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The series is centered around Godolkin University, a college run by Vought International that trains the would-be Supes of tomorrow. When Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair), a freshman with dreams of being the first black woman on the Seven, begins her semester at Godolkin, however, she winds up uncovering the school’s dark and dirty secrets. Also starring are Chance Perdomo, Lizze Broadway, Maddie Phillips, Derek Luh, London Thor, Asa Germann, Shelley Conn, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sean Patrick Thomas, Jason Ritter, and Clancy Brown. Jessie T. Usher, Colby Minifie, Claudia Doumit, P. J. Byrne, and Jensen Ackles reprise their roles from the main series as guest stars.
The series premiered on Prime Video on September 29, 2023. A second season has been ordered.
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Has nothing to do with the fifth generation of Pokémon.
Gen V includes examples of:
- Accidental Murder:
- Marie accidentally killed both her parents after discovering her Bloody Murder abilities and not being able to control them.
- Cate inadvertently killed her little brother as a girl when he'd been annoying her by telling him to go into the woods and never come back. This happened to be the moment her Compelling Voice manifested, and so he did. He was never found.
- Adaptational Badass: Tek Knight doesn't rely on Clothes Make the Superman like in the comics, and instead has Awesomeness by Analysis powers.
- Adaptational Heroism: Tek Knight zig-zags between this and Adaptational Villainy. He's technically not a serial rapist like his comic counterpart (so far at least), but he apparently takes pride in framing people for crimes they didn't commit until they get put in prison or kill themselves, something the comic version never did. He also gloats about blackmailing Shetty into giving him oral sex in return for not framing her, apparently seriously. And he justifies going after Shetty on the basis that she is not a supe, implying that he is a supe supremacist like Homelander from the mother series (when in the comics he didn't have superpowers himself).
- Adaptational Name Change: The founder of the college John Godolkin is named Thomas Godolkin in the show. Possibly because of One-Steve Limit (Homelander's first name is John).
- Adapted Out: John Godolkin, the expy of Charles Xavier from the original comics and who the college is named after, seems to be dead or retired, judging by Shetty's comment about him founding the university on '65, while in the comics he was still active during the events of the book.
- Alliterative Name: In the vein of the greatest comic book heroes (and Billy Butcher), the protagonist of the show is named Marie Moreau.
- An Arm and a Leg: Luke defeats his opponent in sparring practice by ripping off both his arms. Thankfully, his opponent is able to regenerate and have them reattached, so while it's disturbing to watch, it's ultimately harmless.
- In the season finale, Marie uses her powers to explode Cate's left arm before she can touch Jordan.
- Anti-Villain:
- Indira Shetty has a sympathetic reason for her nefarious plan, which is to kill Homelander, the main villain of The Boys, in revenge for killing her family.
- Cate Dunlap spends most of the series as a hero and is only revealed to be a villain late through a Face–Heel Turn. However, she has always been trying to do what she thinks is best, whether after being manipulated or through her own flawed reasoning.
- Bad Powers, Good People: Marie is The Hero of the story, yet her hemokinetic powers that require her to cut herself and backstory of accidentally killing her parents when they first awakened make her a nightmare for Vought's marketing.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Almost all main characters fit this, but it goes double for Cate who almost only uses her powers to either get free expensive alcohol or make her enemies fulfill painful and humiliating sexual attacks on themselves. Then it's revealed that she's even more powerful than she seems, that she knows The Conspiracy behind Godolkin and is helping Shetty keep it, before becoming The Starscream and leading a supe supremacist riot in the campus. Quite the resume for a soft spoken supe girl without superstrength!
- Blackmail: Present like in the mother series. When Tek Knight makes clear he's planning on implicating Shetty in Golden Boy's death, Shetty neutralizes his investigation by threatening to expose that he's dying of a brain tumor, which is likely the source of his compulsion to have sex with inanimate objects (which Shetty has plenty of video footage of).
- Broken Bird: Emma at first is a Lovable Sex Maniac, but as the episodes continue, she reveals Hidden Depths as a traumatized, scared and complex hero, with an emotionally abusive mother.
- Butt-Monkey: Rufus, another psychic student who unlike Cate is a Smug Snake with no sympathetic backstory nor self-imposed limits on when or who to use his powers, so the show feels no shame about punishing him with a Groin Attack or two... or a series of them.
- The Cameo: Several characters from The Boys appear in relatively minor speaking roles.
- A-Train appears in the flashback in Episode 1, alongside Madelyn Stillwell.
