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Homelander, the second he lost his powers

The image is a high-angle shot looking down at a woman wearing a genderbent Homelander cosplay costume, consisting of a blue textured suit with gold eagle-shaped shoulder armor, gold and red trim at the neckline, and a red cape. She has an open-mouthed, shocked, almost desperate pleading expression as she looks upward toward the camera. The visual is used as a joke to visualize the normally arrogant, tyrannical superhero Homelander from the series *The Boys* immediately becoming helpless and pathetic the moment he loses all of his superpowers.
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Overview

The image is a high-angle shot looking down at a woman wearing a genderbent Homelander cosplay costume, consisting of a blue textured suit with gold eagle-shaped shoulder armor, gold and red trim at the neckline, and a red cape. She has an open-mouthed, shocked, almost desperate pleading expression as she looks upward toward the camera. The visual is used as a joke to visualize the normally arrogant, tyrannical superhero Homelander from the series The Boys immediately becoming helpless and pathetic the moment he loses all of his superpowers.

Origin notes

This meme was shared on the entertainment social platform 9Gag, retrieved via its public RSS feed. It repurposes existing cosplay photography of a female interpretation of Homelander, pairing the visual with a popular fan joke premise referencing the Amazon Prime Video series The Boys to create a humorous relatable meme about the character's hypothetical behavior when stripped of his abilities.

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