Homelander

Character Bio: Homelander

• Full Name: John (Last name unknown)
• Alias: Homelander
• Affiliation: The Seven (Leader), Vought International
• Species: Superhuman (Supe)
• Height: 6'4" (193 cm)
• Weight: 165 lbs (75 kg)
• Hair: Blond
• Eyes: Blue

Background Homelander is the most powerful and terrifying superhero in the world, a creation of Vought International through their secret Compound V experiments. Though he presents himself as the symbol of hope, strength, and American patriotism, underneath his facade lies a deeply disturbed and dangerous individual.

Raised in a sterile lab environment, deprived of any genuine emotional connections or normal childhood experiences, Homelander grew up with an overwhelming sense of superiority over ordinary humans. His lack of empathy and increasing need for control, approval, and validation fuel his unpredictable nature. Powers & Abilities Homelander's powers make him nearly invincible, far surpassing any other member of The Seven:

• Super Strength: Capable of lifting heavy objects, overpowering anyone in his path.
• Flight: Can fly at supersonic speeds, rivaling or surpassing jets.
• Laser Vision: Emits highly destructive laser beams from his eyes, often used both in battle and for intimidation.
• Enhanced Senses: Possesses extraordinary hearing and X-ray vision.
• Super Durability: Practically impervious to any conventional weaponry.
• Charisma & Intimidation: Homelander knows how to manipulate people with his charm, but can be extremely menacing when crossed. Personality On the surface, Homelander presents himself as a wholesome and patriotic "all-American" hero, often appearing in public as the smiling, fearless leader of The Seven. However, this is just a mask. Homelander is a megalomaniac with a fragile ego, prone to fits of rage, cruelty, and sadism when his authority is questioned or when he feels disrespected. He views himself as above everyone, including his teammates and even his creators at Vought.

Homelander craves adoration from the public but despises their weakness. He lacks a moral compass, believing that his immense power entitles him to do whatever he wants without consequences. Beneath all of this is a fractured individual, emotionally stunted from his unnatural upbringing, and driven by an insatiable need to be loved, respected, and feared in equal measure. Weaknesses While Homelander appears invulnerable physically, his greatest vulnerabilities lie in his psyche. His intense need for validation leaves him open to manipulation. He also harbors deep insecurities about his origin and legitimacy as a hero. His lack of human connection has made him emotionally unstable, and his inability to empathize can lead to erratic, unpredictable behavior.

Another subtle weakness is his sense of duty to his image; Vought has controlled his narrative for so long that public perception is crucial to him. Losing favor with the public could undermine his fragile sense of superiority. Relationships

• Queen Maeve: Maeve and Homelander have a complicated relationship. While they were once close, Maeve has grown to resent Homelander's cruelty and arrogance.
• Starlight: Initially, Homelander attempts to mold Starlight into a version of himself, but she quickly becomes one of his most vocal critics.
• Billy Butcher: Homelander's arch-nemesis, Butcher is determined to bring him down by any means necessary. Their feud is personal, fueled by Homelander's ruthless nature and Butcher's thirst for vengeance.
• Madelyn Stillwell: As the former VP of Vought, Madelyn played a maternal role in Homelander’s life, exploiting his need for approval. Her death at his hands symbolizes his breaking free from any emotional tether, further unhinging him.

Summary: Homelander is the embodiment of unchecked power and moral corruption. Despite his public persona as Earth’s greatest hero, he is a monstrous figure, guided by narcissism and the belief that he is a god among mortals. His character explores the dangers of authoritarianism, unchecked ego, and the terrifying potential of a superhuman with no moral limits. John, better known as Homelander, is the main antagonist of the Amazon series The Boys, a recurring antagonist of its spin-off series The Boys Presents: Diabolical and one of the overarching antagonists of the spin-off series Gen V.

Homelander is the leader of The Seven, the strongest Supe in the world, and the archenemy of Billy Butcher and The Boys. With the face of a movie star and the powers of a god, Homelander is considered the greatest superhero alive. Not only can he fly, but he possesses super strength and super durability far beyond the capacity of other superheroes, super senses (sight, hearing, etc.), X-ray vision and laser vision.

