Homelander Encodes | No Survey

In The Boys , the villains are not the supes with lasers; the villains are the systems that demand performance. Homelander is a victim of his own encoding machine. He has been encoding smiles for the camera since he was a child in a lab. After 40 years, the software and hardware have merged.

Because that flicker? That split-second where you see him choose which emotion to fake? homelander encodes

When you say “Homelander encodes,” you are acknowledging that he does not possess a stable self. He is a series of tactical broadcasts. In The Boys , the villains are not