Homelander (TV Series)

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Villain Overview Gallery

Evil-doer
Full Name	John
Alias	Homelander The Homelander Homolander World's Greatest Superhero (by himself) Cunt (by Billy Butcher) Man-child (by Stan Edgar) Gramps (by Stormfront)
Origin	The Boys
Occupation	Vought International Superhero Leader of The Seven
Powers / Skills	Intellect Charisma Intimidation Manipulation Compound V: Flight Heat vision X-Ray vision Superhuman strength Superhuman durability Superhuman stamina Superhuman speed Superhuman hearing
Hobby	Killing people.
Goals	Find out what happened to Translucent. Take down criminals and keep his public figure positive. Create more “supes” so they’re more supervillains for him and the Seven to fight. Convince the military to allow Superheroes into the armed forces. Use “supe” terrorists to prevent the closing down off Vought. Kill the sniper. Cover up his crime of causing a plane of innocent people to crash. Use the plane crash as a spin to allow the seven in the military. Kill the terrorists attacking the military so he can improve his reputation. Get the truth out of Vogelbaum and torture him for his treatment over him as a child. Have the Boys exposed to the authorities. Kill Stillwell for lying and manipulating him. Spare Butcher and reveal Becca and her son's alive to mess with him. Bring Ashley back into Vought so he can use her as a puppet to give him more control over Vought operations. Kill all of Maeve's lovers and admirers to keep her for himself. Cripple Blindspot to prevent him from entering the seven and make a point to Ashley. Kick A-Train out of the seven. Kill Doppelgänger to prove he no longer needs anyone but himself. Kill the African supe-terrorist (all succeeded). Get out of Vought's control so he and the Seven can do whatever they want (partially succeeded). Maintain his public image as a hero (partially succeeding). Maintain his position as leader of the Seven against Stormfront (formerly). Teach his son to become like him. Help Stormfront in her goals. Defeat Billy Butcher and The Boys. Repair his reputation after his murder of an innocent bystander is revealed (all ongoing)
Crimes	Corruption Rape Abuse (of power, physical, and psychological) Mass murder Terrorism Mutilation Sexual assault Voyeurism Conspiracy Fraud Illegal dealings (drugs and weapons) Smuggling Incrimination Torture Animal cruelty Extortion
Type of Villain	Psychopathic Supervillain

“	You guys...are the real heroes.	„
	~ Homelander's catchphrase.

“	I'm the Homelander, and I can do whatever the f*** I want.	„
	~ Homelander's most famous quote.

Homelander is the main antagonist of the 2019 Amazon Prime TV adaptation of the highly controversial adult comic-book series The Boys.

Homelander is the most powerful superhero produced by Vought-American and the leader of the famous superhero team known as The Seven. Like the comics, he is leader of The Seven and is an arrogant, violent "hero" who cares more about his public image than saving others. While putting on the front of a flawless and pure superhero team, Homelander and The Seven are in fact responsible for causing much more destruction and death than the prevent. However, their crimes are covered up by Vought through their vast media connections and resources.

Among the Seven, Homelander is seemingly the most incorruptible, not partaking in many of the vices his fellow superheroes engage in such as drugs and sex. However, beneath the act he puts up, Homelander is the worst one of all, regarding non-Supes as "mud-people" and taking joy in using his superpowers to kill people. He is the arch-nemesis of Billy Butcher, having raped and allegedly murdered his wife while she was his social media manager at Vought.

He serves as the main antagonist in season one and appears again in season two.

He is portrayed by Antony Starr.

Biography

Past

Homelander was raised from childhood in a laboratory by Vought, who hoped to make him into their premier superhero by infusing him with Compound V. He had no parents, instead being cared for by the scientists and researchers who worked in the facility.

In order to cover up his true origins, Vought concocted a fake past for him where he was a farmboy raised in an ordinary household. Because he had no true mother or father, Homelander came to see his manager at Vought Madelyn Stillwell as a surrogate mother for him.

At some point, Homelander had raped his social media manager Rebecca Butcher and unknowingly got her pregnant. Rebecca's pregnancy was kept a secret from both the public and Homelander by Vought, who relocated her and her son to a suburb.

Season 1

Homelander observed a business discussion between Stillwell and the mayor of Baltimore about having Vought's superhero Nubian Prince move to the town to deal with the crime there. After the mayor threatened to release details about Compound V unless Stillwell dropped the price for Nubian Prince from $300 million to $200 million, Homelander flew by the mayor's plane as he was flying back to Baltimore and shot it down with his heat vision, killing the Mayor along with everybody on board.

