Gen V Characters And Their Powers: A Complete List

One of the absolute joys of The Boys/Gen V universe is the wild, weird powers the characters exhibit. Some of them are straightforward, like super-strength or super-speed. Others are… Alpacas? Whatever they exhibit on screen, though, it’s not always clear what the Gen V characters and their powers are.

Incredible news: that’s where this article comes in. We’re a season and a half into Gen V at this point, and with Sophomore year in full swing, we’ve got plenty of new Supes to chat about. We’ll aim to update this list as the show rolls on, but at least through Season 2, here’s a complete list of all the Gen V characters and their powers.

Note: This article has been updated as of October 22, 2025, to include information up to and including Gen V Season 2, Episode 8.

Gen V Characters And Their Powers: Complete List

Here’s that complete list, and just one last note: spoilers on, as a few of these powers have surprises attached to them. So if you’re not caught up on Gen V Season 2, go watch and then come back here.

Another note: pretty much every one of these people has super-strength and super-durability, in addition to their other powers. That’s a side-effect of Compound V, the substance that gave them their powers as babies.

Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair): Hemokinetic

Marie is able to manipulate blood. Initially, we see this with her, uh, first period, which leads to the death of both of her parents. Later, we see she can cut her palms and use the blood that comes out as a forceful weapon. However, as the season has continued, Marie has discovered surprising uses to her powers. She can use the blood trails as a sort of rope to capture things/people. She was able to get the blood back inside a lady who had her throat slit. And she made a guy’s penis explode. So, lots of uses there. And in Season 2, she took that throat slit even further to resurrect her sister, Annabeth.

Andre Anderson (Chance Perdomo): Magnetism

Like his father before him (more on that in a second), Andre was able to manipulate metal with magnetism. He was very strong with the power, though due to the micro-tears that using his powers caused to form in his brain, he died while trying to escape from Elmira prison between seasons. [Note: this is because of the real-life, very unfortunate passing of Chance Perdomo.]

Emma Meyer/Little Cricket (Lizze Broadway): Shrinking/Growing

As Little Cricket, Emma was a beloved Supe; though folks didn’t know that her mother was having her throw up to lose her body mass in order to become tiny. If she eats, she grows to normal size. If she eats a lot? She grows enormous. In Season 2, her powers have evolved to be tied to her confidence. If she’s insecure, she shrinks. If she’s feeling good, she grows bigger.

Cate Dunlap (Maddie Phillips): Mind Control

Cate’s powers of mind control depend on touch, which is why she wears gloves all the time. We’ve also seen that excessive use of her powers can cause hemorrhages in her eyes (and presumably her brain as well).

Jordan Li (London Thor and Derek Luh): Gender-Shifting, Invulnerability, Energy Blasts

Jordan has several powers. Their main power is gender-shifting, but each form has a different, secondary power. In their masculine state (played by Derek Luh), Jordan is nearly invulnerable. In their feminine state (played by London Thor), they can shoot energy blasts.

Sam Riordan (Asa Germann): Super-strength

Even for Supes, Sam is super-strong. He’s exhibited Hulk-like levels of jumping ability, can rip humans apart with his bare hands, and punch through walls. He’s also a little unhinged and can see people as felt, Muppets-style puppets, though as we discover in Season 2, that’s not tied to his powers — he just has mental health issues.

Luke Riordan/Golden Boy (Patrick Schwarzenegger): Pyrokineses

When he was alive, Luke was able to cover his entire body with flames, which also led to his clothes burning off. We’re told that he could potentially be as strong as Homelander, aka this universe’s version of Superman (albeit very evil).

Justine Garcia (Maia Jae Bastidas): Healing, Pain Suppression

Justine is the girl who outed Emma’s binge-to-shrink ability. She has a healing factor, can suppress pain, and sucks as a person.

Polarity (Sean Patrick Thomas): Magnetism

As mentioned above, Polarity is Andre’s father and has the same powers as his son. In the comics, he’s sort of a Magneto-but-“good” stand-in. He’s also not quite on the level of The Seven, the universe’s premiere super-team. But he did pretty well for himself back in the day. He also, unfortunately, has the same affliction as his son and has already been sent to the hospital after having a seizure while using his powers.

Rufus (Alexander Calvert): Psychic

Rufus (the guy who had his penis blown up by Marie) has several psychic powers. His main one seems to be mind manipulation, which he uses to sexually assault his fellow students. However, he also has telepathy, astral projection, and clairvoyance.

Harper (Jessica Clement): Tail Chameleon

Surprise! While it seemed like Harper’s power in Season 1 was “tail,” which Justine makes her suck on camera for social media clout… She’s actually a chameleon and able to copy anyone’s powers for 60 seconds at a time.

Tyler Oppenheimer (Siddharth Sharma): Intangibility

Tyler uses his abilities to walk stark-naked into another room when he’s interrupted having sex with Jordan.

