Gen V

Welcome to Godolkin University, Vought International's prestigious college for young superheroes. Here, students compete for social media clout, top rankings, and a coveted spot on The Seven. But beneath the glossy campus and influencer culture lies a dark underground facility called The Woods, where Vought conducts unethical experiments on supes deemed defective. The series follows Marie Moreau, a first-year student with the power to manipulate blood, as she uncovers these secrets and faces a moral crisis that splits her friend group apart.

Created by Craig Rosenberg, Evan Goldberg, and Eric Kripke, Gen V expands The Boys universe with a college-set spin-off that balances gory superhero satire with genuine emotional stakes. The show premiered on Prime Video in September 2023 and ran for two seasons, concluding in October 2025. Its young cast, including Jaz Sinclair, Maddie Phillips, and Chance Perdomo, earned praise for tackling themes of trauma, consent, and systemic corruption. [edit]

Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair) arrives at Godolkin University carrying a heavy secret: at age 12, during her first menstrual period, her hemokinetic powers activated and she accidentally killed her parents. Now determined to become a hero and join The Seven, she navigates a campus where popularity is measured by social media rankings and students are trained to be marketable brands rather than genuine heroes.

She quickly befriends Emma Meyer (Lizze Broadway), a size-shifting supe called Little Cricket who must induce vomiting to shrink; Jordan Li (played by both London Thor and Derek Luh), a gender-fluid student with different powers in each form; and Andre Anderson (Chance Perdomo), a magnetic-manipulating legacy student whose father is the famous hero Polarity. Together, they discover The Woods, a secret underground facility where Vought has been imprisoning and experimenting on supes deemed unstable. The group also encounters Sam Riordan (Asa Germann), a super-strong young man who has been held in The Woods for years.

As they dig deeper, they learn that Dean Indira Shetty (Shelley Conn) has been orchestrating a plan to release a virus that kills supes, motivated by her family's death at the hands of a supe. Cate Dunlap (Maddie Phillips), a telepathic student who can compel people through touch, becomes radicalized by her trauma and aligns with Sam, believing supes must dominate humans. The friend group fractures over how to handle the truth, leading to a violent confrontation where Cate and Sam lead imprisoned supes in an attack on a campus party. Marie, Jordan, Emma, and Andre try to stop them, but the chaos ends with Homelander (Antony Starr) arriving at God U, blaming Marie for the violence and blasting her with his laser vision.

Season 2 picks up months later, with Marie, Jordan, and Emma returning to a changed God U under a mysterious new dean named Cipher (Hamish Linklater). Cipher preaches a philosophy of making students more powerful through extreme training methods. Meanwhile, Cate and Sam have been installed as the new campus heroes, enforcing order through fear. The season introduces Thomas Godolkin (Ethan Slater), the school's founder who has been hiding in a hyperbaric chamber, manipulating events from behind the scenes. His goal is to eliminate supes he deems weak and militarize the school into a weapon for Vought. As war brews between humans and supes in the larger world, Marie and her friends must uncover a secret program from the 1960s that may hold the key to the present conflict, while deciding whether to join the resistance against Homelander's fascist regime.[edit]