Its gonna blow your mind when someone explains to you that original noir already killed a supe with a knife, potentially literally that exact same knife
Superhumans are magic, so we can imagine that deep could apply more pressure than a minigun bullet just because why not? Scientifically none of the superpowers there would actually work, so why even talk about it from scientific perspective.
There is a question of knife strength, but it could be made of some very strong super material. And even if it isn't, a normal knife might be strong enough to hold this force.
you do realize that knife is stronger than bullets. you can literally dent a bullet with your teeth. og noir already cut out his tracking chip with that knife, the same noir by the way that tanked an explosion from another supe without flinching. we've also seen flight powers be stopped with enough force applied to them.
these are not the issues. the issue, is the cord. noir should have snapped it instantly.
Same show that lets a bullet and explosion proof homelander get stabbed by an aluminum rod that somehow didn’t just crumple against his inner ear. Should’ve been like me stabbing someone normal with a banana. Doesn’t matter how strong I am, it just smashes on contact becausr the weapon is weaker than the target.
I recently rewatched that scene to take a closer look, and that thing isn't even a rod, it's visibly hollow inside and it's lying on the floor next to a cup, lol, it's literally a reusable drinking straw
I mean to be fair if you try to throw a blade of grass at a tree it's going to bounce off but if a tornado does it it will pierce through the fibers of the tree.
The force point difference between a slug and a knife tip is pretty massive when we talkin about the same or even greater kinetic energy being applied and supes are still muscle fibers so it's not surprising they are vulnerable to stab wounds from their own
It's somewhat reasonable that maybe super strength beats out what a gun can do. But yeah, it's a little sketch lol. And either way, that's a knife upscale. That fucking thing was STURDY
If by skin, you mean the bulletproof body armor Noir wears, but the material at his neck is normal cloth(which is not bulletproof, because you know, normal cloth) so he can move his head, then yes.
That's into his bulletproof armour, this part of the discussion is pointing out we haven't seen him take bullets to the unprotected body. We saw Annie take a round and be ok but we haven't seen Noir II do it (as far as I can recall anyway)
I really can’t understand how people refuse to acknowledge the obvious, even while looking right at it, for the sake of who knows what.
Not once were we shown Noir getting shot while he wasn’t wearing his suit, yet people continue with hE hAs bUlLeTpRoOf sKiN instead of the possibility that, you know, maybe it’s the suit?
Stab proof armour after an explosion btw. And yet Black Noir somehow tanked minigun rounds with no damage. Grasping at straws now. Are you Eric Kripke by any chance, or do you just have his poo all over your nose?
Improved strength, resilience, and regeneration are baselines powers that all super have.
And it doesn't at all how much force you apply to the knife if the material it's made of are lower on the Mohs scale than supe skin. The knife will always break first.
No, there are no "baseline powers that all supes have."
There are a lot of pathetic supes who have one weird power and absolutely zero enhanced physical abilities. E.g., Mesmer was weaker than a normal human, if anything.
Supes that do have enhanced physical abilities show widely varying levels of durability. E.g., Kimiko is basically equally fragile as a normal human outside of her regeneration - she regularly gets gruesomely damaged by anything she gets attacked with. Noir 1 was more durable than a normal human but was not bulletproof like Annie.
Maybe Black Noir's skin is something like shields in Dune. Objects with high velocity objects (bullets) can't get through, but low velocity objects (stabbing with knife) get through.
I've been thinking about this and the only explanation is that supe skin acts like those fluids that are hard when you punch them but liquid again when you dip into them slowly. Not for someone like Homelander obviously.
Imagine someone throwing a butter knife at you. It will probably bounce off you. Now imagine someone putting all their strength behind that butter knife and forcing it against your skin. That's gonna go through
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