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Yea my boi dead 😭😭😭

Its interesting how they made a train and deep mirrors of each other, both started out as assholes and are perceived by everyone to be jokes but a train after his brother chewed him out got tired of hating himself and tries to actually be a hero for once, deep instead is continuing down the road of being essentially homelanders yes man and is even going full malicious with absolutely no point of return

You can tell that young boy's gaze of adoration and wonder really left a deep impression on A-Train. As he said: no cameras, no screaming crowds - just one person witnessing an act of kindness. Something intimate and real.

A-Train got serious death flags on him but I really hope he makes it out 😭 If Maeve made it, he can too

Bro that fight scene in episode 7 got me so hyped, especially when A-train showed up!

The fact A-Train can’t beat Homelander is what makes him heroic this season. If he could beat Homelander than his actions are just what a regular person should do lol

1:47 A-Train asked Hughie who’s worse. A-Train was worse, because unlike A-Train, when Hughie learned about A-Train’s girl, he didn’t laugh about it.

I loved that scene where the kids saw him helping MM. It was a perfect end to A trains "you don't actually save people" arc. Not only did he put his standing in the seven on the line, and did what *he* thought was right; it was also a beautiful way of showing that there is more to saving peoples lives than being praised for it. Edit: damn just saw the new episode I knew I interpreted that correctly

I also hated A-train for the first 3 seasons. The last thing I expected was to respect him by episode 7 of season 4. Well written indeed.

with bluehawk, he finally found something he would die for. wasn't a good thing but a huge step for him

When you think about it A-Train’s Development is similar to Omni-Man, they both were aware of their own Actions and Terrible Deeds but it all took One Love One getting Hurt that it made Them Feel Regret and Opened the Humanity that was Hidden all these Years, While I don’t believe Homelander and Deep can be Redeemed, A-Train has the most Natural Development out of the Seven as he went from a Terrible Man to Someone Who regrets his Actions and is Tired from it, in the End, he’s Becoming Heroic but there’s a Price that he has to Pay, it’s hard to say if A-Train will Survive or Die as depending on the Direction, it’s a 50/50 and even I hated this Character after Season 3 made me have a Small Change of Heart and Season 4 I’m growing to to Love the Character, in the End we just have to keep on Watching.

While the Deep dives deeper into the abyss.

Season 4 of the boys is like season 3 of Castlevania. Everything went to shit for the main characters while a previous minor villain got one of the best redemptions of the show. A-Train is this show's Isaac when it comes to redemptions

Always rolled with A Train. Can’t even lie lol

A-train, Zuko, Martin-Li A Masterclass On Redemption

A-Train in the comics does not get a redemption arc and comic a-train is nothing like show a-train. He still killed hughie's girlfriend, but he also does a lot of even worse things. You know how starlight in the show was SA'd by the deep? Well in the comics, she was SA'd by Homelander, Black Noir and A-train at the same time. He tries assaulting her again later on, but starlight blinds him. And then later billy has him tied up and when hughie finds him, after he vents his frustrations, hughie straight up kick his head off of his shoulders.

10:47 I agree that A-Train obviously couldnt Solo Homelander but he wouldn't get No deff'd etheir. Homelander isn't even fast combat wise and doesn't have fast reaction time so him physically hitting A-Train is out of the question. If the two actually got into a fight A-Train would prob wear himself out letting Homelander get a lucky heat vision shot.

I don’t recall ever Hating A-Train the way you described. Thanks to certain events, it was apparent early on that he was a malleable character, not a set in stone fucker. The herogasm episode is incredible. The amount of satisfaction with seeing A-Train changing was great. There was so much buildup to that.

Bro. I’m GLAD the show FINALLY made “A-Train” likable. It took 4 goddamn seasons. For him to properly Die a horrible death on the last episode. Probably. “Jessie T Usher” played that character phenomenally

Honestly he was so interesting for me because he kept doing bad and good things either for himself or his brother like when he was hurt and other stuff, even though I was scared of him relapsing throughout the seasons 3-4 but now I am satisfied

Not trying to compare and contrast, but the redemption arc with A-Train Damn near reminds me of Zuko, who by far has the best redemption arc in the world. Talk about a change of heart. So far, A train redemption is the best thing for The Boys season 4.

