The boys' creators shocked as real-life politicians out-crazies fictional villains

Creator Eric Kripke of Amazon Prime's hit series The Boys must be scratching his head these days. The show's fifth and final season, which premieres on April 8, features the rise of an authoritarian superhero regime eerily reminiscent of the current political climate in the United States. But Kripke never could have predicted just how closely the real world would mirror his fiction.

U.s. president's threats draw parallels to the boys' outlandish plot

In a bizarre turn of events, President Donald Trump's recent tweet threatening to wipe out Syria resonated with fans of the show, which depicts the brutal takeover of the United States by a group of power-hungry superheroes led by the genocidal Homelander.

Trump's message, which read: