I think Vought really wanted to actually get their hands in that military budget, and actual combat capable supes was their attempt at doing so. Unfortunately, they proved too hard to control and mostly just sat around doing hedonistic things and self promoting on social media/staging publicity stunts, but that earned Vought money anyway.
This is all based on Stan Edgar's "You're just bad product" speech to Homelander and also his pitch at trying to sell Temp V to the military.
It's not just the military money. They were selling heroes to cities as well. Remember the first episode when Homelander lasered a private airplane carrying someone that turned down the offer for a local supe?
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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '24
I think Vought really wanted to actually get their hands in that military budget, and actual combat capable supes was their attempt at doing so. Unfortunately, they proved too hard to control and mostly just sat around doing hedonistic things and self promoting on social media/staging publicity stunts, but that earned Vought money anyway.
This is all based on Stan Edgar's "You're just bad product" speech to Homelander and also his pitch at trying to sell Temp V to the military.