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00:00Shark Riding, Hot Lava Goo, and the number one complaint I get from people watching my videos.
00:06Your voice makes me want to kill myself.
00:08Fellow patriots, we have the fifth and final season of The Boys, and judging how these first two episodes went,
00:14we are in for an insane season that isn't afraid to kill off its main characters.
00:20This video is a detailed breakdown of the first two episodes with theories delving into the whereabouts of the Gen
00:25V crew,
00:26what will happen with the soup-killing virus, and Soldier Boy's apparent resurrection.
00:32Note there will be no spoilers beyond episode 502,
00:35and I'll save the trailer sleuthing section till the end of the video for those of you who don't want
00:40to see what's coming up this season.
00:42And a quick thank you to the Deep Sigma Solarium for sponsoring this video.
00:46I've been using it for months and my ass has never felt better.
00:49The first thing we hear this season is the sound of a boiling kettle.
00:54Way back in Season 3, it was a boiling kettle that hissed in the background as William Butcher watched Homelander's
01:01involvement in the downing of Flight 37.
01:04By including this subtle sound cue, it foreshadows Starlight's plan to reveal this tragedy by broadcasting the video during Vought's
01:11annual shareholder meeting.
01:13Starlight is a wanted woman, deemed an enemy of the state after Homelander executed a coup of the United States
01:19government,
01:20framing President-elect Robert Singer for the murder of Vice President-elect Victoria Newman.
01:26This led Homelander's puppet, Speaker of the House Stephen Calhoun, to be sworn in as president,
01:32paving the way for martial law and the deputization of superheroes as a national police force.
01:37We saw Starlight on the run briefly in Season 2 of Gen V, where she tasked Marie Moreau with investigating
01:44Project Odessa,
01:45a top secret program she thinks may hold the key to level the playing field against Homelander.
01:51The Boys Season 5 takes place roughly six months after the events of Gen V Season 2.
01:57There's only one mention of Marie Moreau in these first two episodes.
02:01Starlight tells us that she ran a raid in Pittsburgh.
02:05It just so happens Butcher's new hideout is in Erie County, Pennsylvania, about a two-hour drive north of where
02:11Marie was last sighted.
02:13So you can bet she'll be an important element in taking down Homelander, especially given her blood powers
02:19and how this season heavily deals with a virus that attacks the blood.
02:23With the help of Gavin, a stage manager slash Starlight sympathizer, one who's later killed by Homelander,
02:29Starlight and her crew are able to infiltrate the event and upload this footage.
02:34The downing of Flight 37 was an event way back in Season 1,
02:37where Homelander accidentally used his laser to kill a hijacker in the cockpit slicing through the flight controls.
02:44He then let the doomed airline crash into the ocean, killing everyone on board.
02:49It was this event that fueled Gen V's teen Shetty to create the soup-killing virus in the first place.
02:55Watching Starlight break in is Black Noir, and something is definitely up with him.
03:01Remember, this isn't the original Black Noir.
03:04The original died in the finale of Season 3 when Homelander discovered Noir knew that Soldier Boy was his father
03:10and never told him.
03:11This new Black Noir is a theater student playing the part, and in Season 4 of The Boys and in
03:16Season 2 of Gen V, you couldn't get this guy to shut up.
03:20The last we saw him, he couldn't stop talking to Polarity about all the plot holes in his movies.
03:25Why, now of a sudden, is he so silent?
03:28Has he really gone method to dig deep into the character that is Black Noir, or has he been swapped
03:33out with someone new entirely?
03:35In Episode 502, The Deep makes an interesting observation that Noir disappears somewhere every afternoon.
03:43Where is he going? Is he secretly working with Starlight? Polarity?
03:47This is something I'm going to keep an eye on in the episodes to come.
03:51General Mayhem is announced as the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs, while G-Men Days Past from the Future
03:57is a nice riff on X-Men Days of Futures Past.
04:00Now, when this damning video is leaked, we'll see Homelander's eyes light up, almost as if he's ready to obliterate
04:07everyone in the audience.
04:09This wouldn't be the first time he's imagined such things, which highlights just how unhinged he is.
04:14Luckily, Sister Sage is there to reel him back.
04:17It was Sister Sage who successfully framed President-Elect Robert Singer, allowing Homelander to ascend to power at the end
04:24of Season 4.
04:25In the finale, she told him to buckle up for Phase 2.
