Gen VEPs Break Down the Finale’s Post-Credits Twists, FutureThe BoysLinks

before this week , choice Video’sGen Vended its debut time of year . The college - bound spinoff of the streamer ’s popular seriesThe Boyshas managed to make its own disjoined name for itself with audiences , but the question was always going to be in what wayit linked upwith the main show . And the agency it did so was….interesting , to say the least , and puts Gen V ’s independent mold in some interesting places come up Boys ’ approaching quaternary season andits own season two .

Spoilers from here on out .

Gen V ’s finale , “ Guardians of Godolkin , ” ends with a pair of post - credits stringer that bring Karl Urban ’s Billy Butcher and Anthony Starr ’s Homelander over from The Boys into the cranial orbit of Marie ( Jaz Sinclair ) and the other Goldolkin University kids . Talking toVariety , executive producers Michele Fazekas and Eric Kripke explain the pair of cameos were both separate ideas the team knew could allow for an opportunity to course into The Boys ’ next time of year . “ Homelander come before Butcher because we knew we want to see Homelander , ” said Fazekas . “ We did n’t go into this stopping point sound out , ‘ we need a Butcher cameo and a Homelander cameo . ’ [ … ] We need to be very mindful of when we did that . And it would come up over the season , and then it made gumption to do it at the almost - final , culminating bit . ”

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Billy ’s scene see him exploring the ruined deftness that once housed a virus that could potentially be used to kill supes ( which is now in control of VP prospect Victoria Neuman , dally by Claudia Doumit ) . In the second , Homelander assail Marie at Goldolkin — which just became a battlefield involve her and her classmates Cate ( Maddie Phillips ) and Jordan ( London Thor / Derek Luh)—for “ attacking her own kind . ” While Cate and Sam ( Asa Germann ) get crown as heroes by Homelander , Maddie and Jordan , along with their friends Andre ( Chance Perdomo ) and Emma ( Lizzie Broadway ) are held captive in a sealed hospital .

Speaking to the Butcher cameo , Kripke break it came as The Boys ’ writing staff was in the middle of demote down season four ’s plot . The Supe virus was already planned to be a “ somewhat big part ” of that show , as was Butcher ’s hunt for it . Because the writers want to establish that Billy sleep together of the virus without convey it through dialogue , someone suggested that “ it probably should n’t even happen in The Boys , it should happen in Gen V , ” he recall . Having two author rooms help , he continued , because all they had to do was ask Fazekas and Gen ’s writers if they were unforced to include it in their show .

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

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When it came to when we ’ll see The Boys next , and where Maddie and party will be seen next , both Kripke and Fazekas were mum . But Kripke did reveal Boys ’ progress is coming along , saying a legal age of its editing is done and the crowd is “ deep ” on euphony and visual gist . “ There ’s a lot happening behind the scenes on on time of year four , I can say that , ” he tease .

BothGen VandThe Boyscan be see over on Prime Video . Kripke and Fazekas ’ full interview with Variety can be readhere .

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