One thing fans loved about GenV Season 1 was the new dimension it brought to TheBoys. This journey about powerful teenage superheroes at Godolkin University wasn’t something the comics from Garth Ennis and Darrick Robertson waded into. There, John Godolkin was a millionaire with a shady team, whereas this series subverts the concept to create a feeder school for Vought Industries and the Seven.

In the eight-episode The Boys spinoff from Prime Video, the narrative ends up being a tad wobbly. This is understandable, given the large cast and how many arcs were being juggled. Still, Gen V left behind some burning questions as the show built towards TheBoys Season 4.

10What Happened to Marie’s Sister?

Marie opens up Gen V by accidentally losing control of her blood manipulation as a teen. She killed her parents, causing her younger sister, Annabeth, to abandon her. This drives Marie’s mission at school years later, as she wants to join the Seven and show Annabeth — wherever she is — that she’s no monster.

The series, however, never confirms what happened to the sibling. Marie knows she’s out there after they got adopted by different families. Vought’s staff do offer Marie a chance to meet Annabeth at various junctures, but it’s unknown if these are genuine. They’re all trying to manipulate Marie and make her the school’s pawn, effectively creating a huge mystery when Gen V’s Season 1 ends.

9Why Didn’t Cate Mind-Wipe the Heroes Further Back?

The most powerful Supes in Gen V aren’t necessarily the most dangerous ones, and some actually want to use their power for good.

Gen V’s Dean Shetty is using the telepath, Cate, to mind-wipe Marie and her friends as they investigate the school’s secret lab: The Woods. Cate is planted among Marie, Emma and Andre, taking memories away as she thinks she’s helping protect Shetty’s work on how “supes” are evolving at the school. The problem is, Cate only wipes a few days.

While Shetty does have her on restrictive pills to monitor Cate’s powers, she still could have taken Cate off the medication and allow her to wipe more memories. This would have made it tougher for Marie’s team to find clues that their minds were being messed with. It’s all plot convenience, so they could secure puzzle pieces and hunt their mysterious attacker, not realizing it’s Cate.

8Why is Homelander Still Active?

The Boys’ Season 3 concluded with Antony Starr’s Homelander killing an activist who didn’t like the Superman’s right-wing views in public. Gen V has key scenes indicating Homelander is on trial for this. However, he shows up in the finale to attack Marie’s team and recruit Cate and Sam. Homelander shouldn’t be on active duty as Vought is about accountability and transparency with the press and shareholders.

This might have been more palpable had the series shown Vought’s staff and their spies at Godolkin discussing why he’s free to carry on with his job. Even the US Vice President Victoria Neuman doesn’t address this after going to a political forum to shoot down superhero supremacy. Homelander’s cameo doesn’t feel as organic as Jensen Ackles’ Soldier Boy, who was Cate’s imaginary boyfriend in her fractured psyche.

7Why Isn’t the Woods Guarded?

Shetty’s real plan with the lab experiments was to create a virus to kill supes after Homelander caused the death of her family. Cate discovers the truth and frees the test subjects to destroy the Woods and attack people at the school who won’t side with them. After Homelander quells the chaos, Karl Urban’s Billy Butcher shows up in the finale’s post-credits.

He’s looking for remnants of the virus after Shetty tried to offer it to Mallory (Billy’s partner). However, one would think the lab would be under lock and key. Vought should be guarding it better to hide evidence regarding their guinea pigs. Seeing as it’s on campus, this sequence feels way too convenient and lacks gravitas, which could have been added had fans seen Billy knocking out guards to find the prize.

6Why Did Homelander Go After Marie’s Team?

Gen V has Team Marie trying to quell the massacre and keep it all under wraps. They even try to protect staff and Vought employees. Thus, it’s illogical as to why Homelander would go after people taking care of his interests. The last thing he’d want is for the world to see supes as killers, especially after his court appearance.

