What new powers did Starlight gain in 'The Boys' Season 3? Erin Moriarty breaks it down exclusively for Distractify. Here's what she mentioned.
Warning: The following article contains spoilers for The Boys Season 3 finale on Prime Video.
For the longest time in The Boys, everyone underestimated Starlight's (Erin Moriarty) powers, particularly Starlight herself. Initially anyway.
Starlight's personality arc from Season 1 to Season 3 culminates in two pivotal moments during the Season 3 finale.
Both of the scenes involve Starlight utilizing her newfound powers. The first? A newfound ability to fly. Distractify spoke solely with Erin about her thoughts on Starlight's 2nd new power — her confidence.
Starlight dangers it all to take Homelander down for good.
Starlight's new powers, explained.
Starlight's first superpower was once the facility to harness electrical currents close by in order to shoot electrical beams from her arms. However, it's Starlight's newfound confidence that permits her to go head-to-head with Homelander (Antony Starr), and live to tell the tale.
So, if Starlight draws on electric currents close by for her physical superpower, what did she draw from for her newfound confidence? Here's Erin's insightful scorching take on the matter.
Erin explained that Starlight's faux facade operating at Vought used to be killing her spirit. She advised Distractify, "[Starlight] goes to such lengths to accomplish whatever mission she's on [in order to] accomplish her goals. And I think that what she ultimately realizes is that she needs to lose the facade to really commit to what her purpose is and what she believes her purpose is and that involves standing up to Homelander."
Homelander murdered Supersonic to intimidate Starlight into submission.
Starlight did in point of fact commit to losing the Vought facade after Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles) killed 12 people at Herogasm. Her makes an attempt to take Homelander down from the inside were not running. As Erin notes, when Starlight in any case hand over the Seven on Instagram are living on the scene of the Herogasm bloodbath, she was once in spite of everything "okay to sacrifice herself and be killed by [Homelander] if it mean[t] standing up for herself and, you know, trying to work towards taking Vought and Homelander down."
Homelander had tried to wreck Starlight down by means of killing her ex-boyfriend Supersonic (Miles Gaston Villanueva) and ousting Stan Edgar (Giancarlo Esposito) as Vought's CEO. Erin said that Stan's validation of Starlight was once "crucial."
Antony also spoke with Distractify at the matter, noting that another character's validation was an extra spark for Starlight's confidence. He said, "There's also something that's key to this whole thing. [At] the end of season two, where [Starlight] and Maeve basically put Homelander right on the backfoot. And that's where he stayed."
He joked that Homelander had never been weaker than the Season 2 finale because Maeve (Dominique McElligott) and Starlight had seized the opportunity to keep him in the doghouse and that was once a "crucial" moment in Starlight's confidence arc.
It's when Hughie (Jack Quaid) in any case decides to consider in Starlight's skill to offer protection to herself that her second new power awakens.
Starlight joins the Boys in the Season 3 finale.
Hughie considers taking yet one more (doubtlessly deadly) dose of Temp V when he sees Starlight is going through Soldier Boy by myself in The Boys Season 3 finale. However, he chooses to validate his lady via now not taking the V and turning up all the electrical power he can that's near Starlight.
As a result, Starlight reveals herself slowly levitating for the first time in The Boys! (She all the time had the facility to fly in the unique comics, FYI).
Ultimately, Starlight hangs up her cape and joins the Boys as her true self — Annie January. Erin told Distractify, (*3*)
You can watch Starlight/Annie get up to Homelander in The Boys Season 3, now on Prime Video.
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