Top 20 Worst Things Homelander Has Ever Done

Top 20 Things Homelander Has Done in “The Boys”

Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most heinous acts committed by Vought’s golden boy, Homelander. Expect some bloody spoilers!

#20: Snatching Ashley’s Wig

Managing a bunch of egotistical, villainous Supes has got to be stressful. It’s definitely getting to Ashley, who’s quite literally losing her hair over it. Homelander uses this knowledge to completely humiliate her, making it clear who really wears the cape at Vought. She doesn’t have a choice: it’s either removing her wig, or getting some laser-eyes to the face. While Ashley’s not exactly an innocent victim, seeing her completely degraded is still difficult to watch. Especially since it’s just to inflate Homelander’s ego, and that’s one thing he has plenty of.

#19: Sticks & Stones May Break My Bones…

In true Homelander fashion, he wants his revenge served up on a plate, with a heaping side of public embarrassment. Just look at Marty! Even though he was definitely asking for it by daring to give Homelander the nickname “squirt,” the villain’s reaction is pretty intense. He forces Marty to do some uncouth actions in front of his staff, and then lasers him in the end, anyways. It’s one thing to humiliate the poor guy, but killing him afterwards is just petty. He couldn't even give Marty one last moment of peace.

#18: All-You-Can-Eat Seafood

By the third season, The Deep was willing to do anything to reclaim his spot in the Seven, and we do mean anything. Homelander naturally takes advantage of this by forcing the aquatic hero to do the unthinkable: eat an octopus. Not just any octopus, but Timothy! Since the Deep can communicate with undersea creatures, this dining experience is next-level kinds of traumatic. However, Homelander doesn’t seem to mind the view all that much. It’s clear that, to him, forcing his colleagues into awful situations is just all in a day’s work.

#17: Public Execution

If you thought Homelander only committed crimes behind locked doors or under the cover of night, you’d be very, very wrong. When a protestor makes the fatal mistake of throwing a can at Ryan, his dad steps in to dole out some extreme punishment. By that we mean Homelander murders a man in broad daylight, and then is promptly applauded by the crowd. And, need we remind you, this is all in front of his young, impressionable son, too! It set a chilling precedent; if Homelander can get away with murder in broad daylight, what else can he do?

#16: Fake News & Bloody Fans

Not even Homelander fans are safe from his wrath! He sacrificed a group of his own supporters in order to frame Starlight for murder. And before you ask, it wasn’t quick, and it wasn’t painless. In fact, Homelander didn’t even bother doing it himself, instead sending The Deep and Black Noir II. Despite it all, the scariest part is these Homelander acolytes still got off a bit easy. After all, if this is how he treats his most devout followers, we can only imagine what would’ve happened if they were his enemies.

#15: “Suped” Up Extremists

You get a superpower! And YOU get a superpower! With the government debating the continued role of “Supes” in national defense, Homelander took it upon himself to remind them of his worth. While it’s natural that even all-powerful heroes struggle with self-doubt, creating a legion of dangerous supervillains that only The Seven could possibly defeat isn’t the healthiest form of therapy. We don’t know what’s scarier - that he gave an extremist organization superpowers just to further his own ambitions, or that he still managed to defeat them all without breaking a sweat. He certainly proved his value, even if he was just cleaning up his own mess.

#14: Running Down A-Train

You can’t outrun Homelander forever, although A-Train certainly tried. He saved Hughie and the others, avoided an innocent bystander, and completed his redemption arc. All just in time for Homelander to put him six feet deep! It’s not the first or last time Homelander murders someone in cold blood, but the look on his face makes it clear this time is different. It’s personal. Or, as personal as it gets for a narcissistic supervillain. While A-train gets the last laugh, you can’t help but feel like Homelander’s hands-on method is beyond evil.

“The Boys” (2019-)

Amazon Prime Video

S01E15 "Fifteen Inches of Sheer Dynamite"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOyfbBKZZUA - Homelander kills A-Train.

#13: Into the Storm(front)

Everyone enters a new relationship with some baggage, but the narcissistic face of Vought International brings a light carry-on compared to what Stormfront’s packing. However, when Homelander learns that The Seven’s newest member is far from a humanitarian, he doesn’t just weather the storm, he embraces it. Her declaration in support of supremacy and prejudice puts up about as many red flags as possible, but if anything, their romance is even stronger after the fact. Homelander’s never been a friendly-neighborhood-hero, but wanting a literal Nazi to help raise your son is a whole other level of wrong. Although, in a weird way, they’re both so despicable that they're kind of perfect for one another.

#12: Like Father, Not Quite Like Son

Homelander wasn’t going to be winning any Dad-of-the-year awards even before he decided to take these flying lessons a step too far. Apparently, swooping in after eight years and pressuring your estranged son to manifest his powers only makes him intimately familiar with the ground. Homelander’s nature over nurture approach makes it clear he doesn’t really care about Ryan at all beyond his powers, especially since he doesn’t even offer his son a hand after figuratively and literally throwing him from the nest. Instead of taking any shred of responsibility, Homelander decides to point the finger at Becca’s parenting. Clearly, not wanting your kid to be shoved off roofs is too “soft” nowadays.

#11: Out of Line Outing

They say all’s fair in love and war, but this is a line even Homelander shouldn’t have crossed. When Queen Maeve dares to have her own opinion, he decides to reiterate his dominance by outing her on live television. Not only is it a gross breach of personal privacy, but it hurts even more given how desperately Maeve tried to keep her girlfriend a secret from him. This twist of the knife made it clear Homelander was still in control, and her love-life only existed because he allowed it. With this kind of toxic behavior, it’s no wonder these two didn’t work out.

