Homelander

Solider Boy (genetic parent)

Ryan Butcher (son)

Unnamed genetic primogenitor/"paternal grandfather" (deceased)

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**Homelander** also known as **John** is the main antagonist of the Amazon series *The Boys*, Homelander is the leader of The Seven, the strongest Supe in the world, and the archenemy of Billy Butcher, the leader of The Boys. With the face of a movie star and the power of a god, Homelander is considered the greatest superhero alive. Not only can he fly, but he possesses super hearing, super strength and super durability far beyond most supes, and can see through anything except for zinc with his X-ray vision, as well as being able to burn and cut through things by shooting a red-colored beam of heat energy from out of his eyes.

## Biography

### Childhood

Homelander was born sometime in the spring of 1981 from the semen of Soldier Boy, America's first and greatest superhero, and an unknown egg donor. Born with unbelievable powers, he was raised in a lab, and was surrounded by doctors like Jonah Vogelbaum, who named him John. However, needing John to become the strongest man in the world came at the cost of him turning violent, aggressive, wrathful and downright hateful. Throughout his childhood, John was put through painful and traumatic physical experiments and surgeries to test the true limits of his abilities. Some of these tests included having his hand forced into a furnace, being boiled alive, and being forced to fight strength-enhanced Vought guards

He was also put under long, strict and tedious mental conditioning and was forced to spend hours sitting in front of a projector that displayed images that were chosen to mold his personality by using as the American flag, Jesus Christ, and a baseball game into becoming patriotic, All-American and turn him into a symbol of the nation itself. As a child, Homelander had accidentally killed countless female tutors, the most notable incident of which being on March of 1994, when he hugged a woman using far too much strength, breaking her spine and instantly killing her. While these behaviors were usually motivated by indignation, this time it was by isolation-induced depression. At some point during this period, he also developed a sociopathic alternate personality that helped him "get through the bad room".

Growing up, Homelander was a fan of Soldier Boy, "watching all of his movies hundreds of times". Homelander respected Soldier Boy for being the only other Supe in existence who was "nearly" as strong as him, and idolized the latter as his hero, not knowing at the time that they were father and son

### Supe Debut

Years later, John became the new leader of The Seven; Vought's premier superhero team, akin to DC Comics' the Justice League. Presented by Stan Edgar and Madelyn Stillwell to the public as "The Homelander". Following his introduction, Noir came onto the stage, immediately stealing much of the attention that John had garnered under the spotlight, to his and Stillwell's anger. Following this, Stillwell convinced John not to let Black Noir upstage him, and to simply go by "Homelander". Homelander is soon teamed up with Noir on his first mission; stopping a group of terrorists who have taken hostages at a chemical plant. Refusing to wait for Black Noir, Homelander immediately went inside and subdued two of the terrorists, breaking one of their noses in the process. He then confronted the rest. When they refused to back down, Homelander twisted their guns. However, one of the terrorists still held a hostage at gunpoint, despite the gun not working anymore. Homelander, horribly underestimating his abilities, used his heat vision to heat up the gun, causing it to explode, killing the hostage and destroying the man's hand. When the man's associate started screaming at him, he lost his mind and clamped his hand over her mouth, accidentally ripping out her jaw. This leads the hostages screaming at him and calling him a monster, resulting in him killing everybody in a fit of rage, leaving only one hostage still alive. Black Noir then appeared in the doorway. Thinking that he will rat him out to Vought, Homelander attempted to kill Black Noir with his heat vision, accidentally bringing down the entire plant.

After pulling himself out of the rubble, Homelander saw the hostage crawl out of the wreckage and towards a still-alive Black Noir. To Homelander's surprise, however, Noir coldly snapped the woman's neck while comforting her. Noir then helped Homelander come up with an excuse to cover up the failure of the mission. This event led to a mutual respect and respect eventual genuine friendship between the two. However, Homelander's lack of control deeply hardened him and possibly added to his already unstable mind.

