It seemed to hurt him at Hughie's store, it knocked him out, i'm sure if you shocked him long enough it'd kill him, which is why i didn't get why they was trying so hard to figure out what could kill him when they should already know.
shareI think they said that was the problem: it would only hurt him, not kill him like a regular human. But you raise a good point--if they'd zapped him with a lot more power--maybe take him to a power station or some high-tension lines--would that work? But then Homelander might see him.
shareSadly I think in hindsight it was just because they wanted to do a gross out scene with his guts splattered everywhere when they stuck the bomb in him. Though frankly I don't understand the logic in the bomb splattering him. They explained his outer skin was pretty much impenetrable with anything as if it was pretty much as strong as Wolverine's claws... so the bomb really shouldn't have made much of a mess at all unless it just caused some guts to squirt out his asshold, ears, nose, mouth or possibly eye sockets.... the shell that protected him should have been left untouched which would have probably made for a better story with them then having to find a way to get rid of the indestructible evidence left behind.
shareI know this is 3 months late but I just finished the first season :)
so the bomb really shouldn't have made much of a mess at all unless it just caused some guts to squirt out his asshold, ears, nose, mouth or possibly eye sockets.... the shell that protected him should have been left untouched which would have probably made for a better story with them then having to find a way to get rid of the indestructible evidence left behind.
It's been a while since i watched it but I thought he pretty much blew up making a huge mess. Even though they had to deal with the skin the mess should have been much less. He pretty much blew up like an egg in a microwave.
shareYou're right that the explosion looked like an egg in the microwave, or maybe a pizza pocket is more accurate :D But as for the size of the mess, the way I thought of it was like when you put your finger over the end of a garden hose, the water sprays out all over the place. The bomb forced all of his guts out through the various holes of his body the same way. But really I think it was for the shock/comedy factor than trying to be realistic.
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TaterTots would have a point, except that they pretty much showed separate fragments of skin, not an empty, human-shaped sack.
Really, if they'd wanted to gross everyone out, the human-shaped sack would probably have been more disturbing