History Headscratchers / TheBoys

* Actually, if they guy can read lines convincingly then you could probably make it. Not trying to knock Sarah Palin here, but when she was off script, she was very incoherent, didn't stop her from being taken seriously.

* I fail to see how this is such a big deal. If someone like DanQuayle managed to be a vice president, Vic the Veep is just the next step taken to the illogical extreme.

** I chalk that one up to Black Noir having as equally a low opinion Starlight as the others in the Seven, but taking out one of Vought's 3 biggest money makers on the team might cause him more drama than he's willing to deal with.

** In their defence, it's not like the people involved aren't full well aware that the Homelander has a fairly lengthy list of his own monstrous actions and conduct that they've helped cover up at this point.

[[WMG: Why the HELL didn't someone at Vought, especially Stillwell, not consider the possibility that the photos of Homelander raping and murdering a family [[spoiler: might have been of Black Noir?]]]]

I mean, given what we've found out about Homelander in issue #65 and assuming people with access to knowledge of the contingency plan had all the details, it's something they should have looked into. I mean, why have [[spoiler:a clone of The Homelander that's even MORE powerful if you're worried that the first one might snap]]?

* It's pretty much the whole point of the story. The whole theme is 'Competence Vs Incompetence', and the fact that Voight, despite having so much money, power, and pull, still has people make the most head-deskingly stupid decisions because, well, they have so much money and so much power that they think they don't need to do things like think ahead. Or think at all. It's like the scientists who built the Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb without checking which form of Lithium they used: when these kind of mistakes explode, they explode REAL GOOD.

[[WMG: Since Vought wants to weaponize superheroes, and Black Noir proves that they were able to successfully clone The Homelander, why haven't they produced more clones of him instead of relying on lesser powered heroes?]]
Okay, Black Noir proved to be insane, but that was because of the specific mental conditioning he had undergone to serve his role. So why doesn't Vought produce more Homelander clones and train them into super soldiers?
** Because it would have been hard to market them as unique "heroes" without concealing their faces. Or because the cloning and enhancement processes may be as expensive as producing Compound V. Or they actually DID and they were just saving them until after they could shift their business away from Superheroes and towards defense contracts. We have some more issues to see what happens, and one of those 3 seem likely to me.

** Because it would have been hard to market them as unique "heroes" without concealing their faces. Or because the cloning and enhancement processes may be as expensive as producing Compound V. Or they actually DID and they were just saving them until after they could shift their business away from Superheros and towards defense contracts. We have some more issues to see what happens, and one of those 3 seem likely to me.

Okay, Black Noir proved to be insane, but that was because of the specific mental conditioning he had undergone to serve his function. So why doesn't Vought produce hundreds of Homelander clones and train them into super soldiers?

** It's even outright pointed out in the issue, how stupid was to build a contingency plan that ended actually causing the problem that it was built to contain.

*** Until the final arc plays out, perhaps we could say he still IS...how? Guess we'll find out.

** Even still, I expected better of Stillwell, who said the most important aspect of preparation is "Everything". Looks like he should have been following his own advice.

* It's pretty much the whole point of the story. The whole theme is 'Competence Vs Incompetence', and the fact that Voight, despite having so much money, power, and pull, still has people make the most head-deskingly stupid decisions because, well, they have so much money and so much power that they think they don't need to do things like think ahead. Or think at all. It's like the scientists who built the Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb without checking which form of Lithium they used: when these kind of mistakes explode, they explode REAL GOOD.

Fuckin' idiots.

[[WMG: Why the HELL didn't someone at Vought, especially Stillwell, not consider the possibility that the photos of Homelander raping and murdering a family [[spoiler: might have been of Black Noir]]?]]

[[WMG: Why the HELL didn't someone at Vought, especially Stillwell, not consider the possibility that the photos of Homelander raping and murdering a family [[spoiler: might have been of Black Noir?]]

* I fail to see how this is such a big deal. If someone like DanQuayle managed to be a vice president, Vic the Veep is just the next step taken to the illogical extreme.

* I read the condom scene more as him getting a thrill from asserting his authority over the poor, traumatized Secret Service agent than anything else.

* I read the condom scene more as him getting a thrill from asserting his authority over the poor, traumatized Secret Service agent than anything else.
* Two words: Joe Biden.

* I read the condom scene more as him getting a thrill from asserting his authority over the poor, traumatized Secret Service agent than anything else.

*** Vic didn't ''personally'' attack the President. No one saw who did (although it was presumably one of the subverted Secret Service guys). Admittedly, the ease with which the attack was smoothed over and the extinguisher removed from evidence strains credibility, but with nothing to connect Vic to the attack, they had no choice but to accept his order as acting President. (I'm not sure this fits perfectly with American constitutional law as it stands -- that is, in RealLife there may have to be some sort of official declaration of the President's incapacity before the Vice President can assume his powers -- but don't quote me on that. It's not quite my field, or at least not my specialty.)

** Actually, if they guy can read lines convincingly then you could probably make it. Not trying to knock Sarah Palin here, but when she was off script, she was very incoherent, didn't stop her from being taken seriously.

This guy just totally destroys suspension of disbelief. A borderline retard who can barely speak coherently and can't even put on a condom? That's something you'd expect in {{Preacher}}, [[BerthaInTheAttic in a locked basement]] somewhere, but absolutely not in politics.