04:29But we don't really know what this entails.
04:32Sister Sage has always held her cards close to her chest, and we're never really sure where her loyalties lie.
04:38In fact, new Vice President Ashley Barrett, who we last saw take Compound V in an effort to save her
04:44life,
04:45can't read her mind with her new powers.
04:47We'll get to that in a bit.
04:49In Gen V Season 2, Sister Sage had a secret affair with God U's founder, Thomas Godolken,
04:56a secret which, if Homelander found out, could warrant her death.
05:00Homelander has a history of murdering those who keep secrets from him,
05:04but we find out Homelander doesn't seem too phased by this, even asking her how she's doing after Godolken dumped
05:11her.
05:11Sister Sage begins a disinformation campaign claiming the Flight 37 video is an elaborate AI deepfake.
05:18I love these videos because you can often find some hilarious comments like,
05:22Where was Starlight, the night of Epstein's suicide?
05:25Or, Starlighters eat babies.
05:27We also get a brief introduction to two Supes from Teenage Kicks.
05:32This is Jetstreak and Sheeline.
05:34Jetstreak was actually one of Ashley's potential The Seven Replacements back in Season 4.
05:39Teenage Kicks has a long history in the boys, particularly its past members who have gone on to appear throughout
05:45all five seasons.
05:46In Episode 502, Mother's Milk will pass this Teenage Kicks Hall of Fame,
05:51where we see notable members past and present like Sister Sage, Mesmer, Popclaw, Translucent, and A-Train.
05:59Going along with the AI deepfake narrative is now Vice President of the United States, Ashley Barrett.
06:05Talk about a woman who's worked her way up in the world when we first saw her as Director of
06:09Talent Relations in Season 1.
06:11Of course, she's merely a puppet in Homelander and Sister Sage's grand scheme.
06:17While we don't know what Sister Sage's true motives entail, she did give Polarity a cryptic message at the end
06:23of Gen V.
06:25She told him he wouldn't die that day, but hinted at a dark apocalyptic future.
06:30Now, Ashley's new power is really interesting.
06:33It's mind reading, however, it seems it comes with some massive drawbacks.
06:38This was my interpretation, so do let me know if you think I've got something wrong.
06:42Ashley herself can't read minds, rather the second face that's morphed into the back of her head.
06:49This face then relays this information to Ashley proper, so we the viewer never hear what's in someone else's mind,
06:56only what is filtered through this second face.
06:59This has some serious implications, because it could mean this second face could lie about what it read,
07:05or look for ways to take over Ashley's body completely.
07:09One thing we do know is not everyone is susceptible to Ashley's power.
07:14Sister Sage's mind, for example, is too powerful for it to penetrate.
07:18It's also out in the open that she is super abled.
07:21She even tells real-life news anchor Chris Hayes she knows what he's thinking, literally.
07:26Meanwhile, Homelander is furious that Starlight was able to infiltrate Vaught and release this video.
07:32This scene really pinpoints Homelander's motivation this season.
07:36He wants the people to be devoted to him, similar to how Julius Caesar was loved by the Plebeians.
07:42But he forgets Caesar was stabbed in the back by those closest to him.
07:47Black Noir, 8-Train, and Queen Maeve are but a few of those close to Homelander who have already betrayed
07:53him.
07:53Could this scene foreshadow that Sister Sage is next?
07:57She warns him that power will not buy Homelander happiness.
08:01But even with that being said, Homelander says he won't be happy until Huey, Mother's Milk, and Frenchie are executed.
08:08So he devises a plan to have them executed to draw out Starlight and Butcher.
08:13We also get a little insight on Ryan, Homelander's biological soup son.
08:18The Vaught story is that he's at a boarding school in Svalbard, Norway.
08:22But in reality, he's gone rogue after killing Grace Mallory at the end of Season 4.
08:27Grace was going to imprison Ryan and train him as a weapon specifically to kill his father.
08:33As of the end of the first two episodes, we do not know where he is.
08:37We now get our first look at the Vaught Freedom Camps. Think of them like if McDonald's ran Auschwitz.
08:43In fact, the slogan, Freedom Sets You Free, is a take on words emblazoned on the entrance to Auschwitz, Work
08:50Sets You Free.
08:51Prisoners are forced to wear Homelander merch, eat Vaudeburger, and the bunks have ads for Vaught Coin and Turbo Rush.
