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Homelander is the most terrifying villain I’ve ever seen, but why? What makes his character so terrifying to the audience? And what can we learn from him?
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For once I want a character like Homelander not to indulge in finally losing it and becoming a fully fledged tyrant but rather break free of his narcissism even if it means he sacrifices himself for his son in the end. I’m tired of nihilism winning out in the end.
They did a great job writing homelander
i watch an interview of the cast but i can’t help but get kinda scared when the actor antony starr just sitting there listening
Pov my gta character is more scary than Thanos. If a npc walked up to me and punched me in the face I would not be reliable to spare him
3:00 Megamind does this perfectly
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Vincent from collateral is a good example of this
In my opinion the most terrifying scene in The Boys was when Homelander forced the girl to jump off the building. That whole scene was chilling and upsetting to me.
it's just a way to disguise the "i'll do what i want when i want" as long as i give a cheesy explanation later. I disagree with you; but more because i think homelander is ridiculous
Someone should really do a step-by-step comparison between the characters of Homelander and Silco from Arcane. Seriously, I would kill for a character analysis video like that. And also, make it preferably at least 20-30 ish minutes long.
I find myself agreeing with the idea of not showing "the monster" too early in the film.
If you know your monster either isn't going to tick off all of the boxes, or will lose some of those ticks once it is revealed, then it's going to need as much help as it can get, and not revealing it too early helps to raise the tension.
Near as I can tell, The Thing monster can be shown early on because of how the monster works. The Thing isn't simply a "if it gets you you're dead" kind of monster, no, it's a stealthy one. The Thing disguises itself as other beings and can hide in plain sight. Thus, it doesn't matter if you've seen it early on or not. Heck, it doesn't even matter if you've seen it DIE early in the film or not.
For The Thing, even if you've seen it die, it's still not over, and The Thing is still somewhere close by, as one of your companions, hiding in plain sight, waiting for you or one of your companions to turn their back and then… there'll be two of them.
Some monsters are so visually unimpressive, and so downright dull that an early reveal just kills the mood.
I remember watching on TV a cleaned/edited version of, I think it was called "the graveyard shift" about a group of workers who find themselves being attacked by a monster that turns out to be a kind of giant rat.
When it is revealed, it is so dumb looking that the time we have to be "Shocked" can be measured in SECONDS! The film better be ending shortly after or allw e can say is that that monster ain't going to be scary for very long.
The scariest villain I ever watched was scary for a similar reason: Killgrave in Jessica Jones.
Homelander looks a lot like Zack Morris from Saved By The Bell (when I first saw him I thought it might be the same actor, grown up) and kind of acts like Zack, if Zack didn't have a good side. But Zack Morris always came across as the kind of semi-sociopathic jerk you'd never want to give any real power to, because he's so self-serving you couldn't trust him not to abuse it. Being on a kid's show, he has some brakes on his sociopathy and won't do anything REALLY bad, but Homelander's like him without those brakes.
There is a villain for everyone.
Crazy good
For the record that merciful Thanos is a construct of the MCU, comic Thanos is a lot more sadistic.
Whenever I look at homelander he has those crazy eyes it’s hard to explain but if I was in that universe I’d probably be on edge if I saw him
Starr has quickly became one of my favorites with his work on The Boys, he takes all the attention the second he's on screen. The only time were the tension is not centered on him is when Butcher and HL are both present in a screen
If you punch comic thanos you won’t like what happened
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I'm going to put that into my PnP campaign. Thank you.
Annoying voice
2:47 You mean like a shrink over a patient?
Like aizen!
Same thing with Negan from The Walking Dead, there is this uncertainity of what he will do next and he could kill someone or everyone if he feels like it, but not because himself is a higher power then everybody else, but he has an army of strong, bloodlusting men that do anything he says.
I think we also have think in the broader context of the brilliance of homelander’s character as being the most militant arm of the American military industrial machine, but also the propaganda and slavishness, especially of the American right into propping up that idea. It’s the story of the first, second and third world breaking down that those are also tropes in and of themselves. America and the west are powerful characters, with great power for good, but unchecked, can be incredibly destructive. They also need love of their own, while generally not always caring for their own when they had the full power to do so. I know it’s cliche to try and wrap one character into one country’s ethos, I am not trying to say that… it’s what happens if an entire society becomes too wrapped up in its own power to recognize its own ills while casting off all that loved and supported them or were protected by them, but trying to make them see the truth in the mirror. The fact that the character becomes less flexible and self aware over is very much the exact reflection we should be having (as Americans). This should make the worst of our character(s) reflect in that power and listen to our Allies for how to manage it. It’s just an interesting thought premise and reflection because societies and generations can be roughly generalized, but not defined into a single character. A society isn’t a single character, it’s made of many; but it can be twisted to become one without remorse or reflection. We should all strive to avoid that.
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I definitely agree with the not showing the monster part. In smile, for instance, after I saw the monster’s full body it wasn’t as scary
Yoo, that kid on the roof came right at me out of left field. Just the sudden casual inclusion of that totally threw me for a second