#stan edgar

[anakinism]

THE BOYS | 3x04 - “Glorious Five Year Plan”

#theboysedit #tvedit #userbbelcher #becauseofthebowties #cinematv #filmtvdaily #dailyflicks #homelander #stan edgar #the boys #the boys spoilers #mine

[baby-got-books]

Discuss

#the boys #the boys amazon #the boys tv #stan edgar #victoria neuman #the deep #hughie campbell #kimiko #kimiko miyashiro #homelander #soldier boy #frenchie #crimson countess #billy butcher #a train #reggie franklin #stormfront #klara risinger #ashley barrett #queen maeve #maggie shaw #madelyn stillwell #starlight #annie january #mm #mothers milk #black noir #wee hughie

[fantasticpants]

The Boys - a scientifically accurate top/bottom chart

For your consideration.

#the boys #billy butcher #homelander #soldier boy #mother's milk #black noir #frenchie #stan edgar #hughie campbell #the deep

[vanshoundd]

The Boys in DUNE AU [2]

#homelander #the boys #soldier boy #stan edgar

[blindmagdalena]

Homelander gifs by request: s03 e02 "The Only Man in the Sky is Me"

"You're lucky we're putting on this farce at all."

#AHA i figured out how to put captions on them #his subtle little expressions UGH THEY'RE SO GOOD #also stan edgar kills me with his little phantom of the opera moment here #declaring directions from the shadows like he's erik in box five #stan edgar #homelander #homelander edit #the boys #the boys amazon #my gifs

[ishomieokay]

DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS || coming soon ||

──── a homelander x hispanic oc story.

✰ summary — Salomé was Stan Edgar's wife. He was thirty years older than her, boring and unaffectionate. They shared nothing in common, and only exchanged small pleasantries while in the office. She was a decoration and a sign of status to him. To her, he was financial security and an easy way to get a green-card. It was clear to anyone with common sense that quid pro quo was the basis of their marriage.

Homelander found it infuriating. Leaving such a rare flower to whiter on the hands of that old geezer should be a capital crime. So he allowed himself a sniff or two while no one was watching. Sometimes, not even her.

✰ warnings - +18, stalking, obsessive behavior, mental instability, infidelity, breaking and entering, watching someone sleep, mutual pining, dead dove, yandere!homelander.

#homelander x oc #homelander x reader #homelander x you #homelander fanfiction #the boys #homelander #the boys fanfic #hispanic oc #latina oc #hispanic reader #latina reader #fine i'll create my own content #lena writes #homelanderxcolombianoc #antony starr #my babygirl #this little plot bunny has ben in my head for a while #ngl i feel like throwing all my wips out the window and going for this #stan edgar #giancarlo esposito #adria arjona #homelanderxoc

[deliciouskeys]

I did the zombie apocalypse team meme for The Boys.

#zombie apocalypse team #mystuff #billy butcher #kimiko #frenchie #grace mallory #homelander #black noir #queen maeve #stan edgar #ashley barrett #mother's milk #madelyn stilwell #jonah vogelbaum #annie january #starlight #hughie campbell #soldier boy #terror #ryan butcher #the legend #becca butcher #susan raynor #stormfront #the deep #doppelganger #a train #popclaw #translucent #the boys

[botslayer]

Stan Edgar: I left instructions for everyone while I'm gone.

Homelander: "Mine just says 'Homelander, No.'"

Edgar: "I want you to apply that to every possible situation."

#The Boys #Homelander #Stan Edgar #incorrect quotes

[pulquedeguayaba]

Giancarlo Esposito & Mylène Farmer, photographed by Abel Ferrara (1996)

#Giancarlo esposito #mylene farmer #photography #90s #abel ferrara #breaking bad #better call saul #the boys #the mandalorian #gus fring #moff gideon #stan edgar #when i tell you that i'm losing it at these pictures

[sambergcrs]

#67 GIANCARLO ESPOSITO gifs from his role as Stan Edgar in The Boys (season 2) can be found in the source below. These were all made from scratch by me. Please don’t repost and claim them as your own. Feel free to like/reblog if you find them useful.

