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* MythologyGag: Black Noir's role in enabling Homelander's worst tendencies and corrupting him is a nod to TheReveal in the comics [[spoiler:that he actively conspired to corrupt Homelander and drive him insane as part of a twisted gambit to "fulfill his purpose".]]
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* MythologyGag: Black Noir's role in enabling Homelander's worst tendencies and corrupting him is a nod to TheReveal in the comics [[spoiler:that he actively conspired to corrupt drive Homelander and drive him insane as part of a twisted gambit to "fulfill his purpose".]]
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* MythologyGag: Black Noir's role in enabling Homelander's worst tendencies and corrupting him is a nod to TheReveal in the comics [[spoiler:that he actively conspired to corrupt Homelander and drive him insane as part of a twisted gambit to "fulfill his purpose".]]
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* AbusiveParents: The Vought scientists who created Homelander were ''horrid'' to him, to put it lightly.
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** Homelander get's especially nervous when Black Noir tricks him into blowing up the chemical plant, believing that this will be used to demote him. The actual reason Noir did this is so that he can have a convenient story to ''cover up'' the fiasco, which would spare Homelander of blame.
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** Homelander get's gets especially nervous when Black Noir tricks him into blowing up the chemical plant, believing that this will be used to demote him. The actual reason Noir did this is so that he can have a convenient story to ''cover up'' the fiasco, which would spare Homelander of blame.
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* NiceGuy: Tragically, Homelander shows he was once, at the very least, ''trying'' to be your average hero.
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* YouMonster: One of the hostages calls Homelander this after he accidentally gets one of the hostages killed and then gruseomely rips the jaw off one of the CLA members.
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* YouMonster: One of the hostages calls Homelander this after he accidentally gets one of the hostages killed and then gruseomely gruesomely rips the jaw off one of the CLA members.
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* YouMonster: One of the hostages calls Homelander this after he accidentally gets one of the hostages killed and then gruseomely rips the jaw off one of the CLA members.
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: The Black woman who constantly insulted Homelander was the first of the Chemical Liberation Front to bite it.
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* DestructiveSaviours: Homelander's interference in the hostage situation only makes things worse as he eye beams a gun, killing a hostage, kills the rest of the hostages in a breakdown, and then accidentally blows up the chemical plant.
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* DestructiveSaviours: DestructiveSaviour: Homelander's interference in the hostage situation only makes things worse as he eye beams a gun, killing a hostage, kills the rest of the hostages in a breakdown, and then accidentally blows up the chemical plant.
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Black Noir helping Homelander cover up the disastrous failure of his first rescue mission is implied to have helped start Homelander's [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope becoming the psychopath he is by the main series]].
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: NiceJobBreakingItHero: Black Noir helping Homelander cover up the disastrous failure of his first rescue mission is implied to have helped start Homelander's [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope becoming the psychopath he is by the main series]].
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* DestructiveSaviours: Homelander's interference in the hostage situation only makes things worse as he eye beams a gun, killing a hostage, kills the rest of the hostages in a breakdown, and then accidentally blows up the chemical plant.
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* LethallyStupid: Homelander's attempt to disable the gun by heating it up only causes it to explode, killing one of the hostages. Everyone calls him out on this.
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* {{Irony}}: Homelander spends the entire episode worried that Black Noir will do anything to demote him, since Black Noir is Stan Edgar's chosen hero. Black Noir's actual job is to keep Vought's reputation clean and, as the ending shows, he's perfectly willing to cover for Homelander if it achieves that goal.
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* {{Irony}}: {{Irony}}:
** Homelander spends the entire episode worried that Black Noir will do anything to demote him, since Black Noir is Stan Edgar's chosen hero. Black Noir's actual job is to keep Vought's reputation clean and, as the ending shows, he's perfectly willing to cover for Homelander if it achieves thatgoal.goal.
** Homelander get's especially nervous when Black Noir tricks him into blowing up the chemical plant, believing that this will be used to demote him. The actual reason Noir did this is so that he can have a convenient story to ''cover up'' the fiasco, which would spare Homelander of blame.
** Homelander spends the entire episode worried that Black Noir will do anything to demote him, since Black Noir is Stan Edgar's chosen hero. Black Noir's actual job is to keep Vought's reputation clean and, as the ending shows, he's perfectly willing to cover for Homelander if it achieves that
** Homelander get's especially nervous when Black Noir tricks him into blowing up the chemical plant, believing that this will be used to demote him. The actual reason Noir did this is so that he can have a convenient story to ''cover up'' the fiasco, which would spare Homelander of blame.
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* TooDumbToLive: The terrorists. Homelander is clearly ImmuneToBullets and fast enough to disarm them before they could even blink, then crushes their guns with his bare hands without any effort. And he proposes them to come down quietly, without any need for violence. Their decision? They are ''still'' trying to fight back and threaten to kill one of the hostages with a defective gun.
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* FacialHorror: One of the echo-terrorists who kept berating Homelander gets her lower jaw ripped off by him in a fit of rage.
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* FacialHorror: One of the echo-terrorists eco-terrorists who kept berating Homelander gets her lower jaw ripped off by him in a fit of rage.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: One of the eco-terrorists gets sliced in two by Homelander's EyeBeams.
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* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: One of the eco-terrorists gets sliced in two by Homelander's EyeBeams.
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* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: One HeroInsurance: Homelander tries to invoke his position of a hero after brutally (and ''accidentally'') killing one of the eco-terrorists gets sliced in two by Homelander's EyeBeams. eco-terrorists, only for their ''hostage'' to call him a monster.
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* IdiotHero: Homelander is closer to his comic book version: a FlyingBrick and about just as smart. The terrorists routinely chew him out on his various screw ups, which tend to lead to {{Surprisingly Realistic Outcome}}s, and then he ends up trying to kill Black Noir as a way to cover his tracks.
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* RageBreakingPoint: After his rescue mission progressively goes worse and worse, Homelander starts to panic and completely snaps once being called a "monster". By the time he regains control, the control room is full of splattered remains of ''both'' the terrorists and their hostages.
* RagingStiffie: Homelander ends up having an embarrassing erection after Stillwell teases him both with prospects of popularity ''and'' sexual favours.
* StartOfDarkness: While the desire to be loved and popular was always there, the story is this for Homelander: doing whatever it takes to be celebrated as a hero and saviour. But more importantly, this is where he learns that he can get away with ''anything'', as long as he has Vought PR department to cover his back.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Homelander has ''two'' such moments:
** First, he accidentally kills one of the hostages, and the situation starts to quickly slip out of any control, leading to further collateral damage.
** Then, after Black Noir tricks him into blowing the chemical plant, he is in utter panic, thinking the whole mission's fiasco is going to be pinned on him.
* RagingStiffie: Homelander ends up having an embarrassing erection after Stillwell teases him both with prospects of popularity ''and'' sexual favours.
* StartOfDarkness: While the desire to be loved and popular was always there, the story is this for Homelander: doing whatever it takes to be celebrated as a hero and saviour. But more importantly, this is where he learns that he can get away with ''anything'', as long as he has Vought PR department to cover his back.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Homelander has ''two'' such moments:
** First, he accidentally kills one of the hostages, and the situation starts to quickly slip out of any control, leading to further collateral damage.
** Then, after Black Noir tricks him into blowing the chemical plant, he is in utter panic, thinking the whole mission's fiasco is going to be pinned on him.
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* TheVamp: Madelyn pulls it on Homelander, pushing him toward number one spot and constantly teasing him sexually while doing so.
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* OriginsEpisode: Homelander's.
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* OriginsEpisode: Homelander's.It is here that we learn about Homelander's beginnings.
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* WouldHitAGirl: At least two of the eco-terrorists are women and Homelander has no problem with harming them.
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** At least two of the eco-terrorists are women and Homelander has no problem with harming them.
** At least two of the eco-terrorists are women and Homelander has no problem with harming them.
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* EcoTerrorist: A group of these are the main conflict of the episode. They’re holding hostages besides they’re against the chemical plant ruining the environment.
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* {{Irony}}: Homelander spends the entire episode worried that Black Noir will do anything to demote him, since Black Noir is Stan Edgar's chosen hero. Black Noir's actual job is to keep Vought's reputation clean and, as the ending shows, he's perfectly willing to cover for Homelander if it achieves that goal.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Vought. Not only did they raise Homelander like an animal, they also regularly abused him physically.
