Prime Video has canceled Gen V, the college-set spinoff of The Boys, after two seasons. The cancellation was widely anticipated — one of the show's stars, Asa Germann, had already booked a series regular role on Paramount+'s Frisco King — but the official confirmation came Thursday, six months after the Season 2 finale aired in October 2025.
The series launched in September 2023 and was set at the Godolkin University School of Crimefighting, where young people with superpowers competed for a shot at joining The Seven. It earned a Season 2 renewal midway through its first run and drew a devoted following before momentum stalled. The second season also carried the weight of a genuine tragedy: star Chance Perdomo died in a motorcycle accident in March 2024 while on his way to the set, delaying production.
Season 2 starred Jaz Sinclair as Marie Moreau, Lizze Broadway as Emma Meyer, Maddie Phillips as Cate Dunlap, London Thor and Derek Luh as Jordan Li, Germann as Sam Riordan, Sean Patrick Thomas as Polarity, and Hamish Linklater as Dean Cipher. The finale left the main characters recruited into the resistance against Homelander's dictatorship — a thread that will now be picked up in The Boys.
Executive producers Eric Kripke and Evan Goldberg addressed fans directly. "While we wish we could keep the party going another season at Godolkin, we're committed to continuing the Gen V characters' stories in The Boys Season 5 and other VCU projects on the horizon," they said in a statement. "You'll see them again."
Gen V characters are already appearing in the current fifth and final season of The Boys, which is airing weekly on Prime Video. The series finale of The Boys is set for May 20.
The cancellation does not mean the broader franchise is winding down. The prequel series Vought Rising, starring Jensen Ackles and Aya Cash, began production in August 2025 and is confirmed for a 2027 debut. Ackles, known to genre fans from his 15-season run on Supernatural, also serves as a producer on the show. Paul Grellong is showrunner.
A second spinoff, The Boys: Mexico, remains in active development but has not yet been greenlit to series. All projects in the franchise are produced by Sony Pictures Television and Amazon MGM Studios in association with Kripke Enterprises, Original Film, and Point Grey Pictures.
The Boys universe now spans five seasons of its flagship series, two seasons of Gen V, a confirmed prequel, and a spinoff still in development — a considerable footprint for a show that began as an R-rated satire of superhero culture. Whether the franchise can sustain that expansion without the show that first introduced Godolkin's students remains to be seen when Vought Rising arrives in 2027.
