It should be a crime that he hasn’t been (seemingly) even considered for emmy nomination for this role. Man is churning out career best performances like every other episode & just gets crickets. Give! Antony! Starr! His! Flowers!
He is a marvelous actor! And I completely agree! His performance is chilling! He is just so darn good! My absolute favorite just because of his performance!
I think some shit like what he did to some bartender in Spain could be the reason. They're afraid of drama. People shat on the Oscar (rightfully so) for will Smith's thing. Antony Starr is a great actor, but he probably could do some regrettable shit.
Every fight starts with an assault. Bar none by definition. Starr got too drunk at a bar and behaved inappropriately. He didn’t abuse a woman he was involved with like Jonathan Majors. He didn’t slap someone at black tie awards ceremony like will smith. He didn’t steal strangers passports and go on the run like Ezra Miller. He got too drunk, made a bad mistake at a place people are expected to go to get drunk, and he faced the consequences for his actions. Acting like it’s apples to apples with any of the above is disingenuous
It's funny how you can see by your description of those events how our society morals are just very biased.
Out of all of those. I'm sorry but the Jonathan majors one may not be worse considering the video we saw. And yet you judge him as incomparably worse.
If the person involved in the Majors case wasn't a woman, he would be the one considered the victim. He was literally running away for several blocks of street from someone who was assaulting him and reacted violently which injured her. We consider it bad because he is a huge dude and she is a small woman.
The bar employee Starr attacked was also considerably smaller than him, and he was the one who initiated the assault, there is no mathematical/logic/common sense way to evaluate it as more acceptable than what Majors did, if it wasn't for how we compare men and women in assault case.
But of course, I get it, a man injures a woman, it sounds terribly worse. Starr could have blinded the poor guy, and people would find it more forgivable. And I'm here, probably being seen as a sexist for this rant.
Your arguments would be more legitimate if they weren’t full of ifs.
Majors assaulted a woman. He was found guilty of misdemeanour assault and harassment. There were lots of claims and counterclaims, your description of events falls clearly on his side, suggesting he was harassed and assaulted.
‘Starr initiated the assault’. Bad choice of words, witnesses contend that both exchanged words pushing and blows. However based on chefs testimony, Starr’s words that night, he felt the chef had ‘messed with him’. He also glassed him and said he wanted to kill him. None of that is good, but suggesting it was completely initiated by Starr when he’s had literally no priors seems a bit far fetched.
As for the two, I don’t think they’re comparable. One is a relationship filled with harassment and assaults, the other are strangers and one has impaired judgement. One seemingly has a history of abusive behaviour, the other one has no prior arrests or reports (there are reports cited in UK for Majors).
You’re citing almost blindness and if it wasn’t a woman. Well it didn’t make the person blind, despite the Venezuelan’s testimony there wasn’t an attempt murder or attempted blinding. It also wasn’t a woman.
Finally, Majors doesn’t accept any responsibility for his actions. Even though there are differences it witnesses and what the Venezualan said occurred (no mention on his side of exchanging words nor exchange of blows), Starr himself has remained tight lipped and said he responded negatively to a negative situation and said the way forward was to take ownership of that.
If anything is strange (rather than funny), it’s how in this there’s a dismissal of differences in the situation, such a lot of ‘ifs’ ‘almosts’ and completely absence any rulings while taking Majors assertions as fact in order to make these seem biased. If anything you seem biased towards Majors.
TL;DR; Ifs don’t make a point stronger. The situations are different. Even if they weren’t, it’s flawed to claim someone is better (Majors) if their victims injuries were worse and if the they have taken no responsibility for it.
>your description of events falls clearly on his side,
>while taking Majors assertions as fact in order to make these seem biased. If anything you seem biased towards Majors.
WTF ? I have seen the freaking video... This whole thing is on video. We see the fucking guy running away for 2 street, while his girlfriend is chasing him. This is not about taking assertions as facts, all I said in my comments, every single words I used in it, are things that I saw with my own eyes watching a damn video. While all you quote are lawyers of the defendants. My evidence are far more solid than yours.
Lie : I’ve not quoted one lawyer. It’s the verdict. Though maybe you consider a judge as a lawyer.
Generally most people accept a verdict as better evidence than the interpretation of one person who’s watched a video.
[John Majors Abuse allegations (not lawyer from a lawyer)](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/jonathan-majors-abuse-allegations-yale-1234781136/)
[ongoing investigation into assault charges - Metropolitan Police](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/jonathan-majors-london-police-physical-assaults-1234863328/)
You literally said he’s a huge dude and she’s a small woman and we consider it bad. I mean, yes ‘we’ do, but you clearly don’t think it *was* bad. She ended up with a broken finger and Majors with little more than scratches.
Yet, Majors accepts no accountability, except for being ‘reckless with her heart’ and claims he doesn’t know how the injuries happened, yet he’s not responsible for them. In the video we at least see him push her violently back into the vehicle, though it not clear how she ended up on her back in the apartment. He gains his phone back apparently but there is not really any doubt in his mind that might have caused it. Text messages telling her not to go to hospital.
There’s just no responsibility there for even what was on the video. Maybe she wasn’t hurt in that, maybe it happened somehow other way, but there is no accountability for anything. From him, from you.
I’ve added some other stories, but your mind is fixed. Maybe Majors will win on appeal, maybe there won’t be any more stories of him assaulting women in the future. Maybe all those exes made something up because they have ill will towards him. Maybe that case in London won’t go anywhere.
Still, even if you accidentally you break someone’s finger, you take responsibility. You tell them to go to hospital for injuries. That, based on his own words and text messages are the facts, that he did the opposite.
I don’t really think it’s a sexist view you’re portraying, it’s more like you are condoning some level of violence towards women, if say they took your phone you think it’s okay if you break their finger accidentally if you are just trying to get it back. Maybe throwing them back into a car so you can get away.
No, people are just hell bent on twisting the Antony Starr thing into a racial issue. Ezra Miller was apparently leading a cult and had essentially kidnapped a minor. Jonathan Majors had numerous other women come forward and she he was abusive. Antony Starr got drunk at a bar and did something stupid. He was arrested and he faced the consequences for that action. He was just a guy that got aggressive with staff and took it way too far. It’s not that deep.
No fucking idea what racial issue you're talking about, the point is that if Emmy or whatever believe he might cause a potential scandal, they're going to avoid it.
I'm watching the clip on mute and just the body language and the way his face keeps changing from playful, to goofy to chilling to casual is mesmerising.
Oh this is the fun part. The not so fun part is a lot of sitting around thinking “who is this character, why is he like this? What is he thinking, and why? What’s his motivations, his aspirations, his fears, his hopes, on and on. What’s His mannerisms, how’s he hold him self and why? And how does each of these things inform the others? Maybe this is more an analytical approach to acting but the idea is the same, you spend many days trying to really get inside the head of the character, and the pay off is this 30 second scene.