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** Homelander gives a lengthy series about his fake backstory as an all American kid at his first press conference.
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** Homelander gives a lengthy series about his fake backstory as an all American kid AllAmericanBoy at his first press conference.
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* LeaveNoWitnesses: After the mission goes completely off the rails, Black Noir kills the last witness and convinces Homelander to lie about it to preserve his image.
* NeckSnap: This is how Black Noir disposes the last witness.
* NeckSnap: This is how Black Noir disposes the last witness.
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** Black Noir kills the last hostage, a woman, to help cover up Homelander's failure.
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* BlatantLies: Homelander gives a lengthy series about his fake backstory as an all American kid at his first press conference.
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** Homelander gives a lengthy series about his fake backstory as an all American kid at his first press conference.
** Homelander gives a lengthy series about his fake backstory as an all American kid at his first press conference.
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* FridgeHorror: Homelander’s relationship with Madelyn is given an even more disturbing implication than before, after it shows that she was one of the people in charge of conditioning him as a child. When she encourages Homelander to compete with Black Noir, [[SomethingElseAlsoRises she gropes him into getting an erection]], which he appears uncomfortable with. With this in mind, and that she is Homelander’s main authority figure, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything it’s very possible that she groomed him into being her sexual partner as a child]]. With his handler and mother figure also being his sexual abuser, it’s no wonder he ended up so twisted.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Given Black Noir's status as TheVoiceless, his silence upon seeing the devastation left by Homelander is taken by the latter as judgemental condemnation, prompting Homelander to try and kill Noir in the belief he would report to Vought. It takes Noir killing the last hostage, and writing down on a notepad, that Homelander has nothing to worry about.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Given Black Noir's status as TheVoiceless, his silence upon seeing the devastation left by Homelander is taken by the latter as judgemental judgmental condemnation, prompting Homelander to try and kill Noir in the belief he would report to Vought. It takes Noir killing the last hostage, and writing down on a notepad, that Homelander has nothing to worry about.
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* BullyingADragon: Even before he snaps and kills them, the eco-terrorists didn't really have a chance against Homelander, but tried to shoot him anyway.
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** After the explosion at the chemical plant, Homelander claims the echo-terrorists detonated a bomb that he and Black Noir couldn't stop in time.
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** After the explosion at the chemical plant, Homelander claims the echo-terrorists eco-terrorists detonated a bomb that he and Black Noir couldn't stop in time.time.
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: Homelander clearly doesn't realise just how powerful he is, as his attempts to make a terrorist drop their gun by superheating it with his EyeBeams causes it to explode, something he clearly didn't anticipate, and he's clearly shocked when he hits a female terrorist and her skull comes apart in his hands.
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: Homelander clearly doesn't realise just how powerful he is, as his attempts to make a terrorist drop their gun by superheating it with his EyeBeams causes it to explode, something he clearly didn't anticipate, and he's clearly shocked when he hits a female terrorist and her skull comes apart in his hands.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Assuming Black Noir would blame him for how badly wrong the mission has gone, Homelander tries to kill him.
* JurisdictionFriction: Implied by Stillwell, who rages that Stan Edgar partnering Homelander with Black Noir is so the latter can watch Homelander for anything that allows Edgar to demote her as his handler.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Black Noir helping Homelander cover up the disastrous failure of his first rescue mission is implied to have helped start Homelander's [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope becoming the psychopath he is by the main series]].
* OriginsEpisode: Homelander's.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Given Black Noir's status as TheVoiceless, his silence upon seeing the devastation left by Homelander is taken by the latter as judgemental condemnation, prompting Homelander to try and kill Noir in the belief he would report to Vought. It takes Noir killing the last hostage, and writing down on a notepad, that Homelander has nothing to worry about.
* UnstoppableRage: A combination of recurring flashbacks to his childhood and the terrorists ''and'' hostages calling him [[YouMonster a monster]] cause Homelander to snap and kill everyone.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Homelander gets this with Black Noir's help after the latter comes up with a convincing cover story for the press.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Black Noir helping Homelander cover up the disastrous failure of his first rescue mission is implied to have helped start Homelander's [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope becoming the psychopath he is by the main series]].
