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| “ | "There isn't one of us said no!! There isn’t one of us won’t die for John Godolkin!". | „ |
| ~ The G-Men professing their loyalty to John Godolkin and their willingness to endure his sexual abuse if it means to keep living a luxurious lifestyle. |
The G-Men are the main antagonists of the "We Gotta Go Now" arc of the adult comic-book series The Boys.
They are one of the three main superhero teams, alongside The Seven and Payback. The group was founded by John Godolkin, who has sexually abused and brainwashed each member into being completely loyal to him.
History[]
Background[]
The G-Men were founded by a man named John Godolkin sometime after 1984. Godolkin had either stolen or recreated the formula for Compound-V and secured a deal with Vought-American that 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. Godolkin lured six children under a façade of toys, candy, and promises and kidnapped them to his mansion, 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 and being extremely dangerous, the process succeeded, and the children became Five-Oh, Silver Kincaid, Nubia, Ground Hawk, Critter, and The Devine, the members of the first G-Men team.
The G-Men were then introduced to the world, presented 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. 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 its most popular, second only to the Seven.
However, what went on behind the G-Mansion walls was far more sinister. When the G-Men were merely nine or ten, Godolkin took to sexually abusing and raping them, while also brainwashing them into being completely loyal to 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 either brainwashed or bribed.
Soon, the G-Men became so popular that Godolkin started making spin-off teams. The first of which was G-Force, who kidnapped them not long after the first team. G-Force were an instant hit, nearly doubling sales of G-Men merchandise. Because of this, Godolkin continued to create new spin-off teams; the next was G-Style (an African-American team), then various others, such as G-Wiz (who operate outside of a fraternity house), G-Coast (another African-American team), G-Brits, and Pre-Wiz (the team where all the new recruits went).
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 and treated the members and how he allowed the teams to operate. They were also worried about how unstable and reckless the G-Men were, as due to their upbringing, the teams kept getting into trouble with the law. Eventually they began to worry about the number of children Godolkin was kidnapping and 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 named 2-Kool became close with the G-Style branch 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 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 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".
Eventually, Nubia snapped from the trauma she endured and tried to attack Three Mile Island. Silver Kincaid was dispatched to stop Nubia and used her powers to collapse Nubia’s heart in her chest. Godolkin, unable to accept that one of his "children" was dead, demanded Vought use her 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 worth the rising risk, and they began preparing in the event that Vought decided they weren't the risk.
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. 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 snapped. She made her way to the store in her hometown of Cranbrook, where she had been kidnapped nearly 30 years prior, and used her powers to kill herself in front of dozens of civilians.
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 under the false name "Bagpipe," while Butcher investigated why Rayner was suddenly interested in the G-Men, and Mother's Milk investigated why Silver Kincaid chose to kill herself 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 he sees the bond they shared and that they seemed like decent people to overhaul. They later take him to the G-Mansion, where he meets Godolkin, who believes his story but 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. 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 to live such a hellish existence, he (and Frenchie and the Female who 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 team's status as outcasts, which causes G-Men like Five-Oh to jeer at their leader for thinking of himself as one of them. During the brunch, Critter brings up the recruitment of Bagpipe, the sheer number of G-Men there were now, and how the increasing numbers brought the increasing risk of security or a rogue G-Men, revealing the truth of how the G-Men operate. Critter begs Godolkin to stop kidnapping children, but he refuses, stating, "For good or ill, my children—I just can’t seem to stop".
While Five-Oh, Cold Snap, Critter, and The Devine share drinks, The 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 inquiry about Bagpipe as they had no records of his existence. While Critter fortunately chalks it up to the security of 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 how a member of G-Coast, Homefry, told a prostitute about the G-Men, but Homefry was beaten and the prostitute was found and killed before she could reveal the truth. 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 had infiltrated the G-Men.
At Silver Kincaid's funeral, she’s mocked incessantly by the other G-Men, who express their hatred for her and mock her statue and a bouquet of flowers in her image. Godolkin also makes another speech 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 like Nubia. After Godolkin's speech, he allows King Helmet of G-Style to say a few words, and while at first he brags about 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 is 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 takes Hughie outside the mansion, they reveal that Godolkin had outed him as a 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 revealing the truth, 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 despite 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 opened fire with SAW's, RPGs, and flamethrowers, slaughtering Godolkin and every single member of the G-Men and burning their estate to the ground. Stillwell allows the Boys to leave, warning them not to interfere in Vought's affairs again.
Aftermath and Legacy[]
Due to them not being at the massacre, Stillwell has the members of Pre-Wiz put in a crate and loaded onto a plane. and dropped to their deaths in Iceland to avoid them revealing what Godolkin did to them. The Dude With No Name was also killed off. After this, Vought-American began 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 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 heading to the annual Herogasm event. After the Homelander began his takeover of the White House, the Boys released all incriminating evidence of the Superhuman community to the public, including Godolkin and what he did to the G-Men, exposing John Godolkin and permanently destroying his reputation.
Members[]
- John Godolkin (Founder)
G-Men[]
- Five-Oh (leader)
- Silver Kincaid (defected)
- Nubia (defected)
- Ground Hawk
- Critter
- The Devine
- O'Hero (defected)
G-Force[]
- Cold Snap (leader)
- Europo
- Luckless
- Flamer
- Stacker
- PussPuss
G-Style[]
- King Helmet (leader)
- The Reptilian
- Born Free
- Pit Stop
- Unnamed female member
- 2-Kool (possibly)
G-Wiz[]
- Buzz-Cut (leader)
- Discharge
- Dime-Bag
- Airburst
- Pinwheel
- Jetlag
- The Dude With No Name
G-Coast[]
- Emmelkay (leader)
- 5x5
- Homefry
- 2-Kool (possibly, deceased)
- Four other members
G-Brits[]
G-Nomads[]
Pre-Wiz[]
- Cat O'Mite (leader)
- Baby Blue
- Wispo
- Five other members
Gallery[]
Issue Covers[]
Images[]
Trivia[]
- The G-Men are a parody of Marvel's X-Men, G-Force are a parody of the X-Force, G-Style are a parody of the X-Factor, while G-Wiz are a parody of X-Statix.
- The G-Men's supposed origin story as outcasts is parallel to how the X-Men are also outcasts due to being Mutants.
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