‘Gen V’ Showrunner On Season 2 Finale, ‘The Boys’ Cameos And Season 3 Hopes

Warning: Spoilers ahead for the season two finale of Gen V.

Season two of Gen V ended not with a bang, but with a pop.

It’s not a Gen V finale without blood spilled on the Godolkin University campus. And thankfully, it’s not Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair) or any of her crew this time around — it’s Thomas Godolkin (Ethan Slater), the school’s founder and main villain of season two.

In the season two finale, released on Wednesday, Godolkin begins carrying out his plan to reduce the God U population and weed out the weak supes by making students fight each other to the death in a seminar. His seminar has another purpose, though — to lure in Marie, who won’t be able to resist the urge to save everyone, and puppet her and take over her body forever.

Marie and her friends have a showdown against Godolkin in the training room. He succeeds in puppeteering Marie, but the moment is fleeting. Godolkin’s power trip is short-lived because he gets his head popped off by Marie after Polarity (Sean Patrick Thomas) beats him up, getting justice for Andre (Chance Perdomo).

“We definitely wanted it to be a tag team between her and Polarity, because Polarity has just as much of a reason to want to kill that guy,” showrunner Michele Fazekas said. “So, it was important that they were both involved in that.”

Godolkin’s death isn’t the only significant thing that happens in the finale. Jordan Li (London Thor and Derek Luh) breaks up with Marie, despite the pair making progress in their relationship earlier in the season.

“It was really an evolution of Jordan’s emotional story,” Fazekas explained. “We wanted Jordan to sort of come into their own and mature. I think Jordan loves Marie, and I actually don’t think that story between them is over.”

The showrunner said that at this stage, Jordan wants to see who they can be when they aren’t forced to adhere to their parents’ expectations or have someone tell them what to do.

“There was so much angst around the relationship with Jordan, and it is a sign of maturity where Jordan is like, ‘Right now, we’re not good,’” Fazekas said.

Even though Jordan and Marie are broken up, they’re still going to spend plenty of time together.

Following Godolkin’s death, Marie, Jordan, Emma Meyer (Lizze Broadway), Sam Riordan (Asa Germann), Cate Dunlap (Maddie Phillips) and Annabeth Moreau (Keeya King) go on the run together to avoid getting caught by Vought. They’re tracked down by Annie January/Starlight (Erin Moriarty), who reached out to Marie at the start of the season to help her dig into Project Odessa, and A-Train (Jessie T. Usher), who joined the good guys at the end of season four of The Boys.

The finale wraps up with the Gen V kids joining the resistance with Annie and A-Train. It’s a significantly more optimistic ending than season one, which saw Marie, Jordan, Emma and Andre getting wrongfully locked up while Cate and Sam became Vought puppets. Now, they’re all unified in the fight against Vought and Homelander (Antony Starr).

“We wanted to set them on the path of, ‘You are rebels now,’” Fazekas said of teeing up the upcoming final season of The Boys. “And I like that it sets up the story in a way of anticipation. The first season was like, ‘Oh no. They’re locked up in a thing.’ Now it’s like, ‘Oh, they’re going to join the rebels,’ and that’s going to be fun to watch.”

It’s unclear how heavily the Gen V characters will be involved in the fifth and final season of The Boys, but the spinoff could go on without its parent show. Gen V hasn’t officially been renewed for a third season yet, but co-creator and executive producer Eric Kripke recently told TheWrap there are plans in mind if the series continues. However, Gen V needs a strong enough viewership to justify another season.

Fazaekas shared similar sentiments about the show’s future and how Gen V could adapt for a post-Boys season.

“There is obviously not an official third season. There certainly could be, I think,” she said. “There’s so many different ways to do it. And the reason I know there could be is we had to basically reinvent the show at the beginning of this season, sort of like, ‘OK, now it’s Homelander’s America. What does the college look like in Homelander’s America?’”

“So there was a lot of resetting, new school, and so I know it could be done again in a third season,” Fazekas said. “Like, OK, once The Boys happens, what is the reset now? I think you can do that. And I think coming-of-age stories happen all the time for a reason. People are really interested in that. So I think there’s always stories to tell there.”

All episodes of season two of Gen V are streaming on Prime Video.