08:58This is Freedom Camp 47. Donald Trump also happens to be the 47th president.
09:05At the end of Season 4, Huey, Mother's Milk, and Frenchie were all captured by Vaught
09:09and have ended up at this Vernon Corrections-run facility, which was owned by Tech Night in Season 4.
09:15Information is smuggled into the camp, informing the crew of Annie's exploits.
09:20We'll even see two familiar faces as guards here, Love Sausage and Cindy, both of whom were prisoners at Vaught's
09:27Sage Grove Centre.
09:29So it's kind of ironic that they're now both guards.
09:32Back in jolly good England, Billy Butcher has come to pay his ass-cancer-ridden father.
09:37The last time we saw Billy, he killed Vice President-elect Victoria Newman
09:41and drove off into the distance with the soup-killing virus.
09:44It seems like they're setting up Butcher's character as this irredeemable lone wolf.
09:49After his abuse of Temp V and subsequent dose of permanent Compound V, Butcher's cancerous tumors have created a sort
09:56of sentient parasitic entity.
09:59This manifested in his mind as his old war buddy, Joe Kessler, who we surprisingly haven't seen.
10:05Physically, it manifested as these large, black, insanely strong tentacles.
10:09It's highly implied that Butcher kills his own father here for the years of abuse he and his brother Lenny
10:16endured at his hands.
10:17With the cancer taking over his body, it's hard to tell how much of this is Butcher and how much
10:23is the cancer.
10:24I do think there's still a little bit of humanity left in Butcher as we'll see that he still cares
10:29for his dog Terror.
10:31While preparing for Firecracker's show, Homelander detects everyone around him is nervous.
10:36He even sees Firecracker's heart is messed up as a result of her taking metoclopramide,
10:42a drug which allowed her to lactate, but has the side effects of giving you an enlarged heart.
10:47She's stopped taking this medication and thus can't lactate to satiate Homelander's milk fetish.
10:54Firecracker has thus lost all her leverage when it comes to Homelander.
10:58She's of no use to him, so my guess is that Firecracker will try to get pregnant in order to
11:04get those milkers up and running.
11:05With the Flight 37 footage dismissed as AI, so too was Thomas Godolkin's I'm Back speech from Gen V Season
11:132.
11:13In fact, his whole massacre at the end of the season, where countless Godolkin students were slaughtered,
11:19was framed as a murderous starlight rampage.
11:22Meanwhile, in the Philippines, Butcher has come to recruit Kimiko to break out Huey, MM, and Frenchy.
11:28Kimiko is deported to the Philippines after ripping off the faces of too many Vot guards.
11:33Kimiko and Frenchy have developed a relationship over the last few seasons,
11:37and were even running off together at the end of Season 4.
11:40I like this prominent South Pacific musical poster in the background.
11:44Kimiko and Frenchy did an entire musical number in Season 3,
11:48and the musical itself draws many parallels to these two characters.
11:52The most obvious of which, the main character being a French expatriate hiding from a murky past.
11:58Back at the camp, Huey highlights the importance of holding on to hope.
12:02With fellow Federal Bureau of Superhuman Affairs analyst, Ivy.
12:06It seems the former agency, once helmed by Victoria Newman, has been dissolved,
12:10and its employees shuffled off to these camps for re-education.
12:14I love how The Deep has started his own men's rights podcast.
12:18And who better to start a podcast with than someone who can't talk?
12:21Although Black Noir does have his own soundboard.
12:24The posters in the back are fun spoofs on feminist art, like the We Can Do It poster.
12:29Butcher reunites Starlight and Kimiko, and Starlight is surprised to see Kimiko can now speak.
12:35Yes, it's taken five seasons, but it's finally happened,
12:38and she's arguably one of the most foul-mouthed characters in the cast.
12:42The plan to rescue their friends isn't as altruistic as Butcher makes it sound.
12:47He really needs Frenchy to work on that soup-killing virus.
12:51Frenchy has that knowledge of high-level chemistry,
12:54improvisational engineering, and dirty biological knowledge to weaponize such a virus.
12:59That's why when they plan this rescue, he informs Starlight to get Frenchy out first.
13:04He wants Starlight to choose Frenchy over her own boyfriend.
13:08This is a decision that will come back to bite Starlight later on.
13:12Starlight informs them she knows which camp they're located at,
13:16but why then hasn't she attempted to rescue them?
