‘Gen V’ Canceled After 2 Seasons, ‘The Boys’ Next Spinoff ‘Vought Rising’ Confirmed For 2027 Launch

I mean we've seen other characters from gen v. Pretty odd non of the main cast have made an appearance yet

She probably will show up. They keep full-naming her like a f****** Pokemon.

I'm just wondering how they're gonna make excuses for nerfing her powers down from Gen V.

It would be genuinely insane if she (and the rest of them, really) don’t show up in the main show. The entire point of season 2 was that it ends with them joining up with Starlight

At that point would we just consider Gen V as a completed prequel show to the boys? It’s always felt like a supplement to me ever since the shows started to bleed into each other with references/scenes.

The ending of S2 felt pretty final, honestly, the story of Godolkin U ends with the death of Thomas Godolkin himself, the shutdown of the university and the remaining cast joining the anti-Vought resistance (ie the main plot of The Boys) Like the setting of the show is over, how does the show maintain its own separate identity after that as opposed to just having a separate series following a side character

marie is being positioned as one of the strongest supes, possibly at homolander and soldier boy's level. it'll be such a wet fart if she doesn't have some sort of meaningful role in the final boys season. and the omnigender character can tank huge hits so maybe they have a role in protecting one of the fragile main characters or something.

Even though it’s to my understanding Gen V season 2 set up some stuff for The Boys season 5, I haven’t really felt like I’m missing anything. Which is good because I was done after one season of Gen V. I enjoyed the show but I couldn’t muster up any excitement to watch the second season for some reason. It’s more of The Boys but with a cast of college kids and they’re horny and all want to f*** constantly and also there’s a conspiracy at Godolkin. Okay I get it. I’m over it. Just like I’m over The Boys at this point too. 5 seasons of “Oi C*** we’ve got to kill ‘omelander”. F****** do it already. This shit only needed to be two or three seasons tops too.

They are confirmed to appear at some point this season.

I hope she doesn’t kill Homelander. That would be massively unsatisfying as an ending. It would be like Moon Knight sweeping in and defeating Doctor Doom. Oh what’s that? The character mentioned in passing twice swoops in and with no development in the main series solved everything? Boy I hope you were keeping up with the spinoff otherwise you don’t know or care about this person who just stole the climax of the show from the characters you invested these past few years watching. I watched gen v and still think that would be a horrible ending.

They were in trailer, they're gonna appear. It's just that their roles are unlikely to be big

There are no emotional stakes for the characters from the university show to play in the main show. The Chosen One to defeat Homelander? At what point has the main show ever depicted any conflict coming to a head that didn't involve him and Butcher's group?

TBD, but so far no. And the show is probably better off for it since they’re struggling with the characters they already have.

Little cricket and Jessica Jones team up?

They’ve also kind of been hinting that too. Some of the dialogue pokes fun at the writing team . I.e when the worm says (I’m paraphrasing) creating a “finale with 14 characters from different stories was not easy” like a meta joke.

Like any successful series, the corpos must extract as much wealth as possible no matter the cost.

I haven't watched the show because I don't have Amazon but I'm a bit surprised by how much they're squeezing the lemon. According to the article, The Boys: Mexico is also in active development.

The franchise built itself on making fun of the superhero trends at that time only to become the same thing it mocked. So yeah, not surprising it failed.

Yeah I couldn't care less about Voight rising we already know everything we need to know from that era

Seasons 1 and 2 were pretty good but 3 and especially 4 were eye rollingly mediocre. No desire to see it through. I also didn't even know season 5 was midway until I just looked it up. Nobody is talking about it so I assume it must be absolutely terrible. No memes, no discussion, no spoilers to try to avoid. I've never seen such a lack of interest before.

To call it ironic that it's getting the cinematic universe treatment would be an insult to irony. The main trouble is that its a series that built a reputation on the shock factor but we've already had dicks strangling people, superheroes killing innocent people, literal nazis, heads exploding, etc. There's not really anywhere to go for the general audience. And I say this as someone who's loved every season of both the Boys and Gen V. It's a niche product that got a wider audience due to the shock factor and a lot of those people don't care about the story. They just want Homelander eye lasering people

>The franchise in general feels like its run its course already So many people said this when Gen V was first announced, and it ended up being great. Its all about how good the writers are, theres no such thing as no ideas left

That joke was more at the expense of The Last of Us admittedly.

I am so excited for it, can’t help myself. He’s so great as is Aya Cash. Stormfront was heinously evil.

I wouldn’t mind one more season of a post Homelander world and see the public reaction to Supes now, maybe play similar to X-Men with mutants and how people treat them now.

That’s actually an interesting idea but I’m not sure how the overarching plot could be very interesting unless you kept it low stakes. Homelander in school has lots of potential for crazy storylines.

They did plan for more, the creator said in an interview that he would like to do a few more seasons. But yeah, Chance’s death affected their plans for sure, as well as the creator saying that they just weren’t getting the green light from Amazon.

And they wouldn't want to say that publicly. You don't want to look like you're blaming a dead kid for your failure.

besides the fact that he was clearly supposed to die..i think the father and the actor who played him did a pretty good job and i’m kinda glad we got to see him step in to a more prominent position in the story. sucks that someone had to die for that to happen

> One of the most interesting characters died in real life Who died?

The (first) lead actor of Babylon 5 suffered a psychotic break over the course of taping the first season and had to step away from acting. Like, imagine Star Trek: TNG losing Patrick Stewart after season 1… Except, prior to this, the show’s creator JMS had already created “trapdoors” for all the main characters. I.e., for any actor who doesn’t work out for any reason, there is a contingency plan for replacing that character with an entirely new one while fully preserving the show’s huge, overarching plots. Doesn’t necessarily mean killing the character off or anything like that (the actor who suffered the psychotic break was given a really nice farewell in a later season), but, he approached the writing from the perspective that TV production is an incredibly unstable industry for all sorts of reasons like schedule conflicts, health, budget, etc.

I still don’t understand why they were so against recasting the character. I mean, we would have understood, why f*** up your shows whole narrative…

I think it's a (literal) inside joke because the VCU exists within the boys universe

Nothing will ever reach walking dead levels of shark jumping

More like imagine if Scary Movie kept driving itself into the dirt with sequel after sequel like a squeezed out horror movie fran....oh wait, that's kind of what they did! (and now are doing again)

even though gen v didnt let me down, boys have more misses than hits for last season and this season not so amazing yet so i m okay with it ending on high note hopefully.

But, in their defense, "she got out" was how they explained his character dying. It's possible the season would've shown more of them being captured had he lived. They had to come up with some reason he was no longer around.

But they spent quite a bit of time explaining how they got out. Also, Chase passing had a pretty major impact on the show and that can be felt. I think season four of the boys could be pretty much deleted without much issue though tbh. Waste of a season for the most part.

I really, really like *The Boys*, and I thought that season 1 of *Gen V* was very good, and an interesting variation. Unfortunately, however, I also thought that season 2 of *Gen V* was really weak. It's writing was an illogical mess.