### Leader Of The Seven

After years of protecting the United States, Homelander became the Leader of the Seven, a group of the strongest and most popular superheroes that Vought could produce and control. The Seven had changed for many years with Supes dying, firing, or quitting the team constantly changes but Homelander is one of the few who stuck around since he was the literal strongest and most powerful Superhero Vought ever produced. But due to this position and his arrogance of his abilities he becomes a bully to his teammates and co workers at Vought always threatening and making "advancements" towards others without their permission. Like Rebecca Butcher who Homelander had raped and got her pregnant which Vought forced her to have the baby and keep it in secret and raise him away from Homelander's acknowledgment.

### War With The Boys

After the "incident" with Becca, her husband former SAS Solider Billy Butcher was distraught and severely in anguish of what happened, this started his journey in forming the Boys, a group of non superpower vigilantes hellbent in stopping Vought and other Supes. And Homelander was their biggest target.

## Personality

Homelander's mission has always been to serve Vought International and on a deeper level, Madelyn Stillwell. Homelander is rational, initially worrying about Translucent's disappearance while the rest of Vought, and the world, ignored it. He is a ruthless leader, doing whatever it takes to keep a high public opinion of The Seven, including threatening both Starlight and the Deep. Homelander portrays the true extent of his anger killing Stillwell for lying to him about Becca Butcher and his child. As a person, he is deeply narcissistic, disturbed, and violence-addicted and sadistic psychopath. For a superhero, Homelander is incredibly and needlessly violent, brutal and aggressive, throwing a bank robber into the air and letting him fall to his death, punching a shooter in the chest, senselessly decimating a group of terrorists around the world. This also highlights his high intelligence as he set up a meticulous plan to get superheroes into the military by forcing A-Train to spread around the world and is also charismatic, easily swaying the public to give him support.

Due to being raised in a laboratory, Homelander has difficulty understanding love and humanity. This has rendered Homelander sociopathic and amoral, often intimidating the members of the Seven in order to keep them in line while also killing anyone who stands in his way. It is made clear that Homelander does not actually care about humanity, only the way Supes but mainly himself are viewed in their eyes. He is seen to be more than willing to let a plane full of families and children crash despite pleas from Queen Maeve to save the children, but pretends to feel sadness about the incident while in the public eye. This act of murder is also used to his advantage, as after Flight 37 went down and all the passengers died, Homelander manipulates the people into believing it was destroyed by terrorists and uses it to further both his and Vought's agenda of weaponizing superhumans. He is sadistic and takes delight in the people he hurts or kills.

Homelander also suffers from an Oedipus Complex, which is projected onto Madelyn Stillwell who is the closest thing he has to a mother. However, after hearing her state her true feelings, that she fears him, Homelander has no hesitation in burning her eyes and skull. Due to his longing for a maternal figure, women such as Stillwell, Rebecca, Stormfront, and Maeve have all been able to manipulate or control him to some degree due to them being women, and they appeal to a certain part of his damaged psyche.

## Powers and Abilities

### Trivia

* **Superhuman Strength**: One of Homelander's primary abilities is his tremendous superhuman strength. He is stated to be the strongest man in the world according to Jonah Vogelbaum and Stormfront. As a child, he broke a woman's spine by hugging her. After he and Queen Maeve intercepted a robbery, he threw the first thief far away and high into the air. He also easily pushed open a door blockaded by scaffolding with one hand and embedded his fist in a shooter's torso. Homelander casually knocked off the door of a pressurized plane, but he stated he 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. Another time though it might be more possible was unexpected that big surprise as he drop his guard, when he was unable to stop the full weight of a falling bus and concrete debris brought down on top of him when he was hovering during his encounter with Kenji Miyashiro. He was later able to throw a baseball from New York to Boston, having previously thrown a football into a small plane with so much force that an emergency landing was required, threw another baseball high into the air, and slapped Blindspot's head hard enough to burst his eardrums and cause excessive bleeding. He crushed a terrorist under his foot. Homelander easily overpowered Starlight and Doppelganger, lifting the latter off the ground and snapping their neck with one hand. He later contended with Stormfrontand casually crushed a man's head in one hand. In a fit of anger, he overpowered A-Train, and threatened to pull Billy Butcher apart limb by limb. He casually killed Termite by crushing him under his foot. While initially appearing evenly matched with Soldier Boy, Homelander eventually overpowered him 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. Homelander, seeing what could be his first ever defeat, was able to break free, knocking back Soldier Boy, Butcher and Hughie, giving him enough time to retreat. Homelander is also able to physically overpower Queen Maeve and gouged out her right eye.

