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Godolkin University
Character page for the setting of Gen V. For the characters from The Boys (2019), see here.
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In General
"What kind of super are you?''
The number one university for aspiring Superheroes.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Slightly. If only because God U's comic counterpart isn't even really a school, but a front for a cult that its founder, John Godolkin runs while sexually abusing and brainwashing all his "students".
- Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: As of now, God U isn't connected to the G-Men (who are confirmed to exist within the show's universe), despite the fact that G-Men and the comic version of the school are direct parodies of the X-Men and Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, respectively.
- Adapted Out:
- The namesake of the school, John Godolkin, is nowhere to be seen in the series.
- Godolkin University does not appear to have any connection to the G-Men, G-Wiz, or Pre-Wiz groups, who do not appear to exist in this series. The G-Men have been mentioned in The Boys proper, but seem to be worldbuilding elements more than anything.
- Answers to the Name of God: The most common abbreviation for the university in the series is "God U"; this may serve to reinforce the A God Am I attitude several older supes, namely Homelander, possess.
- Corrupted Character Copy: Downplayed - while Godolkin is a Superhero School like the Charles Xavier Institute from X-Men, and has plenty of dark secrets, the students and staff don't appear to be dog-kicking baby eaters or a paedophilic cult as they were in the comics, instead coming off as a university with issues exacerbated by the students having super powers.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: The education at God U is eerily similar to the Division I college sports programs that serve as the gateway to professional sports careers in the United States. The young supes are constantly pitted against each other, put under pressure and build up their brands on the side, all in the hopes of being one of the few to eventually get drafted into a superhero team. And just like in college sports, there's no shortage of scandals, from students getting killed or maimed to the university covering up the crimes of their stars.
- Dramatic Irony: The students of Godolkin are all working toward joining hero teams, unaware that Vought is creating adult-compatible Compound V that, if successful, will render them completely obsolete.
- Lighter and Softer: Even within the confines of the comic, Godolkin was infamous for being a cover for its founder to indulge in his paedophilic desires. Anything that isn't a one-to-one adaptation of the organization would be softer than what was featured in the comics.
Faculty
Indira Shetty
Indira Shetty
Portrayed by: Shelley Conn
Dean of Godolkin University.
- Asshole Victim: She's pretty much genocidal and put many young Supes, Cate and Sam included, through heavy abuse. The aforementioned Cate uses her powers to compel Shetty to off herself, with Sam's encouragement.
- Big Bad: Of Gen V, being responsible for everything going on in The Woods.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She treats Marie with sympathy and respect, but she personally oversees an experiment on Sam that was meant to potentially paralyze him, coerced Cate into mind wiping her friends' memories to stop them from investigating the Woods by convincing her that she's "protecting" them, and is overseeing the creation of a Supe-killing virus. She sees it as a credit to herself that God U had "barely any" suicides after Compound V was revealed to the world.
- Connected All Along: Her husband and child were killed in Flight 037.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
- Cares very much about her daughter and husband that died on Flight 37.
- Before Cate makes her kill herself, Shetty tells her that she loves her. Cate, who can hear everyone's thoughts even without trying to, says that she knows Shetty loves her. (Though she still makes her kill herself.) The fact that Cate hears everyone's thoughts and said that Shetty does love her seems to indicate that, for all her manipulations, Shetty did come to love Cate.
- Evil Principal: She has full knowledge of what goes on in The Woods, but outwardly presents herself as a decent person who tries to help Marie navigate Goldokin U's social climate.
- Fantastic Racism: All Supes, but her students are under her direct care and she has absolutely no qualms about having them mentally and physically tortured both in and out of The Woods as part of her plan to make a virus to exterminate all Supes.
- Final Solution: This is her ultimate goal for Supes. She wants to use the virus for genocide.
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Homelander caused the death of her daughter and husband, so now she wants to wipe out all Supes. Everyone who's aware of this and not in on the plot rejects that as a justification.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Luke killed himself because of the guilt he felt about his brother Sam being held captive by Shetty and her scientists. Cate eventually uses her Compelling Voice to make Shetty do exactly that — kill herself.
- Love Makes You Evil: Ultimately, the Flight 37 incident which caused the death of her daughter and husband led her to pursue a supe genocide.
- Mirror Character: She's pretty much the female version of Billy Butcher from the main show, as both display Fantastic Racism towards supes, and both have a Freudian Excuse where Homelander did something to their respective loved ones (In Billy's case, it's Homelander raping Becca, and in Shetty's case, it's her daughter and husband dying on Flight 37). Grace Mallory even made an implied comparison between her and Billy.
- Muggles: She's a normal human being who's in charge of a university full of supes.
- Non-Action Big Bad: Justified, given how she is just a Muggle.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Her daughter and husband died on Flight 37, leaving her with a deep hatred towards superhumans.
- Parental Substitute: She puts on the act of a concerned mother to gain the trust of kids who have a troubled relationship with their parents (or no parents at all), and uses it to control them. She nearly manages to pull this off with Marie, and successfully pulled this off with Cate.
- Slashed Throat: Cate makes her kill herself this way.
- Tragic Bigot: She wants to kill all Supes because Homelander, a Supe, was responsible for the death of her loved ones.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: While experimenting on innocent Supes for the purpose of creating a virus that could kill them all off is undoubtedly evil and paints her as a bigot towards Supes, her primary motivation for committing genocide against Supes is to ensure that they wouldn’t harm more innocent humans, since her husband and daughter were victims of Supe negligence.
Coach Brink
Richard “Brink” Brinkerhoff
Portrayed by: Clancy Brown
A renowned professor at Godolkin.
- Affectionate Nickname: Almost everyone calls him "Brink."
- Casting Gag: One of Clancy Brown's best-known roles as a voice actor is Lex Luthor in the DC Animated Universe; like Lex, Brinkerhoff is a wealthy Villain with Good Publicity and is considered a philanthropist, with the general public ignorant of what his actual involvement with superheroes is.
- Deadly Hug: Luke is hugging him as he's set on fire.
- Dead Star Walking: He's played by well known actor Clancy Brown and seems like he'll be a major character, only to be killed in the first episode by Luke.
- Early-Bird Cameo: First mentioned in The Boys, episode 5 of season 3, where Blue Hawk mentions that both he and A-Train were trained by Brink.
- Fictional Field of Science: He is apparently the world's expert on superhero studies, with three doctorates on the subject. We don't know what they entail exactly.
- The Mentor: Seems to have been this for Luke and Jordan; in the past, he's also acted as one to A-Train, Queen Maeve, and Blue Hawk.
- Pet the Dog: Zig-zagged. When the main characters discover that Brinkerhoff was in on the evil conspiracy, Jordan insists that he was good to them, giving them a prestigious position despite the controversy around them. The others insist that he was only friendly to Jordan while using them for his own purposes.
