- The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke expressed shock at the striking resemblance between a scene in the Amazon Prime Video series and a recently unveiled golden statue of the president.
- A recent episode of The Boys depicted the character Homelander, a narcissistic superhero, placing a golden statue of himself inside a church and demanding worship.
- Shortly after the episode's premiere, the president unveiled a 15-foot gold statue of himself, dubbed “Don Colossus,” at his Trump National Doral Miami golf club in Florida.
- This incident follows a previous controversy where the president shared an AI-generated image on Truth Social portraying himself as Jesus, which sparked outrage and was widely condemned as “blasphemous” and “deranged”.
- The series has previously encountered real-world parallels, leading to the addition of a disclaimer to an episode titled “Assassination Run” after a July 2024 assassination attempt on the president, due to a plotline involving a fictional assassination attempt.
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