To add to the confusion: “We Gotta Go Now” was also the title of the episode in The Boys season 2 in which the members of the Vought-backed top superheroes known as The Seven shoot their fictionalized origin film, Dawn of the Seven. When (or if) this storyline will be part of Gen V is unknown, as Quaid has said that he won’t be in the first season of the spin-off. Vought itself steps in to deal with the G-Men when things unravel. Posing as a young supe called Bagpipe, he learns that some more senior G-Men are the worst people in the world (even if the kids are not beyond redemption). In “We Gotta Go Now,” Hughie from The Boys ( Jack Quaid in the show) joins a junior G-Men team to learn more about the operation. The Seven in The Boys season 2 (Photo by Amazon Studios) But with that huge of a roster, inevitably many publicly break ranks (and end up dead). Although often outcasts like their Marvel inspirations, they still prove to be one of the most lucrative super franchises in the world.
In that story, the G-Men are a collective of over 80 supes spread across multiple teams.
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Into this setting - at least in the comic book - comes the G-Men, a team occasionally mentioned in The Boys television series and one that was designed in “We Gotta Go Now” to serve as a parody of the X-Men. Also, as the trailer released in September (embedded above) revealed, there is something in “The Woods” that the company and the university are desperate to keep under wraps. Add something “bigger and sinister” lurking in the halls of the school and one wonders if the key group of students featured on the show will end up heroes or villains. And considering what we know about Vought’s obsession with creating a superhuman race, we imagine the company also has another reason for Godolkin’s curriculum. The school is less about education (despite grades still mattering) and more akin to a reality show competition: Young hopefuls square off in intense challenges with the goal of securing the best spots in the Vought-controlled regional superhero markets.
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And it was clear that Gen V will have some similarities with its antecedent: beside the expected blood and gore, the shows share an aesthetic and also a mystery or two.īut what else can we learn about the series? Join us as we take stock of what we know so far about the program and just what its characters may be up to in the first season.Ĭlick image to open full poster in a new tab.īased on the “We Gotta Go Now” story arc from Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s The Boys comic books, the program will focus on Godolkin University, a for-profit center of higher education run by the nefarious and omnipresent Vought International to train the next generation of supes. But with a first season shot, Prime Video gave Boys fans a glimpse at the series in December 2022 via a brief teaser. After the series of animated shorts, The Boys Presents: Diabolical, enters the first live-action spin-off: Gen V.Īnnounced in 2020, the program took some time to coalesce thanks to the pandemic and other issues. So, naturally, Prime Video wants to expand this world. It is also the most widely watched of that trio and even scored a best drama series Emmy nomination in 2021. The Boys) and supes who band together to take down a conglomerate of morally dubious superheroes is now the longest running of the three superhero shows that the streaming service put into production a few years back ( The Tick was canceled in 2019 while a second season of the animated Invincible is promised by this year’s end). Having completed its third season in 2022, the raunchy and violent series about a group of humans (i.e. The success of Prime Video’s The Boyscannot be understated.
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