Series spin-off Gen V is bringing back the two most important characters from the main series and is already providing insight into season 4

That’s exactly what Amazon Prime has to offer The Boys spin-off Gen V ended after 8 episodes. Set in the same world as the parent series, the spin-off tells of Godolkin University, where a younger generation of superheroes is being bred.

Anyone who thought they could safely skip the new Supes series from Generation V will be proven wrong in the finale with amazing guest appearances from The Boys. Because it happened here key events important to The Boys season 4 become.

Warning, spoilers for Gen V follow.

Seamless transition at Amazon: Gen V prepares for The Boys season 4 in its finale

For 8 episodes, Marie (Jaz Sinclair) and her circle of friends around Andre (Chance Perdomo), Emma (Lizze Broadway) and Jordan (London Thor/Derek Luh) celebrated the Supes university life on Amazon Prime and attempted a conspiracy in the basement Uncover colleges. After the betrayal by Cate (Maddie Phillips), who manipulates her fellow students with her powers and gets Sam (Asa Germann) on her side, there is a bloody showdown in the season finale: The attempt Secrets of the university as a place for experiments on people with superpowers reveals, ends in the season finale with these liberated experiments going on a rampage on campus.

The bloodbath is finally ended by this Appearance of Homelander (Antony Starr) from The Boys, who as the leader of the Seven – of course – sides with the oppressors, which ultimately leaves our heroes locked in a room without doors. But that’s not all: In the end credits scene of the 8th episode Gen V Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) also returns. In the destroyed “Woods” laboratory he finds traces of the virus experiments.

Gen V Season 2 and The Boys Season 4: What’s Next for the Supes on Amazon?

The Boys Season 4 is on Amazon Prime Early/mid 2024 expected. In addition, a second season of Gen V has already been ordered, which will then probably be 2025 comes. The plan of series creators Eric Kripke, Evan Goldberg and Craig Rosenberg is to… to let two series intertwine alternately. The finale of the 1st season of Gen V passes the baton to the 4th season of The Boys and this in turn will lead into the 2nd season of Gen V at its end.

The plot of the 4th season of The Boys is also already specified in Gen V on Amazon: The experiments at the university have one Supe virus spawned, which could now be unleashed across the world. What exactly it does and how it allows control over people with powers has only been hinted at so far. The fact that the virus 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, doesn’t bode well. Erik Kripke revealed to Variety:

We knew the virus was going to play a big role in The Boys Season 4. And we knew that Butcher should know about the virus. And then the idea of ​​making that happen in Gen V came up […]: ‘Can’t we put Butcher at the end to show that he’s following the hot trail of the virus?’ That was cool because it was a nice little introduction to what’s to come is.

Conversely, this means that in the Amazon crossover too Gen V characters in The Boys will occur. 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 revealed timeline of the two series, the… 4th season The Boys “just a few days after Gen V” play. The presidential election in the superhero universe is just around the corner at this point. So The Boys fans are well advised to have seen the adventures of Generation V on Prime until 2024.

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