As Gen V season one comes to a close, fans impatiently await the arrival of The Boys season four with hopes that it will tie in just a little with its spin-off’s maiden season. It was an action-packed finale that didn’t disappoint but left a few questions unanswered while raising a few additional ones. Where did the Guardians of Godolkin end up, for example? The good news is that that kind of ending means there’s more to come, as the spin-off set the stage for both The Boys season four and Gen V season two.

The first season of Gen V followed Marie Moreau, a young adult with the ability to manipulate and sense blood, who got accepted to the premiere university for those with Compound V filling their blood. Marie struggles with making friends at first, but by the end of the season, she has a close-knit core group who might be the most noble characters in the world of The Boys. Unfortunately, the school proves to be more than she expected, and it comes down to her to save everyone there. Here’s how it ended.

How Does Gen V Season 1 End?

Gen V ended with quite a bang, paying off all the build-up throughout the season. Andre’s dad, Polarity, loses his ability to freely use his powers while he also might not be able to continue using his; Cate snaps and unleashes absolute chaos on Godolkin’s human staff members, Marie becomes a hero, and Homelander shows up to “save the day.”

Feeling betrayed by Indira Shetty, Cate directs her anger toward every human, starting with Godolkin’s staff. She returns to school with Sam and releases every prisoner in the Woods after giving a nice little speech that cements her stance as a supe-supremacist. It’s easy to imagine how angry those students are after Shetty and her scientists used them as test subjects, going as far as killing a few of their friends for the development of a super virus. On top of the recent student protests on campus, it wasn’t difficult for her to weaponize them against their human overlords.

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Despite Shetty formulating a genocidal plan against the supe population, Marie feels compelled to protect the innocent and enlists Emma, Jordan’s, and eventually Andre’s help against Cate. It wasn’t exactly difficult for Andre to stand against Cate as he already felt betrayed by her for wiping his memories. On top of everything happening at Godolkin, Andre has his father to think about who is at risk of dying. Frequent use of his powers has damaged his brain, and Andre may also suffer the same fate.

Jordan and Marie act as the last line of defense between Vought’s Ashely Barrett and other human employees trapped inside a helicopter. The two students fend off a trio of Woods’ prisoners, making short work of them. Marie protects the Vought employees with a wonderful display of her powers, forging blood into daggers and hurling them at her opponents. It’s when Cate shows up and reaches out for Jordan when everything comes undone. With absolute panic filling Marie at the sight of Cate nearly grabbing ahold of Jordan, she blows the telepath’s arm clean off at the elbow just as Homelander arrives.

While it’s reasonable to think Homelander is there to stop Cate’s rampage, he actually turns his laser eyes against Marie after exclaiming,

What kind of animal are you? Do you like attacking your own kind?

This exemplifies his “supes-first” mentality, almost hinting that it’s intensified since The Boys season three. Instead of stopping Cate, he sends a pair of laser blasts into Marie. As this screen fades to white and then fades back in, audiences find that Vought spun the event against Marie and her cohorts, calling it the “Godolkin 4 Massacre” and naming Cate and Sam the new Guardians of Godolkin. What exactly happened to Marie, Emma, Jordan, and Andre? They find themselves wearing hospital gowns in a brightly illuminated room with hospital beds, monitors, no doors, and no windows. The only mode of egress is a hatch in the ceiling. When Marie asks what happened, Andre informs her:

You took that blast like a f***in’ champ

Does Gen V’s Finale Tie Into The Boys Season 4?

It was interesting to see Homelander appear in the Gen V finale with all the legal issues he got himself mixed up in after the season three finale of The Boys. Then again, Vought more than likely wields one of the best legal teams in the world that used their legal-fu to keep Homelander active and out of prison. It’s possible that along with his legal issues, Homelander’s actions that prevented Marie from stopping Cate’s uprising will play a role in The Boys season four. If anything, it’s going to pique the interest of some of The Boys to find out what happened to the Guardians of Godolkin. However, it’s that other little thing that’s most likely going to be a major focus of the upcoming season.

A mid-credits scene shows Butcher investigating the abandoned Woods, trying to ascertain what happened down there. Since Mallory knew about Shetty’s experiments after the two crossed paths in Gen V’s penultimate episode, she probably sent him to snoop around. The supe virus will easily be a major focus of the next season. Butcher will want to acquire it and use it on the super population, while the rest of the team will be split on the matter since a couple of them (Starlight and Kimiko) are supes themselves. Butcher’s hate for supes has gradually increased with each season, and he’ll be eager to have such a weapon in his arsenal.

Unbeknownst to Mallory and Butcher, Victoria Neuman obtained ownership over the virus, and nobody knows her intentions with it. Perhaps she intends to destroy it, being a supe herself. Or maybe she’ll create a vaccine for herself and keep it as insurance against the likes of Homelander or any other enemy. Then there’s the matter of the Guardians of Godolkin. It’s unlikely they’ll show up in The Boys season four, but Starlight and Hughie may want to recruit them after proving on national television that they’re decent people. It’s unknown where their prison is, but if anyone could find them, it’s The Boys.