Marie Moreau

―Marie Moreau to Cate Dunlap.[src]

**Marie Moreau** is the main protagonist of the Amazon series *Gen V*, a spin-off series of *The Boys*. She is a freshman at Godolkin University with goals of joining the Seven, but later becomes sidetracked by a mystery she begins to unravel at the school.

## Background

Shortly after Marie's birth, her parents accepted Vought's offer to inject her with Compound V, subsequently transforming her into a Supe and granting her superhuman powers and abilities.

In 2015, when Marie was 10, her powers manifested during her first period. Unable to control her powers, Marie would accidentally kill both of her parents, leaving herself and her sister, Annabeth, the only survivors of the accident. As a result of this, Marie would be separated from her sister and relocated to the Red River Institute.

In 2023, Marie would enroll and be accepted to Godolkin University to become a hero, trying to atone her tragic past and maker her sister change the way she saw her.

## *The Boys* Series

### The Boys: Season 3

#### "The Only Man in the Sky"

During Hughie and Starlight's mission to the Red River Institute, a brief profile of Marie could be seen in their database.

### Gen V: Season 1

#### "God U."

Marie appears in this episode; she gets taken to Godolkin University where she meets her roommate, Emma. Marie is taken to a club by Golden Boy and his friends, where she saves the life of a woman who was at the tragic backhand of one of Andres's accidents. The following day, she has gone viral and is met by Professor Brink to tell her she had been expelled from Godolkin University. She returns and is promptly attacked by Golden Boy, right after he killed Brink, and then got chased by Golden Boy forcing a nearby Jordan Li to intervene in Marie's defense. She, at the end, witnesses Golden Boy's suicide.

#### "First Day"

Marie has a therapy session with Dean Shetty, and is now ranked at #8 on the leader board, and that infuriates Jordan Li, since the media has portrayed her and Andre as fighting Golden Boy, instead of Jordan. Marie does a photoshoot with Andre in front of a screen, and takes a selfie with a fan, before having a heated discussion with Andre. Jordan approaches Marie, asking her to tell the truth about what happened, and she tries her best. Multiple times, she contemplates telling the truth before ultimately saying her pre-assigned lines, which makes her feel really guilty. Before the interview, it is revealed that Marie's sister, Annabeth, had sent an email, but does not want anything to do with Marie, which leaves her in shock. Marie's betrayal of Jordan leaves them in tears and she feels incredibly guilty, texting Emma and asking if she'd like to get drunk.

## Personality

Marie is a kind and compassionate person who has good morals. However, her means sometimes were too straightforward thus leading her to making the "dumb decision". For example, after requested by Jordan Li to tell the truth about them fighting Golden Boy, she tarnished her own reputation by telling the truth when Tek Knight interrogated her in class despite the fact that Jordan didn't want her to bury herself in the process. The reason why she wanted to do the right thing and be a hero deeply rooted in her past trauma where she unintentionally killed her parents with her period blood when her power first manifested. She wants to prove to everyone, especially her sister Annabeth, that she is not a monster. The immense guilt also caused her self-harm tendency. Due to how she activates her power puts her in similar situation with Emma Meyer, the two became close friends. At first she only wanted to be hero, someone her sister could look up to but overtime she changed and now just wants to be a good person and actually help people.

Marie is also a bad liar, when people asked about her parents or Emma's whereabouts, she made up stories out of nowhere and can be easily exposed.

When first arrived at Godolkin, due to spending most of the time isolated in Red River, Marie is seen socially inept and is not quite good at having normal conversations with others. She is also unaware of how to use technology, since in her time at the Institute she never had access to social media and there was barely one computer she had to borrow from the rest of the orphans with a time limit to use it. Because of this Marie is unaware of social media influencers such as Golden Boy, a top ranked student candidate to become part of The Seven or popular people in the media like Emma Meyer who has her own channel on Youtube. However, she eventually starts to overcome these difficulties thanks to Emma and slowly becomes more open and capable of socializing with others.

Marie doesn't like to emotionally open herself to others and is often seen trying to not let them discover that she is a orphan that comes from Red River Institute and she accidentally killed her parents, probably because of her guilt of that incident, and also due to her fear of being considered a monster like her sister told her she is. As a result she is often lying about her parents.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

―Victoria Neuman[src]

