The Boys Season 4 Episode 6 was recently released and all I can say about it is, "The first rule of Episode 6 is we don't talk about Episode 6". If you get what I mean, well and good, but if you don't, I guess you haven't seen the episode yet. But in both episodes 5 and 6, something unusual happens to Annie January aka Starlight. She can't use her powers for some reason and while the show doesn't tell us why, the reason is right in front of us. Allow me in this article to point you towards the reason why Starlight's powers are not working in The Boys Season 4.

Starlight's powers don't work due to her emotional state in The Boys Season 4. In episode 4, we see Firecracker cross a line when she pulls out Starlight's medical records and tells everyone on live television that she had an abortion. This caused Starlight to lose control and she beat Firecracker to a pulp on live TV.

Although she did the right thing after what Firecracker did, her public image was ruined for good and almost all of her followers lost faith in her. Her plan with Robert Singer to take down Victoria Neuman was thwarted at the same time. After all this, when Starlight tried to use her powers in episode 5, she couldn't and the same thing happened in episode 6 when she ran into Firecracker while infiltrating Tek Knight's estate to find Hughie who went in there as Webweaver to grow bugs.

In light of the events that happened in The Boys Season 4 Episode 4, Starlight has lost a lot of her confidence and suffers emotionally, and as a side effect of this, her powers still don't work in The Boys Season 4.