WARNING: The following article contains major spoilers for the first three episodes of The Boys Season 2, available now on Amazon Prime Video.
At the start of The Boys Season 1, there's a huge question as to just who will replace Translucent on the Seven after Vought International acknowledges his demise. Initially, Homelander violently rejects a hero named Blindspot, unable to fathom having someone with a disability on the team. Homelander also makes clear that he believes he should be responsible for picking his team. However, Vought International refuses to indulge Homelander and instead recruits a young, social media savvy hero named Stormfront for the Seven without his permission.
Initially, Stormfront seems quite confrontational and critiques Vought International's exploitative approach to female superheroes. However, as the first three episodes progress, The Boys Season 2 reveals -- somewhat unsurprisingly to anyone who knows she shares a name with a Neo Nazi website -- that Stormfront is racist.
After finding out that his wife, Becca, is still alive, Billy Butcher makes a deal with Colonel Grace Mallory to detain the super terrorist that has been snuck in the United States by the Shining Light Liberation Army. However, when they encounter the terrorist, they find out that he is actually Kimiko's brother Kenji. Still, after a fight, the team detains Kenji and prepares to hand him over to the government so as to get cleared of the wrongdoings of which they are accused.
While on a stolen boat, things take a drastic turn when Kenji escapes imprisonment and downs a police helicopter. This soon draws the Seven to the scene, and the Boys are forced to flee. Eventually, they lose the use of their boat and are forced to flee through the sewers on foot, where Hughie encounters Starlight. She takes her former lover down, and Homelander arrives. He tells Starlight to kill Hughie, but before she can do so, Billy and Kenji intervene. Kenji attempts to flee the scene, but Kimiko goes after him. However, they're followed by Stormfront and Homelander.
After being blasted through the wall of an apartment building by Stormfront's lightning, Kimiko and Kenji continue to run away. However, not before Stormfront kills the family, who are Black. Kimiko and Kenji continue to battle Stormfront (who herself continues to kill people of color she sees, devastating the apartment block) and attempt to escape across the roof. Kimiko is too slow, though, and Kenji returns to save her from Stormfront's wrath. She quickly breaks his hands, rendering him unable to use his powers and then murders him, calling him a racist slur for Asian people. In the end, the various people Stormfront kills are blamed on Kenji.
A character named Stormfront was always going to be racist, especially when her comics counterpart was a literal Nazi. Just how far the series plans to take Stormfront's racism isn't totally clear from the first three episodes of the series. However, it's clear this version of the character is meant to be a comment on the more social media savvy racists of the 21st century, so there's definitely more to come.
Amazon Studios' The Boys stars Karl Urban as Billy Butcher, Jack Quaid as Hughie, Laz Alonso as Mother's Milk, Tomer Kapon as Frenchie, Karen Fukuhara as the Female, Erin Moriarty as Annie January, Chace Crawford as the Deep, Antony Starr as Homelander, Aya Cash as Stormfront and Simon Pegg as Hughie's dad. New episodes of Season 2 release Fridays on Amazon Prime Video.