Homelander

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**Homelander** is the central antagonist of the highly controversial adult comic-book series *The Boys*.

## Background

Raised by scientists as an experiment in a laboratory, the infant simply referred to as "**John**" was molded from childhood to be the perfect American superhero, having been enhanced by a super serum known as Compound V and subjected to hours of viewing images of the American flag, Jesus Christ, and baseball. But the lack of affection in his life and Vought stripping him of individuality turned him into an arrogant, aggressive, and spiteful human with little regard for anyone but himself. Once grown up, John was given the identity of "**Homelander**" and was appointed as the leader of the superhero team, The Seven. While he puts on a friendly, approachable facade for the public eye, Homelander only cares about being the best, and stamping out competition of any kind, which includes the vigilante group determined to bring about his and Vought's downfall, The Boys.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Compound V:** Homelander was given copious amounts of Compound V, a powerful chemical developed by Nazi scientists to give humans (and other beings) incredible superpowers, but with a litany of side-effects depending on the physiological makeup of the person and the amount used. As a result, Homelander gained incredible power. Homelander also ages more slowly than a normal human, due to Compound V. When injected or inhaled by Supes, it increases their power even further, which Homelander has taken advantage of in the past.
	+ **Superhuman Strength:** One of Homelander's primary abilities is his tremendous superhuman strength, being the strongest man in the world according to Jonah Vogelbaum and Stormfront. He possesses the greatest level of strength ever seen, allowing him to effortlessly overpower any opponent. He can hurl a fighter jet with one hand, crush a phone into dust, carry a car with four passengers while flying and kill Queen Maeve with just one punch. While initially appearing evenly matched with Soldier Boy, Homelander grappled with and eventually overpowered Soldier Boy with his raw strength, nearly killing him in the process before the intervention of Butcher. Homelander continued to exert his superior strength against the combined might of Soldier Boy and Butcher, and only through Hughie joining the fight were the three able to finally bring Homelander to the ground, pinning him down with considerable effort. Despite this, he was able to escape their combined might. Homelander is also able to physically overpower Queen Maeve and gouged out her right eye. He can be upscale to Stormfront, who can create tidal waves and hurricanes powerful enough to destroy entire villages and towns (8.6 Megatons of TNT), and Tek-Knight, who destroyed a meteor the size of Texas (It can destroy the moon twice over meaning he has enough strength placing him on moon level). It is stated that he held up bridges scheduled for demolition. His strength was even enough to critically damage Black Noir during their battle.
	+ **Superhuman Durability:** Homelander is very resistant to physical harm and the most resilient of the Seven. He is not only completely bulletproof, but also unfazed by explosions. Vought had to keep hydrogen bombs strapped to him for 18 years, because they had no idea what else could possibly kill him (Hydrogen bomb can measure from 100 kilotons to 50 megatons). When asked about Homelander's weakness, Madelyn Stillwell claims he does not have one, saying, “There isn't a weapon on Earth that they haven't thrown at him. They've all failed,” implying that he could also survive nuclear explosions. While pursuing Kenji Miyashiro and the Boys, Homelander survived having a bus and several large pieces of concrete dropped on top of him without any signs of injury save for being dirtied from the incident. Billy Butcher theorized that the force of a thermonuclear bomb would be the only thing capable of killing Soldier Boy, who was nearly as strong as Homelander.
		- **Vacuum Adaptation:** Homelander told Stan Edgar the view of New York City is better from space, which implies that Homelander has flown far beyond the Earth's atmosphere without any need for oxygen to survive. This feat also confirms that he can likely survive the freezing cold of space and cosmic radiation.
	+ **Superhuman Speed:** While Homalander can fly at extremely fast speeds, enough to keep up with Steve's plane so he could destroy it, John can also move on the ground at supersonic speeds. As a child, Homelander could already break the sound barrier. Homelander is fast enough to dodge bullets and unarmed multiple gunmen before they could even react. Later, after Butcher decides to detonate the bombs strapped to Stillwell's body, Homelander was able to save both Butcher and Stillwell's baby from the blast unharmed. He was able to disappearfrom Billy Butcher's apartment without the latter even realizing it.
	+ **Superhuman Stamina:** Homelander possesses stamina that is enhanced to inhuman levels. As a result, his muscles produce practically no fatigue toxins during physical activity. They are able to withstand the stresses of moving at superhuman speeds or performing other superhuman feats for extended periods of time, without tiring or becoming weak. Homelander is never going to give up easy.
	+ **Resurrection/Healing Factor:** As stated before, Supes specifically have Compound V inside their brains to bring them to life in case they do indeed die (it should be noted that if their brains are destroyed, the regeneration will not work). On top of that, Homelander seems to possess a minor healing factor, as seen when he healed from Maeve's attack in a relatively short time-frame.
	+ **Decelerated Aging/Longevity:** Much like Stormfront and Soldier Boy, Homelander does not appear to age in the same way as normal humans. He is capable of living for hundreds or even thousands of years without displaying any obvious signs of age-related physical or psychological degeneration, keeping his physical shape throughout life until (*however*) death, therefore this Longevity does not make him immortal.
