“Gen V” Season 2 has finally wrapped, and the Supes are fried. After a semester of twisted science, brutal betrayals, and messy power plays, the students of Godolkin are left picking up the pieces of the system that has made them and is constantly giving them near-death experiences.
At the centre of it all stands Marie Moreau, her blood-bending powers evolving into something dangerously close to godhood. With Cipher pushing her abilities to the edge and his true identity rewriting Vought’s history, the finale doesn’t just end a chapter — it cracks the entire universe wide open.
Now that Godolkin’s dark legacy is out in the open, chaos takes the throne. The real question isn’t who survives. It’s who rises, who falls, and who becomes Vought’s next nightmare. Let’s break it down.
“Gen V” Season 2 Episode 8 Recap — “Trojan”
The episode opens in 1967, revealing the fiery origins of Thomas Godolkin himself. Desperate to survive a lab blaze that kills everyone around him, Godolkin injects himself with Compound V. The gamble saves his life. But the heat catches up, leaving him horribly burned and disfigured. It transforms him into the charred figure that’s haunted the series.
Jumping to the present, Doug finally wakes up. He’s free from Godolkin’s psychic control… but it comes at a cost, which is the rug nearby as he unleashes a stream of vomit upon it.
He describes the experience as being trapped in “the backseat” of his own mind. When Jordan questions why Godolkin couldn’t control Marie, Doug admits she’s too powerful. Godolkin has trouble using his powers on Marie because she is cut from the same cloth as Homelander through Project Odessa.
Meanwhile, Marie attempts to heal Doug, but as she is weak, she is temporarily cut off from using her powers. As such, Polarity tries to help by taking him to a trusted contact for medical aid. But before they can make progress, Black Noir II ambushes them. He stabs Doug in the chest and kills him instantly.
Elsewhere, Godolkin, now fully healed and indulging in luxury with Sister Sage, begins plotting his next move. Sage warns that his reappearance might not sit well with Homelander. But Godolkin is high on power and ego. He estimates Homelander as “weak” and boasts that he can control not one, but both Odessa experiments in the form of Marie and Homelander.
As chaos brews, Godolkin takes his plan public. Broadcasting a live video, he announces that he’s resetting Godolkin University’s student rankings and launching an “advanced seminar” where everyone has a shot at joining The Seven. It’s a brilliant front but a deadly lie. Marie and the gang quickly realise that it’s a trap, and they attempt to stop him.
Inside the seminar room (aka the training hall), Godolkin uses his upgraded psychic powers to control dozens of students at once, forcing them to attack and kill each other in a grotesque massacre.
One terrified student phases through the wall, and in his panic, he comes across Marie and Jordan, whom he warns. Determined to stop the slaughter, Marie rallies the team. Cate returns, having regained her powers with Marie’s help, and they storm the campus. With help from a few bizarre allies, including the student who literally stores people inside his body, they manage to free the rest of their group and briefly subdue Godolkin. For a moment, it seems like the nightmare is over.
But Godolkin isn’t finished. Drawing power from the blood of the dead students, he gains control of Marie herself, turning her against her friends. As her sister Annabeth’s precognitive visions come true, Marie unleashes her powers in a blood-fueled rampage. Godolkin declares, “The only thing worse than weakness is treason,” right before Polarity bursts in and distracts him long enough for Marie to regain control and explode his top half into a cloud of gore.
With Godolkin dead, Polarity urges the others to flee before Vought arrives. He chooses to stay behind, determined to face his fate on his own terms. Marie pleads with her sister to leave, but Annabeth refuses, saying the world still needs them. Just then, Annie January, Starlight herself, arrives. She invites the young Supes to join the underground resistance. And the A-Train is already a part of it.
As “The Hand That Feeds” by Nine Inch Nails bursts in the background, Marie, Jordan, Emma, Annabeth, Cate, and Sam step into the next phase of their story.
Godolkin’s Trojan Horse, Explained
Thomas Godolkin has always been the man behind the curtain, but “Trojan” finally reveals just how far his obsession goes.
Decades before the events of “Gen V”, Godolkin injected himself with V-1 — the unstable prototype of Compound V once tested on Soldier Boy and Stormfront. The experiment saved his life but twisted it beyond recognition, turning him into a scarred, near-immortal figure driven by delusion and ego.
His mission was never just about creating Supes. It was about control. Project Odessa became his masterpiece, a genetic breeding ground designed to produce beings as powerful as Homelander but loyal only to him.
Godolkin saw Homelander not as an ally, but as the failure of his vision. To him, Homelander was a fallen god who represented chaos. The only way to restore order was to build something stronger, smarter, and completely obedient on his own terms.
