Gen V Showrunner Talks About The Surprise Connection for Marie's Powers

Eric Frederiksen
11/14/2023

With overlapping stories like those we see in the MCU and shows like The Boys, plot points and character development are often times theoretically planned out way in advance, while the whole story is a march toward something inevitable. Other times, things just happen to work out. That's what we learned from speaking with Gen V showrunner Michele Fazekas, while discussing the recently wrapped first season.There are lots of dorks in the world of The Boys, like the infamous Love Sausage. But there are also some massively powerful characters like Homelander. When we first meet Marie Moreau, it seems like her power--the ability to control blood--is destined to be used as a weapon and little more. By the end of Season 1, though, we're left wondering--what can't she do with these abilities?Then, Marie met Congressman Victoria Neuman. Without telling Marie directly, Neuman walks the younger supe into a revelation: they have the same powers. Given we first saw Neuman exploding heads in The Boys Season 2 in 2020, that certainly seems like something that's long been in the works. It wasn't, though.Continue Reading at GameSpot...

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