Klara became the original Vought superhero after taking a successful first dose of Compound V. She gained powers such as electrokinesis and superhuman strength. But she would not remain in Germany for too long. In 1944, she and her husband were brought to America during an Operation Paperclip WWII effort to bring German scientists into U.S. employ.
Klara’s husband would go on to become the founder of the company Vought-American, which later became Vought International, and Klara changed her name to Adele Vought (after her overbearing mother) possibly to avoid anti-German sentiment.
Liberty and Stormfront
During the 1950s, Clara (her name gets Anglicized) started operating as a Supe under the moniker Liberty, and met Soldier Boy, who had successfully adapted to a dose of V1, along with Private Angel, Bombsight, and Torpedo. She and Soldier Boy founded the annual superhero orgy Herogasm together, and apparently began a decades-long romance.
Clara was operating as Liberty up until the late 1970s, when she was linked to racially motivated murders. But between 1979 and 2020, her whereabouts and activities were unknown. She did not seem to be around when Vought sold Soldier Boy out to the Russians in 1984. Around 2020, Clara reemerged from the shadows, adopted the moniker Stormfront, and pretended to be a social media-savvy Supe from Portland, answering to Vought International CEO Stan Edgar as a new member of the Seven.
During the second season of The Boys, we saw her romance Homelander and try to spur him on to insidious greatness. She revealed her white supremacist agenda and that she and her husband once had a daughter called Chloe, who apparently never took Compound V because she aged and died like everyone else, while Clara barely aged a day.
The Boys, along with Queen Maeve, tried to kill Stormfront when they discovered what she’d been up to. Yet, it was Ryan who took her out of the picture as he tried to prevent harm to his mother, Becca. Using his heat vision, he severely burned her and turned three of her four limbs into stumps. Clara tried to maintain her relationship with Homelander following this brutal encounter with Ryan, but she eventually lost faith in him. She took her own life by biting off her tongue.