13:18Starlight never gives a good answer here, but deep down it's because she's afraid Huey will reject her
13:24once he finds out what kind of person she's become since his capture.
13:28Starlight has had to do some terrible things in the name of resistance,
13:32and is responsible for countless deaths.
13:34Every time Huey tries to talk about what's eating away at her, she pivots to sex.
13:39She doesn't want to confront the pain of her actions and risk losing Huey for good.
13:43Homelander is at his wits' end when it comes to Black Noir and The Deep.
13:48The two of them have been tasked with finding A-Train, Butcher, and Starlight, but have turned up nothing.
13:53Homelander even says it's like they're f***ing up on purpose.
13:57This really puts a fire under The Deep, who later takes his trusty hammerhead shark Xander all the way to
14:03France.
14:03This is where A-Train's family has been hiding, specifically his brother Nathan.
14:08Nathan and A-Train have had a tumultuous relationship.
14:11Nathan sees A-Train as nothing but a fake superhero,
14:14and it was A-Train who was indirectly involved in his brother's paralysis
14:18when a PR-friendly community meeting backfired with racist soup Blue Hawk.
14:22A-Train's shift from Vaught Lackey to Resistance Fighter has changed Nathan's opinion of him.
14:27A-Train has put his life in danger to save the ones he cares about most.
14:31I think it's actually this pep talk with his brother that ultimately persuades A-Train
14:36to later join Butcher and the rescue of the Freedom Camp.
14:39At the National Prayer Breakfast, we see Ashley is married to a man named O'Father,
14:44head pastor of Samaritan's Embrace Ministries.
14:47Samaritan's Embrace was the same ministry formerly run by Ezekiel,
14:50who met his untimely demise in Season 4.
14:53O'Father represents the Christian nationalist element of Homelander's base,
14:57and he believes one day America will be a fully Christian nation.
15:01It was Sister Sage who orchestrated this marriage for Ashley,
15:05as she said the American people wouldn't accept a single cat lady as their VP.
15:10Sister Sage wants Ashley to round up anyone who's expressed defamatory statements
15:15against Homelander or pro-Starlighter propaganda.
15:18At least they got Chapel Roan.
15:20Ashley is also registered Barrett for President,
15:23so we see she has aspirations of one day becoming commander-in-chief,
15:27a position we know is merely a puppet for Homelander.
15:30We'll later see Homelander tell the President to make him a Manhattan.
15:34Sister Sage tells Ashley as long as she stays useful, everything will go her way.
15:39Butcher has come to visit a man known as The Worm,
15:42an apt name considering his tunnel-digging abilities they'll use to sneak into the Freedom Camp.
15:47He's a screenwriter and will see script files for other Prime Video titles on his desktop,
15:52like Reacher, Wheel of Time, and even an X-rated version of Rings of Power.
15:57The Worm has also written for shows like Crimson Countess Capers,
16:00Pomp Claw Slippery Slopes, and most likely Mesmer's Mystery Mansion 3.
16:05He's fallen on hard times as Vought Studios has replaced all their writers with AI.
16:09Huey, Frenchy, and MM have their own escape plan, but when Huey goes back to his bunk, Homelander is there.
16:16Remember that this is all a trap to lure, butcher, A-Train, and Starlight.
16:21Homelander inquires how a soup like Starlight could be hopelessly devoted to a mediocre man like Huey.
16:27Why would these people risk their lives to save him?
16:31As Huey states, because I'd do it for them.
16:33What Homelander is really getting at here is, how do I get that level of devotion?
16:39He was never loved as a child, so there's this hole in his heart he wants to fill with the
16:43need for being wanted.
16:45This theme of devotion is echoed when Homelander and Butcher come face to face,
16:49and Homelander senses the viper's nest of cancer within him.
16:53Butcher was willing to do all of this just to go toe-to-toe with Homelander.
16:57Now that's real devotion.
16:59The worm digs right under the entrance to Huey's bunk, where Butcher and Kimiko run right into Homelander's trap.
17:06Kimiko is lasered in half after telling Homelander to suck her fat dick.
17:10But remember, Kimiko has regenerative powers.
17:13It's Starlight's entrance, however, that unleashes complete pandemonium on the camp.
17:18MM takes on Love Sausage, the culmination of four seasons of history these two have,
17:23with MM eventually killing the soup with his own dick.
17:25Cindy narrowly escapes after being pinned by Butcher.