	+ **Heat Vision:** Homelander is able to generate powerful heat energy from within his eyes and can project them outwards as high powered energy beams. These blasts of energy are so powerful that they can cut through almost anything, such as airplanes. 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, implying that he only has low energy photon x-ray vision. He X-rayed Stan Edgar, stating that he is very close to a coronary because his blood is like engine oil. His x-ray vision is precise enough for him to see the fuel line in Stillwell’s helicopter. Or, for example, being so infatuated with his boss to see that Maeve has implants, and he is capable of looking through multiple substances at once including walls and human bodies.
	+ **Superhuman Hearing:** Homelander possesses tremendous auditory awareness, allowing him to detect sounds up to 200,000 Hz or from miles away, whether it be an explosion, or an uncomfortable conversation he wasn’t supposed to hear but wanted to. He is even capable of detecting a person’s heartbeat, blood pressure, and even the neurons firing in their brain with medical precision.
	+ **Superhuman Smell:** Homelander's sense of smell has been heightened far beyond normal human capabilities, allowing him to smell things no other being could. He can use this power to detect an explosive, or to sense adrenaline produced by fear. He’s even able to literally sniff out a liar by the smell of his sweat, or differentiate emotions by a person’s scent. He was also able to smell Billy Butcher's scent on Queen Maeve, thus letting him know they had a tryst.
	+ **Telescopic Vision:** Homelander can zoom in on things, allowing him to see distant objects, people and surroundings. When stalking Madelyn Stillwell he used his x-ray vision to see through a wall and then zoomed in on her slowly to get a closer look.
	+ **Flight:** Homelander is able to levitate and propel himself at great speeds, allowing him to cover vast distances in a matter of minutes. He can keep up with airplanes and break the Sound barrier. He reached a hijacked flight before F-16 fighter jets; top speeds of the F-16 jets are just under 1,500 mph/Mach 2. Him being faster than a F-16 Jet is also futher confirmed by Stillwell.
	+ **Superhuman Voice:** John's enhanced vocal cords are 20 times more powerful than the ones of a regular human, he’s able to produce screams loud enough to rupture the eardrums of a dozen people around him.
	+ **Genetic Superiority (Tentative):** It is possible that Homelander has biological genes that not only surpass those of human beings, but also those of other superhumans due to the fact that he is the only Supe to have fathered a child who inherited superpowers as a result of natural development as opposed to artificial injections of Compound V. Homelander claims that unlike all other Supes who were born as ordinary children before they were injected with Compound V, Homelander is the result of an "Immaculate Conception" where the semen that made Homelander was mixed with Compound V in a test tube before he was artificially inseminated inside of an unnamed woman who presumably died during his birth. Homelander claims that much like the Messiah of Christian faith, he doesn't know his real date of birth as July 4th was fabricated by the Vought PR team to further uphold him as the golden boy of America. The script for *Dawn of the Seven* referred to him as a perfect genetic specimen.
* **Leadership:** Homelander is the successful leader of The Seven.
* **Charisma:** Homelander is very charismatic, being able to get public support by giving them impressive speeches which most of the time are improvised by himself. He can easily attract people with his charm and confidence and give them the image of an ideal patriotic hero. It should be noted that his ability to win over others has its limits. After inadvertently killing an innocent teen with his heat vision while stopping a terrorist, his efforts to placate a crowd of protesters was a PR disaster.
* **Gifted Intelligence:** Homelander is a very cunning individual. He knows how to manipulate and coerce most people into doing what he wants. He was able to outsmart Stan Edgar and get himself out of trouble multiple times. After the botched rescue mission of Flight 37 (which led to the Crash of Transoceanic Flight 37), Homelander managed to manipulate the situation to make the public support superheroes in the national defense. However, his impulsive behavior and his inability to make long term plans have allowed multiple people to outsmart him.
* **Intimidation:** Homelander has a very imposing presence. He uses his intimidation to control the members of the Seven, who recognize that he is the most powerful member of the group, and that he is completely without conscience and has no moral reservations about killing anyone he chooses. As a result, most of them are scared of Homelander. He also intimidates to get whatever he wants. According to Starlight, she felt like he was waiting around every corner of the tower to kill her; she felt like she was living with a loaded gun in her face.
* **Skilled Combatant**: Homelander was able to put up a fight against both Butcher and Soldier Boy, despite both men being ex-military and having years of combat experience. In his childhood, Homelander once fought against a huge man, indicating that Vought gave him some combat training at some point in his life. However due to his superior strength always giving him the advantage, Homelander never actually needed it and therefore has never improved his combat skills. Consequently, he has been overpowered by the weaker foes, such as Billy Butcher, Hughie Campbell and Soldier Boy, who were able to subdue him by working together, forcing him to flee. Homelander was also able to fight Maeve on even terms, though Maeve's superior fighting skills allowed her to hold her own, with Homelander having to resort more to his strength than his combat skills to overpower her.

