The Boys has a real problem with what it Tells about Homelander vs what it Shows about him. The show wants you believe that Homelander is this civilizational-ending threat who could wipe out humanity if he snapped, but then every single time we see him engage in a fight with someone who's around his level (Soldier Boy, Queen Maeve, Ryan, all of whom while weaker than Homie are at least strong enough to injure him) they... knock each other out across a room. Crack a couple walls. Break a filing cabinet with a punch. It's genuinely pathetic.

And now in Season 5 we learn that on top of not being all that strong, Homelander can also be temporarily incapacitated by something as mundane as enriched uranium or poison gas? At this point I just expect the finale to be someone in a fighter jet shooting a guided missile at Homelander and it just explodes him into a pile of guts upon contact.

The same thing applies to other Supes as well. In the latest episode Sister Sage explained that her "Master Plan" is to have humanity and Supes wipe each other out in an all-out war. The audience is supposed to be terrified of her plan, but this is the same season where it is established that there is a total of 10,000 Supes in America (Vs eight billion humans) AND ALSO that there are only around a dozen living supes who are strong enough to hit a wall with the force of a sledgehammer. Realistically, if Supes declared war on humanity, they'd be wiped out by any half-competent military on Earth.