Superman vs Homelander

Superman vs Homelander is a fanon Death Battle by 1dude235 that pits Superman from the DC Universe against Homelander from The Boys. It's 1dude235's first Fanon Death Battle

This battle focuses on a composite Homelander from the comics and show, facing off against Brandon Routh's version of Superman from Superman Returns.

Intro

Wiz: They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but sometimes it's nothing more than a slap in the face.

Boomstick: Haven't you done that intro before?

Wiz: I couldn't think of anything else.

Boomstick: I got this! It's inevitable that a character be ripped off when he reached a certain amount of popularity, but sometimes it's not for the best.

Wiz: Wow, that was pretty good.

Boomstick: *burps* Yep!

Wiz: Anyway, if you don't believe us, just ask these two.

Boomstick: Superman, who fights for justice.

Wiz: And Homelander, who does whatever the fuck he wants. For this battle, we will be using the Superman Returns timeline as our focus, with only closely related media being used as an outside source.

Boomstick: As this timeline includes the first two Christopher Reeve films, we will be using those too. He’s Wiz and I’m Boomstick.

Wiz: And it’s our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win… a Death Battle.

Superman

Boomstick: You all know the story. Home planet becomes bomb, and father sends son to another planet so he and his wife can bang in their final moments.

Wiz: However, this version does have some differences from the one we all know.

Boomstick: Ol’ John and Martha Kent were going about their day as usual, when all the sudden, something crashed in the nearby cornfield. Somehow, this also busted a tire.

Wiz: Checking the crash, they found an unknown ship that resembled a star. Inside, was a baby Kal-El.

Boomstick: At first, Johnathan was like “NO MARTHA! WE DON’T NEED ANOTHER BASTARD!”

Wiz: ...uh, Martha couldn’t have kids, Boomstick.

Boomstick: ...oh…

Johnathan Kent: Martha Clark Kent, are you listening to what I’m saying?

The truck begins to move.

Martha Kent: JOHNATHAN!

She tackles Johnathan out of the way, only for both of them to stare in shock at the child, who was now lifting the back of the truck.

Boomstick: Yeah, Johnathan changed his tune real quick when little Supes lifted his truck with a smile on his face.

Wiz: Even from a young age, all Superman wanted to do was help.

Boomstick: Yeah, but growing as an alien can be kinda sucky. Because his parents were good ole’ honest farmers, Superman grew up as an outcast.

Wiz: Renamed Clark Kent, Superman was raised with the traditional American values, and was taught to always help if it was in his power to do so.

Boomstick: Unlike most versions of Superman, this knew about his alien heritage for a while, and didn’t unintentionally limit himself. I’m liking this Superman, Wiz.

Wiz: This one doesn’t get his seemingly infinite power until he’s a full adult.

Boomstick: Dammit!

Wiz: Anyway, though his only wish was to fit in and get the girl, Clark followed his parents rules, hiding away his abilities and trying to be seen as normal.

Boomstick: Unfortunately for him, he suffered from dead parent syndrome, like most superheroes.

Wiz: When his father died in front of him from a heart attack, Clark carried guilt with him because with all his power, he was still unable to save his dad.

Boomstick: When his spaceship began sending him signals ala Brightburn, instead of going insane, Clark searched and found a clear crystal. Wiz, what the hell is so special about a crystal in a world of superheroes?

Wiz: That’s no ordinary crystal. That’s actually the base form of Superman’s iconic Fortress of Solitude. When submerged in water, it begins expanding. It will also take on traits of the minerals around it.

Boomstick: Okay. So his fortress is actually like a Capsule from Dragon Ball!

Wiz: Sort of, except that the crystals can’t go back into miniature form, and their sizes vary depending on where they begin to expand.

Boomstick: Oh yeah. See, Superman’s Fortress of Solitude is about the size of a mansion, but Lex Luthor once got ahold of one of the duplicate crystals created in case the Fortress was ever destroyed.

