People don't realize but this is his first time being a human. Traits like courage, dignity, bravery, BALLS, are earned.
Yes Homelander was this cunning savage who had all the aura in the world. But none of that was earned.
He admired Butcher because Butcher EARNED his balls. Butcher hated Homelander because he always knew Homelander didn't earn his.
When you lose the one thing that gave you everything you know about yourself and who you are, this is how you end up.
It was fitting.
No, #TheBoys
The way they marketed the entire szn and the show in general was that Homelander was going to pop off on the public sooner or later, especially in the s5 promo images, only to not do any of it. They shot themselves in the foot with the promotional images and story built up there, say what you want - it's false promotion.
And they brought up Gen V crew to do absolutely nothing - hyped up Marie to be on par with Homelander in power (Project Odessa) and downplayed her completely after killing Thomas Godolkin (V1 Supe). If they weren't going to have them do anything why even bring them into the scene. And now that the show was suddenly cancelled, we won't see complete story arcs for them. THE ENTIRE GEN V SHOW WAS MADE FOR NO REASON! SMALL CAMEOS IN NEWER SHOWS WON'T BE ENOUGH.
I personally think the entire build up for the season was really useless, the most important part of defeating Homelander was introduced an episode before the finale which is a huge problem because they set up Gen V crew, and the virus through out the season to have an actual impact on the finale - but they didn't. Anyone could've went without watching episode 1 through 6 and not really lose any important plot details REGARDING defeating Homelander.
They hyped up V1 to be this huge thing (x10 more potent than Compound V, supposedly a huge power boost, verified in an episode do your own research) and Homelander didn't get a real chance to put on a real fight. 2 REGULAR SUPES was able to overwhelm an Odessa AND V1 baby? Makes no sense. Not even Butcher and Soldier boy TOGETHER was able to hold HL long enough to blast him but somehow Ryan can over SB?
Not to mention, Soldier boy's story this season was horrible, he was kissing and kicking Homelander's ass every few seconds and left once again for VR setup.
*Personal nitpick: It was stated that Ryan was a natural born supe, no Compound V in his blood, and somehow got his powers removed? His entire DNA was rewritten (Project Odessa From HL) and was meant to be the first supe without V injection, HOW did he lose his powers?
I just personally think they wasted too much time through out the entire season with Soldier Boy's VR setup and rushed the finale to clear up the main story arcs.
Homelander should've got V1 episode 3, and started going on a rampage in episode 4 and 5 with episode 6 and 7 being focused on Butcher releasing the virus and episode 8 concluding every story arc.
Finale was good for the boys. I was expecting a lot more "scorched earth" type stuff from Homelander (like him going on a rampage like they've teased a whole bunch of fucking times) but hey, he said what he **would** do for the 100th time instead of doing it 🙄
POR QUE SIMPLESMENTE NÃO MOSTRARAM ISSO???? Ia ser mó foda ver o Homelander rasgando o Francês só com o dedo, mas decidiram fazer offscreen por algum motivo e nem deram destaque pro ferimento