* OriginsEpisode: Homelander's.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Given Black Noir's status as TheVoiceless, his silence upon seeing the devastation left by Homelander is taken by the latter as judgemental condemnation, prompting Homelander to try and kill Noir in the belief he would report to Vought. It takes Noir killing the last hostage, and writing down on a notepad, that Homelander has nothing to worry about.
* UnstoppableRage: A combination of recurring flashbacks to his childhood and the terrorists ''and'' hostages calling him [[YouMonster a monster]] cause Homelander to snap and kill everyone.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Homelander gets this with Black Noir's help after the latter comes up with a convincing cover story for the press.
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* WouldHitAGirl: At least two of the echo-terrorists are women and Homelander has no problem with harming them.
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* WhamShot: Black Noir [[NeckSnap killing the last hostage]], shocking Homelander into hearing him out.
* WouldHitAGirl: At least two of theecho-terrorists eco-terrorists are women and Homelander has no problem with harming them.
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When Vought International unveils Homelander to the world, he's eager to prove himself as the next greatest hero. But when his first mission goes badly wrong, an unexpected ally starts him on the first steps to what he will become...
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* BlatantLies: Homelander gives a lengthy series about his fake backstory as an all American kid at his first press conference.
** After the explosion at the chemical plant, Homelander claims the echo-terrorists detonated a bomb that he and Black Noir couldn't stop in time.
* FacialHorror: One of the echo-terrorists who kept berating Homelander gets her lower jaw ripped off by him in a fit of rage.
* FlashbackEcho: Homelander keeps getting these to his childhood being reared in a Vought laboratory.
* FridgeHorror: Homelander’s relationship with Madelyn is given an even more disturbing implication than before, after it shows that she was one of the people in charge of conditioning him as a child. When she encourages Homelander to compete with Black Noir, [[SomethingElseAlsoRises she gropes him into getting an erection]], which he appears uncomfortable with. With this in mind, and that she is Homelander’s main authority figure, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything it’s very possible that she groomed him into being her sexual partner as a child]]. With his handler and mother figure also being his sexual abuser, it’s no wonder he ended up so twisted.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: One of the eco-terrorists gets sliced in two by Homelander's EyeBeams.
* HostageSituation: Homelander's first mission involves trying to resolve one of these with eco-terrorists having taken the staff of a chemical plant hostage.
* VillainousFriendship: The beginning of Homelander and Black Noir's.
* WouldHitAGirl: At least two of the echo-terrorists are women and Homelander has no problem with harming them.
** Black Noir kills the last hostage, a woman, to help cover up Homelander's failure.
!!This short provides examples of:
* BlatantLies: Homelander gives a lengthy series about his fake backstory as an all American kid at his first press conference.
** After the explosion at the chemical plant, Homelander claims the echo-terrorists detonated a bomb that he and Black Noir couldn't stop in time.
* FacialHorror: One of the echo-terrorists who kept berating Homelander gets her lower jaw ripped off by him in a fit of rage.
* FlashbackEcho: Homelander keeps getting these to his childhood being reared in a Vought laboratory.
* FridgeHorror: Homelander’s relationship with Madelyn is given an even more disturbing implication than before, after it shows that she was one of the people in charge of conditioning him as a child. When she encourages Homelander to compete with Black Noir, [[SomethingElseAlsoRises she gropes him into getting an erection]], which he appears uncomfortable with. With this in mind, and that she is Homelander’s main authority figure, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything it’s very possible that she groomed him into being her sexual partner as a child]]. With his handler and mother figure also being his sexual abuser, it’s no wonder he ended up so twisted.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: One of the eco-terrorists gets sliced in two by Homelander's EyeBeams.
* HostageSituation: Homelander's first mission involves trying to resolve one of these with eco-terrorists having taken the staff of a chemical plant hostage.
* VillainousFriendship: The beginning of Homelander and Black Noir's.
* WouldHitAGirl: At least two of the echo-terrorists are women and Homelander has no problem with harming them.
** Black Noir kills the last hostage, a woman, to help cover up Homelander's failure.