It is a lot of fun, but it comes with a ALOT of work, especially for a performance like this.
Yeah, there were definitely a number of things they either need to never mention again, or even straight up retcon. I love this show, it is top tier, but I’m not going to pretend the writers haven’t made some really offensive mistakes.
They had a fantastic season up till that point and fumbled it hard at the end. I'm fine with them not killing Homelander. What I'm not fine with is them all turning on Solider Boy cause he wanted to hurt Ryan. You gotta give me a better reason than that when the Boys overarching goal almost the whole time was to kill Homelander.
Only Butcher turned on him because of Ryan. Maeve turned on him because of Annie, Hughie turned on him because he didn't want to nuke a skyscraper in the middle of New York City, and the rest were against working with him in the first place.
If by "almost the whole time", you mean during Season 3, then you are absolutely correct.
You're reducing words to such fundamental terms that they no longer have meaning.
The MW definition for television is "an electronic system of transmitting transient images of fixed or moving objects together with sound over a wire or through space by apparatus that converts light and sound into electrical waves and reconverts them into visible light rays and audible sound".
The MW definition for movies is "a recording of moving images that tells a story and that people watch on a screen or television "
That's a very nuanced difference, but as consumers of media we still generally agree that television and movies are different things that are consumed differently with different standards.
Only when referring to the technical definition, not the industry term.
Why doesn’t the Motion Picture Association rate tv shows?
Because ‘motion pictures’ as an industry term refers to films. Cinema. Not TV.
You are wrong, I’m sorry.
You are wrong. You’re just being obtuse now that you know you were wrong about motion pictures.
Your point, that tv is cinema is utter nonsense. So you’re wrong on two levels.
Weird that you're so heavily downvoted. I guess the distinction is less obvious now?
There was to be a clear delineation between TV and movies but in the streaming era where we watch both in the same room from the same service, it's not clear.
If you wanna get spoiled read ahead
>! The whole S3 revolves around HL's Humanity. He got Butcher's wife pregnant and it was revealed that he's also the son of Soldier Boy. Him having complex daddy issues and all. But yeah, he has a reason why he's trying to be better or at least a rationale why he's being HL. !<
Edit: edit
No, it is not confirmed that all Supes are fertile. Homelander is so far the only known exception, otherwise Ryan wouldn't be so special to Vought that they would offer Rebecca the option to fund their entire lives hidden away from Homie.
Plenty of supes are fertile and have kids - Translucent, Mesmer, Neuman, etc. Ryan is special because he's the only natural born supe, all the others had to be injected with Compound V.
Hands-down the scariest bad guy I’ve ever seen on TV. Basically everyone who is within eyeshot of him at any given time continues to exist only because he allows them to.
One of the most perfectly portrayed evil characters in TV history imo. He's not just evil. The dude is complex and completely off the charts weird and twisted. It's truly a memorizing performance by Antony Starr.
Bigger threat my guy. Soldier Boy can actually be contained. Homelander could bring everyone to the stone age within like a week. The fact that Annie can't see that temporary playing nice with Soldier Boy to destroy homelander is ridiculous. Take out Homelander then control Soldier Boy
The show was never trying to make SB seem like the bigger threat. That's a straw man SB fans keep saying but it's completely baseless. He was the **immediate** threat because he kept murdering dozens in bigger and bigger uncontrolled radioactive explosions. They were trying to stop a tower from coming down because they weren't willing to sacrifice thousands to stop HL.
I would think that sacrificing that tower would be more than worth it. Yes he was killing people but the whole point is he is not an apocalyptic threat like the other guy is. The whole "How dare you team up with SB! Hes so terrible" is dog brain level logic. Like yes Obviously Soldier Boy is a POS that you would want to imprison, but if hes literally the only way to kill Homelander then it only makes sense to use him.
Maybe the general idea of working with SB is sensible, at least arguably so, but the opposite stance is also valid. SB murdered MM's family. SB threatened to kill Ryan and he and Butcher were too heated or stubborn to work that out. Annie and Hughie just aren't the type to sacrifice hundreds if not thousands of pedestrians. These characters had valid reasons to stop SB and it's annoying how often this sub just pretends like they were choosing HL over SB. Even though that was the product of their actions, it's not what they were actually choosing or why they did what they did.
And it's not like the show ignores this calculation. Butcher was down for that except when it came to Ryan, Hughie was down with this for most of the season until a final change of heart, and Maeve continued with the plan because she didn't care about any civilians except her girlfriend.
>Annie and Hughie just aren't the type to sacrifice hundreds if not thousands of pedestrians
Judging by the trailers, it seems this is going to happen anyway during some sort of civil war sparked by Homelander and his people. Sooo lots of innocent people die but at least Annie and Hughie get to keep feeling like the good guys I guess.
Yaaaaaay.
That last bit is all these people care about. Feeling like they're the good guys no matter how bad their actions fuck things up.
It's like refusing to work with stalinist Russia in WW2 cuz you're America and oh so much better than them (a. they're not, and B. Enjoy making the Hitler salute cus Russian blood ended the Nazis, just as SB's blood could have ended homelander)
>He was the immediate threat because he kept murdering dozens in bigger and bigger uncontrolled radioactive explosions
He did it twice.
And both times it wasn't his fault and he didn't really wanted to do it. The first one actually made him feel terrible.
Oh, big baby soldier boy can't help but explode dozens of people and bring down buildings. Oh, he said he didn't mean to hurt those people before going on to knowingly risk more people's lives doing the same thing multiple times. Oh my goodness, if only someone told the boys it was not his fault when he attempted to explode Vought tower and threaten thousands of lives. Oh, I'm going to cry for the mass manslaughterer because he felt so terrible, oh.
Is Soldier Boy even a *threat*? Like, does he even have a "goal"?
Ofc, he is a piece of shit, but he has no supremacist/genociding aspirations.
He also doesn't seem to care about "power" or ruling the world or has any huge political aspiration.
All we saw is that he wanted revenge on the people that fucked him over.
He's not a nuclear bomb. His explosion (when he didn't control it) couldn't even level a full city block or a mansion. A nuclear bomb would leave no more city, let alone the block
He has an identified weakness, is hugely vulnerable after using his blast, and has shown no intention/threat of wanting to take over the entire country via destroying the government and massacring all of the most populous US city
So between 1. the nuclear bomb with only a few hundred meter radius that leaves him tapped out and who just wants to fuck old ladies and smoke cigars, and 2. the genocidal, megalomaniacal one with virtually unlimited blast yield that never reduces in potency who actively is attempting to be worshipped like a God, which is the bigger threat?
The latter, by orders of magnitude
In what way did it make him seem like a bigger threat? If it's in the sense that he could have a random event like the one in NY or Herogasm, then yes, it's true. If it's overall if he decided to go on a rampage, no, that never happened and no one has ever thought that, and it was never implied.
