Amazon’s superhero series Gen V, also known as Generation V, celebrates its final bloody tie-in to The Boys in its season finale. If you haven’t seen the spin-off yet, you should catch up before season 4 for several reasons
OnAmazon PrimetheThe Boys spin-offGen Vhas just come to an end after 8 episodes. Set in the same world as the parent series, the spin-off tells the story of Godolkin University, where a younger generation of superheroes is being bred.
If you thought you could safely skip the new Generation V supes series until now, you’ll be proven wrong in the finale with amazing guest appearances by The Boys. Because hereimportant events happen that will become importantfor season 4 of The Boys.
Seamless transition at Amazon: Gen V sets up season 4 of The Boys in its finale
8 episodes have Marie (Jaz Sinclair) and her circle of friends centered around Andre (Chance Perdomo), Emma (Lizze Broadway) and Jordan (London Thor/Derek Luh) celebrating the supes college life on Amazon Prime and trying to uncover a conspiracy in the college basement. After being conned by Cate (Maddie Phillips), who manipulates her fellow students with her powers and gets Sam (Asa Germann) on her side, the season finale leads to a bloody showdown: the attempt to expose thesecrets of the university as a place of experimentation on people with superpowersends in the season finale with a rampage of these liberated experiments on campus.
(Gen V,main character Marie Moreau)
The bloodbath is finally brought to an end by theappearance of Homelander (Antony Starr)from The Boys, who as leader of the Seven – naturally – sides with the oppressors, which leaves our heroes locked in a room without doors at the end. But that’s not all: Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) also returns in the end credits scene of episode 8 of Gen V He finds traces of the virus experiments in the destroyed “Woods” laboratory.
Gen V season 2 and The Boys season 4: What’s next for the Supes on Amazon
The 4th season of The Boys is expected on Amazon Primeat the beginning/middle of 2024. In addition, a 2nd season of Gen V has already been ordered, which will probably2025come. The plan of series creatorsEric Kripke,Evan GoldbergandCraig Rosenbergis to have thetwo series alternate between each other The finale of Season 1 of Gen V thus passes the baton to Season 4 of The Boys, which in turn will lead into Season 2 of Gen V at its end
The plot of season 4 of The Boys is also already given in Gen V on Amazon: The experiments at the university have produced aSupe-Virus that could now be unleashed on the whole world. What exactly it does and how it allows control over people with powers has only been hinted at so far. However, the fact that the virus most recently ended up in the hands of Victoria Neuman (Claudia Doumit), who (as a secret Supe with blood powers like Marie’s) could soon be Vice President of the USA, does not bode well. Erik Kripke revealedto Variety:
We knew the virus was going to play a big part in season 4 of The Boys. And we knew thatButcher should know about the virus And then the idea came up to have that happen in Gen V […]: ‘Can’t we put Butcher at the end to show that he’s following the hot trail of the virus?’ That was cool because itis anice little introduction of what
is to come.
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Conversely, this means that the Amazon crossover will also featureGen V characters in The Boysas well. After Sam and Cate turned against their allies and were celebrated in the media as heroic “Guardians of Godolkin”, one of them could even fill the Seven’s void.
With the timeline of the two series revealed, the4th season of The Boys “will take place just a few days after Gen V “ The presidential election in the superhero universe is just around the corner at this point. The Boys fans are therefore well advised to have seen the adventures of Generation V by 2024 on Prime.
