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The Boys Season 4's Best Homelander Moment Was Totally Unscripted
By BJ COLANGELO
Spoiler Warning!
This article contains spoilers for "The Boys" season 4 episode 4, "Wisdom of the Ages."
The fourth episode of season four of “The Boys” is one of Homelander's most horrific episodes yet. Actor Antony Starr made the scene even scarier with his own improvised moment.
In the episode, Homelander is at Vought lab, where he was raised and abused as a young supe in the name of "research." A friendly visit quickly turns into something out of "Saw."
When Homelander was a teen, Marty caught him masterbating and gave him the nickname "Squirt." As revenge, Homelander forces Marty to masturbate in front of his group of peers.
He then torches Marty's genitals, but not before unleashing maniacal laughter. The laugh is downright bone-chilling, and, according to showrunner Eric Kripke, it was Starr's idea.
In an interview with TVLine, Kripke said he didn't even know the laugh happened until he started looking at the dailies of production, and it scared the hell out of him.
"When I saw it [...] I just was like, 'Jesus Christ, that could be the scariest I've ever seen Homelander,' and I've seen hundreds of hours of Homelander film," Kripke said.