#mygifs* #giancarlo esposito #breaking bad #giancarlo esposito gif pack #giancarlo esposito gifs #stan edgar #the boys #the boys amazon #gif pack #gif pack maker #gif commissions #rpt #rpc #fcoc #underused fc #older fcs #flashing gif tw

[valjeanzachary]

Stan Edgar and Ashley at a hearing

#doodle #procreate #the boys #stan edgar #ashley barrett #sketch #silly doodles #drawing

[joeswackyadventure]

My Top 5 Favourite Characters of All Time!!

1- Gus Fring from Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul

2- Ray Vernon/ Leo Pap from Kaleidoscope

3- Esteban from Fresh (1994)

4- Stan Edgar from The Boys

5- Buggin' Out from Do the Right Thing

There is not a theme going on I swear!!

#gus fring #breaking bad #better call saul #leo pap #esteban #stan edgar #the boys #buggin' out #do the right thing

[breckstonevailskier]

"Jumanji" speculation

This is the synopsis for the upcoming sixth episode of Gen V (source).

My guesses are that:

"Emma goes to find Sam" - Seems like she probably returns to Godolkin's campus since we last saw her in episode 5 with Sam at the drive-in, calling the others to warn them about Cate.

"Marie, Jordan and Andre are forced to see things from Cate's perspective." My guess is this will be a limelight episode for Cate with a fair number of extended flashbacks that illustrate just how Cate came into Shetty's control, and also probably give us more Golden Boy as well as tell us just how Brink fits into this all (and why exactly Golden Boy killed him). Since Cate clearly is wracked with guilt about wiping their minds, it would make sense that she'd want to divulge everything she can to regain their trust. There was a preview shot in episode 6 of Cate's eyes looking pretty bloodshot, suggesting she restored all of their memories, not just Andre's.

"Dr. Cardosa makes a breakthrough with a mysterious virus, and Shetty makes a terrifying request with dire consequences." We're definitely going to be seeing follow-up to the scene that Shetty had with Cardosa in the Woods corridor. Definitely seems like he wants Marie's blood to perfect his virus that can control Supes (which I personally think might also tie in with why Cate was under Shetty's control, given her particular powerset).

Edison Cardosa: [Sam] nearly killed my family, Indira! He's far more trouble than he's worth, and Golden Boy is dead anyway. The point is, I'm done with Sam. He's not my problem anymore. I'm tired of babysitting psychopaths. Indira Shetty: Babysitting psychopaths is literally your job. Edison Cardosa: Those kids found out about him! Indira Shetty: Those kids have been handled. They won't be a problem. Edison Cardosa: Come on. You know it's just a matter of time before they find out about everything else we're doing down here. I am this fսcking close to perfecting the virus, a viable way to control them for good. But if they discover that? I'm not paid nearly enough to die for this shit. Indira Shetty: So you want a raise? Edison Cardosa: No, that's not what I... Indira Shetty: So why don't you tell me what it is you do want? Because we both know you're not going anywhere. Cutting up Supes and seeing how they tick is a skill that won't quite shine on your LinkedIn profile. Edison Cardosa: I want the girl. Marie. Her abilities are the rarest I've ever seen. She doesn't understand how powerful she really is. She's the perfect subject, could speed up my timeline. Indira Shetty: She is special. But no. You're not the only one interested in Moreau. She has a benefactor, and because of that, she's strictly off-limits. For now.

This will probably include some explanation as to what Soldier Boy might be doing in this show. But then there's the question of who Marie's benefactor is. It's probably not Shetty herself because I don't see why Shetty would refer to herself in the third person, so it's probably someone else within Vought or associated with Vought. Could be Victoria Neuman (since we will see her in person in one of these episodes), but I like the theory that Marie's benefactor is Stan Edgar. As New Rockstars pointed out, he's got a history of taking interest in orphaned Supes from Red River who accidentally killed their own parents (can't be a coincidence that we actually saw Marie's picture briefly on the computer screen when Hughie was at Red River investigating Victoria's past and uncovered her connection to Edgar; Victoria's and Marie's parents also died in similar fashion); he'd want a new asset in the wake of Victoria's double cross, and seeing as Edgar was the one who signed off on Payback betraying Soldier Boy to replace him with Homelander back in 1985, it would make sense for him to have a contingency plan up his sleeve (and be secretly coordinating with Shetty and the many other insiders he probably still has within Vought).

