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[The Boys] WTF was Stormfront’s lightning working on Starlight?

I know the real answer is the probably classic meta “we needed Stormfront to be winning the fight, so yes,” but I’m really curious if there’s any possible sane in-world answer that doesn’t involve absurd mental gymnastics. 

After making a very fine point multiple times that Starlight is an energy absorber, Annie is mysteriously blasted around by Stormfront’s lightning and seemingly isn’t absorbing much, if any, of it. I’d expected Starlight to say, “Surprise, bitch,” and go to town, forcing Stormfront to fall back to hand-to-hand since her energy attack would power up her opponent. Really took me out of the story for a minute. 

So how on Earth is Starlight able to pull enough energy from a car to kill a man and cauterize Hughie’s wound yet lethal lightning bolts are not only affecting her but not powering her up enough to turn Stormfront an Aryan corpse?
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Too much energy way too fast. Maybe someday Starlight could learn to harness lightning and make use of it, but apparently not yet. Would be cool to see her learn this in future seasons tho! 

Modern trolleys run on high voltage, but they have built in lighting arrestors in order to dissipate the huge spike of energy that comes from a lighting strike.