“Welcome to Goldokin University,” the trailer opens. “A safe space for you to thrive.” As series lead Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair) crosses the campus under the watchful eye of a giant bronze statue of Homelander it quickly cuts to the inner hallways of Godolkin where a dorm room has the word MURDERER spray painted across its door in red. A warning sign bearing the image of Black Noir tells would be visitors that there’s no Lookie Loos, making the school more of a private prison than a private institution. Shots of Vought soldiers on campus intercut with Marie Moreau in a bathroom filled with blood.
Guest appearances by Vought head, Ashley Barret (Colby Minifie), and A-Train (Jessie T. Usher), reveal some of the tie-ins between the spinoff and its parent series. Clancy Brown (Spongebob Squarepants) is revealed as a teacher pulling a gun on somebody off-screen. The trailer cuts to a shot of guts being cleaned out of the campus main square by a hazmat crew as well as a shot of a Vought version of Sesame Street leading to a puppet having its spine pulled out. A brief glimpse of Patrick Schwarzenegger’s Golden Boy show up as well as Vought guards dragging his unconscious brother down a hallway.
The trailer reveals Marie Moreau pulling out a pocket knife and another shot of her using her blood to strangle someone—her powers in action, in other words, which involve the very real idea of a person cutting themselves played for drastic dramatic effect. Lizze Broadway, Chance Perdomo, and London Thor, as other series regulars, investigate the nefarious goings-on while getting beat up and bloodied. As the trailer winds up, an interviewer asks Marie Moreau about a moment in which she showed true bravery, wondering where she got her courage: “I’m superhuman, right?” Moreau answers. “We’re made of steel.”
Gen V debuts in 2023. No specific release date has been set.
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