Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV
2000 film by Lloyd Kaufman
Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV is a 2000 American superhero comedy film directed by Lloyd Kaufman and written by Trent Haaga. It is the fourth installment of The Toxic Avenger franchise. Despite being the third sequel to The Toxic Avenger, Stan Lee's opening narration claims that Citizen Toxie is, in fact, the official sequel to the first film, disacknowledging the events of the first two sequels.
Plot
The Diaper Mafia (criminals dressed as infants) break into the Tromaville School for the Very Special and commit a mass shooting. The Toxic Avenger ("Toxie" for short) shows up, under the guise of a bikini news model, alongside his morbidly obese sidekick Lardass. They kill the gang members in grotesque fashion with Toxie eviscerating the leader, Tex. Before he dies, Tex reveals an explosive device has been implanted in his body. Toxie runs home to impregnate his wife, Sarah, leaving Lardass to disarm the bomb by smearing peanut butter over it, eating it and draining it in his stomach through flatulence. Upon returning, Toxie rescues the pregnant teacher and two students, Tito and Sweetie Honey. The urgency of the situation forces them to leave Lardass behind, which results in his demise when a Diaper Mafia member and a student, in a moment of intimacy, unknowingly trigger the explosive by lighting a cigarette.
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