Wiz: Loading it into a custom kryptonite casing, he shot it into the atlantic ocean. It sunk down into a crack on the seafloor before it could grow too large, like Lex had somehow planned, and it was gonna grow into a Kryptonite continent.

Boomstick: This will be important later. Anyway, after his Fortress came into existence in the arctic, Clark spent the next five years in solitude, training under the tutelage of the ghost of his dead father. Um…

Wiz: Clearly one of the most advanced fictional civilizations ever created.

Boomstick: Getting a job at the Daily Planet, Clark debuted as Superman, Defender of Truth, Justice, and The American Way! Yep, it still sounds corny.

Wiz: Like most versions of Superman, this gains his powers under a yellow sun, although this one’s powerset is a bit… different.

Boomstick: Yeah. First off, this versions durability doesn’t come from a dense structure and bio-auras or whatever.

Wiz: Super-dense molecular structure and bio-electric aura.

Boomstick: Whatever. Instead, he’s tough like Hulk, only much greater.

Wiz: Alongside his normal array of powers, he also has a couple new ones, which are… questionable.

Boomstick: *cough*Copout!*cough*

Wiz: He by flying around the world at extremely fast speeds, he can reverse the earth’s rotation and… reverse time.

Boomstick: What?!

Wiz: That doesn’t make any logical sense, but to be honest, neither does half of what he does.

Boomstick: That’s true. Anyway, he also has another, almost completely useless ability. Through lip contact, he can wipe a person’s memories. You heard that right, Superman can wipe your memories with a good ole smooch.

Wiz: Good thing Lex Luthor doesn’t know that Clark Kent is Superman. Anyway, despite the Hollywood trope of nerfing comic characters for movies, this is by far one of the most powerful movie characters to ever come out of Hollywood.

Boomstick: This Superman can hold up the entire San Andreas Fault Line by himself, without any reaction to the intense heat, and can take hits from the Zod Squad without any problem.

Wiz: He can survive a fall from space at terminal velocity while under the effects of Kryptonite, of which, and unlike most versions, he even has some resistance to!

Boomstick: Oh yeah, if him lifting up a fucking Kryptonite ISLAND doesn’t tell you that one, I don’t know what will.

Wiz: He’s also really fast too. To reverse the world’s rotation, Superman needs to move at 660 million m/h.

Boomstick: His heat vision can be just hot enough to fry anything that falls into its path, turn rocks into molten lava while under water, or straight up cause his target to explode, like he did when Zod threw a concrete wall section at him.

Wiz: However, he still does have a weakness. While he seems to have built immunity to it based on the Kryptonite Island feat, Kryptonite does still affect him, and can still pierce his skin like it does any other person.

Boomstick: Also, this Superman can't out punch an enemy his equal, as we saw during his fight with the Zod Squad. These are about his only weakness, though, as he has no magic users in his world.

Wiz: Well, the Superman Returns game-

Boomstick: As fun as it is, Wiz, it’s best just to forget about that.

Wiz: *thinking about it* Yeah, you’re probably right on this one.

Boomstick: Yep. Anyway, despite the Kryptonite setback, this version of Superman remains one of the most powerful characters in superhero movies, and more than earns the right to be called Superman.

Superman: I'm only here to help.

Homelander

Boomstick: Ah, there’s nothing like a love for the good ole hometown. Er, country. I mean country.

Wiz: And to defend such a country, one must need a worthy superhero team, like The Seven.

Boomstick: And who better to lead the Seven than this guy?

Wiz: This is the Homelander, the world’s most powerful hero.

Boomstick: Yeah, ole Homelander crashed into the U.S. as a baby, and was molded into the most powerful hero on Earth.

Wiz: As well as the most noble one, standing for Truth, Justice, and the American Way!