- Politically Correct Villain: For all of his faults, he does treat the bi-gender Jordan with far more respect than their parents, or any other member of Godolkin's board of trustees, do.
Polarity
Polarity
Portrayed by: Sean Patrick Thomas
Andre's father and a member of the board of trustees at Godolkin U.
- Cast from Hit Points: It's revealed that his and his son's superpowers gave them irreparable brain damage.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": He's referred to solely as "Polarity" by everyone else in the series, or "Dad" by Andre.
- Jerkass: He's a supe of Homelander's generation, so this is almost expected at this point. He dismisses Marie as a nobody whose blood powers make her a magnet for lawsuits and gets visibly angry when Andre reveals he knows about "the Woods".
- Magnetism Manipulation: His powers, hence his codename.
- Power Incontinence: During his interview with Cam Coleman, he suddenly loses control of his powers and destroys the set.
Student Body
Marie Moreau
Marie Moreau
Portrayed by: Jaz Sinclair, Jaeda LaBlanc (young)
A freshman with the ability to control blood who aspires to be the first black woman in the Seven. She accidentally killed her parents when her powers awakened during her first period, leaving her sister, Annabeth, the only survivor. She hopes to attain fame as a Supe in the Seven in order to reconnect with Annabeth.
- Accidental Murder: Marie accidentally killed her parents when her powers awakened and went out of her control.
- Alliterative Name: Marie Moreau.
- Ambiguously Bi: The "ambiguous" part causes Jordan to push her away after they sleep together for the first time and wake up with Jordan in their female form. For her part, Marie never says out loud what her sexuality is, but it quickly becomes clear that she is attracted to Jordan both in their male form and their female form.
- Anonymous Benefactor: Shetty reveals that someone outside of God U is sponsoring Marie, and apparently they have enough influence that Shetty is comfortable vetoing Cardosa's request to experiment on her. The benefactor is later revealed to be Victoria Neuman.
- Atrocious Alias: Andre tries giving her two different ones after they meet, "Bloody Marie" and "Coagula". She rejects both of them.note
- Bad Powers, Good People: Bloody Murder is generally not a power associated with heroic characters, but Marie has a similar attitude to Annie/Starlight from the original show, believing that she can do good despite the inherent awfulness of Supe society.
- Beauty Is Best: Indira cites to Ashley that one of the reasons Marie became one of the most popular supes at Godolkin in a shot time, is because people find her beautiful, making in clear that her attractiveness is one of her most valued attributes.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Jordan. It gets resolved in episode 4.
- Bloody Murder: She can manipulate blood; most commonly, she uses her own blood as a weapon, but she can control other people's blood as well.
- Commonality Connection:
- With Cate, as both her and Cate lost close family members of theirs when they awakened to their powers for the first time.
- With Victoria Neuman, as they have the same powerset, they killed their parents in accidents related to the use of their powers, and ended up being sent to the Red River Institute.
- Contrasting Sequel Main Character: If we treat this as a sequel to The Boys:
- In contrast to Hughie Campbell: like Hughie, the catalyst for her life was a tragedy caused by superpowers. However, she's a Supe herself who became a Self-Made Orphan, and is gradually realizing just how vapid and corrupt Supes as a whole are, vs. Hughie having his eyes opened all at once by Robin's death.
- In contrast to Annie January/Starlight: Annie at least grew up with her mother, and thanks to her powers and appearance making her incredibly marketable, she was able to join the Seven without ever enrolling in Godolkin U. Because Marie is black, was raised in the Red River Institute, and has powers that would more likely be attributed to a supervillain than a hero found on the Seven, she has to work her ass off to even get a chance at joining.
- Dark Secret: Marie doesn't like letting people at Godolkin know that she killed her parents and is estranged from her sister because of it. She fabricates having a brother after a slip of the tongue to Emma, and Shetty outright tells her to lie about having parents who are still alive in order to score herself an agent. Her opening up to Cate about this in Episode 3 allows them to commiserate over shared trauma.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Marie made her first appearance on The Boys, episode 2 of Season 3, in a photo, being advertised as available for adoption.
- Foil:
- Overlapping with Good Counterpart, Marie is shaping up to one to Victoria Neuman. Both have blood bending powers, both grew up in Red River and both have trauma related to killing their parents with their powers. The difference becomes clear in their first meeting and when one views their actions over their appearances. While Marie stays resolute in her desire to help others, rejects Vought and using the system for self-gain after seeing how broken it is, and refuses to use her powers to kill. Neuman has only ever used hers for her own self-interest first and foremost and during their first meeting advises Marie to do the same to the latter’s disgust.
- To Cate. For starters, they lost at least one closed loved one of theirs when they awaken to their superpowers, as Marie killed her parents while Cate's brother disappeared, and wasn't found since then. Their powers also have something to do with the human body, as while Marie can control blood, Cate can control minds. By the Season One finale, Marie ends up becoming a Good Counterpart to Cate as well, as despite them having similar circumstances, Marie ends up not going through a Face–Heel Turn because of her upbringing like Cate did.
- Foreshadowing: In a moment of fright, she makes Rufus's penis cock-splode when he's about to rape her, despite never having shown the capacity of use her blood powers to that degree. It makes sense when you consider she and Victoria Neuman share the same powers.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: Marie has a nasty scar on her left palm that she's repeatedly opened due to her Self-Harm–Induced Superpower; its harsh red coloring codes it as evil, but it's more meant to illustrate how Marie sees herself as a monster for her role in her parent's deaths.
- Grass is Greener: After accidentally killing her parents as a child, Marie lived several years at the Red River Institute with other abandoned Supes. In episode 1, she is desperate to get admitted to Godolkin University, believing anything is better than the orphanage, and for a while it is how she believes it. She manages to enter the top 10 in the student rankings, gets promoted and makes friends with unexpected people, until reality hits her hard in the face and realizes Godolkin is a Crapsaccharine place. By episode 6 already, she comes to see that Godolkin is not different from the place she grew up in.
- Hopeless with Tech: Zig-Zagged. A major disadvantage Marie has at the start of the series is a complete lack of social media presence, due to her growing up in the Red River Institute, where she had to schedule access to a basic desktop computer. She doesn't even have a phone until the Godolkin U's social media manager gives her one. She had a phone as a kid, but doesn't know how to play the clout "game" that is necessary to get a presence among young supes.
- Lovecraftian Superpower: She can create weapons from her own blood.
- Menstrual Menace: Oh boy, if you thought your first period was bad, you’ve got nothing on Marie Moreau. She found out she could weaponize blood when she had her first period, and accidentally killed her parents with it.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: If she and Andre had just stood by and let Sam escape, it's likely that Luke would still be alive.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: When Andre accidentally cuts a woman’s throat at a night club, causing her to bleed out, Marie uses her powers to save her while Andre and the others bail. Brink decides to expel her as she was caught on camera to cover for Andre. Fortunately, Brink's subsequent death at the hands of Golden Boy prevents this from going through.