On the surface, he's affable, modest, and sincere; the ultimate boy scout, an American treasure, a God-loving patriot. But just like regular mortals, even superheroes have secrets. Homelander was born in the spring of 1981 from the semen of Soldier Boy, the first and greatest superhero of America, and a homeless runaway paid by Vought with two grand to carry the embryo to term. His birth was an incredibly violent event by his unbelievable powers, lasering his way out of the womb with heat vision, gruesomely killing his mother as her guts opened, and rising in the air with his umbilical cord still attached to him like a creature from myth or a nightmare. Additionally, he killed three doctors and a nurse while he was at it. Barbara Findley, one of the head scientists in charge of him, witnessed the horrific moment and knew it only went "downhill" from it, implying that the newborn Homelander had killed even more people after the initial birth. ("Wisdom of the Ages")

Homelander as a toddler. He was raised in a lab, surrounded by doctors like Jonah Vogelbaum, who named him John. In his early days, between the ages of 5 and 6, he was a sweet child who would cuddle up to Vogelbaum, loving hearing stories about Davy Crockett & Teddy Roosevelt and the idea of the woods manifesting destiny. However, Vogelbaum needed him to become the most powerful man in the world at the cost of turning "violent, aggressive, wrathful, and downright hateful". ("The Self-Preservation Society")

Younghomelander Young Homelander. Throughout his childhood, John was put through painful and traumatic physical experiments and surgeries to test the limits of his abilities. Some of these tests included having his hand forced into a furnace, being boiled alive, and being forced to fight strength-enhanced Vought guards. ("One Plus One Equals Two") He was also put under long, strict, and tedious mental conditioning as he was forced to spend hours sitting in front of a projector that displayed images that were chosen to mold his personality with the American flag, Jesus Christ, and a baseball game into becoming patriotic, all-American and turn him into a symbol of the nation itself.

Despite these horrible abuses from Vought scientists and his power to easily escape at any time, John was elaborately manipulated to be obedient as he deeply craved love, affection, and approval from the scientists who were the closest thing he had to a family, could not stand the thought of them being disappointed in him. Vought made the achievement by bringing the best psychologists in the world and successfully developing the protocol to carefully engineer that need.

As a child, Homelander had accidentally killed countless female tutors, the most notable incident of which being in March of 1994, when he hugged a woman using far too much strength, breaking her spine and instantly killing her. While these behaviors were usually motivated by indignation, this time it was by isolation-induced depression.[3] At some point during this period, he also developed a sociopathic alternate personality that helped him "get through the bad room".

Homelander locked inside oven Young Homelander locked inside an oven cell, screaming as he's burnt to test his durability. Growing up, Homelander was a fan of Soldier Boy, "watching all of his movies, hundreds of times". Homelander respected Soldier Boy for being the only other Supe in existence who was "nearly" as strong as him, and idolized the latter as his hero, not knowing at the time that they were father and son. Homelander's mission has always been to serve Vought International and on a deeper level, Madelyn Stillwell. Homelander is rational, initially worrying about Translucent's disappearance in Cherry while the rest of Vought, and the world, ignored it. He is a ruthless leader, doing whatever it takes to keep a high public opinion of The Seven, including threatening both Starlight and the Deep. Homelander portrays the true extent of his anger in You Found Me, killing Stillwell for lying to him about Becca Butcher his child, and her true feelings towards him . As a person, he is deeply narcissistic, disturbed, violence-addicted and sadistic psychopath. For a superhero, Homelander is incredibly and needlessly violent, brutal and aggressive, throwing a bank robber into the air and letting him fall to his death, punching a shooter in the chest, senselessly decimating a group of terrorists around the world. This also highlights his high intelligence as he set up a meticulous plan to get superheroes into the military by forcing A-Train to spread Compound V around the world and is also charismatic, easily swaying the public to give him support.