- Episode 2 features cameos from Cameron Coleman (presenter of Vought News), Ashley Barrett, and Adam Bourke (the director of Dawn of the Seven).
- Episode 3 has a clip of the Deep talking about Brinkerhoff.
- Episode 6 sees Soldier Boy cameo as an Imaginary Friend in Cate's memories.
- In Episode 7, Principal Shetty meets Grace Mallory to try and convince her to get onboard with her plan to genocide supes.
- Episode 8 has Homelander arrive at God U to put a stop to the rampaging supes. Butcher also makes an appearance in a mid-credits scene investigating The Woods.
- Cannot Spit It Out: Of the Love Confession variety, or at least like. When Marie and Jordan sleep together for the first time, the two of them wake up with Jordan in their female form. Jordan assumes that Marie doesn't like their female form — an insecurity rooted in their past experience with their ex Jenny, who wanted them to be in male form all the time — so they tell her everything is cool between them and it was nothing. However, after talking to Maverick about their insecurities, Jordan tries to tell Marie that it wasn't just nothing. Marie has clearly had her memory wiped, though. This becomes more of a priority to Jordan and they don't go through with the confession.
- Canon Foreigner: Everyone in the cast, aside from characters originating in the parent show, and Tek Knight.
- Career Versus Man: Cate chose to become Golden Boy's manager after graduation over becoming a superheroine.
- Celebrity Paradox:
- When Emma is in Sam's cell and trying to guess his favorite movie, one of the movies she guesses is The Shawshank Redemption, which featured Clancy Brown (Brink) as Byron Hadley.
- Star Wars was also referenced by Emma as one of the movies she guesses is Sam's favorite. Clancy Brown has numerous roles in the franchise due to being both an actor and a voice actor.
- In the pilot, it is mentioned that many actors that starred in Riverdale and Pretty Little Liars graduated from the Godolkin University. Jaz Sinclair (Marie) and Chance Perdomo (Andre) starred as main characters in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina which had a crossover with Riverdale, which in return may even share the same universe with Pretty Little Liars. Explanation.
- Cliffhanger: Season 1 ends with Marie, Emma, Jordan and Andre stuck in a small medical room with no windows or doors and no idea where they are.
- Clothing Damage: Golden Boy wears normal clothes not resistant to fire, so they combust when he activates his power.
- Continuity Nod: Several are made to the mother series.
- In the flashback at the start of the series, Lamplighter is shown among the Seven's lineup.
- Starlight quitting the Seven during season 3 is discussed among a support group at the Red River Institute.
- Several news segments are dedicated to coverage of Homelander's open murder of a protestor during the Season 3 finale.
- A political ad for Victoria Neuman as VP is shown in Episode 2.
- Emma discusses several movies starring Termite, another Sizeshifter supe, and states that Termite died of an overdose; people who watched Season 3 know that Termite was actually crushed by Homelander.
- The fight between Marie and Maverick is a direct parallel to how the fight between Billy Butcher and Translucent went, including blood playing a key role in the Invisible Streakers defeat.
- CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable: Justified; Marie's blood manipulation allows her to improve Cate's circulation after she passes out.
- Dead Star Walking: Professor Brink is played by the recognizable Clancy Brown and set up as the main "adult", non-supe character at Godolkin. However, he's murdered by Golden Boy at the end of the first episode, and this role is given afterward to the dean, Indira Shetty.
- Deconstruction: While the main series deconstructs superheroes as a whole, Gen V takes apart the Superhero School. While Godolkin University is an Extranormal Institute, it still has to deal with the problems a normal college would have to deal with (such as students being restless and getting high on narcotics), which are exacerbated by how many of its students have superpowers that can easily hurt or kill people if used recklessly. Additionally, the institute is perfectly willing to throw students under the bus to save its reputation, as Marie nearly finds out. Lastly, as the main series showed, Supes are just people with powers, and have a plethora of issues, some of which are worsened by said powers - Emma's powers involve shrinking herself by vomiting / binge-eating to grow in size, which has not only caused her to lose the enamel on her back teeth, but is also implied to have given her bulimia.
- Decoy Protagonist: Golden Boy is The Ace of Godolkin in-universe and had a prominent role in the early promotion of the series, being the first character whose name, actor (the son of Arnold Schwarzenegger, no less), and powerset was revealed among other things. He kills himself at the end of the first episode, with his brother Sam filling his spot among the main cast afterward.
