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[The Boys TV Show Season 3 SPOILERS!]How does the Headpopper work exactly?

I'm keeping this as vague as possible in case anyone is still clicking this. Go all out in the comments tho.

In season 2, someone gets killed for the first time by the headpopper supe in front of the boys. Every other time this happens, the supe is present. If the power is not activated by a trigger (the victim there was going to say something she wasnt supposed to), why did the headpopper not kill the boys then and there?

Also, at the hearing, the headpopper uses their powers without their eyes turning white, something that happens every other time.

Can they use their powers from afar? Could Hughie be infected by a trigger or something like that?
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It's telekinesis. They can exert extreme pressure on a targeted area. Pushing on a person's skull until it pops or on their brain until it's liquified and shooting out their head. They have some ability to use it at range without line of sight but it appears to be limited. The eyes turning white seems to have been missed during the initial attack on congress rather than an abnormal event. The reason they didn't kill the boys is they needed to leash them and manipulate them through the CIA and the planned superhero oversight committee. Killing the boys risked more competent unknowns being put in position instead of the boys who could be controlled by vought.