I’ll save you a click. TL;DR: They’re all R or M rated superheroes. That’s it. They don’t actually explain why those characters were chosen at all.

The real reason, not discussed in the interview, is that crossovers are money grabs.

IGN: I imagine for a lot of viewers of the boys watching fatalities being performed on Homelander will be cathartic

And the lack of proper capitalization makes “Viewers of the boys” sounds like they’re referring to pedos lol