After Translucent mysteriously went missing, Homelander began to suspect something was amiss and ordered Anika in Vought's tech support to activate Translucent's microchip so they could see where he was. While they were unable to pin down his exact location, they did get a read of the general area he was in, leading Homelander to fly off there to search for him. However, Billy Butcher and Frenchie were able to distract Homelander with a fake explosion several miles from the site they were holding Translucent at, diverting Homelander's attention long enough for Hughie Campbell to activate the bomb Frenchie had shoved up Translucent's behind and kill him.

Translucent's remains were later dumped into the ocean by the Boys, but were recovered by the Deep and brought to Homelander. Homelander was quick to realize that whoever had killed Translucent was targeting them and had knowledge of their powers, as they had used a box made of zinc to hide the remains (which was the one material Homelander could not see through with his X-Ray vision) and had written "Coming For You" on the inside of the box.

As Vought pushed for superheroes to be let into the United States military, Homelander and Queen Maeve were given a test to see if they would be a good fit, being set to rescue the hijacked Flight 371 and its passengers. Boarding the plane, Homelander easily took out three of the terrorists who had hijacked it with his heat vision. After comforting the passengers, Homelander and Queen Maeve went to the cockpit to deal with the fourth and final terrorist. They discovered the terrorist had already killed the co-pilot of the plane and were unable to stop him in time before he slit the throat of the pilot. Homelander killed the terrorist with his heat vision, but inadvertently damaged to control panel of the plane as well. Realizing the plane was doomed to crash, Homelander chose to leave the plane in order to avoid responsibility. Queen Maeve pleaded with him to save some of the passengers, including a little girl and her mother, but Homelander refused as they had seen what had really happened. After grabbing Queen Maeve, Homelander flew off from the plane and abandoned it to crash into the ocean, killing everyone on board.

After the plane's wreckage was recovered, Homelander stated to the media that he and Queen Maeve had only gotten there a few minutes after the plane had crashed, blaming the fact that he and other superheroes were not let into the military chain of command for the plane crashing and claiming that, had they been, they would have been able to get there on time. He ended his speech by urging Americans to contact their congressmen to let superheroes into the military.

After discovering that knowledge of Compound V had gotten out, Homelander suspected that A-Train's girlfriend Popclaw had something to do with it and sent him to get the truth from her. After A-Train got Popclaw to admit who had blackmailed her into giving them the Compound V, A-Train killed her under Homelander's orders and staged her death to look like a drug overdose.

Homelander and the Seven were further given a lead as to who was responsible for killing Translucent and stealing the V when Mesmer approached them with information, giving them the faces of the five members of the Boys. Homelander recognized one of the people as Hughie Campbell, the boyfriend of fellow Seven member Starlight, and called a meeting of the Seven to discuss his findings. During the meeting, Homelander stated that the other Seven members (with the exception of Black Noir) had gotten lazy and confronted Starlight over her relationship with Hughie, believing she was involved with them. However, Queen Maeve was able to persuade Homelander to spare Starlight, convincing him that Hughie had just used her and that she had no knowledge of what he was doing.

Homelander also recognized another member of the Boys as Billy Butcher, the husband of his former social media manager Rebecca who had mysteriously disappeared, and went to Stillwell for answers. Stillwell pointed him to Dr. Vogelbaum, the scientist who had created him, and Homelander traveled to his estate to get answers. Vogelbaum revealed to Homelander that Rebecca had gotten pregnant, but told him that while Vought was trying to deliver the baby, it had clawed its way out of her womb and drowned in its mother's blood. Vogelbaum then stated that Homelander was his greatest failure, as he had raised him without compassion and without knowing a mother's love. Homelander then affirmed that he was a success and was the world's greatest superhero before leaving. Recognizing several inconsistencies between Stillwell and Vogelbaum's stories, Homelander realized they were still partly lying to him and kept searching for the truth.

The Seven and Vought soon set out to round up the Boys, but before they could the Boys turned over all the evidence they had collected to the CIA in exchange for protection for themselves and their families. With the evidence that Vought was conducting human experiments with Compound V, the CIA was set to take legal action against Vought, putting their deal to allow superheroes into the military in jeopardy. To put pressure on the government to pass the bill, Homelander had A-Train run the Compound V to various terrorist groups and conduct human experiments to create "super-terrorists" for the Seven and other superheroes to fight. After footage of the super-terrorists Homelander had secretly engineered reached the CIA, the U.S. government was left with no choice but to cancel their investigation into Vought and allow superheroes into the military. Thus, while the Boys' families were safe, the Boys were declared fugitives and lost their CIA protection. Mother's Milk, Frenchie and Kimiko were captured but Hughie and Butcher managed to escape. While Hughie left to go rescue his friends, Butcher went on alone to get revenge on Homelander.

