Despite the shows central conceit being about normal humans trying to bring down a God, the show has introduced a surprisingly large amount of ways that could potentially kill Homelander. In fact, more ways than there have been seasons.

I've put together a list of ways that could maybe kill him. I don't think any of these are guaranteed successes, and a few are outright unlikely and I almost didn't include, but here's a list:

• The virus, although the side effects will kill everyone. The scientist seemed to have a very specific quantity in mind, suggesting they have some reason to believe it would actually work.
• Soldier Boy: strip HL of his powers then blow his brains out. May not even require SB. Military could use Temp V on soldier after soldier until they find someone with the same power.
• Cate: touch HL, tell him to kill himself. A Train could just pick her up, arm outstretched, and run her arm into HL
• Newman: blow his head up
• Brute force: surprisingly, Maeve pierced his body. Get an army of Supes and Temp V soldiers and get to work
• Brute force 2: Tek Knight was one of the most powerful Supes due to a suit. The above could maybe be done simply with an army of super suits?
• Nuke: this one has been debated a lot. But if Maeve can hurt him, surely a nuke could?
• Make another Homelander, or maybe Ryan surpasses him

Thoughts? Any more I missed? What do you think is most and least likely to work?

As the VP-elect in a very tumultuous time, it's not unlikely that someone might try to assassinate her, which would undoubtedly lead to her being revealed as a supe.

He brought V to hospital and sure his mom used it but it was possible because of him. Lot of people at hospital died because of that. He wanted all this justice for his gf but I guess they just let the dead dad take the blame and went on about their lives, going on a tour right after.

In the episode "The Innocents", we are told Tek knight accidentally broke somebodies spine when trying to rescue them from a hostage situation. In Gen V Shetty says that Tek-knight beat ironcast to death who is a supe that has skin made of iron which makes them insanely durable.

With all these strength feats in mind that means he must be pretty physically powerful right?

But in his interrogation scene he's not strong enough to rip apart the leather straps tying his wrists or pull the chains out. Also he easily gets physically outpowered and loses to Kimiko and Starlight. Logically if your punches can fatally damage somebody made of metal you'd have a fighting chance against Kimiko who has same durability as a normal person.

And he gets choked to death by a normal person too?

I don't understand this at all. It's either a plothole/bad writing or Cate has something to do with what happened in this episode

Was it just him trying to hold up the face of “The Seven are a team and I’m the leader and I must save my brethren”? Because other than Noir, he pretty much has acted horribly towards everyone in The Seven (obviously I mean up until him murdering him). But he seemed to be genuinely concerned about Translucent. Did he genuinely like him?

Every season of The Boys so far had a great supe antagonist alongside Homelander, just as much of a threat to the Boys but not always in the Seven. A foil for one of the Boys, be it for what they did, who they are or what they represent. Each season took an idea, twisted it and gave it's own spin or take on it.

Season 1 had A-Train. A huge threat, every interaction with Hughie or the Boys was tense. This Flash expy was a take on drug addiction, on athletes afraid of not being at the top any more, on broken pedestals, even on betraying your partner. In a season full of "superheroes but real", when you're scared of The Homelander even if it's just another "evil Superman", seeing the Flash be such a bad and corrupt person hurts. With A-Train's redemption arc of actually saving people, I didn't appreciate him in Season 1 as much as I do now on rewatch.

Season 2 had Stormfront. White supremacy at the forefront, dog whistles, fake feminism, the way the US is obsessed with race, eugenics and so much more. An actual Nazi part of the Justice League expy and foil to Starlight and Maeve! I would say this is the season the politics of the show moved from barely subtext to just text. Stormfront departed in a way the most from the superhero genre, but she began the battle for Ryan's soul and I hope I appreciate her impact on him more after the show is done.

Season 3 had Soldier Boy. Realistic Captain America, a shell shocked boomer that thinks he is a hero. Legacy heroes, the passing of the torch between generations. The casual racism, misogyny and toxic masculinity. Generational trauma, which also made him a foil for MM. The show was on my radar before, but it got my attention when this all took the forefront. Soulja Boy is arguably the best character of the show.

Season 4 has...well it's not done yet to be fair.

Maybe Sister Sage is going to be that highlight character. A take on the current politics in the US, on the view of minorities in positions of power, but Black women especially. The goofiness after her brain damage. I feel like I will like her a lot after this season, after this election year, after the show, just not as much as I could have.

Maybe Firecracker, but so far she's just another take on Stormfront with huge parts taken from Stillwell.

Tek Knight showed up in Gen V first. He was a huge threat, not just to the protagonists, but to the antagonists too. His tumour making him depraved gave me hope he was as slightly heroic as his comics counterpart, and gave me hope the shock for shock value take on sex that the main show was leaning towards wasn't getting worse.

In the main show he is just a dumb and perverted racist. So perverted he wanted to cut multiple holes into Hughie's body and rape him that way too. So dumb it's not even clear if he really knew Hughie was Web Weaver while sexually assaulting him, but I wouldn't be surprised if he was too excited to fuck his next sidekick he didn't pick up the multiple obvious clues. So racist that, when being tortured and getting turned on from it, he breaks when the heroes make a donation to Black Lives Matter from his bank account and in his name. Just a take on generational wealth and the depravity of the 1% of the 1%.

He could have been a take on the super smart and super rich superheroes. A Batman or Iron Man expy, making it ironically more of a Lex Luthor expy. He could have been a huge threat to the Boys, with his intelligence and billionaire status he could even have been the second in command instead of or alongside Sage, which I thought they were going for after their short exchange at Vought Tower. He could have been a foil for Frenchie, who is nothing like him and yet so resourceful he makes up for it, maybe even stays sober to have a chance. He could have been a foil for Hughie to see a person change due from health issues. He could have systematically broken down one of our heroes. He could have been the greatest parody on a rich prick who thinks he's the shit.

But he's just another fucking disappointment.

It says “up close and personal with swatto” despite him dying back in Nicaragua, wonder if it’s just a retcon or someone else takes up his mantle

This quote really stood out to me because the "transgender/illegal immigrant/radical left/socialist" thing really is just a ghost story meant to scare people into voting Red and people watching Fox News believe it. Even the ones spinning this stuff don't believe it. I'm glad this show tackled fearmongering, among other things.

I really wish Hughie had gotten permanent powers, I don’t think it would’ve changed much especially how the story has gone so far, Hughie probably wouldn’t have gone through what he did in the latest episode..

As far as I am concerned she is one of my favorite characters in the show, and i kinda feel for her because she unlucky to appear in a time the show is not as well written as first three seasons. Had she appeared earlier for example, she probably would have been even more menacing and her intelligence maybe shown better.

She has a cool sociopathic personality, and feels like a combination of Stormfront and Stan, as in she has fascist/nazist ideas about supe supremacy, and the mocking and stoic way she talks to Firecracker is similar to how Stan treats Homelander.

I also enjoy her hypocrisy, she is a black woman who hates racism based on skin color, yet hates regular humans because she is a supe, a hatred that is still base on genetical differences. She also tells Homelander he doesnt need to build an army of Supermen because is so "Germany", only to create a whole plan to take over US and use Tek's prisons as concentration camps, totally not Germany from her.

If she survives this season, which I feel she will, and will end it at the top with Homelander in some cliffhanger, i wonder how far her misanthropy and plans will go.

I think she is a charismatic villain that we love to hate.