There's a saying that fits Homelander perfectly: a child not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth. If you deny a child love and give it nothing but abuse and mistreatment, then you've got nobody but yourself to blame when that child becomes the monster that eats you.
Johns humanity shines through when he misses the last shot, this is an exercise in him shedding his humanity. Although you can't feel sorry for the scientists, they're still in the same lab doing the same work and how many failed "Homelanders" didn't survive the oven test.
@@PermanentGogeta66 True statement, but at the same time this is true of many abusers/abusees, the abuser doesn't even remember the abuse and claim its love/duty.
@@PermanentGogeta66he was literally brainwashed to not have the tools we gain in life to change. Homelander is not an individual like us, it wasn’t that he didn’t have any skills it was that he was taught bad skills and habits. He’s an angry child inside superman’s body.
After this and that scene where baby Homelander is hiding under a blanket... It became so hard to think of him as a bad guy, I mean he is a victim. Fucked up is the only way he could have turned up, Edgar once told him he was a bad product but I think he was wrong. Homelander is a perfect product he is exactly how they made him. Perfect. It's just that they made a monster.
That's where I think Homelander crossed the line. Killing Frank in the oven was arguably justified in a dark kind of way, but by his own admission, Marty was (mostly) nice to him. Clearly Homelander was just killing everyone down there to make himself feel better.
