The following contains spoilers for The Boys Season 3, streaming now on Prime Video.

The Boys visual effects supervisor Stephen Fleet breaks down how often Homelander's cape is created using CGI for the Prime Video series.

While discussing how filming the show sometimes involves an extensive amount of on-set wires with the Corridor Crew, Fleet revealed that most scenes where Homelander actor Antony Starr is suspended by wires involves a CGI cape. "We have to add the cape on anytime there's wires because obviously the wires would conflict with the cape," Fleet said. "It ends up being CG a fair amount of times."

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Fleet continued, "Any time he's doing anything crazy, again, like wires or flying or anything like that, we're gonna pull the cape and go CG because you also want to be able to control the physics of it when he's flying, because that's a big tell for which way the wind's moving." The effects supervisor's explanation was given while discussing a fight scene between Homelander and Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles) in the Season 3 episode "Herogasm." On social media, The Boys released behind-the-scenes footage from the episode that shows Starr and Ackles suspended from wires while filming, with Starr's Homelander cape absent from his costume during the shoot.

Though the original comic series created by writer Garth Ennis and artist Darick Robertson includes many supes that can fly, the live-action adaptation has displayed few characters' flight capabilities outside of Homelander. The show has even stripped away the flight powers of some characters despite possessing them in comics, as is the case with Queen Maeve and The Deep. Aside from Homelander, the two other supes shown to fly in the show include Stormfront (Aya Cash) and Starlight (Erin Moriarty).

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The Boys breaks away from mainstream superhero properties by instead imagining how superheroes might behave if they were more like entitled celebrities with corporate backing as opposed to altruistic do-gooders. The show pokes fun at both DC Comics and Marvel properties, while also drawing inspiration from real-life issues and politics. Showrunner Eric Kripke has confirmed that Homelander is an analogue for former United States President Donald Trump, and moments of the show were scripted based on real events during Trump's presidency.

The next entry in The Boys universe will be a college-themed spinoff, titled Gen V, that is set to crossover with the main series, which has been renewed for a fourth season. The first three seasons of The Boys and the animated The Boys Presents: Diabolical spinoff are available to stream now on Prime Video. Gen V and The Boys Season 4 do not have release dates as of writing.

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