Slayed by Sunset: Homelander Vs. Makima - Feats, Scaling and Weaknesses

Feats

Homelander

Overall

• Survived non-stop experimentation and torture for 18 years
• Became Vought's "greatest" hero for 27 years...and the deadliest man alive
• Led The Seven, leaving them in fear of death everyday
• Repeatedly gaslit the world to secure power
• Murdered countless people, including trained assassins and soldiers
• Met up with his long-lost dad 💗
• Took over Vought International
• Got into the Presidential Cabinet...and then killed the President
• Obtained V-One, becoming immortal
• Bested The Boys on numerous occasions, by wits and brawn alike
• Defeated Black Noir, Soldier Boy, Queen Maeve, Kimiko Mayashiro, A-Train, Ryan Butcher, and Firecracker
• Took over the chud community

Power

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• Is the world's strongest Supe
• His heat vision sliced a plane in half
• Has constantly ripped people apart, even Supes
• Casually threw a guy so high into the air he crushed most of a truck
• A simple swat sent a pressurized airplane door flying
• Claimed he could lift a Boeing 747 (Class K Lifting Strength)
• Threw a baseball from New York to Boston
• Said he could wipe cities off the map for fun; an Artbook also claims he can level a city in minutes (Inapplicable, See Before the Verdict)
• Stan Edgar claimed he had the power of a neutron bomb (See Before the Verdict)
• Overpowered Soldier Boy, Temp-V Butcher and Temp-V Hughie simultaneously
• After taking V-One, choked out Soldier Boy without much issue

Speed

• Says he was breaking the sound barrier at about 12 years old (Transonic, duh)
• Ran fast enough to create afterimages and cause bullets to move in slow-motion (At least High Hypersonic)
• Easily caught up to commercial jets, which cruise around Mach 0.7 (Subsonic+)
• Searched a city, with his speed canonically recorded at Mach 1.5 (Supersonic, duh)
• Outsped a C4 explosion (High Hypersonic)
• Dodged Temp-V Butcher's heat vision (See Before the Verdict)
• Kept up with A-Train, the world's fastest Supe
• Post-V-One Homelander flew to space and back in roughly 2 seconds (Massively Hypersonic)

Durability

• Is the world's most durable Supe
• Even as a child, his skin wasn't scorched by a furnace that can quickly disintegrate people 
• Shown to be bulletproof on numerous occasions
• Unharmed by an exploding chemical plant (City Block level)
• Shrugged off large chunks of concrete and a bus falling on-top of him
• Largely unharmed by Temp-V Butcher's heat vision 
• Withstood combined beatings from various Supes
  
• Most Supes and people consider him invincible (Inapplicable, See Before the Verdict)

Makima

Overall

• Survived Hell on multiple occassions
• Tricked almost everyone into believing she was a human
• Became a Devil Hunter and head of Tokyo Special Division 4
• Manipulated nearly everyone around her 24/7 (gaslight gatekeep girl boss)
• Battled the Darkness Devil, a Primal Fear
• Forced the U.S. president to use the 20% Gun Devil, sacrificing 1 year of each citizen's life
• Broke Denji's previously indomitable will, letting the Chainsaw Devil run loose
• Repeatedly came back from the dead
• Defeated numerous assassins, Reze, Aki Hayakawa, the Angel Devil, the Gun Devil, Power, and Chainsaw Man
• Took over the gooner community

Support

Since these are entirely seperate characters, I won't mention every last feat for them. The focus will be on some of the most impressive and relevant achievements in Makima's legion.

• Most Devils and Fiends have killed people and/or zombies
• The Snake Devil beat and controlled the Ghost Devil
• Katana Man, Bomb Girl and Quanxi beat Aki and Hybrid Denji, nearly killing both 
• Samurai Sword also survived Kobeni (downscales from Low Complex Multiversal)
• Bomb Girl defeated several Devil Hunters, including two with a Mold Devil Contract
• The Fox Devil and Typhoon Devil fear her
• Got into Death Battle off delusional agenda posting
• Kishibe says Quanxi would be the winner if every human had a "bare-knuckle tournament"
• Working with Makima, they beat Chainsaw Man and Power

Power

• Left gaping holes in people
• Used telekinesis to heavily wound the Darkness Devil
• Decapitated Quanxi and two Fiends with one sword slice
• Bang tore Power in half and left a crater on the wall
• Multiple Bangs later ripped into the Blood Devil
• Used several Bangs to make Pochita bleed and blast him into space (See Before the Verdict)
• Traded blows with weakened Pochita, eventually tearing his limbs and heart out

