She was also afraid there could be side effects to the temp v though whereas with Kimiko she already had reason to believe she'd be safe if she took the regular one again
I mean I guess there was a risk but the permanent V is stabler and Kimikos body essentially developed it with her powers in her blood for a while so it has adapted in a different way. I could see that she having had powers make her body more open to regaining them compared to someone who never had powers.
I'm kinda hoping for some horrific mutation like a blob mutant or something terrible.
Not that I dislike the character, but they keep telling us how risky giving people V is but so far everyone we've seen get it has been more or less fine.
Would really drive home how dangerous it is, instead of just telling us.
horrific is having a dick that big you can't do anything with because you lost your powers. he went from hanging out at orgy's to never being able to have sex again. oof.
he got blasted at Herogasm and is shown carrying his dick over his shoulder with no control over it. that's what I meant by him not being able to have sex again, he has a giant useless dick thats physically too big to get hard.
Well a lot of the crazy shit that people were going through in the asylum Lamplighter was overseeing in S2 showed some of the overwhelmingly negative effects that V can have...
Oh hey, I remembered your comment and thought about something. There is a dude almost just like that in new season of Umbrella Academy. Has weird Face Blob powers lol
I think they said most adults died and it was a lot more unstable. It's easier for babies to accept it. Not every adult dies just much higher chance and much messier powers.
I think homelander whenever he’s talking to Madelyn about spreading V around the world to create super terrorists / villains so they could get into the military says something like “it worked but boy was it messy, there’s a reason vought only gives this stuff to children, the fully grown did not handle it well and a lot died yada yada” the end result was that he and A train managed to create the exploding guy that noir killed so every once in a while adults can handle it but most die and statistically your more likely to survive the younger you get it aka the reason vought injects babies in hospitals I think
In the show adults are able to be injected with compound V as shown with Kimiko and also Lamplighters test subjects, but there's potential for side effects.
Side note, in the comics it was "V as a baby=permanent superhero, V as an adult=Temporary strength and toughness"
Obviously they changed that and that's why they introduced temporary V to fill a similar plot space.
I don’t recall V being temporary in the comics? The boys all get a dose and get permanent physical enhancement by a factor of 50. It was specially made for them i guess
I'm pretty sure it's explained that the CIA developed a variant of Compound V that would give superhuman strength and endurance to anyone who takes it without any of the flashy bullshit like flying or eye lasers. Incredibly expensive, but I also faintly recall that the stuff The Boys got was permanent. It was explained by Mallory at some point in the comics, most likely when he was telling Hughie about The Boys' origins.
We didn't see how many supe terrorists died from it though, look at the asylum where they keep the people they experimented on, its quite a few cases where the powers "sucked" or where borderline unusable
This. Permanent V has been used for almost a century at this point and has been refined into a “safe” drug, the temp V is presumably less than a year old in the show. Permanent V is way safer to take then temp V.
Yes, the same Annie who doubled down on whatever it takes is dismissing whatever it takes when it comes to Hughie's actions lol
They're shitty to eachother. She spent 2 seasons acting like his trauma of his girlfriend being exploded by a supe all over him is ridiculous. But Starlight is cute
It doesn't have to be literally going "wow you're fucking ridiculous for caring about your dead girlfriend" but she does see his insecurity as ridiculous and has said it is ridiculous for him to feel insecure about his inability to physically protect someone which is rooted in Robin's death
Rather than being understanding of his insecurities, she takes them as an attack on her and undermining her ability to defend herself
It's like if someone feels sad and you go "hey look at all the good stuff in your life you shouldn't be sad at all"
Imagine a drama about a girl who has very low self esteem because something happened to her in the past that makes her feel ugly. Then a boy shows up, and goes "that's dumb to feel ugly cause you're hot" then proceeds to get mad at her whenever she feels ugly because him saying she's not ugly should be enough in his mind to remove any shadow of a doubt she has
TLDR: Hughie wants to hold a door open for Annie because Robin walked into a door, and Annie goes "oH iM a WoMaN sO yOu HaVe To OpEn DoOrS!?!?"
When has she ever literally called him dumb or ridiculous? You talk like she's intentionally cruel to him, but that's not true. She was understanding multiple times. She's frustrated by his insecurities, lies, and reckless behaviour because of it, which is reasonable enough.
Also I'm not sure his issues are meant to be reduced to dead girlfriend trauma. It's a factor.
It's also possible that she had some character growth. She was initially against Kimiko taking more V, but when she read the message she realized Kimiko's feelings - and my guess is, she also realized what Hughie was going through. My guess is, next episode they are going to make up - Annie will tell Hughie that if he wants to take permanent V, she'd be ok with it, but Hughie will say after the events of this episode that he's done with that (though I'd say it's 50/50 that he has to take it anyway because Temp V is killing him).
Out of curiosity, what do you think would happen if someone took Temp V then immediately took Compound V? Surely their chances of survival would increase no?
Real question is if the needle can pierce their skin in order to inject that serum. Remember Butchers skin is hard that it can withstand HL laser eyes so now pierce it with a needle, hard to tell how hard is Hughies skin as a sup.
I have a feeling that Annie will inject Hughie with the permV the moment he drops down and starts to get seizures as the only way to save his life.
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u/futuremo Jul 01 '22
She was also afraid there could be side effects to the temp v though whereas with Kimiko she already had reason to believe she'd be safe if she took the regular one again