The Boys
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Juvarisx
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I imagine it spreads easily as they had sealed off the house as a precaution and bagged Soldier Boys body in a hazmat thing. Maybe its an endemic thing dunno.
Bald Brah
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It's just lazy writing. As fast as it works they should have just called it kryptonite. I guess they didn't want it to work 100 percent of the time or certain supes to be able to build immunity to it.
Seananigans
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I laughed out loud pretty hard, especially after having watched the most recent Invincible with the (obvious beforehand) fakeout at the end.
Juvarisx
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I hadnt read the comics and didn't remember, but the first generation supes version of V made them more or less immortal outside of decapitation hence them not aging. The ones we have seen with it were Stormfront and Soldier Boy.
So it works but not on OG V and doesnt effect humans.
Runnen
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They spent 15 minutes of that episode trying to break through Rock Hard's stone skin because he is able to hold his breath and wouldn't inhale the virus, to no avail. In the end, he dies in seconds from the virus even though he wasn't breathing it in, so it seems to infect Supes just by contact with the skin or any of their cells.
Phazael
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First of all, you are describing narcissism. Second I am pretty sure if they made the president a secret foreign agent with a tranny "wife" the same people hand waving this shit would be reeeeeing their asses off. The real sin for me is that its eye rolling and just not funny or entertaining. Rogan has the same fucking problem to a lesser extent when Hitler accidentally became a fan favorite in Preacher. They made Homelander too awesome and they don't know how to course correct to get the virtue signal they want into their product. They read the entire comic run and somehow managed to miss the point that EVERYONE is shitty in their TDS driven zeal to try and mock their social enemies in the real world. And that in itself is the actual funny thing here.
I always come back to Starship Troopers, because first the author made something that the audience took in almost the exact opposite intended way. Then the guy who made the movie literally made the exact same "mistake" of having the fascist regime being relatable and kind of awesome in its own way. Occasionally modern writers get it right on accident, specifically that a sympathetic and relatable bad guy is vital for a good story (see Thanos as the most notable recent example) and then they try to course correct what they see as wrong think on the part of the audience due to their own ideology, rather than build off of it.
Bald Brah
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It clearly showed him take a deep breath when soldier boy showed up thinking he was safe.