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/Cautious-String7076 Jul 22 '24
But they had won. They stopped the assassination. Homelander was a wreck. They had the full support of the president and vice president. To top it off, they had what was likely the second most powerful supe on their side. And in an instant, Butcher gave it all away, and now they’re all captured or fleeing from both Homelander and the government.