Movies & TV Gen V Gen V Brings It All Together and Teases Final Season of The Boys in Season 2 Wrap-Up It’s an exciting season finale… apart from the endless tie-ins to that other supes series. By Ben Francisco | Published on October 27, 2025 Image: Jasper Savage/Prime Video Comment 0 Share New Share Image: Jasper Savage/Prime Video [Spoilers for season two finale, “Trojan”] The episode begins in 1967 at the burning “Odessa Project” laboratory, continuing the flashback that opened the season. Dr. Godolkin (Ethan Slater) desperately injects himself with compound V, hoping he might attain powers to extricate himself from the flames. He screams as the fire starts to burn him alive. Cut to the present, to “Doug,” the ordinary human that Godolkin (a.k.a. Dean Cipher) has been using as a puppet ever since his own body was burned to the point of incapacitation. “I’m so sorry about the carpet,” Doug says after vomiting, in a meek tone that is jarringly different from the casual cruelty that Cipher has been giving all season. Still recovering from the battle of the prior episode, our heroes learn that Doug was one of several puppets Godolkin had manipulated with his mind-control abilities—and that his plan all along was to manipulate Marie (Jaz Sinclair) into healing his scorched body. Meanwhile, Godolkin is savoring the full use of his own body and all its sensory pleasures: drinking wine, touching high-threadcount sheets, urinating for himself, and enjoying his love affair with Sister Sage (Susan Heyward), the super-genius mastermind behind Homelander’s effective takeover of the U.S.—and Godolkin’s own recovery. Sister Sage is surprised when Godolkin says he has more work to do at the university named for him, and it’s clear there are some hitches coming for both their romantic relationship and their partnership in evil scheming. Doug gets a ride from Polarity to the doctor, telling him that his son had died heroically, sacrificing himself for his friends. Their touching moment is interrupted by an attack by Noir, who kills Doug and captures Polarity. Back at the dorm, Emma, Cate, and Marie regroup. Emma reminds them that they’ve become a chosen family, and Marie restores Cate’s telepathy using her increasingly powerful blood-control ability.   On a social media video, Godolkin announces his “resurrection,” his super-abled identity, and open enrollment in his advanced seminar to anyone seeking a spot in the top student rankings. Marie responds with her own video warning students the “seminar” is a life-threatening trap. Even so, many of the university’s less discerning students show up for the seminar. Godolkin takes control of multiple young supes at once—pitting them in combat against each other in a violent bloodbath.  On the way to stop Godolkin, Marie and Jordan have a quick romantic check-in. Jordan forgives Marie but says they can’t be together—but hopes they can stay friends. Before they have a chance to process, the other heroes catch up to them. They have a plan to stop Godolkin.  Godolkin brags to Sister Sage that his powers are growing—he’s never been able to control so many people at once. His hope is to hone his own power to the point where he can control even the most powerful heroes, like Marie and Homelander. Sister Sage reminds him that he’s straying from “phase two” of their plan. When they fail to find common ground, Godolkin summons a dozen semi-conscious bloody bodies to life for a choreographed dance routine. Sister Sage leaves and goes to free Polarity—one of the few supes able to block Godolkin’s mind-control abilities. Marie arrives at the seminar combat room to confront Godolkin, who weaponizes several of her super-powered classmates against her. The odds seem to overwhelm Marie, until Black Hole (a secondary frat bro character) reveals that he is the episode’s eponymous Trojan horse: his super-powered rectum is hiding the rest of our heroes. After they’ve emerged, they use their various powers to take Godolkin by surprise, and Harper uses her mimicry powers to take control of Godolkin and all the other students.  But then Godolkin gets back control of his own body and finally manages to take control of Marie. Through Marie, he creates a whirlwind of blood that sweeps across the room, fulfilling her sister Annabel’s precognitive visions. He presses all the heroes to the ground like helpless bags of blood. Speaking in unison through both his own mouth and Marie’s, he proclaims that they’re all mediocre supes and traitors to their own kind. Godolkin seems poised for total victory—until Polarity arrives and disrupts his powers. Back to herself, Marie uses her ability to pop the blood vessels of his head in one gory explosion. “That was for Andre,” she says. “Thanks for the level up, asshole.” Recognizing that the Vought corporate oligarchs will come after them again soon, our crew of young heroes takes to the road. But before