I feel bad about this post. If I leave it at that, anyway. There is more that needs to be said.

Look, Butcher and Homelander are both pretty abusive guys. We learn about their backgrounds, which are different. Butcher maybe tries to walk away from Ryan before he becomes what he hates about Homelander. Homelander hasn't had enough in his life to be able to even venture to empathise with someone, Butcher had some advantages.

Now Chase is an abused person. We can assume he was heavily bullied because, freak. Homelander uses and abuses him, His church and his wife and his friends use and abuse him. It doesn't make him a nice person at all, but he doesn't have a lot of power in this situation. It can be way to easy to feel sympathetic when someone abuses someone who does horrible things themselves, or when someone abuses someone and, as in this case, they cave to the more powerful person, but it is still abuse and it is important to look at the power dynamic.

Chase and Timothy are both victims, here.

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