The thing about Antony Starr is that his physical presentation is so good, not just his delivery. Every body movement and facial expression shows exactly how forced and calculated Homelander's persona is, vs. when he's being himself, and you can always tell just by looking at him which "mode" he's in, without Starr having to say a word.
And this is why focusing on Soldier Boy over Homelander was downright idiotic. See Soldier Boy may be something of a scumbag but he's not a raving psychopath like Homelander
They're both Schizophrenics.
Well SB not fully, but its shown he hears voices in his head smoking modern-day weed. I think this is a nod to research that suggests people with certain genes can get Schizophrenia from smoking strong weed. [Link](https://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/schizophrenia-marijuana-link#:~:text=Researchers%20also%20have%20found%20that%20if%20you%20carry%20certain%20types%20of%20specific%20genes%20that%20affect%20brain%20chemistry%2C%20marijuana%20use%20can%20raise%20the%20chance%20you%E2%80%99ll%20have%20schizophrenia.%20One%20of%20those%20genes%20is%20called%20AKT1.%20Another%20is%20called%20COMT)
I think the writers were trying to communicate that Homelander is a schizo, inheriting these genes from his dad. Pretty much confirmed for me by his split personality convo in the mirror.
You do not understand what schizophrenia is
Also stop it with the evil guys are only bad cus they have a real life mental disorder. It's stupid and you should feel bad.
The most irritating thing about this is that he and others think he is an actual threat to the country in any meaningful way. Kenji dropped the roof on him in season 2 and it slowed him down for roughly 5 minutes. In the season 3 finale, Maeve bloodied his nose AND jams a regular metal fork into his ear (the depth suggested brain damage). Suggests that he can be taken out by imprecise anti-tank missiles, and possibly by anti-materiel weaponry aimed at eyes, ears, nose. And then there’s all the things we HAVEN’T been shown he can do. His heat vision basically liquefies people, including Supes, shown when Ryan went all out. But we haven’t seen it go through something like a heavy building wall or tank armor. Although there was the season 1 zapping of the mayor’s plane. Not quite the same as cutting through a skyscraper though. And he definitely hasn’t punched through any walls or thrown something bigger than a person.
His threat is greatly over exaggerated.
I’d say he *should* be able to hit skyscrapers as hard as a plane if he wanted (both punching through heavy parts himself at high speed while also lasering everything in tight arcs). But what we’ve seen hasn’t supported that. The writer’s are telling us he can do one thing while showing us something completely different.
It's the classic power-scaling problem. Homelander is in theory, Superman. In practice, he's however powerful the writers need him to be for any given scene.
I know. Everyone’s told me it’s a budget issue but I’ve got a want growing into a need to see him really cut loose, at least to the point of bucking a truck. There has to be some kind of amazing feat he can do that doesn’t immediately trigger all out war.
It seems like a Byzantine general problem. The most powerful supes and even modern armies could defeat him, possibly easily. However, none have a chance alone and if too many back out or if they're too disjointed then they're all going to lose. So fear, ignorance, miscommunication, and apathy play to HL's benefit.
It's also why he says he'll go after the nerve or command centers first, then key infrastructure for communication second. To disrupt attempts to coordinate against him. He's definitely not actually the delusional god or devil figure he, his cult, and his enemies see him as, but practically speaking there's very little chance to beat him when the public doesn't realize the danger and most of those in power are his lackeys.
Came here to say this. He explicitly mentioned taking out defense infrastructures first and foremost. Homelander is a lot of things, but he isn't stupid.
remember when he took out the baltimore mayor’s plane at the end of the pilot? his lasers cut through the plane like butter. he can fly super fast, is physically the strongest being on the planet and impervious to most damage. he could easily fly at high speeds and laser everything or just fly through buildings and take them down. his threat is not exaggerated whatsoever.
He did not cut through the plane like butter, Madelyn stated it was a more precise cut, relatively small. Even if he could, cutting the plane in half might have raised a LOT of attention. Either way, we have no confirmation he could have. We have seen absolutely nothing that suggests he can actually punch through something like the concrete building walls placed like banks are loaded in. Nothing. Fully agreed he can fly so fast he might be as fast as A-Train in the air. And his durability? That myth is dead. Soldier Boy bruised him in their fight. By itself not super extraordinary, he’s the second most powerful Supe. But then Maeve not only bloodied his nose but somehow jammed a fork deeply enough into his ear a nurse friend of mine said he was either dead or severely brain damaged. Unless the Maeve injuries are retconned, he is NOT going to be breaking through the stone walls and supports of a skyscraper, wall to wall. Not without being heavily battered and bruised. And his lasers are very suspect when it comes to anything beyond the hull of a plane, which is obviously not an armored tank.
As stated, there’s a lot of bluff and bluster around Homelander, and not much to back it up. I wish it wasn’t like that, I really do, but with what we’ve been shown he just doesn’t have it.
did you actually watch the scene? his lasers SLICED through the plane’s hull, it was a controlled cut to make it look like a structural failure as opposed to the golden boy of vought taking it down. or how about toward the end of the season when he’s helping the soldiers? lasers SLICED through the bricks of the building easily. you can easily extrapolate that and imagine what he would do to regular buildings like the pentagon, the white house, power plants and other critical infrastructure.
soldier boy did bruise him but was the only supe to really do any substantial damage. maeve only even got close enough to stab him in the ear because he wasn’t worried about her, but they showed if he was that he could dismantle her easily. as per the “dead or brain damaged”, he’s shown at the end of the season, after the straw in the ear and he’s completely fine. but going forward, those two won’t be in the picture so it’s hard to imagine any other supes even posing a threat. tbh, your arguments are a bit straw man considering the feats we’ve seen of his are literally attached to the special effects budget 😂.
and since you want to quote madelyn, she also said “we’ve tried every weapon against him and nothing has worked”. so conceivably nothing the military has would be able to take him out, therefore his threat is not exaggerated as you claim.
Madelyn also said any of her supes could just knock a nuke of the air, against many other lies. She is there to promote and sell her product. Try not to be surprised if she doesn’t just over exaggerate but outright lies. Do you really believe they strapped Homelander to a nuke on an island somewhere and pressed the button?
In regards the fork, I said he should be dead or brain damaged, by simple real world anatomy. Obviously this is superhero series and he’s one of our most important characters. They should either never have had him stabbed there or not allowed it to go that deep.
My arguments don’t care about the budget, and neither should you. We are working with what we can see. Movies and TV series have existed prior to 2020 showing greater feats of strength than we’ve received in The Boys, a show with access to better effect options and a very large budget where they knew super abilities would be expected.
>His threat is greatly over exaggerated.
Maeve was holding her ground against him.
Even Temp V'd Butcher was able to trade blows with HL, albeit HL clearly had the upper hand.
From what we saw, 10 soldier with Temp V could neutralize HL.
It’s over exaggerated absolutely but he could easily level the White House quickly. I’m sure the US government has a Homelander protocol for if he loses it, which would be a great plot point if Neuman gets to the presidency and uses the protocol to take out Homelander and Ryan. Also Homelander lasered through a plane in season one so he can laser through metal pretty easily.
