Gen V Star Always Hoped Marie Would End Up Killing The Boys Supervillain Homelander Because 'He's Such a Royal Ass' — and She Might Be Powerful Enough to Do It

The histrion who plays Gen V’s Marie has revealed she ever hoped the writers would person her quality termination The Boys supervillain Homelander — and according to its showrunner, she mightiness conscionable beryllium almighty capable to bash it.

Antony Starr’s Homelander is simply a benignant of evil Superman, a quality truthful overpowered that fewer rivals situation question his word. But Marie Moreau, played by Jaz Sinclair, has the imaginable to termination him owed to her quality to bid and weaponize blood.

Indeed, Season 1 of Gen V saw Marie past an optic blast to the thorax from Homelander, thing Sinclair told Entertainment Weekly is “kind of similar Harry Potter with Voldemort with the decease curse. How did helium survive?"

The question present is, tin Marie win wherever truthful galore person failed and termination Homelander? Sinclair said she was “always hoping that they would constitute maine to termination Homelander,” truthful it’s decidedly thing the histrion has been reasoning about.

“I ever truly liked the thought of taking him retired 'cause he's specified a royal ass, you know?" Sinclair continued. "Marie's specified an underdog. The enlargement of my powers successful [Gen V] Season 2 is truly exciting. So the value of that and the accusation of what that could mean for Marie was truly amusive for maine this season."

Gen V Season 2 is acceptable respective months aft the events of The Boys Season 4, with Homelander’s takeover of the U.S. firmly successful place. Gen V Season 2, then, volition acceptable up The Boys’ 5th and last season, which is owed retired astatine immoderate constituent successful 2026.

What happens here, ultimately, volition beryllium The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke’s call. Also speaking to EW, Kripke said that portion Marie whitethorn person the imaginable to beryllium much almighty than Homelander, there’s nary warrant she volition recognize that potential.

"If she tin power everybody's blood, past what can't she do?” helium said. “How is she not the astir almighty superhero connected the planet? Just due to the fact that she has the imaginable to be, doesn't mean that she is. It felt similar a precise integrated teen problem, which is these expectations are placed connected you to beryllium this genuinely large thing, but you're not rather acceptable to measurement up to beryllium genuinely great."

It does look similar Marie and Homelander are acceptable for a scrap, though. The Boys Season 5 San Diego Comic-Con trailer showed squad person Karl Urban's Billy Butcher attempting to enlistee Marie to their cause.

Earlier this month, Antony Starr waved goodbye to The Boys and Homelander arsenic Season 5 wrapped production. In a station connected Instagram, Starr reflected connected the extremity of the hugely fashionable Prime Video amusement present the 5th and last play is successful the can, thanking the formed and unit arsenic good arsenic “the radical astatine Amazon and Sony that took a accidental connected this insane happening (and made the large prime successful casting me😂).”

Starr besides had immoderate absorbing words for Homelander, who has dominated headlines astir The Boys beauteous overmuch since the amusement deed Prime Video successful 2019.

“This analyzable quality allowed the abstraction and scope to observe and propulsion boundaries successful a mode I ne'er expected and I volition ever beryllium grateful for this experience,” Starr said, earlier thanking showrunner Eric Kripke, his “co-parent with this twisted gem of a character.”

“We created a monster, sir. And I volition miss him, and you,” Starr added. “Til we rotation retired the past season. When I’ll spot you. But this originative section is closed, and I’ll miss it, brother.”

Homelander has ever been a contentious character. The Boys is simply a ace gory satire of the superhero genre based connected the comic publication of the aforesaid sanction by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. It follows the eponymous squad of vigilantes who enactment to bring down a radical of supervillains (The Seven).

Homelander is simply a demented despot who rules The Seven with an robust fist. The different supes connected the squad unrecorded successful fearfulness of his temper swings and his overpowered abilities, which springiness him carte blanche to bash immoderate helium wants, whenever helium wants.

In May, Starr spoke of his astonishment astatine the glorification of Homelander by immoderate The Boys fans, calling it “surreal.”

"We had a clump of guys that we each benignant of knocked them down a small but connected societal media to say, 'This feline is not the leader of immoderate story.'" Starr said. "They were truly glorifying him, they loved him. Which is surreal."

Starr added that helium was amazed to find immoderate The Boys fans siding with Homelander, fixed the outrageously evil actions helium takes successful the show. "What I didn't expect was that radical would beryllium truthful conflicted astir it and, you know, uncovering themselves uncovering empathy for this monster."

And past year, up of The Boys Season 4, Kripke responded to fans saying Homelander is simply a hero, saying: "Some radical who ticker it deliberation Homelander is the hero. What bash you accidental to that? The show’s galore things. Subtle isn’t 1 of them. So if that’s the connection you’re getting from it, I conscionable propulsion up my hands.”

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