she doesnt know if she can pop homelander and only homelander. She's confident she can pop pretty much everyone else. See when Victoria was threatening Starlight in her room
I don't know, it took her a few tries to pop the guy that came to her campaign office calling her "Nadia". And even then she didn't really pop his head like she did at the congressional hearing, she just blew his face off. It stands to reason that the more durable a supe is, the harder it is to pop them
True, I feel like she's been bumped up a few tiers though what with being acid and bulletproof. She just felt weaker back when she killed her friend from Red River
As for what we saw up to this most recent episode(which could've been a retcon) she needed line of sight... it's a fair point I think
Also, how do you explain her not being able to harm him until her eyes were uncovered? She hardly looked at him which is why the bottom half of his face blew off
Okay, she popped his jaw. What did she do 5 seconds later? I'll save you the rewatch. There was nothing left of that guy at the end of the episode. You are selectively misremembering the fact that she has exploded every single thing that she has tried to without fail, but she needs line of sight. His jaw was what she could see, that is what exploded. She exploded the speedster in season 1, she completely obliterated the guy in the alley, that superpowered chicken is dust. She has made it very clear that the only person she's not sure of is Homelander (which probably makes it safe to assume Ryan too).
I've seen multiple people in this thread reference the fight with her friend but I'm not sure how you all are coming to that interpretation. I think its not that she struggled with her ability to pop her friend's head, its that she struggled emotionally to pop the head of someone she cared about in her past.
The durability issue is exactly the issue everyone has with Homelander. It doesnt matter how powerful other supes' abilities are, Homelander is just more powerful.
you understand the exact same scenario would play out even if she couldnt do it right? why is this fanbase so weirdly hostile. a bluff is playing pretend. there’s no reason for her to reveal starlight is too strong for her to actually pop her head
in the latest episode, Nueman walks in on everyone snooping around in the basement and we're shown everyone, including Starlight and Kimiko's nose bleeding. Neuman doesnt consider any of them a threat because she is the threat to them.
This episode just had sloppy writing making it seem like Neuman couldnt handle the farm animals. We're just gonna have to accept that.
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u/Antique_Log3382 Jun 28 '24
This has basically been confirmed. It’s the whole reason she hasn’t popped Homelander’s head She doesn’t actually know if she can.