{"id":3285,"date":"2026-05-07T10:59:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T09:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/?p=3285"},"modified":"2026-05-07T12:40:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:40:34","slug":"the-boys-season-5-episode-6-why-homelander-didnt-kill-chet-vanderbilt-legend-milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2026\/05\/07\/the-boys-season-5-episode-6-why-homelander-didnt-kill-chet-vanderbilt-legend-milk\/","title":{"rendered":"The real reason Homelander didn&#8217;t kill Chet Vanderbilt in The Boys is tied to his most disgusting habit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Homelander showed some actual mercy for Chet Vanderbilt, aka The Legend, in <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/tag\/the-boys\/\">The Boys<\/a> season 5 episode 6, and it\u2019s confusing to say the least. But there\u2019s a specific reason for this, as revealed by Eric Kripke.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The latest episode of the hit <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/tag\/prime-video\/\">Prime Video<\/a> series featured a lot of twists and turns, introducing <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2026\/05\/06\/golden-geisha-bombsight-explained-new-supes-accused-of-ruining-the-boys-season-5\/\">Bombsight and Golden Geisha<\/a> (mostly to set up the upcoming spinoff Vought Rising), and seeing the opposing sides race to find the last remaining dose of V1.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the end, Soldier Boy gets his hands on it and, much to everyone\u2019s surprise &#8211; even Sage\u2019s &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2026\/05\/06\/the-boys-season-5-episode-6-why-did-soldier-boy-give-homelander-v1-ending-explained\/\">he gives it to Homelander<\/a>. But this wasn\u2019t the only moment that raised eyebrows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You see, after discovering him working alongside The Boys, Homelander tracks down Legend (Paul Reiser), who\u2019s now living under a new secret identity as a cinema worker named Chet Vanderbilt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In other words, he\u2019s been helping Homelander\u2019s (Antony Starr) direct opposition &#8211; a team who are trying to stop him from getting hold of the V1 and, ultimately, kill him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And we all know that <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2026\/04\/30\/the-boys-showrunner-real-life-reason-why-homelander-killed-firecracker\/\">Homie\u2019s a man who\u2019s killed<\/a> for far pettier reasons, like someone throwing a plastic bottle at his son or, in Doppelg\u00e4nger\u2019s case, for making him feel uncomfortable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Homelander spares Chet Vanderbilt in The Boys season 5 episode 6<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3294\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3294\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3294\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/homelander-chet-vanderbilt-the-boys-3.jpg\" alt=\"Homelander in The Boys\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/homelander-chet-vanderbilt-the-boys-3.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/homelander-chet-vanderbilt-the-boys-3-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/homelander-chet-vanderbilt-the-boys-3-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Prime Video<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When he\u2019s alone with Legend, they hunt for clues, only for Homelander to discover a receipt that proves Sage (Susan Heyward) is working with <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2026\/04\/30\/the-boys-star-just-revealed-what-to-expect-from-the-season-five-finale\/\">The Boys<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He starts having an emotional breakdown, pleading to an imaginary god (presumably, the angelic Madelyn Stillwell he\u2019s been hallucinating). \u201cPlease, don\u2019t let me become nothing like him,\u201d he says, nodding towards Legend.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All of this behaviour would suggest he\u2019s about to kill him, so much so that Legend himself assumes he\u2019s about to meet his maker.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, he takes the opportunity to give a speech about the nature of the Vought machine, having worked as the Senior Vice President of Hero Management for the company back in the day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI&#8217;ve been around a long time and I\u2026 This is just how it goes. You know, all those old supes at the home, every one of them had their moment in the sun, and they all thought it was gonna go on forever,\u201d Legend says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAnd every one of them got shoved out at the end. They all got shoved out. All of them. And I know what I&#8217;m talking about. I did the shoving\u2026\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3293\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3293\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3293\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/homelander-chet-vanderbilt-the-boys-2.jpg\" alt=\"Legend in in The Boys\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/homelander-chet-vanderbilt-the-boys-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/homelander-chet-vanderbilt-the-boys-2-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/homelander-chet-vanderbilt-the-boys-2-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Prime Video<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPoint is, look, there comes a day I got shoved out, too. Never saw it coming, did not see that coming. And I fought it like hell, but in the end, bupkis.\u201d (FYI, bupkis means \u201cnothing at all\u201d).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This gives Homelander a realisation: Chet\u2019s not scared of him. Not only that, but he feels for him. Just as you\u2019d think he\u2019d unleash those laser eyes, Homie just\u2026 lets him go.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>The reason why is tied to Homelander\u2019s milk obsession<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alongside the fact that he realises Chet doesn\u2019t fear him, the reason Homelander doesn\u2019t kill him ties to his obsession with breast milk: the fact that he never had parents who raised him, which pretty much drives all of his decisions in his adult life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3292\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3292\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3292\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/homelander-chet-vanderbilt-the-boys-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Homelander drinking milk in The Boys\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/homelander-chet-vanderbilt-the-boys-1.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/homelander-chet-vanderbilt-the-boys-1-1024x538.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/homelander-chet-vanderbilt-the-boys-1-768x403.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Prime Video<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This was reflected by <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2026\/04\/28\/omg-did-the-boys-showrunner-just-give-away-a-massive-homelander-spoiler\/\">The Boys showrunner<\/a> Eric Kripke, who told <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/the-boys-season-5-homelander-kill-spare-choose-how-eric-kripke\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ScreenRant<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: \u201cIt&#8217;s not about the advice, even though Legend does give very good advice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAnd Homelander does exactly the opposite of that advice &#8211; which is the more you try to fight the natural order of things, the more the natural order of things c**t-punches you. And there&#8217;s no better way to pervert the natural order of things than to make yourself immortal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBut I think it&#8217;s two things,\u201d he added, saying that a \u201creally big part of it\u201d is that \u201cLegend isn\u2019t scared of him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, ScreenRant highlighted the theory that came from former Vought CEO, Stan Edgar (Giancarlo Esposito), who said Homelander will hang onto any paternal figure he can.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is proven by the fact that he\u2019s kept Edgar alive for so long despite his betrayal &#8211; and the fact that he hasn\u2019t gone for his biological father, Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYou&#8217;re absolutely right about the paternal figures. I think he has this weakness for paternal figures in his life &#8211; Soldier Boy, Edgar, Legend &#8211; and he cannot bring himself to kill them,\u201d Kripke replied. \u201cI think that&#8217;s a big part of it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3295\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3295\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3295\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/homelander-chet-vanderbilt-the-boys-4.jpeg\" alt=\"Stan Edgar in The Boys\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/homelander-chet-vanderbilt-the-boys-4.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/homelander-chet-vanderbilt-the-boys-4-1024x538.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/homelander-chet-vanderbilt-the-boys-4-768x403.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3295\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Prime Video<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Much like his milk fetish, it\u2019s a byproduct of never having had a parental figure in his life. If you recall, Homelander was raised in a Vought lab, meaning his emotional and psychological development has been stunted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sadly, everyone else has to pay the price, but at least Legend was spared.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>For all the latest film and TV updates and hot takes, <\/i><i><span draggable=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FilmShrine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">like our Facebook page<\/a><\/span><\/i><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image credit: Prime Video<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s actually quite tragic <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15,33,32,11],"coauthors":[17],"class_list":["post-3285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-explained","tag-now-showing","tag-prime-video","tag-the-boys","tag-tv"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.4 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - 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