G-Men/Comics

*For the Amazon version of this group, see G-Men.*
The **G-Men** were a corrupt team of supposedly "oppressed" superheroes based in upstate New York; one of the many Supes owned by the entertainment conglomerate/biological arms dealer Vought-American. The group was created and run by John Godolkin, who presented himself as a benevolent father figure taking in super-powered orphans and outsiders. However, what lay behind the G-men's facade of underdogism was perhaps the most horrifying and depraved "superheroes" in the *Boys* universe.

## History

### Creation and Team Management

―John Gondolkin's letter to Vought-American on pitching his new superhero group.

   The G-Men were founded by a man named John Godolkin sometime after 1984. Godolkin presumably either stolen or recreated the formula for Compound-V and secured a deal with Vought-American which allowed them full rights to marketing, so long as the company allowed the G-Men to operate with far more independence than their other teams. In his letter to the company written on March 31 , 1984, Gondolkin explained to Vought that he felt there needed to be a new approach to superheroics, one that was more down to earth and relatable to everyday people rather than the perfect, god-like beings in Vought-American’s superhero line at the time. He argued that his new superhuman team, the G-Men, would generate so much money that even exceed the revenue made by their established, premier teams, such as Payback and the Seven. To create such a team, Godolkin personally lured six random children into his limousine with promises of toys and candy before taking them to his mansion in Nassau County, New York; where he refused their eventual requests to go home and told them lies that they would be trained to be superheroes. Eventually, Godolkin started injecting them with Compound V once a week, where they would either die or gain superpowers. Despite being given the drug so late in life being extremely dangerous, the process succeeded, and the children became Five-Oh, Silver Kincaid, Nubia, Groundhawk, Critter, and Cold Snap, the members of the first G-Men team.

The G-Men were then introduced to the world, marketed as orphans, rebels and outcasts that had been rejected due to their powers but had been taken in by Godolkin, who raised them as his own children and fight against a society that persecutes them (even though ,according to Hughie Campbell) practically all of them are millionaires and live luxurious lifestyles, with Hughie joking that the only time they seem to rebel against anything is when they bail themselves out of jail). As predicted by Gondolkin, this backstory made the G-Men instantly loved by the public, and allowed them to become Vought-American’s most profitable superhero team and one of it’s most popular, second only to the Seven.

However, unbeknownst to the rest of the world, what went on behind the G-Mansion walls was something far more sinister: a debouched sex cult made up entirely of kidnapped children and run by a monstrous pedophile. When the G-Men were merely either nine or ten, Godolkin took to sexually abusing and raping them, whilst also brainwashing them into being completely loyal to him and only him, and the ones that didn’t take to the brainwashing were bribed with the fact that if Godolkin was exposed, then their glamorous lifestyle would end. Because of this, despite the G-Men constantly mocking and deriding him behind his back, their loyalty to Godolkin was absolute, and they killed any fellow G-Man that either broke down from the abuse or would not be compliant to Godolkin's control. Perhaps most disturbingly, older members would even be participants in some of Godolkin's abuses.

   Soon, the G-Men became so popular that Godolkin started making spin-off teams, (who were also stolen from off the street and later sexually abused as children). The first of which was G-Force, abducting them not long after the first team. G-Force were an instant hit, nearly doubling sales from the G-Men merchandise. Because of this, Godolkin continued to create new spin-off teams, the next was G-Style, then various others, such as G-Wiz, G-Coast, G-Brits and Pre-Wiz (the team where all the new recruits went). This constant desire to abduct and molest children later became an intense psychological obsession for Gondolkin, as he began see his victims as his own "children" and (as implied by Godolkin's speech during the brunch scene) it appears that he even believed the team's fictional status as superpowered outcasts marginalized by society, which he and Vought had created just for marketing.

While each team brought more and more revenue to the G-Men and Vought-American, the company became deeply concerned about the G-Men, as they were fully aware of how Godolkin "recruited" new G-Men and treated the members, as well as how he allowed the teams to operate. They were also worried about how unstable and reckless the G-Men were due to their harrowing upbringing, as several team members were experiencing mental breakdowns, constantly getting in trouble with the law, and often indulge in hedonistic behavior so perverted and extreme that it may even eclipsed those from the rest of Vought's superhero line (which already had a sordid reputation within the company for being oversexed and morally uncouth). Eventually, they feared about the ever-growing amount of children and rate that Godolkin was kidnapping at ran the increasing risk of exposure, eventually ordering him to stop, to which Godolkin officially agreed, but secretly ignored.