* **Superhuman Durability**: Homelander possesses extraordinary superhuman durability and is the most durable of the Seven, if not of all Supes. He is not only completely bulletproof but also unfazed by explosions, such as when Billy blew up the Stillwell residence with him inside it or the destruction of an entire power plant. According to Madelyn Stillwell, there is not a weapon on Earth that has not failed against him, implying that he could also survive nuclear explosions. This was contradicted by Homelander himself when he dared Maeve to release the Flight 37 video: he said that he would take out air defences first, implying he may be vulnerable to anti-aircraft fire or heavy artillery. If he were truly invulnerable to conventional armaments, he would not need to eliminate them. 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. Maeve even described him as invincible, something he believed himself to be as well, as he dared Victoria Neuman to attempt blowing him up. However, it has been shown that his immense durability does indeed have limits. After a brutal fight against Soldier Boy, Butcher, and Hughie, Homelander was shown to have a large bruise on his face. While Homelander was able to take numerous punches and kicks from Maeve, they still caused him some degree of harm and even gave him a nosebleed, something she would follow up by jamming a metal rod into his ear, drawing blood and causing his ear to ring.
* **Superhuman Speed**: While Homelander can fly at extremely fast speeds, enough to keep up with an airplane 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 disarm multiple gunmen before they could even react. Later, after Butcher decided to detonate the bombs strapped to Stillwell's body, Homelander was able to save Butcher from the blast unharmed. He was able to disappear from Billy Butcher's apartment without the latter even realizing it, implying that he can move faster than the human eye can see while making little to no noise
* **Superhuman Stamina:** Homelander possesses extraordinary stamina. 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. The Legend, who once was the Senior Vice President of Hero Management, claims to have never seen him sweat.
* **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 blood pressure, and can tell when they are excited or anxious, such as when he detected Hughie Campbell's blood pressure to be 150/90. He also heard the mayor of Baltimore through a wall and can also spy on Madelyn in her office. He heard Starlight's heartbeat racing and Butcher's heart pounding. His hearing also allows him to tell when someone is lying. Starlight told Stan Edgar that he could hear him through the wall, and he heard A-Train quietly curse him out. He later heard Roger from across rows of seats in the sound studio and Grace Mallory surreptitiously typing on her smartphone in her pocket from a significant distance outdoors.
* **Superhuman Smell**: Homelander possesses an amazing olfactory sense, well beyond that of a human. For both Hughie and Starlight, he was able to tell they were nervous by smelling that their adrenaline had increased. He can use his sense of smell to locate explosives. He was also able to smell Billy Butcher's scent on Queen Maeve, thus letting him know they had a tryst
* **Heat Vision**: Homelander is capable of projecting highly concentrated beams of energy from his eyes. 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. His heat vision can also likely cut through most supes, shown in Homelander's hesitation to use them on Stormfront. He is able to control the intensity of the beams, as shown when he used his heat vision to warm up a bottle of Stillwell's breast milk without damaging the bottle.When confronted by Billy Butcher and Soldier Boy, he struck Butcher's chest with his optic beams, but rather than bisecting Butcher or even burning him (as would be expected from Homelander's heat vision), the energy beams caused Butcher to fly backwards and into a wall, leaving him momentarily stunned by the impact, due to Butcher having given himself temporary superhuman powers via Compound V24. However, against supes of high durability such as Queen Maeve, Homelander's blasts do not seem to have a significant impact. With Butcher's heat vision not leaving a scratch on Soldier Boy, Homelander's heat vision would likely have the same effect on Soldier Boy.
* **X-Ray Vision**: Homelander can 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. Stillwell acknowledged that he used his X-ray vision to spy on her, and Butcher knew he could see through the ceiling.
* **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
* **Supersonic Flight**: Homelander is able to levitate and propel himself at supersonic speeds, allowing him to cover vast distances in a matter of minutes. 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. While he was out canvassing the city for Translucent, Frenchie's neural networked CCTV ID's Homelander flying at sea level at speeds close to 1,874.482 kph/Mach 1.53.