Top 10 WTF Moments from Gen V
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00:00 "You know I love you."
00:01 "It wasn't supposed to happen like this."
00:05 Welcome to WatchMojo,
00:07 and today we're navigating the brand safety obstacle course
00:10 in an attempt to discuss the most shocking and disturbing scenes
00:14 from the first season of Gen V.
00:16 Naturally, major spoilers lie ahead.
00:19 "You're not here to study. The school is here to study you."
00:23 Number 10. The Plague.
00:27 "Concentrate the dose."
00:29 "Let's see how sick we can make her."
00:33 As the show progressed, it became increasingly obvious
00:36 that Dean Shetty really didn't like soups.
00:39 Through the mysterious facility known as The Woods,
00:42 we watched as she led experiments on students.
00:46 But her end goal didn't become clear until the latter half of the season.
00:50 "Now can you make it contagious?"
00:51 Along with her lackey, Dr. Cordoza,
00:54 she spearheaded the creation of a deadly virus that only targets super-powered citizens.
00:59 She craved vengeance against all of them,
01:02 due to her family having been on the same plane
01:04 Homelander doomed in the boys' first season.
01:07 Although her plans were cut short in more ways than one,
01:11 seeing the virus effects on Shetty's lab rats was both surprising and horrific.
01:16 "I'm sorry."
01:17 "I'm sorry."
01:22 "I'm sorry."
01:24 Number 9. Tech Knight's Proclivity.
01:26 "I myself have nothing to hide."
01:29 "Are you sure about that?"
01:30 "That small bead of sweat on your brow,
01:33 adrenaline seeping from your pores."
01:37 Essentially a super-powered Sherlock Holmes,
01:40 Tech Knight is not someone you'd want snooping into your life.
01:43 The true crime TV star begins digging into the secrets of Gadolkin University in episode 4.
01:50 This puts him at odds with Dean Shetty,
01:53 who does a bit of her own digging and learns he has a small tumor in his brain.
01:57 However, she also learns that the tumor has caused an interesting development
02:01 in the so-called hero's behavior.
02:03 An extreme sexual attraction to any object that happens to be a hole.
02:08 "Compilation of your greatest hits."
02:10 With plenty of footage to back up her claims,
02:14 we see Tech Knight get it on with several different objects.
02:18 That gives his show, The Whole Truth, a new and unsettling meaning.
02:23 "Give me a few minutes alone, please."
02:24 Number 8. Emma's Rescue Mission.
02:27 "Got it. Get it. Got it. Good."
02:30 Having been made to feel bad about her powers in the first few episodes,
02:34 Emma jumps at the chance to use them for good.
02:37 In episode 3, Andre recruits her to infiltrate the woods and find Sam.
02:42 While that immediately made us worry she'd get caught,
02:46 it actually turned into a surprisingly pleasant meet-cute.
02:49 "You're the furthest thing from gross. You're, uh, you're pretty."
02:56 Of course, being the world of the boys, things didn't stay pleasant for long.
03:01 When a guard arrived and began electrocuting Sam, Emma took things into her own hands.
03:06 And by that, we mean she crawled through his ear canal and out the other after he collapsed.
03:11 Emma doesn't seem that violent of a person, but this must have been a terrifying way to go.
03:16 Number 7. Liam's Fetish.
03:24 "Can you try something? I don't want you to think I'm weird."
03:29 We're not ones to kink-shame, unless you're exploiting someone in the process.
03:34 One of the many people to make Emma feel bad about her abilities is Liam, a fellow class member.
03:40 At first, kind and supportive, Liam makes his little crush obvious,
03:45 and the two meet up for some alone time in episode one.
03:48 However, prior to going all the way, he asks her to shrink down and, ahem, go for a ride.
03:54 She's clearly uncomfortable with the request,
04:00 but goes along with it due to her negative self-image.
04:03 As if the resulting sex scene wasn't WTF-inducing enough,
04:08 this is also how viewers learn what Emma goes through in order to shrink.
04:12 Number 6. Sam's Puppet Massacre.
04:15 It's easy to feel sympathy for most of the show's leading characters,
04:20 and that's especially the case with Sam.
04:22 Having schizophrenia and uncontrollable super-strength is one dangerous cocktail,
04:27 and that concept reaches peak violent absurdity in episode five.
04:34 Having already twisted kids' television programming with his condition,
04:38 we watch as Sam is surrounded by a strike team full of puppets.
04:42 As a puppet himself, Sam wastes no time disposing of his felt attackers in brutal fashion.
04:48 This could easily have been another live-action sequence of one soup ripping apart their enemies,
04:53 and it probably would have still made the list.
04:56 But we commend the showrunners for going this insane route.
04:59 "I have a single dad with two daughters. Their names are Hannah Lee and…"
05:02 "There we go."