- Defusing the Tyke-Bomb: Subverted Trope at the end of "God U". Andre manages to snap his friend Golden Boy out of his murderous rampage, only for him to look around and realize that by murdering Brink, he's destroyed his future, which drives him to fly into the air and blow himself up.
- Deliberate Values Dissonance: Vought's treatment of Jordan is clearly meant to paint them as a Politically Incorrect Villain; they claim that because Jordan is an Asian, bigender Sex Shifter, their very existence alienates "middle America", particularly the Florida and Texas markets.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?:
- Godolkin University as a whole evokes all the worst sides of American student athlete programs, from the highly competitive environment, students getting maimed or killed on a regular basis to the star students getting bailed out of crimes.
- Emma's shrinking ability involves vomiting to make herself smaller and binging food to grow bigger, strongly evoking bulimia and binge-eating. However, this is addressed and she insists that it is nothing like an eating disorder.
- Rufus using his powers to attempt to rape Marie is compared to a rapist using rohypnol.
- The campus riot is made to resemble a mass school shooting.
- When Homelander confronts Marie in the finale, he asks her what kind of animal she is, and if she likes attacking her own kind before lazily giving himself an alibi to kill her by shouting "Stay back!", knowing there's a (majority white) crowd watching.
- As with the main series, right-wing media and supporters are lampooned as biased or ignorant. A media pundit gives cartoonishly biased coverage of Victoria Neuman and speculates that she's backed by George Soros, a well-known boogeyman to extreme-right conspiracy theorists. Later, at a town hall event hosted by the pundit, the red-and-white-capped Rufus leads a chant of "You will not control us!" This echoes MAGA rallies and the infamous "Unite the Right" rally in which white supremacists chanted "You will not replace us!"
- Downer Ending: Once again the crimes of Vought haven't reached the public, and the main cast gets unjustly locked in what's implied to be a nastier version of the Woods and nothing they did accomplished anything.
- Dramatic Irony:
- Godolkin University's students all train to become heroes, with Marie in particular hoping to become the first female black member of the Seven. The scenes that features cameos from characters in the main series, however, establish that this show takes place in the aftermath of Season 3, where Vought is working on a variant of Compound V that is compatible with adults while the Seven crumble under the increasingly insane Homelander. The result is that the cast of Gen V are all working toward their dreams, unaware their era is about to close out.
- More generically, all of the supes at Godolkin want to become heroes for the sake of helping others. Viewers will know that Vought just wants them for marketing purposes and that, if any of them were to go against Vought's plans, they will at best get sidelined and, at worst, get a visit from Victoria Neuman.
- In "Welcome to the Monster Club," Jordan tells Marie "He fucking wiped you again!", believing that Rufus was the one responsible for Marie's memory getting wiped. This comes right after The Reveal that Cate is actually the one who has been wiping their memories.
- Driven to Suicide:
- Golden Boy blows himself up after looking around and realizing that he's only seconds away from being exposed as Brink's murderer.
- According to Indira, "barely any" supes committed suicide when the truth about Compound V was revealed to the public.
- Via her Compelling Voice superpower, Cate makes Indira kill herself as payback for Luke's own suicide in the beginning.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Dr. Edison Cardosa, who experimented on Sam, is portrayed as being very protective of his husband and daughter, ushering them out of the room before him when Sam invades his home.
- Everyone Is Bi: Out of the main cast, Luke and Andre are at least Ambiguously Bi, Jordan is both bigender and bisexual, and Marie has Interrupted Intimacy with Jordan in their male form, and after a period of lost time, they're cuddling up to a female Jordan. Emma admits to entertaining the idea of a threesome with Golden Boy and his girlfriend, Cate. Maverick the invisible RA admits to spying on both men and women in the showers.
- Eye Beams: A supe supremacist female student has this power. Homelander ends up unleashing his on Marie in the finale.
- Extranormal Prison:
- Godolkin University proper has elements of a maximum-security prison in its dorm rooms, being made of reinforced concrete, possessing blast doors, and having windows that don't open and are covered by metal shutters. And that's not even getting into "The Woods" beneath the school, which appear to be a combination between this and some kind of research facility.
- The episode "Jumanji" shows that Cate was confined to her room for nine years due to her parents being terrified of her abilities, complete with a blast door to make sure she couldn't get out.
- The ending sees Emma, Andre, Marie and Jordan locked on a white windowless and doorless cell.
