Right? I've seen this episode a few times (and this scene, in particular, a few more) and after I read the clip description, I thought, "Wait, I don't remember that happening." Though to be fair, I don't think "stabbed in the ear" is the 1st, 2nd, or 15th example that goes through our head when we hear that someone was "impaled"
@@therighteousboys446 nah man that’s just poor writing. The guy survived an explosion (in the anime prequel)… but he gets damaged from a piece of metal in his ear. That’s lazy writing. Btw why did he continue lasering on maeve on one point while she was defending herself. He could have easily attacked her legs/feet but instead (lazy writing) we got him remaining still.
@@basedarabdaddy coming from someone who's riled up over a joke. You're the one who should go outside when you get no attention irl so you try getting attention by online arguments.
It is Soldier Boy. But I did find it hilarious that the moral quandary that Huey concluded with the decision to put his trust in his girlfriend to handle the fight for him, rather than taking the drug and fighting himself, ended with her completely and utterly failing. So much for girl power.
That buildup was the equivalent of pointing to the stands with your bat where you're going to hit the homerun, and then laying down a bunt to get a single.
@Marshkoon still amounted to nothing lol. Didn't even scratch him. Now if hughie had taken his temp v he could have grabbed soldier boy, teleported to the stratosphere and dropped him. If it didn't work the first time he could just repeat that cycle over again until soldier boy either died or gets knocked out.
@@TheTideKing004 You're thinking too deeply. Just enjoy the show lol. At this point Homelander has just let them all live for years while they sabotage him. While he's slaughtered thousands of people. The entire 7 knew exactly where the Boys headquarters were and just fuck it off lmao. Season 4 was something else
@@Mittens_GamingShe probably will be able to fly by the end of the show as Homelander will either be dead or depowered and the Seven and Vought beyond done. But there will still be Supes or what remains of them, and she might end up taking the role that Homelander has as the face of America while Ryan grows up and becomes what Homelander never achieved. That is if both of them do not get killed because the series is wild and it takes risks often. Ryan effectively going into the path to become the actual NotSuperman of his universe but not in the way Stormfront wanted seems like a fitting conclusion to this entire debacle.
Soldier Boy survives his own explosions which are clearly more powerful than her bursts so it seems consistent to me. Something like, Starlight is Wall level, SB is small building.
@@Avenus112true it distracted him and brought time for the others to come. It’s just the editing in the build up that made it feel kind of comedic lmao
@@Avenus112 I mean true, but even then. You'd think for all that hype she'd actually smash the guy so hard he'd either end up 2 blocks away through the wall of the buidling or through like 9 floors down. Instead, she just shoved him with all the impressive force of a slightly large guy shoving another dude.
This was a crazy use of the budget. Why did we just spend all of this time creating this scene just for her to barely knock him over. We did a dramatic slow motion shot for a slight nudge?
That's not MCU; it's just comic books in general. The rules are: 1. Unless you literally SEE the person die, they're not dead. 2. Even if you literally SEE the person die, they're not dead... _especially_ if they have franchise value.
@@justingries dude…comics obliterate and kill their characters all the time. Sometimes they stay dead for real life decades. This show is just afraid to kill any of their diversity characters including women especially the lesbian women.