- Puberty Superpower: Her blood powers manifested with her first period at age twelve. It is implied that most Supes get them earlier.
- Power Misidentification: Initially, it's assumed that Marie's control over blood is confined to blood that's exited a body, like from a wound for example. However, it's gradually reveled that she is able to control all blood, and that her abilities are an undeveloped version of Victoria Neuman's "head-popping" power.
- Red Is Heroic: She is styled for her appearance on a TV interview in a scarlet pantsuit. Later, she wears a red ball gown to the Brink memorial.
- Searching for the Lost Relative: Marie's main motivation for joining the Seven is to be able to reconnect with her sister, Annabeth, the last surviving member of her family.
- Self-Made Orphan: She accidentally killed both her parents when her powers first manifested.
- Superpower Lottery: While her ability seems rather specific at first glance, Cardosa refers to Marie as one of the potentionally most powerful supes ever created, which gets apparent the more she explores the full extent of her bloodbending over the season. She starts out being able to merely use her own blood as a whip or projectile, but over the events at God U she discovers that she can manipulate blood in both combative and healing natures:
- She can reverse or slow massive blood loss in wounded bystanders.
- Much like Victoria Neuman, she can also explode body parts.
- She can detect anomalies and foreign bodies inside other people's blood.
- If she feels she has to, she can even kill living people, even fellow Supes, in a similar manner to cardiac arrest. This potentially makes her the most potent stealth killer in the show's universe, given how common heart attacks are.
- She adds arrows to her blood-weapon arsenal, raining swarms of them on an opponent.
- To Be a Master: She wants to be the number one hero at Godolkin so she can be the first black female in the Seven.
- Traumatic Superpower Awakening: When her blood powers first manifested, she was having her first period and lost control over them, which accidentally killed both of her parents.
Emma Meyer
Emma Meyer / Little Cricket
Portrayed by: Lizze Broadway
Marie's roommate, a sizeshifter.
- Always Second Best: She is well aware that her power isn't useful for crimefighting and that the best she can use it for is to make funny videos, and that she isn't particularly popular in school. This leads her to hook up with a random guy and even perform an act she didn't feel comfortable doing just to feel wanted.
- Broken Bird: Emma at first is a Lovable Sex Maniac, but as the episodes continue, she reveals Hidden Depths as a traumatized, scared, and complex hero, with an emotionally abusive mother.
- Butt-Monkey: In the first two episodes she is used for sex and discarded and then humiliated when a classmate exposes the method of accessing her superpower on social media.
- Cast from Calories: If dialog from Emma's mother is to be believed, her height is directly proportional to how much she consumes; she has to purge herself in order to shrink, but to return to normal size, she has to eat. She can also grow larger by gorging herself.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?:
- Emma's shrinking ability involves vomiting to make herself smaller. She has to force it herself rather than it happening automatically, strongly evoking bulimia. However, Emma herself repeatedly insists that it is nothing like bulimia.
- A Noodle Incident at Buster Beaver's led to Emma discovering she can also increase in size by gorging. Her mother called her a monster and made her swear never to do it again. This is reminiscent of the stigma against women who are perceived as Big Eaters.
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Emma may have gone through a lot of bad shit, but she really, really hates being pitied.
- Embarrassing Superpower: Her size changing abilities are triggered by actions that are identical to an eating disorder.
- Establishing Character Moment: Emma is introduced as she's about to put on a boxing match with her pet gerbil for the sake of her livestream; immediately after returning to normal size, she's quick to offer Marie a variety of intoxicants.
- Lethal Harmless Powers: In "#ThinkBrink" her shrinking ability proves lethal to a guard at the Woods when she goes into one ear and out the other.
- Morality Chain: Becomes this for Sam.
- Nice Girl: She’s incredibly sweet and welcomes Marie with open arms, even offering her clothes to wear at social outings. Her kindness unfortunately leads to her being mistreated by others.
- Power Incontinence: Her size is directly proportional to her calorie intake; this means that if she gets too small, she becomes too weak to move from starvation. Her purging constantly to use her power is also causing her to lose the enamel on her teeth. Though, after a fight with Sam, she shrinks without having to purge, hinting that there's some kind of emotional component to her power she hasn't discovered yet.
- Power Perversion Potential: In the pilot Emma shrinks herself into a minuscule size at her partner's request to slide up and down his penis, as he has a fetish for this.
- Sad Clown: She acts peppy and goofy a good deal of the time, but it's meant to mask her immense social anxiety and inferiority complex.
- Sizeshifter: She has the ability to shrink, but unlike Termite's similar power hers comes with a complication: she has to force herself to vomit in order to reduce mass before she can change. However if she gorges on food she can get considerably bigger, enough to subdue Sam.
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: She feels as if she's useless at fighting crime "at the size of a pickle", an attitude not helped by comments on her YouTube channel saying much of the same. Except that then she kills a security guard by going through his ear and brain and then reveals that she can become huge if she gorges on food.
Cate Dunlap
Cate Dunlap
Portrayed by: Maddie Phillips, Violet Marino (young)
A young woman with a Compelling Voice, and Golden Boy's girlfriend.
- Abusive Parents: Her parents injected her with Compound V and when her powers manifested she accidentally caused her brother to go missing. Her mother blamed her and kept her locked away in her room for nine years, treating her like a monster. This leaves Cate ripe for manipulation by Indira Shetty.
- Accidental Murder: She inadvertently killed her little brother as a girl when he'd been annoying her by telling him to go into the woods and never come back. This happened to be the moment her Compelling Voice manifested, and so he did. He was never found.
- Anti-Villain: Cate has been a member of the conspiracy the whole time, though she was manipulated into participating and doesn't understand its full goals until later. Even when she goes genocidal on humans, she insists that she's trying to help her friends and fellow supes.
- An Arm and a Leg: Marie makes her arm explode when she tries to push Jordan.
- Bad Powers, Bad People: Zig-zagged. Cate has mind control powers, which is a common evil power, but seems to a pretty upstanding and sympathetic member of our heroes. Then it's revealed that she's been in an on the conspiracy, making her a villain, though she's ultimately an Anti-Villain.
- Beware the Nice Ones: She is generally a nice person, but piss her off, and the results can be unpleasant.
- When she hears Rufus making fun of her boyfriend's death in "God U.", she directs him (without raising her voice) to go buy himself a baseball bat, and hit himself in the testicles with it every hour on the hour.
- Later in "First Day", when rescuing Andre when he gets caught by a security guard, she compels the guard to perform oral sex on his partner's flashlight, and orders him to put it up his ass afterward (which isn't shown onscreen).
- In "Sick", she murders Shetty by compelling her to slit her own throat after getting her to divulge all the details of her plot to commit Supe genocide.
- Cast from Hit Points: Overusing her powers have dire consequences on her brain with seizures and potential aneurysms.
- Commonality Connection: With Marie, as both her and Marie lost close family members of theirs when they awakened to their powers for the first time.
