Stormfront casting... does petite work?

No, original Stormfront is much more threatening and scary.

I'm not a fan of the actress either, she's rather bland and dumpy looking in my opinion. If they wanted a female so bad, they should have gone for someone athletic like Gina Carano.

Original Stormfront: https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Stormfront

Were dealing with people with god like abilities? Who cares what they physically look like! None of the supes abilites are based on physique.

Seems perfectly fine to me. Stature isn't all that important when their powers exceed what people can do by that much.

Also, they seem to be alluding to Stormfront being some kind of shapeshifter.

I'm not a fan of the comics so I'm not attached to Stormfront's "look" there

I think Aya Cash is awesome, precisely because she's petite, cuter than she is gorgeous, and acts sassy

It's that much more jarring when she goes apeshit and wipes out civilians, before revealing herself as a pure psychopath and racist.

With Starr's Homelander, you just know he's a psycho from the get-go (as I'm sure was the intent - but the guy's even scary during panel interviews when he's being genuinely nice)

Cash's Stormfront seems like she might be likable, and it becomes all the more believable that Vought has covered up her past misdeeds (as Liberty) and will successfully cover up her ongoing crimes.

It's an old trope, the petite girl who is stronger than guys... many many examples (e.g. Maggie Q in Die Hard 4)

I think her petite figure detracts. People ultimately are wired to perceive people based on physical stature - unconsciously. You can't control it whether it's PC or not. Studies after studies show that taller people are more successful and are paid more per inch. Even if your rational brain can process the whole superhero logic, ultimately your primal unconscious brain generally wins out, unless your using all your brain power to logic your way through the whole season.

There's a reason why Mr. Olympia was picked to be more believable as a Terminator than say Jack Black, even though it shouldn't matter as the Jack Black type would've work better as an undercover cyborg. Now if Hollywood takes notice like they did with Arnold and this leads to Aya becoming a lead for a slew of action movies going forward, I'll eat my words.

Pretty sure Homelander is wearing a muscle suit and nobody seems to care about that.

Short can work, but that giant pot belly did no one any favors.