At some point, a member of the G-Men or G-Force, 2-Kool, became close with G-Style and G-Coast. During an unknown incident, 2-Kool was killed, both teams blamed the other for his death, and developed a hatred for each other so fierce that the other G-Men teams would dread when the two got together.

At another point in time, an initiate of G-Wiz (where all young adult G-Men go before being sorted into another team) was tricked during a hazing ritual into thinking that to join G-Wiz, he had to shave the Snow Leopards at the Bronx Zoo and he foolishly believed them. The initiate was mauled and left with not just only one arm and leg (both of which were cybernetically replaced) but also brain dead. The initiate, who was given the title "The Dude With No Name", has since been taken care of by countless generations of G-Wiz, who see him as an "inspiration".

When founding G-Man Nubia started to question Gondolkin's decisions and openly challenge his leadership, he had Silver Kincaid to dispose of Nubia and used her telekinetic powers to collapse Nubia’s heart in her chest, killing her instantly. Godolkin, unable to accept one of his "children" was dead and wanting her to be more obedient, demanded Vought use Nubia as a test subject for their new resurrection process alongside Lamplighter. Just like Lamplighter, the process did bring her back but left her almost brain dead, only with enough cognitive thought to beg those around her to kill her. This incident further damned Godolkin to Vought, as Nubia’s breakdown and his obsession with his "children" caused them to begin wondering if the G-Men were really worth the risk, and began preparing in the event that Vought's higher ups decided that Godolkin and the rest of his disturbed "dwellers on the outside" were too much of a liability to continue existing.

### Investigations

After being forced to murder her own teammate, Silver Kincaid partially broke free of her mind conditioning and sought out government official Susan Rayner for help, as the G-Men were rapidly escalating in their crimes. Rather than help Silver Kincaid escape the G-Men, Rayner forced her to become her spy for three years, feeding her information about the G-Men. When Godolkin started becoming suspicious, the scared Silver Kincaid begged Rayner to help her but Rayner coldly refused. Eventually, between the fear of being discovered, the ingrained loyalty to Godolkin which she couldn’t fight and the decades of sexual abuse, Silver Kincaid suffered a mental breakdown. She made her way to a public park in her hometown of Cranbrook, Massachusetts sometime in 2007 (where she had been kidnapped nearly 30 years prior) before she used her powers to kill herself in front of dozens of civilians.

#### The Boys Involvement and Infiltration of the G-Men

Silver Kincaid’s death forced Rayner to bring in Billy Butcher and the Boys to investigate what exactly was going on within the G-Men. The Boys had their newest recruit, Hughie Campbell, infiltrate G-Wiz disguised as a supe under the false name “Bagpipe”, while Butcher investigated why Rayner was suddenly interested in the G-Men and Mother's Milk investigates the circumstances surrounding Silver Kincaid's suicide in Cranbrook. While with G-Wiz, Hughie sees how (due to the lack of rules they’ve been given) G-Wiz were sexually depraved and had little to no boundaries with each other, though sees the bond they shared and that they seemed like decent people overhaul despite this. They later take him to the G-Mansion where he meets Godolkin, who believes his story, though is irritated at how old he is, and Hughie plants bugs around the mansion.

While in the lavatories, Hughie screams when he’s suddenly confronted with the undead Nubia repeatedly begging him to end her life. When Godolkin arrives and has her escorted out, Hughie reveals knowledge of the resurrection process, and when he questions Godolkin on why he allows Nubia live such a hellish existence, he (as well as Frenchie and the Female,who also are listening in) are disturbed when Godolkin reveals his obsession with keeping his "children". While Butcher slowly discovers Rayner’s involvement with Silver Kincaid and Mother’s Milk discovers Silver Kincaid’s past before her kidnapping, Hughie begs Butcher for more time to spy, as after observing their depraved, but otherwise friendly disposition, he wants to save G-Wiz, and Butcher allows it.