- Compelling Voice: She can do this provided she can make physical contact with the person.
- Dragon Ascendant: She ends up murdering Shetty through forced suicide in episode 7, quickly taking the role as Big Bad by the end of the first season.
- Foil: To Marie. For starters, they lost at least one closed loved one of theirs when they awaken to their superpowers, as Marie killed her parents while Cate's brother disappeared, and wasn't found since then. Their powers also have something to do with the human body, as while Marie can control blood, Cate can control minds. By the Season One finale, Cate ends up becoming an Evil Counterpart to Marie, as despite them having similar circumstances, Marie ends up not going through a Face–Heel Turn because of her upbringing, while Cate did.
- Finding Judas: In Episode 5, the main characters suspect Rufus of using his psychic powers to wipe the main their memories after discovering the truth about the Woods and Sam. They are convinced he is working with Dean Shetty to keep them from discovering the truth only to learn from Sam that it was Cate all along. It is revealed she was working with Dean Shetty from the very beginning. Her reasons are sympathetic enough, as she believed she truly was doing the right thing, and was herself manipulated by Shetty.
- Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex: After she saves Andre from campus security and spends some time passed out due to her Power Incontinence, she and Andre have sex.
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: At first, Cate was actually working with Shetty, but it was made clear that she was actually a Regretful Traitor, and ultimately decides to help the heroes to take down Shetty for good. However, after she kills Shetty, she then pulls a Face–Heel Turn, and starts a school riot with Sam along with the other supes within The Woods.
- High-Class Gloves: She wears stylish leather gloves so that she doesn't accidentally affect people with her Compelling Voice.
- Imaginary Friend: Due to being locked in her room from when she was 9 until she was 18, she created a version of Soldier Boy to be her imaginary friend and boyfriend.
- Memory-Wiping Crew: She's capable of erasing chunks of other people's memories piecemeal, with Shetty and Brink having her repeatedly wipe Luke's memories so he doesn't know about what's going on with his brother. She also wipes the rest of her friends' memories in "Welcome to the Monster Club" at Shetty's request following a confrontation with Sam at Dr. Cardosa's house, though she reverses the memory wipe after her friends figure out what happened.
- Mirror Character: She grows into a somewhat similar role to Homelander by the end of Season one, if as a sympathetic anti-villain opposite to a sociopath with zero moral qualms. Cate herself is the resident blue-eyed platinum blond supe with a Story-Breaker Power, was kept closed in her own room for 9 years and abused by both her parents and Shetty, not different from how Homelander was kept in the dark room and abused his whole childhood. She grows to seriously resent humanity for the abuse she suffered, served as The Dragon to Indira, only to kill her surrogate mother for lying to her, similar to why Homelander kills Madelyn.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Gradually begins to resent non-powered individuals due to the abuse she suffered at the hands of Shetty or her parents. This culminates on the finale, where she justifies and leads a riot against innocent non-Supes.
- Poster-Gallery Bedroom: Cate's parents kept her isolated for years in a beautiful bedroom with girly decorations, posters of the Seven... and a blast door so she could not get out.
- Power Incontinence: Needs to wear gloves to keep her hypnotic powers in check. It's later revealed she also takes medication to dull her mind reading abilities too.
- Regretful Traitor: Shetty is pressing her to erase her friends' memories to keep them from looking too deeply into the Woods. It's obvious that Cate hates doing it but has been convinced by Shetty that she's "helping" them. She eventually chooses to confess to being the traitor and restore their memories.
- Shadow Archetype: To Marie. Both of them caused family members to either die or disappear due to their Traumatic Superpower Awakening, and the family members that still remained alive and well wanted nothing to do with them. Cate represents if Marie were to lash-out, and develop a hatred for non-supes due to her upbringing.
- Stronger Than They Look: She initially only seems to possess touch-based hypnotic powers, but "Jumanji" reveals she is actually a much more powerful telepath who not only can read thoughts, but even traps everyone (even Dusty) inside her mind.
- Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Cate's parents never touched her again after she told her little brother in annoyance to go into the woods and never come back, unaware this would be the moment her Compelling Voice manifested itself. Caleb did just that, with them never finding him afterward.
- Two-Timing with the Bestie: Turns out she was sleeping with Andre long before Luke died. It’s unclear if Luke actually knew as his dying words were telling Andre how much he loved him.
- Villain with Good Publicity: Her status in the finale. Despite leading a riot that killed dozens of humans, Vought covers her by claiming it was her who stopped the evil rampage Marie, Andre, Emma and Jordan caused.
Andre Anderson
Andre Anderson
Portrayed by: Chance Perdomo
A high-ranking supe with Magnetism Manipulation powers, and the son of the metal-controlling supe Polarity.
- Alliterative Name: Andre Anderson.
- Ambiguously Bi: He never describes himself as bi, but he mentions in the first episode having a crush on A-Train from when he was younger, and he seems to show interest in both men and women.
- Ambiguous Situation: Andre has the same powerset as his father, but it's not clear if it's because he got dosed with Compound V as an infant and they just happened to share a powerset because of genetics or luck, or if Andre is a "natural-born Supe" like Homelander's son Ryan.
- Black and Nerdy: Downplayed; he doesn't display stereotypical nerd interests that we've seen so far, but his ability to be a Technopath allows him to fulfill the role of the Playful Hacker in the story.
- Boring, but Practical: He has magnetic powers aren't as show-offy as blood manipulation or a Compelling Voice, but they can be used from a distance, are both useful offensively and in non combat situations and allows for limited technopathy, which are far safer than a Compelling Voice that requires physical contact, less harmful than blood manipulation and more useful than sizeshifting. Subverted when it's revealed his powers are giving him brain damage.
- Cast from Hit Points: Just like with his father, repeated usage of his powers will result in brain hemorrages.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Luke/Golden Boy. Though subtext implies that the only reason it didn't go beyond this was that Luke was dating Cate.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Andre has his rough edges and questionable decisions, but he has a good heart and genuinely wants to do what's right.
- Legacy Character: His father hopes to one day pass on the name "Polarity" to his son. Andre seems less enthusiastic about living in his father’s shadow.
- Magnetism Manipulation: He can control magnetism, which he inherited from his father.
- Super-Strength: Downplayed. Whilst not to the extent of Sam, Luke or even Jordan, Andre's file mentions he can bench 200 pounds which whilst not beyond human capacity, is still incredibly strong for someone of Andre's size and build, who doesn't exercise regularly or take part in weight training. Andre likewise shows that he's able to effortlessly restrain ordinary people and choke Rufus with one hand.
- Super-Toughness: Whilst the overall limits are presently unclear, Andre possesses enhanced durability. Whilst disabling and painful, he can take blows from Sam that would flat-out kill ordinary human beings, without causing any permanent damage. His father flat-out tells him “...we’re made of steel.”
