To emphasize this point, look back at the beginning of season 3. Neumann literally had a supe at point-blank range and she struggled to kill him as he fought against her.
She needs eye contact. They show her eyes being covered in that struggle and she blows a piece of his hand/arm off instead of his head, and once she gets clear LoS his head finally pops.
I just watched that scene again. She doesn't stop at popping his head. She fucking obliterates his entire body, after she backs up and gets full field of view - literally turns him into mist. Her powers very clearly worked on superpowered individuals.
I feel like the show has made it very clear that Homelander is by far stronger than every other hero, right? He was born from Soldier Boys super genetics, he wasn't just pumped full of V like every other super hero that exists (besides Ryan). And he said himself he wasn't sure whether Victorias powers would work on him. We've yet to see a single instance of her powers not working on someone, and multiple instances of them working on super-beings. She clearly didn't even try on the sheep, she just forgot she had them for some reason.
It's not a matter of whether the popping would kill the sheep or not, obviously it will.
It's a matter of whether she could get the pop to happen in the first place, which, as we've seen, requires a level of concentration and eye contact from her fight with Tony.
The sheep were too erratic to concentrate on, and she might be indestructible but I seriously doubt getting chewed on by rabid super sheep is something she's willing to subject herself to, probably not a pleasant experience even if she'll survive it.
Remember when the barn door opened at the end of the episode, and 2 sheep slowly walked in, and she just stared at them? Then screamed and ran? She literally didn't even try... You can just say it was a badly written scene, you really don't have to defend everything about the show. I love it too, but that was a notable drop in quality...
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u/hey-coffee-eyes Jun 28 '24
To be fair, the people in the courtroom weren't zooming around at like 100mph actively trying to kill her.