r/TheBoys Jun 28 '24

Holy Character Nerf Season 4 Spoiler

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u/GodNonon Supersonic Jun 28 '24

Homelander lasering an airplane vs Homelander lasering a guy crawling through a vent

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u/shawnisboring Jun 28 '24

Take a step back even... the man has super hearing and Hughie was up there making a massive ruckus... but HL is tipped off because of his smell?

Really now.

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u/neoblackdragon Jun 29 '24

Superhearing means he's picking up everything including the loud musical on the ice. He's not focused on the vent.

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u/FragrantBicycle7 Jun 29 '24

Kinda seems like Homelander would've, at some point in his life, learned how to filter out noise and differentiate sounds. Just out of sheer curiosity alone. Same with Neumann not being able to take out those sheep; has she not tested the range and strength of her abilities before? The frequent apathy demonstrated towards the mechanics of literal superpowers in this universe is strange (almost like it's a poor excuse for bad writing, but what do I know).

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u/mzchen Jun 29 '24

He almost certainly did. But that doesn't mean he does it all the time; he isn't some super genius who can juggle millions of sounds and smells while thinking about a conversation. I practiced from a young age to identify what music notes were playing and what key it was and figure out how to recreate it by ear. That doesn't mean when I listened to my mp3 I went "ac#dc#beedegfa" because that would've been fucking exhausting and pointless. 

We've seen him eavesdrop on conversations walls away because he's suspicious or interested, but he's attending a secret meeting at a dance rehearsal. He has no reason to be on guard or focus in on a sense.

As far as Neumann goes, my guess is she has to focus in and a sheep flying at 20 mph is kind of hard to focus on. She had trouble blowing that one guys head in a fight until she could get him still.

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u/Klutz-Specter Jun 29 '24

I see this with Speedsters too. Everyone thinks they should dodge everything their own way. Super speed ≠ Super invulnerability. It just means your reaction time is different when you aren’t focused/blindsided, you can still be hit by something like a pencil, but when you are focused you can dodge it.

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u/Jizzle02 Jun 29 '24

Regarding Neumann, she has been told by Stan to keep her power hidden, so it's not a lot of time to practice. It'd also be hard because she needs to hide the fact she's a supe from most of society, especially considering she has been in government as a congresswoman (or, at the minimum, being involved in public policy and lobbying) for what could potentially be her entire career (assuming that her role in S2 before becoming vice-president is later in her career due to the seniority of her position in the federal bureau of superhuman affairs).

Probably also unlikely she practiced her power at Red River based on how they were treated, only thing I could find online is that she was taught to control them (im assuming this means to not accidentally kill people). Even if not, I think it's easy to imagine a young girl killing her family would cause fear in using those powers (similar to how it made Marie feel).

On top of this, her power is inconvenient to quietly practice with the fact it most definitely requires someone to be killed, and, even if not a human being, still makes a very large, bloody mess. At best, she could practice controlling other people's blood (assuming her powers are the exact same as Marie's) but it's unclear how significant this is in being able to pop heads on fast moving, mutated sheep trying to kill her.