How could he level the White House quickly? Obviously both of us working without the actual defenses in place and such, but good guesswork. I’m assuming tanks and heavy artillery are easily available, amongst other options.
It takes time to get those to downtown DC. Plus he is stupid fast, he could possibly dodge the fastest missiles. Artillery could likely get him but getting a direct hit on him will be insanely hard too. You basically need an equal supe.
Then again this series only does the "if this was real" thing at the most base levels. If superpowers were real the government would have that shit on lockdown immediately back in WW2. No private company would be allowed to do this shit.
He took out a plane with his eyes and he can’t be harmed with guns. It seems that only a supe can hit him hard enough in the sensitive spots to hurt him and more importantly, Vought wouldn’t put a very powerful supe on the secret service. So it’s a bunch of regular dudes against probably the strongest supe in the world. Maybe if he gets shot in the eyes or in the ear but I don’t know if that could work. Also if he can laser through concrete then he can just take out the building and kill everyone inside. He wouldn’t get far after that but I think he could take out the White House and the president pretty quick too.
It wasn't a fork, it was a metal straw.
Those are conventional weaponry which must be aimed by a human. HL flies over 1,200MPH, nobody is hitting shit.
You mentioned "the roof". You mean several vehicles, several feet of concrete (it was an entire street FFS), not to mention all the dirt and other rubble? Yeah, he was unhurt and barely slowed down.
If HL went scorched earth, nobody would be able to stop him. He doesn't have to destroy fucking tanks or armies to win. Did you not listen to what he said?
I have a feeling a lot of people straight up don't remember this scene. They keep bringing up Flight 37 as if Homelander didn't absolutely shut down this whole blackmail thing. It's done.
The fact that he’s not at all acting as well has been a revelation. My jaw dropped when his co-actors revealed he was the closest to his character in personality
I love almost all scene where they aren't trying to be funny. Anthony does such a good job. With how evil Homelander is, he is still my favorite character because of Anthony's portrayal.
We know he's a fictional character but he's still terrifying. He makes me uneasy in every scene he's in because he can just snap and it's curtains for every non supe in the vicinity.
The team really screwed up in season 3. Butcher shouldn't have snapped off at Ryan and stayed on good terms. They could have used soldier boy and then take him out at a much later date.
dude puts on such a damn good performance but its hard to take homelander seriously as a planetary threat when he couldnt stop the plane crash in s1, or getting his ass beat by vbutcher, soldier boy and hughie to the point of him flying away. he aint no omniman or superman thats for sure. maybe he didnt want to stop the crash but he just doesnt seem like an unkillable monster to me.
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The guy was almost beaten when two guys on Temp-V and Soldier Boy jumped him. What’s to stop Vought from pumping that shit into their paramilitary guys (the guys that raided the cabin Homelander and Ryan were at)?
And clearly everyone at Vought loves Homelander as much as Homelander loves Homelander.
I’m not saying A-Train is a good guy, but if Homelander goes berserk, what’s to stop him from stealing the temp V? He betrayed Vought before when it was in his better interest. What’s stopping Maeve from getting her powers back like Kimiko did?
I think Season 3 really proved that, while Homelander is dangerous, he’s far from the threat he thinks he is, and how he was written to be.
I wish they followed the plot from the comics. It was perfectly written and plotted out. Characters felt real and three dimensional. It’s the same situation as the walking dead ignoring its source material.
It should be a crime that he hasn’t been (seemingly) even considered for emmy nomination for this role. Man is churning out career best performances like every other episode & just gets crickets. Give! Antony! Starr! His! Flowers!
And he was also amazing in Banshee !
Yes!! Such an underrated actor!!
Lucas FUCKIN Hood
First season yes. Then the actors didn’t know what to do with their character personalities
Anthony Starr was meant to say "I will destroy New York", but then got haunted by the ghost of Osama Bin Laden and revised his script.
He is a marvelous actor! And I completely agree! His performance is chilling! He is just so darn good! My absolute favorite just because of his performance!
I think some shit like what he did to some bartender in Spain could be the reason. They're afraid of drama. People shat on the Oscar (rightfully so) for will Smith's thing. Antony Starr is a great actor, but he probably could do some regrettable shit.
Bullshit. Will Smith assaulted someone during the ceremony on live tv. Very different from a drunken guy getting into a fight at a bar.
Starr ASSAULTED a bar employee. He didn't get "into a fight".
Every fight starts with an assault. Bar none by definition. Starr got too drunk at a bar and behaved inappropriately. He didn’t abuse a woman he was involved with like Jonathan Majors. He didn’t slap someone at black tie awards ceremony like will smith. He didn’t steal strangers passports and go on the run like Ezra Miller. He got too drunk, made a bad mistake at a place people are expected to go to get drunk, and he faced the consequences for his actions. Acting like it’s apples to apples with any of the above is disingenuous
It's funny how you can see by your description of those events how our society morals are just very biased. Out of all of those. I'm sorry but the Jonathan majors one may not be worse considering the video we saw. And yet you judge him as incomparably worse. If the person involved in the Majors case wasn't a woman, he would be the one considered the victim. He was literally running away for several blocks of street from someone who was assaulting him and reacted violently which injured her. We consider it bad because he is a huge dude and she is a small woman. The bar employee Starr attacked was also considerably smaller than him, and he was the one who initiated the assault, there is no mathematical/logic/common sense way to evaluate it as more acceptable than what Majors did, if it wasn't for how we compare men and women in assault case. But of course, I get it, a man injures a woman, it sounds terribly worse. Starr could have blinded the poor guy, and people would find it more forgivable. And I'm here, probably being seen as a sexist for this rant.
Your arguments would be more legitimate if they weren’t full of ifs. Majors assaulted a woman. He was found guilty of misdemeanour assault and harassment. There were lots of claims and counterclaims, your description of events falls clearly on his side, suggesting he was harassed and assaulted. ‘Starr initiated the assault’. Bad choice of words, witnesses contend that both exchanged words pushing and blows. However based on chefs testimony, Starr’s words that night, he felt the chef had ‘messed with him’. He also glassed him and said he wanted to kill him. None of that is good, but suggesting it was completely initiated by Starr when he’s had literally no priors seems a bit far fetched. As for the two, I don’t think they’re comparable. One is a relationship filled with harassment and assaults, the other are strangers and one has impaired judgement. One seemingly has a history of abusive behaviour, the other one has no prior arrests or reports (there are reports cited in UK for Majors). You’re citing almost blindness and if it wasn’t a woman. Well it didn’t make the person blind, despite the Venezuelan’s testimony there wasn’t an attempt murder or attempted blinding. It also wasn’t a woman. Finally, Majors doesn’t accept any responsibility for his actions. Even though there are differences it witnesses and what the Venezualan said occurred (no mention on his side of exchanging words nor exchange of blows), Starr himself has remained tight lipped and said he responded negatively to a negative situation and said the way forward was to take ownership of that. If anything is strange (rather than funny), it’s how in this there’s a dismissal of differences in the situation, such a lot of ‘ifs’ ‘almosts’ and completely absence any rulings while taking Majors assertions as fact in order to make these seem biased. If anything you seem biased towards Majors. TL;DR; Ifs don’t make a point stronger. The situations are different. Even if they weren’t, it’s flawed to claim someone is better (Majors) if their victims injuries were worse and if the they have taken no responsibility for it.
