Liberty’s identity was revealed on The Boys season 2 and the true villain is… systemic racism.
Warning: Spoilers fromThe Boysseason 2, episode 4 are discussed in this article.
So, who is she, really?
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And like some classic Scooby-Doo and the gang twist, the villain was… systemic racism this whole time.
The uniformed protector then murdered her brother in cold blood.
Valerie was paid off by Vought to keep quiet about the incident as Liberty went off the radar.
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But according to Valerie, she’s now back, only operating under another name: Stormfront.
As in,Aya Cash’s Stormfront.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:Let’s talk about Liberty.
What was the thinking behind creating that kind of persona?
ERIC KRIPKE:We had this notion of wanting to start to hint at how very old Stormfront is.
That’s a reveal that we always had.
That seemed like a Vought thing to do.
We don’t avoid hard-hitting subjects.
I would say we gravitate towards them.
We wrote this two years ago.
I know it’s been a long time since you sat down to write these scripts.
Do you remember what was going on in the real world that had an impact on the room?
That story is a very, sadly, realistic one.
I was thinking of another Amazon show,Hunters.
Did you watch that?
Obviously, in this season, you’re talking about something similar with Vought.
Wernher von Braun being the famous one who was our inspiration for Frederick Vought himself.
We got to the moon because of Wernher von Braun and the guy was a fing stone-cold Nazi.
It’s just unbelievable.
It was us and the Soviets versus the Germans.
A lot of that is infused in the storyline of the show.
For better and worse, you guys have this ability to predict the cultural climate months earlier.
Is there a whiplash that comes with this season particularly?
We still ensure the show is fun and funny and entertaining.
It’s our job to be entertainers first and foremost.
I understand my place as a carnie.
I don’t pretend to be anything more than what I am.
You shouldn’t be watching ours."
My idol is Rod Serling.
That to me is the gold standard.
I reject the premise that genre can’t talk about the hard issues.
As a matter of fact, I think it talks about them better than most.
We have Elisabeth Shue back this season by way of Doppelganger.
But they are both powerful women who understand what a resource he is.
What’s the psychosis of Homelander killing himself, or at least a guy who looks like himself?
Boy, isn’t Antony amazing in that scene?
Give that guy all the Emmys for that scene.
That’s in my top 3 Antony Starr scenes.
I feel we pulled our punch at the last minute and I’m a little disappointed about that.
He has this very human need to be loved and this desire for approval and praise.
And because he’s never gotten it, he has this endless hunger for love from these anonymous masses.
Spoiler alert, it doesn’t work.
He becomes more of a mess than ever.
I think Homelander’s ego way outweighs any sort of sexual preference.
I think his sexual preference is himself.
Yeah, it was funny.
She denies this, but when she came on she only wanted to do one season.
And so she had seen the season 1 episodes.
We’ve kept in touch and she’s so cool.
She was telling, “Oh my God, they’re so great.
I kinda wish I could come back now.”
I came back in [the writers room] and was like, “We’re in!
We got it.”
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