Hughie’s [SPOILER] Hilariously Solve A Common Superhero Plot Hole
WARNING: Spoilers ahead for The Boys season 3, episode 4
Hughie's powers in The Boys season 3 brilliantly fix a plot hole so many other superhero stories fall victim to. The Boys' Compound-V divide stood firm in seasons 1 & 2, with supes on one side and Billy Butcher's non-supes occupying the moral high-ground opposite. Thanks to Kimiko, Starlight and Queen Maeve, Butcher learned not all supes were awful, but nevertheless maintained his "a supe's a supe" philosophy. The introduction of V-24 changes that in The Boys season 3. As the name suggests, one dose gives the subject superpowers for a 24-hour period before wearing off. Butcher sees V-24 as the perfect way to level the playing field without completely lowering himself to their level… and Hughie apparently feels the same way.
Hughie secretly injects himself with V-24 during The Boys season 3's Russia mission. Going behind Butcher's back, Wee Hughie Campbell surprises his friends by teleporting across the room to save MM from an oncoming soldier. Though the extent of Hughie's V-24 powers is yet to be fully explored, Jack Quaid's character can perform short, instantaneous hops. When Hughie jumps, however, he lands totally naked. All clothes simply crumple in a pile wherever Hughie jumped from, leaving him swinging freely in the midst of battle.
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In the most hilarious way imaginable, Hugh Campbell's The Boys superpowers tackle something that never makes sense about teleporting superheroes: why their clothes go with them. When your average fictional teleporter jumps, they invariably materialize wearing exactly the same outfit. This trick usually gets explained by a rule specifying any object making
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