The Homelander is a patriotic superhero who leads the superhero
team, The Seven, and the most powerful superhuman
created by Vought-American. The company's cover story for the Homelander
is that he is an alien who landed in the United States as an infant,
much like Superman. In reality, he and the rest of the original roster
of the Seven were grown in a secret laboratory, the progeny of genetic
material taken from Stormfront, who was injected with Compound V while
still a member of the Hitler Youth. Homelander spent most of his young
life chained down with a hydrogen bomb strapped to him in case he tried
to escape. His mother was a mentally disabled woman who died giving
birth to him.