Gen V Brings In A Shock Cameo From The Boys This Week

The Boys’ spin-off Gen V likes to take us into its characters’ heads to get a greater concept of how they tick. Typically, it is a flashback, different instances it is Cricket crawling right into a soldier’s ear. This week, although, Marie and her buddies are studying about what made the mind-controlling Cate who she is. Within the course of, we run into some of the highly effective members of The Seven.

Warning: The next comprises spoilers for Gen V Season 1, Episode 6.

The youngsters find yourself trapped contained in the unconscious thoughts of their buddy Cate, experiencing her recollections from her viewpoint, seeing her grief over by chance inflicting her brother to vanish and making her dad and mom afraid of her.

As the youngsters discover Cate’s thoughts, they arrive throughout an surprising determine: Soldier Boy. Jensen Ackles seems as his character from The Boys Season 3 right here to warn the youngsters that they should get out shortly or danger being trapped there.

This model of Soldier Boy is not the one we all know from the present, and is considerably divorced from that actuality. One of many youngsters accuses him of being a Russian agent, and he has no concept what which means as a result of for Cate he is only a memory–her first “imaginary boyfriend,” as Soldier Boy explains in a lot much less savory phrases. This scene makes positive we all know that this man is Cate’s fantasy, a figment of her personal thoughts, and never the actual Soldier Boy.

It is a enjoyable option to do a cameo with a foremost character from The Boys with out overshadowing the youngsters’ personal quest. The completed supes of The Boys, good or dangerous, would tear by means of the challenges that the younger heroes of Gen V are going through. This retains Soldier Boy safely contained whereas giving Ackles an opportunity to drop some really crude strains as his character.

New episodes of Gen V air Thursdays on Prime Video.