A Colorado newspaper found a striking resemblance between a Republican running for governor and a supervillain, and it's daring readers to tell them apart.
Denver alt-weekly Westword published a quiz Monday lining up 15 quotes from Victor Marx, the GOP gubernatorial frontrunner, against lines from Homelander, the mass-murdering antagonist of Amazon's "The Boys" who wraps himself in American flags and Bible verses.
Marx, a 60-year-old Colorado Springs minister and social media personality, has become a national punchline ahead of Tuesday's primary, drawing segments from John Oliver and others over his far-fetched claims that he called in a U.S. airstrike on ISIS as a civilian, can exorcise demons over the phone, and that his ministry rescued tens of thousands of people.
He has also publicly referenced killing, telling one podcast in January 2025 that "some people have to get killed. Some people have to die. It's what they choose." When 9News anchor Kyle Clark pressed him on how many people he's killed, Marx wouldn't say, responding, "I don't think that's important."
Westword paired those lines with Homelander's own justifications for collateral deaths. The point, the outlet suggested, is how hard it can be to tell the difference.
Several of Marx's signature claims are unverified or have been debunked. The Westword piece noted that law enforcement found no record of the childhood killing he described, and a claim that he rescued more than 45,000 women and children was removed after being challenged.
The spectacle has alarmed Colorado Republicans, who fear the self-described "demon hunter" could become a liability, even as he out-raised both primary rivals heading into Tuesday's vote.