Was kinda hoping the kid would tell all of his friends and then a news segment would say that A train saved MMs life and then A train would be on the run Cementing that no good deed goes unpunished

On the title card at the start of the episode, it foreshadows his death. They puppet they used was slupmed, looking like he was dead.

From season 1 I knew Atrain would be redeemed simply due how good the actor is.

Not the fucking One Punch Man music. That shit fit so perfectly.

a-train had my vote once he apologized to hughie at herogasm. that’s when you could see he was truly sorry because his brother had gotten hurt so he understood

They should start the first episode of the last season with the day leading up to Robin’s death from A-Train’s POV.

I think the secret might be in the most overlooked character of the season: Sage. We're told Sage is the smartest person in the world but we're not really seeing it. Maybe there's a reason for that. I think Sage has had a hand in everything that's happened this season because she had a plan right from the beginning. She invented a cure for fucking cancer! Her long game is that virus. She's the one person that can make that thing kill Homelander without killing her or the other supes. And now that she's out she can do just that. But I don't think that'll pay off until season 5. As for this season, I think she was protecting A-Train for a reason and not the one she gave Homelander. And as of right now Homelander is completely alone. No Sage. No A-Train. Can't rely on The Deep or Black Noir 2, and is starting to think Firecracker it just another dunce. He now sees Neuman as a rival after she upstaged him at Tek Knight's party. Even Ryan disappointed him on live TV. Who's he got left? Stan Edgar? Or maybe, just maybe, he goes back to family: Soldier Boy.

it started with A train, it needs to end with him to make it feel emotionally impactful. Maybe not his death but is powers. His weakness and addiction to his powers started all this, so him willingly sacrificing his powers would bring it full circle imo. Let's say he gets the courage to return and has to run so super fast in order save the gang or even Ashley in some way, Flash levels fast, but he ends up burning up the Compound V in his blood. His final scene could be with him simply walking and pushing his brother along, with his nephews looking up at him cheekily, maybe even tease him getting them back like Xmen 3 XD

I honestly thought the best character this season was Atrain. I was feeling his redemption plot hard and seeing that little boy smile at him when saving MM brought a legit tear to me eye

Can we talk about how evil young starlight was

Been enjoying the videos Great commentary ❤️🌱

Honestly I love to see everyone is in agreement that we rocking with A-Train now ❤😅

Never thought I'd like this guy

Love this channel!!!

I guess you can say A-Train had a change of Heart ❤ 😏

I desperately want A-train to have a good ending now...

From the start of the show all the way into season 3, there was no way I’d have ever thought I’d like A-Train, even if he did shape up. But man, I was like FUCK YEA! A-Train, my man! This show is so good and it’s impressive how consistently good it is through the seasons, at least imo. Can’t wait for season 5

I enjoyed watching your channel. Glad to sub.

The last episode is called Assassination run do with that what you will

A Train’s redemption arc was one of the biggest highlights of this fourth season of The Boys

You know i just watched a video with damn near the same title so when i scrolled down & saw yours i was like i dont need to watch this.....im glad i clicked though. Geeat vid! Subscribed

When the video essay got spiderman gameplay in the background you know it’s gonna be straight facts

For reals! I use to anticipate when he was finally gonna get got. Fast forward to season 4 and now I’m worried he’s gonna get got😂

I swore I'd hate a train forever but they somehow totally reversed my opinion

A-train definitely doesn't beat homelander, but I think it would be more like cecil vs omni man than a onesided murder, he would literally just have to run around him as a distraction before dipping

tbh im not sure if he would win against homelander but he might not die, like homelander has NO hands, got pieced by Maeve, soldier boy and Butcher

If A-Train ends up dying savinf the boys ir fighting Homelander i think it would be cool in the ending they could show a statue built of A-Train with ones of the other 7 or Homelander being taken down. The actual hero who would give his life would truly be remembered

I know people feel A-Train dying would make sense as a cap off to his development. I kinda feel like now they should let A-Train live and have him be an actual hero. Of course Maeve as well.

