Stormfront's The Boys Return Brilliantly Pays Off A 2-Year-Old Joke

Screen Rant was at the panel for The Boys at San Diego Comic-Con 2024 when the original show’s creators confirmed a prequel spinoff titled Vought Rising, which will see the return of Aya Cash’s Stormfront. Her return will essentially force the franchise to pay off one of the show’s best jokes regarding the Nazi supe. While the show was only announced recently, Vought Rising‘s plot details and casting news indicate that the show will take place in the 1950s, and will center around the supes known as Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles) and Stormfront.

Per TV series creator Eric Kripke, the show will be a murder mystery surrounding the origins of Vought, the mega-company that controls the supe industry in the world of The Boys. Stormfront committed suicide in The Boys season 3, although some background Easter eggs in season 4 teased that the fan-favorite character could make some sort of return. The confirmation of Vought Rising will see her return to the small screen, and in the process will be forced to pay off a long-running bit regarding her relationship with Soldier Boy.

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Soldier Boy is The Boys‘ stand-in for Marvel’s Captain America, but as is the case for most of the superheroes in the show (and original comic series), he is a horrible, debauched version of the hero. Stormfront, on the other hand, is revealed to be a legitimate Nazi in season 2 of The Boys. However, her dark agenda was usually hidden behind the façade of the America-loving supe known as Liberty during the 1950s. In season 3, Soldier Boy casually mentions that he used to hook up with a supe named Liberty, who is of course the Nazi-in-hiding, Clara Vought.

That reveal is at the heart of a joke that has now been touched on in back-to-back seasons of The Boys. The irony is that the show’s Captain America stand-in hooked up with a Nazi, and in fact it appears that they had a relationship that went deeper than a one-time hook-up. In season 4, at a right-wing event called TruthCon led by Valorie Curry’s supe Firecracker, a number of conspiracy theories are shown on signs in a crowd; one of them posits that Stormfront and Solider Boy had a secret romance.

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While those teases leave an interesting thread for Vought Rising to pick up when it comes to the two supes’ relationship, there is something much more important to the history of The Boys universe that the show’s creators will be forced to address. Given the temporal setting of the show, it’s almost guaranteed that the show will address the origins of Herogasm, the annual all-supe orgy that viewers got a sneak peek at during season 3, episode 6 of The Boys. Those familiar with the comics will know that it was actually Soldier Boy and Stormfront who founded the event.

The creators of The Boys have never resisted the opportunity to showcase something truly deranged over the course of the series, and that certainly will extend to Vought Rising. With that in mind, it’s hard to imagine that they wouldn’t include the first Herogasm somewhere in the prequel show. Kripke admitted as much about the event’s inclusion, saying, “I think we’d be crazy not to, because Soldier Boy and Stormfront founded it, and they are the two leads of this new show.” Including that event will force Vought Rising to formally address the relationship between Soldier Boy and Stormfront.

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