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Warning : despoiler for The Boyscomic book series!Among the many Supes inThe boy , few characters have a more tragical origin thanHomelander . However , one of the most unmarked face of his comical record backstory is his secret female parent , who Vought - American take to birth him , knowing full well that she would in all probability go in the process . As a upshot , Homelander ’s stock is even more tragic , as his original and perhaps most horrifying dupe was n’t by choice .
InThe Boyscomic book serial , Homelander has two disjoined origins : One the public has been tricked into believing , and a much more tragic backstory that is the truth . Vought - American meticulously craft afake origin for Homelander , which - like Superman ’s - features the hero clash - landing from an alien major planet to become a beacon of hope on his new world . However , the truth is much darker , as Vought - American used the Nazi Supe Stormfront ’s desoxyribonucleic acid to test to fabricate the most powerful hoagy in world - with Homelander being contained , experiment on , and monitored for the first 18 years of his aliveness . However , it was n’t just Homelander who Vought - America victimized to meet their destination .
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InThe Boys # 19by Garth Ennis , Darick Robertson , Tony Avina , and Simon Bowland from Dynamite Comics , the Legend tells Hughie thetruth about Homelander ’s secret originand link to Vought - American . The Supe expert explain that Homelander was grown by Vought - American and implanted into a adult female with an unspecified disability , selected from one of the corporation ’s drug trials due to her want of effectual protector . It ’s a horrifying descent that underlines the series ' focussing on the amoral , unaccountable corporation as its shivery ' villain ' - an entity which is almost impossible to ' defeat ' in any meaningful way .
Homelander Killed His Mother
Homelander was rob of any human connection with his secret mother inThe Boys , as due to his powers activating at birth , he kill both his mother and the integral Vought aesculapian squad . The woman was chosen specifically because she was vulnerable and had no family to ask questions , earmark Vought - America to cover itself and preventHomelander ’s actual inception ever becoming public . regrettably , due to Vought - American ’s careful planning and Homelander ’s parturition vote down his mother , the powerful Supe never even have it off the truth . What ’s more horrifying is that the rest of the Seven were create via the same process , suggesting the same practise was carried out repeatedly .
The Boys ' most important and most frequently recurring theme is how the powerful mistreat the powerless , almost as an inherent aspect of possessing power . This is express in Homelander ’s lack of empathy andeven in Butcher ’s genocidal end game , but Vought - America is this musical theme in its purest form , sacrificing lives and destabilizing intact country in the name of continued net . InThe boy : Butcher , Baker , Candlestickmaker , Butcher explains how he learned from his father that those who possess power will come to disdain the people they maintain it over . For Vought - America , that ’s everyone , and Homelander ’s mom is just one occasion where the company treat mass as resources to spend on corporate impulse . Indeed , despite his fearsome reputation , Vought ultimatelysees Homelander in the same style .
Homelander ’s greatest fault is his lack of empathy for others , so it ’s tough not to wonder how he ’d be different if he ’d had some variety of family to touch base with . lamentably , not only did Vought control this would never be the case , but they then swallow up even the existence ofHomelander ’s mother with a fake news report , underlyingThe Boys’overall message of how uncurbed power strain greater and greater cruelty .