A-train is going through his Hero journey 101

Masterpiece is a strong word...

I hope he makes it to the end of next season😢

If a virus can’t kill Homelander, a speedy guy can’t kill Homelander! I love you covered his arc bc it’s been the best part of this season for me! Happy to see it!

We in here

CANT STOP THE A TRAIN BABY

Gotta love the pacific rim theme as the outro

A Train is my favorite character atm

I recall someone positing the theory that he didn't actually rat out Super Sonic. Homelander picked up their conversation but made it look like he did to sow discord amongst those who sought to overthrow him.

I feel like the narrative online is that s4 isn't very good except for Homelander, but this highlights there are still lots of strengths in this season.

Is it wrong for me to start liking A-Train now as my favorite character. He was such a bad guy, but now his redemption has grown on me

I think it’s funny that A-Train gets on Mother Milks back for trying to leave the country, and then almost right after that flees the country himself

I love A-Train and his arc this season. My only gripe is that he didn’t push harder for Ashley to come with him when he bailed. She hasn’t been of sound mind this entire season, and she’s really not in a state where she can be trusted to make good decisions. I am curious to see what the Compound V did to her though.

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Would be cool if he officially becomes part of the Boys (sadly, to be killed off by a “Kessler-Possessed” Butcher. I have a feeling before Butcher dies, and not before Homelander’s defeat eventually, the Joe Kessler he’s seeing finally takes hold of him and like in the comics he kills off other supes using more of the virus and even goes after the boys to get rid of “loose ends” and in the long run, Hughie ends up killing him like in the comics but not before Butcher comes to from Kessler’s grasp)

The way it becomes a masterpiece is if he confronts his family as they kinda off screened it right now. Also he cant have run away from america if he actually cared.

After the last episode when he officially turned on the seven, i said other than maybe hughie that atrain has the best character arc in the entire show.. and I think that works so well because of how both their arcs started together at the same time. Hughie became more ruthless and confident and a train gained sympathy and compassion

I'm scared for my boy 😢

Went from wanting to see him get got to dreading homelander getting his hands on Atrain. I hope Atrain lives until the final seasons finale.

I had a feeling a train hated the deep sucks they didn’t have him and new noir talk more could’ve made it more epic if that’s possible lol

Im predicting he'll probably fight Homelander in season and Hughie comes in and saves him

Solid baby face turn

Excellent analysis. I agree. A train is changing, bit by bit, the right way. The way anyone would. I feel that A trains redemption though, will ultimately lead to his death. But his will be a heros death. And I think with the way THE BOYS do it. It's gonna happen when we don't expect it, and not how we expect it. But if we scroll back 5 to 10 episodes, they're gonna drop clues.

I think i realised why he's called a-train now

Surprised he didn’t wait for this newest episode since he uploaded the day of

I wonder if Homelader is going to go after A-train's Brother and his family to lure A-train into a fight.

Wow, masterpiece

i loved him so much this season in gonna be sad af i he dies

He is beyond cooked 😭😭🙏🙏

Me: Watching the video having never played Spiderman 2. Miles: Jefferson Davis was a person! Me: Dufuk?

I don't know if Homelander is anywhere near as fast as A-Train could potentially be. The issue is that A-Train has a brother who has a family and he knows that if worse comes to worst Vought/The 7 would murder his family. So he'd never try it. I also think it's the fact that Homelander has been "lil bro-ing"/sonning A-Train since Day 1, so Homelander has +10 intimidation over A-Train. But more than once the show kind of points to A-Train being faster than Homelander in speed and in reaction time. The fact that he could get Hughie out of that building with Homelander almost RIGHT on Hughie's tail shows how fast he is. So in a fight, A-Train will have the speed advantage over Homelander by a sizable margin... But it won't be enough, lol.