*Boomstick and Wiz look at each other, then devolve into uproarious laughter*

Boomstick: *calms down* Oh man…

Wiz: As if. The Homelander is far from the benevolent hero the public believes him to be. In fact, his entire persona is a complete fabrication by the mega corporation, Vought Interntional, including the backstory.

Boomstick: Yeah. On this Earth, superheroes get their powers as babies by being secretly injected with a chemical called Compound V, to make it seem as if supers are chosen by God to protect the Earth.

Wiz: Plus, Compound V is very harmful to normal adults.

Boomstick: Yep, although supes can get an addiction to stuff that’s usually fatal. If you don’t believe me, ask A-Train!

Wiz: Anyway, before Homelander, the most powerful hero on Earth was a woman named Stormfront.

Boomstick: Who’s sexy as hell, by the way. Evil or not, I’d die a happy man.

Wiz: Boomstick, she’s a Nazi.

Boomstick: KILL HER!

Wiz: Anyway, in an attempt to recreate an American version of the WWII terrorist, Vought took a little boy named John and subjected him to multiple experiments, causing him to grow up in a lab with little to no contact with the outside world.

Boomstick: And despite being a supervillain, Homelander also suffers from dead parent syndrome, because he accidently killed his only parental figure when he broke her spine by hugging her too hard. Way to love a person to death!

Wiz: This also left his psych fractured, and as an adult, he sought solace in the public’s love of his image.

Boomstick: Not to mention a serious mommy kink… that somehow manages to be an important part of the show.

Wiz: However, he made enemies with a man named Billy Butcher, a normal human who hates supes, after Homelander raped and supposedly killed his wife, Becca Burcher.

Boomstick: How is a normal guy supposed to kill the most powerful man on Earth?

Wiz: If the comics are anything to go by… Billy is gonna end up killing his killer, actually.

*Show a panel of Billy killing Black Noir*

Boomstick: Oh! Damn!

Wiz: So far though, Homelander is the most powerful character in the show.

Boomstick: Despite his massive ego, Homelander is probably the worst person in the world, using his power to murder, rape, steal, and so much more.

Wiz: He even killed his girlfriend/mother after he discovered she had lied to him.

Boomstick: Damn! Anyway, despite all this, Homelander is not someone to fuck around with.

Wiz: Definitely, as he’s by far, the fastest, toughest, and strongest person in the world.

Boomstick: Yeah. While we don’t see it because he half-asses the attempt, it’s implied that Homelander could lift a Boeing 747 with no problem had physics not been a thing in this world.

Wiz: An average Boeing 747 weighs around 90,000 pounds, taking into account the gas tank and other features within.

Boomstick: Holy shit! He could bench press my ex-wife!

Wiz: Homelander is also really fast to, faster than A-Train, who’s fastest speed clocks in at almost 900 m/h.

Boomstick: Don’t forget to mention he was on drugs, so he’s likely slower than this.

Wiz: True. Homelander is said to be faster than a F-15 Fighter Jet.

Boomstick: I know my jets, and if that’s true, Homelander’s top speed is at least 1900 m/h.

Wiz: Homelander’s mother/girlfriend, Madelyn Stillwell…

Boomstick: *vomits*

Wiz: ...once said that most of the U.S. heavy ordinance was tested on Homelander, to no effect. She stated that she believes Homelander could survive a nuke.

Boomstick: The most powerful nuke ever dropped was a wonderful little hydrogen bomb called the Tsar Bomba, which literally translates to King of Bombs.

Wiz: This nuke had a force of 50 megatons, and remains the most powerful human made explosion ever created.

Boomstick: He's also got laser vision! It can be hot enough to effortlessly slice a small plane in half, although since it's laser vision, it can't be expanded or utilized in any other way.

Wiz: He also has superhearing, and can hear sounds from miles away.

Boomstick: He also has X-Ray vision, and can see through anything but zinc. Despite all this though, Homelander does still have some flaws. He has some serious mental instability from his time in the lab.

