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</style><![endif]--><!-- __merge_tags_in_links__ --><style></style></head><body class="a" style="margin:0px auto;padding:0px;word-wrap:normal;word-spacing:normal;background-color:#FFFFFF;"><div role="article" aria-roledescription="email" aria-label="email_name" lang="en" style="font-size:1rem"><div style="display:none;max-height:0px;overflow:hidden;"> It parodied Trump's death, but their anger goes deeper than that.  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ </div><table role="none" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" class="gg"><tr><td align="center" valign="top"><table role="none" width="670" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="aa" style="width:670px;table-layout:fixed;"><tr><td class="bodyWrapper" align="center" valign="top" style="padding:10px 5px 10px 5px;"><table role="none" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 0px;border-style: solid; 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Like, in the very first sentence. So you’ve been warned. </p></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:15px;padding-right:15px;padding-top:20px; " class="dd"><table role="none" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="margin:0 auto 0 auto;"><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="width:630px;"><img src="https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/8fb539f9-497a-4416-8a1e-134ade5909db/Screenshot_2026-05-28_at_2.00.07_AM.png?t=1779948177" alt="" height="auto" width="630" style="display:block;width:100%;" border="0"/></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" class="t" style="width:630px; padding: 4px 0px 4px 0px;"><p>Antony Starr as Homelander in season 1 of The Boys (2019). Credit: Amazon Prime</p></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> In the final episode of the satirical superhero series <i>The Boys,</i> anti-hero Billy Butcher drives a crowbar through the skull of his nemesis Homelander, a psychotic supervillain who wears the American flag as a cape. Before that, Homelander had been delivering a speech in the Oval Office, demanding the American people worship him as their god. But after being rendered powerless with radiation, Homelander begged Butcher for mercy on his knees. He even offered Butcher oral sex and to eat his feces on live television. </p></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> This was the inevitable outcome of <i>The Boys</i>, which chronicled Butcher’s plot to kill Homelander over five seasons. I watched it all, mainly because I was a superfan of showrunner Eric Kripke’s previous creation <i>Supernatural</i> (more on that later). I could appreciate the ending. But what made it truly satisfying was watching conservatives melt down over it ever since. </p></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> Homelander is an <a class="link" href="https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/u001.xKky0oHbIR8GsvQMwFDbz6R7ysH7eDOjjwiFkCeeBT6ubSazhHlOeuxICaQl0cwaDdiiBAukqQxFNom1A0-q7AMX_XqENRqkuTCa-VSNMO-dzp1r8D9vKsewpaBG2n5dCvfjDNpclu4XIhQsofiFEfNrCht2WhTdBqI3NEWY7O5-9CLcAgDc9jhcbfSAz0CxrJ7j01G-WkxGkOeLu6JBaa4pXN5FnNzosQ8MODZZ7TTurr478xgGLzvrBmJICLmoCXbAPahyfoH8DDFbEk-FoYsnVnyOxk9OYqWY6gw4D8v-LHIWq4S85ZtcwIYXJ0rQf8kqDcCUmB7O8_I71WQQuxxSPVJ6t9bC2jDCe2Vg_HCWQCvtD5LbzPyMoDGxzlck/4r0/_qLGcU79S3mHsdwr-U0QQA/h2/h001.33oH81Rm85VzvT5LLcqKQvYR_DcxAD1yr_Fs2stP048" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>obvious analogue</span></a> for Donald Trump, and that became truer in the later seasons. Some of it was unintentional; Kripke and the other writers couldn’t have predicted that Trump would post an AI-generated image of <a class="link" href="https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/u001.xKky0oHbIR8GsvQMwFDbzwcmijWHR_CFdJCBKFpDH5n2eGq0YsFOlLe83Y2Ng4xgPUCSGqRwgHmB8bZhs39SQ_oXRGzw495PYM3vB9LhieZRiWs0vDPEMWFJ5PY0-Myz2g8h4F_69Hz8jpce-NKA_WflZvfy5GaK2-zIjPE2PU3OgyjnWdOiQfKIti3fotBzVwh6-Df1Xaz6hwf7o130fTzf6wr4ZWs0DLXVWkcnCXA0Ma6ifjmWpuX0nLIhVkva2NRDAnYeMdH0kfYp08wOq6kARbfXGviw1SYA7xcYaMiYXznH_6osu552ei57S2IK_2rEJeOKWRtV7cPXbigALw/4r0/_qLGcU79S3mHsdwr-U0QQA/h3/h001.omCloYF0FNeJA3qeFXS7umcfnRC_XMxicn2H-B8_l7M" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>himself as Jesus</span></a> a month before the finale aired. 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