The Unapologetic Firecracker of Valorie Curry in The Boys Season 4

<img class="gallery-image " src="https://www.slashfilm.com/img/gallery/why-valorie-currys-firecracker-is-so-sick-in-the-boys-season-4/intro-1728924616.jpg" data-slide-url="https://www.slashfilm.com/1687752/why-valorie-curry-firecracker-sick-the-boys/" data-post-id="1687752" data-slide-num="0" data-slide-title="Why Valorie Curry's Firecracker Is So Sick In The Boys Season 4: " width="780" height="438" alt="The Boys, Sage and Firecracker… would do anything for Homeland, but also she's great at intuiting what people need and she's great at intuiting what people need and she will give whoever's in the room whatever they need in the moment to keep them on her side. She's a survivor and I think that's the way that she has always survived. […] And it's funny, Colby [Minifie] and I joked that, I don't know why Ashley didn't think of this first. […] Why has nobody thought of this? It seems really obvious and it would've been a really easy way to get some control over this. A horrible man."

It’s a testament to Firecracker’s brand of ambition that she manages to outdo Ashley in this department, even though sucking up to Homelander is basically 99% of Ashley’s job at this point. Is this an example of Firecracker being cleverer than Ashley or one of Ashley being wiser? After all, Firecracker’s technique may have given her more power over Homelander than Ashley’s ever had, but perhaps Ashley’s learned a thing or two from what happened to Stillwell and knows it’s not worth the trouble. 
As for what Curry thinks should happen with Firecracker in season 5? The actor hasn’t minced words, telling ScreenRant:

“I mean, I hope to see her dead. She has it coming from any number of people, but I’m really curious to see how Firecracker behaves from a place of desperation now that she realizes that she has very good reason to be afraid of Homelander. She realizes that she is as much a prisoner as she is empowered by Vought. It’s something she can’t get out alive now, and she knows that.”