- Technopath: His Magnetism Manipulation makes him a borderline case of one, since he can use it to override magnetic locks and even fingerprint readers.
- Two-Timing with the Bestie: Episode 6 reveals that Andre was sleeping with Cate long before Luke died. It’s also unclear if Luke actually knew as his dying words were telling Andre how much he loved him.
Jordan Li
Jordan Li
Portrayed by: Derek Luh (male form), London Thor (female form)
A gender-shifter. Ranked #2 at Godolkin University at the start of the series, they serve as Brink's T.A. and are fiercely loyal to them.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Marie. It gets resolved in episode 4.
- Boring, but Practical: Their powers are pretty generic compared to their friends': Super-Strength, invulnerability, Super-Reflexes, Super-Senses and shooting energy from their hands, but they're reliable, easy to use, don't have any drawbacks, offer melee and close quarters options and go hand in hand with Li's martial arts training. This is best exemplified during Golden Boy's meltdown, where they are the one who manages to hold Luke for a while, and the attack at Dr. Cardosa's house, where while Andre is incapacitated pretty quickly, Cate can't get close enough, Marie can just slow him down and Emma needs to sneak away to be able to grow in size and only stops Sam because of his feelings, Jordan is able to last longer in direct combat.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: Jordan resents Marie for taking the credit for stopping Golden Boy's rampage, when Jordan is the one that does all the fighting. They also tend to be ignored and overlooked by Vought's marketing team and talent scouts due to the fact their gender makes them unviable in more conservative areas despite having an actually useful powerset.
- Easy Sex Change: Justified. Jordan is bigender and they can switch between their male and female forms in the blink of an eye, thanks to their superpowers.
- Guile Hero: Whilst highly capable in a fight, Jordan is likewise very cunning and adaptable. Requiring a distraction to allow Marie to talk to Victoria Neuman in episode 7, Jordan starts a brawl that escalates into multiple students fighting, then casually slips away unseen when security arrives to break it up.
- Good Is Not Nice: They're sulky and abrasive, but a decidedly good and heroic person.
- Hand Blast: Their female form can project blasts of energy from the palm of their hands. Jordan can control the intensity of these blasts, ranging from using them to simply stun and disorientate individuals, to at full intensity flat-out kill opponents and send the likes of Luke and Sam flying backwards quite a distance.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: Whilst working as Brink’s assistant and in their first meeting with Marie, Jordan comes across as aloof, apathetic, and overall smug towards her. However, throughout the rest of the season, it revealed that this is merely a front they project, and Jordan truthfully possesses multiple deep-seated insecurities, relating in large part to their struggles of getting people to accept and respect their bi-gender status and fears that people only want one side of them. As well as being very aware of the fact that despite how hard they work and train, and how useful their powers are overall, their gender identity along with their race and sexuality severely limit their chances of ranking high in Vought’s system due to not marketing well in more the conservative areas.
- Immune to Drugs: Justified as their enhanced durability and resilience also applies to narcotics and alcohol. During the party at the club, Jordan ingests large amounts of cocaine and molly, along with several drinks, yet comes across only somewhat high. They likewise don’t seem to have any issues with developing addictions, treating the affair as simply relaxing on a night out.
- Insecure Love Interest: They aren't sure if Marie likes their female form, in addition to their male form. (There's ample evidence she does, though.) As they confided in Maverick, at least one previous partner had been unable to accept them in both their forms, with them fearing Marie would be the same. It is heavily implied these lingering insecurities are the reason for their previous preference for casual sex.
- Lightning Bruiser: In contrast to their male form, Jordan’s female form possesses enhanced speed, agility, and reflexes, to the point of being able to casually dodge attacks even from other supes. Likewise, they still possess superhuman strength and durability (though less than their male form) meaning their own blows land with the force capable of causing Golden Boy to stagger.
- Logical Weakness:
- Whilst still superhumanly durable, only Jordan’s male form is invulnerable. As such any damage they take whilst female will carry over to their male form. Accumulating too much will overwhelm them.
- Whilst Jordan’s male form is invulnerable to damage, it does nothing to protect them from strangulation or suffocation as they still need to breathe. At the end of their fight with Luke, when too weakened to break free, Luke nearly manages to choke them to death.
- Long Hair Is Feminine: Jordan Li's female form has longer hair than their male form. It's downplayed though since this is only slightly longer and not in a very feminine style.
- Magic Pants: Jordan's clothes also change with them when they switch sexes.
- Mighty Glacier: In contrast to their female form, Jordan’s male form is invulnerable and even stronger. However, they are overall slow and inflexible (at least compared to their female form), making the form great for defence but not so effective in offence save at close range.
- Multiple Demographic Appeal: They drop in rankings after Golden Boy's death specifically because they don't have this, with multiple people saying that a bigender Asian individual wouldn't test well in Texan and Floridian markets.
- Nigh-Invulnerable: Their male form exhibits this, being bulletproof and resisting the attacks of Golden Boy and Sam.
- Required Secondary Powers: Jordan’s invulnerability manifests in them flat out absorbing any physical force used against them, rending them next to immovable to attacks. Bullets harmlessly drop to the floor, and even direct blows from Golden Boy or Sam are unable to knock them down.
- Sex Shifter: They can shift between male and female forms which have different powers. This is also tied to their identity as they're bigender.
- Stance System: Very rare non-video game example. Jordan's male form is stronger and has Super-Toughness, while their female form is faster and has Hand Blasts.
- Super-Strength: In both forms, Jordan possesses superhuman strength (although their male form is stronger). Capable of casually breaking through locked doors, breaking bones, and even landing blows that cause Golden Boy to stagger. Notably during the campus brawl, it took two other Supes and constant eye blasts from a third to hold them down, and Jordan was able to unintentionally strangle another Supe without even realising they had done so.
- Super-Toughness: Whilst not flat-out invulnerable like their male form, Jordan’s female form is still incredibly durable. During their fight, Golden Boy threw them into a concrete pillar with enough force to cause the pillar to crack and it still only left them stunned. Likewise, being hit by the full intensity of another Supe’s eye beam that incinerates ordinary people on contact only caused them pain with no noticeable damage.
- Teacher's Pet: They are Brink's teacher's assistant, and it's shown that Brink greatly cares for them and helped shield Jordan from the marketing problems their gender usually causes with Vought's practices, and he's even willing to throw Marie under the bus to protect them. It's telling that barely a day after Brink's death Jordan gets immediately dropped from Rank 2 to Rank 5 and suddenly dropped hard by Vought's marketing people due to how inviable they are with middle America. It's revealed in "Jumanji" that he offered them the position as a bribe in exchange for their silence about Golden Boy's mental state.
- Testosterone Poisoning: Jordan wants to embrace their gender, which is both female and male. However, they clearly struggle with some internalized toxic masculinity. They seem to think that being seen as a man will make others take them more seriously (which probably isn't wrong — Brink certainly treats them more seriously when they're in male form). Marie even calls them out for this in Episode 7, telling them they should stop "turning into a dude whenever you wanna make a point to us."