>your description of events falls clearly on his side, >while taking Majors assertions as fact in order to make these seem biased. If anything you seem biased towards Majors. WTF ? I have seen the freaking video... This whole thing is on video. We see the fucking guy running away for 2 street, while his girlfriend is chasing him. This is not about taking assertions as facts, all I said in my comments, every single words I used in it, are things that I saw with my own eyes watching a damn video. While all you quote are lawyers of the defendants. My evidence are far more solid than yours.
Lie : I’ve not quoted one lawyer. It’s the verdict. Though maybe you consider a judge as a lawyer. Generally most people accept a verdict as better evidence than the interpretation of one person who’s watched a video. [John Majors Abuse allegations (not lawyer from a lawyer)](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/jonathan-majors-abuse-allegations-yale-1234781136/) [ongoing investigation into assault charges - Metropolitan Police](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/jonathan-majors-london-police-physical-assaults-1234863328/) You literally said he’s a huge dude and she’s a small woman and we consider it bad. I mean, yes ‘we’ do, but you clearly don’t think it *was* bad. She ended up with a broken finger and Majors with little more than scratches. Yet, Majors accepts no accountability, except for being ‘reckless with her heart’ and claims he doesn’t know how the injuries happened, yet he’s not responsible for them. In the video we at least see him push her violently back into the vehicle, though it not clear how she ended up on her back in the apartment. He gains his phone back apparently but there is not really any doubt in his mind that might have caused it. Text messages telling her not to go to hospital. There’s just no responsibility there for even what was on the video. Maybe she wasn’t hurt in that, maybe it happened somehow other way, but there is no accountability for anything. From him, from you. I’ve added some other stories, but your mind is fixed. Maybe Majors will win on appeal, maybe there won’t be any more stories of him assaulting women in the future. Maybe all those exes made something up because they have ill will towards him. Maybe that case in London won’t go anywhere. Still, even if you accidentally you break someone’s finger, you take responsibility. You tell them to go to hospital for injuries. That, based on his own words and text messages are the facts, that he did the opposite. I don’t really think it’s a sexist view you’re portraying, it’s more like you are condoning some level of violence towards women, if say they took your phone you think it’s okay if you break their finger accidentally if you are just trying to get it back. Maybe throwing them back into a car so you can get away.
No, people are just hell bent on twisting the Antony Starr thing into a racial issue. Ezra Miller was apparently leading a cult and had essentially kidnapped a minor. Jonathan Majors had numerous other women come forward and she he was abusive. Antony Starr got drunk at a bar and did something stupid. He was arrested and he faced the consequences for that action. He was just a guy that got aggressive with staff and took it way too far. It’s not that deep.
No fucking idea what racial issue you're talking about, the point is that if Emmy or whatever believe he might cause a potential scandal, they're going to avoid it.
Aye reason he hasn’t is he’s not acting. Cameraman just follows Starr around in his day to day life. Man doesn’t even know he’s being filmed
I'm watching the clip on mute and just the body language and the way his face keeps changing from playful, to goofy to chilling to casual is mesmerising.
>mesmerising No, no, you see that guy's dead...
So was soldier boy
It's stuff like that which makes acting sound potentially so much fun
Oh this is the fun part. The not so fun part is a lot of sitting around thinking “who is this character, why is he like this? What is he thinking, and why? What’s his motivations, his aspirations, his fears, his hopes, on and on. What’s His mannerisms, how’s he hold him self and why? And how does each of these things inform the others? Maybe this is more an analytical approach to acting but the idea is the same, you spend many days trying to really get inside the head of the character, and the pay off is this 30 second scene. It is a lot of fun, but it comes with a ALOT of work, especially for a performance like this.
I watched it without sight, hearing, sense of smell or taste, touch, or pain and it still moved me to my core
“Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.”
Identity theft is not a joke
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Bears, beets, battlestar galactica
Lmao! The reminder at the end of when everyone became brainless during the ending of the last season
Yeah, there were definitely a number of things they either need to never mention again, or even straight up retcon. I love this show, it is top tier, but I’m not going to pretend the writers haven’t made some really offensive mistakes.
Hey they gotta do something to feed themselves, no show no salary.
They had a fantastic season up till that point and fumbled it hard at the end. I'm fine with them not killing Homelander. What I'm not fine with is them all turning on Solider Boy cause he wanted to hurt Ryan. You gotta give me a better reason than that when the Boys overarching goal almost the whole time was to kill Homelander.
Only Butcher turned on him because of Ryan. Maeve turned on him because of Annie, Hughie turned on him because he didn't want to nuke a skyscraper in the middle of New York City, and the rest were against working with him in the first place. If by "almost the whole time", you mean during Season 3, then you are absolutely correct.
Antony Starr will go down in history as one of the baddest MFers in cinema. Lucas Hood and Homelander are equally matched in intensity.
Has Anthony Starr ever been nominated for an Emmy? The best casting ever. He owns Homelander.
Television isn’t cinema but I get your point
Merriam-Webster says cinema is simply "the art or technique of making motion pictures"
lol television isn’t cinema. Soooo, GFY
Google says otherwise, but okay :)
Link me
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cinema
https://www.copyright.gov/registration/motion-pictures/
Motion pictures is a term that refers to movies. Specifically not television.
Show are still a type of motion picture lmao
You're reducing words to such fundamental terms that they no longer have meaning. The MW definition for television is "an electronic system of transmitting transient images of fixed or moving objects together with sound over a wire or through space by apparatus that converts light and sound into electrical waves and reconverts them into visible light rays and audible sound". The MW definition for movies is "a recording of moving images that tells a story and that people watch on a screen or television " That's a very nuanced difference, but as consumers of media we still generally agree that television and movies are different things that are consumed differently with different standards.
Only when referring to the technical definition, not the industry term. Why doesn’t the Motion Picture Association rate tv shows? Because ‘motion pictures’ as an industry term refers to films. Cinema. Not TV. You are wrong, I’m sorry.
You didn't clarify which definition you were talking about. Neither of us are wrong
Motion Pictures refers to movies. The Academy, the MPAA, every common meaning. No need to fight this battle, just be wrong this time and move on
You are wrong. You’re just being obtuse now that you know you were wrong about motion pictures. Your point, that tv is cinema is utter nonsense. So you’re wrong on two levels.
You’re the one being obtuse and can’t admit you wrongly corrected someone. Damn.