At the G-Mansion, Godolkin has brunch with the G-Men and G-Force members and offers a speech about the teams status as outcasts and supposed discrimination by "humanity" (even though Godolkin has no powers whatsoever and Supes in this universe generally being far from oppressed) that causes G-Men like Five-Oh to jeer at their leader for thinking himself as one of them. During the brunch, Critter brings up the recruitment of Bagpipe, and the sheer number of G-Men there were now, warning him (like Vought before him) how the increasing membership also brought the growing risk of security breaches or a rogue G-Man exposing their terrifying secrets to the public. Critter then begs Godolkin to stop kidnapping children to create more spin-off teams but he refuses, stating “For good or ill, my children- - I just can’t seem to stop.”

While Five-Oh, Cold Snap, Critter and Devine share drinks, Devine brings up G-Style’s arrival, to the detriment of the others. Cold Snap tells Five-Oh that Godolkin wanted the two of them to keep the peace, to the latter’s annoyance. Meanwhile, Critter reveals that Vought had sent an enquiry about Bagpipe, as they had no records of his existence. While Critter fortunately chalks it up to the security for the new G-Mansion being new and incomplete, Frenchie and the Female worry.

Butcher (realizing that Hughie was growing attached to G-Wiz and that his cover was about to be blown) told him his spying was over, but Hughie, feeling like G-Wiz could be helped, disobeyed and went back. Meanwhile, Cold Snap and Five-Oh observe how their attempt to keep the peace between G-Coast and G-Style failed and the former tells the latter on how a member of G-Coast, Homefry, told a prostitute about the shocking reality of the G-Men, but Homefry was beaten while the prostitute was found and killed before she could tell anyone what she had learned. Cold Snap then questions Five-Oh if he wonders whether Silver Kincaid took the easy way out and if he felt sorry for G-Wiz, who were barely handling Godolkin's sexual abuse. Five-Oh stops Cold Snap from going further, telling him the lifestyle they had was mostly amazing and how it was worth what Godolkin did to them, and that Silver Kincaid deserved to die for almost ruining it.

During a phone call with Godolkin, James Stillwell refuses his request to put Silver Kincaid through the resurrection process, as Stillwell states how it simply doesn’t work, though Godolkin refuses to listen. Stillwell hears the sound of children on the other side and realizes that Godolkin has started another Pre-Wiz team against orders. Godolkin ignores Stillwell’s anger and keeps demanding Silver Kincaid be brought back, though Stillwell coldly refuses and hangs up. Stillwell later sees a file about Hughie Campbell’s recruitment and realizes the Boys have infiltrated the G-Men.

At Silver Kincaid’s funeral, she’s mocked incessantly by the other G-Men, who express their hatred for her, as well as mock her statue and the bouquet of flowers in her image. Godolkin also does another pretentious rant that leaves all the other G-Men cringing at how dramatic and nonsensical it is, while also expressing horror when he hints that Silver Kincaid might be brought back as a mindless zombie like Nubia. After Godolkin’s speech, he allows King Helmet of G-Style to say a few words, and while at first he brags of the supposed friendship he shared with her (which Five-Oh reveals that she actually detested him) he uses the speech as a chance to insult G-Coast, starting another fight between the two at the funeral. Hughie also learns that G-Wiz are terrified of losing their friendships when they join separate teams, and resolves to help them, though the other Boys learn that he disobeyed orders and rush to get him out.

### Destruction

After the funeral, Stillwell calls Godolkin and alerts him to Bagpipe’s true identity as Hughie Campbell, though rather than eliminate the spy, Godolkin decides to instead hold him to ransom, forcing Stillwell to bribe him with the possibility of resurrecting Silver Kincaid if he takes care of Hughie. After G-Wiz take Hughie outside the mansion, they reveal that Godolkin had outed him as spy, and their orders to kill him. Hughie tries to appeal to their good nature and their own secret hatred of the other teams, but they refuse to listen and attempt to kill him, though Hughie holds out long enough for the other Boys to arrive and butcher all but one of G-Wiz, though their deaths alert the other G-Men.

Jamal, the survivor, reveals everything to the Boys, from the kidnappings, the injections of Compound-V, the brainwashing, and the worst of all, the sexual abuse the G-Men endure, to the horror of Hughie. After exposing the truth to them, Jamal is killed by Europo and the Boys are confronted by the entire G-Men franchise, who profess their fanatical loyalty to Godolkin, shouting that none of them said no to the abuse and that they'd all die for him. Hughie, disgusted at what he’s learned, leads the Boys in a suicide charge against the G-Men, but before either side can attack, Stillwell arrives with Vought-American’s paramilitary, Red River, and the G-Men stand down, believing that Red River was there to deal with the Boys