#gen v #marie moreau #emma meyer #cate dunlap #andre anderson #jordan li #gen v spoilers #indira shetty #edison cardosa #soldier boy #stan edgar #victoria neuman #the boys #godolkin university #sam riordan

[xieyaohuan]

Stan Edgar's and Homelander's relationship: my two cents

Tl;dr: Stan Edgar's show-canon relationship with Homelander presumes (and loosely establishes) the relationship between comics Homelander and James Stillwell, including James' Stillwell's extreme confidence vis-à-vis Homelander, which explains a lot of Stan's more insane choices provoking Homelander, but I remain naively hopeful that the show also means to show us in the end that he has miscalculated.

Following up on this post trying to figure out what the hell Stan Edgar's end game is with Homelander, I just want to add a small point to what I think is an excellent discussion because I think you can't really answer the question of Stan's intentions via-à-vis Homelander without establishing what the show-canon relationship between the two is supposed to be (even if the execution is done badly). Personally, I think show canon tries to do one of two things: 1. take the canon relationship in the comics and twist it by having "James Stillwell"/Stan Edgar miscalculate or 2. take the canon relationship in the comics and keep "James Stillwell"/Stan Edgar as the mastermind. My guess (and hope) is that they are going for number 1, but who knows, maybe there's some secret third option.

Either way, what is clear is that the show is trying to replicate, in some form, the dynamic that exists between Homelander and James Stillwell in the comics. That's apparent when Stan Edgar tells Starlight that Homelander will stay in line as long as he is in charge, which is supposed to establish that Stan Edgar is 100% confident in his ability to manage Homelander no matter what.

(It is also hinted at from Homelander's perspective when they replicate the comics plot point that Homelander is confused by/scared of his blood pressure/heart rate/whatever other readings he gets, and when he wonders if Stan Edgar is the headpopper because he thinks he must be a very powerful supe due to his lack of fear.)

Seriously, I think the sentence above is central to understanding the relationship. BUT, interestingly, when he says "and we both know why", the viewer doesn't know why, and this is where the show could have really done a better job explaining it.

This is a problem with many of the points taken directly from the comics because they are casually imposed on the show without properly "translating" them to the new medium and the new storyline to actually make them significant to the show (instead of just mentioning them on the side). Another good example of this is Maeve's alcoholism. We see her drinking in S1E1 during a work meeting, then we don't see her drinking in meetings again though she still has occasional drinks, and in S3, she tells Butcher she's been sober for X months. But that's really all we see of it -- it never becomes a major point in her character arch and gets lost easily. So from a storytelling perspective, that's dissatisfying. Either weave the point properly into the character's arch, or leave it out entirely.

So anyway, back to the main point, which is that the show presumes the relationship from the comics and makes it visible here and there. I think they do a slightly better job with Homelander and his relationship with Stan "James Stillwell" Edgar than with Maeve's relationship with alcohol, but the point is still not translated very well. However, what we can take away from it is that for whatever Stan Edgar does, he always proceeds from the assumption that he has Homelander 100% under control, same as when James Stillwell tells an enraged Homelander, who has come to kill him, to do it already because he is bored out of his mind by his rant.

That is the level of confidence that should be assumed behind every single of Stan's actions that affect Homelander. My personal take is he takes some joy in humiliating Homelander and getting away with it, especially since this person he considers largely irrelevant to the company's bottom line has just given him a ton of extra work.

I did also consider the possibility that Stan is doing this strategically to show who the real boss is and bring Homelander back under his thumb, and I guess that's possible given that he has just had to deal with two Homelander contingencies in a row -- the supe terrorists and HL discovering Ryan. That would seem like a good time to reassess his prior assumptions about his control over HL. But I do think his confidence in his ability to manage HL is supposed to be taken as real and not just an act in S3, so my personal headcanon is that Stan is being petty. Homelander annoys him, so why only punish him once if he can do it -- cost free in his mind -- over and over again?

