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\n As The Boys<\/a><\/em> presents a terrifying dystopia under Homelander (Antony Starr) in the fifth and final season, Eric Kripke<\/a> recently noted that any narrative similarities to our current dystopia are purely coincidental.<\/p>\n

\n The Prime Video series creator and showrunner revealed that the supervillain has \u201cthe craziest line\u201d the writers could imagine in episode 7, which has \u201calready happened\u201d in real life, despite Season 5 being written before the 2024 presidential election<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cI\u2019m totally bummed out to say we wrote it before the election,\u201d he told TV Guide<\/a><\/em>. \u201cIt sounds super naive now, but I swear the plan was, \u2018Let\u2019s write a 1984 version of what creeping authoritarianism looks like in America,\u2019 and maybe everyone will be like, \u2018Whew, we really dodged a bullet.\u2019 But instead, we got hit with the bullet.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Kripke added, \u201cAnd a lot of things that were far-fetched for us, we\u2019re like \u2014 \u2018That\u2019s crazy!\u2019 \u2014 have come to pass in a way that\u2019s really really f***ing troubling.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n The 2x Emmy nominee has previously noted that the show\u2019s corrupt, all-powerful \u201csupe\u201d Homelander has \u201calways been a Trump analogue for me<\/a>\u201d after premiering in 2019 during the twice-impeached president\u2019s first term.<\/p>\n

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Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy and Antony Starr as Homelander in \u2018The Boys\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n With the final season premiering April 8 on Prime Video, Kripke said, \u201cThere\u2019s been a total of zero notes about pulling our punches<\/a> or about making things less political or less savage. The various powers that be have been really great about it. I think they know that we\u2019d just do it anyway, so why bother?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n In the fifth and final season of The Boys<\/em>, the world is completely subject to Homelander\u2019s erratic, egomaniacal whims. With Hughie (Jack Quaid), Mother\u2019s Milk (Laz Alonso) and Frenchie (Tomer Capone) imprisoned in a \u2018Freedom Camp\u2019, Annie (Erin Moriarty) struggles to mount a resistance against the overwhelming Supe force. Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) is nowhere to be found. But when Butcher (Karl Urban) reappears, ready and willing to use a virus that will wipe all Supes off the map, he sets in motion a chain of events that will forever change the world and everyone in it.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n


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