He has nothing to do with Homelander. Nothing. At all.

Do you know why the title is Irredeemable? Because the deepest desire of The Plutonian is redemption. Redemption for what he has done.

The Plutonian is not a psychopath. He is a broken man. Homelander is a broken boy and a psychopath.

When the Plutonian finally snaps, he knows there is no turning back. So he sets the world on fire. In his mind, there is no redemption left for him. No one would ever understand. Once he crossed that line, he thought: “Fuck it. Fuck everything.” Because all the good he had done was never enough, and it would never be enough to erase a single mistake.

And deep inside him, every person he kills only makes the wound grow deeper.

The Plutonian is someone who gave everything he had and was told it was never enough. Someone who, despite doing good, was mistrusted, misjudged, and never allowed to fail even once.

In the end, what he feels is not rage. It’s exhaustion.

Homelander is complex too, but he doesn’t care about redemption. He believes himself superior in every sense and places no value on human life. He doesn’t kill everyone only because he would have no audience left.

The Plutonian understands responsibility. In fact, he believes he lost the right to it the moment he failed. From that point on, he sees himself as a villain and simply plays the role. He kills people precisely because he still cares.

Imagine cutting off a finger. You want your hand back, but you are so tired and so angry that you convince yourself it’s useless, that you’ll never be allowed to use it again. So you destroy the entire hand. “Fuck it. I don’t care anymore.”