- Trans Relationship Troubles: They tried to change themself for their ex-girlfriend Jenny, who wanted them to present as a guy all the time. This is also why they initially try to suppress their feelings for Marie, assuming that she wants only one part of them (the guy side), not all of them.
- Trans Tribulations: Their parents are Heteronormative Crusaders who think that they only take on their female form (which they prefer Jordan did not use as Jordan was originally assigned male at birth) in order to piss them off. What's more, their gender has caused Vought (who owns Godolkin U) to brand them as basically unmarketable to "middle America", meaning their chances of ever becoming anything higher than a D-lister are slim.
- Tsundere: Is initially very dismissive and snarky toward Marie, with her returning the favour after being snubbed. They eventually fall for one another.
- Twofer Token Minority: When a scandal rocks Godolkin University, Vought hesitates to spotlight Jordan even though they were the real hero of the hour because being both East Asian and bigender makes them a hard sell to middle America. Vought instead pushes Andre and Marie (who are black), although they did little more than stand by, because they're considered more palatable and will score points with the NAACP.
- Weak, but Skilled: Downplayed. Jordan’s powers are reasonably impressive and well-rounded, however, they come across as decidedly mid-tier especially compared to the feats Luke, Marie, Clare, Sam, and Andre are capable of. However, Jordan’s main advantage is that unlike the others (and most Supes in general) they’re both highly trained in hand-to-hand combat and highly skilled in properly utilizing their powers to their full potential, with them expertly shifting forms in rapid sequence to use both power sets at their most advantageous. Thus, making them one of the most physically capable members of the main cast.
- What You Are in the Dark: Despite showing an intense dislike of Marie in the first episode, they still become very protective of her when Luke goes on his grief-induced rampage, telling her to run and taking over the fight.
- Work Hard, Play Hard: When it comes to their schooling Jordan is studious and dedicated to the point of near obsession. However, when they are off the clock they utterly love to party, as demonstrated whilst relaxing at the club to the point of casually consuming large amounts of cocaine and molly to unwind.
Luke Riordan
Luke Riordan / Golden Boy
Portrayed by: Patrick Schwarzenegger
A pyrokinetic, and the top-ranked student on campus when the series starts.
- The Ace: Was Number One Ranking at Godolkin and a straight guarantee for the Seven.
- All-Loving Hero: He seems to have been a genuinely good person and caring among supes, which is definitely a rarity among their vapid, fame-hungry community. He doesn't even blame his parents for injecting him and Sam with Compound V, the revelation of which drove some Supes to suicide.
- Ambiguously Bi: Cate mentions a drawer of dildos got removed from his room, and he says he loves both Cate and Andre.
- Ambiguous Situation: It's not made clear if he knew about Cate cheating on him with Andre, though his reaction before he killed himself may indicate that he had no idea. His appearance inside Cate's mind seemed to have been more of a representation of her guilt about it.
- Broken Ace: He was pretty good-looking, popular with his peers and set up to join the Seven. However, as the series progresses it's revealed he had some serious issues and was especially concerned about the wellbeing of his brother Sam before learning of his suicide (which was a lie).
- Driven to Suicide: After finding out the dark secrets about Godolkin, he has a serious breakdown, kills Brink and almost goes on a rampage before Andre calms him down enough to realize what he’s done. He then flies up into the air and blows himself up.
- Establishing Character Moment: His fight with a much larger opponent in the stadium shows that he's both powerful and popular; sure, he rips off his opponent's arms to end the fight, but he knew his opponent had a Healing Factor that allowed his limbs to be reattached.
- Flying Brick: He can fly and has super strength and durability.
- Flying Fire Power: He can do this, although it's less of a Superman-style and more akin to a rocket.
- Inadequate Inheritor: He's being groomed into becoming the eventual replacement of the now unstable and highly controversial Homelander. As a human being, he's inarguably a better person, but he doesn't appear to have quite the same diverse range of powers, let alone powers on the same level as Homelander's. Then he goes off the rails, ends up publicly killing himself and gets written off as yet another rising star who didn't get to live up to his potential.
- Lovable Jock: While he's a supe and the "big man on campus" as it were, he's most definitely not Jerkass and manages to be the first character that Marie opens up to about her parents being dead.
- Mr. Fanservice: Aside from the obvious, he is this also In-Universe, since his powers cause him to show a massive amount of skin every time he activates them. Brink even jokes about this when he reveals that Vought is making a suit that can handle his pyrokinesis.Brink: No more showing your balls to America.
- The Nudifier: He burns his clothes off every time he uses his powers. An expensive unburnable suit was being worked on as part of his admission into The Seven.
- Playing with Fire: He could turn into a flaming form similar to the Human Torch.
- Plot-Triggering Death: His death in the first episode kicks off the plot of the rest of the series.
- Posthumous Character: More continues to be learned about him, what he had learned, and what he was like after his demise.
- Required Secondary Powers: Downplayed. Of course he is immune to his own flames, but his clothes are not.
- Super-Strength: He was strong enough to tear The Incredible Steve's arms off.
- Tranquil Fury: How Luke acts when he confronts Brink, completely ignoring a comment Jordan makes about having a cocaine hangover.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: As a consequence of his powers, a lot of shots of Luke are nude from the waist up, showing off Schwarzenegger's physique.
Rufus
Rufus
Portrayed by: Alexander Calvert
A sleazy student from Godolkin University with psychic powers.
- Asshole Victim: It's hard to feel sorry for him when he is cracking insensitive jokes at best and raping women at worst.
- Bad Powers, Bad People: He has mind control powers, but unlike Cate, he's an all-around horrible person.
- Butt-Monkey: Almost every time he appears on screen something bad happens to him.
- The Corrupter: He introduces an impressionable Sam to Super Supremacist rhetoric.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?:
- Him using his powers to try raping Marie is pretty reminiscent of a date rape, with her blacking out and waking up confused with him exposing himself.
- He wears a red-and-white baseball cap that looks suspiciously like a MAGA cap while leading the chant of a slogan only slightly modified from the infamous Unite the Right chants of white supremacists.
- Fantastic Racism: Believes that Supes can do whatever they want, and humans are trying to oppress them.
- Groin Attack: Is on the receiving end of one, twice, once by Cate (who forces him to do it to himself) and once by Marie who makes his penis explode after he tries to rape her.
- Hate Sink: He’s not the main villain of the story but he’s a serial rapist who speaks ill of people who committed suicide and is in general a manipulative coward.
- Power Perversion Potential: Rufus uses his power to induce Laser-Guided Amnesia in an attempt to rape Marie, and he has done this to other students.
- Psychometry: One of his powers.
- Punny Name: An incredibly dark example; Jordan calls him "walking Rufenal", which is a pun on the date rape drug Rohypnol.
