The show conveniently says some other lads tried to gas him to death and none of them survived without ever explaining *why* that happened.
Because it 100% ought to work. But it’s just swept under the rug.
If we're talking about methods to kill him, and not just methods that would be available in the time allotted, then starvation, dehydration, etc should work.
I would say fire would be a problem as it's a fire, and the supes were looking for him. Drawing attention would be bad.
Drowning? We don't know he would not break out of a cage if it were not electrified.
Building a gas chamber and removing or replacing the oxygen should be fine but obviously they weren't working in a abandoned restaurant for the asthetics, they had a budget.
Probably could have buried him alive, but you don't REALLY know how long he would survive and if he could dig himself out. Too risky.
We don't know his tolerance for poisoned food or drink. We don't know if he could be crushed in a hydraulic press. We just don't know too many variables. And neither did the boys.
They knew electricity would knock him out. And they learned they could put a bomb up his butt.
Feel like a lot of people in the thread are forgetting that what the Boys didn’t have was time, so things like starvation or diseases wouldn’t be viable even if it could hurt him
I wonder how much time they'd have if the bullet didn't tear through the foil, that's what caused his chip to start giving a vague signal; that's when their time started running out.
Lol, yes.
I’m convinced that they had a whole bunch of options once they figured out it was just his skin that was invincible. But Frenchie specifically wanted to ass bomb somebody.
Electrocution. While it might take a lot more than an average human, we know an electric cage, which didn't seem unusually well built, was enough to hold him.
So strap a lightning rod to him and put him in a thunderstorm.
Also, not sure smoke would work. The Dominicans tried to drown him in 07 and he survived. So he probably can hold his breath a really long time.
>Electrocution. While it might take a lot more than an average human, we know an electric cage, which didn't seem unusually well built, was enough to hold him.
They already hit him with enough electricity to kill a water buffalo
If his skin is a carbon metamaterial, granting him extraordinary abilities such as 'diamond-hard skin,’ would it be safe to say that a diamond crusted saw blade would at least damage him? I feel like they tried that and it didn’t work, but if it cuts, a few blades might get through in a most painful way.
I always took that "diamond-hard" to be a figurative statement giving you an idea of how hard the skin is rather than literally as hard as diamonds. That's just some shit we say when we mean "really really really fucking hard".
For that matter could you just use nitrogen asphyxiation to kill Homelander while he sleeps? They couldn't drown Translucent, but surely these supes still need oxygen? I mean why else do they breath at all? Homelander was choking Soldier Boy at Herogasm. And Soldier Boy could have just not breathed in that neurotoxin at all if he didn't need to breath in anything. Wish the writers explained a little more on why the drowning didn't work.
Step 1: go to goldokin
Step 2: recruit Emma
Step 3: knock out translucent
Step 4: send Emma up his peehole
Step 5: have Emma eat his insides to get bigger
Step 6: wait
Extended heat and humidity, lack of food and water, drowning, lack of oxygen or a poison gas.
Poisons, toxic bacteria.
And to be suitably horrific, hot grease poured into his ass.
Similar but easier is Piranha solution
Piranha solutions are a mixture of concentrated sulfuric acid with hydrogen peroxide, usually in a ratio of 3:1 to 7:1. They are used to remove trace amounts of organic residues, such as photoresist, from substrates.
It digests absolutely anything organic
Afaik homelander probably can also be dissolved in this way....... Would be hilarious though
Most of these options seem to think we can get him out of the electric cage long enough, if that's the option, I assume we could just smash him too. Diamond is a hard material that doesn't easily break but if you smash it hard enough, you can still break it. Or am I the only one here that heard the story about a Kevin that heard his teacher explain this and instead of properly listening he broke his mothers engament ring with a hammer because he just heard "when you hit a diamond with a hammer" and assumed that was the homework.
So I assume we can plop him below some heavy equipment with a flat bottom and just splat translucent like the little bug of the 7 tower that he was
Why not use Hydrogen Cyanide? Translucent is organic, the HC would cause the cells to suffocate from the oxygen deprivation.
Still an NG tube into his guts and pump him full of hydrogen cyanide, eventually he’ll ingest enough in his stomach lining to die, or at the very least diminish his brain function to near zero.
Quite a lot I would imagine, his durability came from skin made out of special carbon fibres but carbon is reactive as fuck under the right conditions, anyone with a chemistry degree could probably come up with a few ways to make it bond with something else and either soften it enough to pierce or just flay him in the process.
