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Summary
The LibertyThe Boystwist in time of year 2 bring out that she is Stormfront ( Aya Cash ) . The 2nd time of year of Amazon Prime Video ’s hit superhero caustic remark show brought The Boys back together , put Homelander on a path to shake up The Seven , and introduced a newfangled foe for everyone else in Stormfront . The multiple storylines in season 2 also included teases of what could fare in the time to come . The Boysalready referenced Soldier Boyahead of Jensen Ackles taking on the role in season 3 , but this is just one of many new Supes the show introduced that time of year .
The first few episodes admit several powerful new quality and multiple teases of Liberty . Since Liberty is n’t a character from the Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson comics , this left TV audience to job about who Liberty might be . Liberty ’s genuine identity ended up unwrap as a monicker Stormfront previously used . Hughie Campbell ( Jack Quaid ) , Starlight ( Erin Moriarty ) , and M.M. ( Laz Alonso ) discovered the truth behind Liberty and Stormfront ’s connector , and this set up her role inThe Boys’future .
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Liberty’s Super History Explained
Liberty Was A Hero Because She Said She Killed Black People
Stormfront appearance
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First Appearance
The Big Ride
Season 2 , Episode 1
The Boys is a gritty and subversive take on the superhero genre, focusing on a group of vigilantes who confront powerful superheroes abusing their abilities, exploring themes of corruption and moral ambiguity in a world where heroes are not always what they seem.
Final Appearance
The Only Man In The Sky
time of year 3 , Episode 2
Liberty is described early on inThe Boysseason 2 as an previous Supe by Grace Mallory , and just how far back her sub days went were illustrate by an old piece of Budweiser advertising . She was also featured on a post horse in the present day as the face of Vought ’s womanly product , with the ad for sales event in a section of a memory marked for " Classic Heroes . " While Mallory did n’t know how Liberty played a role in the current top-notch terrorist plot , she did find an address in Raleigh , North Carolina , giving The Boys and Starlight an answer .
Hughie , M.M. , and Starlight learn aboutStormfront ’s days as Libertyfrom Valerie , although the story they try is far from what they expected . Valerie explained that she and her brother Myron encountered Liberty in 1971 . Liberty stopped the automobile in the eye of the street and pulled Myron out of the fomite . She claim that the elevator car was involve in a robbery , which was n’t true , and begin beating Myron to taste and get him to confess .
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Since he did n’t comply , Liberty killed him and said she was a poor boy because she killed Black people . Valerie was n’t harmed during the effect and prove to get her parents to tell the police about what Liberty did . They thought it was pointless to have a Black girl accuse a white superhero of murder . Vought eventually come to their house and offered the house $ 2,000 to keep quiet about what happened that Nox .
It is n’t known what encounter to Liberty right away following this incident , but she did n’t right away pull away . Hughie says that she was last get wind in 1979 , and the assumption is that she farm old and stop accommodate up . Her public image did n’t take a hit , though , as Liberty merchandise is still being sold nearly 50 long time afterward . Vought managed to successfully insure up the slaying of Myron and any other racially motivated killing that Liberty did during this meter .
Why Liberty Is Now Known As Stormfront
The Hero Said She Needed To Change With The Times
Since Liberty ’s sword does n’t appear to have been damaged by what she did , the decision to become Stormfront might not have been necessary . However , Stormfront alludes to the state of the earth as the reason why she ’s alter . During a conversation with Homelander in the episode , she note that she had to"change with the times"and target a smaller but passionately angry audience through social media .
Stormfront can be an outspoken and powerful novel submarine for mass to rally behind .
However , TV audience make out thatStormfront was a racisteven when she was known as Liberty . If she simply return as Liberty and tried the same manoeuvre , the public might not have taken as strongly to her , peculiarly if she stomach for other nonsuch back in the solar day . Now , Stormfront can be an outspoken and muscular new hero for people to rally behind . The re - brand gives her a clean ticket to execute her plan .
Why Stormfront Hasn’t Aged
Compound V Has Helped Slow Her Aging Process
Stormfront ’s past as Liberty raises several interrogation , but one of the first to descend up in the show is why Stormfront still looks so young if she was already a young hero in the 1970s . The Boysstops short of confirming exactly what preserved Stormfront ’s age , but the working theory is that it ’s a result of Compound V. The drug has give masses all sorts of powers , but viewers have yet to see any have slowed age .
Stormfront is over 100 years old and has the same appearance as she did when she received Compound V
Compound V already gaveStormfront electrical powersand the common compendium of enhanced strength , strength , etc . that Supes have , so it is potential that it also is responsible for her lack of ripening . Stormfront is over 100 class former and has the same appearance as she did when she take in Compound V , so this is intelligibly the reason for her lack of aging .
What Happened To Stormfront In The Boys
Stormfront Joined The Seven But Eventually Died At Her Own Hands
Stormfront had a major role in the second time of year ofThe Boys . While Homelander feel she was a terror to him in The Seven , thanks to her popularity on social media and her similar strength and force , they eventually became lover . This was almost totally one - sided , though , asStormfront was infatuate with Homelander , experience he was the perfect maleas far as her views of the superior airstream as a Nazi . As she became a potent member of The Seven , her backstory was revealed as well .
Stormfront and her married man were firm penis of the Nazi Party in World War II , and she was the first human mental testing matter for Compound V. Since she took it as an grownup , and she did n’t die , she ended up becoming one of the strong supes in chronicle . She then come to America and became Liberty as part of surgical operation : Paper Clip , where she eventually change her name to Stormfront and blot out from everyone that Compound V essentially made her immortal .
However , things proceed bad for Stormfront in time of year 2 when the public hear about her Nazi past . Despite her powers , Ryan almost killed her when he knock down her with his heat energy vision while also kill his female parent , Becca . The third season saw that Vought was preserve her alive on animation support . However , whenshe realizes that Homelander does n’t care about her and will never love her as she loved him , she go bad by suicideand finish her story onThe Boys .
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The Boys is a gritty and subversive take on the superhero music genre , focusing on a group of vigilantes who face powerful superheroes pervert their ability , exploring themes of corruption and moral ambiguity in a world where heroes are not always what they seem .