Breaking into Stillwell's house, Butcher took her hostage, hoping to use her against Homelander since she was the one person he cared about. Homelander soon arrived at Stillwell's mansion and walked into the room Butcher was keeping Stillwell carrying Stillwell's infant son Teddy. Ignoring Stillwell's pleas to put Teddy in his room, Homelander mocked Butcher for thinking he could use Stillwell against him and revealed to Stillwell that he knew the real truth about what had happened to Rebecca and his son before killing her by zapping her through the eyes with his heat vision. Butcher then activated the bombs he had placed on Stillwell's body in a futile attempt to kill Homelander, knocking himself out. When he awoke, he found Homelander had flown him to an inconspicuous house in the suburbs, which was in fact the house that Rebecca had been relocated to. Homelander then revealed the truth to Butcher just as Rebecca walked outside with her son. Homelander then approached the son and revealed he was his father as Butcher stared at his wife in shock.

Season 2

In Season 2, Homelander is first seen giving a speech at Translucent's grand funeral, lying about Translucent's last words and moments with The Seven, he then proceeded to fake his grief in front of a live audience and his peers. Not long after, Ashley proceeded to introduce Homelander to a possible new recruit for The Seven to take Translucent's place, a blind martial arts hero called Blindspot. Annoyed and dissapointed at the thought of recruiting a "cripple", Homelander proceeded to bursts both of Blindspot's eardrums, leaving him in agony and uselessness. Homelander attends a focus group session before proceeding to a fake military-base set for a filming of a patriotic US army commercial alongside Queen Maeve only to be interrupted by a newly recruited member of The Seven, Stormfront, who was recruited by Vought themselves without Homelander's or Ashley's knowledge. Stormfront proceeded to expose the fake military-base set via instagram live, annoying both Homelander and Maeve. Angered, Homelander confronted Stan Edgar on not consulting him first but gets rebuffed and ridiculed instead by Edgar himself.

Homelander then spends the majority of his time bonding with his son, much to Becca's dismay. Homelander tries to manipulate his son into using "his powers" but to no avail.  In a final attempt to get his son to use his powers, Homelander throws him off the roof of his house, severely injuring him, however he awakens and heals before being taken inside the house by Becca. Homelander returns to The Seven's headquarters and defies Edgar's authority and proceeded to lead The Seven on a mission to hunt down and put an end to The Boys once and for all. During the mission however, animosity develops between him and Stormfront as she is just as powerful and indestructible as he is. Later on, Stormfront proceeded to kill Kimiko's brother by choking him to death much to Homelander's dissapointment as he himself wanted to kill him personally. Stormfront mocks Homelander for "coming up short" which angers him as she is now seen as the main hero of the day by the media.

Showing a little remorse for killing Madelyn Stillwell, he forces Doppelganger to shape shift himself into her and keeps him in a remote cabin where he occasionally visits to relive the affection Stillwell gave him. While bumping into Starlight in the Vought tower's elevator, he threatened to kill her for not "following his orders" but she outsmarts him, which causes him to spare her. After Stormfront's speech against Vought, various memes started popping out, mocking Homelander. Angered, he confronts her and nearly lasers her when she provokes him. Intimidated, she apologized and advised him not to seek the love and attention of people, Homelander dismisses her and warns her not to get in his way before leaving. He then returns to Doppelganger, this time no longer attracted to Doppelganger's likeness to Stillwell as well as contemplating his need for love and attention, Doppelganger then proceeds to transform himself into Homelander himself in an attempt to please and arouse him. Homelander is intrigued and aroused at first, but he ultimately kills him as he comes to a conclusion that he needs no one to love him other than himself.

Homelander is next seen starring in and producing an over-the-top film adaption of his team. On set, Ashley tells him that a video of him killing a superpowered terrorist as well as an innocent civilian by accident went viral online, sparking outrage which causes a huge protest against him outside the Vought building, losing 9 points in the process. Angered and in panic, he heads over to the protest to try and win the people over as well as justify his actions to no avail. Homelander briefly fantasizes himself slaughtering all of the protesters when they began to insult him. Humiliated, Homelander flees the scene and reluctantly seeks help from Stormfront to help clear his image up to an extent through the use of memes and various social media tactics. After receiving extra 5 points with her help, both of them head over to Stormfront's apartment at the Vought tower and has rough sex with her where he discovers her regenerative healing and thus, beginning a twisted romance between the two.  