#10: Heil Homelander

As if the parallels weren’t obvious enough before, Homelander opening an actual prison for dissenters is as obvious a metaphor as you can get. We can admire someone researching world history, but did he have to take his politics from Mein Kampf? Yes, Homelander was always a ruthless madman. But, up to season four, he at least tried to keep a cool exterior for the public. By opening these camps, though, he’s making it clear that to oppose him is sentencing yourself to life behind bars. You know, in case standing up to Homelander wasn’t scary enough as is.

#9: Making Hughie See Star(light)

Like any good workplace manager, Homelander acknowledges Starlight and Hughie’s romance by filling out the proper paperwork, setting boundaries, and… demanding she kill her boyfriend? Yep, sounds like Homelander all right. It’s not enough for him to take out Hughie, he wants Starlight to do it, for seemingly no other reason than to inflict as much suffering as possible. This was the moment we knew Homelander wasn’t just being cruel for the sake of it. There’s a sick, twisted pleasure he gets from asserting dominance. It’s honestly amazing Hughie didn’t leave here in a body bag!

#8: A Major Blindspot

For a superhero team that’s more into brand-recognition than crime-fighting, adding a caper with a disability to the roster seems like a sure PR win. Even more, Blindspot gets serious bonus points for his genuinely impressive combat capabilities, not that it did him much good in Homelander’s eyes. The Seven’s leader plays it coy just long enough to make you think there’s a heart buried really, really deep in that uniform, before deafening the recruit with a single strike. He isn’t just needlessly cruel, he’s genuinely offended at the thought of anyone like Blindspot joining the team. If this is any indicator of how the other tryouts went, it’s no surprise that someone like Stormfront made the cut.

#7: Supersonic Is Super-Murdered

As it turns out, it takes more than a good smile and impressive powers to earn your keep in the Seven. Homelander values loyalty, you see. So, when learns that new recruit Supersonic has pledged his allegiance to Starlight, Homerlander decides to make an example out of him. A very messy, blood-splattered example. Cruel and unusual punishment isn’t the half of it, though. No, Homelander makes sure Starlight sees the remains, and knows it’s all her fault. You’ve got to feel for her here. Grief is hard enough even when you don’t have a sadistic hero rubbing salt in the wound.

#6: Madelyn’s End

Strapped with explosives and face-to-face with a psycho Supe and a bloodthirsty vigilante, it’s safe to say this Hero Management VP has had better days. Madelyn was the closest thing Homelander ever had to a real friend, but that’s not enough to save her when he realizes she’s been keeping Becca’s whereabouts a secret. Nothing is as heartless as permanently tearing a mother away from their crying child, and it’s all the more telling that she doesn’t lose her life to Butcher’s explosions, but instead Homelander’s rage. It set a chilling precedent that anyone who doesn’t give him what he wants - even those he loves - aren’t safe when he has a temper-tantrum.

#5: The Opposite of a Helpline

There are no words to fully describe Chelsea’s fate. She’s struggling with her own mental health, and instead of supporting her, Homelander arrives and makes it all about him. Then, when Chelsea decides she doesn’t want to jump, Homelander gives her an ultimatum: either she falls of her own will, or she’s blown off by his laser-eyes. We’ve seen Homelander commit a million heinous acts in the series, but his complete disregard for human life here is simply staggering. Chelsea needed a hero. A real one. Instead, she got a monster. She may have walked up to that roof, but her blood is on Homelander’s hands.

#4: A Mayor’s Fall From Grace

As early as the very first episode of the series, it became incredibly clear that despite the visual similarities, Homelander isn’t quite as virtuous as the first son of Krypton. When the Mayor of Baltimore justly considers exposing the truth about Compound V, this supposed hero shows his true colors by doing a quick drop-in to voice his concerns. With a quick yet brutal display of his staggering strength, Homelander proved that despite what the cameras say, he didn’t just target supervillains. Man or child, hero or criminal, anyone who stood in his way would be given a first-class seat to his laser-eyes.

#3: A Rocky Relationship

This reprehensible caped-celebrity didn’t just ruin Becca’s life once, he did it twice. After his despicable acts leave her pregnant with his superpowered child, she’s forced to fake her own demise to hide the newborn from him. But, despite abandoning everything she knew and loved, he finds her and is still hellbent on taking Ryan under his cape. Parenting is tough enough as it is, let alone when the father of your child is a petty psychopath that can beam anyone who tells him no. It wasn’t enough for him to completely uproot her life; now, he’s aiming for her legacy by turning Ryan into the thing she hates most: him.

#2: The Waiting Game

When Homelander walks into Hughie’s cell, we all brace ourselves for the worst. Never one to make things quick and easy, though, the Supe doesn’t actually turn on the laser-eyes here. Instead, he admits to keeping Hughie alive just to lure out Butcher and Starlight. Apparently, it’s not enough to run the world and keep Hughie in a labor camp. He also has to break the man’s spirits by killing all his friends first. The devastation on Hughie’s face says it all, and proves that the only thing worse than dying at Homelander's hand is dying last.

“The Boys” (2019-)

Amazon Prime Video

S01E15 "Fifteen Inches of Sheer Dynamite"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND063dYM_Bw - Homelander taunts the imprisoned Hughie.

#1: Flight 37

A hijacked plane should be an afternoon warmup for these heroes - or, it would be, if Homelander’s goal was saving lives. When his eye beams send the aircraft into a free-fall, the Seven’s supposedly heroic leader decides to forsake all the innocent civilians aboard to further his own political agenda. It’s downright horrifying to see him refuse to save even a child, and then turn to the cameras and pretend the tragedy was because of governmental regulation on superheroes. Homelander unforgivably weaponizes the deaths he caused, and makes it clear that the commandeered plane would have been better off had the “heroes” never showed up in the first place.

Which of Homelander’s malicious acts left your jaw on the floor? Let us know in the comments below!