SAGE IS THE WORST CHARACTER IN THE SHOW

You read the title and yeah, it’s true: Sage pisses me off on a FUNDAMENTAL level. The show treats her like this edgy, hyper-competent mastermind, but she’s the most wasted “super genius” in the entire verse. Her power is literally super intelligence!!! . The Vought empire, Compound V, all of it exists because of a formula she should be able to reverse-engineer, improve, or completely break in an afternoon. Instead she spends half her screen time giving herself lobotomies for actually no reason. She eats up way too much runtime for someone who ultimately does… what, exactly? Drop some basic observations that any halfway cynical person could make? The show acts like she’s this Machiavellian puppet master, but she’s mostly just stating obvious shit about predictable people. Give literally anyone healing powers and they could cosplay as a genius too. Think about what actual super intelligence should look like in this world: She could cook up a V2 formula that turns her into something Homelander couldn’t even comprehend. She could engineer a targeted poison, after all she’s smarter than fucking frenchie! She dosent care about anyone sage could have just put it in the tower sprinklers. She could have made a weaponized radiation device (we already know radiation fucks with supes hard and cane even take away their powers). Sage could have just joined the Boys, who were running around America in broad daylight for years and Homelander couldn’t catch them. Sage is just a character the writers clearly think is cool and edgy, but feels like a plot device with a metric ton plot armor.