• Elon Musk called The Boys series finale “pathetic” on X after a scene of Homelander begging for his life went viral
• Showrunner Eric Kripke celebrated the review on Instagram, calling it the best he’ll ever get
• The finale also featured a thinly veiled Musk parody character called “The Disruptor” — whom Homelander murders in space
• Musk’s complaint echoed a vocal subset of fans who missed that Homelander was always meant to be the villain
• Kripke confirmed The Disruptor was a deliberate satirical target, joking “what made you think it was Elon Musk?”

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.

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• The Boys series finale “Blood and Bone” is now streaming on Prime Video, ending the show’s five-season run
• Homelander, The Deep, Oh Father, Terror the dog, and Billy Butcher all die in the finale
• Showrunner Eric Kripke confirms Butcher’s death mirrors the comics — with Hughie as the one who pulls the trigger
• Most of the surviving heroes get happy endings, with Hughie and Annie expecting a baby girl named Robin
• No post-credits scene: the finale closes with a cast-and-crew photo montage set to Billy Joel’s “Piano Man”

After seven years, five seasons, and one very memorable herogasm, The Boys has finally come to an end — and it did not go gentle. The Prime Video series wrapped its run on May 20 with a finale titled “Blood and Bone,” and true to form, it left the carpet soaked. Several major characters met their end before the credits rolled, some in ways fans had been predicting since Season 1 and at least one that hit like a gut punch nobody quite saw coming.

Here’s every death in the finale, how it happened, and why it matters.

Oh Father Gets the Most Literally Explosive Exit

The first to go is Oh Father, the supe pastor played by Daveed Diggs, who only joined the show in the Season 5 premiere and never had a shot at redemption. While Butcher and Kimiko made their way toward the Oval Office, Hughie and M.M. drew Oh Father away as a distraction. It didn’t go smoothly — Oh Father cornered Hughie and charged up his sonic scream — until M.M. shoved the titanium ball gag Ashley had gifted Oh Father earlier in the episode directly into his mouth. The sonic scream turned inward. Oh Father’s head exploded, coating Hughie in blood one final time, which honestly feels like the show saying goodbye to one of its longest-running visual gags.

The ball gag was introduced early enough in the episode that, in retrospect, its purpose seems obvious — but in the moment, it lands with the kind of gleeful brutality The Boys does better than anyone. Oh Father was always a stone-cold villain hiding behind religious imagery, and he got exactly the death that suited him.

The Deep Finally Gets What’s Coming to Him

If Oh Father’s death was grotesque, The Deep’s was almost poetic — or at least darkly appropriate. Chace Crawford’s aquatic supe had been slowly stripped of everything over the course of Season 5: his relevance, Homelander’s respect, and finally his safety in the one place he ever felt at home. When Homelander told him point-blank “I don’t need perverted fish fuckers who debase themselves for mere drops of my affection,” The Deep was reduced to weeping alone in a White House corridor. The Boys found him there. Annie didn’t even bother sending the others ahead — she picked him up and flew him straight through a window to a nearby beach.

She gave him one last chance to take accountability for everything he’d done. He refused. She blasted him into the ocean. What followed was five seasons of karmic payback in tentacle form: a circle of sharks, octopuses, and various sea life closed in around him, and it was an octopus — fittingly — that finished the job. Samuel L. Jackson’s shark character had promised exactly this fate in the penultimate episode, so the death was telegraphed, but that didn’t make it any less satisfying.

Showrunner Eric Kripke was clear-eyed about The Deep’s arc in a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter: “He has this Braveheart-like cry of ‘No!’ So he’s been given plenty of chances, but he’s too oblivious and scared and believes this myth of his own machismo, and it costs him.”

Homelander’s Death Was Always Coming — But Not Quite Like This

The death everyone came for. After five seasons of Antony Starr’s Homelander acting as an unstoppable force of psychopathic ego, the finale stripped him of everything — starting with his powers. Kimiko, channeling grief over Frenchie’s death into something quieter and more devastating than rage, blasted Homelander with Soldier Boy’s radiation ability, neutralizing him completely. Ryan and Butcher were caught in the blast too, leaving all three of them powerless on the floor of the Oval Office.

What followed was one of the most satisfying sequences the show has ever produced. Homelander, the man who once laser-visioned civilians from a skyscraper and called it entertainment, tried to use his powers and found nothing there. He tried to fly. Nothing. And then Butcher smiled.

The beating that followed was broadcast live to the nation — cameras still rolling in the Oval Office as Butcher methodically dismantled the most powerful being on the planet using nothing but his fists and eventually a crowbar. Homelander begged. He offered Butcher Vought. He offered to bring back Becca via a shapeshifter. He offered things that cannot be reprinted here. Antony Starr, to his enormous credit, played every second of it with complete commitment — the terrified regression to something almost childlike, the desperate bargaining of a bully who has never once faced real consequences.

