'She's Not Neo at the End of The Matrix' — Don't Expect Marie From Gen V to Kick Homelander's Ass in The Boys Season 5

With Gen V Season 2 wrapped up, fans are wondering however the incredibly almighty Marie mightiness fare successful a showdown with The Boys supervillain Homelander. Well, according to showrunner Eric Kripke, fans shouldn’t expect Marie to look successful The Boys Season 5 arsenic a Captain Marvel-style deus ex machina who kicks Homelander’s ass.

That’s due to the fact that Marie inactive hasn’t mastered her powers, oregon arsenic Kripke has enactment it successful a fig of Gen V Season 2 finale spoiler interviews, she’s not Net astatine the extremity of The Matrix.

Warning! Spoilers for The Boys and Gen V follow.

For a overmuch deeper dive connected each this, cheque retired IGN’s Gen V Season 2 Ending Explained: How It Sets Up the Final Season of The Boys article, but to summarize, Marie tin power blood, which perchance makes her much almighty adjacent than Homelander. Homelander, for the uninitiated, 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.

But, it seems, Marie hasn’t realized her potential, and won’t person by the clip The Boys Season 5 rolls around. Speaking to Variety, Kripke confirmed that The Boys Season 5 picks things up astir fractional a twelvemonth aft the Gen V Season 2 finale, with Marie and co joining Annie/Starlight (Erin Moriarty) and A-Train (Jessie T. Usher) successful the combat against Vought.

“She’s ace powerful, but that doesn’t needfully mean that she’s astonishing astatine controlling it,” Kripke said. “She’s not Keanu astatine the extremity of The Matrix, due to the fact that — based connected the adjacent mates Matrixes — it’s not large for drama. You privation a quality who’s truly struggling and growing, particularly a kid similar Marie. So adjacent though she has a batch of earthy power, she has to larn however to power it.”

It was a akin thought successful an interrogation with The Hollywood Reporter, successful which Kripke said: “... Marie’s inactive young, and conscionable due to the fact that she’s incredibly almighty doesn’t mean she has cleanable power implicit it. There’s a journey. She’s not Neo astatine the extremity of The Matrix. Those go bummer, boring Messiah characters, and she’s not that. She’s inactive a idiosyncratic and has a hard clip wrestling with the magnitude of powerfulness that she’s uncovering herself to have.”

And, pursuing the aforesaid thread successful an interrogation with ComicBook, Kripke added: “Obviously, what I would similar to spot is Homelander get his ass kicked. He deserves it. The information is conscionable due to the fact that Marie is precise powerful, it doesn’t mean she knows however to power it. She is inactive conscionable a kid. She is not Neo astatine the extremity of The Matrix. Marie has a batch of increasing to do, and a batch of setbacks and challenges. And she should. That’s what makes the quality interesting… the struggle. With each that being said, I don’t cognize if a nonstop confrontation with Homelander would spell truthful great. And, determination are a batch of radical successful enactment and waiting to bitch slap Homelander.”

The large question, of course, is whether Homelander really dies successful The Boys Season 5. Kripke wouldn’t springiness that away, of course, but did archer THR that Billy Butcher is “front of that line.” But past there’s the likes of Stan Edgar, the aforementioned Marie, Annie, and Huey who would nary uncertainty each similar a piece.

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