PEAK TRAIN

@HighCHD A Train FINALLY showed guts toward Homelander (Even though, if follow science, any speedster SHOULD be MORE powerful than any Superman type)...........hopefully, the latter doesn't finish him off!

for me the turning point for a train was when he killed blue hawk. to me it showed that he cared, even if his actions where not the right thing to do

I came here to see your take on A-train, but now I can't help but wonder, can you play the spider-verse version of Miles in the spider-man game you have running in the background?

The absolute opposite of his arc in the comics, and I love it.

Dont forget he threw Super Sonic under the bus for the slightest bit of clout to a disgusted Homelander

Atrain is toast

I don’t know if A-Train is beloved, but they at least gave his character some depth.

Choosing to hold onto anger and resentment isn't meant to be looked up to. Forgiveness is about giving your heart peace. I can't fathom how people don't understand that.

9:50 Hearing a black guy say "Jefferson Davis was a hero" is pretty wild since the only one I know about is the one who was not at all a hero to black people.

@4:35 the background looks Nice

I love the mortal Kombat reference haha

A-train's brother be infuriating me for no reason

I hope a train doesn’t die but man we all know he cooked bro 😭🙏

Agl I always loved A-Train mainly cause I fw Jessie T but in the same sense that I love homelander or negan from twd.

I'd go even further. A-Train's arc is the only competently written arc in the show. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that seems bitter, yet is sweet. If you examine every character except A-Train, you'll find that they all more or less behave exactly as they did at the end of S1. I say the 'end' of S1 because S1 is the only real season that had progression for characters that stuck for the rest of the show, as S1 was the building block. Huey, Butcher, Starlight, etc.. Are all slightly 'better,' or at least certainly very different, people by the end of S1. They remain this way for the next 3 seasons, always replaying the same story. Huey/Starlight is the same story for 3 years, just told with 3 different plot-devices. Frenchie/Kimiko is the most obvious example of this- 3 seasons of IV-drip-feeding facets of their terrible pasts, except no one gives a fuck because we already know that Frenchie was an assassin and Kimiko was a child soldier. We know. We get it. Stop telling the same story for 3 years without any plot resolutions whatsoever- it's worse than saturday morning cartoons from our childhood, because even those had plot resolutions before the credits rolled. A-Train starts as a money-grubbing sycophantic asshole who is stuck on his speed gimmick and is obsessed with his mortality. He's a drug addict- but he's addicted to the spectacle, the V is just the means of staying on the stage that he's addicted to. He kills with accidental impunity. He kills to cover up his crimes- but, importantly, he feels terrible about it. It's why he tries to pin his girlfriend's death on Huey- a classic coping mechanism. When someone from A-Train's hood gets Suped to death, he immediately empathizes with Huey and begins to recognize the terrible things he's done. As you mention, A-Train is 'rewarded' As S2-3 goes on, we witness as A-Train is the only superhero to take the critique's from friends and family with grace and humility. He agrees with people when they call him a liar and a fraud. Slowly, but surely, he becomes a better human being after his heart surgery. He does several bonified acts of altruism which fundamentally change how the character behaves in later episodes. A-Train at the end of S4 is a fundamentally different man than he was at the end of S1, and we've watched it happen. Almost every other character in the show, we've just witnessed them go through situation after situation, but they behave the exact same. It's almost as if the writers decided that A Train is the main character- because every other person in The Boys feels so. Fucking. Static.

The PEAK

Starlight should've kept going with that weight plate. Should've gill punched him with 45lb plate.

I kinda hope he got away but I feel like he's gonna come back for a self sacrifice. They did his story well. He (and now Firecracker) are two of the most controversial yet most redeemable characters. Surface level triggers all the prejudice and hate but allow the characters room to grow and change.