The season 5 finale of *The Boys* brings in characters from *Gen V*, but their role is minimal and lacks the weight of their previous arcs, leading to disappointment for fans who expected a more meaningful crossover.
Warning: This article contains SPOILERS for The Boys season 5, episode 7, "The Frenchman, the Female, and the Man Called Mother's Milk.
" After nearly an entire season of anticipation, The Boys finally introduced key characters from its spinoff series, *Gen V*, in its seventh episode. However, their presence was far more limited than many fans had hoped. Showrunner Eric Kripke had previously warned that *Gen V* wouldn't play a major role in *The Boys'* final season, but this creative decision has sparked controversy among viewers.
While it might feel odd for characters from another show to dictate the main series' conclusion, it is equally baffling that the events of *Gen V* have been largely disregarded, especially given how deliberately the spinoff set up several key plot points for *The Boys*' fifth season. *Gen V*'s first season introduced the supe virus, which has been a central element in *The Boys* for years.
Its second season featured Godolkin University students, including Marie Moreau and Jordan, being recruited by Starlight to join the resistance against Homelander. Additionally, A-Train returned in the spinoff, confirming his support for the resistance. These developments seemed poised to influence *The Boys*' final season, particularly in the mission to rescue Hughie, MM, and Frenchie. Instead, Marie's group was entirely absent until her and Jordan's brief cameo in episode 7.
Despite hopes that *The Boys* season 5 might offer a quick recap of *Gen V*, this didn’t happen. Marie and Jordan appeared for only around three minutes, with minimal impact.
In contrast, far less significant characters like Dogknott and Sheline received more screen time, despite their lack of narrative importance. The few moments given to Marie and Jordan offered little new information, reinforcing the idea that certain elements from the now-cancelled *Gen V* have been rewritten in *The Boys'* final chapter. One of the most striking shifts is the significant downplaying of Marie Moreau’s powers.
*Gen V* season 2 positioned her as one of the strongest supes in the franchise, rivaling even Homelander. She and Homelander were the only survivors of the Odessa Project—a brutal program designed to create even more powerful supes. Cipher, under Thomas Godolkin’s control, took a special interest in Marie, training her in bloodbending, a skill comparable to Victoria Neuman’s lethal abilities. This made her a formidable threat, seemingly capable of challenging Homelander.
However, in *The Boys* season 5, her abilities appear much less impressive. During her brief appearance in episode 7, Marie jokingly told MM that reports of her awesomeness had been exaggerated. While this could be modesty on her part, Starlight’s lack of urgency in employing Marie’s powers against Homelander suggests a deliberate downplaying of her abilities. Beyond Marie’s power struggles, *The Boys* season 5 has largely ignored *Gen V* season 2’s central plotline.
The return of Thomas Godolkin and his ruthless mission to eliminate weaker supes was a major narrative thread in the spinoff, with significant ramifications for both *Gen V* and *The Boys* as a whole. However, *The Boys* season 5 brushed off this storyline with a surprisingly flimsy explanation, claiming that Vought had blamed the deaths of the Godolkin students on AI.
While this concept is satirically amusing, it undermine the depth of the storyline and how it might have affected the broader *Boys* universe
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