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Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger Part IV is a 2000 American superhero comedy film released by Troma Entertainment, directed by Lloyd Kaufman. The film is a sequel to the 1985 film The Toxic Avenger.
After the events of the Toxic Avenger III, when the notorious Diaper Mafia take hostage the Tromaville School for the Very Special, only the Toxic Avenger and his morbidly obese sidekick Lardass can save Tromaville. However, an explosion results in some unforeseeable consequences, creating a dimensional tear between Tromaville and its dimensional mirror image, Amortville. While the Toxic Avenger (Toxie) is trapped in Amortville, Tromaville comes under the control of the superhuman powered hero's evil doppelgänger the Noxious Offender (Noxie). With the citizens of Tromaville unaware of the switch, Mayor Goldberg decides to combat "Toxie" by calling in every superhero he can afford.
Many issues are tackled in this film. Neo-Nazism and abortion are present in the film, as well as references to the dragging of a black man in Texas and the Columbine High School massacre. Furthermore, the terrorist group at the beginning of the film is called the Diaper Mafia, in reference to the real-life Trenchcoat Mafia, a high school clique that the two Columbine shooters were believed to be part-time members of.