{"id":83266,"date":"2025-10-17T00:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T00:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/83266\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T00:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T00:22:07","slug":"gen-v-season-2-showrunner-says-the-biggest-twist-in-the-boys-spin-off-was-hiding-in-plain-sight-we-were-worried-that-everyones-going-to-guess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/83266\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen V season 2 showrunner says the biggest twist in The Boys spin-off was hiding in plain sight: &#8220;We were worried that everyone&#8217;s going to guess&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"307310f6-d2d0-40dc-b667-0bcdda94053a\">Gen V showrunner Michele Fazekas says the clues to the show&#8217;s biggest twist were right in front of us all along.<\/p>\n<p>Warning: Spoilers for Gen V season 2 episode 7 ahead!<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\" href=\"\" data-url=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"307310f6-d2d0-40dc-b667-0bcdda94053a-2\">&#8220;We&#8217;re laying out little hints that, if you look back, you&#8217;ll be able to see it,&#8221; showrunner Fazekas told <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/gen-v-godolkin-twist-teased-all-season-ethan-slater-hamish-linklater-11829870?taid=68efc5fe76f6a10001747313&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+New+Content+%28Feed%29&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/gen-v-godolkin-twist-teased-all-season-ethan-slater-hamish-linklater-11829870?taid=68efc5fe76f6a10001747313&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+New+Content+%28Feed%29&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a>. &#8220;Even the fact that \u2013 why does this guy just drink gross shakes with chicken and stuff in it? It&#8217;s because he doesn&#8217;t taste anything. He doesn&#8217;t care about this body. He&#8217;s just trying to keep it going to get to the end goal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You may like<\/p>\n<p>For the first six episodes of Gen V season 2, there were two very big questions that we, the viewers, desperately wanted answered: Why is Cipher so powerful? Who is the burned-up man being kept in Cipher&#8217;s house? In Gen V season 2 episode 7, all is revealed: Remember how Cipher possesses the ability to take control of other people&#8217;s bodies? Well, as it turns out, there is no Cipher: He&#8217;s an ordinary man named Doug who Thomas Godolkin, yes, the thought-to-be-dead Thomas Godolkin, took control of some years ago. The burned-up body belonged to Thomas Godolkin, founder of Godolkin University and creator of the Odessa project (and the man who successfully created Homelander and turned Marie into one of the world&#8217;s most powerful supes).<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, Godolkin didn&#8217;t die in the fire that occurs during the flashback in Gen V season 2 episode 1. After drinking the rest of that Compound V, he survived, and somehow used his newfound powers to find a host body to carry out his work until he could find a supe powerful enough to put him back together. Marie uses her healing powers to restore Godolkin&#8217;s body because she thinks it&#8217;s the only way to stop Cipher. But again, there was no Cipher. Confusing? A bit. But Fazekas says she was worried the audience would&#8217;ve figured it out early on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were worried that everyone&#8217;s going to guess that,&#8221; Fazekas continued. &#8220;I think some people will guess that. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s guessable that they are actually the same person, that this guy is just some guy. [Cipher] is basically just a body that [Godolkin&#8217;s] tried on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What happens now? Well, now that Marie has essentially resurrected the devil&#8230;it&#8217;s going to take a lot more than a little blood manipulation to put him back in the ground where he belongs.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s just one episode of Gen V left, so be sure to never miss an episode with our <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/entertainment\/superhero-shows\/gen-v-season-2-release-schedule-when-is-episode-1-out\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/entertainment\/superhero-shows\/gen-v-season-2-release-schedule-when-is-episode-1-out\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gen V season 2 release schedule<\/a>. For more, check out our list of <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/best-shows-on-amazon-prime\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/best-shows-on-amazon-prime\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the best shows on Amazon Prime Video<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gen V showrunner Michele Fazekas says the clues to the show&#8217;s biggest twist were right in front of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-83266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}