Anyway, my hope is that the show is going with having Stan Edgar miscalculating instead of masterminding. I don't want a "Stan as puppet master who saw every single one of Homelander's moves coming" storyline, but based on the way the scene between Homelander and Stan Edgar on 99 was done, miscalculation also seems more likely, because Stan does slam the glass down on the table as he leaves the room, which I'm guessing is meant to indicate that despite his blood pressure and calm demeanor, his blasé attitude was an act and he is waking up to the fact that, oops, he did miscalculate.

That doesn't answer all the questions, such as why choose Starlight over Maeve, but I mean, the answer to that one is pretty evident from a storytelling perspective: if you have a central heroine and a character who will leave the show at the end of the Season 3, which of of these two characters are you going to put at the center of a major conflict? Obviously the one who is your main heroine. Bringing in a new person mid-season just for this would be... a very questionable choice in any writer's room.

Anyway, I would also argue that in this case, it doesn't really do much harm to Stan's character building and story arch. It's totally in line with his own and Vought's overall ethics that they would discard a woman who, by industry standards, is old, and go for a fresh face, their rising star, a person Stan presumes to still be impressionable and malleable -- he knows how to work with people like that. Sure, she may not be as young as Vicky was when he got to her, but it's reasonable he would assume he could shape her more easily than Maeve, so I really don't see any plothole here.

Starlight's relationship with The Boys is irrelevant because Stan canonically does not see The Boys as a threat. He may not love Butcher, but he's good enough to form a temporary alliance with, and Stan certainly does not view him as a existential threat to himself or to Vought. That may be another miscalculation, but for the time being, given Butcher's hyperfocus on Homelander and his inability to see the big picture about Vought, it seems fair enough. Stan also doesn't believe that he's giving Starlight a whole lot of power with the new position. The co-captains are performing monkeys in his mind (just like Homelander himself has always been), so the risk, to him, is not much higher than having her join The Seven in the first place.

It certainly doesn't answer the question of why Stan put Stormfront in The Seven given what must be a very complex relationship between the two. Clearly, she's influential at the company, clearly, they work together (she does the high risk stuff for him so that he can maintain plausible deniability and distance himself from the ugliest parts of Vought's medical experiments), clearly, they do not like each other (unless there's something we don't know). But perhaps that's their deal: Stormfront does the ugly stuff for Stan, Stan gets her closer to her beloved Nazi-ideal-conforming potential son-in-spirit. Obviously, their exact relationship is never explained directly. It's either a plothole or a plotline that was left open because it will be closed later, or a plotline that was left open and will remain open because the way shows are written means not all loose ends are tied up in the end. Personally, I don't think we'll see this one resolved.

Anyway, best case scenario, the show will deliver as a twist on "James Stillwell" as someone who miscalculated on multiple fronts (mainly Homelander, possibly Butcher, but that's probably just my pipe dream lol) thanks to his overconfidence, and gets destroyed along with Vought as a consequence. Worst case scenario, this will all fizzle out and not be resolved properly as the show descends deeper into the contemporary American politics non-plotline.

#stan edgar #homelander #stan edgar's and homelander's relationship #the boys #the boys tv #the boys comics #james stillwell #the boys meta #homelander meta #stan edgar meta #I *don't* think the show is doing itself a favor by taking the comics relationship and then establishing it in the show but half-assing it #and coming from the asoiaf fandom I may be too focused on author intentions #but I do think it's relevant to understand what the show runners are trying to do and I'm reasonably confident that #they are trying to replicate the comics relationship when it comes to Stan's/James's confidence (and initially HL's fear) #and that needs to be taken into account

[jacen-solos]

Stan Edgar eviscerating Homelander [Part 1]

#theboysedit #the boys #homelanderedit #homelander #stan edgar #the boys tv #the boys prime #ch: stan edgar #ch: homelander #tv: the boys #my gifs #stan vs homelander

[tectoniccyborg]

Couple of doodles from my Insta

#the boys tv #the boys #the boys homelander #homelander #the boys season 3 #the boys soldier boy #soldier boy #ashley barrett #the boys Ashley #stan edgar #the boys Stan Edgar #butcher #Billy butcher #the boys butcher