@@redhead9713 Or.... they want to keep as much of ALL the main characters alive because it takes a shit ton of time to build up characters like that. What the fuck even is this comment, there's like no female main characters that get this treatment in The Boys compared to male. Homelander should've died multiple times, Butcher should've, Hughie definitely should've, etc... shit how stupid would you have to be as a director to kill your MAIN protagonists every fucking season lol
@@VheoneIt's multilayered. Homelander actually wanted to have kids with her because there's no equal female to him. Maeve is the closest to an equal and thus the best candidate. Because she's a lesbian, a progressive and generally left all-together and it would be a sort of ideological victory if she could not stop him from giving him offspring, Effectively eliminating the lesbian out of her with his charms. That failed, so he immediately went for the eggs plan, And it's not Homelander being far right, but rather Homelander himself proving he's beyond ideology regardless of side because he sees himself as divine and thus above human matters. What he wants is done, there's no sort of NO against his wishes. Because Maeve is the girl he has known for the longest time and he literally has no other girl that he can talk to, so he's actually possessive about her because he literally has no other possible romantic prospects. Reminder that Homelander actually let Maeve insult him, showing that he's confident enough to show a little, just a little, weakness in her presence, heck, he went as far as trying to hide the injuries from the SB fight to not look weaker in front of her because if he lost Maeve's respect and then her, he also loses any sort of somewhat legitimate female interaction. And he tried to stop that from happening by practically kidnapping her. Which only caused the opposite to happen. Because he tried to replace his intentions with Maeve not wanting to give in to his wishes with Stormfront and she was out for the count, so he was desperate for a replacement FOR HER REPLACEMENT, so he went back to Maeve trying to deny the obvious reality that she now will definitely never pardon him. Cue him getting more insistent about the whole matter all through S3. Because Homelander is in a desperate spot for personal validation from his inner and outer circle, he lost his family so he was in dire need to make a new baby to have a new family. By the time S3 ends, Homelander has found such validation in having Ryan around him. But he has practically lost everything else and just rules with fear, so he's going paranoid and even more unstable. No women, no love. No friends. No best friend. Lost already a ton of respect from a lot of people. Was hurt physically several times by 'inferior" beings. Vought is slowly crumbling apart. Heck, if S4 actually touches the actual Homelander breakdown then he most likely will try to overtake the U.S. and the world through Supe revolution because if Vought and thus him are going under, then he effectively loses the rest of the world save for his followers. And thus will make this last ditch attempt to force them to love him or die. It's always been about affection, if Homelander has no genuine affection from someone, he folds. Thus why Stillwell was his caretaker. Now he barely has any legitimate affection left from anyone save for the people who worship him for being God-like and not because he's Homelander. Thus he's finally reaching an irreversible breaking point.
The plan would literally have been perfect had Ryan not gotten involved and Butcher stepping up to be "responsible" at the worst possible moment. We were SO CLOSE but the rest of the series needs to happen so there's that.
@lAdvnced No, if you make a love action series about a comic or video game, then you should make things exactly how they were in the original source material.
@@Xominus The plane incident in the comics was 9/11. If the show replicated that, then hell will break loose... Also, we would hear Antony Starr say the n-word.
homelander while impervious, he's not 100% invulnerable. and a normal human even if allowed to jab homelander in the ear with a metal, probably would NOT have the strenght(effect value/EV) to overcome homelander's "skin armor" a.k.a. Resistance Value(RV), HOWEVER, maeve has a serious effect value(EV) with her super strength PLUS she was in melee attack distance PLUS she probaly pushed her powers. Its reasonable to conclud that the metal rod could pentrate the skin armor and not use the metal rod but rather the attacker's strength. Find a TTRPG called "DC HEROS" now known as "Blood of Heros". The Games mechanics and system allows for some seriously fun game play in the super powered universes.
In my opinion if they really wanted to give Starlight a star moment where she shows the extent of her powers, or like an OP temporary powerup, they should have had her produce a beam strong enough to deflect or even neutralize Soldierboys body cannon. Imagine both of them powering up at the same time and their beams combat eachother and through incredible effort Starlight overcomes his beam temporarily stunning him but nearly knocking her out because she not used to that much power. That would've satisfied me
Bear in mind Homelander flies, he likely doesn't even maintain balance like a normal person would. She had to lift and throw Soldier Boy and fast, so a shoulder charge was easiest. If you go for a drop kick and miss, everyone gets wiped out. If you go for a throw you can miss. Shoulder charge just "works". Also if she lets him go in the air she may avoid the blast entirely - but she didn't have time to think about it, nobody else could go near him.
@@BigMac8000 that brings up a good point. Homelander is likely hovering most of the time or atleast reducing his weight with his abilities. He should be super easy to push around if caught off guard.
@@redhead9713 if that was the case he shouldnt be able to fly and also hold people up while flying tho. he also wouldnt be able to lift anything heavy while flying.
So your only problem is she didn't do the exact same thing to SB? Regardless, there's a huge difference in what the situation asked for. She simply just wanted homelander off of her for a few seconds so that she can help, which is why the punch was fine, and you had SB literally about to blow up everyone. It makes sense that you're going to want to do something with more force like a shoulder charge against SB because you want more distance between SB and the others so they don't die. There's so many other parts of the Boys that are bad, that I think comments like these ones are hilarious! Imagine how much more awful this scene would be if Maeve just solved the SB problem with a simple double hammerfist.