- Exact Eavesdropping: Marie and Jordan happen to be hiding in Shetty's office at exactly the right time to hear Dr. Cardosa's drunken rant about Shetty's evil plan.
- Fan Disservice: Plenty of it, just like in its mother series.
- In the first episode we see the very attractive Emma Meyer strip naked to prepare to have sex... But first she must vomit all her body mass to shrink in size to satisfy her partner's fetish for sizeshifting. We later see her giving a.... bodyjob on her partner's dick, which looks grotesquely gigantic compared to her frail little body. There's also the fact that she is clearly not enjoying the experience and considers it degrading.
- Rufus is in all honesty a pretty good-looking guy, and we get to see some frontal nudeness from him... As he is preparing to rape Marie. It gets worse when in self-defense she uses her blood powers on him, causing his penis to become morbidly fat and red with blood until it blows up in a gory explosion of meat and semen.
- Fantastic Racism: In Episode 6 this is revealed to be Dean Shetty's main motivation. She hates all Supes, including her students, and she's not developing a Virus to control them. She's going to use it to wipe them out.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: When Emma shrinks down to sneak into the facility where Sam and others are being kept captive, she is wearing a rubber outfit from a Polly Pocket doll.
- Glass Cannon: Jordan's female form can fire energy blasts but lacks the invulnerability of the male form.
- A God Am I: Invoked with the shortened form of Godolkin University, "God U." This kind of thinking is also revealed to be very much present among God U students, with Sam later getting radicalized by some schoolmates who believe that Supes should be able to do whatever they want and that they're so much better than regular humans.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: Marie has a nasty scar on her left palm that she's repeatedly opened due to her Self-Harm–Induced Superpower; its harsh red coloring codes it as evil, but it's more meant to illustrate how Marie sees herself as a monster for her role in her parent's deaths.
- Groin Attack:
- When Rufus remarks to Cate that he thinks Luke killed himself to get away from her, an offended Cate tells him to go buy a baseball bat to hit himself in the balls with every hour on the hour while shouting "Jumanji!"
- When Rufus attempts to force himself on Marie, Marie makes his penis explode.
- Hero with Bad Publicity: Happens to Golden Boy after his death, with Vought blaming his murder-suicide on drugs and people hating him for killing a popular teacher.
- Heteronormative Crusader: Jordan's parents don't like their female side, so they hastily hide their female accessories and makeup when their parents pay an unexpected visit. They were also having sex with a man at the time in female form, and have him exit hastily. Later on, their father expresses discomfort about Jordan's gender, maintaining that Jordan is only a boy and turns into a girl to spite their father. Jordan replies they're simply being themself.
- Hidden Depths: Emma at first is a Lovable Sex Maniac party girl, but is gradually revealed to have an emotionally abusive mother and is disgusted by how she accesses her powers.
- Hypocritical Humor: Marie's resident advisor Maverick is an Invisible Streaker who tells Marie that there's a mandatory seminar on consent soon after she moves in; another student immediately points out he's talking about consent while he has his dick out. He also freely admits in a later episode that (much like his father) he spies on both men and women in the shower.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Sam says that "he could have been normal" after learning about Compound V, blaming it for his mental illness and incarceration.
- Jackie Robinson Story: Marie states that she wishes to be the first Black female member of the Seven.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Invoked by Marie when Jordan complains Marie is being given all the credit for fighting Golden Boy. As Marie points out, Jordan first rejected her from crimefighting classes, then was ready to see Marie expelled for an accident Golden Boy and Jordan caused, so they can't be shocked Marie isn't open to cutting them a break now.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The episode descriptions are all written as if they were posts on God U's social media pages.
- Like Father, Like Son: The original show revealed that Translucent had a son named Maverick; he's the RA at Marie's dorm, and like his father, he's an Invisible Streaker, though he at least has the decency to wear a hat and sunglasses so people know he's around... except when he stops by the shower room.
- Logical Weakness: Invoked by Polarity when he says that Marie's power is "unhygienic" and wonders what would happen if she got Hepatitis C. However this is subverted in the sense that Polarity only was angry about Marie hoarding the spotlight from his son, and couldn't care less about her powers in reality.
- Long Hair Is Feminine: Jordan Li's female form has longer hair than their male form, though it's fairly short for a woman, and their male side's hair is fairly feminine for a man, keeping both sides a little androgynous.
- Lovable Sex Maniac: In the pilot, Emma, Marie's roommate, is constantly making sexual comments about both girls and boys. She openly confesses she plans on masturbating to the very thought of Marie having a threesome.
