| “ | Doesn't matter what you do to me or the rest of the staff here. Your need for love is so deep, it's so human, you'll never be able to overcome that.
―Barbara Findley to Homelander.[src]
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Barbara Findley is a minor character in Season Four of the Amazon series The Boys. She is a highly respected scientist at Vought International who conducted experiments on a young Homelander.
Background[]
Very little is known about Barbara, except that she is a scientist. She was present the day Homelander was born and lasered his way out of his mother’s womb, describing the gruesome scene like he was a creature from myth or a nightmare, killing three doctors and a nurse, saying, “It went only downhill from there”, implying that the newborn Homelander had killed even more people shortly after his birth. And in the following years she experimented on a young Homelander.
The Boys Series[]
The Boys: Season 4[]
"We'll Keep the Red Flag Flying Here"[]
Barbara is someone from Homelander's past who recently haunts him, appearing in a quick flash to him.
"Wisdom of the Ages"[]
Wanting to get rid of his humanity, Homelander returns to the laboratory in which scientists experimented on him after several years. Barbara, who was out of the lab, was summoned on the request of Homelander. She arrives right after Homelander lasered through Martin's groin; she asks Homelander to put an end to his misery and so Homelander crushes his head, killing him. She wants to talk in private in her office, but Homelander wants to talk in what he used to call "the bad room." Barbara tells him what the scientists did to him was their job and they were following Vogelbaum's and Stan Edgar's orders as well as from herself.
Homelander confronts her saying he was only a child and was incapable of standing up for himself and that it was wrong. However, Barbara defends herself and the rest of the staff’s actions, stating that even as a child, he could have easily overpowered and even massacred them all if he wanted to and walk right out of that facility without a problem, adding that the staff was fully aware of this fact and were in truth terrified of him. Barbara would then mock him, saying that no matter what he does to her or the staff, what he needs is something very human and he will never be able to overcome his need for love and affection. During his childhood, Vought brought in the best psychologists to carefully ingrain those needs so deeply in his psyche, that he wouldn’t be able to shake them off now even if he wanted to, all in order to make him completely obedient to them. With Barbara adding that the reason why he didn’t just escape when he was a child was due to him not being able to handle the idea of disappointing them. Homelander then approaches and, threatening her, tells her that he will show her why it is called "the bad room."
Shortly afterwards, the camera shows Barbara's mortified expression before panning to the aftermath of Homelander's actions. Homelander likely brought all the scientists into the bad room, and murdered them in gruesome and tortuous ways, leaving parts of their body parts and blood all over the room. No one was left alive except for a terrified Barbara, whom he leaves trapped inside the room. Homelander takes the elevator out, having welded the red door shut with his laser eyes. As he enters the elevator, he cannot help, but laugh.