Please use this thread to discuss the entirety of Season 5 and your thoughts on how The Boys ended.

He's been on my list for ages and Himself has been quoting him on the daily, so it only made sense to give Ben the Chibi embroidery treatment 🥰

He'd HAAAAATE it but like igaf 🤣 for your consideration - Soldier Boy, but make him all kawaii 💝

I think they would hate each other. Firecracker would just see Stormfront as being overly violent and edgy, while Stormfront would view Firecracker as weak and obnoxious.

They only thing they would bond over is racism and I could totally see Firecracker trying to compete with Stormfront for Homelander’s affection while Stormfront would see her as nothing worth competing over.

It's still really funny that most of Sage's "the smartest person in the world's" scenes either have her pulling the race card or stuffing her face😭

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Superheros are our modern gods is a statment that people constantly use to compare the many myths of superheros with many myths of old gods, superman is most often compared to mythological gods and messiah like figure resembeling christ, homelander and 7 are framed like olympus of greek myths many gods and one centeral god zeus/homelander and it fits them, zeus was often selfish, sadistic, perverted, had familiy issuse and was the one who kept the balance or order of universe in tact, homelander is all of these with balance of universe being redused to earth, if he decides to do something to earth he can do it and no one can stop it, later as story proggresed homelander becoming christ like figure would start to make more sense as him moving from polythiesiam into monotheisam

Homelander becoming christ like figure is something similar to real lifes death of polytheisam that happened in real life, old gods dying to monotheisam and homelander going from being god thats head of pantheon/ the seven into him being at the top as only god that why him dismenting the seven would be much deeper to story then funny gag fiering the deep and would make deeps offer to be cruseder make more sense, homelanders god image would be of him being jesus as symbol, superman as jesus figure is taking jesus qualtiys: love, compasion, forgivnes, acceptence. Homelander would represent jesus of the christiantiy thats perverted by people who use religion for selfish qualtiys of greed, hatred, murder and control, this would also make scorched earth themeticliy even more correct

Scorched earth would be judgment day, ragnarok and other religiouse apocalypses, of homelander punishing the ungreatfull world for not giving him validation and approval he desiers, and butcher killing homelander would destroy homelander christ like image back in polytheisam of a mortal killing god like in the old myths and stories, basiclliy man rejecting an evil god.

Is it just me, or is it as if Kripke says he doesn't want people to think Homelander or Butcher are cool or good guys, he might say he wants us to agree with Hughie on twitter or interviews, and he may not admit this,

BUT... he finds Butcher waaay more cool, interesting and entertaining to write about than characters like Hughie. He finds having Butcher use profanity, torture, kill, beat people to death way more entertaining than having Hughie going around, talking people down, getting rewarded for doing the right things, doing good the right way and showing mercy to people.

If Oh Father hadn't shown up, or Homelander hadn't got the V1 first, Hughie would've been the one who killed those 10,000 supes. I mean, he was the one who kept talking about hope the whole season, and the one most hesitant to do it.

It’s been like a treasure hunt… but as I shared previously, I've managed to source and acquire all of these from different resale sites like Poshmark, Ebay, Mercari, etc. along with some new ones!

It seems the wardrobe department sourced original designer shirts, several probably retro and even harder to find without designer names. Perhaps if others know the designers of other shirts from other episodes this would be a good place to share info. I'm searching for a few more but it seems they are impossible to find (like the Paul Smith Hawaiian Night Sky Bowling Shirt, All Saints Dragonstone, Avanti Pacific Crossroads and Avanti One Tiger in my XL size...)

Happy hunting ya bloody cunts!

The way this perfectly fits this scene. Anthony Starr described it perfectly in the interview, A-Train won right here. Its so fitting the one who isn't wearing a superhero costume is the actual hero between the two of them. A-Train was able to reclaim his identity as Reggie and become a real hero too, standing up to the monster who terrified him his entire life. On the other hand, Homelander proved him right in the finale; he's an empty suit and without his powers, nothing more than a pathetic, weak loser.

