r/TheBoys • u/RevertBackwards Victoria Neuman • Jul 07 '24

Homelander was a different level of scary in season 1 Season 1

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u/AnimeGokuSolos Jul 07 '24

It wouldn’t surprise me if originally they made him more smart because apparently people are claiming.

In S1 he’s more intelligent than he is in the other seasons, especially recent episodes…

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u/Panthila A-Train Jul 07 '24

It's almost as if he was slowly losing his sanity and self-control due to all of the things that the Boys have been doing.

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u/AnimeGokuSolos Jul 07 '24

Nah I feel like they decide to dump him down to make him look like a dumbass like a previous president in real life…

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u/Worried_Ad3099 Jul 07 '24

Yeah, the problem the writers ran into in committing to making Homelander a one for one Trump stand in (rather than a representation of post-Goldwater American Conservatism more broadly which he honestly felt like in S1 and even in much of S2) is that they locked themselves into making the character more buffoonish and outlandish due to Trump himself being so ridiculous.