WARNING: The following article contains major spoilers for the first three episodes of The Boys Season 2, available now on Amazon Prime Video.

After the first season of The Boys, it became clear that stopping Homelander would be a task too great for any one person to face alone. With the conflict established between the titular group's leader Billy Butcher and that of Homelander himself, it's clear that there's no way the super can make it out of the series without getting his just desserts. However, the biggest problem has been that there just hasn't been anyone powerful enough to take him on.

Well, the debut of the second season fans may finally have provided a solution. While last season ended with the dramatic twist that Homelander fathered a son with Butcher's wife, the second season presents the possibility that the boy may be strong enough to stop his father.

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Homelander poster from The Boys

Homelander proved himself to stand head and shoulders above every other powered force on the show, either outright overpowering them or intimidating them with such efficacy there was zero doubt about where he stood in relation to them. Homelander brought down planes, single-handedly quashed military threats and at no point seemed physically vulnerable. However, a pivotal scene in Season 2 seems to change that.

When Homelander first meets his son, Ryan, the boy's eyes glow red as an indication of his inheriting Homelander's abilities. But as Homelander prods the depths of his powers, it seems that Ryan's true potential has yet to be revealed. The caped hero scoffs at the idea that Ryan's powers have not developed yet, insisting that since Homelander himself was hitting ridiculous speeds at the same age. As he takes Ryan under his wing, though, he begins to prod his progeny along the path toward discovering the wealth of power that makes him superior to everyone else on the planet.

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But Ryan seems apprehensive, and when Homelander throws a baseball into orbit, the kid seems sure that he can't do the same. Hoping to prompt Ryan into flying, Homelander unceremoniously shoves him off a roof in hopes it would awaken something. However, what it awoke turned out to be something far different than what Homelander reckoned for. Ryan's mother Becca rushes out to find her child collapsed in the grass and begins to berate Homelander. While the super assures her that Ryan is fine, the boy seems visibly upset. The culmination of the conflict comes when Ryan defends his mother and pushes Homelander over.

It's a small gesture and it's easy to overlook, but when Homelander goes spilling over into the grass over his own cape, it's the most physically vulnerable the smiling sociopath has ever been. While Homelander brushes it off and seems excited about the progress, Ryan lashes out and tells his father that he hates him.

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Homelander and his son Ryan, from The Boys

It could easily come to fruition that Ryan grows to be even stronger than Homelander, as the trope of children surpassing their parents' power is nothing unfamiliar to the realm of superhero fiction. If Ryan is only beginning to tap the possibilities that lay ahead of him, then this just might mean that the Boys are closer than ever to having an ally that can contend with their greatest foe. The trick will be in protecting Ryan until he's old enough to tap into that potential, and given how deadly and gruesome the world of The Boys can be, that is easier said than done.

Amazon Studios' The Boys stars Karl Urban as Billy Butcher, Jack Quaid as Hughie, Laz Alonso as Mother's Milk, Tomer Kapon as Frenchie, Karen Fukuhara as the Female, Erin Moriarty as Annie January, Chace Crawford as the Deep, Antony Starr as Homelander, Aya Cash as Stormfront and Simon Pegg as Hughie's dad. New episodes of Season 2 release Fridays on Amazon Prime Video.

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