Homelander Watching a Movie meme depicting the boys character homelander, antony starr, sitting in a dark theater staring at a screen.

Homelander Watching a Movie

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Homelander Watching a Movie or Homelander Staring At Screen refers to a clip from season three of the satirical superhero series The Boys in which the character Homelander, portrayed by actor Antony Starr, is watching a movie inside a dark theater with a silent expression of displeasure as he looks toward the screen. Starting in 2022, the clip has been used as a video caption format and reaction for memes, often used to express dissatisfaction with films and other media.

Origin

On June 3rd, 2022, episode one "Payback" of season three of the satirical superhero series The Boys premiered.[1] The episode opens with a scene in which the superhero team The Seven are attending the premiere of Dawn of the Seven, a superhero action film depicting a highly fictionalized account of the Seven's hiring of Stormfront and other recent events in the universe. During the scene, the character Homelander (Antony Starr) is shown watching the film silently with an expression of displeasure and dissociation (scene shown below).



On July 16th, 2022, the X[2] / Twitter account @homelanderbot posted a 10-second clip of Homelander watching the film at the theater for future use as a reaction meme. The upload (shown below) garnered over 290 reposts and 940 likes in two years.


Spread

On July 17th, 2022, Tumblr[3] account shittymmoviedetails posted the earliest found notable meme based on the clip, captioning it, "Me watching Thor Love and Thunder". The post (shown below) gained over 120 reblogs and 320 likes in two years.


https://www.tumblr.com/shittymoviedetails/690044051249070080/me-watching-thor-love-and-thunder

On July 18th, 2022, X[4] user @AndrewsVisual posted a video caption meme about Dr. Doom in Marvel Cinematic Universe that received over 5,000 reposts and 51,000 likes in two years (shown below).


In the following years, memes based on the format appeared on X, Reddit, TikTok and other sites, with the format frequently being used to express dissatisfaction with the quality of certain media or to indicate that the content was traumatizing for the viewer.

For example, on December 21st, 2022, Redditor ChodzeDoSzkoly posted a meme about Star Wars that received over 42,000 upvotes in the /r/PrequelMemes subreddit in two years.[5]


8yo Star Wars kids watching Anakin being gruesomely burned alive in theaters in 2005:

Various Examples


Tik Tok users in a theatre when the movie is longer than five seconds and doesn't feature a slowed and reverb pop song ] 6yo me watching in shock as the movie suddenly cuts to a scene with two people jumping on each other naked: YouTube users watching the number of unskippable ads increase from 5 to 50 in a week
Actors' spouses, watching their soulmates act an Oscar worthy performance during a 10 minute sex scene: KAPWING elena @grnformicatable Me at the theater for Dune 2 pretending like i can't see the guy seated beside me violating a sand worm II GIF 8:33 PM Jan 25, 2024 3.1M Views • . ... NEW YORK New York Post POST https://nypost.com > 2022/12/20 > a... 'Avatar 2' called out for 'cultural appropriation' *blue people watching Avatar

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External References

[1] IMDb – Payback

[2] X – @homelanderbot

[3] Tumblr – shittymoviedetails

[4] X – @AndrewsVisual

[5] Reddit – an interwsting title

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