Warning: There are spoilers ahead for The Boys season 1!
Amazon Prime’s The Boys has done a phenomenal job of establishing Homelander as a complex villain. He’s definitely a murderous psychopath masquerading as a beloved superhero. However, the series made Homelander somewhat sympathetic by showing brief flashbacks to his time as a Vought lab rat. Season 2 doesn’t arrive until next summer. But in the meantime, Amazon has shared a new clip that further explores Homelander’s troubled childhood. You can watch it via Twitter below.
Could there be anything more terrifying than little Homelander? #FlashbackFriday pic.twitter.com/s9OAXattQB
— The Boys (@TheBoysTV) November 15, 2019
The clip is presented as Vought Labs surveillance footage from 1994. “Little Homelander” is in a session with his tutor, identifying images on various slides to prepare him for his eventual role as the corporation’s star-spangled (and very profitable) protector of the innocent. Unsurprisingly, the session goes awry when the hero-in-training goes a little too far.
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Needless to say, Homelander has some mommy issues that he never managed to work out. Viewers also saw this throughout The Boys’ first season, especially during his eerie, sexually-charged interactions with Madelyn Stillwell. Season 2 will likely continue to examine the character’s fragile psyche as he keeps making trouble for Billy Butcher and his team.
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