Spoiler Alert: This list contains spoilers for ‘Gen V’ Season 2.The story throughout Gen V Season 2 has been exciting, beautifully setting things up for the fifth and final season of The Boys as well as a potential third season, depending on how the story goes in that series. But it isn’t without some eyebrow-raising moments. A few plot holes throughout the story, particularly in the final episodes, left us with some unanswered questions.
While fans are happy to suspend belief and just go with the flow – this is a story about a world where superheroes co-exist with humans and have weird powers, after all – there are a few plot holes worth bringing up. Here are the biggest plot holes from Season 2, ranked.
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Rufus Is Still Allowed on Campus
Rufus (Alexander Calvert) is a known sexual offender who uses his powers of telepathy, hypnosis, and manipulation to take advantage of female students. This is an open secret at the school, and one that cost him an important body part when he tried to take advantage of Marie (Jaz Sinclair). But what’s most egregious is that he was never kicked out of the school or worse, killed for his misdeeds.
In the final episode of one of the best Gen Z shows, when he comes face-to-face with Thomas Godolkin (Ethan Slater), the man who worked so closely with the Compound V project, admits that he knows what Rufus does, and rightfully calls him a disgrace. Yet nothing was ever done to stop him. Perhaps it can be said that Rufus was permitted to stay given that he no longer has his male private part and thus can’t penetrate women without consent. But that doesn’t mean he’s still not an abuser, or an abuser of his powers. He seems like the perfect candidate to have been removed from the school, used as an example of everything for which Godolkin claims to stand.
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Stan Edgar’s Supe-Proof Bunker
When Marie and her friends run into Stan Edgar (Giancarlo Esposito) who, with the help of Zoe (Olivia Morandin), saves them from Vikor (Tait Fletcher), he brings them to the secret bunker he has 90 feet underground. This space is presumably free from Supe detection, virtually impenetrable. But how? Not only is there no Supe in the world who can find it and get inside, but how did Stan manage to have it built in secret for so long?
It seems like someone like Homelander (Antony Starr) could easily sniff this place out of if he really wanted to. He and others could easily gain entry via superhuman strength. Perhaps Stan is so confident because he knows no one is looking for him anyway, so he has nothing to fear. But the fact that he so nonchalantly created a complex bunker no one knows about nor saw getting built seems unlikely.
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Godolkin Not Figuring Out Polarity Could Block His Power
After Cipher (Hamish Linklater), who it’s later learned is actually Godolkin, fights with Polarity (Sean Patrick Thomas) in his home and is overtaken, he is confused. How was Polarity able to counteract his mind control? He eventually figures it out, running through various scientific principles. But it seems like transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), whereby magnetic fields stimulate nerve cells in the brain, is a simple reality that he, as a brilliant scientific mind, should have figured out. He would have discovered this weakness and found a way to counteract it. In fairness, there was a scene showing Cipher/Godolkin beating himself up about missing this.
No one is perfect, after all. Maybe he never worried about the power of magnetism because he didn’t view Polarity as a threat, knowing he was sick anyway. Still, it seems like a blunder designed mainly for the story’s arc in the spin-off show to progress and Polarity to emerge as a hero in Andre’s (Chance Perdomo) honor.
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How Did a Burnt Godolkin End Up in Dr. Fielder’s Body?
Viewers finally learn what happened to Godolkin in what was believed to be his final moments. After everyone in his lab died, there was an explosion and a fire. He came to after passing out, found a vial of Compound V on the floor, and injected himself. This was either another variant, or the Compound V that prevented aging, the same one Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles) had taken. But from there, he starts to become engulfed in flames.
We know from Cipher that Godolkin ended up controlling the body of a man named Dr. Fielder. But how did he get from that point to still being alive and in this man’s mind? Dr. Fielder must have been another doctor in the room who somehow survived. How did this man save him from being consumed by the flames, and how did Godolkin have the capacity to use the power of mind control while being so incapacitated? Plus, where was Godolkin’s body that whole time? In the same chamber in Dr. Fielder’s house? The logistics of this transfer were conveniently left out of the story.
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Why Couldn’t Godolkin Control Marie Through Cipher?
Once Godolkin was back in his true body on the show, one of the best produced by Seth Rogen, they worried that if Marie tried to stop him, he would be able to mind control her. But Cipher noted that Godolkin tried to do so through his body numerous times while in Elmira, and it didn’t work. However, after just trying his powers with one small group of students during his first training course, Godolkin was able to accomplish controlling Marie like it was second nature.
When she arrived, he even asked her to come back in an hour or so, believing he would need more time before he could hone his skills and be powerful enough to control her. If even he wasn’t confident he would be able to do it, and barely tested his powers in his own body, how was he able to suddenly do it so quickly and effortlessly?
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Sister Sage Not Catching Onto Godolkin’s Plan
Everything about Sister Sage (Susan Heyward) is so complicated. She seems to want to help Homelander, even though his goal is much the same as Godolkin’s, which is to rid the world of humans and useless Supes. In fact, Homelander has, time and time again, viciously killed other Supes he didn’t like. Yet when Sage sees that this is Godolkin’s plan, she’s completely against it.
Perhaps she thought he truly did want world Supe domination, which seems to be her goal as well, and she was fine with him getting rid of humans. But she draws the line at eliminating Supes. But Godolkin wasn’t hiding the fact that he wanted to weed out the weakest Supes while in Cipher’s body either. How did she, the smartest person in the world, not figure this out? And why would she have hitched herself to Homelander knowing he was just as evil and willing to kill his own kind, too? Are viewers supposed to believe that she was blinded by love or infatuation with Godolkin?
2
The Powerscaling of Marie’s Abilities
The fact that Marie, one of the most likable characters in Gen V, has gone from being a blood bender to someone who can literally perform miracles seems like a stretch. She did, in fact, save a dying person before in Season 1 when they were accidentally harmed while in a bar with her friends. Perhaps this was a precursor to her abilities, teasing that she could do more than she thought she could.
But getting Cate (Maddie Phillips) back her mind-control abilities and healing Polarity had nothing directly to do with blood, unless she can somehow control the Compound V in their blood to help heal them. It seems confusing and strange that her powers have become so all-encompassing with no other indication that she should be some type of healer.
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Cipher Being Dr. Gould When He Was Also Doug
The biggest question mark hovers around Cipher. It’s explained in the finale that he is just an average Joe named Doug who used to repair VCRs. After he was called to a job at an elderly man’s home named Dr. Fielder, he was somehow taken over by Godolkin. He was forced to kill Dr. Fielder and Godolkin has been controlling Cipher’s body and mind since the ’90s.
However, this doesn’t explain why Marie saw a picture of Cipher as someone named Dr. Gould holding her as a baby. If this doctor was named Dr. Fielder, that might have made sense, suggesting he stole the real doctor’s identity. Perhaps the explanation is that after taking on Cipher’s body and mind, Godolkin forced him to pose as a man named Dr. Gould, somehow worming his way into the top-secret Project Odessa. Further, he looked very much the same he does now, even though that would have been from circa 2007, almost 20 years ago. Dr. Gould would have been in his 30s, making him in his 50s now. Linklater is 49, so let’s just chalk this one up to great genes and a youthful look.
Gen V
- Release Date
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September 28, 2023
- Network
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Prime Video
- Showrunner
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Michele Fazekas
- Directors
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Nelson Cragg, Clare Kilner, Philip Sgriccia, Sanaa Hamri, Shana Stein, Steve Boyum
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Jaz Sinclair
Marie Moreau
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Lizze Broadway
Emma Meyer / Little Cricket
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