Warning: The following feature contains SPOILERS for The Boys season 2 finale.

The Boys season 2 finale ended with some shocking revelations regarding the character of Victoria Neuman. These twists suggest something of the battles to come in season 3, though it is still unclear just what Neuman's agenda is, and who, if anyone, she is working with (or for).

Many things have been changed as The Boys was adapted from a comic book series into a show for Amazon Prime. Some of these changes have drastically altered the backstory and background of the major characters, such as the shocking twist in The Boys' season 1 finale that Billy Butcher's wife Becca was still alive and had been raising the son she had after being raped by Homelander in secret. This dramatically changed the nature of Billy Butcher's quest for revenge against Homelander and Vought International, resulting in Billy developing an even more anti-social personality than in the comics, as he fought an entirely different battle.

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Victoria Neuman underwent a similar metamorphosis as she was adapted from the comics. Beyond being a gender-flipped version of a male character named Victor Neuman, virtually everything about Victoria was the exact opposite of her comic book counterpart. This included an explosive secret which was not revealed until The Boys season 2 finale, which promises an even more shocking storyline in The Boys season 3.

How Victoria Neuman Was Changed From The Comics

The Boys Victor Neuman Vic The Veep

Victor K. Neuman was created by writer Garth Ennis as an exaggerated parody of President George W. Bush. The scion of a conservative old-money family with ties to both the CIA and the Vought-American corporation, Neuman was a simple-minded pervert barely capable of signing his own name and reading a teleprompter. Thankfully, this was all that was required of him as Vought-American's CEO and more than was required of him when he became the Vice President of the United States. As the story of The Boys unfolded, Vought-American bided their time, waiting for an opportunity to run "Vic The Veep" for President, at which point he could start rubber-stamping their plans to introduce superheroes into the American military and start raking in Defense Department contract money.

Victoria Neuman is the total opposite of Victor Neuman in every respect. While her party affiliation was never stated in The Boys season 2, her political attitudes are decidedly liberal by American standards, leading both protest rallies against the militarization of superhumans and the Congressional investigation into corruption at Vought-International. The character has invited comparison to U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; a famous firebrand politician and comic-book fan, whose mannerisms actress Claudia Doumit admitted to mimicking in her portrayal of Victoria Neuman.

How The Boys' Season 2 Finale Revealed Victoria Neuman's True Nature

The Boys Season 2 Finale Victoria Neuman Meets Hughie

The season 2 finale of The Boys opened with Neuman's political future in doubt, after the US House Judiciary hearing on corruption at Vought-International ended in confusion and violence, with an unknown Supe making the heads of several people attending the hearing explode. This included the Chair of the Judiciary Committee and the speedster Shockwave. With supervillain terrorists now apparently able to infiltrate Congressional hearings undetected, there was no room for anyone like Neuman who questioned the wisdom of Supes serving in the military and the President was ready to sign the bills introduced by Neuman's rivals that could make it happen.

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Luckily for Neuman, A-Train delivered a dossier holding everything that the Church of the Collective had learned about Stormfront and her secret past as a Nazi to Hughie Campbell and Starlight; partly to pay the debt he felt he owed them for saving his life, partly to get back at Stormfront for treating him badly, but mostly to open up a space on The Seven so he could return. Later in the episode, after the dossier was leaked to the public, it was revealed that Church of the Collective leader Alastair Adana was aware of the theft but wasn't upset since Stormfront had long been speaking out against the Church (as seen in her previous, racist-subtext-laden conversation with A-Train). He was also impressed by A-Train's initiative and used his influence to get him invited back into The Seven.

The final scenes of the episode revealed there was much less luck in play than was apparent at first, as Alistair Adana called Victoria Neuman on the phone and congratulated her on her new appointment overseeing a new Office of Superhuman Affairs (he even referred to her as "Vic" — perhaps a reference to her comic-book counterpart). Neuman, in turn, thanked Adana for his intervention, saying she knew it was his intelligence gathering that helped to bring down Stormfront. Adana said he could give her information on a dozen similarly corrupt Supes in exchange for some consideration in getting his Church declared an officially recognized tax-exempt organization. Neuman agreed and ended the call, just before Adana's head exploded in the same manner as the people who died at the Judiciary hearing. The scene ended with a cut to outside Adana's office, where Neuman was watching his window with glazed over eyes, indicating that she was the Supe responsible for making peoples' heads explode throughout The Boys Season 2.

Victoria Neuman's Powers And Abilities

The Boys Season 2 Finale Victoria Neuman Revealed As Supe

Victoria Neuman has the power to make heads explode, though the precise mechanism for how she does this isn't clear. It's possible that she's a telekinetic, whose preferred method of murder is crushing peoples' heads from a distance. It's also possible her power is creating controlled explosions, much like the X-Man Tabitha "Boom-Boom" Smith, and she usually targets the heads of her enemies to be sure of killing them. Yet another possibility is that she can create force fields of variable size like the Invisible Woman, Sue Storm, who has threatened to kill various villains by forming a forcefield inside their head and then expanding it. Whatever the precise nature of Neuman's power, it seems to require a line of sight to function and she can only focus on one target at a time, based on the sequential order of deaths at the House Judiciary hearing.

Victoria Neuman's Role In The Boys Season 3

Victoria Neuman talking into a mic and smiling in The Boys

The final scene of The Boys season 2 finale saw Victoria Neuman meeting with Hughie Campbell in her office, offering him a job working for her campaign after acknowledging that he had delivered the Stormfront dossier directly to her and that she released it to the press. It's clear that Neuman will have a major role to play in the story of The Boys season 3, but it is uncertain just what her ultimate goal is. Given Vought-International's control over all the superheroes in the world, it seems improbable that Neuman is a rogue superhuman determined to bring down the company that created her by thwarting their plans and forcing the government to regulate them. On the other hand, while it's entire possible Vought might set one of their own people up as a popular politician seemingly opposed to Vought's interests while secretly establishing a new power base for the company in secret, there's seemingly no profit to be made in Victoria Neuman's political star rising  The only thing that seems certain is that Hughie Campbell's wish for a nice, quiet job fighting Vought-American "the right way... not covered in quite as many guts" won't come true, and that sooner or later he'll discover the truth about his new boss and wind up back with The Boys.

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