@@rnash999 well tbf electromagnetic radiaton is also transferred into electricity and vice versa^^ if she is a conductor then she shouldve gotten charged, considering soldier boys field of emitting radiation is gradually changing. this is also the principle of EMP bombs, and all nuclear bombs have some EMP characteristics.
She should have died from the fall. She would have been depowered from the Soldier boy blast, and it was already implied she can't survive long falls (homelander needed to carry her off the plane). Her surviving was purely fanservice.
@@armoredducka plane CRASHING is different from someone FALLING, besides that, Homelander always underestimated Maeve, she underestimated herself as well.
@armoredduck No matter how you see it, Maeve ranks 2nd, just after HOMELANDER, and she's a good physical match for him. She is very stealthy. The series didn't get to explore her well.
I just wish starlight full power will be something more impressive like homelander-like strength or agility. Most of the time her power is useless. I think the screen writer hate her 😢
She was a joke in the comics. All the supes were a joke. Homelander was the only one that was strong and useful. And his clone, an insane clone made specifically to kill him, which went crazy and tried to sabotage him to torture him cuz he came out a complete psycho, including fking with butcher and doing his wife. Maeve was decapitated with one punch. They made homelander too whiny and weak, while promoting dumb girl power bs. In turn ruining stormfront as well. The tv show is better than the comics but it's has way more bad parts. The comics were just gratuitous violence and fked up stuff for the sake of it. The tv show is all about showing dicks cuz it's made by gaya and girl power bs cuz the producers made it a rule cuz of ESG
@@briankirkland2118 no he is not. He can go toe to toe for a minute or 2 thanks to his superpowers draining ability, which works even when it's "not active", because it's driven by his emotions and it's always active but gets much stronger when he is pissed off or wants to use it (it's some kind of radiation he emits. That's why the Geiger counter shows him emitting radiation even while he is calm and just sitting, eating, from a few meters away and kicks off a lot stronger when he starts getting worked up). Even with that power, he ain't no match. Homelander is MUCH stronger, has laser vision and can fly. They literally engineered him with soldier boy powers+lasers and flight, but stronger. He is the culmination of various attempts to get the strongest supe after many attempts. Soldier boy wouldn't even last a minute, in his prime with just his super strength and resilience. It took 3 of them, with soldier boy, butcher and Hughie just to hold homelander down for a few seconds and it wasn't enough. And they even managed to get to that point ONLY because they caught him by surprise MULTIPLE TIMES. From butcher having powers to Hughie appearing out of nowhere naked and with powers. The only thing they had on Homelander was his ego and need to feel loved and his psychological issues from being an engineered baby that grew up in a lab as he was tested on, from hot and cold environments, to poison, to tanks shooting him, to exploding nukes on him. I don't think soldier boy would survive a nuke.
You’re the stupid one for not realizing that one of the world’s strongest supes shoved that into his ear. According to your logic, no supe should damage Homelander because strength plays no importance in your scenario
The fact that solder boy still survived that without a single scratch is insane bros a power house if they some out give bro the power of flight he’d be literally unstoppable
In the same vein as Jean Grey and Invisible Woman characters getting nosebleeds and passing out whenever they use their powers "too much" 😂 Comic book/Show writers are such incels
So starlight has a massive charge time that needs lights, just to knock him back. He also has a huge charge time, but it’s a mini nuke. Similar powers with VERY different blasts
Sh didn't have the strength to push him out the window and even if she did it would be too big of a risk and it would be better jumping with him to make sure to fell out.
@@lumarrandom8144 I’m talking about after they were out the window in free fall. She had plenty of time to throw him away from her, instead she held on. Not a smart move but due to her plot armor she had nothing to worry about.
Things that confuse me, Why is starlight so useless How is Homelander EFFORTLESSLY bullet and (sorta) explosive resistant with a body made of steroid steel but gets impaled like he’s a tomato by a metal pipe/straw
@Noname-mi1oo that makes no sense, bc firstly the metal rod would bend on impact, otherwise its harder than homelander. secondly, if this is enough to hurt his eardrums, an explosion would kill him. the shockwave would travel into his ears, rip apart his eardrums and travel into his brain, killing him. any huge explosion hes in would kill him. a bomb is several times stronger than maeves punching power. its inconsistent.
