Earlier this week, Prime Video’s Gen V ended its debut season. The school-bound spinoff of the streamer’s widespread sequence The Boys has managed to make its personal separate title for itself with audiences, however the query was all the time going to be in what manner it linked up with the principle present. And the best way it did so was….attention-grabbing, to say the least, and places Gen V’s most important forged in some attention-grabbing locations come Boys’ upcoming fourth season and its personal season two.
Spoilers from right here on out.
Gen V’s finale, “Guardians of Godolkin,” ends with a pair of post-credits stringers that convey Karl City’s Billy Butcher and Anthony Starr’s Homelander over from The Boys into the orbit of Marie (Jaz Sinclair) and the opposite Goldolkin College children. Speaking to Selection, govt producers Michele Fazekas and Eric Kripke defined the pair of cameos had been each separate concepts the staff knew might present a possibility to feed into The Boys’ subsequent season. “Homelander got here earlier than Butcher as a result of we knew we wished to see Homelander,” stated Fazekas. “We didn’t go into this finale saying, ‘we’d like a Butcher cameo and a Homelander cameo.’ […] We wished to be very conscious of once we did that. And it could come up over the season, after which it made sense to do it on the almost-final, culminating second.”
Billy’s scene sees him exploring the ruined facility that when housed a virus that would probably be used to kill supes (which is now answerable for VP candidate Victoria Neuman, performed by Claudia Doumit). Within the second, Homelander assaults Marie at Goldolkin—which simply grew to become a battlefield involving her and her classmates Cate (Maddie Phillips) and Jordan (London Thor/Derek Luh)—for “attacking her personal sort.” Whereas Cate and Sam (Asa Germann) get topped as heroes by Homelander, Maddie and Jordan, together with their buddies Andre (Probability Perdomo) and Emma (Lizzie Broadway) are held captive in a sealed hospital.
Talking to the Butcher cameo, Kripke revealed it got here as The Boys’ writing employees was in the course of breaking down season 4’s plot. The Supe virus was already deliberate to be a “fairly huge half” of that present, as was Butcher’s hunt for it. As a result of the writers wished to ascertain that Billy knew of the virus with out conveying it via dialogue, somebody recommended that “it in all probability shouldn’t even occur in The Boys, it ought to occur in Gen V,” he recalled. Having two writers rooms helped, he continued, as a result of all they needed to do was ask Fazekas and Gen’s writers in the event that they had been prepared to incorporate it of their present.
Butcher’s look takes place “a few days” following Gen’s finale, continued Kripke, and the present plan for each exhibits is to keep away from the timeline issues different superhero universes undergo from and be pretty linear. “There’s Season 3 of The Boys,” he defined, “after which after that Gen V takes place, after which after that The Boys Season 4 takes place. After which after that, Gen V Season 2. It’s all extra like automobiles on a prepare than it’s a plate of spaghetti.”
When it got here to when we’ll see The Boys subsequent, and the place Maddie and firm can be seen subsequent, each Kripke and Fazekas had been mum. However Kripke did reveal Boys’ progress is coming alongside, saying a majority of its enhancing is completed and the crew is “deep” on music and visible results. “There’s quite a bit occurring behind the scenes on on season 4, I can say that,” he teased.
Each Gen V and The Boys may be watched over on Prime Video. Kripke and Fazekas’ full interview with Selection may be learn right here.
Need extra io9 information? Take a look at when to count on the newest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what’s subsequent for the DC Universe on movie and TV, and every part it’s good to find out about the way forward for Physician Who.