“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 finale opens with a blast from the past. It’s 1967, to be exact. It’s the moment when Thomas Godolkin’s bid for greatness literally blows up in his face. Trapped in a burning lab, he injects himself with Compound V. It saves his life but leaves him horrifically scarred.
In the present, chaos brews. Doug is barely clinging to life after his psychic puppeteering spree, coughing blood as Marie’s group scrambles to help. He reveals the truth: Godolkin isn’t just old… he’s ancient. The serum froze him in time, letting him live for decades, hopping from one mind to another. Doug himself was one of his many disposable vessels, forced to kill his own host body. And though Godolkin has tried to possess Marie, he can’t as she’s too strong.
Meanwhile, the real Godolkin enjoys his rebirth. He’s fully healed, self-obsessed, and draped in luxury beside Sister Sage. She’s been his secret ally all along, planting files on Project Odessa for Annie to find, steering Marie back to Godolkin University like a pawn on a chessboard. Sage wants to bring him into Vought Tower and integrate him into her broader plan with Homelander, something she calls “Phase 2.” But Godolkin’s ambitions are no longer about partnership. He’s thinking bigger. Much bigger.
Meanwhile, Polarity drives Doug to the hospital, sharing a rare, human moment before tragedy strikes. Black Noir II ambushes them mid-conversation, impaling Doug through the chest and abducting Polarity. The massacre begins.
Back on campus, the students return to find Godolkin in full cult-leader mode. He broadcasts a campus-wide message, resetting every power ranking to zero and inviting the top prospects to a “special seminar.” Sage instantly recognises the trap he sets, fearing Homelander’s wrath when he learns of this stunt. Marie warns the other students not to attend, but her plea is drowned out by ambition and fear.
Soon, the workshop turns into a slaughterhouse. Godolkin drops the professor act, calling his students failures unworthy of their powers. He kills them one by one, testing his control over their minds and proving he can dominate entire crowds. Sage watches, horrified, as she realises the monster she helped resurrect.
Marie, Jordan, Cate, and the others storm the facility to stop him. The rescue mission turns chaotic. Allies like Emma and the grotesquely named Black Hole join the fray as the group battles their deranged professor. For a brief moment, it looks like they’ve won. Marie hoists Godolkin into the air, declaring victory for every “useless” Supe he’s tormented.
But the tables turn. Godolkin seizes control of Marie, finally achieving what he’s wanted all along: mastery over her blood. Using her body, he massacres the room, absorbing the blood around him and unleashing psychic devastation. It’s only when Polarity reappears, freed from captivity and fueled by grief, that the tide shifts. Using his magnetic powers to disrupt Godolkin’s mind, he gives Marie the opening to end it. She explodes Godolkin’s head in one burst of rage and power.
“That was for Andre,” she declares.
With Godolkin dead, the group knows their fight is far from over. Vought will spin this as terrorism, Sage is still out there with her mysterious “Phase 2,” and Polarity warns that cleanup crews are already en route. The young Supes scatter into hiding, now fugitives in the eyes of their creators.
Their flight ends at a quiet roadside stop until Starlight appears, flanked by A-Train. Annie has seen the truth about Odessa and the Godolkin massacre, and she’s no longer standing down. “You want to join the resistance?” she asks. The answer’s obvious.
For the first time, the next generation of rebels is united and Vought should be very, very afraid.
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
By the end of “Gen V” Season 2, the board has been flipped and scattered. God U is Gone U, and with Thomas Godolkin dead, a massive power vacuum is left in his wake. The school’s ties to Project Odessa and Godolkin’s personal hand in both are too significant to bury. Someone will move in to claim what’s left, and it probably would not be anyone noble.
The finale’s flurry of cameos, from A-Train to Black Noir II, Sister Sage, and Annie January, makes one thing crystal clear: “Gen V” isn’t a side quest anymore. It’s the backbone of Vought’s expanding chaos. Nevertheless, the only major absence, of course, is Homelander. And that feels deliberate. Bringing Antony Starr’s flying menace into the mix would have detonated the story before it could breathe.
Still, his shadow looms large, and Sister Sage may be the one keeping it in motion. Her cryptic “Phase 2” plan from The Boys Season 4 is still active, suggesting that whatever she’s building with Homelander goes far beyond Godolkin’s ambitions. The “smartest woman in the world” might just be scripting the next war. But whether it’s for survival, control, or something more personal is anyone’s guess.
Meanwhile, Vought will do what Vought does best: spin blood into propaganda. Expect a cover-up labeling the God U massacre as the work of rogue “Starlighters,” with fear once again weaponised to justify tighter control. But the company’s grip is slipping. With Polarity’s fate uncertain and Sage possibly undermining the system from the inside, Vought’s implosion is only a matter of time.
Marie, Jordan, Cate, Emma, Annabeth, and Sam have now become something new: The New Boys (and honestly, we’ll take that). With A-Train on board and Starlight leading the resistance, they could become the crucial bridge between human rebellion and superhuman uprising. Their first mission? Freeing Kimiko, Frenchie, Hughie, and MM from wherever Vought’s keeping them.
And that’s not even the biggest fuse waiting to blow. “Gen V” has now introduced the one person who might match, or even surpass, Homelander: Marie Moreau. She was born from the same twisted Project Odessa that created him. When Homelander finally learns that another of Vought’s “children” exists, he won’t see family. He’ll see a threat.
Stan Edgar knows it, too. If anyone can weaponise that revelation, it’s him. And when he reemerges, likely siding with the resistance to reclaim Vought, all hell is going to break loose.
All roads now lead to confrontation. Indeed, “Gen V” ends not with closure, but ignition. It’s a new hope, a new rebellion, and a new generation ready to burn the old gods down. If “The Boys” Season 4 marked Vought’s peak, Season 5 is shaping up to be its reckoning.
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.