@Noname-mi1oo superhero logic is that homelander is strong neough to withstand explosions and such. inconsistency is when something way weaker is able to hrut him. what have we seen with transparent?? his powers are completely different from homelander. how would homelander withstand an explosion if a metal rod with maeves punching power behind it can already pierce his eardrums?
@Noname-mi1oo so you still miss the part that an explosion would rip apart his eardrums if they were as fragile than Maeve fan pierce them. It's I consistent that he is able to withstand much stronger explosions but gets hurt by way less physical blunt force. A shockwave would rip his eardrums apart, if it isn't, that's inconsistent.
ANSWERS 1) Because she's hot. 2) Homelander was stabbed by another supe, so it penetrated his otherwise-impenetrable eardrum. Although, his skin (and eardrum) is theoretically harder than steel, so the steel rod should have met resistance, if not break if it was less dense steel...
What I love about this particular season is watching Homelander being physically challenged in combat. For someone who always says how he's better than everyone, seeing how Soldier Boy, Butcher and Maeve managed to actually harm him gave me so much satisfaction. Just imagine how screwed Homelander would have been if those 3 actually ganged up on him.
Stupid plot hole = I know that Starlight is stronger than normal people even if they can't match Maeve. They had ample time and combined strength to push/kick him off the building. Maeve did not need to tackle him like that.
Stunned by fear. Starlight isn't the strongest mentally either. Only Maeve had the courage to do something. Also, do the characters know they have enough strength to handle SB? I know Queen Maeve does, but Starlight hardly ever uses her physical strength and the guy is charging up an explosion. I'm not saying this scene was well written, but don't you think what you suggested is actually worse for the viewing audience? It would've felt even worse if they simply solved this SB issue at the end here with two people pushing him off of a building. It would somehow be even more of a letdown than what they did here.
Homelander used to get his ass whipped when he was a kid. He's definitely been beaten and bled before. It gets glossed over what Vought would have done to get him ready
2:00 You have no idea how much this one single moment breaks EVERYTHING! The whole reason Homelander is so terrifying is he's neigh invincible. He's the strongest, one of the fastest, and he's a bipolar psychopath. In the comic, they kept a hydrogen bomb attached to him till he turned 18 because they needed something that could kill him, and that's all they could think of. Remember, Maeve broke her wrist stopping a large truck. This one moment, this idiot impulse, basically drags Homelander all the way down from needing atomic weapons to stop, to just needing one big ass gun.
@@centurionpan3400 You're thinking of Translucent, his skin was hard as diamond so he couldn't be shot. Though he was still nice and squishy under it. That's why they were able to blow him up.
@@centurionpan3400 At least Soldier Boy is also tough from the inside, the shot a gun down his throat with no effect. But all the supes have differences, e.g. they needed a diamond cutter to remove Starlight's tracking chip, but Noir was able to cut out his just with his Blades and Kimiko can be hurt by almost everything but she recovers. Homelander's ears my be a weak spot compared to the rest of his outside and I don't think we know much about the resilience of his insides, although they have to be at least somewhat tough to resist the multiple g forces and pressure changes that he's subjecting them to with his instant take offs and high flights.
People clearly disregard his reaction to the stabbing. He's so obviously confused. Homelander didn't know his eardrums could be pierced. It's just a flesh wound, he might have healed as soon as he took the straw out, but the point was that he was in utter disbelief.
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Don't think of it as 'Starlight is weak'. Soldier boy is one of the most powerful supes. Starlight knocking him over like that is impressive. I'd like to see The Deep for example to attempt that.
This short clip highlights some moments why last episode of S3 was bad not including the pointless story twist earlier on. Starlight charging for one minute (while SB watched it) and it doing no damage anyways / hilarious looking double punch: 2:31 after she stood seemingly 1 minute next to HL and not finishing him off immediately / Maeve surviving the crash after losing her powers (thanks to SB's blast) /etc
Can we all agree the whole Starlight thing was ridiculous ? When I watched this first time I was really excited and actually thought we were going to uncover a whole new aspect/scope for her powers, ended up being nothing more than a pathetic kick.
still it makes absolutely nbo sense physically speaking. if he was that fragile in hsi eardrums he wouldnt be able to fly through explosions. also the metal rod would bend on impact, otherwise his eardfrum is softer than steel, which also makes him way more fragile than shown. any explosion would travel straight through his ears into his brain, killing him.
