The Strongest vs The Smartest - OPM vs The Boys

[SlendVeny]

if Homie who isn't anywhere as smart as Sage can notice people's heartbeat with his Enhanced Senses and tell what emotion they're feeling then it's likely that she can tell that King's Engine is actually his heart pounding out of fear.

That's a power he has, not an intelligence feat.

 

[AThe1412]

That's a power he has, not an intelligence feat.

The ability to hear people's heartbeat is the power while being able tell what they're feeling from their heartbeat is an intelligence feat. He can't literally sense their emotion but he can deduce it.

 

[SlendVeny]

The ability to hear people's heartbeat is the power while being able tell what they're feeling from their heartbeat is an intelligence feat. He can't literally sense their emotion but he can deduce it.

If heart beat fast, stressed, if heart beat slow, not stressed, that's basic knowledge.

 

[AThe1412]

If heart beat fast, stressed, if heart beat slow, not stressed, that's basic knowledge.

I could have sworn that his profile had something saying that he heard Butcher's heart pounding but it was out of anger rather than fear.

 

[James_Plays_4_Games]

I could have sworn that his profile had something saying that he heard Butcher's heart pounding but it was out of anger rather than fear.

I know of the footage:

 

[SlendVeny]

I could have sworn that his profile had something saying that he heard Butcher's heart pounding but it was out of anger rather than fear.

I don't see that on there.

Homelander also seems to be determining people's exact BPM and blood pressure all the time, so I think he's a big blood fan.

 

[SlendVeny]

Ok, I've looked it up, and a study seems to suggest that:

"Diastolic blood pressure rises, heart rate falls, number of rises in skin conductance, and muscle potential increases, were greater for anger than for fear, whereas skin conductance increases, number of muscle potential increases, and respiration rate increases were greater for fear than for anger."

Butcher, in this scene, is stoic, looking Homelander in the eye, and not flinching. Homelander also has a great deal of experience analyzing people's heart rates, blood pressure, etc, and spends most of his time around people terrified of him. He can see and hear a heart beat, he can tell what's going on with someone at a glance, especially considering he's much faster than Billy, so he's perceiving it way faster.

Sage does not possess the ability to see under someone's skin, and, to my knowledge, is not typically hearing heartbeats from many meters away.