Spoilers below for anyone who hasn’t caught up with The Boys Season 4 via an Amazon Prime subscription , so be warned! The first half of The Boys ’ fourth season has been a total doozy thus far, splitting critics’ opinions with its satirical bent on real-world politics, while also delivering the most technically challenging nude super-clone fight in TV history, among other things. Amidst Butcher’s dying days and Homelander’s reflective aging, a new rivalry has emerged in the form of Valorie Curry’s new Seven member Firecracker and Erin Moriarty’s Starlight, and the third and fourth episodes drove home the personal reasons why the villainous supe hates both Annie and her powered persona. When CinemaBlend spoke with co-creator and showrunner Eric Kripke , he not only told me a few key details about Rob Benedict’s self-pleasuring spa scene , but he also explained why the creative team wanted to give Firecracker and Starlight an arc with genuine comic book friction guiding it.
In his words: You know, beyond all the other things that Firecracker is - and she's a lot - she's also like the anti-Starlight in a way, where she's young and beautiful and fresh-faced, but her ideology just is the opposite of where Annie is. So we liked the idea that they have the same origin story, like any good comic book hero and villain. While there's possibly an alternate universe where Misty Gray and Annie January became fast friends while on the beauty pageant circuit as young women,.