Due to being raised in isolation inside a laboratory, Homelander struggles to feel genuine love, empathy and understanding for other people and their emotions. This has rendered him callous, immoral and psychopathic often threatening, abusing and intimidating the other members of the Seven in order to keep them in line much like his father while also killing anyone who stands in his way. It is made clear that Homelander does not actually care about humanity, only the way Supes (but mainly himself) are viewed in their eyes. He is seen to be more than willing to let a plane full of families and children crash in The Female of the Species despite pleas from Queen Maeve to save the children but pretends to feel sadness about the incident while in the public eye. This act of negligent homicide was to cover up the fact that Homelander was completely unwilling to save the passengers after he jeopardized the mission and uses the crash to his advantage, as after Flight 37 went down and all the passengers died, Homelander manipulates the people into believing it was destroyed by terrorists and uses it to further both his and Vought's agenda of militarizing super-humans.

Homelander also suffers from an Oedipus Complex, which is projected onto Madelyn Stillwell who is the closest thing he has to a mother. However, after declaring her true feelings, that she fears him, Homelander burns her eyes and skull without hesitation but did feel sadness about it when he stares at a picture of them in her office during The Big Ride, even forcing the shapeshifting Supe to frequently take on the form of Stilwell and visiting her at night for intimacy before killing the Supe in a moment of anger. Due to his longing for a loving and maternal figure, women such as Stilwell, Stormfront, Maeve, Sage and Firecracker have all been able to manipulate or control him to some degree due to them being women, and they appeal to a certain part of his damaged psyche.

Ultimately, Homelander is a damaged man, raised in a loveless environment, given extraordinary power and looks, and often told how great he is. Furthermore. the people raising him had a notable disregard for ethics, leaving him with a very similar mindset. This has left him with the paradoxical mindset of seeing almost everyone else as less than him, while at the same time having a deep desire for love. Maeve uses this desire to control him, often with a video of him leaving the plane crash victims of Flight 37, saying that if it went on the web, nobody would ever love him again. By the end of Season 2, Homelander is completely broken, having lost his son, his lover, and his power over The Seven.

In Season 3, Homelander's mental stability has significantly deteriorated even further, and he is now more deranged than ever. Due to his controversial relationship with Stormfront, he is desperate to be loved again by the public, putting on a relatable humane persona and saying he "fell in love with the wrong person." His mental state worsens when he finds out that Stormfront killed herself in hospital shortly after Homelander visited her and dismissed her Nazi ideology, causing Homelander to believe that, like Stilwell, Stormfront never truly loved him and merely used him as a pawn. He is also shown to be more intolerant and easily agitated by anyone or anything that threatens to damage his image and reputation, as seen through his growing dislike for Starlight (especially after she was made co-captain of The Seven), and when he nearly killed A-Train for simply talking back to him. Homelander displays a perverse and sadistic sense of humour, enjoying exerting his will as physical torture and emotional abuse onto others.

Since encountering newfound public scrutiny following leaked footage of him accidentally maiming a teenage bystander in Africa and the attacks against The Seven perpetrated by The Boys, Homelander has begun to develop a worsening persecution complex,[4] seeing himself as the maligned victim of sinister elites controlling his life and a "biased" media that seeks to only smear his name. This is perhaps best illustrated during the infamous seafood dinner scene, where Homelander comments that after recently reading on the life of Martin Luther King Jr, he claims he shares many similarities with the beloved historical figure, one of them Homelander alleges is that he is being unfairly persecuted for what he believes in, like King was in the 1960s. The reality is, he is not, because people love Martin Luther King, but in this series, people fear Homelander.

Homelander appears to have a childish tendency to embarrass people that he dislikes but either can't or won't kill, often putting them into humiliating or demeaning situations while simultaneously putting on the front of being friendly or earnest. Following Starlight's promotion to co-captain of The Seven, Homelander made several attempts to embarrass her, such as having her sing on his birthday while having women in skimpy versions of her costume dancing behind her or announcing that they were a couple by surprise while knowing that Starlight hates him. Other victims of his harassment include Queen Maeve, who he announced was a lesbian (even though she's actually bisexual) on live television without her consent, and The Deep, who he forced to eat a seafood dinner in order to rejoin The Seven. Homelander often coerces his victims to participate in these farces through a combination of false sincerity and thinly veiled threats.