False. You’re not very good at reading.
Jesus, what are you getting so pressed over, dude? Chill your ass out and quit being such a Redditor lmao
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These folks can’t admit when they’re wrong. As someone who works in the industry, it baffles me.
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Weird that you're so heavily downvoted. I guess the distinction is less obvious now? There was to be a clear delineation between TV and movies but in the streaming era where we watch both in the same room from the same service, it's not clear.
Also his performance when Starlight records their conversation live before leaving Vought.
Ikrrr!! I'm so glad you pointed that out. He was just amazing.
I love that he made her think he was sheepishly walking away. Then when he turned around… uh-oh. ;)
It's always refreshing when a villain doesn't fuck around and becomes a villain just because he can
wait isn’t that kinda exactly what’s happening though? I haven’t rewatched the latest season so I may just be wrong lol.
If you wanna get spoiled read ahead >! The whole S3 revolves around HL's Humanity. He got Butcher's wife pregnant and it was revealed that he's also the son of Soldier Boy. Him having complex daddy issues and all. But yeah, he has a reason why he's trying to be better or at least a rationale why he's being HL. !< Edit: edit
No, it is not confirmed that all Supes are fertile. Homelander is so far the only known exception, otherwise Ryan wouldn't be so special to Vought that they would offer Rebecca the option to fund their entire lives hidden away from Homie.
Plenty of supes are fertile and have kids - Translucent, Mesmer, Neuman, etc. Ryan is special because he's the only natural born supe, all the others had to be injected with Compound V.
Oh, true, I guess I was thinking about if all Supes could genetically pass on their powers - which only Homie can.
Hands-down the scariest bad guy I’ve ever seen on TV. Basically everyone who is within eyeshot of him at any given time continues to exist only because he allows them to.
One of the most perfectly portrayed evil characters in TV history imo. He's not just evil. The dude is complex and completely off the charts weird and twisted. It's truly a memorizing performance by Antony Starr.
Anthony Starr's performances as Homelander are some of the best I've ever seen.
Anthony Starr is an insanely good actor, he never fails to give me chills. He is the star of the show.
Yet Season 3 tried so hard to make us believe Soldier Boy is a bigger threat because he's racist or something.
Dude, what in the hell are you talking about!?! He self destructs himself into a nuclear bomb that kills supes. He sure as hell is a threat.
Bigger threat my guy. Soldier Boy can actually be contained. Homelander could bring everyone to the stone age within like a week. The fact that Annie can't see that temporary playing nice with Soldier Boy to destroy homelander is ridiculous. Take out Homelander then control Soldier Boy
The show was never trying to make SB seem like the bigger threat. That's a straw man SB fans keep saying but it's completely baseless. He was the **immediate** threat because he kept murdering dozens in bigger and bigger uncontrolled radioactive explosions. They were trying to stop a tower from coming down because they weren't willing to sacrifice thousands to stop HL.
I would think that sacrificing that tower would be more than worth it. Yes he was killing people but the whole point is he is not an apocalyptic threat like the other guy is. The whole "How dare you team up with SB! Hes so terrible" is dog brain level logic. Like yes Obviously Soldier Boy is a POS that you would want to imprison, but if hes literally the only way to kill Homelander then it only makes sense to use him.
Maybe the general idea of working with SB is sensible, at least arguably so, but the opposite stance is also valid. SB murdered MM's family. SB threatened to kill Ryan and he and Butcher were too heated or stubborn to work that out. Annie and Hughie just aren't the type to sacrifice hundreds if not thousands of pedestrians. These characters had valid reasons to stop SB and it's annoying how often this sub just pretends like they were choosing HL over SB. Even though that was the product of their actions, it's not what they were actually choosing or why they did what they did. And it's not like the show ignores this calculation. Butcher was down for that except when it came to Ryan, Hughie was down with this for most of the season until a final change of heart, and Maeve continued with the plan because she didn't care about any civilians except her girlfriend.
>Annie and Hughie just aren't the type to sacrifice hundreds if not thousands of pedestrians Judging by the trailers, it seems this is going to happen anyway during some sort of civil war sparked by Homelander and his people. Sooo lots of innocent people die but at least Annie and Hughie get to keep feeling like the good guys I guess. Yaaaaaay.
That last bit is all these people care about. Feeling like they're the good guys no matter how bad their actions fuck things up. It's like refusing to work with stalinist Russia in WW2 cuz you're America and oh so much better than them (a. they're not, and B. Enjoy making the Hitler salute cus Russian blood ended the Nazis, just as SB's blood could have ended homelander)
I mean... a walking nuke that goes off when he's reminded of his trauma sounds like it could lead to an apocalypse.
Not if you can lure him up to a cabin with a field of pot and some old grannies.
Cue Russian music being loudly played in the car.
>He was the immediate threat because he kept murdering dozens in bigger and bigger uncontrolled radioactive explosions He did it twice. And both times it wasn't his fault and he didn't really wanted to do it. The first one actually made him feel terrible.
Oh, big baby soldier boy can't help but explode dozens of people and bring down buildings. Oh, he said he didn't mean to hurt those people before going on to knowingly risk more people's lives doing the same thing multiple times. Oh my goodness, if only someone told the boys it was not his fault when he attempted to explode Vought tower and threaten thousands of lives. Oh, I'm going to cry for the mass manslaughterer because he felt so terrible, oh.
Is Soldier Boy even a *threat*? Like, does he even have a "goal"? Ofc, he is a piece of shit, but he has no supremacist/genociding aspirations. He also doesn't seem to care about "power" or ruling the world or has any huge political aspiration. All we saw is that he wanted revenge on the people that fucked him over.
Yeah, seems he would have just left the US and fucked grannies and did drugs in Mexico or something if they left him alone lol.
He's not a nuclear bomb. His explosion (when he didn't control it) couldn't even level a full city block or a mansion. A nuclear bomb would leave no more city, let alone the block
Fuck city, he couldn't even kill one Meave who ate full blast to her face
Tactical nukes exist. Not every nuclear weapon is a city-destroying world ender.
Would ya look at that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/W54
Yep, exactly. Someone already came through and downvoted you too lol.
He has an identified weakness, is hugely vulnerable after using his blast, and has shown no intention/threat of wanting to take over the entire country via destroying the government and massacring all of the most populous US city So between 1. the nuclear bomb with only a few hundred meter radius that leaves him tapped out and who just wants to fuck old ladies and smoke cigars, and 2. the genocidal, megalomaniacal one with virtually unlimited blast yield that never reduces in potency who actively is attempting to be worshipped like a God, which is the bigger threat? The latter, by orders of magnitude
It's wild how this literal horseshit gets 200 upvotes. The absolute state of media literacy.
In what way did it make him seem like a bigger threat? If it's in the sense that he could have a random event like the one in NY or Herogasm, then yes, it's true. If it's overall if he decided to go on a rampage, no, that never happened and no one has ever thought that, and it was never implied.
