I really don't want to derail this thread with politi-sperging but you're right. I disagree with a lot of what Trump says and I believe he is often an arrogant moron but when it came down to life or death the man's first impulse, other than trying not to get shot, was to tell his base that they need to keep fighting. He actually believes in his "cause" which is admirable.
If The Boys was competently written they would have had this flawed Homelander character's last moment consist of him, for all his flaws and fuck-ups prior, have a moment like that. It would have appealed to people who like watching him and it would have given him a small arc rather than fuck-all nothing. But this show is not about that, it's about a weird Jew getting paid a lot of money to direct is fan-fiction where a "fascist" white man dies a pathetic death in the Oval Office.
Based on what I have seen of the show I would have done a pretty big rewrite of Homelander to make things work.
First I would have made his slide into being a villain more gradual and had it driven by the fact that he was created in a test tube and raised without parents.
Have the villain things he did motivated by two things, wanting to be loved, and loyalty to the Seven as they are the closest thing to a family he ever had.
Don't have him go around killing them with glee, at least not at first.
Maybe not even have him directly doing anything evil himself but maybe just have him cover up the crimes of the other members of the 7 because they are his family, have him not like it at first but he sees it as his family against the insane terrorists that are The Boys.
A complaint I have heard a lot of people make is there are times when Homelander could have killed his enemies but just didn't on the show, if they didn't make him out and out evil from the start that wouldn't be a problem, at first have Homelander have a strict no kill rule that he doesn't break, this gets rid of the plotholes and it give the series a "Shit just got real" moment when Homelander is pushed to the point where he finally kills someone.
You then have him and Butcher locked in a death spiral of hate that can only end one way for both of them.
You also make some threat outside of the boys, like some really Supes that are even more powerful than the Seven that are introduced in season three, so when Homelander takes over he thinks it is to protect people and he doesn't see he has become the thing he used to hate, tie his breakdown to him believing his own press and seeing himself as the only person who can save the world.
Then either have him and Bitcher kill each other in their final battle, or have him stripped of his powers and sent to prison and cut to five years latter when someone is visiting him and he is stripped of his powers and he is not a well liked person in prison but have him say that without the corporate brainwashing and the pressure of thinking he has to save the world he has found some peace and he is content to spend the rest of his life in the cell.
Either one of these I think would have been a better ending and given us a more complex show.
What do you think, this is just what I came up with in the past day after watching three episodes of the show and some Youtube videos.
