The Boys' Stormfront Story Originally Had a Much More Brutal End
Stormfront is one of the most memorable villains in The Boys, a literal Nazi übermensch who survived World War II and masquerades as an American superhero. When the team finally gets rid of him in the comics, it's a cathartic and epic scene that calls back to the history of the War, while its adaptation in the Amazon show is much less rewarding.
The Boys is a comic book created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, published between 2006 and 2012 by DC's WildStorm and Dynamite Entertainment. The team, simply called «the Boys,» is put together by the CIA to watch over the community of superheroes (dubbed «Supes»), depicted as corrupt, self-obsessed, and depraved celebrities, created and manipulated by mega-corporation Vought American. The secret behind the Supes' existence is a substance called Compound V, created for the Third Reich by Jewish scientist Joseph Vogelbaum during the Second World War. Fearing for his life, Vogelbaum escaped to the United States with the help of Vought American who continued to fund his experiments. However, the Nazis got at least one super-soldier: Stormfront.
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Stormfront was the first Supe ever created, indoctrinated as a Nazi since childhood. Even Hitler was scared of him, so he ordered him killed but Vogelbaum managed to get Stormfront to America too, where he grew up to be seen as a hero under the pretense that he was a reincarnated Viking. Stormfront wasn't just the key to creating more Compound V, his DNA was also used to clone Homelander, Vought's flagship, most powerful Supe. Because he retained his beliefs from World War II, and due to his dangerous true origins, Vought kept Stormfront on the sidelines and assigned him
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