By the time his students uncover his secret, Godolkin has gone full messiah mode. His so-called “advanced seminar” is no academic exercise. It’s a trap. It’s a mass culling disguised as an opportunity. His telepathic powers have grown monstrous, allowing him to command entire rooms of Supes like puppets. His twisted belief that only the strong deserve to survive turns the campus into a slaughterhouse.
Marie becomes his ultimate target. Godolkin knows her connection to Project Odessa and understands that if he can control her, he can control Homelander. Imagine that — a world where Godolkin pulls Homelander’s strings. That’s the nightmare he’s building toward.
But in the end, the students stop him before his delusion becomes reality. Godolkin doesn’t just want to teach gods. He wants to enhance that part of his name, and with that Trojan horse lure in the finale, it shows how close he comes to pulling it off.
How It Sets Up “The Boys” Season 5
“Gen V” resets the chessboard by the end of its finale. God U is Gone U. Godolkin’s death leaves a massive vacuum in the school’s hierarchy. Bigger players with darker motives will probably rush to fill the void. Project Odessa’s deep ties to the school and Godolkin’s direct role in both make it impossible to ignore.
The appearance of several key figures from “The Boys”, including The Deep, A-Train, Black Noir, Annie January, Sister Sage, and Firecracker, makes it clear that “Gen V” is no side story. It’s a crucial part of the larger narrative unfolding across Vought’s world. The only notable absence this season is Homelander, though that’s probably deliberate. Having Antony Starr back after that last time would have overshadowed all the chaos at Godolkin in the present.
Sister Sage is still a wildcard as her mysterious “Phase 2” plan, hinted at throughout “The Boys” Season 4, is still in motion. Whatever she’s building with Homelander, it’s clearly bigger than Godolkin’s ambitions. Sage is still the ‘smartest’ person in the world, and it’s still unclear what her motives are. Whether she believes in erasing the weak and raising a world where the strong lead or whether she changes her heart is still up for grabs.
Vought, naturally, will try to spin the Godolkin massacre to its advantage. Expect the PR machine to label the students as terrorists or “Starlighters,” weaponising fear to justify harsher control over the next generation of Supes. But with Polarity’s uncertain survival and Sage’s quiet manipulation from the inside, the company might be facing collapse from both ends, with rebellion and corruption bleeding together.
Marie, Jordan, Cate, Emma, and Sam are now part of The New Boys (we guess that works), and the resistance is back. A-Train is in tow following his change of heart. As The Boys regroup after their Season 4 losses, Annie’s team could become the missing link between human rebellion and superhuman revolt. And their first step would probably be to attempt to break Kimiko, Frenchie, Hughie, and MM out of wherever they are being held.
“Gen V” has also presented the only person who might rival Homelander in both power and bloodline, and that sets the stage for a terrifying confrontation in “The Boys” Season 5. Homelander, of course, doesn’t yet know that another of Vought’s experiments, Marie Moreau, exists as his genetic equal. She was born from the same twisted Project Odessa that created him.
Once that revelation hits, he won’t see Marie as a sister figure; he’ll see her as competition. Stan Edgar knows this, and he will probably play his cards with the resistance in an attempt to regain control of his beloved Vought.
And ooh, we’re sure there will be a bloody battle to follow.
All roads now lead to confrontation. “Gen V” ends with a new hope and a new resistance. If “The Boys” Season 4 was Vought’s peak, Season 5 will probably be its unravelling. It’s the moment the children of V rise against their gods.
Will There Be A “Gen V” Season 3?
While Gen V Season 2 brings Godolkin’s story to a fiery close, showrunner Eric Kripke isn’t ready to shut the doors on this blood-soaked campus just yet. In a recent interview with TheWrap, Kripke teased that a third season is on the table, but it all depends on the numbers.
“Now’s the time that they’re paying attention to the numbers. So don’t watch even a year from now,” Kripke said. “Turn on Prime Video and watch it now. If enough people watch, then we’ll get a Season 3.”
Kripke also hinted at the show’s potential beyond The Boys’ main storyline. He described the post-Season 5 world as a “wild west” where anything goes — a chaotic, unregulated universe ripe for new conflicts, factions, and power struggles. “As long as there’s an interesting story to tell and new facets to reveal, I’m in,” he said.
That tease suggests “Gen V” might become the next flagship in the franchise once “The Boys” wraps up its main story. With Marie, Jordan, Cate, and the rest of the new generation stepping into a world without clear heroes or villains, the spin-off could evolve into its own frontier of chaos. It’s one where Supes, resistance fighters, and Vought’s remnants all battle for control of whatever’s left.
“Gen V” is currently streaming on Prime Video.
