THE BOYS Season 4 Finale Changes Title and Issues Trigger Warning Due To Parallels To Trump Assassination Attempt
Prime Video has changed the title of The Boys Season 4 finale and released an accompanying trigger warning due to parallels to real-world events with the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
The episode was originally titled “Assassination Run” and is now, simply titled, “Season Four Finale.” The episode includes several references to President-elect Singer (Jim Beaver), VP-elect Victoria Neuman (Claudia Doumit), and an attempted plot on the President’s life.
Prime Video released the following statement: "The season finale of The Boys contains scenes of fictional political violence, which some viewers may find disturbing, especially in light of the injuries and tragic loss of life sustained during the assassination attempt on former President Trump.”
It continues: "The Boys is a fictitious series that was filmed in 2023, and any scene or plotline similarities to these real-world events are coincidental and unintentional.
“Amazon, Sony Pictures Television and the producers of The Boys reject, in the strongest terms, real-world violence of any kind."
This season of The Boys has really leaned into the politics of that universe and it is clearly inspired by our own. Some people were already upset about its strong political messaging as we are in a tense election year.
This is something showrunner Eric Kripke freely acknowledged in a past interview, saying: "There’s just so few shows that can directly comment on the world we’re living in, and they get to do it as a cartoon. We get to hold up a mirror as a fantasy genre show.
“But again, because we’re just like, we’re right there. I mean, it’s all in the original comic. The comic is really political. It just, it’s political about the post-9/11 George Bush era.
"The show’s not subtle. It wears its politics on its sleeve. And it’s funny to rip on the madness on the right, and we get some shots in on the left of all the performative wokeness and everything.
"I'm just going to lean into it, and then the audience can sort of decide whether they want to watch or not. I mean, it’s almost become like 'South Park,' you know what I mean?"
The Season finale of The Boys Season 4 drops today and the fifth and final season is already in the works. On top of that there’s Gen V, which will be back for a second season.