The Sad Origin Of Homelander’s Catchphrase Revealed
Caution: Spoilers ahead for The Boys season 3's finale
He may be a terrible, hopeless bad guy, however The Boys affirms Homelander's exemplary expression has a lot more troubled beginning than you'd anticipate. Until his extremely open birthday implosion in The Boys season 3, Homelander's was loved as an unassuming stronghold of profound quality, his public standing perfect. As a feature of Homelander's show bundle, Vought conceived an energetic all-American persona with red, white and blue ensemble to coordinate. The Boys additionally gives him a suitably family-accommodating expression: "You folks are the genuine legends."
Never did The Boys trouble concealing the numerous likenesses among Homelander and Soldier Boy. But, some way or another, the disclosure that Vought's World War II legend really fathered Homelander actually arrived as an immense shock. Not exclusively was Homelander Vought's profound replacement to Soldier Boy, he was the genuine replacement to Soldier Boy, acquiring significantly more than simply a nauseatingly enthusiastic subject and some worthwhile sponsorship bargains.
The Boys season 3's finale demonstrates precisely where Homelander's silly expression came from. At last knowing his natural roots, Homelander flicks through file film of his dad in "The Instant White-Hot Wild," finding an old stagger from Soldier Boy's "freedom" of Nazi detainees. With the camera square on him, Soldier Boy plays unassuming, dropping the line, "These boys here, they're the genuine legends." Viewers can most likely expect Soldier Boy didn't develop this mark line on his own legitimacy. The Payback chief was too somewhere down in bennies and mature ladies to be concocting anything without help from anyone else. We can, hence, expect Vought composed the "you folks are the genuine legends" line explicitly for Soldier Boy. At the point when Stan Edgar had his top person supplanted by Homelander in 1984, he might've concluded that keeping the expression would give the beginner nostalgic some bygone era bid, so the choice was taken to give Soldier Boy's expression straightforwardly to Homelander.
Soldier Boy's Catchphrase Makes Homelander's Origin Even More Tragic
Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy in WWII in The Boys
The Boys season 3's Norman Osborn-esque mirror scene featured the duality behind Homelander's villainy - the more obscure, detestable side and the side needing a caring family. So frantically did Homelander want parental endorsement, he killed Black Noir - the nearest thing he has to a companion - in the most potential severe way as discipline for keeping quiet. Also, the unpleasant cherry on that cake of falsehoods is the way the reality of the situation was looking straight at Homelander from the start...
Each time Homelander focused on the "you all are the genuine legends" line, he was parroting the dad he generally needed however never knew. Soldier Boy's words were in his mouth from the start, however Homelander not even once encountered that light second to draw the association. Homelander's vicinity to reality makes Vought concealing his dad child connect to Soldier Boy boundlessly more disastrous. Furthermore, what was going through Black Noir's psyche each time he heard Homelander tell a gathering of honest spectators they're the genuine legends? He would've heard Soldier Boy say a similar line previously. Were Noir not an absolutely quiet fresh start, his response might've offered all that Homelander needed to be aware.
Homelander is hopeless in The Boys - even entertainer Antony Starr concedes so a lot. Abnormal, then, at that point, how hard The Boys season 3 attempts to make him thoughtful. From being a respectable dad to Ryan and uncovering his better nature during season 3's mirror succession, to uncovering how Vought made him a carbon copy of Soldier Boy while never uncovering the fact of the matter, it's practically similar to The Boys believes crowds should identify with Homelander, notwithstanding having a bigger number of dearly held secrets than red, white and blue jumpsuits.