Support

• The Snake Devil has...
• effortlessly torn the Ghost Devil in-half
• Carried the Punishment Devil (Class M Lifting Strength, Multi-City Block level)
• The Gun Fiend's bullets tore through streets, houses, and ripped off Hybrid Denji's limbs
• Beam bit the head off a zombie
• Galgali's kick cratered the ground despite Reze blocking it
• The Angel Devil's Usage: One Thousand Years impaled and defeated the weakened Chainsaw Devil
• The shockwaves of Katana Man's slashes tore through the sides of buildings
• Charging at max speed tore through Hybrid Denji
• Reze has...
• choked out a grown man untransformed
• stopped Galgali's kick as Bomb Girl (Wall level, Class 100 Lifting Strength)
• destroyed parts of builidings and much of Hybrid Denji's body with explosions (Wall to Small Building level+)
• Quanxi has...
• torn through Hybrid Denji and Katana Man
• left gaping holes in the Darkness Devil-empowered Santa Claus as Bow Girl

Speed

• Landed attacks on the Darkness Devil
• Kept pace with and ultimately outsped weakened Pochita mimicking Denji

Support

• The Gun Fiend fires enhanced M16 assault rifle bullets (Supersonic+)
• Galgali rescued Aki from Reze's torpedo
• The Angel Devil potentially blocked a pistol shot after it was fired (Possibly Supersonic+)
• Katana Man can move faster than Denji can see
• Reze has...
• outsped Denji
• caught up to a speeding car with her explosions
• moved like a slight blur
• the initial speed of her explosions should be roughly Mach 5 (Hypersonic)
• Quanxi has...
• blitzed numerous Hybrids, including Denji
• been considered invisible by the Darkness Devil-amped Santa Claus, who is comparable to Denji
• moved completely invsibile to 49 people while slicing them apart (High Hypersonic)

Durability

• As seen above, took a kick from weakened Pochita
• Potentially tanked a rocket launcher explosion, but could have regenerated

Support

• Galgali showed no reaction to bulging his leg out and kicking the ground hard enough to create a small crater
• The Gun Fiend's firearm arm blocked Hybrid Denji's chainsaw
• Beam survived Reze's explosions, albeit with major damage
• In his Devil form, he barely withstood a torpedo kick from Reze
• The Angel Devil's wings can block pistol rounds
• Reze can somewhat withstand her own explosions
• With the aid of her Devil Hunter suit, Quanxi survived getting kicked through four skyscrapers by the Chainsaw Devil (Large Building level+)

Scaling

Homelander

As you should know by now, Homelander is the strongest and most resilient Supe in the world. There's zero question that he scales above every other human and Supe in terms of strength and durability. His powers coming from Soldier Boy's genetic material also means he gained certain abilities from him, which should be dramatically heightened. The main exception are his dad's radiation powers, as they came from Russian experimentation. Even so, Homelander scales above their raw power, with him being vulnerable to their radiation specifically (See Weaknesses).

 However, while faster than nearly all of them, he's pretty clearly slower than A-Train, only catching him due to a distraction. By extension, this means the few Supes more comparable to A-Train in speed would be faster than Homelander too. Nonetheless, he can keep pace with them, so downscaling is still possible.

• Black Hole has a quantum singularity for a butthole (Inapplicable, See Before the Verdict)
• Victoria Neuman was basically unharmed by acid
• Nubian Prince and Nubia having sex created a small thunderstorm (Inapplicable, See Before the Verdict)
• Groundhawk dodged Nubia's electricity (Supersonic+, See Before the Verdict)
• The Deep said he could solo every character swim 2 miles under the ocean and in the Mariana Trench (Wall level, Debatable)
• Translucent survived getting shocked with enough electricity to "drop a water buffalo", despite his carbon skin being highly conductive
• Stormfront can "fling" a Boeing 747 (Likely Class M Lifting Strength and Wall level+)
• Ryan flew from Russia to New York City (At least Hypersonic+, possibly Sub-Relativistic)
• Soldier Boy has...
• partially resisted Mindstorm's mind control, though he was still susceptible
• Created miniature nuclear blasts (Up to Large Building level)
• These explosions come from inside him and are explicitly things he tanks
• A-Train has...
• claimed he outran bullets as a kid (At least Supersonic, Debatable)
• has a top recorded speed of 379 m/s (Transonic)
• been stated to run so fast he covers all of Manhattan in 30 minutes (At least Supersonic)
• claimed he could cover all of New York City in 3 hours (At least Supersonic+)
• viewed Starlight's electric blasts in slow motion (Outlier, See Before the Verdict)
• ran so fast the world seemed still around him, including an M4's bullet and muzzle flash (At least Sub-Relativistic+, possibly Relativistic+, See Before the Verdict)

Makima

(Why are there no color panels of this online)

As a Horseman and the Control Devil, Makima is one of the most powerful Devils in existence. Even the likes of Quanxi was shown to be outclassed by Makima on a physical level, Devil form or not. Add in her 1-on-1 battle with weakened Pochita - who perfectly masqueraded as Hybrid Chainsaw Man - and there should be zero question about scaling Makima to Devil Hunters, Fiends, and most Devils.

