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/Mrpoindexter007 Jul 22 '24

Also she killed the CIA lady Billy was close to. Bet he didn’t let that go

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u/dancingbriefcase Ambrosius Jul 23 '24

Yeah in the comics he fucks her a lot. In the show I think it's implied that they used to date

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u/manurosadilla Jul 23 '24

Not really implied, more like straight up said that they used to have sex in bathrooms

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u/Main-Advice9055 Jul 23 '24

I mean, who's to say what's an implication and what's a euphemism, "sex in bathrooms" could mean a million things. /s

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u/bjtrdff Jul 23 '24

You keep saying that word implication - are these women in danger?

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u/g0gues Jul 24 '24

Well you certainly wouldn’t be in any danger!

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u/bjtrdff Jul 24 '24

So they are in danger?

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u/Justsomeguy456 Aug 03 '24

Firecracker? That you?

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u/Quacker-Jacker Jul 23 '24

Dang it! I forgot she killed Rainer, who had a husband and kids. Yeah, Butcher gave her what she deserved.

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u/HappyChilmore Jul 23 '24

I forgot about that. Thanks.

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u/cdc994 Jul 23 '24

“Rainer’s popped her canister” to this day is one of the best lines in the Boys

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u/nyah007 Jul 23 '24

Woah I totally forgot about her, feels like so long ago

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u/stgdevil Jul 23 '24

Jennifer Esposito!

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u/the_far_yard Jul 24 '24

That places Neuman as close as Homelander in Butcher’s mind.