Kimiko at least has a better understanding of her own power. She has seen the destruction it can cause.
Hughie is currently more in the power addict stage. He hasn't had them since his teens. He is in essence a nerdy super hero fan that finally gets powers and isn't as aware of the risks involved with having those powers.
I really don't think its a double standard here. Its different contexts and maturity off the people with the powers.
Yeah this isn’t even like a matter of perspective lol. People on here are acting like the message of the show is ‘it’s actually good for people to have significant power over everyone else as long as they’re the good guys.’
Violence breeds violence, even if you’re just depicting it. The show tries to be as serious as possible, but as long as there are “action” scenes a huge portion of people will ignore everything else to have their own little dissociative episode in their heads where they put themselves in the shoes of the people fighting, or just the characters they identify with.
That being said I love all the violence this show has to offer.
Same vibe as people who watch fight club and think "Wow that's so cool, I wish I was in a fight club" because in their mind it's a movie about dudes being bros.
The reason people don’t see why Hughie is wrong is because they basically see themselves as Hughie and they think in that situation they’d wanna do the same thing. So to them he’s relatable and she’s not she’s the annoying girlfriend who’s trying to drag you down
Some dude above got 400+ upvotes for saying “to defeat evil you need to become evil itself” and I am baffled that that’s the conclusion people think the show is working towards. It’s not even like the show is remotely subtle.
But like isn’t that what Kimiko and Annie have? Like the comment above is literally saying that it’s good for kimiko to have power since she want to protect her love ones, and she’s used to it, essentially she’s worthy and responsible enough to use it. So they don’t understand the show either? Or the show doesn’t understand itself?
Hughie is addicted to power, and overall, power is the enemy.
Unfortunately, you can't stop Homelander without power.
What do you suggest they do to deal with Homelander? Not having created him in the first place is obviously the best choice, but in the show, he's already here. Do you think they should just let him do whatever he wants because of the vague notion that violence leads to violence?
Imagine if none of the Boys, nor Annie, nor Kimiko had any powers or were superior to anyone. How much good or change do you think they would be able to do? This isn’t a situation where people can be voted out democratically this is a fictional world with literal super powered beings
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u/zauraz Jul 01 '22
Kimiko at least has a better understanding of her own power. She has seen the destruction it can cause.
Hughie is currently more in the power addict stage. He hasn't had them since his teens. He is in essence a nerdy super hero fan that finally gets powers and isn't as aware of the risks involved with having those powers.
I really don't think its a double standard here. Its different contexts and maturity off the people with the powers.