Personality

On the surface, Homelander presents himself as a charismatic superhero, warm, altruistic and revolted by any form of injustice. He often encourages his allies by telling them "that they are the real heroes". This only serves as a façade for when he wishes to be presentable however, and is quick to show his true side when necessary.

In reality, he is an apathetic, uncaring, merciless, sadistic, troubled, cold, horrible, hypocritical, arrogant, and above all ruthless and horrid psychopath. Because of his immense power, he believes that he is superior to the whole of humanity; that is how he does not hesitate to crash a plane, letting dozens of people die. His manipulative and devious side is also demonstrated when he pursues his own plans behind Madelyn Stillwell's back, creating super-terrorists with the complicity of A-Train. Unlike in his comic book counterpart  who was framed by Black Noir for many of his crimes and driven crazy, Homelander is evil of his own volition, willingly killing people in order to satiate his bloodlust.

While an unrepentant psychopathy, Homelander does have a desire of the love and affection he never had as a child which causes him to have a soft spot for Madelyn Stillwell of whom he looks up to as a surrogate mother figure. In addition to this, Homelander also shows an attraction to Stillwell and appears to view her in both a matrilineal and sexual light, roleplaying with her as a mother and child in their sexual encounters. Beyond her value to him as a sexual partner though, Homelander has little care for Stillwell as a human being and ultimately killed her when he found out she kept the truth of his child from him. After her death, Homelander would force Doppelganger to shape-shift into her so he could relive some of their sexual encounters, showing his care for her was only out of what she meant to him. He also showed an interest in Queen Maeve and the two appeared to have dated at some point, though after Homelander discovered she was a lesbian he willingly let her go, likely out of the realization that she could never be attracted to him.

Likely as a result of being raised to be Vought's premier superhero, Homelander has an extreme sense of narcissism and, while cruel and uncaring towards civiilans behind-the-scenes, longs for their love and attention as further validation for himself. He is prideful about his status as the world's best superhero and is incredibly hostile to anyone who would challenge his popularity or position as leader of the Seven, such as Stormfront.

Powers and Abilities

• Superhuman Strength: One of Homelander's primary abilities is his tremendous superhuman strength. He possesses the greatest level of strength ever seen, allowing him to effortlessly overpower any opponent. After he and Queen Maeve intercepted a robbery, he threw the first thief far away and high into the air. He also embedded his fist in a shooter's torso. In "The Female of the Species" Homelander stated was unable to carry the hijacked plane to safety, suggesting that he is unable to use his full strength in flight, requiring a solid surface to take full advantage of his power. He was later able to throw a baseball from New York to Boston.
• Invulnerability: Homelander seems to be immune to all forms of physical harm and is thereby the most resilient of the Seven, and possibly of all Supes. As such, he is not only completely bulletproof but is also unfazed by explosions, such as when Billy blew up the Stillwell residence with him inside it.
• Superhuman Speed: Homelander can fly at extremely fast speeds, enough to keep up with Steve's plane so he could destroy it.
• Heat Vision: Homelander is able to generate powerful red beams of energy from his eyes with a variable degree of intensity. These blasts of energy are so powerful that they appear to be able to cut through anything, such as Steve's plane. He also used his heat vision to melt a thief's gun to the latter's hand. However, Homelander is most notable for using his optical beams on people, melting flesh and bone with ease and causing people to burst into gore.
• X-Ray Vision: Homelander's vision allows him to see through any solid object or surface, with the exception of objects and surfaces that are lined with zinc.
• Superhuman Hearing: Homelander possesses tremendous auditory awareness, allowing him to detect sounds from miles away. He can also use this power to detect a person's heartbeat, and can tell when they are excited or anxious, such as when he detected Hughie Campbell's blood pressure to be 150/90.
• Flight: Homelander is able to levitate and propel himself at great speeds, allowing him to cover vast distances in a matter of minutes.

Quotes

Season 1

“	My dad always said "Surround yourself with people smarter than you".	„
	~ Homelander to Becca.

“	Who's ready to see a race? A cheer to my boy A-Train. Alright, you f***ing c***sucker.	„
	~ Homelander.

“	No, no, no, no, no. I'm just seeing something down the back.	„
	~ Homelander to a passenger.

“	Oh, sweetheart, of course I'm gonna save you. You betcha!	„
	~ Homelander to a little girl on the Transoceanic Flight 37.

“	You stay the f**k back, or I'll laser you goddamnit! I'll laser every f***ing one of you!	„
	~ Homelander to the passengers.