## Feats

### Strength

* Said to be the strongest man in the whole world.
* Homelander is considered a nuke when compared to the dynamite of Supes from the 1940's.
* Threw a baseball into orbit.
* Downed a plane with a football.
* Far superior to Crimson Countess, whose power blasts can supposedly melt tanks, that puts him at 61,938,970,000 Joules.
* Homelander and Queen Maeve are the Seven’s Heavy Hitters.
* Decapitated Queen Maeve with a punch.
* One-shot a heavily armored villain.
* Can lift an airplane, which weighs around 975,000 pounds or 487.5 tons.
	+ He stated he could lift an airplane, if it was on the ground instead of in the air.
* Lifted Doofer casually with one hand.
	+ Doofer weighs 800 Ibs or 362 kgs.
* Tossed a jet with one hand (It appears to be a Harrier jump jet, which can weigh over 26,000 pounds when fully loaded).
* Mother's Milk stated can bench a dozen Mack trucks.
	+ Assuming Mother's Milk means a fully-loaded truck, then Homelander could approximately lift 960,000 pounds or 480 U.S. tons. That means Homelander could support the weight of two Statues of Liberty or even a couple of blue whales.
* Carried a car with a family in it while flying.
	+ Homelander had to be lifting 4,515.5 Ibs (2,048.1 kgs, 2 tonne/2.2 US tons).
* Immensely superior to 1940's superheroes, two of whom lifted a 36 ton tank.
* Stated to have held up bridges scheduled for demolition.
* Damaged Black Noir.
* Hitted Blind Spot with a discombobulate.
* Ruptured the ears of all passengers on an airliner by screaming.
* Can slide his fingers through titanium, which can withstand 434 MPa (that's 63,000 psi or 7,118 joules).
* Frequently casually crushes humans into paste.
* Heat vision could:
	+ Slice through crowds of people.
	+ Light an entire staff of nurses on fire, while burning down to flesh and bone.
	+ Heat up a rifle to “500 degrees Fahrenheit”, causing it to explode.
	+ Cause a small explosion.
	+ Take down an airplane.
	+ Said to be stronger than an anti-missile system.
	+ Similar to Ryan Butcher's heat vision, which managed to gravely injure Stormfront, severing three limbs and severely burning her face, reducing her to a delirious state.
	+ Similar to the Laser Baby's heat vision, which can emit over fourteen billion joules per attack.
* He's more powerful than all the Boys, so he should scale above them.
* Superior to the Female, who beat Tek-Knight, who has ​​a grip strength of 200 kg/cm^2.
* Much stronger than Hughie, who can behead A-Train with a kick and punch a hole in the chest of the Blarney Cock.
* Is far more powerful than the Seven.
* Stronger than A-Train, who strong enough to pull four train cars behind him.
* Stronger than Soldier Boy and a V24-enhanced Billy Butcher, who are capable of harming him (City Block level).
	+ Was able to break free, knocking back Soldier Boy, Butcher and Hughie, giving him enough time to retreat.
* Superior to Stormfront, who can create tidal waves and hurricanes powerful enough to destroy entire villages and towns (8.6 Megatons of TNT City level).
* Stronger than Queen Maeve, who should be far superior to Stormfront.
	+ Queen Maeve would possibly survive an all-out battle between the Seven and the Boys with only Noir and Homelander also being able to.
* Stronger than Tek-Knight, who's known to destroy a giant asteroid the size of Texas.
	+ An asteroid the size of Texas weigh over 4.6 qunitillion tons and entry speed of 11,200 meters per second, it can destroy the moon twice over (59 exatons of TNT Moon level).

