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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
TBT-TheBigToe
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Homelander is a refreshingly modern villain both in terms of presentation and motivation. That is what I want from modern superhero shows/movies, a modern take on their reality and the grotesque truths of what these people would mostly like end up being as. Homelander doesn’t even see us mortals as people, we are mud people, savages, and utterly and completely beneath him. Celebrity and corporate culture combined with superheroes, I love it. I would love a little focus on the non-corporate less powered superheroes but can live without, it’s a great world with great potential.
Great show.
Great show.
Noble Savage
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I've considered that as well. The disheveled look in the video could have been the look of "I just got fucked by a freight train and loved it!" Then she questions everything about her marriage and life after that lol.
Zindan
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The "implication" way of looking at that encounter is the best way, imo. Her decision after sitting on the bench that day was clearly agonizing for her, and she spent 8 years coming to terms with giving up Butcher and her previous life. The way she looked at Homelander when he appears at the end makes me think she would be open to him being in her and the childs life, while the look she gave Butcher was shock as everything she had given up appeared right in front of her. She is going to be a mess.
And Butcher? His reason for existing the past 8 years just got nuked, and I imagine Homelander is going twist that knife hard but still let him live. A season 2 would be awesome.
Edit: Apparently S2 is already being filmed. Great!
And Butcher? His reason for existing the past 8 years just got nuked, and I imagine Homelander is going twist that knife hard but still let him live. A season 2 would be awesome.
Edit: Apparently S2 is already being filmed. Great!
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Phazael
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Say what you want about that stoner jew woke fatass, Rogen has a pretty good track record of taking source material and making a show that deviates from it in interesting ways without sucking. Not sure how much of it is him, but all three of his current series have been really good at this.
And yeah, the guy playing Homelander is fucking killing it in this.
And yeah, the guy playing Homelander is fucking killing it in this.
Kiki
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j00t
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the week before it was released (san diego comic-con i think?) they said they were already half way through filming season 2. so that's great.
but yeah... honestly i think homelander is going to go above and beyond to NOT kill butcher. he COULD at any time and that's the real power that he's going to have over him, but i think there's something refreshing about butcher in that he is completely devoid of fear of homelander. he COULD kill butcher, but then he'd have to find a new toy to play with.
j00t
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he really is. he's written and acted in such an amazing way. everyone can call homelander evil, but as far as he's concerned? he's very dr manhatten about it in the sense that it's basically man made concept used to control people. it absolutely does not apply to him. if he rapes some random chick, kills some random people on plane... it'd be like stepping on an anthill. who cares?
Frenzied Wombat
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Hey I just thought of something.. For the bulletproof types like Maeve, Starlight, and Homelander--how would they even inject the V??
j00t
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well, at the moment it seems that whoever runs vought is homelander's kryptonite. stillwell made a subtle comment to him at one point about an order not coming from her, but from upstairs and homelander got visibly pensive. hopefully we'll get into that sometime soon. at the moment there's no face to vought so i imagine we'll see someone take that spot next season
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Asshat wormie
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spronk
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yeah Gus Fringe played the CEO of Vought (Edgar I think is his name?) and he briefly talked to Stilwell suggesting she is gonna take over his job soon as he "retires to Belize". Which was also an interesting turn of phrase. There is probably more though.
I was glad they didn't go the usual tropey routes, I honestly thought
I was glad they didn't go the usual tropey routes, I honestly thought
Elizabeth Shue's character was gonna be a superhero, like at the last second she reveals she is equivalent to Superman but hides it. that woulda sucked
Asshat wormie
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He didnt suggest that, he told her. He even told her she is moving up to his mythical floor 38 (?). And she even told Homelander about it who then asked her if she will still be his day to day handler. But I do not think it was ever mentioned that he was the CEO? But he was definitely the superior that everyone kept referring with deference and fear the entire time.
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Nidhogg
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That's because every role Gus plays is a fuckin scary dude. Loved him in... what was it - Revolution? Lookin forward to Season 2. Be nice to see some more C and B list heroes as well - just how many are out there I wonder? Powers seem randomly granted - surely a psychic or another Superman-esque one (that isn't the kid) might be alive.
OU Ariakas
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Guys, I am on episode 5 and have not read a single post since it aired, but I just got to the scene where Homelander held his blanket and remembered being a kid in the cell with just the blanket.
Fucking brutal.
This show is fantastic.
Fucking brutal.
This show is fantastic.
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