they make it far, Starlighter literally swoops in to officially enlist them in the resistance. Image: Jasper Savage/Prime Video This season’s big reveal that Godolkin and Cipher are one and the same was expected by many fans, but it still worked well for me thanks to its strong execution and a few details that went beyond the expected. It’s interesting that Godolkin didn’t already have powers before the fire, and the scene of him desperately injecting himself with V as the flames consume him is powerfully unsettling. Hamish Linklater completes his season-stealing performance with his deft transition from casually evil mastermind Dean Cipher to hapless VCR-repairman Doug. After seven episodes of callousness, it’s chilling to see the same person suddenly sympathetic and helpless. Linklater’s portrayal of Doug’s suffering is poignant, and you really do feel like this character is recovering from two decades of trauma, having to watch helpless from inside his own mind as Godolkin used his body to torture and kill people. I loved Linklater’s interpretation of Cipher so much that I was almost sad to see him revert to Doug, but Ethan Slater skillfully picks up the villain baton. Slater demonstrates impressive range portraying Godolkin, a total departure from his previous roles. He looks so different here compared to Boq in Wicked that my partner didn’t believe the two parts were played by the same person until I submitted internet evidence. The final confrontation with Godolkin is an excellent and satisfying climax to the season. In an ensemble show like this, it’s fun when multiple characters get to play a part in taking down the big bad—even secondary ones. Harper’s use of her mimicry power in particular was nicely done. The Trojan horse gambit using Black Hole’s anus felt a little silly, but certainly brought home the point that even the oddest of powers can be valuable when deployed strategically. The motley group of young heroes taking down Godolkin is an apt counterpoint to his eugenicist philosophy of supe supremacy. Jaz Sinclair has given a strong performance as Marie throughout the season and shines in the finale in particular. When Godolkin possesses Marie, it’s genuinely terrifying for a few moments, largely thanks to Sinclair’s skillful depiction.  With the focus on the final confrontation between Godolkin and Marie, there’s little time for closure of this season’s other subplots. Emma easily grows to giant size in the big battle—without having to eat anything—giving the sense that she has a stronger handle on both her powers and self-esteem. She also has a brief but sweet farewell with Polarity, closing out the unexpectedly fun pairing between the two of them this season.  The arc that suffered the most from the rushed pace was Marie’s sister Annabeth. At the end, she joins our heroes to run off with the resistance, and she overcomes her anger at Marie over the death of their parents. But it’s an abrupt shift after years of not speaking to her sister, and that evolution could have been more impactful if we’d gotten the chance to see more of it on screen. I also craved more than just a few minutes of screentime for Marie and Jordan’s romance, though I can understand that the showrunners didn’t want to shoehorn too much of it in when the heroes had to fight for their lives. We also get a couple of more grace notes of honoring Andre’s legacy, which ended up being a central theme for the entire season much more than I’d expected. Image: Prime Video The weakest moments in the finale and throughout the season were some of the tie-ins with The Boys. Starlighter’s appearance as deus ex machina in both the opening and closing of the season felt like an afterthought, more at the service of commercial interests than the story.  I also had trouble believing that Sister Sage, literally the smartest person in the world, would fail to predict that Godolkin was never going to stay neatly within the lines of their scheme. That said, she adapts quickly with an alternate plan to neutralize him, and Susan Heyward’s performance is so impeccable that it easily papers over any questions. While the plugs for The Boys sometimes felt forced, they did succeed in getting me excited for that show’s forthcoming final season. My ears pricked up when Sister Sage mentioned “phase two”—who can resist a multi-phase diabolical plot? It’s also fun that we’ll get to see more of Marie and her friends as members of the resistance in Gen V’s parent show—though they’ll undoubtedly be tertiary at best as things build to a big showdown between Homelander and Butcher. I also was hoping for some more exploration of the theme of rising fascism in this finale—though I suspect we’ll get much more of that in the final season of The Boys as well.[end-mark] The post <i>Gen V</i> Brings It All Together and Teases Final Season of <i>The Boys</i> in Season 2 Wrap-Up appeared first on Reactor.