17:29And when it looks as though Huey is about to be lasered, it's A-Train who comes to save the
17:33day.
17:33He saves Huey in the nick of time as Homelander chases after him.
17:38Homelander is just as fast, if not faster, than A-Train.
17:41And it's in these final moments we can really see a difference in A-Train's character from Season 1.
17:47In Season 1, A-Train didn't give a shit about running into innocent bystanders and reducing them to a pile
17:53of goo.
17:54This is how Huey's girlfriend died.
17:56But here, A-Train swerves out of the way to avoid an innocent woman.
18:00A decision which sees him trip and captured by Homelander.
18:03In his final speech, A-Train calls Homelander a pathetic, weak, sniveling loser.
18:08But it's his line about what Homelander becomes if his powers are taken away, which I found the most interesting.
18:14Will Homelander's fate this season be losing his power?
18:18Maybe that's the only way he'll see that he's really nothing, and that's a fate worse than death.
18:24It would be the most ironic of endings if Homelander becomes the very thing he wants to wipe out.
18:30So this could potentially be foreshadowing that.
18:33At first, I thought there might be the possibility A-Train survives.
18:36After all, Marie Moreau resurrected her sister Annabeth, but as we venture into episode 2, it's pretty clear A-Train
18:44is gone.
18:44His death attributed to Starlight.
18:47Overseeing the funeral is O Father, and in attendance is the president himself, Stephen Calhoun.
18:53O Father has this power to strengthen his voice, and I love how Ashley holds onto her wig as to
18:58not expose her freakish second face.
19:00O Father recites Matthew 10 34,
19:03I do not come to bring the peace, but a sword.
19:06Perhaps this echoes Homelander, who will later see bathed in this religious white light.
19:11He is not here to be blessed, but to do war.
19:14He gets caught up in the sound of a woman's voice saying,
19:17My sweet boy.
19:18My best guess is this is the voice of Madeline Stilwell,
19:22Thought's former senior vice president of hero management,
19:24who took on this mother-like figure for Homelander in his later years.
19:28It could also be Homelander's biological mother.
19:31According to Barbara Finlay, one of the lab directors who raised Homelander in his youth,
19:36Homelander's mother was a runaway hooker.
19:38But to me, this doesn't add up.
19:40Why would Vought go through all the trouble of creating a super soldier with Soldier Boy's sperm,
19:45just to have it mixed with a lowly human?
19:48Why not mix it with a powerful female soup?
19:51Since season 2, I've long suspected his mother could be Stormfront.
19:55It works with the timeline, and we know Soldier Boy and Stormfront used to hook up at Herogasm.
20:00In Pennsylvania, Butcher takes the gang to his new hideout in an abandoned public school.
20:05There, he reintroduces us to Dr. Samir Shah,
20:08former right-hand man of Stan Edgar and secret romantic partner Victoria Newman.
20:13He helped develop the soup-killing virus.
20:16The last we saw him, he injected a sample of this virus into Kimiko's leg, which had to be amputated.
20:22Butcher's convinced Dr. Sean to helping him perfect this virus so it's strong enough to kill Homelander.
20:28He told them that it was Homelander who murdered his daughter and Victoria.
20:32We know this is a lie.
20:34It was Butcher who murdered Victoria, and Zoe is currently in hiding with her grandfather Stan Edgar.
20:40But the gang is willing to put up with this lie if it means getting Samir's help in taking down
20:45Homelander.
20:45According to Samir, he's created a virus strong enough to do just that.
20:50But like all good scientific experiments, they'll need to test it out.
20:54So they hone in on the perfect test subject, a soup from Teenage Kicks called Rock Hard.
20:59He's almost as strong as Homelander and no one really cares about him, making for a good choice.
21:04The only problem is, no one's seen him in over a year.
21:07On MM's tablet, we'll see the news about A-Train.
21:11But if you look below, you'll see that a Mr. Marathon accepts a court order to stay at Global Wellness
21:16Malibu.
21:17I'll talk a bit more about what this means in my trailer sleuthing section.
21:20The Freedom To Be Free Act has passed, allowing local soups to apprehend Starlighters before they've committed a crime.
21:27We'll see Jetstreak and Sheeline carry this out, separating mother and child, all the while making awesome TikToks.
21:33Huey is already thinking ahead and wondering how they're going to get this virus away from Butcher.
