r/TheBoys • u/MrSluagh • Jul 22 '24

Butcher was right. Season 4

Hughie had it backwards. It's the desensitization that made him sympathize with Victoria Neumann. Someone who has murder victims at least in the double digits, very conservatively counting only on-screen killings. And most of those were cold-blooded and for Machiavellian reasons. She had an understandable point of view, and deserves more sympathy than Homelander, who deserves more than none. Sure, she was manipulated, but there was no sign she wouldn't kill more innocent people given a reason. There isn't room in the world for a bulletproof blood-Magneto, unless maybe she's been conditioned from childhood to abhor all violence and devoted her life to medicine. If you had a good opportunity to kill Victoria Neumann, that would be the ethical thing to do.

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u/Due-Display-3113 Jul 22 '24

He can fly most supes can't. He can also fly faster than any other supes we have seen so far. If he started flying and leveling cities with his lasers he could cause massive damage and it would be near impossible for other supes to pay a hand on him.

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u/infamousDiego Jul 22 '24 edited Jul 23 '24

Godolkin has a problem with students flying out of dorm windows, so it's not too rare. It at least seems common among the most powerful, or maybe richest, supes.

I wonder if they gave different qualities of V depending on demographics.

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u/Such-Community6622 Jul 22 '24

Sure, I think it's pretty evident he can probably kill everyone and maybe end the world at any time, but that's not what he wants. Despite every effort what he still craves is the adoration and respect of the masses. If he didn't want that, Sage and the world of politics would have no value to him, but it very much does.

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u/L0nelyPers0n Jul 23 '24

New Noir, Starlight, and Ryan can fly. Stormfromt was able to fly. Sam can super jump so it’s possible he can fly if he figures it out seeing how Luke (Golden Boy) could fly. That’s just the main ones that were shown. GOD U had more that weren’t named.

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u/Due-Display-3113 Jul 23 '24

Only Homelander and Ryan can fly and shoot powerful projectiles and only Homelander can fly at super speed that we know of so the others are far less of a threat.

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u/L0nelyPers0n Jul 23 '24

My comment was towards your statement of “most supes can’t fly”. I named 5 named Supes that were shown that were able to.

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u/axelkoffel Jul 23 '24

Maybe, but why would he do that? His goal obviously isn't to kill everyone and destroy the world, but to rule and be praised.