The Boys’ “Homelander”: a Superhero’s Super Powers — and Surprising Lack Thereof

 

Superhero as Psychopath

[Spoiler alert: this post divulges a sub-plot from Season One, Episode #4, “The Female of the Species.” Stop here if you don’t want to know.]

As super powers go, you’d think safely landing a stricken passenger jet would be a cinch.

Especially when the Superhero (“Supe”) in question, Homelander, can fly at the speed of sound, shoot lethal laser beams from his eyes, and hurl 6-ton trucks as if they were toys.

Nope.

Queen Maeve begs Homelander:

Queen Maeve: “You’ve got to go out there — lift the plane up!”
Homelander (incredulous): “Lift the plane up?!? How? There’s nothing to stand on. It’s f*cking air!”
Queen Maeve: “I don’t know, fly at it, ram it straight.”
Homelander: “No, that kind of speed, either the plane goes ass over tit, or I’ll punch straight through the hull, or . . . ”

No Witnesses

So, why not at least save as many passengers as he can from the doomed jet before it crashes?

Because Homelander’s negligence helped disable it — he lasered (destroyed) the cockpit controls by accident — and any surviving passengers might be witnesses.

Queen Maeve takes convincing, but Homelander finally prevails on her to abandon the plane and everyone aboard.

The scene ends with both of them watching the doomed plane plunge to to the ground, as they levitate in the sky behind it (photo, top) . . .

P.S.: For sheer villainy, the scene ranks with the elevator scene in “Fargo”; Keyser Soze’s response when a kidnapper holds his family hostage in “The Usual Suspects”; and anything conceived by “Breaking Bad’s” Vince Gilligan.

See also, “Is this what you want, Lester? Is . . this . . what . . you . . want? Yes or no?”.



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