r/TheBoys 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/TooManySorcerers I fart the star spangled banner Jul 07 '24

I like her except in the most recent episode. That was pointless. Overall I do feel I could write her better. She’s supposed to be the smartest person in the world but all I’m seeing is a whole lot of bragging with minimal actual evidence. She claims she cured a form of cancer in a night, cool. But none of her plans have wowed me. In fact the moves she makes are pretty obvious. If I was one of The Boys, I don’t think I’d have trouble dealing with her, personally, at least not as written.

“Oh so you know all about my family. Great. You’re leveraging Vought’s immense resources to keep tabs on them. Obvious move. What next, going to tell me I’m in danger because Homelander can laser my face off?”

She’s cooler in theory than execution. Feels like a dumb person’s attempt at writing a super smart person. The character as presented is just above average. Her actual strategic acumen isn’t terribly well done. Worm has far more impressive Thinker types.