Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show I'm your host Paul and this video we're breaking down
the Boys Spin-Off Series Gen V.
The first look has a lot of references to the show including nods to Homelander, an
appearance by A-train and Ashley along with a puppet of the deep.
In this video we're gonna be going in deep, ey and talking about the show, the new characters
and things that we think will be happening in the series.
Gen V is basically gonna an X-men parody with several teenage kids being trained as superheroes
in order to become the next big Supes.
The title Gen V is of course a play on Gen Z and also Vought and Chemical V. However
I actually think there might be a deeper cut to it that links back to the X-men.
Back in 1996 there was a live action X-men show released called Generation X that got
shown on Channel 5 in the Uk.
I had my tape all set up to record it and the next day realised id set the time wrong
so I never got to see it.
It's stuck with me though and has finally paid off by appearing in this video.
Thank God.
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Now this opening instantly sets up where the show will be taking place.
That is Godolkin university and fans of the comics will instantly recognise the name.
John Godolkin was the leader of the G-men and he was a sort of professor X type figure
that pulled together lots of supes to form the group.
He had his own mansion out in the country side similar to Xavier and this school for
gifted youngsters trained several of them
I think that's likely what's going on here with us potentially even meeting the character
at some point in the series.
Godolkin has a darker side to him and in the comics we learn that he was abusing the students.
Hughie inflitrated the group disguised as a new supe and he slowly started to unearth
the seedier side to it which was also something that Vought became aware of.
In the end Godolkin went to set his students on The Boys but soldiers from Vought arrived
and they wiped them all out along with Godolkin.
They'd become aware of what he was doing and didn't want the PR disaster that bound to
come from this getting out into the public so put a stop to him before it could.
Now the comic was written way before the MeToo movement and it is possible that it could
be tied in with that in the show or they might just not show Godolkin at all.
If he is in the series I can see him possibly being Clancy Brown however he may also be
someone who worked with Vought and unearthed the truth.
The teaser opens with us at the School Of Crime Fighting and to the left of the entrance
we can see statue for Lamplighter.
Lamplighter was replaced by Starlight in Season 1 and we were told that he had retired.
However he'd actually been shipped off to the Sage Grove Centre which is where he was
freed in Season 2.
Lamplighter ended his own life by setting himself on fire in Vought tower but the fact
that this statue is here makes me think that this was hidden from the public.
Vought have a habit of covering up the deaths of their supes and they used to run cover
stories to hide what had really happened with them.
The statue for him being there hints that it's all been swept under the right and Lamlighter's
reputation hasn't gone down in flames ey.
Now this then transitions into Marie Moreau looking up at one for Homelander.
When we last saw him he was about to start his Kanye arc and he'd murdered someone at
a rally to rapturous applause.
He is still Voughts number one money maker with a loyal following so the company probably
hasn't got rid of him yet.
However there is also potential that this could be a prequel to the show and that takes
us into Theory time, theory time, theory time.
Now we're unsure of when this series is taking place as there are some things in this that
hint it could be a prequel or something that's happening alongside Season 3.
There's a nod to Black Noir and though he died in season 3 we do know that the mantle
wil be taken up by someone else.
Due to him wearing a mask, his murder could go undettected and this school might actually
end up being a training programme that selects who the next one is gonna be.
Big theory time there but yeah there are ways around this.
Now the Deep puppet has his gills out too which was only brought into the public once
the show had started so I am thinking that it takes place either as Season 3 is unfolding
or just after it.
Marie Moreua isn't from the comics so we can't really use that to judge either.
However has potentially popped up in the show continuity her getting a potential nod to
in the Red River files.
When investigating Victoria Neuman, Hughie and Starlight came across a list of Red River
students and slap bang in the middle was Marie M. Really nice touch placing their main character
in Season 3 and as I've been saying, It's all connected.
Later on in the teaser we see Marie standing in a room and to the left and right of her
are signs for the location.
There's blood lined on the walls and potentially we'll be seeing her training her powers here.
According to the wiki, Marie has powers very very very loosely based around Wolverine.
Now she posses vein and arteries manipulation which means that she can fire them out of
her wrists, allowing them to latch on to people.
But Kevin how is that like Wolverine?
Well Timmy, Marie has a regenrative healing factor and her wrists are torn open when she's
using her abilities.
When the veins go back in the wrists heal themselves similar to how Wolverines claws
retract.
I'm guessing this also stops people from just cuttings her veins and killing her easily.
I actually think she might try this in the show as we see her pulling out a pocket knife
after the red river shot.
Again on the floor we can see a sign for Red River and it looks like we're gonna be exploring
this location.
It popped up in the boys diabolical and it was a horrendous place where people got experimented
on in order to improve their powers.
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We cruise the corridors of the school and to the left hand side we can see a vending
machine selling A-Train's turbo rush.
After this we get to the words murderer which are written in blood.
Blood appears throughout the teaser at lots of different points.
blood
Obviously Marie has powers that link in with her blood and I'm guessing that she becomes
a suspect in the murders that we see playing out.
I even have a theory that someone might have similar powers to Victoria Neuman and they
could be ripping people apart.
