I need hughie to be a little more like Burcher tbh. This innocent puppy thing doesn't really fly after 4 years of going through this shit and doing what he's done. I get that he is softer than the other Boys, but I'm tired of him being so naïve and helpless still.
I figured that's where the show has been going for awhile; being bitter and prejudice towards supes. S4 seems to be speed running that process. If anything, he was going that way in S1, got scaled back in S2, got really close in S3 but pulled back to S2 Hughie near the end, and now seems to be slowly getting dragged back to becoming a Butcher this season. The show is just mentally breaking him until he flips.
Hughie is a doormat that's stuck in this war literally due to peer pressure. He reconciled with A-Train, there's nothing left for him personally aside tagging along with Butcher, Annie, MM, and whatever vandettas they carry.
Like dude peaked in S1 when he detonated Translucent. There was a bit of a spike in S3 when he decided to steal Temp-V from Butcher. Right now? He's a flea.
Starlight and maybe MM are the only ones who Homelander would hunt down. Butcher is on his way out due to his tumor and Homelander seems to want to just outlast him. Frenchie would likely have issues with his old associates, Kimiko would likely keep getting hunted by Shining Light. But Hughie? Dude could walk into the crowd, get a normal 9-5 and nobody would look for him.
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u/Gradz45 Jul 11 '24
I really din’t want Hughie to be more like Butcher.