The blood isn’t just there to make you gasp and shield your eyes.
The Boys' new college-focused spin-off, Gen V, is a violent show, too.
Warning: The following contains spoilers for Prime Video’s Gen V through Episode 5 of Season 1.
If you haven’t caught up with the series yet, you may want to wait until you do.
Marie Moreau is what Avatar: The Last Airbender fans would call a bloodbender.
Marie’s powers are a tool–like a hammer or a chainsaw.
She can sense when other women are having their periods.
She can trap the flow of blood in uh, certainregions.
She can detect blood clots.
She can reverse blood loss.
She’s a detective, a bounty hunter, a warrior, and a doctor all at once.
At the same time, though, she’s being pulled in a dozen different directions.
It’s no coincidence that Marie is paired with Emma, known to her YouTube fans as Cricket.
Emma stands as a representation of child celebrity and body image in an always-online world.
She’s not Ant-Man; her powers don’t come from a suit.
Namely, the contents of her stomach.
To shrink, she has to purge as if she were bulimic.
Jordan can swap at will between a male and female version of themselves.
When we do finally meet their father, the two are at odds with each other.
Jordan’s father wants them to live as a man because he views that as the path to success.
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That comes to a head when he’s cornered.
But then, Sam and everyone around him suddenly turn into felt puppets.
Sam tears a guy in half–that’s not an exaggeration–and red sequins fly everywhere.
The only way he can get through these horrifying events is to live life in a puppet show.
They’re all victims of unimaginable trauma, both old and new, at the same time.
With Gen V, it’s always there telling us something.
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