Which is more powerful in the superhuman (a.k.a “supes”) world of Gen V: Manipulating multiple minds to bend to your will, or controlling the body’s blood cells to explode at your command?
Eric Kripke’s spinoff to the super popular The Boys pondered this debate over most of its eight-episode second season, which concluded Wednesday on Prime Video. The superpowers of Godolkin University co-ed Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair) popping blood vessels took the win, as she led a group of students at the supe university to take on their school’s namesake and end his terror of entering minds and killing super youths he deemed to be inferior to the master-level of his kind. Marie ended his rein by literally expanding his blood vessels to burst his head clean off the rest of his body.
But in the finale, Marie also needed to come to terms with a truth she tried to avoid all season — that she may possess the one actual superpower that can overtake the current king of the supes, fascist-like dictator and most powerful of all superheroes, Homelander (Antony Starr). Afterall, both Homelander and Marie were born out of the same lab experiment, Project Odessa. The two supes are the only two babies known to have survived the experiment of injecting Compound V into utero babies (which resulted in the deaths of several other babies receiving the same treatment).
This revelation in Gen V may prove to be a big advantage for those supes and humans who have forged a resistance to Homelander’s bloody rule, and who will ultimately clash during the upcoming series finale of The Boys.
After defeating and killing Godolkin, Marie, along with four of her fellow university friends/classmates and her long lost baby sister, Annabeth Moreau (Keeya King), formed a Guardians of Godolkin group and ran away, as they will surely be hunted and punished for their deeds at the university. But they are also seeking the guidance and protection of one-time Homelander team member (a.k.a The Seven), Starlight (Erin Moriarty).
In the finale of the fourth season of The Boys, Starlight escaped an attempt to round up all supes who went against Homelander’s vision to rule the world. She then reappeared in the first episode of this season’s Gen V to recruit Marie to join the resistance. Then at the end of finale, Starlight finds the group of rogue college students, along with another The Seven outcast, A-Train (Jessie T. Usher), to lead them toward the resistance.
In this week’s interview with The Hollywood Reporter about the Gen V ender, creator and showrunner Kripke said Marie and her group will surely pop up in the fifth and final season of The Boys.
“They are playing an important part,” Kripke explained. “Part of the fun of wrapping out season two [of Gen V] that way is we really get to set the table for season five, that there’s now this active and growing resistance led by Starlight that A-Train is an important part of. They’re really trying to take the fight back to Homelander and this sort of fascist government. They’re an important part of it.”
But even with the college protagonists joining up with the ranks in the finale, Kripke was quick to point out that The Boys and Gen V are still two separate series.
“Gen V is about Gen V,” Kripke continued. “The characters provide crucial assists, but The Boys is still about The Boys, and you can watch it without having watching Gen V and vice versa. But watching both is still a much more fun experience.”
And the end of The Boys doesn’t mean that viewers should assume that is the end of Gen V.
“We don’t play it in season five of The Boys like this is the end of Gen V,” Kripke continued, noting that Gen V has not yet been renewed for a third season. “We leave them open ended because we actually have more Gen V story to tell, and we’d love to tell. It depends on the ratings and how many people end up tuning in. We have to make it so Amazon picks us up for another season. That’s a little bit up to the audience and TV gods, but we’re ready and willing if we get the nod.”
The Boys wrapped production over the summer. Season five is expected to release mid-2026; a premiere date has not yet been announced. (Read THR‘s full chat with Kripke and showrunner Michele Fazekas about the Gen V finale.)
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