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The Boys' Homelander and Queen Maeve are introduced to the newest member of the Seven, Stormfront, a character with a grotesque comic backstory.

Homelander and Queen Maeve meet their newest team member in a promo video for The Boys season 2. The Amazon Prime seriesfollows a team of vigilantes, The Boys,set on keeping the most powerful people on Earth, superheroes known as the Seven, from stepping out of line. After a successful season 1 with the characters, fans are already excited for season 2. Luckily, creator Eric Kripke and the main cast of the show gathered for a live stream event earlier today to discuss the upcoming season. They also revealedThe Boys will return this September, with a different type of streaming release schedule.

The latest addition to the Seven is Stormfront (Aya Cash), who will make her debut in season 2.In the original comic book run of The Boys by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, Stormfront is actually the first superhero ever created. She is also a male in the comics and was created by Nazi Germany, hence his racist ideologies and behavior that he espouses in the comics. However, to the public of The Boys, he is a reincarnated viking, and the leader of Payback, the comic's equivalent of the Avengers. Based on well-known superheroes Thor and Shazam, Stormfront can fly, has super-strength, and can manipulate the weather and electricity, putting him on the same level as Homelander in the comics. However, before he can bring down the sky on the world, the Boys end Stormfront by beating him to death.

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However, it seems the new take on the character will be quite different. In the promotional video for season 2 posted byThe Boysofficial Twitter account, Stormfront surprises Homelander and Queen Maevewhile filming a video for social media. Also making an appearance is Madelyn Stillwell's one-time assistant Ashley Barrett, played by Colby Minifie.The accompanying tweet asks in Billy Butcher style, "What the f***?", seeking clues about the newest member of the Seven.

While it is currently unclear exactly where Cash and Kripke plan on taking their version of Stormfront, it is clear they are putting a special amount of attention on the social media aspects of the character. Naturally, as part of the updating and changing of the story for modern audiences, Stormfront's social media following could point to how real-life neo-Nazis and the alt-right use social media to spread racist ideologies globally. It could make for an impressively timely take on the character.

Either way, as the writers of The Boyshave demonstrated in the past, they have an acute understanding of their characters. Introducing fans to Stormfront in this way shows the amount of thought and care that has been put into the show and the newest member of the Seven. Judging by Homelander and Queen Maeve's reactions in the video, it likely won't be smooth sailing for Stormfront. However, fans will have to wait until September to find out for sure.

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Source: The Boys/Twitter

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