7 Superheroes Who Would Humble Homelander, Ranked From Easy Wins To Close Calls

After seven years of blood-soaked mayhem, Prime Video’s The Boys detonates its grand finale this Wednesday, promising a long-awaited reckoning for Homelander, Vought’s V1-forged golden boy turned nightmare.

The Boys is about to drop its final episode this Wednesday, and after seven years of watching Vought's flag-draped lab project terrorize everyone in sight, Homelander might finally get what he deserves. He was built in-house by the megacorp, juiced on Compound V, sold as America's smiling superhero mascot, and for five seasons he's steamrolled anyone who so much as looked at him funny.

To be fair, the guy's a walking weapon: he can sling fighter jets like toys, fly at hypersonic speeds, eat a nuclear blast, rupture eardrums with a super-shout, and turn crowds into confetti with heat vision. In The Boys' world, he's the ceiling. The second you drop him into the DC, Marvel, or Image sandboxes, though, he's a big fish in a much, much bigger ocean.

So, in honor of the finale, here are seven superheroes who would absolutely humble Homelander, ranked by how brutally they end his day. And yes, we’re talking comics-level feats here — the wild, page-flipping stuff these characters pull when the gloves are off.

1. Invincible

   Prime Video isn't just home to The Boys; it also hosts Invincible, another hard-R superhero series with a lead who wildly outguns Homelander. Mark Grayson is a human/Viltrumite hybrid who has taken down top-tier monsters in his universe, including Conquest and Grand Regent Thragg. His resume: multiple faster-than-light flights, surviving the surface of the sun, and helping obliterate an entire planet. Homelander's best bet — that sonic scream — might mess with Mark's balance for a second, but Homelander doesn't hit hard enough or fast enough to make it count. The instant Invincible clears his head, it's lights out.

2. Iron Man

   Tony Stark doesn't need powers when he has an armory with a personality. A standard Iron Man suit might feel the squeeze against Homelander's raw strength and heat vision, sure. But Tony calls backups like you call a rideshare. Hulkbuster for brute-force bullying. The Model Prime armor to bury Homelander under a flood of adaptive nanotech. And if Stark gets spicy, the Godbuster could straight-up vaporize him. Tony doesn't even need to be in the room — he can run the whole show by remote and swarm Vought's golden boy with a drone army. Losing to a "mere human" would drive Homelander absolutely up the wall, which is a bonus.

3. Booster Gold

   Yes, the showboaty guy from the future would hand Homelander his cape. Booster's tech is wildly underrated: his force field tanks shots from Doomsday and has withstood end-of-the-world levels of damage, so Homelander's punches and laser eyes bounce. Booster can also bubble Homelander inside that field and squeeze until he's paste. And then there's the time-travel problem: Booster can stack the deck by pulling in past and future Boosters as reinforcements — or just hop back and erase Homelander from the timeline altogether.

4. Captain Marvel

   Homelander's never really faced a true cosmic. Carol Danvers is Marvel's go-to interstellar heavy hitter: she shatters asteroids, flies faster than light, and goes toe-to-toe with Thanos- class threats. Her cheat code against Homelander is energy absorption. Every time he leans on his favorite move — try to melt her with heat vision — she just gets stronger. Meanwhile, her own energy blasts would turn him into a scorch mark.

5. Ghost Rider

   Magic isn't a thing in The Boys, which makes Ghost Rider a nightmare matchup because Homelander has zero framework for it. As the Spirit of Vengeance, Ghost Rider shrugs off physical harm and really only sweats holy weapons. Translation: Homelander's entire kit does nothing. And then there’s the Penance Stare, which forces you to feel all the suffering you’ve caused. With Homelander's record? That stare would shred him from the inside out. He thinks he's a god; this is where he meets Hell.

6. Wonder Woman

   Diana would not waste a second on a smug, lying sadist. She's hauled Earth's weight, blitzed at speeds that make "trillions of times faster than light" the kind of ridiculous comic-book metric she actually hits, and she's put down a brainwashed, bloodthirsty Superman. Homelander, who has never trained a day in his life and wins by brute force and terror, is not built for someone with centuries of elite combat training. Factor in a sword sharp and sturdy enough to slice at the atomic level, and this is a short, ugly fight.

7. Superman

   Homelander is clearly a warped riff on the Man of Steel, but the gap here is absurd. Superman's done things Homelander can't even pronounce: cradled a mini black hole, survived being crushed between two planets, hefted a book with literal infinite pages, and one-punched a multiverse out of existence. On top of that, Superman's creativity and control with his powers make him a tactical nightmare. If he wants, he ends Homelander with a flick. Sometimes the blueprint just wins.