Homelander has effectively transformed into a Donald Trump expy as the show has progressed, and “The Boys” makes absolutely no effort to hide this comparison as the dangerous character observes the world from New York City’s Vought Tower while nurturing a cult of personality and harboring increasingly clear political aspirations. On the show, Homelander’s power and undeniable charisma have managed to gaslight the public into thinking that he’s the ultimate hero, and as Starr has found out to his chagrin, some fans have bought this angle as well. During an appearance on Entertainment Weekly’s “Awardist” Drama Actors Roundtable, Starr expressed his surprise and shock to find out that a segment of viewers seems to genuinely idolize his patently unheroic character:
“We had a bunch of guys that we all kind of knocked them down a little but on social media to say, ‘This guy is not the hero of any story.’ They were really glorifying him, they loved him. Which is surreal. What I didn’t expect was that people would be so conflicted around it and, you know, finding themselves finding empathy for this monster.”
