Elon Musk Hates The Boys Finale, Kripke Is Thrilled

Elon Musk did The Boys the biggest favor of its final season — he complained about it on the internet.

After the Prime Video series wrapped its five-season run this week with the episode Blood and Bone, Musk took to X to deliver a one-word verdict on the finale: “Pathetic.” His response came after a screenshot circulated showing Homelander — bloodied, powerless, on his knees — begging Billy Butcher for his life with some of the most undignified dialogue the show has ever produced. “I’ll f—king suck your d—k,” Homelander pleads. “You want me to eat s—t? I’ll eat your f—king s—t.”

Showrunner Eric Kripke saw the post late Wednesday night and immediately reposted it to his Instagram. “OMG this is his review of what @TheBoysTV did to Homelander, I’ll never get a better review ever,” he wrote. Cast members — including Antony Starr, who plays Homelander — showed up in the comments to laugh along.

The Disruptor in the Room

What Musk conspicuously didn’t mention was the other reason his name was already all over the finale’s discourse before he ever weighed in.

The episode introduces a character billed as “The Disruptor” — a wealthy tech mogul with a passion for space travel, white fertility rates, and a black-on-black embroidered baseball cap. He attempts to strong-arm Homelander in the Oval Office. Homelander’s response is to fly him into orbit and drop him. “He’s an astronaut,” Homelander says breezily upon returning to Earth. “I took him to space.”

When Deadline asked Kripke about the rather obvious inspiration for the character, he played coy with maximum enjoyment. “What made you think it was Elon Musk?” he said. “Yeah, I mean, the idea of the Disruptor was a character that has been continually pitched throughout the season, as just something that is really existing in the world that was just such a perfect target, and it never really fit before. But then we needed this one scene to prove where Homelander’s head was at for this final episode.” Co-writer David Reed, along with Judalina Neira, brought the character in, Kripke explained — describing it as “just one last little satirical target before we end the show.”

The irony of Musk publicly objecting to Homelander’s ending — while saying nothing about being symbolically murdered in space in the same episode — was not lost on anyone.

The Homelander Problem

Musk’s reaction wasn’t happening in a vacuum. He was responding to an X post from a user who had already summed up a certain corner of the fandom’s frustration: “The show writers turned Homelander into a Trump analogue, and this is how they choose to end The Boys. This entire show was just a deranged sexual humiliation fantasy projected onto Trump.”

This is the part that would be funny if it weren’t so exhausting. The Boys has never been subtle. Homelander lets a plane full of passengers die in the very first episode. The show has spent five seasons carefully, painstakingly, repeatedly illustrating that beneath the cape and the laser eyes and the “God” complex is a man-child drowning in unprocessed trauma — someone who crumbles the moment he doesn’t get exactly what he wants. The finale’s final act made it literal: with his powers stripped, Homelander fought Butcher one-on-one and folded almost immediately. His own son had already called him out in the same episode for being exactly what he always was — a tantrum-throwing baby who needed the world’s approval to function.

A shockingly large number of viewers apparently needed that spelled out for them. Some didn’t clock Homelander as the villain until Season 3. Others, apparently, still haven’t.

As for the finale itself — it sticks the landing without exactly soaring. It’s a satisfying, if predictable, close to a show that got increasingly wobbly in its later seasons. Karl Urban’s Butcher gets the kill, caving in Homelander’s skull with a crowbar after the supe spends his final moments on his knees. It’s not poetic. It’s not supposed to be. That’s entirely the point.

Kripke has been threading this needle for years — the show has repeatedly and accidentally predicted real-world Trump moments throughout its final season, a fact that has become its own running gag in press coverage. The Disruptor is just the last joke before the curtain comes down.

All five seasons of The Boys are now streaming on Prime Video. And somewhere, Eric Kripke has that screenshot framed.