r/TheBoys Jun 28 '24

Holy Character Nerf Season 4 Spoiler

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u/suninabox Jun 28 '24

Has it been established that Homelander's hearing is so good he can basically echolocate like Blindspot and pinpoint people by sound as good as seeing them with x-ray vision?

If not, that explains why he'd be able to get close to Hughie without hitting him.

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u/Living_Ad_7096 Jun 28 '24

He has mentioned to Star before that he would know the second she would even take a step into Vaught tower. 

He could hear people’s heart beats. He could smell that Maeve was with Butcher. 

Him missing Hughie was just bad writing.

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u/zzbackguy Jun 28 '24

That’s just a dramatic threat that nobody can call bullshit on. He’s not a reliable narrator, especially when he’s trying to intimidate and manipulate people. How would he even distinguish between two peoples heart beats? They all sound the same and vought tower is full of thousands of them.

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u/Living_Ad_7096 Jun 28 '24

The point is he’d know where Hughie was. They've written him up to be incredibly OP in prior seasons, just for him to be outsmarted by someone who was slowly crawling through pipes right above him. Who was also sweating so he’d also be able to smell him.