The Boys is finishing up with its fifth and final season on Prime Video, beginning on April 8, 2026. All the cast interviews coming out before the season starts are slowly creating a picture of what to expect when the show ends. Some interesting points are coming out of the recent interviews with the cast, particularly Valorie Curry, who plays Firecracker, that are pretty big when it comes to Homelander's weakness in this final season of The Boys.In a recent interview with Screen Rant, Curry was asked whether Firecracker has made peace with being a kind of tool in Homelander's hands, or whether she might be looking to break away as things get more desperate in season 5. Curry pushed back on the whole idea straight away, and in doing so, she said something very telling about the man at the top."I don't think anybody's Homelander's pawn, he cannot play chess."She went on to say that if anyone is actually moving the pieces around on the board, it is Sister Sage, and that Homelander might actually be one of those pieces himself."He thinks he's playing chess all the time, but he's not playing chess. He is all instinct, all reaction."That is a pretty sharp observation about a character who has spent the entire series believing he is the most powerful and most intelligent person in any room he walks into. And coming from someone who has been standing right next to him, it carries a lot of weight. The idea that Homelander is not the strategic mastermind he sees himself as, but rather someone who just reacts emotionally to whatever is in front of him, lines up with a lot of what The Boys has been building across four seasons.What does this mean for Firecracker and her place in Homelander's world in The Boys?Curry also opened up about where Firecracker's head is at going into the final season of The Boys, and it is a much more complicated place than where she started. When Firecracker first joined The Seven in The Boys season 4, she seemed to believe that being close to Homelander was a form of power in itself.By the end of The Boys season 4, that thinking had changed completely."I think Firecracker's only really realized by the end of season four that she would be a pawn, that she would be a tool that this proximity to power is not actually power. And in fact, it's the most dangerous place that she can be."Curry has also said in previous interviews that she hopes Firecracker meets a dark end in the final season of The Boys, telling Screen Rant that she is really curious to see how Firecracker behaves from a place of desperation now that she has very good reason to be afraid of Homelander, and that the character has realised she is as much a prisoner as she is empowered by Vought.What makes this all so interesting is that Firecracker's feelings toward Homelander are not simply fear. Curry described the situation as fear, genuine love, and devotion existing in the same space at the same time, pulling her in different directions."That fear that she's learned of Homelander also is coexisting with the love and the devotion that is very genuine for her. So I think that's actually what she's going to have to reckon with is, do you make peace with it? Do you not? What would she even want other than that?"Why Homelander's biggest weakness could be his own downfall by the end?The point Curry is making about Homelander running on instinct rather than strategy is not just a character observation. It is actually a hint at how someone as powerful as him could ever be brought down. Throughout the entire series, the show has consistently shown that Homelander's ego and his deep emotional neediness are not just personal flaws; they are vulnerabilities that the people around him have learned to use, whether they realise it or not.Firecracker making breast milk to manage his attachment issues is one of the stranger examples of this, but it is also one of the clearest illustrations of how much control his emotions have over him.TVLine also reported that Curry believes Firecracker has now developed a healthy fear of Homelander after getting a full picture of just how violent and unpredictable he really is, and that she is intrigued to see how the character pivots in light of that.The Boys Season 5 picks up in a world completely controlled by Homelander, with the rest of The Boys scattered and Annie January trying to build a resistance against his rule. The first two episodes drop on April 8, with the remaining six releasing weekly until the finale on May 20, 2026.