‘Gen-V’ Confirms Season 2 Release Date and One of ‘The Boys’ Lead Characters

If you were afraid that season 5 would be the end Boys Now you can celebrate on the small screen. Comic-Con 2024 has done nothing but good news for loyal fans. To the surprise announcement of a prequel Vout-Raisingwhich will examine the origins Boy soldier And thunderstorm frontConfirmation of release date Jean W.. The successful spin-off will return to the small screen in 2025. But as if that weren’t enough, the panel Boysmade it clear that it would be much more ambitious than its first part.

During San Diego Comic-Con, the first trailer for the show was shown exclusively to attendees. In addition to ensuring the return of fan-favorite characters, the trailer hinted that the series’ ties to the main plot Boys will become more complex. Especially since it will take on everything that is in the plot of the central series. researchor. So will give way to the return of the saga’s youngest superheroes.

As you remember, the final episode of the fourth season of the series Boysshowed university students on surveillance missions. To the beat of Nirvana’s “Heart-Shaped Box,” the students obeyed orders to tour America under the direction of Homelander (Anthony Starr). They imposed martial law on this mission. What’s left in the new season of the spin-offThere will be a much stronger and more intricate connection in the end. Boys. Meanwhile, the rest of the spin-off’s main characters are still being held in some unknown cell.

Again on charges with the younger one

The trailer for the second season takes place in a tone Heroes David Bowie. The images show a society reduced to semi-slavery, where people without special abilities are segregated. Wearing the terrifying letter H on the chest (for a human) seems to indicate that the reign of terror of Homelander and his people, It will be much more sinister and cruel than one might imagine.

The big surprise was that Chace Crawford, the “Depth” in Boys— makes a surprise cameo appearance, as he also appeared and disappeared several times in the first season of Gen V, including in puppet form. Finally, the trailer features Hamish Linklater as Cipher for the first time. new dean of Godolkin University.

From what the brief trailer reveals, it seems that after Butcher (Karl Urban) kills Victoria Neuman (Claudia Doumit), he becomes a constant in the world. By the season finale of The Boys, it was already clear that Homelander was seeking to take control of the world. Which, by all appearances, he has more than achieved as Gen-V progresses. It also turned into a totalitarian nightmare that would become the setting for both series in the future.