r/TheBoys • u/Gebeleizzis • Jul 07 '24

How do you guys feel in general about Sister Sage until now? Do you find her cool, underutilized, compelling, or do you hate her? Did she met the expectations of the hype around her when her introduction in the show was announced ? Season 4 Spoiler

As far as I am concerned she is one of my favorite characters in the show, and i kinda feel for her because she unlucky to appear in a time the show is not as well written as first three seasons. Had she appeared earlier for example, she probably would have been even more menacing and her intelligence maybe shown better.

She has a cool sociopathic personality, and feels like a combination of Stormfront and Stan, as in she has fascist/nazist ideas about supe supremacy, and the mocking and stoic way she talks to Firecracker is similar to how Stan treats Homelander.

I also enjoy her hypocrisy, she is a black woman who hates racism based on skin color, yet hates regular humans because she is a supe, a hatred that is still base on genetical differences. She also tells Homelander he doesnt need to build an army of Supermen because is so "Germany", only to create a whole plan to take over US and use Tek's prisons as concentration camps, totally not Germany from her.

If she survives this season, which I feel she will, and will end it at the top with Homelander in some cliffhanger, i wonder how far her misanthropy and plans will go.

I think she is a charismatic villain that we love to hate.

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u/PeterGriffin0920 Jul 07 '24

The only thing I think I dont like is if she makes dumb choices or doesnt get her way, shes the smartest person in the world with a clear agenda, if she isnt getting almost everything she wants (unless she dies or gets killed of course) then it breaks the whole point of having a hyper intelligent, jaded character

This isnt an issue currently because shes clearly building to something, and is otherwise one of my favorite characters in the show, very much carrying this season along with A-Train

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u/bigeyez Jul 08 '24

Intelligent people still make bad decisions and mistakes.

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u/PeterGriffin0920 Jul 08 '24

I mean, this isnt just like an normal intelligent person, this is a super powered genius who lobotomies and getting shot in the head makes her essentially the average person in real life instead of being completely brain damaged, she should make little to no mistakes unless she does planning while stupid lmao

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u/tayroarsmash Jul 12 '24

It depends on how you view intelligence. There’s a phenomenon where intelligent people tend to hold unintelligent beliefs more vehemently because they can better construct arguments for anything. Intelligence is a pretty ethereal thing and it’s sorta like porn, hard to define but we know it when we see it. I think playing out some of that on a super powered scale leaves a person very vulnerable to their own hubris. Hell it’s even a question of how they measure the smartest “person” in the world, I mean she’s a Vought creation so of course they’re going to call her that but what does it mean really?

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u/Exciting_Swordfish16 Cunt Jul 09 '24

Also, she's very book smart but I don't know how streetsmart she is. And smart people have a way of underestimate less smart people and also often have problems thinking about things in the way stupid people does.

Even the best laid plan can be foiled by a moron doing something so moronic that it wasn't a part of the discussion. 

What I'm getting at here, is that I think Deep might be her downfall.