Framing Marie’s team and then elevating Cate as a savior, aka the Guardian of Godolkin, would only sow division and political discord. It may be he’s trying to stoke the fires of superhero supremacy more. But this still doesn’t give him reason to apprehend and almost kill a teenage team who did right by the school.

5How Could Homelander Hide Cate’s Sins?

In the campus massacre, Cate uses her mind control to get a Vought spy, Jeff, to blow his head up on a livestream. It’s revenge for Jeff killing one of the test subjects. It also allows Cate to show the world her power. However, it’s never explained how Vought could cover this up and have her be one of Homelander’s chosen ones. Cate even speaks on the stream, pushing Jeff to commit the act.

Numerous students capture her as the leader of this culling. Vought has never been a company that could scrub so much material from the internet, even despite their technological expertise. Had Cate not sold herself out, this arc would be more believable. In addition, all the footage out there would show Marie’s posse helping protect staff and students. As a result, TheBoys Season 4 has to show how the media would believe Homelander’s slander campaign against Team Marie.

4What Happened to Rufus?

Initially, Marie’s team goes after another telepath in Rufus, thinking he was mind-wiping them. GenV would reveal he had a darker skeleton in his closet. He caused many girls, including Cate, to black out and then sexually assaulted them.

The series doesn’t confirm Rufus’ fate after the massacre, however. Rufus being around to rove campus wouldn’t add up, especially now that Cate has a lot more sway as Homelander’s mentee. With so many tools at her disposal, it’s hard to see Cate not making Rufus pay for his crimes.

3What’s Neuman’s Plan With the Virus?

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After Cate kills Shetty to spark the massacre, Neuman ensures everyone else associated with the virus is taken off the table. She attains the chemical weapon and heads back to Washington, although she doesn’t reveal her ultimate goal. However, she can’t create a bomb or an infection to spread globally. It would kill her too, as she possesses Marie’s blood-manipulating ability.

It may be Neuman will create streamlined weapons to use against the person she’s in an uneasy alliance with, Homelander, as well as those in the Seven who hate her. Neuman wants more regulation of “supes,” so this could be her way of getting them under her thumb, while still winning votes over from humans who don’t know she has Compound V in her bloodstream.

2Why Does Sam Turn on Emma?

Early on, Emma helps free Sam (Golden Boy’s brother) from the lab, but he turns on Marie’s team in the end. Shockingly, Sam aligns with Cate, even before she mind-controls him to kill innocents. It’s a rushed arc because he hates Cate for mind-wiping Luke and keeping the lab secret. Plus, he’s a pure, innocent child who is initially eager to keep his romance with Emma going.

The series does have him meeting radicalized supes on campus, but more context is needed to explain why he’d switch to Cate’s side. He has ample reason to despise mankind (namely, Shetty) for wanting his kind gone. However, Cate helped ruin his and Golden Boy’s life. Emma, on the other hand, helps him mentally heal through all this and never sides with the oppressor, so it’s an inorganic, forced heel-turn against someone he says he loves.

1Why Didn’t Neuman Work With Brink?

Season 1 of Gen V confirms Brink was working with Shetty, thinking she was helping to upgrade heroes. It’s why Luke killed him. The show later reveals Neuman was allied with Shetty to manipulate Marie’s life after her parents. Apparently, Neuman wanted Marie to excel at the school, so she could have her own protégé. This arc has issues, however. Brink tried to expel Marie when she used her powers at a party, which led to her coming to the office to witness Luke killing Brink.

It triggers Luke’s rampage and his subsequent self-destruction in the sky, which planted seeds for Marie to unlock the school’s secrets. However, one has to wonder why Neuman didn’t work with Brink on controlling this from the start. Had she allied with Brink to protect Marie’s reputation, Marie would have risen up the school’s rankings and never gotten distracted by Luke or the lab. It’s a major plot inconsistency, as Neuman kept saying she was looking out for Marie. If that were so, Brink wouldn’t want Marie gone. Given Neuman is a major financier, it would have felt natural to the plot.