'The Boys' Season 2 Ending Explained: Stormfront possibly dead with Neuman’s secret set to influence Season 3
At the end of 'The Boys' Season 2, Hughie came to a surprising conclusion with help from Annie aka Starlight. Hughie realized that his mother, who had abandoned him at a young age had left a deep impression on him, resulting in his habit of clinging on to people. The basis of his relationship with Billy Butcher in fact stems from the notion that giving up on Billy despite his toxic behavior would make him similar to his mother. However, after Billy makes the right decision in matters regarding his wife Becca and her son Ryan, a first of his kind supe who came into this world without being injected with Compound V, everyone around Billy goes through a change.
Hughie tells Annie that she was right about him not giving up on people, but also tells her that he is going to stop being so clingy with people. Annie misunderstands that Hughie is referring to their relationship, and tells him hesitantly that she doesn't mind being friends with him. Hughie, with a huge smile, tells her that he plans on clinging on to her for a while still. Turns out, Hughie is distancing himself from the Boys -- Billy, Mother's Milk, Frenchie, and Kimiko -- because he believes that he doesn't belong with them. To an extent this is true. While Billy and the others would prefer to use their guns to solve a problem, Hughie would prefer to use his brain and a nonviolent solution to get his work done. Keeping this in mind, Hughie chooses to work with Congresswoman Victoria Neuman, who had helped the Boys take on the Seven and had even protested the supes having too much control and power within the United States.
With the appearance of supe-terrorists, the Seven -- specially Stormfront, Homelander and Queen Maeve have been enjoying attention and adoration from people who believe that they save everyone. Of course, by the end, Homelander 'sacrificed' his love for Stormfront when Maeve blackmails him with a video of how Homelander left hundreds to die. He learned of his son killing Stormfront after she attacked Ryan's mother Becca, but he decides to forgive his son. However, when Ryan refuses to go with him, Homelander is unable to make a counter move with Maeve holding a card over him. Instead, he even apologizes to Starlight publicly for casting suspicions regarding her loyalty to Seven. After news of Stormfront being a Nazi broke and in her absence, Homelander decides to blame her for everything and stand tall as a hero in front of people of the US.
The one scene the makers decided not to add to the first season, made it to this season as Homelander, after being controlled and manipulated by Maeve, decides to air his frustrations from atop a multistorey building by masturbating to his voice as he repeatedly claimed that he is capable of doing all that he wanted. However, the most shocking revelation in this breezy episode of 'The Boys' happens to be the person behind the Capital Hill mass murder. As heads began bursting out, literally, both Homelander and Stormfront had assumed that it was the work of Edgar. However, we realized at the end of episode 8 that the person behind this attack was none other than Congresswoman Victoria Neuman.
This we know because she wreaked the same havoc on the director of the Church of the Collective, who after a shot of Fresca decided to reveal that he has more information about a bunch of supes that he could trade with her for tax benefits. Right after, she walks into her office as if nothing happened and even decides to hear Hughie out when he asks her for a job. It is ironic that Hughie would leave one violent group behind to join another, even if unintentionally at that. How would this influence Hughie's life in season 3, now that he has decided to date Starlight, and is Victoria really one of the guys that Billy and his friends can trust? Of course, for the moment, each of them is enjoying a moment of peace with their loved ones. MM returned to his daughter, Frenchie and Kimiko found a chance to dance away a night, Billy handed Ryan over to Grace Mallory to keep him safe and Victoria essentially heads a team that would keep secret tabs on all the supes through Billy's team.
From being convicts and murderers on the run, they might turn into secret agents, which will not be something new for Billy who has been a CIA agent in the past already. Will the others join him and who will be the big bad guy in the upcoming season in the absence of Stormfront? One must keep in mind that Stormfront might not be dead, but just extremely injured. So what role will she play in the future?
Season 1 and Season 2 of 'The Boys' can be streamed on Amazon Prime Video.