The Boys Season 5 Eerily Foreshadowed Donald Trump’s Jesus Backlash

Well, here we are again: reality and The Boys are marching in such ridiculous parallel that it almost seems pre-planned. If you've seen Season 5, Episode 3, you might've done a double take—or an eye roll—at a scene that looks like it's yanked right out of the current headlines. Not just your run-of-the-mill political jab, either. We're talking about The Boys accidentally stepping into the minefield of Trump and Jesus comparisons—before it even made the news in real life.

So... The Boys or the News?

Let's break it down. This episode, perfectly titled 'Every One of You Sons of B*tches,' has Homelander (Antony Starr) hallucinating a conversation with Madelyn Stillwell (Elisabeth Shue)—a character, by the way, he vaporized all the way back in Season 1, so already: weird. But now she's back, glowing like an angel, with the star-spangled banner for a backdrop.

In this vision, Stillwell starts comparing Homelander to Jesus. Yes, literally. The robes, the radiance—he basically gets the full messianic treatment. At one point, she coos:

'I know you think love is weak and human, but who is more loved than Jesus? And why should he have more love than you? You've saved more people than he does. The one true God.'

For a show that loves goading real-world narcissists and cults of personality, this was pretty on-brand. But—here's where it gets almost too on-the-nose—it turns out The Boys writers cooked up this bizarre messiah moment before the latest Donald Trump meme exploded into a real-life controversy.

The Timeline, Because You Really Need It:

• Episode 3 - Homelander gets painted as a Jesus-level savior, with all the symbolism you'd expect: white robes, glowy angel light, and direct lines about who's saved more people.
• Shortly after the episode aired - Donald Trump posts (and then quickly deletes) an AI-generated image on his TruthSocial page, showing himself as a messianic healer. We're talking Jesus robes, biblical lighting, the works. People online (predictably) called it blasphemous.
• Trump's Response - He claimed it was meant to show him as a doctor next to a Red Cross worker, not Jesus. His quote: "It's supposed to be as a doctor making people better. And I do make people better. I make people a lot better."
• Eric Kripke (Showrunner) - Basically threw up his hands in an interview, saying he's 'totally bummed out' because fiction just can't outdo American headlines anymore. His original hope was people would watch The Boys and think, "Whew! We really dodged a bullet." Instead, as he put it, 'we got hit with the bullet.'

Art, Life, and the Feedback Loop

If you're thinking, "Did the writers plan this?"—nope. The weirdest part? The episode was written before November 2024, way before Trump's latest meme crusade. (So, breathe easy: The Boys team is not running a secret psychic writers' room.)

Kripke even teased that there's another moment coming up in Episode 7 that already lines up with something that's played out in the real world—which honestly sounds like a challenge to reality at this point.

End result: we've got a show that keeps accidentally echoing the headlines, in ways that are getting harder to call parody. Someone buy these writers a crystal ball, or maybe just a cable news subscription.