### Speed

* Tagged A-Train, who can run at Mach 3 and move faster than Starlight could see.
* Can fly faster than an F-16 Fighter Jets that can reach Mach 2.
* Broke the sound barrier as a child.
* Could catch up to and fly alongside jets and other aircrafts.
* Escaped a C4 explosion mid-detonation, which moves with a speed of around 8.000 m/s or 23 times faster than sound.
	+ According to the reports, he traveled 17 miles while doing so.
* Flew from New York to Washington D.C. in a relatively short time-frame (690 miles per hour).
* Flew from Washington D.C. to Hollywood in a short amount of time (Mach 70.3).
* Flew through Professor Banzai with ease.
* Flew through the tail of a plane and smashed it in half.
* Was able to flew fast enough causing an explosion that vaporized multiple people (Hypersonic+).
* Much faster than Simon, ​​who could dodge a sniper round.
* Faster than Tek Knight, who can reach speeds up to 253 km/h.
* Faster than Stormfront, who can fly fast enough to create a sonic boom.
* Much faster than Hughie, who can outrun Shout Out's electricity and dodge explosions.
* Faster than the members of the Boys, who can dodge Stormfront's lightning (671 million miles per hour).
* Dodged V24-enhanced Billy Butcher's heat vision (68.3% the speed of light).
* Faster than ​​Great Wide Wonder, who can fly into orbit (Mach 283.061).
* Faster than Groundhawk, who can dodge Nubia's lightning (Mach 637).
* Billy Butcher says that some Supes can fly to the moon (4.274% lightspeed).
	+ Billy has also claimed that some Supes can outrun tachyons, which are theoretical particles that move faster than light (100,000x faster).