“	Wasn't I chosen to save you? It is not my God-given purpose to protect the United States of America? Psalm 58:10: "The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance; He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked".	„
	~ Homelander's speech at the Believe Expo.

“	So what if I took you to a house you never seen before, full of photos of parents you never met, toys you never played with, books you never read, and then asked you how much that fake f***ing bullshit meant to you. How would that make you feel?	„
	~ Homelander to Stillwell.

“	Hey Deep, why can't I see the truth.	„
	~ Homelander to Deep

“	They just declared war.	„
	~ Homelander to Stilwell

“	Not you Noir, you've been great.	„
	~ Homelander to Black Noir.

“	Hey, I'm not the one who's down a point and a half. So I think what you mean to say is, "Gee, thanks, Homelander, for showing up out of the blue and and bringing the extra press to my collar."	„
	~ Homelander to Maeve.

“	Means that lately, some of you have been a little out of sorts. Erratic. Unreliable. Downright sloppy. Not you, Noir, you've been great. But the rest of you... It is fair to say that I'm disappointed.	„
	~ Homelander to the Seven.

“	God bless America.	„
	~ Homelander

“	Now we have villains all over the globe that only we can fight. Sequel after sequel after sequel..	„
	~ Homelander on orchestrating super-terrorists.

“	I'm the world's greatest superhero.	„
	~ Homelander to Jonah.

“	You promised me no more lies. You f***in' promised me. You and Vogelbaum should have got your stories straight. THEY WERE SO CLOSE! So f****in' close, but there was a few little details that were different. So I went back to Vogelbaum, and I managed to squeeze the truth out of him. The real truth.	„
	~ Homelander was upset about Stillwell they were close.

“	No. No, no. I mean everything to your job. You care more about that f****in' baby than you do about me.	„
	~ Homelander on his job about caring the baby.

“	Thank you. Thank you for finally being honest.	„
	~ Homelander talking to Stilwell before killing her before taking over Billy's house.

“	Wakey Wakey! Hey Buddy, you're up for quite awhile. You can thank me for... saving you, sometime later, but for now... Time to get up. Come on, you're gonna love this. Come on.	„
	~ Homelander talking Billy to get up and see his wife and son.

“	Oh. Lucky I didn't tell you. Wanna know him? I'm your father! And WE... are a family!	„
	~ Homelander becomes his father in the next season.

Season 2

“	Today, I can report to the American people that Black Noir has conducted an operation killing the Super Terrorists known as Naqib. But that doesn’t mean sacrifices won't still be made. The proof of that, sadly... lies before us. For today, we mourn a fallen member of the Seven. Translucent. Murdered in cold blood by the Cartel Super Terrorists, El Diablo.	„
	~ Homelander reporting to Translucent's death.

“	Before he left, Translucent, said to me... Almost as if we knew something was gonna happen, he said... "Hey, Homelander. Tell my son Maverick that I love him." And he also said, "You find those Super Terrorists..." Well, Super Villains is really the only team. but he said, "You find them, Homelander. And you stop them." So I say to you, Maverick... and to all the sons and daughters of this great nation, I will stop them. I will save you.	„
	~ Homelander talking about Translucent's death.

“	Now your just another useless f***ing blind guy.	„
	~ Homelander after blowing out Blindspot's ear drums.

“	What made you think I would ever allow a cripple into the Seven?	„
	~ Homelander to Ashley on Blindspot.

“	It's nothing personal. We'll always be friends. Etcetera. Attaboy.	„
	~ Homelander to A-Train, on him being kicked out of the Seven.

“	Well, this is a truly fascinating if not slightly condescending lecture, but uh... I don't think I see the point, Stan.	„
	~ Homelander to Stan Edgar.

“	You're pathetic.	„
	~ Homelander to Doppelganger before killing him.

Trivia

• He suffers from an Oedipus Complex, being very close to Madelyn Stillwell, who is the closest to a mother he had.
• Homelander's favourite film is Taxi Driver, and he relates to and identifies with the film's protagonistic villain Travis Bickle.
• He's an obvious villainous parody to Superman. It is quite plausible that he is far weaker than the Man of Steel as he cannot lift the plane to save the passengers which is why he let them die. Furthermore, he also doesn't have experience in fighting super-powered individuals like Superman.
  • The only difference is that Superman is on the good side who fights over bad, while Homelander is on the bad side fighting against good.
• In the comics, Homelander is easily and brutally killed by Black Noir as he is revealed to be a clone of Homelander. However, as of yet it is not revealed whether the Amazon series will follow that same route as the comics however, several implications of Black Noir being Homelander's clone are made in the series.