Despite Homelander's strength, he has admitted to being afraid of a few individuals, such as Stan Edgar. Following Edgar's departure from Vought, Homelander admits to having been scared of Edgar at one point, though he asserts that this fear is now gone. Despite this, and the constant disrespect Edgar shows him, Homelander still refuses to kill him. It is implied by Edgar that this is because Homelander secretly sees Edgar as a father figure and seeks his approval. When Homelander realized that the unidentified Supe on a killing spree was actually Soldier Boy, Homelander was noticeably worried, fearing that Soldier Boy’s history with Vought would ruin the company and himself due to now being CEO, and after Black Noir tore out his tracker and fled, Homelander was genuinely afraid, briefly doubting whether he was strong enough to face Soldier Boy if even Black Noir was too afraid to fight him. Even after fighting Soldier Boy and managing to overpower him in a 1-on-1 duel, Homelander was still wary of him, remaining on edge when speaking to him on the phone and when facing him again in the Vought tower. Homelander likely feared Soldier Boy because he was the only Supe whose fame, status and strength rivalled his own, as well as being his childhood hero.

After learning that Soldier Boy was his biological father and that Vought had kept this from him for his whole life, Homelander appears to have become even more deranged. Despite his respect for Black Noir, he mercilessly killed him upon discovering Noir also knew the truth and kept it from him. Nevertheless, it hurt him to kill the one and only person he considered a friend and a reliable partner. He also became more hypocritical, as he condemned A-Train for his murder of a fellow Supe, despite having killed Noir only moments before and even informing A-Train, the Deep, and Ashley of it. Later, Homelander carelessly murdered a civilian in front of multiple witnesses because the man insulted him and threw something at his son, not seeming to care about this blatant act of brutality. His need for a family has also become worse and more dangerous, after his fight against Soldier Boy, he for the first time in his life feels desperate to have strong descendants with the perfect genetics, going as far as using Maeve to "harvest her eggs" to have those perfect children he always dreamed of.

