The Boys' Homelander represents how the world sees America

Polygon

"Through Homelander, The Boys explores the darker side of American patriotism — one driven not by the need for freedom, but the need to be the most powerful there is," says Lauren Coates and Matt Patches. "It delivers an image of a blonde-haired, blue-eyed man draped in an American flag who asks not what he can do for the people he’s protecting, but what people will do for him, if he protects them - a disheartening but unsurprising parallel to results of a 2018 survey that found the majority Western Europeans don’t respect individual liberties of its own people."