Well, after this episode, it's only a matter of how much of a shithead they can make Soldier Boy out to be.
Was he sincere in saying that he'd let Homelander take his place due to the latter being his son? Does he actually love his son? Or is he just doing this to cause an imbalance with Homelander so that he can get close enough to kill the guy? With the former, he's going to end up betraying his rescuers for his son, with the latter, he's going to be the kind of jealous asshole who won't even let his son take his place. Considering his treatment of Black Noir and him not letting Noir get into the spotlight, both options are possible. Maybe he's a piece of shit with a heart and he genuinely loves his son. Or maybe he's an egotistical bastard who's willing to kill his son to keep his #1 spot. Especially considering the fact that Homelander was artificially made from Soldier Boy's DNA instead of being born like a regular kid.
But it's a given that Soldier Boy is a piece of shit. Black Noir's flashbacks proved that.
Also, with the reveal they gave in this episode. It makes it even weirder that Vought would switch sides. The Nazis has a functional supersoldier, and nobody else did. D-Day should never have even happened. Stormfront can break the sound barrier, and tear down buildings with her lightning bolts. She should have been able to zip across the channel, and send every ship with ammunition onboard, to the bottom of the sea. If she didn't do that, then she could have routed any of the landing zones by herself; and then flew to the others to do the same with no real issue.
Stormfront must've been dosed after Vought made the switch. But this whole Soldier Boy/Vought backstory makes no fucking sense. If they made Soldier Boy for the American military, why not have him storm the beaches on D-Day? He even has super strength and a fucking shield; he's a glorified bullet sponge, perfect for soaking up those .50 caliber bullets. Starlight/Annie was nowhere near as strong as Soldier Boy, and she tanked rounds that would turn regular humans into red mist. And why would Vought seek to enter the military-industrial complex, when the creation of Soldier Boy-
A SUPERSOLDIER, already shows that they're a part of said complex? Frankly, I can't believe Uncle Sam would let Frederick Vought go private and start his own company. It would naturally just lead to Frederick Vought and his work getting nationalized by the American government, and the Feds would have a monopoly on supes the same way they have a monopoly on nukes.
It also makes no sense that SB never fought on D-Day; Stan Edgar, who knows Vought's secret history, even describes Soldier Boy to Homelander as having killed Germans by the dozens. So was Stan lying to Homelander, or was he working off propaganda instead of the truth? Considering that he was discussing "the truth" with Homelander and not "the stuff we tell the shareholders", it seems like this is a poorly-worded retcon just to shit on the guy. Either that, or he fought in other battles after D-Day against the Krauts.
Because Starlight is just the worst. She's literally a superpowered 20 something liberal college woman. Anything that would actually boost up Hughie or Butcher is a no-no. It's oddly hard for me to summise why honestly, because it just sort of boils down to 'because she's a cunt' in my opinion.
Oh, I can summarize it easily. Men gaining power so they can protect their women is "toxic masculinity". But women getting powers is them being themselves. If Starlight had any sense, she'd have grabbed an extra dose of the blue V so that she can give it to Hughie and Butcher instead of them relying on the rather deadly Temp V.