* **Blood Manipulation**:     Marie possesses the ability to control blood. She can use this ability on her own blood, by extending it through her palms in the form of tendrils, or forming basic structures, such as whips and floating masses, to both grasp objects or people and launch offensive attacks. However, she can't release her blood through anything other than an open wound; hence why she carries around a switchblade so she can readily cut herself, by the hand, whenever needed. It remains uncertain whether she experiences any pain when using this ability, or if she is at personal risk of severe blood loss if it was used carelessly. Furthermore, she is also capable of manipulating blood from others, even on woundless targets, such as funneling a large amount of blood into a selected extremity of the recipient and causing that part of them to bloodily explode in the process. Marie has demonstrated similar powers to Victoria Neuman, sharing her ability to explode a person's body part using their blood. For instance, she exploded Cate's arm just by concentrating. She can also make blood itself explode, as she did to her mother's when she first discovered her powers in a panic attack. Marie has also demonstrated her ability to medically use blood manipulation for non-harmful purposes, such as halting the flow of blood from gaping wounds and preventing strokes.
	+ **Blood Sense**:     Marie has also manifested supernatural awareness linked to blood-related phenomena. For instance, she could discern that Sam Riordan had blood under his fingernails, which didn't belong to him. Furthermore, she accurately predicted the day Emma Meyer would start her menstrual period. In addition, Marie could distinguish variations in blood where electronic trackers were implanted in herself and Jordan Li, as well as sense a decline in Cate Dunlap's pulse. Marie was also able to identify the presence of Compound V in Victoria Neuman's bloodstream. Marie was also able to feel and see Maverick's blood after concentrating.
	+ **Regenerative Healing Factor**: Marie possesses a limited but rapid regenerative healing ability. Marie's regenerative healing factor works in tandem with her initial powers, allowing her to quickly recover after "mellowing" her powers. Marie also quickly recovered from her injury after removing the tracker from her neck.
* **Superhuman Strength**: Marie possesses superhuman strength, which makes her stronger than humans and some Supes. She knocked out Maverick with a single hit with a helicopter rotor blade.
* **Superhuman Durability**:     Marie possesses an indeterminate degree of resilience. She demonstrated remarkable resilience by enduring a forceful assault from Sam, which forcefully propelled her against a wall, yet she promptly regained her footing. Marie, while attempting to prevent Sam from causing harm to Cate, valiantly withstood a forceful blow that relentlessly hurled her a considerable distance. Marie also withstood several blows from Maverick, a supe that is strong enough to send her flying. Remarkably, Marie displayed an exceptional resilience as she successfully withstood the scorching intensity of Homelander's heat vision. However, it is plausible to consider that Homelander might not have exerted his full lethal force upon Marie, opting instead to utilize a less potent version of his heat vision, as evidenced by Marie's ability to harm herself with an ordinary knife.
* **Superhuman Hearing**: Like all Supes, Marie has better hearing beyond that of a humans. She is able to hear certain frequencies that humans cannot.

### Abilities

* **Gifted Intelligence**: Marie is quite clever and intelligent. She managed to sucessfully be accepted in Godolkin University, and while part of this is because Victoria Neuman gave her a boost by being her benefactor, Victoria admitted that even without her help she would have still been accepted there.

## Weaknesses

### Psychological

* **PTSD**: Marie suffers a severe post-traumatic disorder due to having accidentally murdered her parents after awakening her powers. The trauma of what she did still affects her even 8 years after that, making her have nightmares and cry every time she remembers her parents.

### Biological

* **High Frequencies**: Due to being a Supe, Marie is able to hear certain frequencies that humans cannot. When a specific frequency is played, it can induce immense pain and temporarily neutralize her. While a murderous rampage targeting humans was occuring at Godolkin University, she was momentarily neutralized through the use of high frequencies.

## Relationships

* Jackie Moreau † - Mother
* Annabeth Moreau - Sister

Allies* Emma Meyer - Close Friend and Roommate
* Jordan Li - Love Interest
* Andre Anderson - Friend
* Dusty †
* Victoria Neuman - Benefactor and Situational Ally
* Ashley Barrett - Situational Ally

* Golden Boy † - Former Friend and Attempted Killer
* Rufus
* Indira Shetty † - Attempted Killer
* Edison Cardosa †
* Tek Knight
* Cate Dunlap - Former Friend
* Sam Riordan - Former Ally
* Maverick - Situational Enemy (whilst under Cate's control)
* Homelander - Attempted Killer

Victims* Malcolm Moreau † - Father (unintentional; accidentally murdered after awakening her powers)
* Jackie Moreau † - Mother (unintentional; accidentally murdered after awakening her powers)
* Glowing Eyes Supe † (Intentional; stopped her heart; defending Jordan)
* Shredded Shirt Supe † (Intentional; impaled with blood; defending Ashley Barrett, Adam Bourke and the board of Godolkin University trustees)

## Trivia

* Marie makes a cameo appearance in "The Only Man in the Sky," appearing on a monitor screen at the Red River Institute.
* Due to the similarity of their powersets, there is a possibility that Marie is a parody of DC's Bloodwork and Skarlet from *Mortal* *Kombat.*
* Marie’s power to manipulate blood has been implied to be very rare. As stated by Victoria Neuman, prior to discovering Marie, she had thought she was the only Supe with this power.

## Quotes

―Marie Moreau responding to Jordan Li[src]

## References

1. ↑ Bob in *First Day*: *"Did you know Supes have a wider range of hearing than us? Like dogs."*