Charred around the edges? That's cute. Mighty generous of her.

"Souls aren't real," he says, with the flat, obnoxious tone of a disaffected teenager laying on hard truths on a five-year-old. "It's all made up. You know that, right?"

Homelander was fed all kinds of crap in the lab, and for a while there, he might've even believed it, because he didn't know any better. Then... he got to see the real world.

"Come on. Don't tell me you're still riding the God is Great bandwagon."

Whatever else she might be, he never took her for an idiot.