A suggestion from my buddy Aragorn II Elessar (so great thanks there) though in a different direction than what was suggested and this one was inspired by the Joker's defeat in Arkham Knight. I want to say that I will only be wanting to use specific villains and ideally not ones where we would want them both to lose or more accurate: Homelander losing would actually be worst for the Earth like Darkseid or the such if he is invading. If it's a villian as bad as or worse than Homelander like Krueger here (who was a child killer and intended to also be much worse which was used for that remake) since his threat is lowkey and him killing Homelander wouldn't necessarily doom the world since he could be stopped.
Another point related to a guest on Fanfiction but no on Punisher as the referenced story there was sorry to say but just Garth Ennis over exaggerating what his favourite character could accomplish. I think Frank knows that he can't take on the big dogs in the Marvel Universe since in a What If issue showing if he did kill Spidey; he was on the run from the entire superhero community and knew that he couldn't really fight back. Plus for a canon example: him trying to end Norman Osborn during Dark Reign got him legitimately killed and during the Superior Foes of Spider-Man, what bad guy managed to get the better of him? The Shocker!
Plus I want to say that funny about this since last Saturday I was at the Comic Con of the neighbour town to my own where I found a Savage World Freddy figure that I had to buy (I also have the Toony Terror now) which is basically Freddy as a classic styled He-Man figure. Plus now that the Masters of the WWE Universe Goldberg figure that I bought from Ebay had arrived and now they can fight and I also have an Origins Classics figure of He-Man as well as a Zorn in suit figure (from Son of Zorn).
Homelander thought that he should give a call to Ashley and tell her to fire whoever on the publicist team who thought that he should be giving a tour in some nothing Ohio town called Springwood. Supposed to give some written speech for morality for a string of deaths that happened in sleep. Supposedly caused by the ghost of some local child killer story that bored him as soon as he started reading the reports handed to him. What does he care about some normal human offing some children in some small town?
Plus his ghost killing people in their sleep? Seriously; the sheep of the world will believe anything.
He fell asleep one night in his hotel room and found himself in Vought Tower and everything was in black and white. "What was in that milk..." Homelander demanded and was met with some joker with a weird face with a hat, grey and white striped jumper, a clawed glove on his hands and a cape.
"Tada! Super freddy is here!" the figure said making a heroic pose and then the color returned and the figure was now a man in a dark red and green sweater with the clawed glove, without the cape and now Homelander could see that his face was badly burned. "Welcome to my realm Homelander... I have been known as the Springwood Slasher but you can call me Freddy Krueger..." the figure greeted with a gravelly voice and a smirk on his face causing Homelander to laugh.
"Oh I get it; some stupid dream after reading the nonsense about a ghost killer in people's dreams to kill them in real life..." Homelander mocked as he just got his heat vision and fired at Freddy for a minute. He stopped and his smirk tht was forming disappeared as Freddy was unharmed.
"You know it was massive pain and the time in Hell before the demons offered me this job and powers... That doesn't really effect me... Here at least... You think of yourself as the only man up there in the waking world but here... I am pretty much more of a god than you are out there..." Freddy replied and Homelander glared at him.
"Suppose I buy any of this... How do you plan on killing me? Survivors of you claimed that you target them in their nightmares and know what they fear but I fear nothing..." Homelander retorted and Freddy laughed as he disappeared. Homelander then found himself in front of a DVD store bargain bin and he looked to see if full of copies of his movies stickered with 'FREE - WILL PAY YOU TO TAKE AWAY!'.
"...What is this..." Homelander demanded angrily being more affected by this than he thought he would as he was met with images of kids in toy stores passing by Homelander figures in clearance aisles while being more interested in figures of Starlight, that traitor Black Noir, A-Train and even the Deep.
Then what sounded like a TV news broadcast with someone asking 'thinking about the heroes of the past... Does anyone remember the Home-Lander guy... I think that's what his name was?' Homelander found a TV and heat visioned it.
He was met with someone in a fancy hero suit with a cape being interviewed; "So Maestro; you not only have saved billions of lives and stopped countless terrorist and criminal organisations in the world since your debut but your help in causes have managed to put an end to poverty, world hunger, eliminated diseases but you helepd convince the governments of the world to sign agreements that will guranteed world peace and stop all war! Who do you credit most for your accomplishments?" asked the reproter as the hero smiled to the camera.
"My mother Rebecca Butcher who was taken from me too young and raised me with the values and ideals I aspire to!" Maestro said as Homelander was taken aback.
"Ryan..." Homelander muttered as he was met with the vision of himself furiously attacking Maestro.
"Bad enough that I am bumping down to number #14 but I have to deal with my #1 spot son disregarding what I told him... Focusing on helping these damn worthless people and targetting people of our kind! Saying that they should be lowered down to their standards!" Homelander snapped as Maestro fought back and got him in a headlock.
"I can see why you were so ready to hook up with the Nazi bitch..." Maestro said as he then snapped Homelander's neck and got up as an arm was put on his shoulder. "Finished our work... Thanks for the help dad..." Maestro said facing what turned out to be a smiling Billy Butcher much to Homelander's shock.
"No... Ryan would never turn on me for HIM after what has happened... I would never try to kill him... Like what dad said; what father wouldnt' want to hand the torch to his son..." Homelander yelled as he was met with Freddy with his arms folded.
"Would ya though? You say that you love him and you may do... For now... But what happens if he has second thoughts? Your old man turned on you when he became dissapointed in what you turned out to be and who's to say that you wouldn't end up doing the same? If he ends up caring more for the humans than your super kind? Plus what happens when your star fades and he becomes more famous and popular than you; would you really pass that torch or would you become one of the hasbeen washed up stars desperate to cling onto their glory days at the expense of everyone else? Because I know that what you want most is to be respected and or feared but for you... Being forgotten... Now that's a bitch!" Freddy taunted as Homelander was in denial.
"No... That can never happen... I'm the Homelander! I'm the most popular superhero in the world!" Homelander yelled as Freddy laughed.
"Newsflash my 'Homie'... You're the hot stuff today like Black Noir before you and then there was Soldier Boy... He was pretty much replaced and mostly forgotten about and what happens when your star is done for..." Freddy taunted some more as Homelander furiously used his heat vision on Freddy and around him.
He then found himself back on Transoceanic Flight 37 and looking out the window he saw it was underwater. He was met with the zombie passengers of the flight and one stabbed him in the back with a clawed glove as his face transformed into a laughing Freddy.
10 YEARS LATER
The lake of Camp Crystal Lake and a newspaper was being swooped in with the headline reading 'WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE HOMELANDER?' The article being smudged up by the water talked about the once thought to be unstoppable hero who died in his sleep; having fallen asleep while in the can...