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/bunchedupwalrus Jul 23 '24
That is what she said yes, but I really don’t think it’s true here. Just a red herring. The parallels are too much. Maybe she wants it to be true, or is just afraid of what will happen if her breast milk is seen as tainted to HL.
I know coughing can be a side effect of heart failure, fluid in the lungs, but anything more than a slight fever is pretty rare, and she looked pretty flushed and remarked on it. Guess we’ll find out next season but I bet it’s a low grade slow burn variant, some third parties hail mary.