It’s almost a tether to humanity or real life,” she says. He could kill him at any time, but he needs him, in a way. “Homelander really likes having Butcher around. “Can he carry that goodness,” she asks, or will he “just throw it all away once the kid is safe” and out of his sight?Īmong the many character beats Sonnenshine had to hit in this scene was getting Homelander to a place where he would be willing to kill Butcher. The question going forward is whether his come-to-Jesus moment will stick in season three. That’s huge for Butcher,” says Sonnenshine. This short scene pushes Butcher in a new direction as he decides to honor his promise to Becca. And then he sees his son, who did this, and he’s trying to be a parent in this moment too.” So when he sees her, he’s kind of heartbroken. “He has so many emotions to convey,” the writer says of Starr’s performance, which she says often plays against expectations. Her being able to express something in that moment was heartbreaking.” “It was grotesque, but it was also sad and beautiful in a weird way.

“That was the missing piece,” Sonnenshine says of the production deciding to have her speak German at that point. The original script called for Stormfront to be silent here, but the image of the villain lying badly burned and with severed limbs felt gratuitous on its own. With her dying breath, Becca asks her estranged husband, Billy Butcher (Karl Urban), to protect her son, who was fathered by Homelander (Antony Starr), who soon arrives to discover Ryan’s powers have also eviscerated Homelander’s romantic partner, Stormfront (Aya Cash). In this scene from The Boys‘ season two finale, Ryan Butcher (played by Cameron Crovetti) unleashes his superpowers for the first time, and in the process accidentally deals a fatal blow to his mother, Becca Butcher (Shantel VanSanten).

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