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SUPER-POWERED IT'S SOPHOMORE YEAR FOR THE STUDENTS OF GEN VAND THE BOYS' UNIVERSE OVERSEER ERIC KRIPKE PROMISES SFX TENTACLED ANUSES, HIGHER STAKES AND A NEW DEAN DESTINED TO BREAK THE INTERNET

- WORDS: DAVE GOLDER

WHEN YOUR INTERVIEW contains - within the first two minutes - the phrase, "If we're talking about the same anus..." there's a good chance you're talking to Eric Kripke about one of the shows in the ever-expanding, ever-grosser, evermore-MAGA-baiting universe of The Boys.

In this case we're discussing season two of Gen V, the spin-off centring on a bunch of super-powered teens attending the shady Vought-run Godolkin University: As anyone who's seen the first season knows, this is no cosy Harry Potter for capes - the series is every bit as gory and bitingly satirical as its potty-mouthed progenitor. Hell, one main character, Marie, is basically a blood-themed variation on Magneto, and that's always going to end quite messily.

Kripke, the man overseeing the whole The Boys universe, promises that things are only going to get wilder with season two. So how is the show going to gross us all out this time round? “Lovingly,” laughs Kripke, refusing to give away spoilers. But it’s all done for the right reasons, he assures us. “Gen V definitely has its hilarious and shocking moments, but all of it serves the story.”

So the exploding anus we see in the trailer isn’t gratuitous, then?

“If we're talking about the same anus – which is something we often say on this show - that’s a tentacled anus. Yeah, that comes up pretty early in the season, actually...”

WORLD AFFAIRS

Season two of Gen V not only continues the story from the first season of this show, but is also our first glimpse into the new, horrifying socio-political status quo established at the end of The Boys season four.

To jog your memories,