21:39The virus threatens to kill all soups on Earth, and there's even a chance it'll kill all humans too.
21:45Huey wants to take the virus and run, Kimiko wants to kill Butcher, and Starlight says,
21:50Hey, killing 10,000 soups to save 8 billion is a pretty good trade.
21:54She really believes she deserves to die for what she's done.
21:58You might have missed it, but when Starlight gives them new clothes, she says they're from people who don't need
22:03them anymore.
22:03I think they're from Starlighters who have died in the Resistance.
22:07Reunited, Kimiko doesn't like how they're part of this plan.
22:10She says when she got that virus, it was the only time she wanted to die. It was that painful.
22:16But the very reason Frenchie remains a part of this operation is to learn more about it.
22:21He vows he'll never let anyone take her away again, and she's like,
22:24My vagina is tingly and damp.
22:26Meanwhile, Homelander laments the death of A-Train.
22:29He's so narcissistic that he's found a way to mentally absolve himself of this murder.
22:34It wasn't his fault he killed A-Train. A-Train left him no choice what with his betrayal.
22:39So he turns to the only other person who might understand his loneliness.
22:43His father, Soldier Boy, whose cryo chamber he's had brought up to his apartment.
22:47The last we saw Soldier Boy in The Boys was the end of Season 4,
22:51where it was revealed he was being stored after his defeat in the Season 3 finale.
22:56As Jetstream and She-Line hawk Morvot products like firecrackers, flaming, freedom sticks,
23:01we meet another member of Teenage Kicks named Countess Crow.
23:05She can control crows, which seems to be her only power besides collecting massive amounts of antidepressants.
23:11Also bad props to whoever named them Russell Crowe and Cameron Crowe.
23:15Countess Crowe is forced to make endless makeup tutorials,
23:18and it's her situation that ultimately convinces MM to set her free at the end of the episode.
23:24He also has a daughter who's missing her father,
23:26so he empathizes with her and understand how she's merely being used by Vought.
23:31The plan is to infiltrate the Teenage Kicks influencer house while they're on patrol to look for signs of rock
23:37-hard.
23:37Huey disarms the cameras, and when the coast is clear, they enter the building and find Rock Hard has really
23:43let himself go.
23:45He's essentially ballooned to 30,000 pounds,
23:47which seems to be the result of his lava goo cooling down and building upon itself.
23:52His heart rate has also slowed to a glacial pace,
23:55allowing him to hold on to one breath of air for hours,
23:58and since the myrus is airborne, he could wait them out until help arrives.
24:03Meanwhile, Homelander has unfrozen Soldier Boy and has tasked him with hunting down Butcher,
24:08the man who betrayed him after Soldier Boy wanted to kill Ryan in Season 3.
24:12Thanks to Vought's disinformation apparatus, the world thinks Soldier Boy is a Russian spy,
24:17but with Homelander's help, he can change that, even giving him the number two spot in The Seven.
24:23If he finds Butcher, all will be forgiven.
24:25At Vought Tower, Sister Sage briefs the President and Vice President on over 10,000 Starlighter locations around the US,
24:33data that has been largely collected from Vought Book's social media algorithm.
24:38To contain these folks, Sage says they'll need to triple the amount of freedom camps,
24:42and this costs money, money the Treasury is sorely lacking.
24:46Through Ashley's power, she knows the President thinks this is insane, but there's nothing he can do.
24:52What Homelander says goes. In fact, President Calhoun knows this is so insane, he asks if he can be given
24:58immunity.
24:59Speaking of immunity, a full pardon is what Homelander asks Calhoun to give Soldier Boy, who has officially been welcomed
25:05back to The Seven.
25:06What Homelander hasn't done is tell Soldier Boy he's sending him directly into a man that has a virus that
25:12could potentially kill him in all soups.
25:15And Sage wants to know if Homelander can handle being responsible for his death, knowing how unhinged he can get.
25:22But Homelander reiterates it was a purely tactical move, and that he didn't bring his dad back for personal reasons.
25:28On their way back to the Kicks' crib with the perfected virus, Soldier Boy surprises Butcher, Kimiko, and Huey with
25:34his shield through their windshield.
25:36Huey and Kimiko run while Butcher tells Soldier Boy the truth.
25:40That Homelander sent him here as a sort of sacrificial lamb, knowing Butcher's in possession of that soup-killing virus.
