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Karl Urban responds to a post about Homelander missing out on his 45th birthday on the 4th of July.
u/GiveMeSomeSunshine3 — 8 hours ago
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Homelander Portrait, by me
Had a good time with this! Antony Starr's face is really difficult to capture, hope I did him justice. Oil on primed cardboard.
u/KorovaOverlook — 4 hours ago
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What if The Purple Man was in The Boys universe instead of Marvel?
u/Serious-Company6803 — 10 hours ago
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Should have listened to her own advice
Watching The Tick on Amazon and noticed a familiar face.
u/IrritableGourmet — 11 hours ago
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Those good old days when Homelander was sane enough not to be a white supremacist
We always knew that Homelander would go insane - there were plenty of indicators, plus this is consistent with the original comic book character. But at least in season 2, he was sane enough to side eye Stormfront as she went on about “white genocide”. This was before writers decided to model him after a certain POTUS…
I think our expectations of HL’s arc increased only because Tony Starr portrayed him so well. Starr managed to convey the complexities of someone growing increasingly unhinged, far better than the two dimensional character we were given in season 5.
u/RoohsMama — 1 day ago
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They showed us the best version of Homelander and then just ignored it in the next episode
Everything about Homelander in episode 3 of season 5 is perfect, this is the definitive version of this character. His entire arc led up to this moment, a deranged monster with no moral compass, smiling, sinister, but in episode 4 he simply went back to being a parody who’s only there to be humiliated, even if it makes no sense at all. They’ve robbed us.
u/SnowFrio — 1 day ago
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So…where did all Homelander’s skills go?
You mean to tell me he was beating Soldier Boy, Butcher and Hughie in Herogasm but couldn’t land a single punch on Butcher in the finale? I know he’s not used to having no powers but it doesn’t make sense the way he forgot how to punch lol. He lost his powers, not his combat.
u/Ghostface_Richard — 1 day ago
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Let's say 'John' sneaks out on Friday nights to bowl with his boy Butcher. Would having a friend change his future?
If Homelander had a friend that he was generally interested in spending time with, would he turn out to be a completely different character?
u/StoryTeller000 — 1 day ago
If Homelander was still trained in this scene?
How different would this scene have been if the depowred Homelander was still trained in hand to hand? Now granted I still think Butcher would have won simply by the fact homelander would be caught of guard by the pain he feels from getting hit because he has no powers, the only difference is butcher would have to put in more effort.
u/Previous_Window_9955 — 1 day ago
What do you think their team name will be?
Maybe "Avenging Squad", (since that was the name of Soldier boy's WWII team in the comics), but the name kinda sucks tbh.
u/GKRKarate99 — 1 day ago
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Did Season 3 paint the show into a corner?
When Homelander made his ultimatum to starlight detailing exactly what he will do if the flight 37 footage, it was one of Antony starr's best scenes in the show. But it presented a narrative problem:
it changed the show calculus. Beforehand, it was all about deception, trickery and manipulation that kept Homelander in check. Now, it became all about how to stop homelander before he came off his chain.
this undermined the shows moral messaging regarding toxic masculinity and the thought processes behind it. Butcher was seen as a brutal ruthless person who caused misery for everyone around him. Suddenly, he became the only person willing to take a rabid dog behind the woodshed while everyone else was pleading on moral terms instead of actually presenting alternative plans.
on a meta level, many fans of The Boys also watched Invincible Season 1, which did show a supe inflict death and destruction on a city. This primed many viewers to think along the lines of Cecil and Butcher. And they were looking at starlight and Hughie tall about moral strength while scoffing "you only say that while butcher is willing to the dirty work"
Hell it inspired what I call "the cecil test", where "if a situation resembles a doomsday scenario, do others make plans for it?".
u/Avalon-1 — 1 day ago
To quote u/KateKoffing on the subject:
God! The prime directive is so sanctimonious. “Culture should be kept pure at the expense of the people living in it.”
u/PJ-The-Awesome — 2 days ago
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His arc was the only thing worth it for the series not ending at season 3
Would the series have been better ending in season 3? Sure, and if that was the case, A-Train likely would've died taking down Blue Hawk. But man was his redemption somthing worth it, even if it came from seasons 4-5
u/According-Manner-838 — 2 days ago
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nothing will ever beat how it felt to watch this show for the first time
those first 3 seasons (and some scenes after) were peak. the show took you for a crazy joy ride. getting to know every character was so fun, compelling & exciting, finding out more about what the company of vought was really about, learning abt homelander’s past & watching him mentally deteriorate, a-train’s arc, and the rest of the boys..it was all wild and exhilarating. i think it’s a big shame the show took such a nose dive by s4-5. by s5 homelander & some of the other characters are kinda unrecognizable & totally ruined
u/Mrs_Riddle — 1 day ago