Wiz: This is how Madelyn Stillwell was able to manipulate him, as well as Stormfront. He also has absolutely no experience fighting someone of his own caliber, as he is leagues above his fellow supes in power.

Boomstick: The closest we’ve ever come to this was in the comics, and when Homelander finally fought someone his equal, this shit happened.

*We see a comic panel of a mutilated Black Noir holding what’s left of Homelander by his arm. All that remains is part of his torso.*

Wiz: To be fair, Black Noir was created as a more powerful clone, in case Homelander ever went rogue.

Boomstick: True. Nonetheless, Homelander is one supe you don’t fuck around with.

Homelander: I’m the Homelander. I can do whatever the fuck I want.

Prelude

Wiz: Alright, the cambatants are set. Let's end this debate once and for all!

Boomstick: It's time for a DEATH BATTLE!

Fight

We see Homelander standing on top of the Vought tower, looking over the city with disgust.

Homelander: Look at them. Mud people. They think they have the right to disrespect her? ME?!

???: Well, you didn’t exactly give them a good reason to trust you.

Homelander looks at the new face, a scowl on his features. We see Superman standing there, a stern look on his face.

Homelander: Who the fuck are you?

Superman: I’m Superman.

Homelander narrows his eyes and walks forward, standing in front of Superman.

Homelander: You think you can judge me?

Superman: *glares* I know I can. And so will the world when you admit to your crimes.

Homelander’s eyes widen for a moment, and then he laughs. Superman simply glares at him, unamused. Homelander focuses back on Superman, and then punches him. The shockwave destroys all the windows in Vought tower as Superman goes flying, landing through a building.

Homelander: I’m the Homelander. I’ll do whatever the fuck I want.

Homelander turns back around to gaze out at the city again, when his super hearing picks up something.

A whistling noise.

Homelander barely has time to turn around, before Superman is on him, delivering a powerful uppercut that sends Homelander flying, before Superman catches up with him with ease and delivers a powerful punch that sends Homelander to the outskirts of the city.

Homelander lands hard, bust the ground and bouncing, before stopping and righting himself. He turns to look in the direction he comes from, glaring at Superman, who’s already caught up with him.

Superman: I wasn’t asking.

The two glare at each other.

FIGHT!

Homelander moves first, dashing at Superman to deliver another punch, but this time, Superman is ready. He dodges the fist, so Homelander goes to deliver another. Back and forth, at speed, the two move.

Superman: Enough.

Superman grabs Homelander’s fist in the middle of another punch, but Homelander takes this chance and delivers a punch square in Superman’s face, causing him to let go. He doesn’t fly far, however, because Homelander grabs Superman’s cape and throws him skyward.

Homelander: You’ll pay for your crimes!

Homelander is enraged that someone felt he could challenge him. He launches off, catching up with Superman’s flying form, unaware of Superman’s plans. As Homelander closes the distance, Superman rights himself as Homelander goes to hit him again. He grabs Homelander by his foot and stops his momentum.

Superman: No! You will!

As he says this, he grabs Homelander’s other foot and proceeds to spin in place at such speed, it looks as if he’s doing a million front flips. After about 2 seconds of spinning, he let’s Homelander go flying, letting him hit the ground at intense speeds.

A massive dust cloud is emitted as Homelander shatters the ground under him. Superman flies down to check Homelander. He’s stopped however, when a red laser comes flying through the dust cloud, hitting him square in the face as Homelander comes flying out of the dust cloud, yelling incoherently in rage.

He stops using his laser vision as he makes it above Superman, before hitting him away, towards the city.

Superman landed hard in a park, destroying some benches and fountains. People run in fear as he finally stops, but he doesn’t have a chance to get up before Homelander is on him, wrapping his hands around Superman’s throat as he shoots his laser vision directly at Superman’s face.

Homelander begins to grin, thinking he’s winning, before jumping up and shouting in pain as Superman slams his hands upon Homelander’s ears.

