What the end of season 2 of Gen V announces for the final season of The Boys

According to the creator of the television saga, Marie Moreau will have a decisive role to play in bringing down Homelander…

All against Homelander?

The Protector of The Boys was all the talk in the final episodes of season 2 of Gen V. Now installed in the White House, the megalomaniac superhero seems more unstoppable than ever. But one hope remains: Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair).

Spoiler alert!

Thomas Godolkin (Ethan Slater), 100-year-old founder of the famous Supes University, believed he could control Marie in order to defeat Homelander. He will ultimately not have the opportunity: Marie blows him up without further ado. Then, in the final scene of Gen V season 2, the heroes of Godolkin University, now on the run and hunted by Vought, are recruited by Annie January aka Starlight (Erin Moriarty) and A-Train (Jessie T. Usher) to join the resistance against Homelander (Antony Starr).

Fans already knew that this second season would serve as a springboard towards the fifth – and final – season of The Boys. The showrunners of the two series, Michele Fazekas (Gen V) and Eric Kripke (The Boys), have also confirmed the direct link between the two plots. After the revelation that Marie and Homelander are the only survivors of the mysterious Project Odessa, making them the two most powerful Supes in the world, Kripke confirms that the young heroine “is going to play an important role in the conclusion of The Boys”. Kripke explains to Entertainment Weekly:

“There is a real underground resistance led by Annie and A-Train to organize a fightback against Homelander and his government. It’s a bit of Homelander’s world, and they have to live in it. There is something of the French resistance in the era of France occupied by Germany. So (Marie) will have an essential role.”

Fazekas, for his part, claims to know nothing about the exact storyline of The Boys season 5 but admits that his team wanted to “place the heroes of Gen V as a rebel force, destined to join the ‘good guys’ of The Boys”.

Eric Kripke, executive producer and architect of The Boys universe, specifies, however, that the two series will remain autonomous stories:

“I don’t think Marie is going to suddenly become the main character in The Boys. You should still be able to watch The Boys without having seen Gen V and have it be satisfying and entertaining, but still, she will have a defining role.”

The final season of The Boys will pick up approximately six months after the events of Gen V. It will feature Hughie (Jack Quaid), MM (Laz Alonso), Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) and Frenchie (Tomer Capone), all “disappeared” by the forces of the pro-Homelander regime. Starlight and A-Train were the only ones to escape capture. As for Butcher (Karl Urban), he acts alone, eaten away by cancer and doped with Temp V. This is the reason why only Starlight and A-Train appear in the last scene of Gen V. Kripke justifies: