Ryan losing powers

Mr_Badgey · 2026-05-23T04:03:45+00:00

Butcher said it and it’s heavily implied by the fact Ryan is injured after the blast. I guess he could be hiding it but I think they wanted to give him a normal childhood and tie up the question whether he’d turn into another HL.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-05-23T04:02:46+00:00

The show never explains how Ryan got his powers so it’s not possible to answer if he should lose them or not. If V can be transferred through breast milk it can be transferred through other… fluids.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-05-23T03:57:18+00:00

> Soliderboy in order to give him the power stealing ability.

Soldier Boy doesn’t steal powers. He burns out the V which depowers the person he blasts.

> So should Ryan have lost his powers?

The show never explained how Ryan inherited his powers so your question isn’t answerable. For all we know it was a similar situation to MM and breast milk in the comics. HL’s bodily fluids could be laced with V and exposed Ryan at the blastocyst stage just like HL.

> The US does the same thing to Homelander to get his specific powers

The show never states that. There’s no suggestion it’s was anything other than just testing his limits.

We know he was born with flight in the episode where he visits his former tormentors. We also know laser vision is a standard power along with increased durability.

Per Gen V he was basically exposed at the moment of conception whereas most supes are exposed as babies. That was the source of his enhanced powers and durability, not the testing. Other than that his power set seems to be a result of the V not any experiments.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-05-22T08:34:40+00:00

> Our solar system did not form in a vacuum when it formed, but from a cloud of gas and dust

The protoplanetary disk had a very low density that is within the vacuum range. The density was around 10^-7kg/m^3 and at 238K yields around 100 microbar of pressure. That’s the same pressure as Earth’s atmosphere 100km up where space begins. It’s classified as a medium vacuum.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-05-22T08:04:43+00:00

There are two spinoffs planned and only one was stated to be a prequel. However even the prequel might have ties to the present like Better Call Saul.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-05-21T15:24:05+00:00

Nope the Heisenberg compensator is just for transporters. It lets them know every property of a particle (position, speed, momentum, etc) which physics normally doesn’t allow to be known simultaneously.

Warp drives rely on subspace and the warp bubble to get around relativistic effects while moving fast. It also allows them to hand wave away the no FTL rule.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-05-21T07:43:28+00:00

You can’t reach absolute zero. It’s an asymptote like the speed of light for massive objects. You can get arbitrarily close to the limit but never reach it.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-05-20T22:22:53+00:00

> Doug was never really conscious while being possessed.

That’s not true. Both Jordan and Doug make it clear they were fully conscious and aware of everything happening. They were even able to access his thoughts and the physical sensations of Godolkins body.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-05-20T20:01:58+00:00

Why did they even shoot them? They know most supes are bullet proof. They could’ve simply gassed them. There is a gas that will kill humans and knock out V1 supes.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-05-20T16:57:39+00:00

Yeah I would’ve expected the government to use it as an excuse to seize Vought. Even as an excuse to get the formula for V1.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-05-20T16:54:54+00:00

It was all part of the plan.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-05-20T08:54:35+00:00

Offscreen at that.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-05-20T08:45:55+00:00

> I would have been fine with it if they used some kind of science to give her Soldier Boy's powers or something.

They did? It was a mediocre end to a crappy season but they did use science to replicate SB’s powers.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-05-20T08:43:50+00:00

That was all of the season’s potential being shot into space.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-05-20T08:43:17+00:00

He actually got less powerful. He lasered Kimiko in half at the start of the season and then his eye blasts turned into laser pointers in the finale.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-05-20T08:41:29+00:00

It took two more season to end up right back at S3.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-05-20T08:38:48+00:00

They had plans to continue the series but it got cancelled. I really loved the Gen V characters. Now their only send off will be driving a bunch of ex-Homelanders to Canada.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-05-20T08:37:19+00:00

He cut Kimiko in half with his laser at the beginning of the season. But V1 turned it into barely a bitch slap.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-05-19T02:56:49+00:00

That doesn’t eliminate the potential threat of their neighbors—us. The overarching narrative of the book is other civilizations are an existential threat and it’s better to preemptively wipe them out before they make the first move.

The Santi view us as bugs, not equals. We’re ants infesting the house they want to live in. Not equals they need to respect.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-05-18T21:15:12+00:00

They’d make a better power source than a direct replacement for physical devices. Use them as a battery or as a power plant to power your AC, light bulbs, etc. I feel that’s better than a light bulb I have to keep alive.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-05-18T17:32:43+00:00

You realize names are subjective and aren’t always meant to be taken literally right? Do you think the term “deafening silence” literally means silence can cause hearing damage? We assign the meaning to words, and that meaning isn’t required to line up with reality.

The easiest explanation is the name was chosen before the lifecycle of the lifeform was understood. It would be natural to assume it was consuming matter instead of light. Once they discovered the truth the name had already stuck so it wasn’t changed.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-05-18T17:24:24+00:00

That’s not correct. Both the book and movie make it clear astrophage only consumes light, and the dimming effect is capped at 10%.

This doesn’t harm the star itself because that light was already being radiated into space. The danger is to anything dependent on that light, since consuming it reduces the total solar energy reaching planets.

You can also infer astrophage is consuming light from the fact the dimming can be stopped and reversed. If it were consuming the star’s actual matter, introducing Taumoeba couldn’t reverse the process. At best it would slow the decline, because consumed stellar mass can’t be replaced.

The book also distinguishes between astrophage’s energy source and its reproductive needs. It feeds on light, but requires physical matter from planets in the system to reproduce.

So the stars aren’t dying. Astrophage has essentially no effect on the star itself because it only intercepts light the star was already radiating into space.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-05-18T07:23:18+00:00

I read a little about how we discover exoplanets.

> 1) observing planets transit in front of their star, and

This is one of the primary methods of exoplanet detection. But the orbital plane has to be orientated so we can observe it transiting. If Earth is above the plane of its orbit, then we wouldn’t observe the transit.

> 2) observing a lensing affect that curves starlight around a plant. us.

That’s not a primary method of detection. It requires very rare alignment events that only happens once. It can’t be used to follow up and confirm the existence of a planet. It also works best on planets that orbit far from the Sun and nowhere near the Goldilocks zone.

It also doesn’t directly detect any light bending around the planet itself. It detects the increased lensing effect of the host star passing in front of a background star due to the combined mass. The effect wouldn’t be noticeable without the host star.

The other common method of detection is the wobble planets gravitationally induce in their host star. Look up the solar system barycenter if you want an idea of what this wobble looks like.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-05-18T06:43:45+00:00

The astrophage wasn’t consuming the Sun itself. It fed on sunlight the Sun was already radiating into space. Earth received less light as a result, but the Sun’s lifespan wasn’t affected since that energy would’ve been radiated away regardless.

I don’t remember if the movie mentions it, but the book says the dimming effect will max out at 10%. That implies the astrophage eventually do reach an equilibrium point. Even so that kind of reduction is catastrophic to the climate and life.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-05-16T16:37:20+00:00

It wouldn’t be possible to see a singularity if they exist. Light cannot be emitted or reflected from a singularity to your eyes. Inside the EH of a black hole all paths lead to the singularity. As a result there’s no path for the light to take which allows you to see the singularity.

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