The much younger Starlight brings a little of that heroic spirit back, though.

In training for a fight with Homelander, she makes everyone think she’s lazing around and drinking.

This obviously causes complications with her former lover, with whom she tries to rekindle the relationship.

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Maybe now she can live a normal life.

She took her boss’s place, and that only made her life more difficult.

But by the season three finale, she only had a few strands left.

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In the meantime, she’s had a physical relationship with a few of Vought’s men.

8Ryan

Portrayed by Cameron Crovetti

Where to begin?

Ryan (Cameron Crovetti) has steadily become one of the most conflicted characters in the show.

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But he was given another father figure, too: Billy Butcher.

As if there weren’t enough reasons for therapy, this kid killed Stormfront before he could even fly.

But the trauma doesn’t stop there: his father threw him off a roof.

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With more blood on his hands, Ryan will be more messed up than ever in season five.

After getting thrown out of The Seven, he went through an identity crisis in Ohio.

His ability to gain some perspective on masculinity was one of that season’s highlights.

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Hughie has been through more than that, even, and it has overall made him more compelling.

They also give her plenty of instances in which she takes some agency over her life.

This man has been plagued with self-doubt and guilt for a long time.

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Homelander has gotten worse, growing more and more emotionally unstable through the series.

Homelander has found someone willing to do whatever he wants, and yet he’s still mean to her.

He’s been talking to himself, trying to get himself to stop feeling human emotions.

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When he visited the old lab where he was raised, he got some major paybackand it felt good.

He will do whatever he wants to do, and that puts everyone around him in a dangerous predicament.

Thanks toAntony Starr’s phenomenal performance, this transformation has been utterly convincing.

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His hallucinations in season four showed his darkest impulses battling his good ones.

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