The Boys Season 3's Homelander Twist Has Fans In Shambles
Warning: SPOILERS for The Boys Season 3 ahead.
A major twist from The Boys season 3, episode 7, regarding Homelander has fans falling apart. Everyone's favorite psychopathic Supe, Homelander, has become even scarier this season as he shows that his powers have yet to be fully unleashed. Not to mention he's growing increasingly unhinged as he throws tantrums against the media and humanity in general during his VNN news appearances, spiking his popularity amongst the white male demographic and becoming the poster boy for toxic masculinity, a side of his personality he'd previously tried to hide from the public.
In the season 3 episode «Here Comes a Candle to Light You to Bed,» more shades of horrifying are added to the character as it's revealed he's been keeping Maeve in a Vought prison cell and plans to harvest her eggs to make his children with. Meanwhile, Hughie and Butcher are quickly getting poisoned by Compound V as they help Soldier Boy cross Mindstorm off his hit list, and Vought has turned on Starlight, spreading child-trafficking rumors about her orphanage after she made a social media post calling out the horrors that the company has covered up. The social media marketing for The Boys has been killing it this season, as Homelander even released a statement about Starlight online.
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The episode also revealed a major twist: Soldier Boy is Homelander's biological father. The secret is revealed to Soldier Boy in the moments before he kills the psychic Mindstorm. Unbeknownst to Homelander, he was right, he's not the "cheap knock-off" but "the upgrade" of Soldier Boy, as Vought handed Soldier Boy over to the Russians in favor of someone
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