That’s definitely way weaker. If I land 4 clean hits and they barely react before sending my ass to the floor with a single hit. Thats being weaker.
Basically all good hax abilities are weak to stronger characters in The Boys, why would this be an exception.
Peak human,around that ig.
No one reacted to HV. It's hard to see at some points, but people just either ain dodge it or get blitzed by it (I know because I rewatched all the supposed instances, but either they see the glowing eyes and moves out/block, or they don't react after getting hit/someone close gets hit)
When you have fight scenes where the people (that's mean to be normal people) can still move just normally, it's hard to justify the fight is held at Hypersonic or higher speeds.
Wouldve been weird visually to add the blur effects of Homies flight in the white house fight.
And?
That isn't really an argument against it, they consistently don't display their combat as being far faster than what normal dudes are capable of and that needs to be taken into account, even much lower budget live action superhero make a distinction between their fast fighters and normal speed dudes, the boys does this with A-Train while everyone else doesn't have this level of speed in combat and reactions
Wouldn't the fact that Homelander is trying his best to escape be a great deterrent against that? He would not reduce his speed while trying to escape a situation he clearly does not want to be in.
Not really because his take-offs in the fight were like superhuman~subsonic on screen, they weren't blitzing The Boys so it clearly wasn't far faster.
There is quite literally nothing that says he got an increase, all we know is that it made him immortal, you'd need to actually do work to prove that an increased occured rather than asking for proof that one didn't when you're asserting a claim saying he definitively got stronger
Yeah, the cap of S1 A-Train is 339 m/s (but in S5 he is stated to be faster than Homelander, who has a flight speed of Mach 1.5/1.6)
But didn't the first season already prove that with A-Train? Injecting a weaker compound V already gives an increase, it doesn't make sense that injecting V1 doesn't do anything. It also doesn't help that all the supers shown who had V1 in their bodies were stronger than most.
Thats just conjecture, you need to actually prove that this is the case. Without proof its just headcanon, we can only assume V1 does what we're told it would do which is simply making him immortal.
Yeah I legit wasn't one of the one's here expecting some tier 7 or tier 6 nonsense but I did at least expect a portrayal of High 8-C or 8-B destruction on screen for Homelander at some point and we never got it, and make no mistake irl terms that level of destruction is freaking massive so it sucks to see the fight amounted to looking like two 9-Bs throwing hands
I don't think that makes sense, but okay, unfortunately the only remotely impressive thing Homelander did after V1 was take down Soldier Boy with a surprise chokehold, which he should be able to do without him, so meh.
Having proof of your claims doesn't make sense?
Im not saying that they can't but in a case like this where they are far more anti-feats, statements, and low end stuff than the like 2 or 3 MHS things, the high end doesn't outweigh the most consistent shit and at best you can use it for peak flight speeds. Not to mention the clear distinction in visual identity they give speedster versus everyone else, its evident they aren't the same from a visual standpoint
Yes, it makes sense to have proof for that, which unfortunately the series didn't provide in these last few episodes, but it did in the first season with A Train. V1 functions like Compound V, only more potent and unstable; it doesn't make sense that a basic characteristic of Compound V presented in the first season wouldn't be present in V1 if the rest is.Having proof of your claims doesn't make sense?
What hurts is that they had the budget to do something more similar to James Gunn's Superman, not even Zack Snyder's. We have that Superman at around 8-B / 8-A and MHS, but the difference is that despite Homelander being indexed as stronger, that James Gunn Superman looks far more impressive and stronger because of his actual feats. They had every opportunity in Season 5 to do something scorched earth and escalate the tension and scale. But we got a decent White House fight against two Supes whom Homelander should easily be able to beat. Mind you, Ryan could barely even move Butcher. There is absolutely no way at this point that he should be doing anything to Homelander. Don't even get me started about Butcher hurting Homelander, there is no reason Butcher, who isn't even a strength type supe, should be doing anything to Homelander, only this at best;
12 million USD per season. To put into reference, that shit is double Stranger Things Season 1.
Being twice as long as the first season of Stranger Things isn't exactly a good thing, since that season was much more practical, and the Demogorgon needed flashing lights to make the scenes more realistic. But it's still a frightening amount considering what we were given. I'm not saying the special effects in the series are bad, but I expected more.
The real villain the boys have been fighting is embezzlement.
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legit that shit matters especially when it comes to visual media and powerscaling since the visuals and statements are what heavily dictate the scaling and if the visuals and feats you present on screen aren't telling me these dudes are supposed to be highly impressive and that's the consistent displays especially in climatic moments it just sets a precedent that supports them being much lower than one initially may have thought since that the standard set by the show
I also heavily detest this. They had Homelander call in all overseas Supes, basically an army, had him prepare an entire Anti-Christ speech PR nightmare, especially after he got the V1 and had Supes positioned everywhere. It did not have to be season wide, but at the very least the final season should have had much more than Ryan, Butcher and Kimiko vs Homelander, and Deep vs Annie.
I saw someone say that the posters represent what both Butcher and Homelander wanted (Butcher with the brought down Vought tower; Homelander scorched earth), but neither of them got that, which I kind of like, but I still think it's a bummer.
I mean Stranger Things season 1 was made 11 years ago when visual artist and actors costed alot less money while now doing simple things cost alot. Just look at Transformers movie quality it was crazy good for a budget far less then some mcu movies despite having great cgi and being made about 20 years ago.
