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The Boys creator reacts to real-life gold Trump statue that mirrors scene from the show

The Independent·Inga Parkel·22 days ago
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The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke has responded to the striking similarity between a scene from the superhero show and Donald Trump’s recently erected golden statue of himself. Last week’s episode of Amazon Prime Video’s superhero and political satire , titled “Though the Heavens Fall,” saw Homelander (Antony Starr), the sadistic and psychotic leader of the superhero team “The Seven,” place a golden statue of himself inside a church. Declaring himself the new messiah after being visited in a vision by “angel” Madelyn Stillwell (Elisabeth Shue) in an earlier episode, Homelander demands to be worshipped. Then, just hours after the episode’s premiere, the president unveiled a 15-foot gold statue of himself with a raised fist, nicknamed “Don Colossus,” at Trump National Doral Miami, one of his Florida golf clubs.…

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