05:03 It's still ridiculously vicious, but also hilarious.
05:08 Number 5. Kate's Vengeance.
05:11 To be fair, there were several WTF moments concerning Kate.
05:16 We were surprised to find she and Andre had been sleeping together while Luke was still alive.
05:22 And even more surprised to find out she'd been working with Shetty.
05:26 But those moments pale in comparison to when she gets vengeance against the Dean.
05:31 "Shut up! You had your chance to talk, and now it's my turn."
05:35 After finding out all her dirty secrets, Kate uses her power to have Shetty confess her sins
05:40 before forcing her to cut her own throat. Even worse, she then uses it against Marie
05:46 so that she can't save Shetty's life.
05:49 "You have to let me save her."
05:51 "I'm so sorry you have to relive this."
05:53 The Dean definitely deserved justice, but we never would have guessed that
05:57 Kate would be the one to bring it. This was a major cliffhanger heading into the finale.
06:02 "Do you know what you've done?"
06:03 "Justice."
06:06 Number 4. The Campus Attack.
06:09 We knew heading into the finale that Kate and Sam would want to free the students in the woods,
06:15 and that it would likely lead to violence.
06:17 Still, Gen V's last episode had some extremely shocking demises.
06:23 "Are you a sup?"
06:24 "No, I'm an adjunct professor marketing."
06:26 As the newly freed supes took out their aggression, we saw a face get melted.
06:31 More than one had popped and plenty of powerful blasts that put people down.
06:36 But possibly the most shocking was Marie's reaction to save Jordan.
06:40 "Kate, you have to stop this. They want me to kill you."
06:43 "Is that what you're gonna do?"
06:44 "No, of course not."
06:46 The protagonist tried to reason with Kate several times.
06:50 As her former friend reached out to bring Jordan into the fold,
06:53 Marie reacted quickly and decimated Kate's arm.
06:56 Quick and brutal, our jaws were still wide open when Homelander showed up.
07:01 "Do you like attacking your own kind?"
07:03 Number 3. Marie's Powers Awaken.
07:07 Anyone who wondered whether or not Gen V could match the chaotic violence of the boys,
07:12 had that question succinctly answered in the show's opening flashback.
07:17 We watched as Marie, the main character, got her first period.
07:21 An important moment of growth for any young woman was completely tarnished when her mother
07:25 tried to help her through it. Marie's blood-centric powers awoke at the same moment, killing her
07:31 mother. Sadly, her father rushed in and received the same fate. As if that wasn't traumatic enough,
07:37 this event also caused an unmendable breach between Marie and her sister, Annabeth.
07:42 "No matter how hard you try to be a hero, you'll always be a murderer to me."
07:50 While many superheroes just feel a sense of wonder when their powers manifest,
07:54 this was a heartbreaking moment.
07:56 Number 2. Rufus' Comeuppance.
07:59 Rufus proves himself to be a bit of a creep early in the show.
08:03 But his true villainy isn't shown until he runs afoul of Marie.
08:07 Thinking her roommate Emma may be in danger, Marie asks the psychic to help locate her.
08:12 "Come closer. I need a stronger connection."
08:15 After blacking out during their conversation, she wakes up in his dorm room with him about
08:23 to assault her. Using her blood powers, she engorges his member until it bursts.
08:29 Her powers are already a little gross, but there wasn't a single part of us that expected her to
08:34 use them in this way. "Should we call somebody?" "No, the guy's like walking
08:38 Rufanel blowing pheromones on anyone who gets too close." Despite this causing him undeniable pain,
08:43 Rufus still shows up periodically to cause problems for our protagonists.
08:48 "Because they're trying to limit us, take away our power. The Homelander is right."
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09:06 1. Golden Boy's Fate
09:10 Gen V was packed with WTF moments, but few of them made our jaws drop quicker than the first
09:17 episode's cliffhanger ending. Luke, aka Golden Boy, had been set up to be a main character,
09:23 and Brink seemed to be the villain. "What if I say no?"
09:28 "Well, you're an orphan who murdered her parents, kiddo. I'm afraid you don't got much choice."
09:37 However, viewers were wrong in thinking they'd stick around. Having remembered the woods in
09:43 his brother's statement, Luke went to Brink's office and murdered him. Unfortunately for him,
09:48 Marie showed up at that exact moment. "Why'd you have to come, Marie?"
09:56 The resulting chase and fight against Jordan was definitely thrilling,
10:00 but Luke could tell there was no going back. With a final goodbye to his best friend,
10:05 he flew into the sky, blew himself up, and set a shocking precedent for the rest of the show.
10:11 Which WTF moment from Gen V stunned you the most?
10:24 "Shut up, television station ritter!"
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