The Incredible Steve (Warren Scherer): Healing factor

The Incredible Steve can’t regrow limbs, but he can reattach them after they’re torn off, as we saw in the season premiere, “God U.” Recently he lost his penis, so if you’ve seen it let him know. There’s a $10,000 reward.

Robert Vernon/Tek Knight (Derek Wilson): Heightened Senses

Tek Knight seems to be an amalgamation of Batman and Daredevil. Though not explicitly stated, it’s clear he has heightened senses of smell, hearing, sight, and presumably touch as well.

Dusty (Andy Walken): Slow-aging

Dusty is actually in his mid-20s but still looks like a kid. He also throws absolute ragers. That’s not a power, just a fact.

Maverick (Nicholas Hamilton): Invisibility

Like his father Translucent before him, the Godolkin University RA can turn invisible and is also a huge pervert.

Betsy (Briana-Lynn Brieiro): Electricity

We don’t know exactly what Betsy’s abilities are, as she was introduced coughing and wheezing thanks to Dr. Cardosa’s Supe virus. And then later on, a higher dosage of the virus killed her. But the brief glimpse we did get showed electricity crackling through her hands. RIP, Betsy.

Sloane: Alpaca

Sloane is either a superhero alpaca, or just an alpaca, and honestly, we don’t know what’s up with that one. Sorry.

Characters Introduced In Gen V Season 2 And Their Powers:

Thomas Godolkin (Ethan Slater): Physical Manipulation

One of the big mysteries of Season 2 has been: who is Cipher? Turns out, Cipher is nobody… He’s a meat puppet being manipulated by Thomas Godolkin, a scientist who founded Godolkin University and created Project Odessa. Godolkin has physical manipulation powers, and can make people do whatever he wants — except Polarity, who is able to resist the powers thanks to controlling metal in the blood. Godolkin was horribly burned back in the ’60s during a lab accident, but gained powers thanks to Compound V, as well as extended lifespan.

Cipher/Dough (Hamish Linklater): Nothing!

The mysterious new Dean of Godolkin University in Season 2 must, of course, have some sort of powers… Except as noted above, he does not. “Cipher” is actually a guy named Doug who used to work at Blockbuster, and has been puppeted for decades by Thomas Godolkin. I know this is a list of folks with powers, but felt like it was important to include this one non-powered individual, here!

Black Hole (Wyatt Dorian): Portal in his butt

I mean… That’s what it is. He has a portal in his butt. Where it goes, no one knows, but so far, he’s put an enormous amount of beer up there and fit an entire other dude in his anus as well.

Modesty Monarch (Kira Guloien): Has wings?

We don’t actually know exactly what Modesty Monarch’s powers are other than a trad wife social media presence, but she does have butterfly wings.

Stacey Ferrara (Stacey McGunnigle): Bee powers

The new head of student life introduced in Season 2 has multiple bee-related powers. She has a stinger, which can kill someone if she stings them, though, per bees, she will also die if that happens. And she occasionally hocks up honey into a jar.

Vikor (Tait Fletcher): Strength and durability

The Viking-esque Vikor is brought in by Cipher to test his elite class of students, including Marie. He’s got super-strength, and super-durability, and is even able to pound his own heart back to beating again after Marie tries to shut him down.

The Rememberer (Stephen Guarino): Remembering

In charge of the God U library, The Rememberer remembers everything to an annoying degree. He had a The Mentalist-style show starring him back in the day, which Emma loves, and he’s working on a reboot. Then he could be called The Rebooterer.

Guy With Enormous Schlong: Has an enormous schlong

Emma sees this guy as she’s chasing Harper through a locker room, and congrats to him.

Ally, aka Bushmaster (Georgie Murphy): Pubic hair control

Ally is a member of the resistance that Emma joins, which includes Ally and Harper… And, uh, that’s it. Ally’s weird power is she can control her public hair like Medusa of the Inhumans, stretching it, making it grow, and using it to open doorknobs and whatnot.

Greg (Stephen Kalyn): Flight

A classmate of Emma’s in Modesty Monarch’s seminar, and Ally’s brother, Greg has the power of flight.

Annabeth Moreau (Keeya King): Precognition

In Season 2, Episode 5, we finally meet Marie’s sister Annabeth, locked in Elmira Prison. She’s killed by Cipher, resurrected by Marie, and then in Episode 6 we discover that she has limited precognition, aka can see into the future. Her powers are erratic, however… At the current time she can’t control how much of the future she sees, or when.

Characters From The Boys:

Beyond the Gen V-specific characters, we’ve also seen several cameos from The Boys. Those include Jessie T. Usher as A-Train (super-speed), Chace Crawford as The Deep (fish powers), and Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy (super-strength, super-speed, all around a-hole).

In Season 2, we’ve encountered Erin Moriarty as Annie January/Starlight (light powers, flight), Zach McGowan as Dogknott (dog powers), Valorie Curry as Firecracker (able to create small explosions), Susan Heyward as Sister Sage (super smart), Olivia Morandin as Zoe Neuman (tentacle mouth), and once again, The Deep.

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