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Wasn't there a supervillain in the animated series? The hammer hand dude fighting with the "African" prince guy and the lady. Can't remember who was the villain, just that the kid was pretty awesome. I dunno if it was a typical "heroes meet up and try to kick each other's asses before realizing they are all good guys" or if there was a legit villain.
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Jun 15, 2022 14:16
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Wasn't there a supervillain in the animated series? The hammer hand dude fighting with the "African" prince guy and the lady. Yeah, the kid wanted to get her parents back together by recreating their first team-up fight, so she got the hammer dude to pick a fight. Things went horribly wrong for him.
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Jun 15, 2022 15:30
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Perestroika posted:Sure, there's always the potential threat of "play along or Homelander murders you", but I'd expect somebody like Edgar would consider that too unreliable and brute-force. Brute force sure, but I don't see so many problems with the reliability aspect
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Jun 15, 2022 16:08
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Homelander is the supervillain tho.
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Jun 15, 2022 17:05
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the supervillian is jeff bezos
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Jun 15, 2022 17:26
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Real villains drive yachts.
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Jun 15, 2022 17:34
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roomtone posted:homelander's invincibility has always just been taken as an absolute on the show so far, with this possible superweapon as the only caveat. i think it's weird how they've never had characters at least ask things like whether he needs to breathe. he refers to going to space, so i suppose not, but they don't seem to think outside the box in terms of how they could handle him. if everything has been tried and failed, they should say so on the show, because nobody has ever tried at all. he eats and drinks, right? i don't remember him ever doing it, but they could try drugging his food to knock him out and then drown him. probably wouldn't work but it could have been tried. I do think the show has been doing a lot of telling rather than showing when it comes to him being SO FAR above the other supes that he has potentially Godlike power. OK, so everyone is terrified of him. And he apparently ripped apart Supersonic easily enough, although we don't know how strong Supersonic was. He's just so untested otherwise though. Even his main power, the laser eyes, are now shared by Butcher and the laser-baby. And Stormfront could even tank his eyebeams for a while. It'd just be nice to see him properly cut loose with his super-speed or something to back up his grandiose claims about destroying cities. Go full Irredeemable and show just how unfair fighting Superman would be.
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Jun 15, 2022 18:32
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they splode home boy but it turns out he can regenerate from a single cell. BUT but Homelander knows what an rear end in a top hat he is so all the clones get stuck in an eternal fisticuffs like the end of Star Gate. Spoilers for Stargate SG1 sorry
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Jun 15, 2022 18:49
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jabby posted:I do think the show has been doing a lot of telling rather than showing when it comes to him being SO FAR above the other supes that he has potentially Godlike power. it'd be okay if all this was teasing to a confrontation where half the main cast gets instantly murdered and does zero damage, but they've already skipped to the ultra secret weapon which might actually work before doing that so it'd be weird. they'll have to come up with something clever for when soldier boy fails for it all to add up. i don't really have confidence they know what they're doing overall with homelander, it's just a bunch of elements that are more or less working when put together. when they did that lasering a crowd fakeout i thought it was such a pointless gently caress up, cos it won't hit when he actually does and introduces 'we may be bullshitting you' to every surprising moment.
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Jun 15, 2022 18:55
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roomtone posted:it'd be okay if all this was teasing to a confrontation where half the main cast gets instantly murdered and does zero damage, but they've already skipped to the ultra secret weapon which might actually work before doing that so it'd be weird. they'll have to come up with something clever for when soldier boy fails for it all to add up. Homelander was born with V powers, whereas Kimiko (and the other supes) were all injected as children. So the secret weapon power beam might not even work the same way on Homelander. Could just outright kill him since V is part of his DNA, could just make him slightly weaker and more vulnerable to damage but still a serious threat. However it goes down I think only Hughie, Butcher, Starlight, and maybe Kimiko are guaranteed to walk away (for plot reasons). Everyone else is expendable.
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Jun 15, 2022 19:09
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jabby posted:I do think the show has been doing a lot of telling rather than showing when it comes to him being SO FAR above the other supes that he has potentially Godlike power. It is weird how certain all of the characters seem of their relative durability, given how all over the place it seems to be: Maeve smiles while an armored van pancaked into her, but being in a plane crash would kill her and she'd last "a second" against HL. Butcher can punch Mesmer to death in a bathroom and Lamplighter is threatened by handguns, but Starlight walks off a 50 caliber bullet to the chest. Black Noir was brutally injured in a warzone, but now cheerfully walks into bombs. The only time I can remember a character seeming appropriately uncertain was when HL dared Neumann to give her power a whirl on him.
