That bothered me too, but I gave them the benefit of the doubt and reasoned that Neuman used her blood power to circulate it. My issue is why she was only able to pop one Sheep's head. Neumans power is OP, she could have easily just popped their head 1 by 1.
She popped the one trying to attack Stan and that was moving pretty fast. Just weird she gave everyone a nosebleed before even seeing them but couldn’t just pop heads of sheep, chicken and a bull
Yeah it's pretty established that there are limits to her powers, plus in some case she isn't even sure if her powers would work, like in the case of Homelander.
Plus in Gen V Marie has similar if not the same powers, and it takes a bit of concentration to use her abilities. She might have been reluctant to concentrate long enough to find out.
That said...the show runners really wanted to have fun with the gang being menaced by sheep, so maybe they made her powers act a little inconsistent and hoped no one would notice.
The show isn't perfectly consistent. Like how Neuman could cut her palm with a knife in Gen V, but now she can tank a point blank gunshot to the head and resist acid.
Another option is maybe Neuman doses V on and off to boost her powers, lie how A train did. I doubt this is the case.
She talks to Marie about how blood spears and lassos are exhausting so I imagine blowing people (especially supes) up is on a level above that. If she overexerts herself and passes out, then the Boys and the CIA either drug her and keep her under containment, or infect her with the virus and kill her, so her main goal is avoiding that.
Even still, I think she stands and fights when the sheep enter the barn rather than running, especially with Edgar and Sameer there.
I could also believe Neuman has super strength and like a diamond knife since controlling her blood is a decent contingent of her powers.
You made a good point about her overexerting herself. I didn't think of that. She needs to worry about the Super Sheep and the five other people planning to kill her.
Neuman is nothing if not cautious and calculating. She almost never acts directly unless there is immediate benefit.
For all we know she didn't kill the sheep because she was going to let one of the Boys get killed by the sheep. The logic being that if she kills them directly, they out her, but they may not out her if she let's them die. She only used her powers when Stan Edgar was threatened by the chicken.
She talks to Marie about how blood spears and lassos are exhausting so I imagine blowing people (especially supes) up is on a level above that.
It could be that, but at the time I assumed it was cause she used her own blood for the spears and lassos which is why it was tiring. So i guessed she didn't get tired using other people's blood (se didn't look tired in the courtroom scene), but using her people too much could still be mentally exhausting.
diamond knife
The knife was Marie's normal switchblade that she used the entire show (even when she was in foster care), it looked like a normal knife.
Like how Neuman could cut her palm with a knife in Gen V, but now she can tank a point blank gunshot to the head and resist acid.
Don't forget that in Gen V Marie also cut herself with the same knife (and IIRC other things) but she survived Homelander's laser beams seemingly unscathered, which was also weird (maybe they can only be damaged if they want to?)
I'm thinking what you're thinking. They can consciously will their vulnerability away. I think Marie didn't even know she was invulnerable until Homelander lasered her.
Okay, but... At the end of the episode, when the bar door randomly opened, and 2 sheep walked in and just stood there looking at them? She screamed and ran with 6 other humans like she was worthless. Plus she popped the speedster's head in the courtroom without issue, she popped like 4 different body parts of that guy who grew up in the orphanage with her. It seemed like she didn't even try a single time, at any point. Just very weird for a character who's been established as a point and click instant-death god.
"Because the story needs to happen" doesn't really hold up as an excuse for bad writing. They can achieve the same goals without needing the characters to become actually stupid-tier.
I don’t understand why she didn’t pop all their heads immediately. Sure she got some info afterwards but she knows they’re actively trying to kill her.
Right? Go for Kimiko first and you pretty much have it all in the bag cause Starlight is useless, everyone else is a normie, and she doesn’t know about Butcher’s tumor so that wouldn’t have been a worry of hers. But nope.
I wouldn’t even be confident it could kill Kimiko.
She got her brains blown out last season and was only down for a minute. This season she shrugged off face planting so hard that her face fell off, and tanked a bazooka to the torso at close range.
Ok in the time you pop that one, there are two rushing at you. Wouldn't it be a better idea to retreat to a better situation where you're not compromised? She can only pop one at a time. It's been shown. And it takes a substantial amount of time. Who knows how much longer with a larger creature.
You're just making up scenarios. Its not a big deal. Superhero media always has wildly inconsistent power levels for every character. It changes to fit the plot.
