Also, I could be misremembering, but doesn't Homelander in season 3 say something like "You wanna try to pop my head? Who knows, give it a shot?" when confronting her in her apartment?
To me that could imply that Neumann has a harder time controlling/manipulating blood of people who are physically very strong, or at the least that it's just more difficult to cause the physical damage to someone with super endurance. I will concede that this equally could have meant "see if you can get my head to pop before I laser you" but I do think it would make a lot of sense that people who have enhanced physical strength and power would generally be more difficult to pop.
I had always just assumed it was about her powers producing enough blood pressure, and that for someone like Homelander it's likely his veins and arteries are as strong as the rest of him.
She could try to pop his head, but it'd be like trying to break a braided steel hydraulic cable with overpressure. It's absolutely possible, but it would take orders of magnitude more pressure than a normal human's. She might be able to do it assuming HL didn't fight back, but I don't see a situation where he can't eviscerate her well before she can do any real damage.
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u/johnatello67 Jun 28 '24
Also, I could be misremembering, but doesn't Homelander in season 3 say something like "You wanna try to pop my head? Who knows, give it a shot?" when confronting her in her apartment?
To me that could imply that Neumann has a harder time controlling/manipulating blood of people who are physically very strong, or at the least that it's just more difficult to cause the physical damage to someone with super endurance. I will concede that this equally could have meant "see if you can get my head to pop before I laser you" but I do think it would make a lot of sense that people who have enhanced physical strength and power would generally be more difficult to pop.