### Durability

* A hydrogen bomb was the only defense Vought had against Homelander for 18 years (Hydrogen bomb has a force of 50 megatons).
* Can survive every single weapon on the planet (Keep in mind that most nuclear bombs these days can reach 1.5 megatons of TNT, and the most powerful nuke, the Tsar Bomba, was over 50-58 megatons).
* Billy Butcher claimed that superhumans can swim across the Sun, where it can be over 27 million degrees Fahrenheit.
* First to recover from Lamplighter’s flash bang.
* A grown man crumpled against his chest after being thrown by Maeve.
* Tanked a sword slash to the head from Maeve, breaking her sword.
	+ Maeve flew through a crowd of civilians and they covered her like paste.
* Completely unfazed from gunfire.
* Got crushed by a bus and a mountain of rubble and was fine.
* Far superior to The Deep, who was unharmed after colliding with a passenger jet.
* Scale to Jack from Juipter, who claimed an anti-tank round couldn’t piece his skin.
* Tougher than Starlight, who tanked getting shot by a .50 Caliber rifle.
* Tougher than Queen Maeve, who was unfazed by getting crashed into by an armored truck (Those kinds of vehicles can weigh over eleven thousand kilograms and move at seventy-five miles per hour. That's a kinetic energy of 6.4 million joules).
	+ Queen Maeve survived one of Soldier Boy's Energy Blasts at point blank range with minimal bodily damage.
	+ Queen Maeve can withstand falls from great heights, exposure to extremes in both temperature and pressure, and tremendous impact forces without sustaining injury.
	+ Queen Maeve is also able to withstand Homelander's sonic screams.
* Downscales from Black Noir, who walked out of a jet explosion like it was nothing.
	+ Black Noir survived 20,000 foot falls.
	+ Black Noir can withstand heat vision and multiple anti-supe bullets.
* Massively superior to Billy Butcher, who survived heat vision from a baby that inherited Black Noir's powers.
* Survived V24-enhanced Billy Butcher's heat vision that killed Gunpowder and destroyed a car.
* Survived a point-blank explosion that leveled a chemical plant (775.189 tons of TNT/Multi-City Block level+).
* A simulation of the Seven VS the Boys calculates Homelander would be one of the only survivors, at an 82% chance.
* Healed from Maeve's attack in a relatively short time-frame.
* Compound V can bring life back to a dead brain, but their cognitive abilities will be severely limited.
* When injected or inhaled by Supes, Compound V increases their power even further, which Homelander has taken advantage of in the past.

### Skill

* Convinced almost all Supes to join him.
* Claimed he could cut down Billy Butcher with just a look.
* Killed several soldiers in his house.
* Tricked Queen Maeve into having sex with Black Noir.
* Became the leader of the Seven.
* Killed Madelyn Stillwell by burning her eyes.
* His merchandise sells better than any other member of the Seven.
* Considered to be the strongest Supe in the world.
* Saved Billy Butcher from an explosion.
* Became the world’s most famous superhero.
* United the Supes and took over the White House.
* Killed Professor Bonzai, Mister Marathon, the President.
* Easily defeated Queen Maeve.
* Gets full 1% of merchandise sales.

## Weaknesses

* Compound V resurrection limits the cognitive abilities of the user.
	+ Compound V's resurrection also only works if the user has a functioning brain.
* **Absence of fulcrum:** Homelander is unable to utilize his full superhuman strength if he lacks a fulcrum, as he explained to Queen Maeve. The reason for this is because he needs a solid surface and leverage to take full advantage of his power and without it he does not have anything to push his body against it.
* **Zinc:** Homelander cannot see through zinc. This is shown when he is unable to identify Translucent's remains in zinc-lined box until it was opened.
* **Blunt Force/Limited Durability:** Despite being more powerful than *The Boys*, Homelander is not immortal. Homelander can be wounded and killed by someone who is as strong as or stronger than him, such as in the case of Black Noir.
* **Love/Affectation:** Homelander has one major weakness: He desperately seeks love and affection from the people around him, such as with Queen Maeve, Black Noir, Stormfront, Ryan & Becca Butcher and Soldier Boy. As well as all his fans who follow him.

## Fun Facts

* Homelander is a parody of DC's Superman and Marvel's Captain America.
	+ Homelander was originally an orphan like Superman.
	+ Homelander's faux origin story from the comics is the same as Superman's, while his real backstory is similar to Captain America as they are both super soldiers given powers from chemical formulas.
	+ Homelander's inability to see through zinc is similar to Superman's inability to see through lead.
	+ Homelander is the leader of the Seven, a parody of the Justice League (led by Superman).
	+ Homelander's patriotism and appearance are a reference to the status and reputation of Superman and Captain America as all-American icons.