, and she has spent almost all of her life being bossed about by the supes she had to work with.Now that we have reached the final season, she has become important, found a very powerful new role, and the actress who portrays her is truly excited about the way things turned out. The Boys Season 5 starts on April 8, 2026, on Prime Video.