I was so disappointed when Maeve turned out to be still be alive. Not only was her survival ridiculous based on what we’d already seen of Soldier Boy’s powers, but it undid her sacrifice.
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Still terrifying how The Boys betrayed Soldier Boy. It's especially dark considering the Payback betrayal and what happened to him afterwards in those labs.
This is the scene that gave me the opinion of maeve > everyone, even homelander, she a year trained while the supes never trained, shes the only one to make homelander bleed or peirce him with a peice of metal, making him disoriented for a couple seconds, shes strong enough to peirce him, with the right equipment she could've killed homelander by herself
@@BlazingOwnager Oh God… Anyway. Nah, but seriously, I mean, come on, this is superheroes we’re talking about. Sure, this is a more grounded approach to them and, therefore, maybe it does seem like poor writing, but, personally, it didn’t seem too far-fetched to me for them surviving. They’re, like, one of the most resilient characters in the show (or even comics, idk.). Basically, it was whatever for me.
@@CalmoOmlac still doesn’t make sense. If ear drums can’t withstand a piece of metal than they shouldn’t be able to withstand an explosion too. This is so stùpid. In the comics he punched her head off… because he is unnaturally strong for a supe. In the show it’s the same but he somewhat gets damaged by a piece of metal.
@@lorenzozinco9664 I would still say there's a difference between a shockwave and a pointy piece of metal rammed in your ear by a supe. But there are always inconsistencies in shows. Also they often enough change things in shows or movies even if they're based on comics.
I noticed something, after he gets stabbed in the brain, and cuts back to him pulling it out, you can see that he only pulled out a small amount of what went into his ear. I think he broke it off and it’s just stuck in there..healed up but still inside his brain messing him up even more
I love how everyone completely missed the point of Starlight's powers... Her power is "being gorgeous". That's why she's on the show. She's smoking hot in the outfit. That's it. She has to have "some kind of power" to be a Supe but she's there to be eye candy... it's not really hard to figure out, ffs
She's there to be eye candy and Hughie is there to represent the weak everyday man. The plot goes haywire everytime they have to keep them alive for the story. Hughie is in a building with Homelander and escapes. Then Homelander just stops hunting him lmao. Welp I tried my best to kill Hughie this time, let me not even think about it again.
Butcher's only ever scared when his family's in danger. Maeve's fighting skills proved that Homelander's not a great fighter, just nearly physically invulnerable.
Give Starlight a boost where she can generate her powers without help. Bring back a maive type character like WW sister. Give Butcher and Hughie powers that manifests slowly.
1:09 If starlight focused on BEAMS instead of a repulsor-field, this would have been over. Legit there was force, but his armor wasn’t burning, no walls collapsed, the floor didn’t crack and split. I’m saying that the resulting force does not match the supposed power she was being “charged” with and the destructive power resulted in little more than a heavy shove to her surrounding area. If it was focused into a beam he would have been cut in half and seared shut all in an instant.
I think you are right, they are setting starlight up to learn how to use the potential of her powers more and more. This season she is learning to fly and she will probably become more accurate and powerful with the lasers. It contrasts with homelander who never has had to train at all 😊
I don’t like the idea that someone in the universe can currently hurt/kill Homelander. I’d rather them keep trying new things in the hopes that it will work. If Homelander is shown to be physically vulnerable, it diminishes his presence on screen
I’m just saying it looks like Starlight is getting more powerful but absorbing the energy from the lights around her, why doesn’t she just do this constantly but with the sun? Like REALISTICALLY that’s what she could do to always be this powerful right?
Elle absorbe " l'électricité " pour la convertir en lumière. Et de toute façon, si elle pouvait le faire avec le soleil, elle aurait le même problème la nuit.😅
Some inconsistency i noticed around soldier boys power was at hero gasm simply being around the radioactive soldier boy burned the power out of supes but here he is full grenade cooked and everything and nobody lost their powers here? Ofc ik the story has to keep going but i wish they fleshed it out more you can sometimes really tell and feel when they are rushing scenes like starlight couldve done alot ik a VOUGHT building as enough electricity to at least stun soldier boy like 10times its a big org you would never see blackrock official run out of electricity
