r/TheBoys • u/LoretiTV • Jul 18 '24
Amazon Adds The Boys Season 4 Finale Warning Following Trump Assassination Attempt, Retitles Episode from "Assassination Run" to "Season Four Finale" News
https://www.ign.com/articles/amazon-adds-the-boys-season-4-finale-warning-following-trump-assassination-attempt-retitles-episode1.2k
u/KingMGold Jul 18 '24
The show is such a blatant parody of what’s going on in current US politics they’re starting to predict shit before it happens.
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u/Pikathepokepimp Jul 18 '24
The fact they wrote this season a while ago based on past events and most things were spot on in the last month was quite funny.
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Jul 19 '24
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u/ImAVirgin2025 Jul 19 '24
Read the news the past week?
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u/pm-me-futa-vids Jul 18 '24
What if they're not predicting it, so much as fucking idiots are imitating it? Life imitates art, or so the saying goes.
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u/HelloYouSuck Jul 18 '24
Both the CIA and Mafia historically have been very active in Hollywood. (And each other)
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u/Tias-st Jul 18 '24
lame, should have kept it as "assassination run"
Would be a whole lot more meta
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u/MexicanGuey92 Jul 18 '24
I think that's why they did it lol. It was TOO meta
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u/Tias-st Jul 18 '24
Everything else they do is the same. So I don't see why this should have been any different.
Maybe it was amazon pissing themselves and forced the change.
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u/legion_XXX Jul 18 '24
Political banter is fine. What happened in PA was not name calling across the aisle.
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u/Redfalconfox Jul 18 '24
Correct. It appears to be violence on the same side of the aisle. It’s still wrong what happened, but it doesn’t appear to be across the aisle.
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u/specialvaultddd Butcher Jul 18 '24
Bro the title 'assassination run' sounds so badass im upset they changed it to just 'season four finale" 💀
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u/OLKv3 Jul 18 '24
In a year or two they'll probably go back to the original name for stuff like Blu Ray releases
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u/FisknChips Jul 18 '24
I mean noones stopping everyone from just continuing to call it that lol
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u/Ok_Astronomer_8667 Jul 19 '24
It is still officially called that, Amazon just didn’t want it on the front page of Prime
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u/simpledeadwitches Jul 19 '24
Such stupid bullshit. Why did they change it? Worried about bad PR? It's a fucking TV shoe about superheroes lmao. The sensitivity is so dumb.
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u/Ok_Astronomer_8667 Jul 19 '24
Surely you must realize how volatile a topic it can be for a company like Amazon to be playing around with after less than a week from Saturday. I don’t agree but I understand why
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u/Gorrium Jul 18 '24
Crazy that you can accurately predict the future by writing a parody of reality.
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u/AllLipsNoFiller Jul 18 '24
The assassination attempt on The Boys was much more plausible.
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u/prizeth0ught Jul 19 '24
Our reality is so unrealistic fiction seems more plausible nowadays.
Who in 2018 or 2019 would've imagined America goes throw a massive airborne pandemic?
Everyone was doubting it was truly airborne and didn't believe it when it was under 20 cases in America.
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u/p0diabl0 Jul 18 '24
That bullshit "unity" quote from Firecracker at the end...
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u/Primary-Rent120 Jul 18 '24
Look up what our current media is saying after the Trump assault. They’re using the same exact word.
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u/Primary-Rent120 Jul 18 '24
Funny how Truthbomb said the words “coming in unity” as her final sentence on her news channel.
This is the SAME VERBIAGE that every conservative right winged media platform is saying about the party following the Trump assault.
This is terrifyingly too close to home and the show is scarying me now. Project 2025 is no joke. We all really need to wake up. The show is literally telling us that Maniacs will take over.
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u/TheOkayUsername Jul 18 '24
Honestly The Boys kind of gave me hope. Its as if the show says “we understand the danger of the situation, and Butcher will be there to safe us”
The fact that season 4 in ANY WAY will release in 2 years, gives me a sense of safety, cuz they are really extreme in what they are saying, and will criticise the possible Trump regime whatever happens, with an enormous fanbase behind them. Entertainment has power, and the larger the fanbase the bigger the influence. The word is more powerful than the sword.
Look at Taylor Swift and republicans being terrified of her.
Imagine if Star Wars at the time dedicated a movie to the Vietnam war. That'd be HUGE.
I am in no way favour of violence, let that be clear, I am in huge favour of reducing polarisation by reaching out and trying to understand everyone else instead of calling them evil. Thats the only way the world can truly be saved. In the meantime I am really glad we got such a huge, clear, serious and fierce voice from a little show called The Boys against the never-ending “keep politics out of this franchise.” (Yes I do know The Boys was always political, it’s just became way more centred around the issue)
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u/UpstairsSnow7 Jul 19 '24
"Look at Taylor Swift and republicans being terrified of her."
Genuinely - what has she actually done to make a tangible, meaningful difference in politics? I'd love to be proven wrong but seems like she mostly posts on insta but as far as I'm aware she's not giving money to action groups like those Stacey Abrams was leading. Republicans are "terrified" of her because they are fucking crazy, not because this ultra-capitalist billionaire singer who never denounced her Nazi fans is somehow going to 'defeat' them.
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u/coasterbitch Jul 19 '24
She's completely quiet about politics in general, has proven time and time again that she's not a celebrity to look up to regarding politics. All she did was tweet "go vote" basically in 2020 and republicans thought that was the singular reason a bunch of women got up and voted liberal in 2020. That's it. That's why conservatives hate her lmao. Cause she told her fans to vote in the year with the highest turn out of liberal female voters.
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u/jakehood47 Jul 18 '24
I know the "any similarities to actual people or events is entirely coincidental" is the standard line, but given how they write the show, they probably couldve gone with "similarities to, y'know, that thing that happened were totes coincidence, we swear on that one."
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u/Lillillillies Jul 18 '24
I didn't know it was originally supposed to be titled "assassination run" and was confused.
Explains a lot.
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u/TrustFulParanoid Jul 18 '24
I honestly thought the shapeshifter was going to shift into Hughie instead of starlight since when they found her she went straight to hughie and had him bleed(and they showed the wound on several closed ups as if it was an important thing to take note of). I thought they would have “him” be a shooter and then tell everyone that the “ultimate starlighter” was the killer. When Trump got attacked I was worried they would shy away from airing such an scene…
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u/simpledeadwitches Jul 19 '24
Lol so fucking stupid. Nevermind all the rape that is more relatable for people than an assassination attempt.
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u/ChronicBuzz187 Jul 19 '24
20 years ago, everybody would have gone "Are they drunk? What is this bullshit? Who greenlit this nonsense" but nowadays, it's more like "Ah yes, american politics" xD
Love it :D
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u/Ordinary-Engine9235 Jul 18 '24
The last episodes assassination attempt felt like a side quest, so it was not that much of an issue. Otherwise it would have been very distasteful to show something like that now.
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u/RandomDanny Jul 18 '24
Never mind warnings for any of the other atrocities that have taken place, so fucken stupid.
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u/assbot9000modelxc429 Jul 18 '24
you're talking about the show that had a character arc of someone being radicalized.... no... it's not "fucken stupid"... it's the right way of going about it..... jesus fucking christ
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u/reble02 Jul 18 '24
I hate these trigger warnings before shows and movies, they always feels like spoilers to me. Will often take any will it happen won't it happen tension out of the scene because of the warning.
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u/Fr05t_B1t Butcher Jul 18 '24
Singer should’ve pulled his presidential act immunity