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Jun 15, 2022 19:42
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i think the black noir thing at least is going to be revealed to be due to whatever caused soldier boy's anti-supe beam. as in he's normally invulnerable but that hosed him up and is why he has scars.
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Jun 15, 2022 19:45
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Maybe he was exposed to peanuts at that war camp base outpost thingy 
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Jun 15, 2022 20:04
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Some supes get super-durability and some don't. I don't think Headpopper is tougher or stronger than a regular human. I wonder if there was someone who got A-Train's speed but not his strength, and splattered himself the first time he tripped on a curb.Sab669 posted:Maybe he was exposed to peanuts at that war camp base outpost thingy Tree nuts.
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Jun 15, 2022 20:08
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Chamale posted:Some supes get super-durability and some don't. I don't think Headpopper is tougher or stronger than a regular human. I wonder if there was someone who got A-Train's speed but not his strength, and splattered himself the first time he tripped on a curb. Isn't this more or less what happens to a lot of people in the comics?
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Jun 15, 2022 20:24
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Avasculous posted:It is weird how certain all of the characters seem of their relative durability, given how all over the place it seems to be: In the comics it's a bit easier to get a rough hierarchy: - Random low-level supe who got their powers from poo poo-quality street V - probably stronger and more durable than the average human, maybe bulletproof to small arms, lasts two seconds against anything else on this list. Also might just explode or have powers that kill themselves. - Member of The Seven/One of The Boys - got the good V, can one-shot most random supes, only vulnerable to high-explosives or each other - Homelander - on his own level, even the second-strongest supe can't put a scratch on him roomtone posted:it'd be okay if all this was teasing to a confrontation where half the main cast gets instantly murdered and does zero damage, but they've already skipped to the ultra secret weapon which might actually work before doing that so it'd be weird. they'll have to come up with something clever for when soldier boy fails for it all to add up. Seeing Maeve training with her sword made me wonder if (comic spoilers) they're going to do the bit where she finally attacks him and he doesn't even flinch, just calls her a dumb bitch and punches her head off. It'd be a pretty effective way to poo poo on Starlight's "we can all attack him at once" plan. jabby fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Jun 15, 2022 |
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Jun 15, 2022 20:25
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jabby posted:In the comics it's a bit easier to get a rough hierarchy: “It’s a plastic sword” man they really did maeve dirty what with the sex photos/homelander twist and her death. gently caress Garth ennis.
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Jun 15, 2022 20:29
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I'm expecting the quote to be "might as well be a plastic sword" before punching her head off
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Jun 15, 2022 20:30
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As Nero Danced posted:I'm expecting the quote to be "might as well be a plastic sword" before punching her head off I think the line is "It's a prop sword, you stupid...", meaning it's metal but just not meant to be a weapon. The fact that TV Maeve is trying to seriously train with her presumably Vaught-provided costume sword does make me worry for her... On an unrelated note, Hughie is now gleefully getting high off the same drug that caused A-Train to splatter Robin because he was running under the influence. Anyone else think he's tempting fate for his own 'oops' moment? jabby fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Jun 15, 2022 |
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Jun 15, 2022 20:35
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It's kind of a given that all the supes in the show know how tough they are, because they all have worked for Vought. I'm pretty sure they got tested and found out their limitations way before they got the custom made uniform and backstory worked up. I guess that's why Translucent was so cocky about the bomb not working, because he thought it'd fail just like all the other stuff had. Kinda doubt Vought shoved anything in his butt to test durability. Pretty sure the involuntarily retirement plan for the last few years at least has been "do what we tell you or Homelander throws you to the moon". I think Noir got hosed up as badly as he did in that explosion in the past because you can see brain. That was back in 85-87 (at least here), so I'm pretty sure they've made a few advancements in body armor by the time we got to naqib? blowing him up. Maybe his healing over the years has toughened him up like a giant walking callus. Either way, his mask/cowl/helmet survived fine, just some body armor went poof. The real mind bending moment is realizing that Black Noir is like ~60 years old. Pretty spry for an old guy.
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Jun 15, 2022 21:27
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That's what I love about Black Noir, man.
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Jun 15, 2022 21:32
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Black Noir also had that whole thing about not wanting to wear the helmet anymore. And considering it’s pristine next to him after the firefight he never quite got it on. All the helmet technology in the world doesn’t do poo poo if you refuse to wear it.
