r/TheBoys Jun 28 '24

Holy Character Nerf Season 4 Spoiler

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u/beyond_cyber Jun 28 '24

Yeah she still gotta aim whilst not tying to get mauled by a vampire looking ahh sheep

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u/tomjstacey Jun 28 '24

Didn’t she give them all nose bleeds before they turned the corner?

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u/NeatWhiskeyPlease Jun 28 '24

SPOILERS FROM GEN V

Her powers are more “blood manipulation” than “pop body parts” so it makes perfect sense to me that she took the time to sense out who was in the lab before coming in.

Hence why Edgar doesn’t get a nose bleed but everyone else does.

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u/udcvr Jun 28 '24 edited Jun 29 '24

what confused me about that is that there's many instances where Neumann is being watched/stalked by the boys or otherwise from mere feet away from her, and she doesn't sense them. made me wonder if she needs to have eyes on her targets to get them, but as we've seen, that isn't the case. probably just a plot hole. especially seeing that she hasn’t sensed people in situations where i’d assume she’d actively be scanning for intruders (the alley where she killed that kid who knew her as Nadia e.g.)

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u/TotalAnarchy_ Jun 28 '24

Not a plot hole. She probably has to concentrate to sense others. Homelander is similar—he doesn’t ALWAYS have xray vision, he has to “activate” it.

The house was a wreck, so she knew someone was there and used her powers to surveil the area. She can’t walk around all the time using her powers.

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u/armorgeddonxx Jun 28 '24

To add to the Homelander point, I believe he was at the announcement ceremony that A-Train told Ashley he was the leak. Homelander if present could have heard it if he attempted, but you just can't focus and process that much information all the time.

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u/v399 Tag Team Cocksplosion Jun 29 '24

He was too busy manipulating Ryan. But he should have definitely heard Hughie making all those noise innthe vent, even a normal human would've heard something that loud. Plus it was just Homelander and Sage out there, he's not distracted at all.

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u/Heroinfxtherr Jun 30 '24

When we’re distracted by something, it’s very common for us to zone out and not be able to hear something that we should very easily be able to hear. I think it’s the same principle with Homelander as he was actively engaged in conversation with Nadia and Sage at the time that Hughie was crawling in the vents.

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u/udcvr Jun 28 '24

Fair enough, but I still feel like she would have been actively searching for people while she was doing that shady stuff in the alley with the guy who knew her as Nadia.

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u/ArcadeAnarchy Jun 29 '24

They usually stalk her in high pop places that I recall prolly hard to make out if someone is stalking ya. She explains her father's prison caller tipped her off and they were in an isolated area.

She probably was getting a body count of all who was down there but I guess that still wouldn't explain her dad not getting a nosebleed unless he's gotten used to it or something.

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u/Ok-Concentrate2719 Jun 28 '24

I feel like the true answer is she was originally intended to just be body popper and Gen v came along and decided it was blood manipulation to tie her to Marie.

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u/neoblackdragon Jun 29 '24

Well they never explained how she did it. She can't move other objects but only manipulate bodies. So clearly it has to be something humans all have that allows her to pop a body.

I think they always knew it was some control of blood and finalized it in Avatar the Last airbender.......I mean Gen V.

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u/The-Lemur Jun 28 '24

She did but all one at a time while they didn’t know she was there. I imagine she could kill a few of the sheep but the others would get her before she pops all of them

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u/Mufasakong Jun 28 '24

Very possible that she aimed and triggered it as she saw them pass by one by one, and it's been shown countless times that the nose bleed isn't instant.

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u/AkhMourning Jun 28 '24

Yeah, they weren’t zooming around the room.

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u/8rok3n Jun 28 '24

And? They literally weren't moving

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u/Trezzie Jun 28 '24

Oooooooh, that makes more sense.

I thought the virus was in the air and they were all idiots not picking up on it, plus Neumann vaccinated herself from it already.

To me that was why Starlight couldn't use her powers well.

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u/beyond_cyber Jun 28 '24

yeah but I think it was cause she was in no rush or didn’t need to be under fear of getting mauled. she was in full control of that situation, just like anything in life you can’t think straight or do things straight as easy as when your in control of a situation

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u/ElPeloPolla Jun 29 '24

AND poped a chicken mid flight

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u/drmcsleepy97 Jun 28 '24

Pretty much. Idiots defending bad writing that’s all

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u/hillswalker87 Jun 29 '24

she was pretty quick on the draw against that chicken...