Homelander

“	You guys... are the real heroes.	„
	~ Homelander's catchphrase.

Homelander
Series	The Boys
Age	43
Birthday	1981
Sex	Male
Species	Supe
Height	6'3" (191 cm)
Weight	235 lbs (106 kg)
Alignment	Neutral Evil

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: An special alchemical “super serum” designed to enhance the human body and mind to around 15-20 times stronger normally. Created by Jonah Vogelbaum during both World Wars, when injected into normal humans it gives them superpowers whilst also making their poop blue. When injected or inhaled by Supes, it increases their power even further, which Homelander has taken advantage of in the past.
  • Supe Physiology: Despite what you might’ve heard from Vought’s marketing team, the so-called “super-abled” individuals named “The Supes” are not God’s own handpicked Chosen Ones, but instead regular children medicated with Compound V that leads them to develop these superpowers as well as increasing their lifespan. The strength of the acquired superpower will depend on the dosage given, but even Supes far from Homelander’s level were able to shrug off high-caliber bullets and intense blunt force trauma without being worse for wear. As Vought’s most expensive investment, Homelander’s array of abilities, strength, speed and stamina is unmatched within the community.
  • Flight: Homelander’s favorite way of getting to (or sometimes escaping from) the crime scene is by flying. He can levitate or propel himself forward at high speeds, covering vast distances in a matter of seconds, fast enough to catch up to a plane or even a private jet.
  • Heat Vision: Not being too big a fan of putting effort or wasting energy, Homelander instead prefers to beam and burn his problems away with eye lasers. This has been his go-to ever since he was born. And who can blame him? They’re so very effective, they can melt or explode a gun right in the crook’s hand, slice a jet in two with a glance, give another high-tier Supe a third-degree burn, and effortlessly mow down any person who happens to be brave or stupid enough to stand in his way.
  • X-Ray Vision: Does exactly what it says on the tin and is precise enough for him to see a fuel line of a helicopter. Or, for example, being so infatuated with his boss to spy on her through the wall. Or to check on Queen Maeve.
  • Enhanced Senses: 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. He’s even able to literally sniff out a liar by the smell of his sweat, or differentiate emotions by a person’s scent.
  • Superhuman Voice: Homelander loves hearing himself talk, and he can ensure that you will hear him as well no matter where you are. He’s able to produce screams loud enough to rupture the ear drums of a dozen people around him.
  • 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.
• Gifted Intelligence: Despite being an emotionally stunted manchild, Homelander is still surprisingly cunning and able to manipulate those around him.
• 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 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.
• Can punch the opponent into the air where they fly into an oncoming passenger plane.
• Threw a baseball into orbit.
• Downed a plane with a football.
• Far superior to Crimson Countess, whose power blasts can supposedly melt tanks.
  • This makes Homelander 209,000 times more powerful.
• Homelander and Queen Maeve are the Seven’s Heavy Hitters.
• Decapitated Queen Maeve with a punch.
• One-shot a heavily armored villain.
• One-shot Fire God Liu Kang, who can create a black hole (11 Yottatons of TNT/Large Planet level).
• 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.
  • Comparable to Butcher's heat vision, which burn Soldier Boy's skin, who can withstand oxy-acetylene flames without any damage.
• Can level a city in minutes.
• 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 V24-empowered 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-empowered 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).
• Faster than Soldier Boy, who can move fast enough to block heat vision (68.3% the speed of light).
• 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-empowered 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.
• Claimed that anthrax wouldn't be able to hurt him.
• 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.
• Killed all Supes.
• Tricked Queen Maeve into having sex with Black Noir.
• Became the leader of the Seven.
• Killed Madelyn Stillwell by burning her eyes.
• Killed Webweaver.
• 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.
• Killed Mister Marathon.
• Killed the President of the United States.
• Easily defeated Queen Maeve.
• Gets full 1% of merchandise sales.
• Killed Fire God Liu Kang.

Weaknesses

• 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: 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.
• Arrogance: Homelander's cockiness often gets the better of him, resulting in fits of rage and uncontrollable behavior.

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.
• Homelander appeared twice in the popular web series DEATH BATTLE!
  • He first appeared in a special episode where he was the last one standing after a battle royale against the rest of the Seven.
  • He later appeared in season 9 where he fought against Omni-Man and lost.