How that Gen V season 2 finale sets up The Boys season 5: Jaz Sinclair's Marie is 'going to be im...

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Showrunners for both &34;Gen V&34; and &34;The Boys&34; tee up the &34;French Resistance&34; taking on Homelander's regime. How that Gen V season 2 finale sets

Showrunners for both "Gen V" and "The Boys" tee up the "French Resistance" taking on Homelander's regime.

How that Gen V season 2 finale sets up The Boys season 5: Jaz Sinclair's Marie is 'going to be important'

Showrunners for both "Gen V" and "The Boys" tee up the "French Resistance" taking on Homelander's regime.

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Jaz Sinclair as Marie Moreau on 'Gen V' season 2. Credit:

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**This article contains spoilers from *Gen V* season 2, episode 8, "The Guardians of Goldkin."**

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The final scene of *Gen V* season 2 sees the young supes of Godolkin University now on the run after Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair) exploded the school's villainous founder Thomas Godolkin (Ethan Slater), but they've been given a new purpose. Annie January (Erin Moriarty) and Reggie Franklin/A-Train (Jessie T. Usher) show up to recruit the runaways to join the fight against Homelander (Antony Starr).

Fans already knew going into the series' sophomore year that it would set up the events of *The Boys*' fifth and final season. Now the showrunners from both dramas, Michele Fazekas (*Gen V*) and Eric Kripke (*The Boys*), are here to dig a little deeper into what's next.

After that whole storyline revealed Marie and Homelander are the only survivors of Project Odessa and, therefore, the two most powerful supes on the planet, Kripke confirms Marie is "going to be important" to the conclusion of *The Boys*.

Antony Starr as Homelander in 'The Boys' season 4.

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"There's this active underground resistance led by Annie and A-Train to mount a real pushback against Homelander and Homelander's government," Kripke tells **. "It's sort of Homelander's world and they're living in it, but there's like a French Resistance, as it were. So she'll be important."

Take this for what it's worth, but Fazekas says she doesn't know anything about *The Boys* season 5. She's also separately working on *Law & Order: SVU*, so perhaps she is telling the truth. However, she admits, "We knew we wanted to basically say that you guys [on *Gen V*] are now the rebel force and you're going to be joining the good guys in *The Boys*."

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Kripke, the executive producer and architect of the larger *Boys* TV franchise, reiterates that the two shows still function as standalone stories. "I don't think Marie is going to suddenly be the main character of *The Boys*," he continues. "You should still be able to watch *The Boys* without seeing *Gen V* and have it all be satisfying and entertaining, but she does provide crucial assists."

*The Boys* final season will pick up about six months after the events of *Gen V* season 2. When last we saw the likes of Hughie (Jack Quaid), MM (Laz Alonso), Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara), and Frenchie (Tomer Capone), they were all being "disappeared" by members of Homelander's MAGA-esque regime. Starlight and A-Train were the only ones who evaded capture. Same with Butcher (Karl Urban), only he's off doing his own thing, powered by a Temp V-boosted cancer.

That's the reason Starlight and A-Train are the only *Boys* veterans who appear in this final *Gen V* scene. "We're not ready to tell you where Hughie and Butcher and Frenchie and Kimiko and MM are," Kripke comments. "They'll have to tune into *The Boys* for that one."

Derek Luh, Jaz Sinclair, Keeya King, and Lizze Broadway on 'Gen V' season 2.

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There's also no post-credits scene. *Gen V* season 1's finale had an ending tag revealing Urban's Butcher showing up at the Woods inside God U. Not so for season 2. Fazekas has a simple reason: "There wasn't a big discussion about that. It just didn't feel organic to the story."

A premiere date has not been set for *The Boys* season 5, though it's safe to assume a 2026 bow. And with the mothership show now approaching its inevitable conclusion, Kripke says "we've had a lot of conversations" about what the college-set spinoff can be as the new mothership.

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Fazekas likens it to her other show, *SVU*, which became the new mothership *Law & Order* series as the flagship procedural. "What is great about *Gen V* is it tells very different stories," she says. "It is a coming-of-age story for any of these characters. You would have to reinvent the show again, which we did in the second season. What does a superhero college look like in Homelander's America? And then you would have to ask a question, What does a superhero college look like post the last season of *The Boys*? I have no doubt that you can come up with that."

Kripke teases, "There's a take for season 3 of *Gen V* that I love. It's really surprising and unexpected, but great and really emotionally grounded. I would love to do it." The fate of the show comes down to the standard industry dilemma these days. "If the ratings are good enough, they'll give us a season 3. If they're not good enough, they won't. That's just the business," he continues. "So tell all your friends to tune in and watch *Gen V* and, hopefully, we'll get a season 3."

All episodes of *Gen V* season 2 are now available to stream on Amazon's Prime Video.

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