Homelander: MOTHERFUCKER!

Superman: You kiss your mother with that mouth?

Upon hearing that, Homelander went to charge at Superman, but he didn’t get a chance, as Superman used his own heat vision, with explosive results that sent Homelander flying.

Homelander crashed into a brick building, denting the wall, but not quite going through it.

Homelander: You cocksu-

He doesn’t get to finish before Superman is upon him.

Superman: That’s enough!

He hits Homelander square in the face as he says this, sending the sociopath flying through the brick building and the next three as well.

When Homelander finally stops, he lays on the ground for a second as he feels something running down across his lips, accompanied by an uncomfortable sensation he wasn’t used to.

Pain.

Sitting up slowly, he felt his nose and lip in disbelief, flinching as pain shot through his nose when he touched it.

He was hurt.

That cocksucker… hurt him. He looked up as Superman slowed a few feet from him, hovering off the ground.

Superman: Don’t make this any harder.

Homelander narrowed his eyes in intense rage as he blasted off against Superman, sending him airborne. He delivered punch after punch at superspeed. As they made it over Vought tower, Homelander delivered a powerful uppercut, before grabbing him by the foot and throwing him into the building below.

Superman crashed into Vought Tower with immense force, and the entire building crumpled and collapsed. Homelander looked on with a wicked grin, using his X-Ray vision to see through the dust. His grin faded as Superman burst from the rubble, a look of pure anger on his face.

And absolutely no indication that he was even hurt.

Homelander: H-How? What the fuck are you?!

Superman merely looked around in shock as Homelander took off, no longer concerned with the fight, just fearing for his life.

Superman: He killed them. Just trying to hurt me.

Superman now knew what he had to do. Homelander could not be held like he could. Homelander had no weakness to Kryptonite. No weakness to Red Sun radiation.

Consigned to what he had to do, Superman blasted off.

Homelander looked around, hoping that he wouldn’t see Superman on his tail. Looking back, he didn’t see him. He laughed, albeit nervously.

Homelander: Haha! No one’s faster than me!

Homelander turned to look ahead, before screaming like a little girl at spotting Superman in front of him, his eyes glowing red.

Superman: You killed them!

Homelander turned around, trying to flee, but he didn’t have a chance. Superman rushed after him, and without holding back, punched Homelander in half.

Homelander: URK!

KO!

Superman could only watch in sadness as both halves of Homelander’s corpse fell to the ground.

Superman: I wish it hadn’t had to be this way.

Results

Boomstick: That was one of our shorter fights, and it still managed to be one of the most badass too.

Wiz: Despite Homelander being a blatant Superman copycat, he was nowhere near Superman in terms of power, especially this one.

Boomstick: Oh, yeah. See, back in the 70s and 80s, they couldn’t use CGI like they could in 2006, So some of Superman’s feats don’t look like anything impressive.

Wiz: This is true, so you need to realize the context before assuming one beats the other. Let’s look at one example.

Boomstick: In the first Superman movie, Lex Luthor fires two bombs off, one of which hits the San Andreas fault line. His plan was to sink the entire east coast.

Wiz: To prevent this, Superman went down into the Earth and held up the ENTIRE San Andreas fault line.

Boomstick: But due to the restraints of the movie, it instead looks like he’s just holding a big rock.

Wiz: Another example is his fight with the Zod Squad in Superman II.

Boomstick: We know how this one sounds, but here us out. Superman was equal in combat with General Zod, as well as the other two Kryptonians, and when he was hit, he reacted no different than I would if Wiz punched me in the face.

Wiz: This may not seem like much, but this actually speaks volume about how tough Kryptonians in the Donnerverse are. As we said before, Zod and his cronies were equal to Superman in terms of power.

Boomstick: This means Zod with his powers can replicate the feats that Superman pulled off with no problem, outside of the Kryptonite Island, but we’ll explain that one in a sec.

