{"id":161921,"date":"2025-09-16T23:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T23:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/161921\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T23:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T23:32:07","slug":"everything-to-remember-about-gen-v-before-it-returns-for-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/161921\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything to Remember About ‘Gen V’ Before It Returns for Season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Boys<\/a> spin-off series\u00a0Gen V\u00a0returns for its second season this week. While we won\u2019t grieve Prime Video for making more sequel TV series<\/a> for the tongue-and-cheek superhero show that built a career on taking the piss out of DC<\/a> and Marvel<\/a>, we will give it grace by picking up the pieces of Gen V\u2018s first season so viewers are all caught up just in time for its return on September 17. Here\u2019s everything you need to know about Gen V season one.<\/p>\n

Gen V centers on Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair), a Supe with the power to manipulate blood like she waltzed out of Avatar: The Last Airbender. She enrolls in Godolkin University<\/a>, a superhero academy that\u2019s been training Supes on ethics, crime fighting, and branding since 1965.<\/p>\n

There, she meets an assortment of cool, superpowered friends, like magnetism-manipulating Andre Anderson (Chance Perdomo), mind-warping telepath Cate Dunlap (Maddie Phillips), size-shifter Emma Meyer (Lizze Broadway), and Jordan Li (London Thor\/Derek Luh), Marie\u2019s maybe sorta kinda pre-Facebook official partner whose gender-swapping powers grant them super strength and energy blasts.<\/p>\n

Maria witnesses star student Luke \u201cGolden Boy\u201d Riordan (Patrick Schwarzenegger) incinerate Professor Brinkerhoff (Clancy Brown) and self-implode, kicking off a series of events that not only unearth secret experiments taking place under the school\u2019s watch but also have huge implications for The Boys\u2018 finale as well.<\/p>\n

After some sleuthing, Marie and her friends discover that Luke was completely justified in attacking his teacher. It turns out that Brinkerhoff was just one of many staff members and trustees at God U involved in secret experiments aimed at creating superhumans.<\/p>\n

One of these experiments produced a serum designed to kill Supes. Unfortunately for the students, their story doesn\u2019t end in victory, as Homelander (Anthony Starr) crashes their party and quickly apprehends them.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 GEN V (@genv) March 30, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

One unfortunate real-life detail that\u2019ll ripple into the upcoming season of Gen V is the passing of Perdomo<\/a>. The 27-year-old actor died last March following a motorcycle incident. Production on Gen V was delayed as a result; when work resumed, Gen V\u2018s creators aimed to honor Pedromo with how they handled Andre in the second season (a feat Variety<\/a> reports is earnest, if not awkward in execution).<\/p>\n

From what we saw in season four of The Boys<\/a>,\u00a0Gen V\u2018s Cate and Sam Riordan (Asa August Germann) switched teams, joining Homelander in his reign of terror. We\u2019ll have to wait and see if the Supe-killing virus from God U, which Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) possesses, will come into play or if Marie will be the key to Homelander\u2019s downfall.<\/p>\n

Gen V returns to Prime Video for season two on September 17.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n