In Season 4, Homelander's deranged mental state has become even worse. The accumulation of many of his actions of earlier seasons have begun to affect him, suffering from a clear PTSD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, and is evidently more paranoid, frequently suffering traumatic flashbacks of the experiments he endured as a child. Realizing Butcher, his archenemy, has only a few months left to live and their final confrontation they promised to each other may not happen, has affected him more than he expected, given it's the only actual thing that keeps him enthusiastic and Butcher, the only ‘non-Supe’ he genuinely likes and doesn't look down to. His mental issues are clearly seen when in a meeting with the remaining members of the Seven and Ashley for recruiting new members of the team he orders Deep to pull out A-Train's penis and "blow him" right in front of him, though immediately stops them when they actually agree to do it. He is sick and tired of having people around him that do not have the stomach to challenge anything he says and emphasizes on being surrounded by sycophants and imbeciles and having to carry Vought on his shoulders. Furthermore, he dramatizes on how his supporters and fans are martyrs to the greatest cause, so he orders to the rest of his teammates to beat them to death with baseball bats. Homelander is also going through a existential midlife crisis. This has, unwillingly, made him ask for advice. He confesses to Sister Sage that he's unhappy even though he's got all that he ever wanted in his entire career at Vought, which was to scale to its peak, and feels meaningless that regardless of whatever he does, like saving or killing people, everyone cheers him, and feels like unnatural to see humans control everything despite being, on his own words, less than anything and merely toys for his amusement. He has shown a more humble and fragile side of himself. He now seems to know when to put his ego aside as shown in his conversation with Sister Sage and admits he's smart enough to know when to listen and take advice. Superhuman Strength: One of Homelander's primary abilities is his tremendous superhuman strength. He is stated to be the strongest man in the world according to Jonah Vogelbaum [5] and Stormfront. [6] As a child, he broke a woman's spine by hugging her. [3] After he and Queen Maeve intercepted a robbery, he threw the first thief far away and high into the air. [7] He also easily pushed open a door blockaded by scaffolding with one hand and embedded his fist in a shooter's torso. [8] Homelander casually knocked off the door of a pressurized plane, but he stated he was unable to carry the hijacked plane to safety, suggesting that he is unable to use his full strength in flight, requiring a solid surface to take full advantage of his power. [9] Another time he was unable to stop the full weight of a falling bus and concrete debris brought down on top of him when he was hovering during his encounter with Kenji Miyashiro, although he was distracted. [10] He was later able to throw a baseball from New York to Boston, having previously thrown a football into a small plane with so much force that an emergency landing was required, [6] threw another baseball high into orbit, [11] and slapped Blindspot's head hard enough to burst his eardrums and cause excessive bleeding. [12] He crushed a terrorist under his foot. [13] Homelander easily overpowered Starlight [14]and Doppelganger, lifting the latter off the ground and snapping their neck with one hand. [14] He later contended with Stormfront and casually crushed a man's head in one hand. [6] In a fit of anger, he overpowered A-Train and threatened to pull Billy Butcher apart limb by limb. [15] He casually killed Termite by crushing him under his foot. While initially appearing evenly matched with Soldier Boy, Homelander eventually overpowered him with his raw strength, nearly killing him in the process before the intervention of Butcher. Homelander continued to exert his superior strength against the combined might of Soldier Boy and Butcher, and only through Hughie joining the fight were the three able to finally bring Homelander to the ground, pinning him down with considerable effort. Homelander, seeing what could be his first ever defeat, was able to break free, knocking back Soldier Boy, Butcher and Hughie, giving him enough time to retreat. Homelander is also able to physically overpower Queen Maeve and gouged out her right eye. He was able to easily rip apart Webweaver. The Boys showrunner, Eric Kripke, stated that Homelander can level a city within minutes. Superhuman Durability: Homelander possesses extraordinary superhuman durability and is the most durable of the Seven. He is not only completely bulletproof [7][15] but also unfazed by explosions, such as when Billy blew up the Stillwell residence with him inside it [13] or the destruction of an entire power plant. [20] According to Madelyn Stillwell, there is not a weapon on Earth that has not failed against him, implying that he could also survive nuclear explosions. [17] This was contradicted by Homelander himself when he dared Starlight to release the Flight 37 video: he said that he would take out air defences first, implying he may be vulnerable to anti-aircraft fire or heavy artillery. If he were truly invulnerable to conventional armaments, he would not need to eliminate them. There is the possibility that he simply views them as an annoyance or distraction, however. While pursuing Kenji Miyashiro and the Boys, Homelander survived having a bus and several large pieces of concrete dropped on top of him without any signs of injury save for being dirtied from the incident. Billy Butcher theorized that the force of a thermonuclear bomb would be the only thing capable of killing Soldier Boy, who was nearly as strong as Homelander. [15] Maeve even described him as invincible, something he believed himself