{"id":90624,"date":"2025-10-22T08:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T08:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/90624\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T08:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T08:17:07","slug":"gen-v-season-2-almost-brought-back-season-1s-dead-villain-heres-how-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/90624\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen V Season 2 Almost Brought Back Season 1’s Dead Villain (& Here’s How) [Exclusive]"},"content":{"rendered":"

The old adage goes that comic book deaths don\u2019t count for much, and Gen V<\/a> Season 2 almost proved as much with the return of a long-deceased supe. Obviously, The Boys universe has been there before \u2013 in a way \u2013 thanks to the replacement of Black Noir, but that\u2019s not quite the same as actually seeing a character after the point of their actual death. And had the plans been realized, it wouldn\u2019t have been a flashback or a clone swap that did it, despite the same character appearing multiple times after his death in Season 1.<\/p>\n

Ahead of Gen V Season 2\u2019s finale, Eric Kripke spoke exclusively to ComicBook\u2019s Bryan Cairns to reveal how close we came to seeing more of Patrick Schwarzenegger\u2019s Golden Boy. Asked if the creatives had discussed a return, he said:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did. We did. If I remember correctly, there were a couple of dream sequences. I forget who was having the dreams. Maybe Sam, but 100 percent it made its way to the outlines where Golden Boy was showing up. But Patrick\u2026 I think he was shooting some tiny show about a hotel. I don\u2019t know. Some tiny indie thing. I don\u2019t think anyone saw it [laughter]. Obviously, he was doing White Lotus and was super-busy with that and the press. I don\u2019t
think we could work out the schedules, if I remember correctly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Could Patrick Schwarzenegger Still Return To Gen V?<\/p>\n

\"Golden<\/p>\n

Scheduling issues aside, there was clearly interest from both sides for Golden Boy to make an unlikely return. Kripke went on to say: \u201cHe\u2019s checked in with us and has been nothing but lovely. I would work with him again in a heartbeat. He is such a good, nice, genuine guy.\u201d This follows Schwarzenegger himself telling ScreenRant<\/a> back in February 2025 that he only didn\u2019t return because of scheduling issues and that he wished he could have. So maybe there\u2019s a chance in future? Again, he told ScreenRant that while \u201cIt didn\u2019t work out [for season 2 of Gen V]\u2026 maybe season three or some other time.\u201d Fingers crossed.<\/p>\n

The actor has a longer association with The Boys lore than just his active part in Gen V: he actually auditioned to play Homelander initially, and impressed the casting team enough to earn an eventual call-back for the spinoff. Schwarzenegger revealed details on the Happy Sad Confused<\/a> podcast:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they were doing the Gen V spinoff, they came to me saying, \u2018We know you auditioned for [Homelander] and we remember it and we want you to audition for this Golden Boy\u2026 It was just kind of positioned as he was going to be this kind of a miniature version of Homelander, but he was honestly like a really good kid and a really nice, genuine person, and he was kind of struggling with having to become part of that superhero and that kind of level of fame.\u201d<\/p>\n

So the love runs deep. The mechanics of how he could return aren\u2019t clear, but this universe has already introduced clones, and the comics have a dark version of resurrection that basically turns the victims into brainless monsters. Not exactly a nice way to come back, but there\u2019s always hope.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Leave a comment below and join the conversation now in the\u00a0ComicBook Forum<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The old adage goes that comic book deaths don\u2019t count for much, and Gen V Season 2 almost…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,6947,10801,85,46,53913,61310,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-90624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-exclusive","10":"tag-gen-v","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-regular-news","14":"tag-the-boys-tvshow","15":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}