Gen V EPs Break Down the Finale's Post-Credits Twists, Future The Boys Links

Earlier this week, Prime Video’s Gen V ended its debut season. The college-bound spinoff of the streamer’s popular series The Boys has managed to make its own separate name for itself with audiences, but the question was always going to be in what way it linked up with the main show. And the way it did so was....interesting, to say the least, and puts Gen V’s main cast in some interesting places come Boys’ upcoming fourth season and its own season two.

Spoilers from here on out.

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Speaking to the Butcher cameo, Kripke revealed it came as The Boys’ writing staff was in the middle of breaking down season four’s plot. The Supe virus was already planned to be a “pretty big part” of that show, as was Butcher’s hunt for it. Because the writers wanted to establish that Billy knew of the virus without conveying it through dialogue, someone suggested that “it probably shouldn’t even happen in The Boys, it should happen in Gen V,” he recalled. Having two writers rooms helped, he continued, because all they had to do was ask Fazekas and Gen’s writers if they were willing to include it in their show.

Butcher’s appearance takes place “a couple of days” following Gen’s finale, continued Kripke, and the current plan for both shows is to avoid the timeline problems other superhero universes suffer from and be fairly linear. “There’s Season 3 of The Boys,” he explained, “and then after that Gen V takes place, and then after that The Boys Season 4 takes place. And then after that, Gen V Season 2. It’s all more like cars on a train than it is a plate of spaghetti.”

When it came to when we’ll see The Boys next, and where Maddie and company will be seen next, both Kripke and Fazekas were mum. But Kripke did reveal Boys’ progress is coming along, saying a majority of its editing is done and the crew is “deep” on music and visual effects. “There’s a lot happening behind the scenes on on season four, I can say that,” he teased.

Both Gen V and The Boys can be watched over on Prime Video. Kripke and Fazekas’ full interview with Variety can be read here.

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