- Rape as Drama: He uses his psychic powers to control women to have sex with him.
- Red Herring: We're initially led to believe he is working with Indira to wipe the group's memories, partly as revenge for Marie blowing up his cock, but when confronted on it, says it couldn't have been him because his powers only work when he is near people. Cate is actually The Mole.
- Serial Rapist: He nearly raped Marie, and it's revealed he'd raped Cate in the past, while it's likely they're far from the only ones.
Justine Garcia
Justine
Portrayed by: Maia Jae Bastidas
- Alpha Bitch: She's a popular girl who uses her influence to tear down other women and draw clout off them.
- Bad Influencer: Boy is she. She will use anyone for social media clout, even if it means humiliating them by exposing their embarrassing secrets.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She is initially very friendly and tries to help Emma towards gaining more self-confidence... and then casually betrays her by revealing to everyone her powers force her to behave like a bullimic.
- Good Thing You Can Heal: She has a healing factor, which is revealed when Jordan cold clocks her with super strength breaking her jaw. She shakes it off and heals, giving Jordan a bitchy look.
- Hypocrite: In her video exposing Cricket's secret she tries to paint herself as against the insane body standards that society puts on women... While doing it entirely to gain Clout, all the while betraying a secret her friend had told her and causing Emma even more body issues,
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: She seems to have a nicer side when she tries to apologize to Emma for publicly revealing how she has to purge herself to use her shrinking powers, but then Emma notices Justine has her friend Harper recording the whole apology, and walks away, realizing that Justine's simply apologizing for the sake of social media clout and to make herself look good.
- Skewed Priorities: While she is scared of the superhuman riot happening on campus, she really loses her mind when the wifi dies.
- Typecasting: She complains about it with Emma, citing she tended to get saddled with the role of Ms. Fanservice who ends up killing the father.
Harper
Portrayed by: Jessica Clemont
A student at Godolkin and friend/wingwoman of Justine's.- Beta Bitch: She’s Justine’s right hand.
- * Fetish Retardant: In-universe, she considers fellating her own tail for Internet views pretty disgusting, but Justine claims it's sexy.
- Prehensile Tail: She has a long rodent like tail that she can move at will.
- Skewed Priorities: Just like Justine, she's more horrified of the wifi dying than the bloody riots outside campus.
Maverick
Maverick
Portrayed by: Nicholas Hamilton (voice only), Curtis Legault (naked form) (Gen V) / Charles Altow (The Boys)
Translucent's son, who serves as an R.A. at Godolkin.
- Ascended Extra: Was only very briefly seen during The Boys but here he is a minor recurring character.
- Bestiality Is Depraved: Maybe? He is seen being dragged by an alpaca simply refered to as Sloane, and exchanges some ambiguously flirty banter with it. Is he dating the alpaca? Or is he dating a shapeshifter who has a fixation on turning on an alpaca? Alternatively, he is dating a shapeshifter specifically so they can satisfy his fetish for alpacas.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Gives some very helpful personal advice to Jordan and seems to be a well-liked RA in general, despite being a perverted nudist.
- Casual Kink: At Dusty's, an alpaca is seen leading him by a dog leash. The only reaction this gets is a casual "Hey, Sloane" from Andre. Later, Maverick casually reveals to Jordan that he uses his invisibility power to spy others at the showers (men AND women). Then he warns Jordan not to kink shame him.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Most of the time he is harmless, and is content with creepily wanking on the locker rooms, but during the final battle he almost defeats Marie in a scene meant to paralel the Translucent vs. Butcher fight from all the way back to The Boys season one.
- Depraved Bisexual: Admits to peeping on both men and women. Also seen fooling around with an alpaca.
- Extreme Omnisexual: Episode 5 reveals that he spies on both women and men in the showers. And he is dating someone who's taken the form of an alpaca. Assuming of course that Sloane is a shapeshifter and not an actual alpaca...
- Invisible Streaker: Wears nothing but his hat and glasses most of the time, shedding them to go undetected.
- Power Perversion Potential: Just like his father.
- Superpowerful Genetics: Like his father, he can turn invisible.
- Super-Toughness: Averted, as the final battle shows he didn't inherit his father's invulnerable skin.
Incredible Steve
Steve
Portrayed by: Warren Scherer
- Good Thing You Can Heal: To demonstrate how skilled and powerful Golden Boy is, Steve has his arms ripped off by the schools ace during a match. Luckily the can reattach, which Golden Boy helps him do.
- Groin Attack: Downplayed and zig-zagged. he description for one of the episodes claims someone stole his penis, and he is looking to retrieve it, but he obviously can reatatch it and seems more annoyed than anything.
- Scary Black Man: Subverted. He’s a large imposing man but after the match he's shown to be on good terms with his opponent.
Steve
Steve
Portrayed by: Adrian Pavone
- An Ice Person: Has control over ice which he usually uses to create ice slides in the dorm halls for parties.
Tyler Oppenheim
"The Woods"
The Captive (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
Sam Riordan
Portrayed by: Asa Germann, Cameron Nicoll (Young)
Luke's little brother, whom he believes to be dead. In reality, his death was faked and he was moved into "The Woods", a facility underneath Godolkin University.
- Ax-Crazy: Compound V and torture has left Sam incredibly violent and dangerous and it didn’t take much to radicalized him into a weapon against non Supes.
- Elemental Motifs: Sam has a subtle water motif. His favorite film is Waterworld, and the first hallucination we see from his perspective involves a muppet version of the Deep, one of the only aquatic heroes known to exist in this universe. He also invokes an Alice Allusion when discussing Emma's powers, and the segment he's referencing with the size-changing food ends with Alice crying so much she causes a flood.
- Face–Heel Turn: Ultimately, thanks to Rufus corrupting him, he pulls one at the Season One Finale, as he, Cate, and the supes within The Woods participate in a school riot.
- Faking the Dead: His suicide was faked so he could be moved to the Woods for unknown reasons.
- Heroic BSoD: After Emma tells him Luke committed suicide, he has a breakdown.
- He Who Fights Monsters: He suffers horribly at the hands of Indira Shetty, who wants to genocide all the Supes. But eventually he starts falling into the opposite side of extremism, believing that Supes are inherently superior to non-powered folks.
- Imaginary Friend: Towards the end of the first season, Sam’s reluctance, and guilt over him becoming radicalised and following Clate, manifests in him hallucinating Luke. Who acts as his loving older brother and acts as his conscience encouraging him to do the right thing. Unfortunately, Sam’s own self-loathing convinces him to ignore Luke’s advice, and he accepts Clate’s offer to remove said feelings, causing him to also fade.
- Immune to Bullets: The high calibre machine gun fire utilised by the Vought security team dispatched to handle him was utterly ineffectual even at point blank range, to the point that Sam flat out hallucinated that their guns were merely firing popcorn at him.
