**Warning: Contains spoilers from The Boys series finale**
The Boys came to an end this week with the finale episode Blood and Bone – though not everyone was happy with the outcome.
One of them was the world’s richest man, SpaceX entrepreneur and X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk – who didn’t seem too happy with supervillain Homelander being stripped of his powers.
In the finale of the satirical series, which has been seen as drawing parallels to the current political power players in the United States, Homelander – who became president during the show’s latest season – can be seen begging on his knees in the Oval Office, willing to do anything for mercy.
After one conservative commentator criticised the scene, writing: “The show writers turned Homelander into a [Donald] Trump analogue, and this is how they choose to end The Boys,” Musk then stepped in, replying to the post and branding the decision “pathetic”.
The comment was noticed by The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke – who couldn’t resist responding.
Taking the criticism in his stride, Kripke shared the post to his own X account and responded: “OMG this is his review of what @TheBoysTV did to Homelander, I’ll never get a better review ever.”
Musk later replied: “I didn’t watch the show tbh,” and linked to a previous post where he claimed that Kripke wrote the ending because he received flak for “Homelander being used in based memes”.
Elsewhere, Musk is yet to make any kind of comment on one of the new characters who appeared on The Boys finale – a space-obsessed, uber-rich tech mogul with increased concerns about fertility rates who wears a black cap and is called “The Disruptor”.
Musk, who briefly took up a position in DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) in Trump’s administration, is often seen in a similar baseball cap.
The Disruptor is killed off as quickly as he is introduced in the finale, being shot into space by Homelander while he still had his powers and being left to die.
While Kripke and the team have never technically confirmed the role to be a parody of Musk, he did comment to Deadline about his choice to have the character make an appearance.
“What made you think it was Elon Musk?” he told the outlet, before noting “the idea of the Disruptor had been pitched throughout the season”.
“[It was] just something that is really existing in the world that was just such a perfect target, and it never really fit before,” he explained. “But then we needed this one scene to prove where Homelander’s head was at for this final episode, and so David Reed, who co-wrote the episode with Judalina Neira, said, ‘Well, let’s bring in the Disruptor.’
“It was just a short little bit, but just one last little satirical target before ending the show.”
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