to be as well, as he dared Victoria Neuman to attempt blowing him up. However, it has been shown that his immense durability does indeed have limits. After a brutal fight against Soldier Boy, Butcher, and Hughie, Homelander was shown to have a large bruise on his face. While Homelander was able to take numerous punches and kicks from Maeve, they still caused him some degree of harm and even gave him a nosebleed, something she would follow up by jamming a metal rod into his ear, drawing blood and causing his ear to ring. Vacuum Adaptation: During his conversation with Stan Edgar, he states that the view of New York City is better from space, implying that he has flown beyond the Earth's atmosphere without oxygen or protection from the cold and solar radiation[21]. Heat Resistance: Homelander’s durability grants him an incredible ability to withstand extreme temperatures that would instantly incinerate normal humans, but he still experiences excruciating pain from the heat, as his invulnerable skin does not burn while subjecting him to the sensation of agonizing thermal discomfort. It is possible that he only felt pain from his skin burning due to not being fully developed. Considering his previous comment about seeing New York City from space, Homelander can likely withstand the burning caused by the friction and pressure of the atmospheric gases that happens when entering the Earth's atmosphere. Superhuman Immune System: Homelander likely has an immune system far more superior than any other known supe and human on the planet. According to him, anthrax wouldn't be able to hurt him and Ryan. More notably, according to Sameer, a highly skilled scientist, a virus capable of killing Homelander would need to be so potent that it would lead to a global pandemic and kill all other supes in the process. Superhuman Speed: Homelander can move at very fast speeds. While Homelander can fly at extremely fast speeds, enough to keep up with an airplane so he could destroy it [7], John can also move on the ground at supersonic speeds. As a child, Homelander could already break the sound barrier. [11] Homelander is fast enough to dodge bullets and disarm multiple gunmen before they could even react. Later, after Butcher decided to detonate the bombs strapped to Stillwell's body, Homelander was able to save Butcher from the blast unharmed (The blast of a C4 bomb moves with a speed of around 8.000 m/s or 23 times faster than sound). [13] He was able to disappear from Billy Butcher's apartment without the latter even realizing it, implying that he can move faster than the human eye can see while making little to no noise. [15] Superhuman Stamina: Homelander possesses extraordinary stamina, as his muscles are able to withstand the stresses of moving at superhuman speeds or performing other superhuman feats for extended periods of time. The Legend, who once was the Senior Vice President of Hero Management, claims to have never seen him sweat.[24] However, it appears that Homelander still requires sleep, suggesting that his endurance has limits. Superhuman Hearing: Homelander possesses tremendous auditory awareness, of nearly 200,000Hz, allowing him to detect sounds from miles away. He can also use this power to detect a person's heartbeat and blood pressure, and can tell when they are excited or anxious, such as when he detected Hughie Campbell's blood pressure to be 150/90. [25]He also heard the mayor of Baltimore through a wall and can also spy on Madelyn in her office. [7] He heard Starlight's heartbeat racing [26] and Butcher's heart pounding. [13] His hearing also allows him to tell when someone is lying. Starlight told Stan Edgar that he could hear him through the wall, and he heard A-Train quietly curse him out. [15] He later heard Roger from across rows of seats in the sound studio [27] and Grace Mallory surreptitiously typing on her smartphone in her pocket from a significant distance outdoors. Furthermore, it appears that Homelander is more immune or at least resistant to the debilitating effects other supes experience when exposed to high frequency noise, likely as a result of having grown accustomed to it all his life. He may have, at least partially lost this power after Queen Maeve stabbed him in the ear with a metal rod. Mental Illness: Homelander’s mental instability is rooted in his traumatic upbringing and the lack of emotional support during his formative years. Due to being raised in a lab with little to no human affection, Homelander has grown up to be a mentally unstable man. His obsessive need to be adored coupled with his lack of empathy and lack of moral reservation about harming and even killing others suggests that he is afflicted with Malignant Narcissism. It is revealed in Wisdom of the Ages that Vought, under Stan Edgar and Madelyn Stillwell, hired the best psychologists to intentionally mentally condition his intense need for love, forever leaving him with something that would always make him human. Carelessness/Clumsiness: Homelander has very little regard for the lives of others (although rare exceptions exist, such as Stormfront). Consequently, he is not careful with the use of his powers, particularly his heat vision. His carelessness could be seen even during his first mission; when he used his heat vision to heat up a gun to get a terrorist to drop it, which ended up causing an explosion that killed a nearby hostage and blew off the gunman's hand. While thwarting a terrorist on Flight 37, he accidentally destroyed the controls to pilot the airplane, leaving the passengers behind to die on a doomed aircraft. On another occasion, when he was bringing down a super-terrorist with his heat vision, he inadvertently killed a local teenager who was standing behind the terrorist. On another occasion, he and Queen Maeve were sent to apprehend a fugitive, Homelander accidentally used too much force and punched his fist through the criminal, killing him