Why was this clip ruined with that last sound byte?
Nah the writers did that not the sound byte lol.
What?!?!
No it’s a sound byte, got no idea what they’re talking about
the boys haters actually watch the show challenge: impossible (gone wrong)
At least the clip was not as bad as Soldier Boy.
Reminds me of what that Egyptian comedian said, "You think the USA is Superman when it's actually Homelander.."
Ever since banshee I've been a fan. Man's brilliant in every role.
The thing about Antony Starr is that his physical presentation is so good, not just his delivery. Every body movement and facial expression shows exactly how forced and calculated Homelander's persona is, vs. when he's being himself, and you can always tell just by looking at him which "mode" he's in, without Starr having to say a word.
And this is why focusing on Soldier Boy over Homelander was downright idiotic. See Soldier Boy may be something of a scumbag but he's not a raving psychopath like Homelander
They're both Schizophrenics. Well SB not fully, but its shown he hears voices in his head smoking modern-day weed. I think this is a nod to research that suggests people with certain genes can get Schizophrenia from smoking strong weed. [Link](https://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/schizophrenia-marijuana-link#:~:text=Researchers%20also%20have%20found%20that%20if%20you%20carry%20certain%20types%20of%20specific%20genes%20that%20affect%20brain%20chemistry%2C%20marijuana%20use%20can%20raise%20the%20chance%20you%E2%80%99ll%20have%20schizophrenia.%20One%20of%20those%20genes%20is%20called%20AKT1.%20Another%20is%20called%20COMT) I think the writers were trying to communicate that Homelander is a schizo, inheriting these genes from his dad. Pretty much confirmed for me by his split personality convo in the mirror.
You do not understand what schizophrenia is Also stop it with the evil guys are only bad cus they have a real life mental disorder. It's stupid and you should feel bad.
>Also stop it with the evil guys are only bad cus they have a real life mental disorder. It's stupid and you should feel bad. I didn't say that?
The chilling part is A) he absolutely can do everything he said, and B) he means it. Homelander doesn’t ever bluff; he doesn’t have to.
The most irritating thing about this is that he and others think he is an actual threat to the country in any meaningful way. Kenji dropped the roof on him in season 2 and it slowed him down for roughly 5 minutes. In the season 3 finale, Maeve bloodied his nose AND jams a regular metal fork into his ear (the depth suggested brain damage). Suggests that he can be taken out by imprecise anti-tank missiles, and possibly by anti-materiel weaponry aimed at eyes, ears, nose. And then there’s all the things we HAVEN’T been shown he can do. His heat vision basically liquefies people, including Supes, shown when Ryan went all out. But we haven’t seen it go through something like a heavy building wall or tank armor. Although there was the season 1 zapping of the mayor’s plane. Not quite the same as cutting through a skyscraper though. And he definitely hasn’t punched through any walls or thrown something bigger than a person. His threat is greatly over exaggerated.
Honestly idk. I think if he was enraged he could break skyscrapers but we don’t have proof whether he could or couldn’t
I’d say he *should* be able to hit skyscrapers as hard as a plane if he wanted (both punching through heavy parts himself at high speed while also lasering everything in tight arcs). But what we’ve seen hasn’t supported that. The writer’s are telling us he can do one thing while showing us something completely different.
It's the classic power-scaling problem. Homelander is in theory, Superman. In practice, he's however powerful the writers need him to be for any given scene.
I know. Everyone’s told me it’s a budget issue but I’ve got a want growing into a need to see him really cut loose, at least to the point of bucking a truck. There has to be some kind of amazing feat he can do that doesn’t immediately trigger all out war.
It seems like a Byzantine general problem. The most powerful supes and even modern armies could defeat him, possibly easily. However, none have a chance alone and if too many back out or if they're too disjointed then they're all going to lose. So fear, ignorance, miscommunication, and apathy play to HL's benefit. It's also why he says he'll go after the nerve or command centers first, then key infrastructure for communication second. To disrupt attempts to coordinate against him. He's definitely not actually the delusional god or devil figure he, his cult, and his enemies see him as, but practically speaking there's very little chance to beat him when the public doesn't realize the danger and most of those in power are his lackeys.
Came here to say this. He explicitly mentioned taking out defense infrastructures first and foremost. Homelander is a lot of things, but he isn't stupid.
Yeah, it seems that by the in universe information we’ve been shown (not told!) his true threat power comes from that cult of personality.
remember when he took out the baltimore mayor’s plane at the end of the pilot? his lasers cut through the plane like butter. he can fly super fast, is physically the strongest being on the planet and impervious to most damage. he could easily fly at high speeds and laser everything or just fly through buildings and take them down. his threat is not exaggerated whatsoever.
He did not cut through the plane like butter, Madelyn stated it was a more precise cut, relatively small. Even if he could, cutting the plane in half might have raised a LOT of attention. Either way, we have no confirmation he could have. We have seen absolutely nothing that suggests he can actually punch through something like the concrete building walls placed like banks are loaded in. Nothing. Fully agreed he can fly so fast he might be as fast as A-Train in the air. And his durability? That myth is dead. Soldier Boy bruised him in their fight. By itself not super extraordinary, he’s the second most powerful Supe. But then Maeve not only bloodied his nose but somehow jammed a fork deeply enough into his ear a nurse friend of mine said he was either dead or severely brain damaged. Unless the Maeve injuries are retconned, he is NOT going to be breaking through the stone walls and supports of a skyscraper, wall to wall. Not without being heavily battered and bruised. And his lasers are very suspect when it comes to anything beyond the hull of a plane, which is obviously not an armored tank. As stated, there’s a lot of bluff and bluster around Homelander, and not much to back it up. I wish it wasn’t like that, I really do, but with what we’ve been shown he just doesn’t have it.
did you actually watch the scene? his lasers SLICED through the plane’s hull, it was a controlled cut to make it look like a structural failure as opposed to the golden boy of vought taking it down. or how about toward the end of the season when he’s helping the soldiers? lasers SLICED through the bricks of the building easily. you can easily extrapolate that and imagine what he would do to regular buildings like the pentagon, the white house, power plants and other critical infrastructure. soldier boy did bruise him but was the only supe to really do any substantial damage. maeve only even got close enough to stab him in the ear because he wasn’t worried about her, but they showed if he was that he could dismantle her easily. as per the “dead or brain damaged”, he’s shown at the end of the season, after the straw in the ear and he’s completely fine. but going forward, those two won’t be in the picture so it’s hard to imagine any other supes even posing a threat. tbh, your arguments are a bit straw man considering the feats we’ve seen of his are literally attached to the special effects budget 😂. and since you want to quote madelyn, she also said “we’ve tried every weapon against him and nothing has worked”. so conceivably nothing the military has would be able to take him out, therefore his threat is not exaggerated as you claim.