25:46Jetstream and Sheeline go after Huey and Kimiko, with Starlight having to save Huey after Jetstream drops him from up
25:52in the air.
25:53The plan is to lead them into Teenage Kicks, where they've quarantined the basement to test out the virus.
25:59And everything goes according to plan.
26:01Soldier Boy, Rockheart, and Jetstream are lured in when the virus is let loose, killing the three in a matter
26:07of seconds.
26:08Or at least that's what we think.
26:10Meanwhile, Ashley has a crisis of faith with her other half.
26:13She's in too deep, but her other half wants her to rally the silent majority in Washington that thinks Homelander
26:20is batshit insane.
26:21Will Ashley have the balls to finally stand up to the man who has made her life a living hell?
26:27In the aftermath of the virus, Dr. Shaw confirms that humans are immune, and that none of them are carriers.
26:33With Frenchy seeing just how destructive this thing is, he asks Kimiko to run away with him.
26:39There's no stopping it. They should get as far away as they can.
26:42Kimiko uses Frenchy's own advice against him, saying,
26:45Every day they just have to get up and keep going.
26:48And maybe this is the way they can finally atone for what they've done in the past.
26:53Huey confronts Starlight and basically tells her if she doesn't want to talk about her feelings, that's fine.
26:58But he's not gonna stop fighting.
27:00And he'll fight for the both of them if she won't.
27:02Finally, we have the biggest WTF twist in the entire two episodes.
27:06After telling the Deep it should have been him who died, Homelander walks away from his father's corpse, and we
27:12see Soldier Boy rise from the dead.
27:14I think I know exactly what's going on here.
27:17But in order to answer this, we must venture into our trailer sleuthing section, where we go over the season's
27:22trailers to see what might be in store.
27:24As witness in the trailers, Soldier Boy is alive, and no, he's not some sort of zombie or seriously disfigured
27:31as a result of the virus.
27:32In fact, in the final trailer, we learn of something called V1.
27:36Vought's first iteration of Compound V, an extremely volatile but effective serum that Dr. Shaw says could make Homelander immortal.
27:44Soldier Boy would have been injected with this compound, which explains two things.
27:48How he survived the virus, and why Homelander in the trailers is searching for V1.
27:53Homelander is searching for a countermeasure for the virus.
27:57We'll see Homelander and Soldier Boy outside the abandoned Fort Harmony Medical Department, where the first trials of V1 may
28:04have been conducted by Frederick Vought himself.
28:07They'll also enlist the help of Mr. Marathon, a speedster soup and former member of the Seven, who was replaced
28:13by A-Train.
28:14We learned in episode two that he has a court order to stay at the Global Wellness Center in Malibu.
28:18And here we have the return of Zoe Newman, who we last saw in Gen V Season 2 with her
28:23grandpa Stan Edgar.
28:25Remember that Stan Edgar wanted to recruit Marie Moreau as a countermeasure to Homelander, which he considers bad product.
28:31And it looks like the gang will be teaming up with him.
28:34In this shot, Butcher is notably absent from their meeting with Stan, and it looks like MM could be holding
28:40a bag that might contain vials of the virus.
28:42The gang might be dealing with Stan behind Butcher's back.
28:47Marie and Jordan are seen briefly in the trailer with Starlight telling them they need to run while they can.
28:51Ryan will also be appearing this season, and I gotta say, it's not looking good for him.
28:56Almost every shot with him, he looks mad with these glowing red eyes.
29:00There's also a great video by YouTuber Jonathan who goes over who Homelander might be punching here.
29:05And I agree with his assessment that one of the most likely candidates is Ryan.
29:10I mean, Homelander hesitates on who he's beating up here when normally he doesn't even blink an eye on killing
29:15someone.
29:16This also seems to take place at a Planet Vought, which was one of Homelander's favorite places to bring Ryan
29:21as a child.
29:22The last we saw Homelander and Ryan interact was in Season 4 when Homelander confronted Ryan about the photo of
29:29him, Butcher, and his mom.
29:30Essentially telling Ryan to acknowledge him as his only true father.
29:35So this season has started with an absolute bang, but now I turn it over to you.
29:39What did you think of the first two episodes?
29:42I want to hear your thoughts and theories in the comments below.
29:45Thanks for watching, be sure to like and subscribe.
29:48For more bad takes you can follow me on Twitter and Instagram at ThinkStoryYT.
29:52Until next time remember, Daddy loves you very much.
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