homelander was still obviously dangerous and doing bad things, but he was far more restrained than soldier boy. butcher admitted he couldn’t find a single shred of dirt on him to use as hard evidence before the events of the show
he’d be even worse. remember, soldier boy was SO bad that vought arranged for him to be captured even at the risk of russia using him to make new weapons during the cold war. homelander was their golden boy for decades, and that only changed once butcher started stirring the pot.
this “there is no god, there is no one but me” angle was so much more interesting than him later on trying to sort of just insert himself into modern day christianity
@zacksbizarread i think that’s what happened too and it’s ironic considering kripke then dedicated half the final season to that same set of fans’ favorite racist character and his upcoming show racists rising
i think what gets me most about how the boys devolved over time is while it did start out as satire, it was still larger than life genre fiction. then it turned into stuff i can just see on the news. like yeah maybe trump will also ban nut milk soon idk. wouldn’t be surprised.
so many people who loved ‘we used to live here’ are feeling very disappointed in ‘the caretaker’, i regret to inform you ‘we used to live here’ also sucked and so it should’ve been obvious this one would suck too