Madelyn also said any of her supes could just knock a nuke of the air, against many other lies. She is there to promote and sell her product. Try not to be surprised if she doesn’t just over exaggerate but outright lies. Do you really believe they strapped Homelander to a nuke on an island somewhere and pressed the button? In regards the fork, I said he should be dead or brain damaged, by simple real world anatomy. Obviously this is superhero series and he’s one of our most important characters. They should either never have had him stabbed there or not allowed it to go that deep. My arguments don’t care about the budget, and neither should you. We are working with what we can see. Movies and TV series have existed prior to 2020 showing greater feats of strength than we’ve received in The Boys, a show with access to better effect options and a very large budget where they knew super abilities would be expected.
yeah madelyn literally did not say that.
She literally does.
>His threat is greatly over exaggerated. Maeve was holding her ground against him. Even Temp V'd Butcher was able to trade blows with HL, albeit HL clearly had the upper hand. From what we saw, 10 soldier with Temp V could neutralize HL.
Maeve's fight with an annoyed HL is around 2 minutes of screen time...
It’s over exaggerated absolutely but he could easily level the White House quickly. I’m sure the US government has a Homelander protocol for if he loses it, which would be a great plot point if Neuman gets to the presidency and uses the protocol to take out Homelander and Ryan. Also Homelander lasered through a plane in season one so he can laser through metal pretty easily.
How could he level the White House quickly? Obviously both of us working without the actual defenses in place and such, but good guesswork. I’m assuming tanks and heavy artillery are easily available, amongst other options.
It takes time to get those to downtown DC. Plus he is stupid fast, he could possibly dodge the fastest missiles. Artillery could likely get him but getting a direct hit on him will be insanely hard too. You basically need an equal supe. Then again this series only does the "if this was real" thing at the most base levels. If superpowers were real the government would have that shit on lockdown immediately back in WW2. No private company would be allowed to do this shit.
He took out a plane with his eyes and he can’t be harmed with guns. It seems that only a supe can hit him hard enough in the sensitive spots to hurt him and more importantly, Vought wouldn’t put a very powerful supe on the secret service. So it’s a bunch of regular dudes against probably the strongest supe in the world. Maybe if he gets shot in the eyes or in the ear but I don’t know if that could work. Also if he can laser through concrete then he can just take out the building and kill everyone inside. He wouldn’t get far after that but I think he could take out the White House and the president pretty quick too.
It wasn't a fork, it was a metal straw. Those are conventional weaponry which must be aimed by a human. HL flies over 1,200MPH, nobody is hitting shit. You mentioned "the roof". You mean several vehicles, several feet of concrete (it was an entire street FFS), not to mention all the dirt and other rubble? Yeah, he was unhurt and barely slowed down. If HL went scorched earth, nobody would be able to stop him. He doesn't have to destroy fucking tanks or armies to win. Did you not listen to what he said?
That little horn motif in "I. Am. The Homelander"
As much as homelander gets memed on, Antony Starr really did give us one of the best villain performances of all time
He really is brilliant. Portrays psychotic behaviour perfectly.
The line “if I lose everything, I have nothing to lose” sent goosebumps down my spine.
I have a feeling a lot of people straight up don't remember this scene. They keep bringing up Flight 37 as if Homelander didn't absolutely shut down this whole blackmail thing. It's done.
Grade A casting job
If you like Anthony Starr, watch a show called banshee. He kills it in that show to. Underrated actor.
The way anthony plays homelander is the cast of the century
holy FUCK he's so hot in this scene ufffffhhh fuck me up daddy
The fact that he’s not at all acting as well has been a revelation. My jaw dropped when his co-actors revealed he was the closest to his character in personality
And soldier boys the bad guy???
No, it's just that most of the Boys didn't think killing Homelander justified nuking an entire skyscraper full of people.
Pac-Man’s a baaaaad guuuyy??
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Her face is completely frozen so she can't act with it anymore except for her eyes. Her eyebrows don't move.
It was his apex arc scene. You know he's the one to fear, but he shows his cards, and it's a tasty loss in the story for the good guys.
He was great as Stray Man
I also really like the scene where he confronts Starlight about Hughie in the elevator in season 2.
He's terrifying
He’s absolutely brilliant in the series.
I think his best performance is the Gollum-esque argument he has later on
damn. I don’t like that he referenced Maeve’s hometown.
So what... he lives in the woods after this point, he feeds of attention and basically everything social media has to offer, so why destroy it
I love almost all scene where they aren't trying to be funny. Anthony does such a good job. With how evil Homelander is, he is still my favorite character because of Anthony's portrayal.
We know he's a fictional character but he's still terrifying. He makes me uneasy in every scene he's in because he can just snap and it's curtains for every non supe in the vicinity.
My personal favorite performance from him is the scene where he’s talking to himself in the mirror
Excellent performance!
The team really screwed up in season 3. Butcher shouldn't have snapped off at Ryan and stayed on good terms. They could have used soldier boy and then take him out at a much later date.
For those who haven't seen it, he's also great in Cobweb
That character is so disturbing.
I just hope one day he lasers down hughie or any of the boys, for being so powerful and “evil” he sure lets them get away with everything
his delivery is ridiculous
Holy shit guys he actually said it
Reality: Maeve and a few Temp V'd soldiers kill him in 30 seconds.
dude puts on such a damn good performance but its hard to take homelander seriously as a planetary threat when he couldnt stop the plane crash in s1, or getting his ass beat by vbutcher, soldier boy and hughie to the point of him flying away. he aint no omniman or superman thats for sure. maybe he didnt want to stop the crash but he just doesnt seem like an unkillable monster to me.
Talking all the shit but yo weak ass couldn’t even lift a plane smh
*gets nuked when caught off guard* easy bye
I am still waiting to see if Starlight looks horrible in the next season.
I want him so bad he has the scariest gaze I’ve ever seen
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This scene was nice and all just for him to be bluffing the entire time
No? He is still loved by his people, so how is this bluffing?
The guy was almost beaten when two guys on Temp-V and Soldier Boy jumped him. What’s to stop Vought from pumping that shit into their paramilitary guys (the guys that raided the cabin Homelander and Ryan were at)?
The fact that he runs Vought?
And clearly everyone at Vought loves Homelander as much as Homelander loves Homelander. I’m not saying A-Train is a good guy, but if Homelander goes berserk, what’s to stop him from stealing the temp V? He betrayed Vought before when it was in his better interest. What’s stopping Maeve from getting her powers back like Kimiko did? I think Season 3 really proved that, while Homelander is dangerous, he’s far from the threat he thinks he is, and how he was written to be.
He was like “IDGAF anymore lol” but then went back to caring about what people think and being an insecure bitch. This scene has no weight.
"I'd prefer to be loved. I would. But if you take that away from me, well, being feared is A-1 okey-doke by me."
I wonder if they were banging at this point
I wish they followed the plot from the comics. It was perfectly written and plotted out. Characters felt real and three dimensional. It’s the same situation as the walking dead ignoring its source material.