- Ludicrous Gibs:
- Luke blows himself up after he's Driven to Suicide.
- Emma tunnels her way through a guard's brain and emerges from the opposing ear. Because of her miniature size, she emerges covered in the equivalent of buckets of blood.
- Sam slaughtering a group of soldiers, though all of the excessive gore is visualized via Muppets and confetti. We see the aftermath, though, and it's not pretty.
- Male Frontal Nudity:
- The penis of the guy Emma stimulates in her tiny form gets shown quite up close.
- Later Rufus tries to use his powers to rape Marie. She manages to wake up just before succeeds. Her blood-manipulation powers go into action, and the audience gets to see his penis engorge grotesquely and finally explode.
- Man on Fire: Golden Boy has the ability to light himself on fire, like the Human Torch.
- MegaCorp: Vought International, naturally; in addition to owning the Godolkin U, a major news network, and superheroes as a whole, they apparently have their own line of smartphones, earbuds, and 'personal massagers'.
- A Minor Kidroduction: The show starts with a flashback of Marie's childhood and shows the traumatic way she discovered her powers.
- Muppet: Sam's hallucinations include these; "The Whole Truth" shows a Muppet version of The Deep talking to him and telling him to kill the doctor who experimented on him. When he gets found by a squad of soldiers, the following slaughter is shown via everyone being a Muppet, complete with confetti standing in for the Ludicrous Gibs, popcorn for gunfire, and a disappointed Muppet Emma looking on.
- News Broadcast: A few of these are seen throughout the series, pertaining the events of season 3 of the mother show, as well as ongoings in Gen V itself.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished:
- Marie accidentally kills her parents when they barge in the bathroom to help her when her powers awaken.
- Marie saves a woman after Andre injures her by accident and the video ends spread all over the internet. But instead of rewarding her, Brink intends for her to be blamed for the accident and expelled from the school, in order to protect the reputation of Andre and his high-ranking friends. Subverted, as Brink died before he could expel her.
- Jordan fights Golden Boy when he has a psychotic break and likely saves several people lives in the process, only for Vought to give Andre and Marie all merit because they are more marketable. This even drops Jordan from #2 of Godolkin to #5.
- Emma rescues Sam from The Woods where he was being tortured and experimented on in "The Whole Truth", but by the time the season finale rolls around, Sam condemns this act as selfish, stating that Emma only did it for herself to feel like a hero.
- In "Guardians of Godolkin", Marie, Emma, Jordan, and Andre work together to stop the supes who are killing any person without superpowers on campus... and Vought places the blame for the attack on them. On top of that, Sam and Cate are credited with stopping it, when they were the ones who released the supes from The Woods.
- Orphanage of Fear: Downplayed with the Red River Institute where Marie lives after her parents' deaths. The place looks depressing but alright... until it's implied that children that grow up without being adopted go to one of Vought's Hellhole Prison-like facilities to be experimented on.
- Outside-Context Villain: While investigating Golden Boy's death, Tek-Knight antagonizes both the main characters and Godolkin University's staff, all while being employed by Vought himself.
- Playing with Syringes: "The Woods" is a secret medical facility underneath Godolkin University where some Supes are imprisoned for use as lab rats.
- Posthumous Popularity Potential: Invoked Trope. In-Universe clips show that after Queen Maeve's "death" in Season 3 of the mother show, people are attempting to capitalize on her popularity; while there's some backlash to it, a signed Queen Maeve Funko Pop! is selling for almost $2000 on eBay.
- Power Perversion Potential:
- In the pilot Emma shrinks herself into a minuscule size at her partner's request to slide up and down his penis, as he has a fetish for this.
- In "Welcome to the Monster Club", Maverick casually admits to using his invisibility power to spy on both women and men in the showers.
- On a less amusing note, Rufus uses his power to induce Laser-Guided Amnesia in an attempt to rape Marie, and he has done this to other students.
- Reconstruction: While the main series is a Genre Deconstruction of super heroes, Gen V reconstructs this by emphasizing that there are supes who genuinely want to be heroes and manage to hold on to their humanity as opposed to becoming image-obsessed walking time bombs.
- Red Herring: During Episode 5, Rufus is suspected of using his psychic powers to wipe the main cast's memories after they discovered the truth about the Woods and Sam. After all, he is known for making women in close contact black out so he can rape them (this almost happened to Marie before she inadvertently made his penis explode). The main group is convinced he was working with Dean Shetty to keep them from discovering the ugly truth. However, they learn from Sam that Cate was the one who made them forget, and was working with Dean Shetty from the very beginning. She was mainly used to keep Luke from discovering the truth about his brother Sam.