“This is for my Becca,” Butcher said, and drove the crowbar through Homelander’s skull.

Kripke told Rolling Stone that the line about eating excrement on live TV was actually Starr’s own contribution: “He wanted to really dig into what a mess Homelander was.” And when Kripke warned Starr ahead of the script that Homelander would go out as pathetically as possible, Starr’s response was immediate: “Of course. He has to. This is the end.”

Kripke put it bluntly in a separate conversation with Variety: “We’ve said all season, ‘Take away your powers, and what are you? You’re nothing.’ If you go through history, most strong men, when they’re finally dragged in front of some form of justice, immediately break down and they’re the biggest pussies on the planet.”

Terror: The Death That Changes Everything

And then there’s the one that really stings.

Terror, Butcher’s beloved bulldog, passes away quietly in his sleep after the victory celebration. There’s no villain behind it — the dog is old, and he was always on borrowed time. It’s possible the chocolate he was accidentally fed in an earlier Season 5 episode played a role, but the show leaves it ambiguous. Either way, Terror’s death is framed simply and without spectacle: Butcher goes to check on him, and he’s gone.

That’s the moment Butcher breaks.

Terror was the last remnant of his life with Becca — one of the only beings who loved Butcher without condition or agenda. Ryan had just rejected him. Homelander was dead. The mission was over. And now this. Kripke told The Hollywood Reporter: “That dog represented the last of his humanity, and so if that dog was going to die, Butcher’s humanity was going to die with it.” He also noted that Terror’s death in the comics was far less peaceful — the show gave the dog a gentle exit that the source material did not. “I own that decision,” Kripke said.

Butcher’s End: The Death the Show Was Always Building Toward

Everything in The Boys — every season, every Hughie-Butcher argument, every moment where Butcher almost chose a different path — was pointing here.

With Terror gone and Ryan’s rejection still fresh, Butcher retrieved the supe-killing virus, drove to Vought Tower, and pumped it into the building’s sprinkler system. His plan: wait for the morning shift of supes to clock in, then pull the fire alarm and release it into the world. Stan Edgar’s return to Vought’s leadership had convinced him that without a complete purge, another Homelander was inevitable.

Hughie found him. They argued. Butcher disarmed him easily — he always could — but then he looked at Hughie and saw his late brother Lenny. He hesitated. Just for a second. And Hughie shot him.

“It’s all right, Hughie, I gave you no choice. I wasn’t going to stop,” Butcher said. “All the blood and shit I put you through, and none of it made a blind bit of difference. You stayed yourself no matter what I’ve done.” He told Hughie he was the spitting image of Lenny. And then he was gone.

Kripke told Polygon that this was always the ending: “Butcher wanted someone to save him from his worst impulses and then proceeded to do everything he can to denigrate and degrade Huey, so Huey can’t stop him. But the fact is, Huey passes that test and is able to stop him using his inherent goodness.” In an interview with Variety, Kripke added that from the very beginning of the series, he knew it would end with Hughie killing Butcher — it was the most comics-faithful moment in the entire run. “I 100 percent believe he would have done it,” Kripke said of whether Butcher would have actually released the virus. “But I think the fail-safe he’s built into his life from the pilot is Hughie.”

The Boys buried Butcher next to Becca. Hughie’s eulogy: Billy made the world safer, and he’s probably in hell right now kicking the shit out of the devil. His headstone reads: Oi, Fuck Off, You Cunts.

Who Made It Out — And Where They Ended Up

The finale’s epilogue is set to Billy Joel’s “Piano Man” and earns every second of it. M.M. remarries Monique and takes Ryan in as his own son. Kimiko adopts a rescue dog and moves to Marseille, France — the city where Frenchie grew up — finally finding some peace, a madeleine and some silence. Sage, having lost her genius-level IQ to Kimiko’s blast, declared she was going to Harry Potter World in Orlando. Sister Sage, going out on her own terms, sort of.

Hughie turned down an offer from newly-elected President Robert Singer to lead the Bureau of Supe Affairs. He and Annie are running Campbell Audio & Visual — a callback to the job he had when A-Train killed Robin in the very first episode. Annie is pregnant. They’re naming the baby Robin.

There’s no post-credits scene setting up a spinoff or teasing the upcoming Vought Rising prequel, which stars Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy and is expected in 2027. Instead, the finale closes on behind-the-scenes photos of the cast and crew over the years, Flogging Molly playing underneath. It’s a goodbye to the people who made it, not a trailer for what comes next — and that restraint is exactly right.

Soldier Boy himself, last seen being put back on ice by Homelander in the penultimate episode, doesn’t appear in the finale at all. His fate remains technically unresolved, though Ackles told Entertainment Tonight that his journey in this universe is far from over: “It’s like saying goodbye to The Boys, but I’m also doing the prequel to it, so it’s like my journey hasn’t necessarily come to an end.”