Keyword there: most.

To take on the Chainsaw Devil, Makima needed the help of many other powerful Devils. On Earth, he additionally had to be weakened by being made into a hero. In Hell, she worked with even more powerful allies, yet couldn't truly pin him down. With Pochita dominating Makima and her Hybrids prior to external weakening, she cannot be physically scaled to Chainsaw Man at his full power in either battle.

There is an exception though: her telekinesis. It made both him and the Darkness Devil bleed, who were both above Makima normally. That makes it perfectly reasonable to scale this ability to most of their AP and durability feats.

See the keyword again?

Later in Chainsaw Man Part 2, Hybrid Denji alone becomes similarly feared to aging and sickness. The Aging Devil alone is a Primal Fear, who Pochita was previously comparable to while far less feared. Thus, the Chainsaw Devil's full power would scale far above his Part 1 self, meaning Makima cannot be scaled to his Part 2 feats.

As for the Gun Devil...it's more complicated, so that will be saved for Before the Verdict.

Physical Stats

• Denji has survived a rocket launcher and explosion from Reze (Wall level)
• Power swung a hammer of blood larger than herself (Class 5 Lifting Strength, Small Building level)
• Long, the Dragon Fiend blocked bullets (Supersonic)
• The Fox Devil smashed through part of a building (Small Building level)
• The Bat Devil destroyed most of a building (Building level, duh)
• The Typhoon Devil has...
• smashed through a building (Building level, duh)
• created a city-wide storm (Town level to Large Town level, See Before the Verdict)
• While mimicking Hybrid Denji, Pochita threw a chunk of the ground (Class 100 Lifting Strength)

Telekinesis

• Pochita withstood tossing his heart from orbit to Earth (Town level) 
• The Falling Devil reversed gravity around the world, causing cave-ins, rockslides and national recessions (Inapplicable, See Before the Verdict)

Support

No new feats to mention here, but it's important to clarify who scales to what. Average Devil Hunters should still be comparable to Denji, who is an ordinary human. Fiends are typically comparable to each other, as are Devils and Hybrids. Quanxi scales far above the rest via blitzing and easily overwhelming Hybrid Denji. Only Makima scales to her feats.

Weaknesses

Homelander

You'd think that being the world's deadliest man and immortal would leave you with very few weakspots, but for Homelander, it's actually the opposite. He can't see through zinc with his X-ray vision, and his super-senses can be overtaxed through intense stimuli. Extreme radiation severely debiliated him prior to taking V-One, and it still limits his powers to some extent. V-One made him highly resistant - largely fine in rooms of enriched uranium - but not immune, leading to his ultimate depowerment by a mini-nuke's radiation.

But really, The Boys would've never been able to take advantage of these chinks in the armor if not for one massive flaw: Homelander's own mind. Despite his charisma and cunning, Homelander is not only extremely arrogant - to the point he legitimately believes in being the God - but rather susceptible to manipulation himself. Even his grand vision of ruling the world as God was just a manifestation of the one thing he desires most: approval. Even if it's by force, torture and carnage, he wants the compliments and love John never got as a child. This additionally manifested a major Oedpius complex; women have repeatedly got him under their thumb via playing mother, especially effective when...providing milk.

Aside from the sociopathy and mommy issues, Homelander frequently hallucinates visions of himself and others when emotionally distraught. Even putting that aside, the pain of John's torturous youth haunts him, especially when confronted with a familiar scenario and pain. That last one's something he's not used to as an adult, having gone decades without a real challenge barring some select few Supes.

Makima

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Even as one of the most powerful Devils of all time, Makima isn't without vulnerabilites. Like all Devils, most of her abilities are reliant on both blood and fear of her concept. For her Fiends and Hybrids, their Devil forms require a steady supply of blood to be maintained.

As previously discussed, her Control can be broken out of with a good ol' anime flashback right in the feels, but this is pretty incidental. Even then, she's been able to reapply it against the Angel Devil.

Ignoring the theoretical weaknesses Denji suggested for her Contract with the Prime Minister, it still has limits. More severe wounds take longer to recover from, and she was put down for good after being sliced, cooked and eaten by Denji. But considering how much extra leeway it gives her in the first place, this isn't really a flaw with the ability.

Truth be told, Makima's biggest weakness is her own god complex. Being basically immortal and able to perfectly control everyone around you means she doesn't take most situations too seriously. Granted, that's sometimes because she set them up to begin with, but she hardly goes for the kill or Control immediately. Her legion is summoned only if viewed as neccessary, and she's willing to take lethal blows before retaliating. Plus, being so sure of herself means that upon feeling like victory's achieved, she'll let her guard down. That basically cost her the win against Denji, directly leading to her death.