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Homelander vs. Sportacus refers to an October 2024 viral debate surrounding the imagined matchup between The Boys character Homelander and LazyTown character Sportacus in which the characters were powerscaled against each other. The majority of memes and posts related to the debate continued the earlier Everyone Beats Homelander meme by imagining Sportacus easily beating Homelander in a fight, especially if he had an apple beforehand.

Origin

On October 23rd, 2024, X[1] / Twitter user @ZenkaiM2 posted images of The Boys villain character Homelander and LazyTown character Sportacus, writing, "Who wins, Homelander or Sportacus?" starting the powerscaling debate. The post (shown below) garnered over 17.4 million views, 1,000 reposts and 8,700 likes in two days.

Zenkai @ZenkaiM2 Who wins homelander or sportacus? do . 2:17 AM Oct 23, 2024 17.4M Views • :

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Later on October 23rd, 2024, X[2] user @RecklessKami made the earliest viral post contributing to the debate, quoting the post and writing, "depends. does Sportacus have an apple?" referencing Sportacus sustaining his physical abilities by eating apples and other fruit in the show. The post (shown below) received over 15,000 reposts and 297,000 likes in two days.

Kami @RecklessKami depends. does sportacus have an apple? Zenkai @ZenkaiM2 Oct 23 Who wins homelander or sportacus? . 2:19 AM Oct 23, 2024 11.7M Views ...

In the following days, multiple posts arguing that Sportacus would beat Homelander in a fight, and easily so if he had an apple beforehand, went viral on X / Twitter.

For example, on October 23rd, 2024, X[3] user @Kirbyguyzero made a post arguing in favor of Sportacus, which received over 4,500 reposts and 71,000 likes in two days (shown below).

... Xem @Kirbyguyzero robbie rotten survived being shot by a cannonball at point blank range and base sportacus is even stronger what makes you think hoelander stands a chance Zenkai @ZenkaiM2. Oct 23 Who wins homelander or sportacus? 5:57 PM Oct 23, 2024 1.5M Views 91}

The debate spawned memes and crossover fan art. For example, on October 24th, 2024, X[4] user @Beesseet shared an artwork of Sportacus lifting Homelander by his collar that received over 930 reposts and 6,100 likes in one day (shown below).

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Kiran Patil @KIRANPATIL8055N Homelander watching as sportacus dodges his laser (he just did 10 different types of squats) 8:24 AM - Oct 24, 2024 22.9K Views
Kamui @NotKamuiSry ... Bringing up powerscaling makes me want to make a thread on ALL of his feats because hes genuinely broken so here we are: Runs 22.7x faster than Robbie Rotten MARIA
I THOUGHT YOU WERE STRONGER.

MOE @Venommoe Sportacus after biting an Apple ...
AdriAE @adridex_ My goat Sportacus solos that fraud Floplander anyday 2004 ...
Kalle Magne @KalleMagne "Homelander loses to Superman" old, busted, boring. "Homelander gets his ass beat by f------ Sportacus" now THIS is what I'm on Twitter for. . . 3:53 AM Oct 24, 2024 59.6K Views

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