New The Boys trailers explores the horrors of fascism, super-powered chickens

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We're just a month out now from the release of the latest season of The Boys, Amazon's joyfully profane, satirically brutal send-up of "superheroes" and the good, wholesome folks whose job it is to kill them. Anyone worried that the series might be pulling its punches as it ages into elder statesman status with its fourth season can quickly relieve those fears with a look at the show's latest trailer, though—and specifically the bit where a man gets his chest exploded when a super-powered chicken flies through it.

No, we're still in gleeful psychosis land here, as expertly expressed by Antony Starr, still chillingly perfect as Superman-but-he's-a-thin-skinned-psychopath Homelander, who exhorts his fellow Supes to be "wrathful gods," before dispensing "creamy, delicious milkshakes" to his friends. Sure, Jack Quaid's Hughie is still on hand to weakly express the concept that violence is bad, but since that's interspersed with shots of flying, murderous sheep, bubbles flying out of gaping head wounds, and a dude getting his stretchy hand shattered after being frozen with a fire extinguisher, we're pretty sure we know which side the show is actually on.

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All that, and we have Karl Urban's Billy Butcher cooking up his latest wacky plan to take down all the "supes," a virus that targets and kills people with super powers. All grimly hilarious par for the course, as The Boys prepares to return to the streaming airwaves on June 13.