Still chewing on The Boys’ season 5 ending? A star weighs in on Homelander’s fate

So, three months on from The Boys packing it in, people are still squabbling online about that finale — and, let’s be real, it was always going to be slightly polarising. Anyone who read the original comics could tell you long before now that Eric Kripke had borrowed some wild creative licence by Season 4. By the time we reached that mad-dash Season 5, the show was less an adaptation and more a brutal satire with a life of its own. But if you ask me, the decision to put Homelander in the ground was bang on.

Stormfront’s Take

Aya Cash, who played the straight-up evil Stormfront back in Season 2, recently sat down with MovieWeb to chat about Homelander’s unceremonious exit. She described the on-set experience as ‘wild, but also, like, very sweet’, which I’ll take to mean “traumatising but we got through it”. She was honest about how much she enjoyed being let off the leash as a villain — though playing an actual Nazi wasn’t exactly a picnic, especially when it came to spewing lines straight out of the darkest corners of the internet. You could practically see her relief every time the so-called “good guys” managed to one-up Stormfront.

Here’s how she put it when asked about the show’s moral endgame: "Ultimately, the good guys win, even if it's complicated," she said.

The big climax saw Butcher (Karl Urban, bringing a new level of angry exhaustion) finally battering Homelander (Antony Starr) into a bloody heap — but not before Kimiko’s EMP-style wallop stripped Homelander’s powers and left him flailing. Yes, it was surreal watching a bloke who thinks he’s a god suddenly jump up and realise he’s got the same powers as any bloke down the pub. Jaw-dropping and, honestly, oddly funny.

On-Set Oddities and Season 2 Mayhem

Cash singled out Antony Starr’s performance as Homelander in his final moments for particular praise — especially his attempts at taking off and flying, which came off as both tragic and hilarious. Apparently, the bit where Starr does his “jump and fly” routine looks cool on screen, but in person it’s basically an actor on wires flapping about. Here’s Cash explaining the behind-the-scenes truth:

Cash told MovieWeb: "Antony Starr, trying to jump and fly. Incredible. And also, that's what we do when we do stunts. That's actually the motion you do when you're flying. So it's very much what the actors are doing on set. When you think it looks really cool, they're flying. That's what we actually do."

Filming those fights — or, in her case, the infamous flying sex scene with Homelander in Season 2 — was a logistical nightmare of harnesses, wires, and about eleven different people shouting. Even Cash, who’d rather be in the thick of a brawl than reading from Stormfront’s hate-speech script, admitted those stunt scenes were a right pain but still better than spouting Nazi nonsense.

Vought Rising and What’s Next

If you thought Stormfront was done (given she didn’t exactly walk away in one piece), think again. Aya Cash is returning in the newly shot Vought Rising – a twisted prequel set in the 1950s, back before Vought turned into everyone’s least favourite superhero factory and was just a bog-standard defence contractor. Expect a gory murder mystery vibe, with Jensen Ackles back as Soldier Boy and Cash playing Clara Vought — Stormfront by another name, early Compound V experiments and all that. Cash says filming’s wrapped and she’s genuinely proud of the result.

Filming on Vought Rising is finished. It’s one of the best things I’ve ever worked on, and I hope the fans love it as much as I do.