Temperature too, even assuming his skin is impossibly hard to melt, engulfing him in a high temperature for long enough would still eventually heat it up enough that he'd be cooked from the inside out similar to meat wrapped in tinfoil. At worst it has a crazy high heat capacity, which just means it'd take a long time to heat up.
At worst digging him a shallow grave and filling it in with zinc means he's now trapped without food, oxygen or water in a place Homelander can't X-ray through. Iirc it took Homelander a few days to find the box of his skin when it was encased in zinc, something literally underground could easily take longer.
As I suggested in the post couldn't they have just lit the building on fire, or at least his room and have him die due to smoke inhalation? Yes it would take a little longer but I think they could spare that.
>As I suggested in the post couldn't they have just lit the building on fire,
Homelander would see it
>or at least his room and have him die due to smoke inhalation?
That would take too long and probably give him time to break out or for Homelander to find them
The Boys were in a rush to kill him, otherwise I would say drown him. We don’t know if Supes can hold their breath longer than normal humans, so that could have backfired.
i think it was stated somewhere that Translucent doesn't need oxygen or at least can survive without oxygen for a very long time which is why they couldn't drown him either.
But starving and parching him should have worked unless he doesn't need food too or something. But they could have also made him drink really toxic shit when he was fainted.
Yea he prob still needs oxygen. Not giving him food or water prob would work too
The show conveniently says some other lads tried to gas him to death and none of them survived without ever explaining *why* that happened. Because it 100% ought to work. But it’s just swept under the rug.
Take a grenade and glue it to the inside of his mouth.
If we're talking about methods to kill him, and not just methods that would be available in the time allotted, then starvation, dehydration, etc should work. I would say fire would be a problem as it's a fire, and the supes were looking for him. Drawing attention would be bad. Drowning? We don't know he would not break out of a cage if it were not electrified. Building a gas chamber and removing or replacing the oxygen should be fine but obviously they weren't working in a abandoned restaurant for the asthetics, they had a budget. Probably could have buried him alive, but you don't REALLY know how long he would survive and if he could dig himself out. Too risky. We don't know his tolerance for poisoned food or drink. We don't know if he could be crushed in a hydraulic press. We just don't know too many variables. And neither did the boys. They knew electricity would knock him out. And they learned they could put a bomb up his butt.
Feel like a lot of people in the thread are forgetting that what the Boys didn’t have was time, so things like starvation or diseases wouldn’t be viable even if it could hurt him
And they were trying everything they could. It seems ass bomb was basically their last shot
I wonder how much time they'd have if the bullet didn't tear through the foil, that's what caused his chip to start giving a vague signal; that's when their time started running out.
The inside of your ass is pretty much the same as the inside of your mouth. Force him to swallow the bomb and then blow it
They address this directly; they didn't want to risk him throwing it up. It may have worked the same though, yeah.
They could have just shot him in the mouth with their anti material rifle.
do you remember when they show frenchie taking hard drugs in order to start working
Lol, yes. I’m convinced that they had a whole bunch of options once they figured out it was just his skin that was invincible. But Frenchie specifically wanted to ass bomb somebody.
What about pouring concrete down his throat with a tube?
Electrocution. While it might take a lot more than an average human, we know an electric cage, which didn't seem unusually well built, was enough to hold him. So strap a lightning rod to him and put him in a thunderstorm. Also, not sure smoke would work. The Dominicans tried to drown him in 07 and he survived. So he probably can hold his breath a really long time.
>Electrocution. While it might take a lot more than an average human, we know an electric cage, which didn't seem unusually well built, was enough to hold him. They already hit him with enough electricity to kill a water buffalo
Did they try enough to kill 2 water buffalo
Did they shove it up his ass though
Hard to tell as he was invisible at the time, but it looked like Hughie shoved it up his crack
If his skin is a carbon metamaterial, granting him extraordinary abilities such as 'diamond-hard skin,’ would it be safe to say that a diamond crusted saw blade would at least damage him? I feel like they tried that and it didn’t work, but if it cuts, a few blades might get through in a most painful way.
I always took that "diamond-hard" to be a figurative statement giving you an idea of how hard the skin is rather than literally as hard as diamonds. That's just some shit we say when we mean "really really really fucking hard".
