How to BEAT Homelander (The Boys)
Film Theory
Film Theory
4.8 • 894 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, internet! Welcome to Film Theory, The show that knows that translucent doesn't mean |
| 0:21.7 | invisible. It means semi-transparent. So, how about the boys? Huh? Back in the late 2010s, a time when |
| 0:27.2 | superheroes ruled the pop culture ruse, this Amazon TV series burst through the wall and said, |
| 0:31.9 | no. Trust me, you do not want these guys to be real. If you aren't familiar, the boys is a satirical |
| 0:36.7 | series that imagines what a world with superheroes would really look like. And oh man, is this show a bloody |
| 0:42.3 | good time in a lot of different ways? And while there are tons of smaller heroes with |
| 0:46.3 | superpowers in this world, the biggest and most popular of them all team up into a supergroup known |
| 0:50.9 | as the seven. And these guys aren't the type of heroes that you'd expect. No, they're not boy scouts or friendly neighborhood warriors. They're corrupt. They're self-serving and they're dealing with real-world problems like addiction, insecurity, and egotism. |
| 1:02.5 | Killing most criminals in their crosshairs, as well as plenty of innocence along the way. The world of this series is incredible. But today, I wanted to take a look at one very specific hero, |
| 1:11.7 | the biggest and definitely baddest one of them all, Homelander. |
| 1:15.1 | I'm not just like the rest of you. |
| 1:17.1 | I'm stronger, I'm smarter, I'm better. |
| 1:19.6 | I am better! |
| 1:21.6 | Homelander is basically this world's version of all the oldest superhero tropes. |
| 1:25.1 | He can fly, he's super strong and fast, he's basically |
| 1:28.0 | invulnerable and he has himself heat vision, all while literally being wrapped in an American flag. |
| 1:32.9 | And this is why Homelander caught the attention of my theorist brain so quickly. In this show |
| 1:37.0 | that leaned so heavily on the realistic consequences of superheroes, got me wondering, just how |
| 1:41.6 | super is this superist of sos? And by that I mean, |
| 1:44.7 | how strong is Homelander? Given what we see him do across the series, what are some real |
| 1:48.8 | numbers to Homelander's power? And what would his biggest strength be? Well, loyal theorists, |
| 1:53.2 | here's the craziest part. The thing that I think is Homelander's biggest strength definitely |
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