In fact, the character’s name is a pun on this Nazi past—he is called Stormfront because he has the ability to manipulate lightning, but also because this is the name of a real-life neo-Nazi internet forum, called the “first major hate site on the Internet” by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Though The Boys Season 2 cast and crew have not kept this Nazi backstory, there are some hints that she may have her own far-right leanings. After all, they have kept that evocative name for the character, and the show’s creator teased to KVUE: “For things I won’t necessarily give away, she’s revealed to be something quite different in the series and we wanted a character at first you sort of like…But then as the season goes on, there’s so many awful things about this character.”
Asked by KVUE, meanwhile, why they decided to gender-flip the character, The Boys creator Eric Kripke said that this was because of the effect it would have on another character. “We were really looking to create the worst possible nightmare for Homelander,” Kripke said, “and the worst thing that could happen to Homelander was a woman who wasn’t scared of him and was stealing his spotlight.
“The idea that a woman could be more popular than him and not be scared of him, it’s just so unbearable to him, so we did that.”
Aya Cash, meanwhile, said of her character to Comics Beat: “Stormfront is… a ballsy girl next door with a heart of acid.”
She later added: “The comic books were written more than ten years ago and have their own world, and I feel like The Boys series is using it as a jumping-off point, and certain updates needed to happen.”
