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[The Boys] Why did Vought create Homelander?

The supes are less superheroes and more glorified celebrities, so why the need for creating the ultimate superhuman? Wouldn't it be more beneficial for them to make someone with just flashy powers and then leave the actual important stuff to trained loyal supes?
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The endgame was military contracts, even back in the day.  To that end, they needed a way to consistently make better performing superheroes.

As we see in S3, your average supe back in the 70s couldn't stand up to military grade firepower.  Energy blasts are fancy looking, but they're not all that much better than a gun, or at best a rocket.  Even Soldier Boy was consistently portrayed as being a localized threat; useful but not game-changing compared to a tank.

 What Vought needed was nigh invulnerability, superspeed, superstrength, and flight.  Homelander possessed all four.  He could single-handedly dismantle an entire country, and would indeed be a valuable military asset if he weren't such a tool.