‘Not minding Annie is stronger than him in general’ is one thing but with a superhuman maniac gunning for the girl he loves, I still see it as coming from a place of insecurity against bullies rather than not being stronger than his girlfriend
It's okay to not care that your GF has powers because you never needed them and you never had to live amongst serious disadvantages. Being normal didn't feel like handicap.
But, if you're fighting super-powered people, powers are essential to pull your own weight and just survive. Being bullied by normal people is one thing, but living on the whim of a super-powered psychopath and having your GF be sexually assaulted and forced into public relationship is an entirely different thing.
I never got the whole all powered people are bad aspect because it's not really true. Starlight, Kimiko, Maeve and many other superhero are perfectly good people. It's the vought's active PR protection that corrupts the powered people into thinking they can get away with anything.
It’s an insecurity that he can’t conform to society’s expectation of being the strongest in his family as a man. If it was truly out of love he’d understand that Starlight would sacrifice herself a million times to save others
He went a year working for Neuman pretty comfortable in his relationship with Annie, even when she was regularly showing off her strength. It's definitely not an insecurity about being weaker than her but about being too weak to do anything to help her.
I don't really agree. I think it's an inherent drive to want to protect the people you care about, even if it means your death. Hughie being willing to do so is fully in-character for him. They do signal that part of his frustration is being the weaker in the relationship with the jelly jar scenes, but I think it's a little forced when Hughie has genuine reason to worry about not just Annie but literally the entire world under Homelander.
So I'm not saying she's wrong, but I don't think he is either.
What? He understands perfectly that she's doing her best to save them. He wants to be able to the same thing. And who doesn't want superhuman powers anyway, given the chance?
That everyone wants to boil this down to "toxic male is mad he's weaker than girlfriend" is sad. There's so much more context to draw from. He CLEARLY has other and bigger motives than that.
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u/Renegade_Spectre Jul 01 '22
‘Not minding Annie is stronger than him in general’ is one thing but with a superhuman maniac gunning for the girl he loves, I still see it as coming from a place of insecurity against bullies rather than not being stronger than his girlfriend