The Boys

Furry said:

Crazy Asian Wolverine- Seems to be clearly strong and well rounded, but obviously has vulnerabilities vs other sups.

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She is basically Claire from Heroes and has the same problems - no offensive ability, no range, no mobility, and regeneration doesn't stop you getting hurt, it just stops you from staying that way. This doesn't help you if, for example, you get folded up into a small bag and then buried in concrete.

This one is an easy F tier - she offers no benefits over a trained soldier with a gun except for cheaper health insurance.

velk said:

She is basically Claire from Heroes and has the same problems - no offensive ability, no range, no mobility, and regeneration doesn't stop you getting hurt, it just stops you from staying that way. This doesn't help you if, for example, you get folded up into a small bag and then buried in concrete.

This one is an easy F tier - she offers no benefits over a trained soldier with a gun except for cheaper health insurance.

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If The Boys end up taking compound V in the show, I am guessing they pretty much end up with Kimiko level powers: Extremely strong and durable/can regen, but that is about it. From a show perspective, that is pretty much all they need to not get insta-gibbed by other supes. You can only have so many happy coincidences and dumb luck to avoid getting ripped to shreds.

velk said:

She is basically Claire from Heroes and has the same problems - no offensive ability, no range, no mobility, and regeneration doesn't stop you getting hurt, it just stops you from staying that way. This doesn't help you if, for example, you get folded up into a small bag and then buried in concrete.

This one is an easy F tier - she offers no benefits over a trained soldier with a gun except for cheaper health insurance.

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Ripping peoples faces off and one punch knock out of Big Dick Dude (BDD for short) seems like a decent offensive ability (she has some form of super strength).

Burns said:

Ripping peoples faces off and one punch knock out of Big Dick Dude (BDD for short) seems like a decent offensive ability (she has some form of super strength).

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True, but like secret kungfu moves or dope archery skills, it's still less effective than a basic handgun.

God dammit his name is Dickguy.(Penis Person a good runner up)

Homelandsr is obviously s tier, really the only supe even close to him is Stormfront. Flying at super sonic speed is a huuuuuuge advantage over all other supes.

Kimoko is A tier imo. Yea she isn't super mobile, but she is basically unkillable and can literally rape face.

Whats still confusing to me is A train and his V use last season. All of the other supes seemed to have had an initial dose and kept their powers. But a train was seemingly using V in order to be EVEN FASTER? What if Homelander was injecting V?

velk said:

True, but like secret kungfu moves or dope archery skills, it's still less effective than a basic handgun.

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she is really good if she is going against an unorganized enemy, and the more enemies there are the more effective she is. any non future gun is only good as long as you got bullets, once thats gone its just a really shitty paper weight. Sort of a sword vs gun argument. kimiko "dies" if an enemy attacks her at range and works quickly to immobilize her, but that would require Batman level planning of knowing her weakness, knowing she will regenerate but it takes time, etc. most bad guys will just throw bodies at her assuming she goes down.

I didn't think about starlight vs stormfront, in theory she would just absorb all the power stormfront throws at her and it would just regenerate her. if they start scissoring it could create a perpetual motion machine. I hope frenchie suggests it, for science

I liked frenchies background and story, he seems like a neat, very flawed guy. the casual way he threw out how he survived by turning tricks... that man's seen some shit

Furry said:

I'm curious how people tier the sups.

B Tier:
Starlight- Pretty tough, but less so than all the A tier sups. Her offensive powers are also situationally limited, but strong. I feel like she might counter stormfront in particular with her powers being electricity based.

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This is the fight coming. This episode hit that nail multiple times. Between the scene where she completely loses power and the car scene, it is becoming obvious which direction this is about to take. Starlight's power is situational. The perfect storm for her power, is Stormfront. It will be very interesting to see how Stormfront's electrical discharge effects Starlight. I am kind of hoping her eyes have a purple shimmer too them right before she melts Stormfront(Or whoever gets the nuke).

Love Sausage is a fairly major comic character.



ps, the guy kicked in the face is Stormfront. who has his head crushed by Butcher in the next page. (boys are dosed with V, in the comic.)

Dickguy is way better than love sausage lol.

But anyway. Should probably have spoilered that.

Jozu said:

Whats still confusing to me is A train and his V use last season. All of the other supes seemed to have had an initial dose and kept their powers. But a train was seemingly using V in order to be EVEN FASTER? What if Homelander was injecting V?

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Supes using V is implied to basically be like shooting up performance enhancing drugs and cocaine all in one: You get a temporary boost in your power, but long term it ends up doing more harm than good and degrades your power set

pharmakos said:

yeah i cringed when they cast him, but homeboy has some acting chops, he must have been studying / practicing a lot since he was Ice Boy or whatever he hell haha

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He was main cast on the show Killjoys most recently

Lithose said:

Yep, it makes zero sense at all. I might have been willing to buy the idea of "supe supremacy", but Stormfront literally says the "other races" are grinding us down--so don't think that's it.

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Yeah, they definitely drank the liberal zeitgeist kool-aid with the super nazi crap. But whatever. It's still the best show out atm.

They didn't drink any kool-aid. If superheroes actually existed it's almost certain a large portion of them would be power addled sociopaths. The nazi angle is an easy way to get the point across in a way that everyone can easily understand.