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Fixing plot holes in The Boys: Season 2 (contains spoilers)

Fixing plot holes in The Boys: Season 2 (contains spoilers)

1. No supervillains? This whole time? Really?? It seems absurd that Vought wouldn't have thought of supervillains this whole time. Wouldn't heroes become obsolete in society after only a few years of their existence? Even in real world comics, superheroes are useless without their villains. This is an easy thing to explain into the show's canon. Just say Vought stopped producing supervillains and started using marketing to keep supes relevant, instead. Homelander then could've revived the idea behind Vought's back, since it's been known Compound V was missing/stolen, anyway. In fact, using supervillains could've originally been Stormfront's idea, as a way to spread propaganda. Why did they stop using them? Too risky, they were being investigated, they couldn't control them, too expensive, etc.

2. Wouldn't Vought know Compound V was missing? Considering it costs millions of dollars to produce a single vial, you'd think they'd have MAJOR security guarding it. Yet several times throughout the show, supes have been able to get it behind Vought's back. An easy explanation could've been the CEO letting Homelander and others take the Compound V, instead of looking like incompetent fools who have horrible security and inventory checking. He then could've used that to spin the super-terrorists angle and see their stock prices soar.

3. Stormfront almost never does anything Nazi-ish at all. She only has one scene in season two, with the apartment complex. Besides that, they never convincingly sell her to be a Nazi, whatsoever. They barely even hint at it. Furthermore, she's had several decades to realize the faulty logic in National Socialism and why it doesn't make much sense. Even though he is a Nazi in the comics, they could've improved Stormfront here and made it more about Supes vs Humans (Y'know, SUBTLETY!), and not the cliche "alt-right, white supremacists" garbage that'll be super-dated in a couple years. But they just had to go for that so-2020 woke angle, didn't they? So, if they needed her to be the villain, she needed to do much worse stuff. The easy solution? Have HER be the one killing dozens of innocent people after being exposed, not just a fantasy scene of Homelander. This also makes her death much more satisfying as well, because aside from that one apartment scene, they can't even convince the audience Stromfront is a Nazi.

In the show's universe, Vought would've easily had the money and resources to play off Stormfront being a Nazi and just make it look like a hoax. They also could've just made it look like that was her past and she has been "redeeming herself" ever since. (Especially since Cancel Culture doesn't seem to work if the person has the same beliefs/politics as you, from looking at James Gunn or Jimmy Kimmel.)

Merely believing in National Socialism doesn't make you a bad person, despite what people who can't think rationally like to believe. It just makes you a foolish person with bad ideas. No thought or belief alone makes someone "evil." It's the actions that make you bad, like actual genocide, torture, and death. Stormfront needed to sell herself as a villain and a bad person, and having her actually publicly kill people, instead of blaming it on super-terrorists, would've been her shining villain moment, instead of her just coming off like a weak-ass and petty in the final episode of season two.

4. The Deep has no character arc in season 2. How to fix this? Simple. Have him help Annie with the Vought Nazi secret. It seems like they had A-Train do it just to be woke, but The Deep had greater motivations for doing it and needed the face-turn, more. All they had to do was have A-Train picked by The Collective to rejoin The Seven, leading The Deep to be furious and betray The Collective. He would be the one to overhear the dinner conversation and would sneak into Hughie and Annie's car to give Annie the paperwork, as a sign of genuine redemption (although some of it is for himself, as well). Annie doesn't have to forgive him, but she can be the one to claim "we're even, now."

5. Have A-Train help with the Vought break in, so he can get more Compound V for his heart condition. A-Train's bad heart never gets resolved, does it? If the writers really wanted to redeem A-Train in some way (although he's still kind of a douche and doesn't deserve a redemption arc, yet), have him be the one to help break into Vought at some point before The Collective chooses him to rejoin The Seven. A-Train should be established to be buddies and still on good terms with Lamplighter, who logically shouldn't still have access to Vought (which is another thing that makes them look super incompetent). This mutually helps both of them; A-Train would be a junkie who still needs Compound V and wants to use it to fake medical clearance and try to get back into The Seven, before he's chosen by The Collective. He can go do his own thing, while Hughie and Lamplighter does theirs. Also, he can be the one who stops Black Noir, not Maeve, further redeeming A-Train. Furthermore, A-Train can steal the Compound V and not use it. As for his heart? Why not just have a super-healer that escaped the Compound V laboratory? Lamplighter could suggest he knows this girl who can help him, and says he'll call her after they break into Vought. But with Lamplighter dead, A-Train could find the healer girl on his own, and permanently fix his heart condition. That way, he never has to even use the Compound V (which is likely what caused this, to begin with) and he could give it to Hughie and The Boys, instead. And at one point, they could give it to Kimiko in episode eight, leading to my next point...

6. Have Kimiko kill Stormfront. Kimiko's character arc seemed to be about revenge. But does she really ever get it? Have her kill Stormfront. She could be given the Compound V right before the girl fight with Stormfront, or more logically, after Stormfront knocks her out. Stormfront can be shown to be so powerful, she beats both Maeve and Starlight by herself. Hughie (or Frenchie) gives Kimiko the Compound V, once knocked out, and it supercharges her, allowing her to severely injure Stormfront before she flies away. They could still do the confrontation with Butcher and Homelander's son, the same way it played out on TV, but have Stormfront survive the mega-blast and seem upstoppable while chanting Nazi stuff... Before Kimiko impales her arm through Stromfront's chest and rips out her heart from behind. Kimiko can also protect Butcher from Homelander before Maeve arrives, which is why Homelander wouldn't just laser Butcher to death, which seems like a more likely scenario, considering what he just did a few minutes earlier.

7. (Abandoned idea) One potential thought would be to have the AOC parody congresswoman working with Vought this whole time and reveal she's Stormfront's granddaughter and the one who brought Stormfront back from deep sleep or something, as her reveal at the end seemed kind of random (although it did tie up the head-burster plot line, albeit lazily). But since we don't know where season 3 is going yet, I hesitate to suggest that idea. Maybe she's an anti-hero, or maybe she's a rival competitor to Vought. Who knows? Having her be a Vought insider also seems a little cliche, like they're always one step ahead at all times. Without knowing where season three is going, I couldn't suggest this idea yet.

So that is what I think fixes all the major plot holes in The Boys, mainly in season two.

Fixing plot holes in The Boys: Season 2 (contains spoilers)
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