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Jun 15, 2022 21:40
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:It's kind of a given that all the supes in the show know how tough they are, because they all have worked for Vought. I'm pretty sure they got tested and found out their limitations way before they got the custom made uniform and backstory worked up. I guess that's why Translucent was so cocky about the bomb not working, because he thought it'd fail just like all the other stuff had. Kinda doubt Vought shoved anything in his butt to test durability. Pretty sure the involuntarily retirement plan for the last few years at least has been "do what we tell you or Homelander throws you to the moon". it's me, my day job is shoving bombs up supe asses it's a living
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Jun 15, 2022 22:21
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The ol' Buttplug Bomber they call you
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Jun 15, 2022 22:42
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:It's kind of a given that all the supes in the show know how tough they are, because they all have worked for Vought. I'm pretty sure they got tested and found out their limitations way before they got the custom made uniform and backstory worked up. I guess that's why Translucent was so cocky about the bomb not working, because he thought it'd fail just like all the other stuff had. Kinda doubt Vought shoved anything in his butt to test durability. Pretty sure the involuntarily retirement plan for the last few years at least has been "do what we tell you or Homelander throws you to the moon". Translucent was not at all cocky about the bomb. He begs them for his life when he finds out they put one in him. He was cocky about Hughie not having it in him to detonate it
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Jun 16, 2022 02:04
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jabby posted:I think the line is "It's a prop sword, you stupid...", meaning it's metal but just not meant to be a weapon. The fact that TV Maeve is trying to seriously train with her presumably Vaught-provided costume sword does make me worry for her... Specifically, he says "metal prop". Which is yeah, you'd notice if it was steel or plastic without being an expert.
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Jun 16, 2022 05:06
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Maeve’s line about “people think what I want them to think” makes me anticipate a fun switcheroo
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Jun 16, 2022 07:45
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Could you melt zinc into homelanders eyes
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Jun 16, 2022 08:36
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I do wonder if Starlight could generate a light so bright at point blank range that it burns out his corneas.
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Jun 16, 2022 08:39
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eye laser can’t melt zinc beams
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Jun 16, 2022 08:40
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I do wonder if Starlight could generate a light so bright at point blank range that it burns out his corneas. I wonder if she would win if they fought inside an electrical substation, amplifying her powers greatly. Homelander might be wondering the same thing, and won't take the risk if he can avoid it.
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Jun 16, 2022 08:48
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Homelander is a Superman analogue in that if sufficiently motivated he can solo anything short of actual deities.
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Jun 16, 2022 08:50
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Just a hunch but I think the old strongest hero who also now has the power to negate supe abilities might be a factor in the attack on Homelander
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Jun 16, 2022 08:59
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:I almost wonder if (spoiler related to a comic plot adaptation)Herogasm is going to be Homelander gathering up all the worlds supes and blooding them into accepting regular humans as untermensch with documented depravity. Herogasm Comic: When I was first reading that I thought it was going to end more like 120 Days of Sodom, so going all the way there with the episode if Edgar isn't there to stop things would be... something.
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Jun 16, 2022 09:16
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Have we found out what soldier boys actor refused to film because it was too much?
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Jun 16, 2022 09:45
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVmySaqEESw I am very glad they filmed all these extra things in their entirety.
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Jun 16, 2022 10:36
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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:Have we found out what soldier boys actor refused to film because it was too much? it sounds like they filmed it but just not with the actor?
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Jun 16, 2022 13:00
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tokin opposition posted:microdosing V to improve my posting power lazer you are monitor
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Jun 16, 2022 13:06
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Alan Smithee posted:it sounds like they filmed it but just not with the actor? It sounds like they got him to just nut up and do it, all the interviews were that he complained to Kripke, Kripke said LoL, and then one of the actors tells the same anecdote about how if someone thing makes you uncomfortable than Kripke will write it into the script. Best I can tell he veto’d a specific sex position but otherwise the scene is unchanged
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Jun 16, 2022 13:53
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Bust Rodd posted:It sounds like they got him to just nut up and do it, all the interviews were that he complained to Kripke, Kripke said LoL, and then one of the actors tells the same anecdote about how if someone thing makes you uncomfortable than Kripke will write it into the script. Kripke worked with Jensen Ackles for 15 years on Supernatural. I can't see him deliberately pissing Ackles off that way, or not knowing what would make him uncomfortable already.
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