Generation V Season 2 Ending Changed After Chance Perdomo’s Death

Warning: There are spoilers ahead for the Gen V season 2 finale.Generation V Showrunner Michele Fazekas reveals how season 2’s ending was changed after Chance Perdomo’s death. The actor who played Andre Anderson in season 1 died shortly before production on season 2 began.

Season 2 underwent significant rewrites to honor the legacies of Chance Perdomo and Andre Anderson. This particularly affects Andre’s father, Polarity (Sean Patrick Thomas), who is consumed with grief and tries to do what is right to honor his son’s memory.

While speaking with the Television Academy, Fazekas explains that due to Perdomo’s death, she did not want any of the other heroes to die in the season 2 finale. As the show had already lost the actor and character Andre, she was determined that the show would not kill anyone else, as these deaths were nothing compared to the actual tragedy that had occurred. Check out Fazekas’ comments below:

Part of [those changes] were motivated by the death of Chance Perdomo, and it really changed the way the [season] finished. One of the most important things was that I didn’t want to kill anyone else. We’ve already seen someone die in real life, and a character on the show died [as a result]. I was very adamant that we weren’t going to kill anyone else, because it seems so insignificant in light of what actually happened.

Without this change, she doesn’t believe that Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair) and her friends would have finished the season united, and the group would have instead fractured. This and many other elements of the season changed because of his determination not to kill off these characters.

They probably wouldn’t have all ended up together, but that [choice] really motivated a lot of the choices we made this season.

Villain Thomas Godolkin (Ethan Slater) is killed by Marie in Generation V end of season 2. Doug (Hamish Linklater), the man Godolkin controlled throughout the season, is also killed by Black Noir II (Nathan Mitchell). However, none of the heroic main characters die in the finale.

Since Fazekas explains that his insistence on not killing anyone else drastically changed how the season ended, it appears that at least one major hero originally died in the episode. This would have caused the season to end on a darker note, even if the heroes had still managed to defeat Godolkin, and could have led to the core group fracturing.

Instead, Generation V season 2 ends on a largely optimistic note that sets up The boys season 5. After working with Polarity and many of their peers to stop Godolkin, Marie and her friends are now part of the larger resistance led by Annie January/Starlight (Erin Moriarty) who takes on Homelander (Antony Starr).

In addition to this hopeful setup for the franchise, the lack of heroic deaths leaves more room for heartfelt moments between characters. This includes Annabeth (Keeya King) choosing to stay with Marie and calling her sister a hero, as well as Polarity telling Emma Meyer (Lizze Broadway) that he will continue to live for Andre.

The boys the franchise can be incredibly violent and grotesque, and the Generation V the end of season 2 is no exception. At the same time, the finale and the season as a whole contain a lot of heart and optimism for a better future.