Headscratchers / Gen V

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First Black Supe in the Seven

• The first episode states that A-Train is the first black super on the Seven. Why didn't Vought play that card with Black Noir already? Did his career really benefit that much from passing as white?
  • Vought's PR team likely wanted someone who'd looked good for the cameras while unmasked and could actually speak to the press. Plus, they might wish to maintain Noir's mysterious persona.
  • Black Noir was first hired in the middle of a different climate where racism was more accepted, with Soldier Boy being an extremely racist and violent person who'd stop anyone from stealing a shred of spotlight from him. Once he was finally out, Noir looked like a grotesque mangled pile of flesh, which was going to raise a lot of questions about what happened, not to say, as the Troper above me stated, he was both mute and horribly scarred.

First "natural born" Supe

• Andre is the son of another supe, and inherited his powers. He's clearly older than Ryan, which makes this troper wonder why Ryan being the "first natural-born supe" was such a big deal.
  • It’s possible that Andre was dosed with Compound V as an infant anyway, and getting his father’s powers was a coincidence. It would make sense for someone as image-conscious as Polarity to ensure that his child would have powers and carry on his legacy.
  • More than a coincidence, there appears to be some genetic influence in what powers are unlocked when a baby gets V. We have Andre and Polarity both having magnetic powers, but also Translucent's son being invisible, and the TNT Twins having the same power. Even Homelander and Soldier Boy share the superstrength and endurance, although those seem to be the most widespread superpowers.

Cate's touch-based mind control power.

• Why is it that she can control people with a mere touch of her hand, yet she can still kiss Luke and Andre and not cause them to be mind controlled? And she can apparently have sex without causing her partner to be mind-controlled? Her hands are made of literally the exact same flesh as her other body parts, so why can't she use her mind control with any kind of touch?
  • There are quite a few examples of supes who specifically need their hands for their powers. For example, Crimson Countess who needs both her hands to be touching. It’s not unusual. But also, her hands aren’t made of the exact same stuff as all her body parts. The skin on human hands is very different to the skin on the rest of the body.
  • I see. Thank you for clarifying, and I apologize for my ignorance on what different parts of human skin are made of.
  • As episode 6 reveals, the gloves are really just a placebo, and Cate has merely led herself to think that the gloves act as a dampener that keeps her from affecting other people by touching them.

Sloane the party animal

• Sloane is well-known enough that no one is surprised when they see her, is the dom in a dom/sub relationship, and has chosen Maverick as a significant other. What is more likely: (1) a shapeshifter who has taken the form of an alpaca, (2) a supe able to cast such an illusion, or (3) an alpaca who has been injected with Compound V and now has superpowers?
  • It's never answered in season 1, so it's all merely speculation.

Golden Boy hiding the phone

• Before he died, Luke hid a phone with his confession inside the statue of Polarity. How exactly did he do this, though? Because we saw Andre have to use his powers to rip open the statue to extract the phone, and there's no evidence of heat damage on the statue (like was on the security camera nearby). So how did Luke put it in there without leaving any trace?

Cate's rape

• So, did she actually got raped by Rufus or was it a lie so the team would go after him?
  • Rufus does try to rape Marie, so it seems likely. Cate is also not a master manipulator who spins great lies. She controls minds and feels bad about it.

Rufus' Sudden recovery

• Rufus literally has his penis blown off and was left bleeding out badly. From then on nothing else is made of it, and Rufus himself is well enough to full on run without any signs of injury. Regeneration is a specific power and not a common one among Supes, so I'm confused as to how he just walked off being castrated in a matter of 2 days or without anyone asking questions.
  • Most supes possess low grade Super-Toughness. While Rufus probably didn't regenerate (Mainly because of Rule of Funny and karma), I guess his superhuman physiology managed to make sure he didn't bleed out. Besides, he is probably too cocky to appear weak in public, for all we know he might be putting an act and his loin hurts more than licking a cheese grater.
  • Of all things, the episode descriptions might solve this; the description for Episode 5 says that in the aftermath of the party, the Incredible Steve (the Supe whose limbs got torn off by Luke in Episode 1) lost his penis at the same party that the main cast woke up at. The implication seems to be that Rufus stole Steve's dick and put it on himself.
    • Wait, isn't Steve an African-American? Rufus is just going to have a black dick attached to his very white pelvis?
    • Considering Compound V is a thing in this universe, Vought probably has a way of genetically altering Steve's penis while it's attached to Rufus so that the dick looks like a White dick.

Dean Shetty's Supe Hatred

• Dean Shetty cites Homelander's involvement in the crash of Flight 37 as the reason she hates Supes, but nobody but he and Queen Maeve know what really happened and the official story was that the plane had gone down before they arrived. How, then, does Shetty know the truth? She couldn't have been on the flight with her family—-there were no survivors.
  • Shetty works for Vought. And as the dean of Godolkin, she's likely in a position to access classified information about the crash that Vought hid from the public and from most people within the company.
    • Which begs the question: Why would Vought keep a record of the incident? They erased the footage of Queen Maeve surviving in order to her a martyr, so why didn't they erased that as well, considering he's their mascot?