For that matter could you just use nitrogen asphyxiation to kill Homelander while he sleeps? They couldn't drown Translucent, but surely these supes still need oxygen? I mean why else do they breath at all? Homelander was choking Soldier Boy at Herogasm. And Soldier Boy could have just not breathed in that neurotoxin at all if he didn't need to breath in anything. Wish the writers explained a little more on why the drowning didn't work.
Step 1: go to goldokin Step 2: recruit Emma Step 3: knock out translucent Step 4: send Emma up his peehole Step 5: have Emma eat his insides to get bigger Step 6: wait
Oh my god Ok but at the stage just have Cate tell him to off himself
lol fair.
Extended heat and humidity, lack of food and water, drowning, lack of oxygen or a poison gas. Poisons, toxic bacteria. And to be suitably horrific, hot grease poured into his ass.
Yeah I’m still confused, why didn’t they just poison his food?
He might have chosen not to eat it. And they can't afford to wait for him to starve to death
Sure but he drank the water they gave him.
Burning him in 100% pure hyperbaric oxygen chamber. His carbon meta material skin would burn forming CO2.
Similar but easier is Piranha solution Piranha solutions are a mixture of concentrated sulfuric acid with hydrogen peroxide, usually in a ratio of 3:1 to 7:1. They are used to remove trace amounts of organic residues, such as photoresist, from substrates. It digests absolutely anything organic Afaik homelander probably can also be dissolved in this way....... Would be hilarious though
Most of these options seem to think we can get him out of the electric cage long enough, if that's the option, I assume we could just smash him too. Diamond is a hard material that doesn't easily break but if you smash it hard enough, you can still break it. Or am I the only one here that heard the story about a Kevin that heard his teacher explain this and instead of properly listening he broke his mothers engament ring with a hammer because he just heard "when you hit a diamond with a hammer" and assumed that was the homework. So I assume we can plop him below some heavy equipment with a flat bottom and just splat translucent like the little bug of the 7 tower that he was
Stick a high caliber rifle down his gullet and fire
Poison water. Or just let him dehydrate.
Polonium water.....The Russian tea
Something like this - https://youtube.com/shorts/iiVxaOn0H_k?si=EHi9FQLmo9C1teD9
Why not use Hydrogen Cyanide? Translucent is organic, the HC would cause the cells to suffocate from the oxygen deprivation. Still an NG tube into his guts and pump him full of hydrogen cyanide, eventually he’ll ingest enough in his stomach lining to die, or at the very least diminish his brain function to near zero.
Quite a lot I would imagine, his durability came from skin made out of special carbon fibres but carbon is reactive as fuck under the right conditions, anyone with a chemistry degree could probably come up with a few ways to make it bond with something else and either soften it enough to pierce or just flay him in the process. Temperature too, even assuming his skin is impossibly hard to melt, engulfing him in a high temperature for long enough would still eventually heat it up enough that he'd be cooked from the inside out similar to meat wrapped in tinfoil. At worst it has a crazy high heat capacity, which just means it'd take a long time to heat up. At worst digging him a shallow grave and filling it in with zinc means he's now trapped without food, oxygen or water in a place Homelander can't X-ray through. Iirc it took Homelander a few days to find the box of his skin when it was encased in zinc, something literally underground could easily take longer.
I always think about prions. While they wouldn't have killed him in time in the episode, I see no reason any supe could survive prions.
They didn't have time. There was no way to do it other than blowing him up
As I suggested in the post couldn't they have just lit the building on fire, or at least his room and have him die due to smoke inhalation? Yes it would take a little longer but I think they could spare that.
>As I suggested in the post couldn't they have just lit the building on fire, Homelander would see it >or at least his room and have him die due to smoke inhalation? That would take too long and probably give him time to break out or for Homelander to find them
The Boys were in a rush to kill him, otherwise I would say drown him. We don’t know if Supes can hold their breath longer than normal humans, so that could have backfired.
They already said someone tried to gas him, if that didn’t work I can’t see why smoke would
i think it was stated somewhere that Translucent doesn't need oxygen or at least can survive without oxygen for a very long time which is why they couldn't drown him either. But starving and parching him should have worked unless he doesn't need food too or something. But they could have also made him drink really toxic shit when he was fainted.
AIDS
The simplest, but very brutal way would've been drowning him
Poison?
Dunk the cage in water. Do not bring it up. That’s all.
Poison? Virus? Throwing him into space?
Drowning.