The Boys: An Episode Of Diabolical Is Essential Viewing For Understanding Homelander
Amazon’s The Boys Presents: Diabolical was an invitation for a bevy of fans to lend their takes to the world of the boys, the adaptation of the Garth Ennis The Boys comic by Supernatural honcho, Eric Kripke. Entires came in from such folks as Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (who were behind another Ennis adaptation, Preacher) and Rick and Morty mastermind, Justin Roiland.
Diabolical, however, is more than just a fun addition to the series, it really adds to the story at large. Whether it’s in seeing the abuses of Vought or Garth Ennis’s original vison brought to life, one story, “One Plus One Equals Two,” gives us insight into Homelander’s origins and just how he came to be the way he is.
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“One Plus One Equals Two” opens with Stan Edgar (Giancarlo Esposito, reprising his role from the series) at a Vought launch event for their latest and greatest superhero and product of Compound V, the Homelander (a returning Antony Starr) as he is (then) known. It takes the savvy marketing skills of Madelyn Stillwell (Elizabeth Shue, also from the series) to drop the “the” from in front of his name and make him just Homelander.
While he’s ushered out before an adoring public and a fawning press, Homelander had continual flashbacks to the abusive Vought training that made him who he is. While he suffers these moments of visceral PTSD, he relates a completely false childhood of growing up and playing sandlot baseball and wanting to join the major leagues someday, a cheerful and homespun Americana to sell this Aryan Superman to the masses.
Even from his first public interaction, Homelander is playing the public false, parroting the Vought company line just like he’s
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