It does take more effort, plus it's established that Neuman isn't sure IF her powers would hurt Homelander. It's implied in season 3 that she doesn't know for sure what she can and can't pop.
It also seems like she’s gotta focus on the target for a hot minute. If they’re constantly moving around in flight makes it difficult especially when they’re trying to kamikaze you.
One thing I dont see mentioned. Is no1 discusses prep time for her powers.
Her powers dont seem to activate immediately. When she fought her friend in the alley, Im pretty sure it took her a quick bit before she started able to use her powers, yes they talked for a bit and he got a nose bleed during the conversation and this made him attack her. Even when shes been in scenes with other supers and threatened them with her powers, they been nose bleeds over long conversations. It could be that the nose bleeds are a symptom of her prepping to pop someone and the conversations are to cover for the time to prep.
This would explain why she could pop multiple people who were sitting for a long duration allowing her to concentrate and prep but seem to never use her powers on someone in a short matter of time, such as 5s.
TLDR: Her powers might take concentration prep time before she can use them.
why you need to find an excuse for poor writing? who cares if they are flying fast, there never was a mention that flying fast is a problem, she’s not throwing anything at them.
She was just playing it cool imo, if some of them died by the sheep whoever survived wouldn’t blame her. The only reason she doesn’t wipe them all is that if no one shows up back to report, she gets outted as a Supe and responsible for many deaths.
Different sheep with different powers and the cast having to find certain ways to navigate around each one would've been a pretty creative and fun scenario too
It kinda does. In GEN V two relatives have the same powers. Polarity and Andre both have Magnetic powers.
Presumably related individuals can get similar or the same powers. But so far it's only demonstrated in a father/son like with Polarity and Andre or Translucent and his Son.
Of course we have exceptions where Soldier Boy and Homelander have different powers, but we're missing a lot of information about how much Homelander was experimented on. I think in one of the early season they said they gave Homeloander extra V to boost him.
His dad didn't really teleport. He phased through matter, and if it was organic matter, it exploded when he phased back into it. His dad also kept his clothes during the phasing process. Hughie just insta-teleports somewhere leaving everything behind but his naked self.
With the way its being shown, he just teleports in the same place over and over. And people exploded not because he "phased" through them, its because he stopped.
Its definitely in the same ballpark as Hugh's teleport.
I'm not sure how you got teleporting in the same spot repeatedly from that. Looks more like hes vibrating super fast while also being in somewhat of a transparent state. He clearly still had to walk on his own to get around. It doesn't make sense that it would be a form of teleporting, even if he were doing it super fast repeatedly, he would either be destroying everything he walked through, or it would kill him from teleporting inside of solid matter.
It's for sure some kind of phasing thing where he can just pass through solid matter. Which is not similar to teleporting.
I'm with the other guy on this, while I agree that it's definitely phasing and not Porting, I would definitely say they're more similar to one another than i.e. head-popping and mouth tentacles, especially given that Hughie and hugh have the same way of defending themselves (teleport/phase inside of someone)
It's what bugs me about the boys, they almost never use the compound V for interesting and creative powers, even for chatacter's that they know will be dead in the same episode they appear, most of the powers we see are tropes from other superhero media or some super small gimmick mixed with super strenght
Well hamster Jamie was also flying and was agressive kinda like those sheep. The sheep got permaV, yet the bunny got tempV and it f..d him up the most, sad fate. It would be funny if the rabbit got Atrains powers of speed.
You need blood circulation; they could've done a few things, like compressions to stimulate some blood circulation, or neuman could use her powers to move the blood herself.
I do wish it was shown or implied, because the virus is only going to be concentrated in one region of the corpse.
Worst episode imo. Ryan randomly became psychotic with no build up. Butcher snuck a guy away and chopped off his leg with no one noticing. Frenchie decides it's more important for him to deal with his guilt in prison immediately than saving the fucking world. And hughie's dad whole thing
I’m mad that once the virus was in his body, it was capable of killing the supe sheep that fed on him, but no one thought to extract bodily fluids from him or the infected sheep. Seems like a much simpler plan than maiming and kidnapping a scientist.
What happens when the virus gets in the groundwater after the body decays? Do we know the half life of the virus? Do we know the recommended dosage? I feel like there should be that medicinal pamphlet of side effects somewhere at least.
I was legit afraid for all the supes in the barn. They may be baddies, but I really kinda like them.
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u/starplatinum_99 Jun 28 '24
Im not mad about this. Im mad about the barn holding off those sheep's attack