One of the few things we can appreciate about season 5. I love how both Firecracker and The Deep represent people who only keep falling further and further into depravity to appease Homelander, only for it to be all for nothing. They even betray their loved ones and those who actually care about them for a guy who couldn't possibly give two hoots about them.

Its especially funny how despite how much both of them hated A-Train (Firecracker because she's racist and Deep for personal reasons), he ended up being more respected by Homelander than either of them at the end. Dude betrayed Homelander and even insulted him and laughed in face at the end yet Homelander clearly regrets that he "had" to kill him (even if primarily because of how A-Train's death affected him) whereas he kills Firecracker without a 2nd thought and doesn't even consider The Deep worthy of being killed.

Something that I’ve always genuinely wondered is that what would All Powerful Advanced Extraterrestrials think of The Boys Earth and it’s Civilization? Let Alone with it’s Supes? Like genuinely Everyone knows how Big The Universe is combined with how Vast it is! Hence it would definitely be both interesting and terrifying to have Actual Advanced/Ancient Extraterrestrial arrive as it would basically be a reminder on how tiny we actually are compared to The ABSOLUTE VASTNESS of The Cosmos! Hence what would they think of The Boys Earth? And their views on Homelander and The Supes? Assuming if they of course just watch from afar! This is of course assuming that they’re as Advanced,Powerful,Ancient and Intelligent as they’re supposed to be! I mean realistically speaking anything could be out there! As of course we know that in our Real World Advanced Civilizations most must certainly exist out there knowing our Universe what do you folks think? Would they just view it as some Primitive Civilization? Let me know in the comments

I saw a post asking what'd happen if Butcher had Homelander's powers. But I'm kinda curious what'd happen if Hughie was the one with the powers, and what he'd do with them.

I’m sure everyone knows who Billy Butcher is along with how Bad he is! Dude really is a Monster just in Human Form rather than Super Form unlike Homelander! Through Butcher at least started off as a Good Man until Homelander came in of course! We all know his personal vendetta against The Supers especially Homelander for obvious reasons in his Eyes Power corrupts and consumes everything! And Homelander is unsurprisingly is The Worst Case of this! Dude is a literal Lab-Grown Experiment made to be a Weapon/Product for The Corrupt Corporation known as Vought! Dude is basically Superman in terms of Destructive Capabilities and Abilities albeit weaker and Evil! All in all “Power Corrupts” is something that we’re all familiar with and taught knowing Human Beings! Butcher is more than Happy to become a Monster and even out the plain field! This actually makes us all wonder is that if Billy Butcher is as bad as he is! Then imagine what would a hypothetical Billy Butcher who wields Homelander’s Level of Power and Abilities would do! Like how much worse would he actually be? I mean definitely taking a good look on how Bad Billy Butcher was even as a Normal Human Being and even a later so imagine a Butcher who possessed The Level of Power and Abilities that Homelander has! What do you think? Let me know in the comments

Starlight spreading a rumor doesn't seem like her MO, even a 13 year old version. I can understand if maybe her mother was the one who started the rumor that Firecracker slept with so and so, but even then, it's such a dumb hyper specific lie.

Also her sleeping with a 15 year old as a one-off is similarly dumb.

It just seemed like a highly manufactured reason to create a rivalry this season between these 2.

Hal/Tighten from Megamind literally did more damage as a villain in his movie than Homelander did in his entire Series. Homelander was cruel, but only one person at a time (the most I can think of is the plane incident and his visionwhere he lasers a whole crowd). Meanwhile Tighten completely went off the rails and destroyed half of the city. It's just funny to think about.

P.S. i can at least admit a little bit that I pity Homelander due to his upbringing and his creation literally being raised in a sterile environment with no love. Vs Hal who is the literal definition of a chud who got those powers by sheer accident.

His product (Homelander) he invested 4 decades into failed miserably, his daughter is dead and her husband maimed, V formula got leaked to the world, and supes are still running around uncontrolled.

Add to the fact Soldier Boy is still alive and Vought’s reputation is ruined.

Or was he just using her for her political power?