One Call of Duty Joke in The Witcher Season 4 Trailer Has Fans Doubting Netflix’s New Geralt

Netflix has finally dropped The Witcher season 4 trailer less than a month before premiere, and yeah, it looks like an all-hands mission for Geralt and Yennefer to find Ciri and put Vilgefortz in the ground. But the thing everyone is talking about is not the plot. It is one line. One very un-Geralt line.

The line that launched a thousand quote tweets

In the trailer, Geralt — now played by Liam Hemsworth, stepping in after Henry Cavill — draws his sword and barks at his crew:

'Let's fucking move!'

Fans did not take that well. The consensus: it does not sound like Geralt. Not the book version, not the game version, not the stoic 'Butcher of Blaviken' people have in their heads. The guy who communicates in grunts and loaded stares suddenly yelling a modern-day action-movie command? It yanked a lot of viewers right out of the moment.

Why people are spun up

Some of the backlash is pure character voice. Longtime readers and players argue Geralt does not talk like that — he is laconic, sardonic, and rarely shouty. Others latched onto the imagery in the promo too: Geralt looking like he has a small squad at his back. The pushback there is basically, 'Since when does this dude roll with an army?' Even folks who do not consider themselves big Witcher diehards chimed in to say the line felt wrong.

There is also a current of sympathy for Hemsworth in the replies. A fair number of people admit this would be a tough hand for anyone to play, given how closely Cavill hugged the source material and how defined his take on Geralt became. The kinder reads go something like: Liam might have been fine if he had been Geralt from the start — but that 'Let's fucking move!' moment did him no favors.

About the trailer itself

Outside the discourse vortex, the footage does set the season's stakes: Geralt and Yennefer are locked in on rescuing Ciri, and Vilgefortz is very much the target. Hemsworth gets a proper sword draw. Ciri is on the run. It is the big, grim-fantasy road back to each other the show has been building toward — with one line that stole the spotlight for the wrong reasons. If you are wondering why this specific uproar feels so inside baseball, it is because Geralt's voice (tone, cadence, the whole vibe) is sacred text to a lot of Witcher fans. One syllable off, and people notice.

Who's back, who's new, when it lands

• Returning: Freya Allan as Ciri, Anya Chalotra as Yennefer, Joey Batey as Jaskier
• New faces: Laurence Fishburne as Regis, Sharlto Copley as Leo Bonhart, James Purefoy as Stefan Skellen
• Season size: 8 episodes
• Premiere: October 30 on Netflix

Bottom line: the trailer promises a big, Eastern-Front-of-the-Continent rescue mission and a Vilgefortz showdown. Whether the fanbase can get past four spicy words from the White Wolf is about to be the real test.