Pain Suppression: Black Noir is either completely immune to pain, or has developed a great tolerance for it, as he doesn't react when Naqib uses his self detonation, leaving him with severe burns on his head and chest, or when Hughie shoots through his hand at point blank.
Mental Illness: His unstable mind causes him to lose control and reveal his true colors. This eventually leads to his downfall at the hands of Butcher and the military after being greatly weakened by Homelander. Obsession: Black Noir has an uncontrollable desire of fulfilling his purpose of killing Homelander.
It's difficult to see their facial expressions because of the masks, but even then both Rorschach and Black Noir are characterized as stoic and emotionless. They have their moments of extreme emotions, of course, but largely they stay unaffected and cold.
It is also possible that losing part of his brain fighting Soldier Boy limited what he can come back from. Otherwise, Vought might have put a limit on Black Noir's healing just in case they needed to take him down and his nut allergy would not do the trick.
If not administered on time, Black Noir could suffer severe brain damage. As seen where after he was fed an Almond Joy and prevented from using his epipen, Black Noir suffered severe brain damage and was reduced to a vegetative state.
During Payback's fight against Soldier Boy, Black Noir received catastrophic brain injuries that left him both unable to verbally communicate and saddled with bizarre hallucinations of cartoon animals.
Even after being a ruthless hunter, he spares the life of the little kid. Later in the season, he is seen crying as he finds out about the compound V news, which hints that he might have had a good relationship with his parents and guardians, and is now disheartened thinking that they probably used him.
Even though Payback is able to take down Soldier Boy, he brutally disfigures and scars Black Noir so that he will never be able to take his mask off again.
Noir lost his ability to think properly and speak after Soldier Boy violently beat part of his brain in and stuck his face on top of a burning car. This left Noir horrifically disfigured, rendering him with the same mental age as a 7 year old child.
Homelander kills Noir for no other reason than he's mad about him withholding the truth about his parentage. It's a sad and shocking way to see this silent yet relatively good (in Boys/Payback terms anyway) character go. And he exhibits no remorse for it at all.
Noir's animated animal pals get him to face his Soldier Boy fears by re-creating the event that made him so completely terrified of Soldier Boy in the first place, a day when Soldier Boy beat him up after he stood up to him, as well as the nearly fatal attack Soldier Boy made on Noir the day he led Payback in ...
In the comics, Black Noir was created for the sole purpose of killing Homelander if he goes on a rampage, and when he continuously doesn't, it drives Black Noir insane, causing him to commit various atrocities (such as the raping of Billy Butcher's wife) disguised as Homelander.
In Amazon Prime's The Boys, Black Noir is no Homelander clone. Rather, he's a Black man named Earving who was pressured by Stan Edgar to hide his identity under a mask, as shown during The Boys season 3's flashbacks to the Payback team.
In the television series, Black Noir is depicted as a normal man imbued with Compound V. As a result, he gained superhuman strength, a regenerative healing factor and "silent ninja" aesthetic, with his only weakness being his tree nut allergy, in reference to both Superman's weakness to kryptonite and his actor Nathan ...
In the finale, released on Prime Video on Thursday night, Homelander (Antony Starr) ruthlessly killed Black Noir by shoving his hand through his chest and ripping out his organs. "I don't think we walked into the finale knowing we were gonna do it," Kripke said.
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Maeve has an Amazonian look and super strength—it's clear that her parallel is Wonder Woman.
While it is possible he ages normally, Black Noir has a healing factor, a power that typically slows aging in various superhero comics. In The Boys, supes aren't born with their powers. Instead, they gain them when they take a dose of Compound V.
Just like the other supes, Black Noir was tired of Soldier Boy's abuse, but the turning point came via an offer from Stan Edgar. In another flashback, we learn that Edgar asked Black Noir to make Soldier Boy “fade away” as Vought scientist Jonah Vogelbaum had a “replacement” for him.
While it at first looks like Homelander will stand by his long-time teammate, he pulls off the ultimate betrayal and literally guts Black Noir by smashing his hand through his chest and pulling out his intestines.
Black Noir is actually a clone of Homelander. If and when we finally see his face, he'll most likely be played by Antony Starr. Essentially, Black Noir is designed to be Vought's contingency plan against Homelander, should their most famous creation ever lose control or pose too great a liability to the company.
In Herogasm #3, he is sexually assaulted by Black Noir when the Boys infiltrated the titular event.
In the comics, Noir is the architect of almost all the evil in the series. The series ditched that concept, preferring to let Homelander be responsible for his own actions and give Black Noir his own narrative direction.
Later, we discover that Black Noir was goaded into attacking Soldier Boy and selling him to the Russians by a young Stan Edgar (Giancarlo Esposito), an event that left Black Noir mutilated and nearly lobotomized.
The Deep is very fond of receiving unreciprocated oral sex, even preferring it to coitus. Perhaps his self-consciousness regarding his gills has guided this preference. He blackmails Starlight into performing oral sex on him, and his complaint about his wife is that she "gives terrible blow jobs."
It is possible that Black Noir is watching cartoons because he isn't exactly right in the head. It was revealed through the cartoons that he suffered a brain injury at the hands of Soldier Boy in Nicaragua.