As for the last image of The Boys itself: Annie flying off to answer a distress call, Hughie watching her from the sidewalk outside their store, smiling. Seven years of chaos, blood, and grief, and they still found their way back to each other. That’s the show’s final word — not nihilism, not a twist, just two people who survived something impossible, starting over.

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• A golden statue of Donald Trump unveiled at Trump National Doral Miami looks strikingly similar to a Homelander statue in The Boys Season 5.
• Showrunner Eric Kripke posted a side-by-side comparison on Instagram with the caption “Seriously, what the f***?”
• The Trump statue, dubbed “Don Colossus,” stands 22 feet tall and was commissioned by a group of crypto investors promoting a memecoin.
• This is at least the second time real-world Trump imagery has mirrored a Season 5 plot point before the episode even aired.
• Kripke has openly said he’s exhausted by how difficult it’s become to out-satire the current moment.

Eric Kripke is running out of ways to say “you can’t make this up” — because apparently, you don’t have to.

The showrunner of The Boys took to Instagram on Sunday with a meme image showing a side-by-side of two golden statues: one of Homelander, the show’s fascist superhero villain played by Antony Starr, erected in this week’s Season 5 episode — and one of President Donald Trump, unveiled last month at his Trump National Doral Miami golf course in Florida. “Seriously, what the f***?” Kripke wrote. It was about as much as anyone could say.

The Homelander statue appeared in the episode “Though the Heavens Fall,” which began streaming Wednesday on Prime Video. The Trump statue — a 22-foot bronze structure coated in gold leaf, weighing 3.1 tons and mounted on a 7-foot pedestal — had been installed at the Doral course just before the PGA Tour’s 2026 Cadillac Championship teed off there. It’s been dubbed “Don Colossus.”

Who’s Behind the Trump Statue — and Why It Got Complicated

The statue was commissioned by a group of crypto investors looking to promote their memecoin, $PATRIOT, and was sculpted by Alan Cottrill, an artist with experience creating presidential likenesses. It depicts Trump with his fist raised — a direct reference to his defiant pose after the assassination attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania.

The road to installation wasn’t entirely smooth. Cottrill had previously voiced frustration over payment delays, at one point suggesting he’d hold the piece in a warehouse until he was paid. The investors disputed that, saying the work had been fully paid for a year ago. Either way, the statue made it to Doral.

The unveiling ceremony was led by Pastor Mark Burns of Pastors for Trump, who addressed the crowd while Trump himself called in via Burns’ cell phone to thank attendees. Burns pushed back hard on any biblical comparisons. “Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf,” he said. “This statue is a celebration of life. It is a symbol of resilience, freedom, patriotism, strength, and the will power to keep fighting for the future of America.”

Not everyone agreed. On X, theologian and pastor Reverend Benjamin Cremer shared a photo from the ceremony and wrote that “evangelical Christian leaders literally gathering around a gold statue of the president and celebrating it … is what idol worship looks like.” Burns fired back in his own X post: “This was not idol worship. This was honor. This was gratitude. This was patriotism.”

Kripke Has Been Here Before — and He’s Tired

For Kripke, this isn’t a one-off coincidence. It’s becoming a pattern.

Last month, Trump posted — and then deleted — an AI-generated image depicting himself as a Jesus-like figure. It went up just 48 hours before The Boys’ Season 5 episode “Every One of You Sons of Bitches” aired, which featured a storyline where Homelander declares himself a god. Kripke told Polygon at the time that his writing team had actually been nervous the plot point was too extreme to land with audiences.

“A month ago, when we were talking about marketing, I was like, ‘Homelander saying he’s God is so out there. We have to be careful about how we even introduce the idea to the public because they’ll say he’s gone too far,'” he said. “And here we are. It’s just really hard to out-satire this world.”

“I am really tired and weary of the world reflecting the show before we get a chance to do it,” he added. “I appreciate the marketing. I’m just like, can you just please give us a chance to put some absurd satire out there before you prove that it’s more realistic than we ever intended?”

Laz Alonso, who plays Mother’s Milk on the show, jumped into the comments on Kripke’s Instagram post with his own theory: “Someone had to have leaked our scripts to them.” Fans in the comments went further, comparing The Boys to The Simpsons and its legendary reputation for predicting the future.

It’s a comparison that’s getting harder to dismiss. The Boys has spent five seasons building Homelander into a portrait of unchecked power, ego, and nationalist spectacle — and Season 5, the show’s final run, has been pushing that portrait further than ever. The series finale is already set for a theatrical release before its Prime Video debut, a sign of just how much cultural weight the show is carrying into its ending.

For now, Kripke is left doing what any writer would do when reality keeps beating him to the punch: staring at the side-by-side and wondering what on earth comes next.

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