Eric Kripke reacted with glee after Elon Musk dismissed the final episode of The Boys as “pathetic,” a verdict Kripke framed as the perfect cherry on top of finale week—one that ended with Homelander’s downfall.
Eric Kripke didn’t just notice Elon Musk’s take on The Boys finale late Wednesday night—he practically framed it as a victory lap.
Musk, reacting to the show’s closing episode, kept it simple: he wrote “pathetic” about Homelander’s ending. In the finale, Homelander’s story lands with The Boys finally stripping him of his powers and killing him. The final act includes Homelander’s grotesque last bid for control: after flying into space from the Oval Office to try to strong-arm a supe. he ends up powerless—on his knees—before Billy Butcher. played by Karl Urban. pops the top of his skull off with a crowbar.
Kripke saw the criticism and responded fast. “OMG this is his review of what ‘The Boys’ did to Homelander, I’ll never get a better review ever,” he wrote.
The series wrapped up its fifth and final season this week, and opinions were flying from the moment the credits hit. For Kripke, Musk’s reaction arrived like the cherry on top of a finale week that also included a red carpet celebration for The Boys.
In the episode itself. the powerless hero pleads for survival in brutal. profane terms—Homelander begs from his knees: “I’ll f–king suck your d–k. ” and adds. “You want me to eat s–t?. I’ll eat your f–king s–t.” It’s a moment built for shock and humiliation. and Kripke clearly relished the fact that the show’s sting landed hard enough to draw Musk’s dismissal.
That Musk critique wasn’t floating in a vacuum. It came after a tweet complaining that The Boys had used Homelander as an analogue for Donald Trump right up until the very end. As the show progressed. some viewers grew irritated by those parallels becoming more pronounced. even as others always viewed the connections as unmistakable.
For now, Kripke is letting Musk’s “pathetic” stand as an unlikely kind of endorsement—one that arrives not from the usual corner of fan praise, but from the person calling the ending a letdown.
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