The Boys Season 5 confirms Ashley Barrett's powers, and it's similar to a Harry Potter character

One of the intriguing mysteries in The Boys Season 5 teasers has been Ashley Barrett. She had injected herself with Compound V in the season 4 finale to save herself from Homelander's purge. Now, this season reveals that Ashley has moved up in the world as she is the new vice president to President Steve Calhoun. Moreover, the second episode, "Teenage Kix", also reveals her secret power.

Turns out, there is a face on the back of her head, which is revealed in the last act of The Boys Season 5 Episode 2. If you think this sounds familiar, that's because something similar happens with Professor Quirinus Quirrell, the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher in the first Harry Potter book.

The Boys Season 5: explaining Ashley's new powers:

The first episode, "Fifteen Inches of Sheer Dynamite", reveals that Ashley, the former CEO of Vought, is the new Vice-President. The scene also confirms that she can read minds, but it is the second episode of The Boys Season 5 that confirms that there's more to her powers than just mind-reading. After a meeting with Sister Sage, Ashley seeks a private moment.

Ashley takes off her wig, and we see a head on the back of her head, much like Voldemort was on Quirrell's back in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. However, unlike Voldemort, this head on Ashley's back seems to be her subconscious trying to get her to do the right thing. But Ashley is too scared to act on the voice's advice for now.

But it seems that The Boys Season 5 will build towards the moment when Ashley would switch sides and go against Vought and Homelander. It is already clear that Ashley is opposed to Homelander's oppressive actions. Therefore, it is clear that Ashley will leave Homelander's side, given his actions and the latest death in the season 5 premiere.

A-Train's death in the first episode surely impacted Ashey:

The Boys Season 5's first episode ended with the death of A-Train. The speedster saved Hughie's life, and in the process, Homelander chases him. In this chase, A-Train sees a woman crossing a road, and the speedster manages to save her life by running off course, but loses balance and crashes into trees somewhere. Homelader flies in and snaps A-Train's neck, killing him.

There is also a sense of fate in A-Train's death because he does everything the opposite of the time he was running at the time of Robin's death. However, this time A-Train does the right thing, i.e., he doesn't run into this woman, saving her life, but losing his own in the process. Showrunner Eric Kripke addressed A-Train's death in The Boys Season 5 premiere in The Hollywood Reporter interview:

“I was initially resistant to killing him off that early. It was a little scary to kill him off so soon. We had actually broken out [an alternate storyline] that was like: Where is he now, what is he doing, and how can he help The Boys? — all that stuff was in process, so it’s not like we didn’t have it. We knew that he was going to be the first big death. At the time, I think we were thinking maybe episode three. And it was the writers who really campaigned for it — it’s their fault. They campaigned. They were like, ‘You keep saying that nobody’s safe, and that it’s going to be a season where anything can happen at any time. So with all due respect, put your f***ing money where your mouth and show that you’re willing to drop a major character in the first episode. Because if you do that, then for the rest of the season, no one is going to feel safe.’ And I thought it was a winning argument."

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