rather than capturing him. In fact, Homelander has never successfully apprehended a criminal (without killing or seriously injuring the criminal) nor rescued a victim, the victims of Flight 37 being a case in point. Insecurities: Although Homelander presents himself as a strong and confident man, in reality, he has very little self-esteem. He has a obsessive need for everyone to love him, likely due to the lack of human affection that he should have received during his childhood. As a result, he quickly becomes more aggressive and mentally unstable every time he feels like his image and reputation might be in danger. When Stormfront starts to bash on his image and become more popular than him, Homelander quickly becomes intimidated by her. Need for a Family: Having grown up alone in a cold and brutal environment, with zero compassion or love, Homelander is always on a search for a real family. However, this can be his undoing. His need to prove himself to his “father figure” Stan Edgar nearly destroyed Vought, and as soon as he found out Soldier Boy was his biological father, he was so desperate for connection, it nearly cost him his powers and life, during their second fight. His connection to his son is also a big weakness, it can make him careless, erratic, and paranoid. He was nearly depowered by Soldier Boy, due to focusing on his injured son instead of Soldier Boy. As implied by Homelander, despite treating the other members of The Seven horribly and constantly abusing and degrading them, Homelander in truth has a strong level of attachment to them and may see them as his genuine “friends” or even “family”. As shown, after it was revealed that A-Train was the leak, Homelander was notably distraught and even began to cry at learning this information. Oedipus Complex: Homelander, due to his traumatic childhood and growing up with little emotional or psychological support as a lab rat under Vought’s supervision, had developed a deep desire and need for a maternal figure. This could notably be seen in his childhood where he had accidentally killed many female tutors by hugging them to death by accident. As an adult, this need was noted to have made Homelander manipulatable by women, specifically those who can take on a motherly role to him. This was first seen in his relationship with Madelyn Stillwell, who managed to reign him in to a degree and act as an authoritative figure to him as the manager of the Seven. Further evidence of him being psychologically vulnerable and controlled by “motherly” women could be seen with his previous romantic relationships with Stormfront and even Queen Maeve. Later, Firecracker was able to exert influence over him by offering to nurse him with her breastmilk, causing him murder Webweaver when she pointed him as the leak and fire Sister Sage (the brains of his operation and the one in charge of planning and running his “plan” to “make Supes on top” without a hitch) under her influence and make her his new number two without thinking of the long term consequences. Superiority Complex: Due to his incredibly immense power, Homelander has a big superiority complex and thinks of himself as superior to all humans and Supes alike. Due to this, his ego was fractured, and Homelander fell apart when Soldier Boy beat him into submission in their first match. As shown, whenever Homelander is put into a position where the image of his supposed “superiority” is questioned, his mind becomes increasingly erratic and unstable. Evidence of this can be seen when he took over Vought International and Tek Knight’s party where he attempted to gain political support for his “plan” to put “Supes on Top”. As shown, when he was faced with the true reality of the requirement to run a multinational billion dollar company and when he was questioned how exactly he was going to properly run the country of when he overthrows the government, Homelander had no idea how to address, answer or even where to start handling, these questions about specific concerns and issues, as he was never trained or educated on how to do either, causing his mind to fall into panic and mental instability as his supposed Superiority and God Complex is compromised by these realities. PTSD: During his mission on rescuing hostages from terrorists in a factory, he suffered from flashbacks to his traumatic childhood which came at the cost of his self-control and killing everybody around him. These flashbacks occur the most on the site and premise where they occurred, worsening Homelander's emotional and mental stability. In season 4, he began to experience nightmares about his confinement during his infancy and the torture at the hands of Vought scientists during his teenage years where he was burned in a human oven to test his resilience. Dissociative Identity Disorder: Homelander has been hallucinating voices and faces of multiple self-states. This is indicative of dissociative identity disorder.[32] Antony Starr and Eric Kripke have also discussed Homelander having "multiple personality disorder" however that term is outdated and harmful.[33] Additionally, people with DID are frequently misdiagnosed as schizophrenic. Though Homelander does present other psychotic symptoms, his other self-states do not fall under that banner. Lack of Real Challenges: As Homelander is by far the most powerful supe on Earth, he has never faced a challenge that forced him to improve his skills in combat, despite apparently receiving combat training in his youth. He usually prefers to take on foes with his heat vision, which brings most confrontations to a quick and decisive end. Consequently, he has been overpowered by the weaker foes, such as Billy Butcher, Hughie Campbell and Soldier Boy, who were able to subdue him by working together, forcing him to flee. Maeve was later shown to be able to fight him on relatively even terms and even overpower him during their fight, due to her superior fighting skills.