Wiz: How hard a person hits is directly affected by their strength. The stronger a person's muscles are, the more power a person can put into a punch, and the harder they can hit. As Superman and Zod are strong enough to lift an entire island, and a fault line, the amount of force they can hit someone with is impossibly high.

Boomstick: And Kryptonians react as if they’re just having a fight in a bar! The most measured force of a punch in the world usually comes to 1099 pounds of force! And no human on Earth can lift that much.

Wiz: The only reason Zod and his cronies wouldn’t be able to replicate Superman’s island feat, is because they do not have his resistance to Kryptonite. In fact, they’ve never been exposed to the mineral, ever.

Boomstick: And Superman was being weakened as he lifted the island, which is supposed to be the size of Greenland

Wiz: Actually Boomstick, that’s a misconception.

Boomstick: What?

Wiz: See, the island would be the size of Greenland if it was fully grown. However, it was still growing when Superman lifted it, and it was nowhere near its maximum size.

Boomstick: True. But still, the island was still growing and expanding as Superman lifted it, and the island was already a decent size when Superman first began to pick it up, as it already had multiple valleys, rivers, waterfalls, and canyons in it.

Wiz: An island of that size has to weigh billions of tons. And Superman was weakened when he did it, and it still far outweighs Homelander’s possible, and I mean POSSIBLE, strength of 90,000 pounds.

Boomstick: And Superman also survived an immediate fall after getting the island out of orbit, falling from the Earth's atmosphere, and hitting the ground at terminal velocity.

Wiz: And the fall didn't even affect him. The Kryptonite was what did so much damage to him, and the moment he was done, Superman allowed himself to pass out. He was already unconscious during the fall, and hitting the ground at terminal velocity did nothing to him.

Boomstick: Homelander was also far outmatched in speed as well. Homelander’s top speed clocks in at around 1900 m/h.

Wiz: But Superman’s clocks in at 660 million m/h, unimaginably higher than Homelander’s

Boomstick: But Wiz, what about Homelander surviving a nuke?

Wiz: Well, Homelander actually has more evidence to the contrary. A telekinetic supe under Billy Butcher’s lead slammed a bus on Homelander and dropped him in a cavern, which actually incapaciated him.

Boomstick: And even if you want to assume that doesn’t matter, Homelander hasn’t shown absolutely anything that would imply he could survive a nuke.

Wiz: This is true. Homelander in the comics seems to be more powerful than his TV show counterpart. In the comics, as we said before, Black Noir was a clone of Homelander who was more powerful.

Boomstick: Yeah, and remember when Billy Butcher busted Black Noir’s skull from the inside with a crowbar? That crowbar wasn’t enhanced in any way. It wasn’t some special crowbar made from a powerful metal either. It was a simple crowbar I could buy at the store for $20!

Wiz: In fairness, the he did bust Black Noir’s head open from the inside, after Homelander had already done an intense amount of damage. However, this means Homelander wouldn’t have survived such either, and he’s weaker than Black Noir. Assuming Homelander from the comics couldn’t survive it, it’s very doubtful that the TV show version could’ve either.

Boomstick: In the end, I guess Homelander was just Super out of his league.

Wiz: That one was terrible, Boomstick.

Boomstick: I know. I couldn’t think of any good ones.

Wiz: The winner is Superman.

Trivia

• The similarity between the two is that both are the most powerful beings in their respective universes, and have no equals. Homelander is also a parody of Superman.
• Alongside Smallville's Clark Kent, the Donnerverse Superman is mistakenly believed to be weaker than the DCEU Superman. This is due to the actors chosen and the restraints in special effects. Smallville's Clark is actually the most powerful version of Superman ever seen in live action, followed by the Donnerverse Superman.
• Homelander's analysis was done with a focus on the TV show, but the actual version used is more of a composite of the comics and Amazon show.
• This is 1dude235's first Fanon Death Battle.