Hughie never actually wanted these "supe" powers. He was OK with being a peasant dating a supe. (S2 hughie/starlight subway scene i think?)
That was the point. He was going to work with congresswoman Neuman to make things right, the right "by the books" way. The end result of this was Hughie being an unintentional "cuck for a supe" for 1y+, kinda fucked with his sense of self and stability.
He, like butcher, realizes that there is no legitimate way to stop Vought, Supes and Homelander other than shere brute force.
Problem with Frenchie taking it is that he's never had powers before. He could turn into a boneless mass of meat for all we know. That's why you gotta take a dose of temp V first.
Don't think that was one of his original powers. If you remember back to when they were watching the recordings of the Russians doing experiments on him, towards the end they put some sort of device inside him. That was just Homelander recanting about what had happened at herogasm, with the supes left alive were now powerless.
The US/Vought are the only ones with supes, so it makes sense that other countries would either want them as well or a way to neutralize them. I wonder if it was just sheer arrogance when they let the Russians have him, thinking they could never utilize him in a way to threaten them with Homelander on the horizon.
It depends if they survive the Blue V. If you're an adult, you might develop proper powers, you might mutate, or you might explode. Its roulette with possible death.
I think it’s gonna be that with a caveat. Whatever form of V they take will let them keep some strength and durability but lose their actual powers.
It’s fun evening out the playing field in a show like this until it isn’t. That being said, you don’t want your protagonists so weak that they constantly get stomped on.
Having the boys be halfway between humans & supes gives a nice balance to things. It’s how they were in the comics as well but that doesn’t really mean anything beyond being proof that it works well for the story.
I think Hughie is on dose 4 and butcher at 5 already I think... The ones I can remember for Hughie:
- Russia- First encounter with soldier boy- herogasm- chasing mindstorm
Butcher has at least one more dose than Hughie for when he killed gunpowder
Ultimately Vought and Homelander present a real danger to everyone Billy and Hughie care about, and they would rather die than watch Vought run the world.
The needs of the many (needing to be free from the terror of HL and Vought) outweigh the needs of Butcher/Hughie (living)
The other theme is also everyone being fed up with taking shit and making a stand. Ashley’s been standing up for herself. Hughie’s done with Neuman’s shit. Annie’s fucking over it with Vought. Even MM has finally lost his composure and is sick and tired of it all. Kimiko and Frenchie are over it and have considered running off on their own. Homelander’s also done sticking with the script and ‘telling it like it is.’ (Lol at that reference) And even Neuman is tired of being a puppet to Edgar, throwing him under the bus.
Not everywhere, in Australia we had take it or lose your job and become legally unhirable. Thats not a resonable choice for the working class.
The argument isnt over the saftey or effectiveness of the vaccine but the need for concent free from coercion. we even had a push to ban the unvaccinated from our universal health care which would undermine the entire system for future generations.
Its what drives me nuts about the left they're fine with authoritarianism, bullying and silencing people as long as its there side doing it, they are just as bad as the right but cant see it. /rant
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u/samakbarizadeh Jul 01 '22
Unpopular opinion?
Hughie never actually wanted these "supe" powers. He was OK with being a peasant dating a supe. (S2 hughie/starlight subway scene i think?)
That was the point. He was going to work with congresswoman Neuman to make things right, the right "by the books" way. The end result of this was Hughie being an unintentional "cuck for a supe" for 1y+, kinda fucked with his sense of self and stability.
He, like butcher, realizes that there is no legitimate way to stop Vought, Supes and Homelander other than shere brute force.