The Boys

The Boys (2019)

1 mistake in Wisdom of the Ages

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Wisdom of the Ages - S4-E4

Factual error: Lasers, like what Homelander shoots from his eyes, burn through the body. This would cauterize the wound and make any bleeding after minimal at best. So after he uses his lasers to burn through the bald guy's crotch, there would have been very little blood. When he's lying on the floor groaning in pain, there's blood pooling around him as if it were an open gunshot or knife wound. This is not how it would work after being burned by laser.

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Suggested correction: Respectfully, you are assuming that Homelander's "laser" vision behaves the same way as an actual laser. It's a fictional ability possessed by a fictional character, so it can behave any way the writers need it to. There are other scenes where Homelander uses the ability to massacre entire crowds, and their bodies are shown pretty much exploding into pools of blood.

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Trivia: Simon Pegg's extended cameo as Hughie's father is a specific nod to the comics - the look of "Wee Hughie" in the original comics was based on Simon Pegg. Artist Darick Robertson said "it was important to capture an innocence but tough determination in Hughie. Two things that seemed to contradict each other and somehow in early sketches he kept looking too old. When I saw Simon Pegg in Spaced I thought he captured that balance perfectly." Pegg knew he was too old to play the character himself, but was happy to play his father.

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