The Homelander (John Gillman) is a superhero and antagonist in the comic book series The Boys and resulting franchise, created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. The leader of a group of hedonistic and reckless superheroes funded by Vought dubbed The Seven, and the archenemy of CIA black ops agent Billy Butcher, the Homelander is depicted as an arrogant narcissist thought by Butcher to be a sadistic psychopath who cares little about the well-being of those he professes to protect. Initially serving as the primary antagonist of the series, the Homelander is eventually superseded by Black Noir, revealed to be a deranged clone of the Homelander created to kill and replace him if he ever went rogue, who framed him for the rape and death of Butcher's wife (and various other acts of murder, cannibalism, and necrophilia), as part of a plan to gradually drive him insane in order to be allowed by Vought to do so, having been driven insane himself by a lack of purpose.