- In a Single Bound: His enhanced strength grants him the ability to cover impressive distances in a single jump. Andre flat-out states his ability is comparable to Queen Maeve’s.
- Insane Equals Violent: Zigzagged. It’s made apparent that Sam’s intense violent nature is not linked to his schizophrenia or emotional instability. Being instead the result of the torture and trauma, he was subjected to during his imprisonment. However, his mental illness does feed into his overall confusion, anguish, and trauma, all of which go towards making him all the more violent.
- The Juggernaut: Thanks to his strength and durability, once Sam gets going, he’s virtually unstoppable, with him casually tearing through a team of heavily armed soldiers like they were tin foil.
- The Mentally Disturbed: He has schizophrenia, which he blames on his parents administering him Compound V. He thinks Emma is a hallucination when she comes to scout his location.
- Mood-Swinger: Sam's emotional instability manifests like this. Sam can go from calmly talking to people, to homicidally angry the second something triggers him (even something as minor as an offhand comment).
- Morality Pet: Following forming a bond with her, Sam develops this towards Emma (along with them developing feelings towards each other), with Emma being the only one (except Luke) who can talk Sam down when going through his emotional instability and rage. Unfortunately, in the season one final, Sam ends up rejecting Emma, having convinced himself that Emma must have an ulterior motive and not really care for him. With him committing himself to Cate’s super-supremacist agenda.
- Muppet: These seem to be a frequent feature of his hallucinations. He hallucinates a Muppet version of the Deep talking to him on Avenue V alongside Jason Ritter, telling him to kill Dr. Cardosa. He also accuses the main cast of all being puppets. It's revealed in later episodes that he sometimes hallucinates people as puppets while under stress, such as when he massacres a squad of guards sent to retrieve him, and Emma when he's having sex with her.
- Mr. Fanservice: Played by the very attractive Asa Germann and his Pretty Boy appearence, and gets plenty of shirtless scenes.
- Politically Incorrect Hero: Shows shades of becoming this, since after the rally at campus he begins to think that being a superhuman makes him superior than regular people, and he is being oppressed. It's hinted that his time being tortured on The Woods is a partial motivation for this. Confirmed during the finale where he is The Dragon to Cate's riot.
- Pretty Boy: Sam has more boyish and delicate looks than his older brother, has a slightly gaunt appearance, his shirtless scenes show he has a pack of muscles despite being incarcerated in many sanatoriums for years and Emma considers him hot.
- Super-Strength: Seems to be his primary power, as he's powerful enough to dent metal. Shetty says he's actually stronger than his brother, and she, Brink, and Cardosa were even transfusing Luke with Sam's blood to make him stronger. It's heavily implied that Sam is one of the strongest natural Supe’s in existence.
- Stronger Sibling: Played With. Whilst Sam lacks Luke’s other powers, in terms of raw strength he’s stated to be stronger than his brother by several times.
- Tragic Bigot: Non-powered humans kept him captive, experimented on him, and subjected him to extreme cruelty. He later ends up getting radicalized, believing that normal humans are inherently inferior to supes.
- Unskilled, but Strong: Sam possesses no formal combat training and limited emotional control, thus during fights he simply flails around striking whoever is closest. His incredible strength and durability mean this is rarely an issue, with him able to casually rip through multiple opponents without being in danger of sustaining any damage. However, it hits a fault when he comes up against Jordan, who is both strong enough to take his attacks and skilled enough to fight back. Whilst he still doesn't outright lose (due to the fight being interrupted), he is notably unable to hurt Jordan and is sent flying by their energy blast.
- Unwitting Test Subject: He's being experimented on by the staff at God U for currently unknown reasons.
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Sam, at least, believes he wouldn't have schizophrenia if he hadn't been dosed with Compound V.
Edison Cardosa
Dr. Edison Cardosa
Portrayed by: Marco Pigossi
The doctor in charge of the experiments in the Woods.
- Affably Evil: He's very much fine with torturing innocent college kids For Science!, but he's also a level-headed man with a thoroughly genteel and normal demeanor.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Dr. Cardosa is very protective of his husband and daughter when Sam invades their home in the final scene of "The Whole Truth".
- Even Evil Has Standards: He's appalled at Shetty's decision to create an airborne virus that could potentially wipe out all superhumans, although it seems he's actually more worried about what could happen to him if he was discovered to be involved rather than any real moral concerns.
- For Science!: He considers his experiments to be the key to "humanely" controlling Supes. He also doesn't mind if innocent young people get tortured to achieve this goal of humane control.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: Just when he is about to leak everything going on within The Woods, Victoria ends up making his head explode.
- Straight Gay: He is married to another man and is raising a daughter with him. Neither fall into gay stereotypes.
- Twofer Token Minority: He's gay and played by a Brazilian actor, who speaks English with a Brazilian accent.
- Your Head Asplode: Victoria kills him this way after he tries to leak what's happening at The Woods to the government, not realising she's in league with Vought.
Others
Sloane
Sloane
Portrayed by: Unknown
A black-and-white alpaca... or possibly not.
- Ambiguously Human: It's not made specifically clear if she is a human shapeshifter or an actual animal.
- Ambiguous Situation: Is she an actual alpaca? A shapeshifting Supe whose default shape is an alpaca? A Supe alpaca? Not much info is presented and she’s never seen as anything but an alpaca who walks the campus grounds and hooks up with Maverick.
- Fantastically Indifferent: No one really bats an eye at there being an alpaca on campus who seems to be dating a student.
- Phrase Catcher: Everyone always greets her with a casual "Hey, Sloane".
Dusty
Dusty
Portrayed by: Andy Walken
- The Load: When he gets sucked into Cate's mind, he has trouble keeping up with the others.
- Nice Guy: He’s a decent enough person, albeit a little annoying.
- Older Than They Look: He is 28 years old, but his appearance is that of a 12 year old.
- Slimeball: Just a tad. He throws parties for college students where he hooks up underage drinkers with booze despite being 28 himself, which is more than a little sleazy. The main cast all seem to regard him as untrustworthy.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: He is constantly drinking. Justified on account of his real age of 28.
- Uncertain Doom: He's blown up by the memory of Golden Boy when he's dragged into Cate's mindscape, but we've yet to receive confirmation that Your Mind Makes It Real, so it's uncertain whether he's alive.
Imaginary Soldier Boy
"Soldier Boy"
Portrayed by: Jensen Ackles
- Cessation of Existence: Presumably what happens to him. Cate's seizure erases completely erases him from her mind, which is about as dead as an imaginary entity can get.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: Downplayed, but he seems to dislike Andre for dating Cate.
- Imaginary Friend: Cate's, to be precise. Although he's more like an imaginary friend with benefits.
- Jerkass: To rival the genuine article.
- Manchild: Since he was made by the mind of a young girl, he pretty much acts like a 14-year-old.
- Mr. Exposition: Explains to the crew that Cate's mind is collapsing and her memories are being wiped right before dying.