However, unknown to Godolkin, his refusal to deal with Hughie Campbell, his start-up of another Pre-Wiz team against corporate orders not to and his desire to keep resurrecting dead G-Men despite even Vought finding the end result disgusting, sealed his fate as the company had finally decided that they couldn't afford the risk of the increasing instability of the G-Men any longer. To the horror of the Boys, Red River suddenly open fire with on the G-Men with SAW's, RPGs and flamethrowers, slaughtering Godolkin and every single member of the G-Men before burning their estate to the ground. Stillwell allows the Boys to leave, warning them to not interfere in Vought’s affairs again, ominously telling Butcher and his team that Vought “can handle our own shit”.

### Aftermath and Legacy

The massacre of the G-Men was soon cleaned up by Vought while the G-Whiz frat house was completely refurnished to cover up the group's dark secrets. Due to them not being at the massacre, Stillwell has the members of Pre-Wiz put in a crate, loaded onto a plane and dropped to their deaths in Iceland in order to keep them from revealing Godolkin's crimes. The so-called "Dude With No Name" was also killed off soon after the incident in Connecticut. After this, Vought-American begin actively looking for ways to eliminate the Boys, with their first attempt being sending the #2 superhero team Payback to kill them.

Stillwell and the Homelander meet where they discuss how the loss of revenue from the G-Men would positively affect the Seven. While the Homelander wishes to take the fight to the Boys, Stillwell reminds him that thanks to Butcher’s evidence, he couldn’t. Unknown to Stillwell, the Homelander becomes worried at how quickly Vought got rid of their most profitable superhero team, and begins questioning whether the same could happen to him, increasing the thoughts of rebellion in his head.

During one of their one-night stands, Butcher threatens to murder Rayner and her family if she ever went near a superhero team without his knowledge or endangered his team while withholding critical information again. This damaged the Boys’ relationship with the CIA and caused several problems for them down the road.

The G-Men’s death is used as the prime excuse as to why nearly all supes in the world suddenly disappear, with Homelander lying that the G-Men were killed by the ‘Battelite of the Marith’rai’, and that all superheroes were leaving to face the invaders, when in reality, the supes were just heading to the annual Herogasm event.

## G-Men Teams

Before it's destruction at the hands of Vought's Red River army, the G-Men had around a dozen or so smaller sister/spinoff teams, typically themed and named after the personal characteristics of their members (such as race, age, nationality, etc) .

* The G-Men (inaugural): The original six children that John Gondolkin kidnapped and later (with the help of Compound V, sexual abuse, and brainwashing) turn them into a highly successful superhero franchise for Vought-American.
* G-Brits: a group briefly mention in passing by
## Trivia

* They are a thinly veiled satire of Marvel Comics' X-Men. They parody many aspects of the franchise, including:
	+ The original six children that Godolkin kidnapped and molested are stand-ins for the X-Men's most famous members, with Five-Oh (Cyclops), Nubia (Storm), Cold Snap (Iceman), Critter (Beast), Groundhawk (Wolverine), and Silver Kincaid (Jean Grey) being a mixture of characters from both the original Silver Age Stan Lee-Jack Kirby run and the *Giant Size X-Men* issue of 1975.
	+ Godolkin's obsession with creating more G-Men members satirizes the excesses of the X-Men franchise in that the X-Men has the greatest number of spin-off teams in comics. The entire X-Men are subdivided into smaller teams and then there are other teams such as X-Factor, X-Force, New Mutants, and Generation X to name just some.
	+ Their manufactured backstory and status as a group superpowered outcasts parodies the X-Men's allegory for real-world bigotry and civil rights struggles. Unlike the X-Men, not only are the G-Men's status as discriminated superhumans nothing more than a corporate marketing ploy, many members of the team (such as Five-Oh and Critter) have shown to be deeply bigoted towards their black and gay colleagues. Furthermore, it also appears that (with the exception of Nubia) the black G-Men were racially segregated into all-black teams (G-Coast and G-Style) after being phased from G-Whiz while groups like G-Force were comprised entirely of white members.
* It seems that Godolkin had no real preferences when it came to abducting children, as many of his victims come from a wide variety of socio-economic and racial backgrounds. It was most likely based more on opportunity and happenchance as well as taking any child he assumed was gullible enough to believe his traps, similar to "stranger danger" tropes of creepy men driving windowless white vans around suburban neighborhoods to snatch children.