In the next shot we see someones eyes opening widely with them looking extremely bloodshot.
This could either be a victim or the killer themselves starting their powers up.
Cut to swat teams going to the school, again symbolising that these have to be pretty high
level crimes.
We cut to a picture of a cartoon bunny rabbit somewhat echoing the visions that Black Noir
used to have.
A swat team member slowly patrols the corridor hinting at how this could bea n ongoing thing
as more murders happen.
The black swat team members are hammered home by the black noir sign which says No Lookie
Loos and then 'this area is patrolled by security just below it.'
We then see a shot of someone crying and blood running into a drain.
From here we get Adam Bourke, the director of The Dawn Of The Seven.
What do you mean it was really Tony Gilroy.
He does a sort of Chefs kiss gesture and he also had a bit of a thing with Ashley who
too appears later on in the trailer.
From here we get an upside down shot of a girl in her dorm standing in the middle of
the room.
The way this pans around and how she looks at the camera makes me think that this might
be the person carrying out the murders who's just found their next victim.
She looks shocked to see whatever this is and yeah that's what I'm going with.
I keep mentioning the serial killer theme, might not even be part of the show and if
you think there's something else going on then let me know.
I'll stop with that now as it's getting in the way and in what's a nice little easter
egg we can see a Queen Maeve poster hanging up on the wall.
We then get some quick shots of some characters that I'm unsure of before we finally see A-Train
in the flesh.
He's rocking a cap for the seven, is wearing a suit and is also clearly about to give a
speech.
I think he might potentially be opening a new wing of the school or doing something
along those lines that requires his appearnce.
Nice little detail on the mic is that we can see that the news network VSN is covering
it which is obviously owned by Vought.
Though I'm saying this is a school it could also possibly be happening at Vought tower
as we can see windows behind him that have criss crossing diagonal lines on them.
This is similar to what they have in Vought tower so potentially this scene comes from
there.
It could even be the moment where they announce the new Seven members as their numbers were
wittled down massively after the events of Season 3.
Now after the shot of Clancy Brown we get several different scenes that are clearly
at a medical facility.
You can tell by the tiled walls and infrastructure that this is somewhere else where it seems
like they're carrying out experiments.
We see blood and guts being swept up along with a character covered in blood similar
to Victoria.
Back...back to the murder theory but potentially this could be someone carrying out their powers
which are similar to vics and this is why there's blood and guts everywhere.
They clearly weren't harmed as they're covered in it and it could be a splashback from their
victim.
Now there's also a character being carried along a hallway and I have seen people saying
that because they're wearing the blue patient clothing that this could be the Sage Grove
Center.
However I actually just think this is Red River and that we'll be focused on learning
the back story of that rather than it being Sage.
So I'm taking your Theory Time and I'm putting it in the f**king bin where it belongs.
Now amongst these moments we get a montage of students along with my man Ambrose from
Chilling adventures of sabrina.
Marie is played by Jaz Sinclair who too showed up in that series so ey, reunion.
There's kids sliding along a hallway and you might notice some snow to the left and right.
Guessing this is an ice man type character and he's also holding a beer.
Ice man in X2 chilled Wolverines beer so it could be a nod to that.
Was also played by Shawn Ashmore who played Lamplighter and ey, it's all connected.
There's some pancakes with a smiley face on showing Pancake man...f**ks sake.
We then have Marie shooting veins out of her hands and this happens in a kitchen that we
later see get smashed up in the teaser.
Guessing that the person she grabbed was attacking the family we see here and she stepped in
to take them out.
It is possible that his powers were maturing and he decided to kill his family or they
just let rip.
The Red River episode in Diabolical had the students going back to their parents to murder
them for what they'd done and we could see a similar thing here.
This kitchen has a number of fights in it that pop up in the trailer so expect to see
this as a big scene.
We see Chance Perdomo busting out his powers and by the looks of it he's telekinetic.
There's also Marie being chased along the corridor, some of the kids busting out their
powers and an Ant-man type character getting trapped under a plastic cup.
Better than what they did in Season 3 I tell you, and we also see someone trapped in what
I think is Red River before we cut to Marie being interviewed.
This is clearly promoting the university and it's another part of Vought Pr that makes
them seem like heroes instead of what they are.
We can catch a Homelander statue here as well, showing how he looks over everything.
This then leads into lots of blood shots and weirdly the Deep puppet popping up again.
This also gets its head ripped off at one point and it's of course also on the sesame
street parody Avenue V....like for Vought.
If you look at the puppet here it has stubble whereas later on in the grafitti corridor
it doesnt.
Due to it also getting its head ripped off and there being a spine I have seen theories
that this is an actual person rather than being a puppet.
If we look at the head ripping scene this puppet is actually grabbed by another puppet
that rips this puppets skull from it's body.
Therefore there might be several puppet characters that are vying it out for the top spot.
Puppets also work as ameetaphor as all of the students and staff of V are of course
puppets for the organisation.
Really nice thing you might not catch and that ends the teaser trailer.
I can't wait for the show to begin and this trailer was kinda the sleeper hit over the
weekend.
Really sorry it's taken this long to get to it but I hope you enjoyed the breakdown and
obviously I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.
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