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Gen V season 2 has premiered on Prime Video, and The Boys spin-off wastes no time paying tribute to one of its late cast members.

Chance Perdomo, who played Andre Anderson in the Amazon TV Original’s first season, died following a motorbike accident in March 2024. Understandably, it was, and still is, a tragedy felt deeply by the show’s cast and crew.
In the days following Perdomo’s death, Gen V’s creative team confirmed they wouldn’t recast the character for the show’s second season. Its story would be revised to reflect Perdomo’s death and, by proxy, Anderson’s in-universe demise.

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Considering she bolted alone, Marie has no idea that Andre is dead. Like the rest of us, she also has no clue what happened to him off-camera that led to his passing. Before season 2 debuted on Prime Video, the best theory we had was that he’d died as the result of a botched experiment at Elmira.
We were wrong to assume that. In fact, Andre bowed out in the most heroic way possible: protecting his friends and trying to help them escape.

Andre was incarcerated at Elmira alongside Marie, Jordan, and Emma in last season’s finale (Image credit: Prime Video)
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