Homelander’s Batman Trick Foreshadows His Boys Season 3 Twist
WARNING: Spoilers ahead for The Boys season 3
Homelander is typically known as The Boys' answer to Superman… so why does he copy a famous Batman trick in season 3? It's no secret that many heroes in The Boys parody figures from Marvel and DC — Queen Maeve is Wonder Woman, Soldier Boy is Captain America, Eagle the Archer is Hawkeye, etc. As an all-American hero with a clean-cut image and a fearsome set of powers, Homelander is very much The Boys' own Superman. Both are patriotic icons, both fly and possess heat vision, and both enjoy a refreshing glass of milk...
In The Boys season 3, however, Homelander pulls a move straight from Batman's playbook. The Dark Knight has developed an annoying habit of disappearing suddenly and silently in the middle of conversations. Jim Gordon will be chatting away to his costumed friend on a rooftop, glance away for a split second, and Batman's already vanished by the time his gaze turns back. Christian Bale's Batman was infamous for this in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight trilogy, but other incarnations have shown their own disregard for social niceties.
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Strangely, Antony Starr's Homelander copies this signature Batman insult exactly in The Boys season 3's premiere episode, «Payback.» Vought's star supe visits Karl Urban's Billy Butcher at his apartment, requesting Ryan's location and promising an almighty showdown to come. They're mid-conversation when Butcher momentarily glances toward his kitchen (and the V-24 inside his cookie jar), but in that split second, Homelander has silently evacuated his seat and exited the building. It's really not as impressive when the hero in question has superpowers, but the bigger
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