Based on Homelander's current heat vision feats and Thanos' numerous energy resistance feats (which include Thor's lightning, energy attacks from Iron Man, Strange's magic, Captain Marvel's photon blasts, Scarlet Witch's energy balls, Wasp's Stinger blasts, Shuri's sonic blasts and more I can't be bothered to list) Homelander would struggle to give Thanos sunburn.
__________________ Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
Homelander was quick enough to save Billy from that explosion. So he can avoid Thanos, but he can't beat him.
Actually that reminds me about a weird detail from that explosion, but it belongs in The Boys tv thread so I'll put it there.
__________________ Chicken Boo, what's the matter with you? You don't act like the other chickens do. You wear a disguise to look like human guys, but you're not a man you're a Chicken Boo.
Correct, he shits his pants, stomps his foot, then flees to another galaxy.
__________________ Chicken Boo, what's the matter with you? You don't act like the other chickens do. You wear a disguise to look like human guys, but you're not a man you're a Chicken Boo.
To be honest, the plane Homelander cut in half with hv is made of titanium around the engines. The boiling point of titanium is almost 6000 degrees.
The problem is that the hv was so hot that the plane reached 6000 degrees instantly. According to Newton's law of cooling (heating) the temperature of the hv had to many times hotter than the boiling point in order to make the metal reach boiling point instantly.
Lastly, the hv instantly vaporized the right side (first area of contact) to penetrate and reach the last point of contact (left side of plane facing away from Homelander).
That's a hell of a feat. I doubt Thanos faced that level of heat at all.
I don't recall Homelander having any feats that prove combat speed (reaction, perception, limb movement, etc). So if this fight was h2h then Thanos would stomp. But if Homelander stays ranged and uses HV then Thanos could eventually fall (assuming he doesn't have any durability feats against extreme heat that can instantly vaporized titanium).