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Gen V is the cure to what ails superhero media
29.09.2023 - 16:15 / polygon.com
There is a moment in Gen V, the Gen Z-centric spinoff of X-rated superhero satire The Boys, that actually managed to shock me. I’m going to talk about what that moment was, but first I need to talk a little about what it wasn’t.
It was not the moment, about two minutes into the opening episode, when a girl experiencing her first period manages to accidentally kill both of her parents with telekinetically weaponized menstrual blood. That sequence, which serves as our introduction to the show’s protagonist, Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair), is altogether typical of the tone and attitude of the Boysuniverse: a smiling, Grand Guignol glee in the parodic violence of the superhero genre that winks at the audience even as it nauseates us. That, after all, is the place The Boys has staked out in the landscape of superhero media. When Amazon launched the show in 2019, it was at the high watermark of superhero media saturation: the year of Captain Marvel, Avengers: Endgame, Shazam!, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and an almost nauseatingly endless list of franchise films slated and imagined. In that environment, the foul-mouthed, cynical spit-take of Eric Kripke’s show — which imagined “supes” as half-witted, media-obsessed stooges of the Vought International corporation — could only feel like a welcome relief.
But 2019 seems a world away now. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, changing tastes, and an almost improbable degree of genre oversaturation, the past year has given us one dud after another that struggled to get audiences even to glace momentarily upward from our phones — whether it was the catastrophic performance of DC’s The Flash or the hollow, empty streaming network thud of Marvel’s Secret Invasion. Against that backdrop, Gen V’s joke ought to feel played out at best and pointlessly mean-spirited at worst, and to some extent it is. And yet, for all its predictable elements, Gen V remains perplexingly engaging television, and it’s worth asking ourselves just why that is. Because with Gen V, a franchise that began as little more than a pleasingly obscene pastiche of superhero fiction proves itself to be more alive to pop culture, and willing to embrace it, than the genre it set out to lampoon. And maybe by understanding what it is about Gen V that still feels alive, we can understand how best to rescue the rest of superhero media from the brink of death.
[Ed. note: This post contains light spoilers for the first few episodes of Gen V.]
So, to return to Marie, whose salvation from a life of shame and poverty is admission to the prestigious Godolkin University, a training ground for the nation’s supe elite. In practice, this turns out to mostly mean low-rent microcelebs with telegenic superpowers: soap opera
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