- Rivalry as Courtship: Marie and Jordan are a great example of this. For reference, in episode 3, Jordan is getting fucked hard by some guy... and all they're doing while getting nailed is talk about Marie (specifically about how much they supposedly hate Marie because she's taking credit for stopping Golden Boy, even though Jordan was the only one who fought him). Exactly one episode later, Marie and Jordan share a Big Damn Kiss — more than one, really — and end up sleeping together for the first time.
- Sad Clown: Emma, "Little Cricket," is a spunky Lovable Sex Maniac and constantly joking around but is clearly deeply sad and using humor and sex as a mask.
- Self-Harm–Induced Superpower:
- Marie has the power to manipulate her own blood and use it as whips. She just has to bleed herself first.
- In a less conventional way, Emma has to vomit in order to shrink and binge in order to become big, meaning she's emulating another form of self-harm.
- Sex Shifter: Jordan Li can switch between male and female forms at will, each with a different powerset.
- Shoot the Shaggy Dog Story: The investigation Andre, Marie, Jordan and Emma did was all for nothing, the blame of the riot is pinned on them and they're now locked in an enigmatic doorless and windowless cell.
- Shout-Out:
- Cate may be one to Andy McGee from Firestarter by Stephen King. She has the same power with a very similar drawback, and she too uses the term "pushing" when it describes her Compelling Voice.
- Sam Riordan's favorite movie is Waterworld of all things, and he spends time discussing why he likes it so much.
- Sam hallucinates a show called Avenue V, complete with a Muppet of The Deep.
- Sizeshifter: Emma can switch between normal size and tiny enough to fill inside a human ear. However, transforming is a struggle for her, as she needs to puke to become small, and binge-eat to make herself giant-sized.
- Stone Wall: Jordan's male form is Nigh-Invulnerable but his punch is nothing to write home about.
- Superhero School: Godolkin is promoted as a safe place that trains the superheroes of tomorrow. That second part is most certainly true.
- Superpowerful Genetics: This show establishes that Supes other than Homelander have had children with similar powersets; Translucent's son Maverick is the RA for Marie's dorm, while Andre has the same powers as his father Polarity. However, it's not clear if these powers are natural, or the result of the characters being dosed with Compound V in their youth.
- Super-Scream: A supe-supremacist female student has this power and uses it during a protest at Victoria Neuman's town hall that almost turns into a riot.
- Take That!:
- Emma says her YouTube channel is like "PewDiePie but without the Nazi stuff".
- The name "The Guardians of Godolkin" is pitched to Marie after Golden Boy's death but Vought's representative says that it has too many syllables; in fact, it has the same number of syllables as Guardians of the Galaxy.
- Multiple cities in Texas and Florida are called out as markets that dislike Jordan for their Sex Shifter powers and being bigender, with the implication being that the states as a whole are transphobic. This is likely also intended as a potshot at the states becoming decidedly unfriendly locations for the LGBTQ+ community after the passing of legislation deliberately intended to screw over such people by the states' respective Governors Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis.
- Tek Knight refers his plans to cover up for Vought by unleashing misinformation, misdirection, obfuscation, and throwing an innocent patsy under the bus as "Johnny Depp-ing" someone, referring to the media frenzy around the accusations against Depp of spousal abuse.
- A Threesome Is Hot: Emma certainly thinks so, speaking of desiring a threesome with Golden Boy and his girlfriend, Cate, after Marie reveals she's been invited by Golden Boy to a group outing. Emma then suggests Marie should go for a threesome, if at all possible since Emma wasn't invited.
- Traumatic Superpower Awakening:
- When her blood powers first manifest, Marie is having her first period and loses control over them, and ends up accidentally killing both of her parents.
- Cate's parents never touched her again after she told her little brother Caleb in annoyance to go into the woods and never come back, unaware this would be the moment her Compelling Voice started so he did just that, with them never finding him afterward.
- Villains With Good Publicity: At the end of Season 1, Marie and co. are publicly blamed for the attack on the school while Cate and Sam, who were responsible for the killing, are hailed as the new Guardians of God U.
- Writers Cannot Do Math: Marie is 18, the starting flashback is set "eight years ago"... but she looks older and is having her first period. Later in the same episode, she says that she was twelve at the time.
