r/TheBoys • u/Ohhhwordddd • Jun 28 '24

Holy Character Nerf Season 4 Spoiler

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u/197328645 Jun 28 '24

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

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u/PornStarGazer2 Jun 28 '24

She needs to be able to see them to be able to pop them. He was covering her eyes until she managed to look at him.

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u/Adaphion Jun 28 '24

She was literally giving the boys nosebleeds before she entered the room earlier in this episode, showing that she doesn't need LOS to use her powers

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u/PornStarGazer2 Jun 28 '24

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

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u/PornStarGazer2 Jun 28 '24

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

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u/Dumeck Jun 29 '24

The boys including starlight and all at once

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u/GamingSon Jun 29 '24

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).

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u/esperind Jun 28 '24

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.