The Boys creator reacts to Elon Musk concluding his show's ending was "fake and gay"

Amazon Prime Video
Amazon Prime Video's "The Boys" Series Finale Event - Source: Getty

The ending of The Boys has seen a mix of reactions everywhere, but none as intense as X tycoon Elon Musk. The finale, which dropped on May 20 on Prime Video stirred up quite a lot of chaos on social media, and as a result, creator Eric Kripke now seems to be in a feud with Musk.

Before the dust had even settled, Musk weighed in with his hot take on X, and what followed was a back-and-forth between him and Kripke that somehow managed to be funnier, messier, and more on-brand than anything either of them probably planned.

It started when Musk posted a single word on X after the finale aired: "pathetic." The context was clear enough, Homelander, the show's central villain, gets stripped of his powers in the finale and ends up begging for his life on live television before Butcher finishes him off with a crowbar. Kripke's response to the one-word review was immediate and gleeful. He reposted Musk's tweet with a caption where he said he will never receive a better review than this for the show.

Things escalated pretty quickly from there. When people pushed back on Musk for criticising a show he clearly hadn't seen, he admitted that he hadn't actually watched it.

Then, apparently not satisfied with leaving it at that, he followed up suggesting Kripke had written Homelander's humiliating ending as some kind of apology for the character being adopted as a symbol by far-right internet communities. Musk's final word on the matter was that he wasn't upset, just noting that the ending "sounds fake and gay."

Kripke's response then went: "HAHAHAHAH. He's posting. MULTIPLE TIMES. Also I have notes on his joke writing."

More people reacted to Elon Musk's comments on The Boys

Reactions split almost exactly how you'd expect them to. Musk's supporters went after Kripke, while plenty of others pointed out that a villain designed to be pathetic and powerless without his status had, in fact, ended exactly as advertised.

The entire premise of The Boys from day one is that underneath Homelander's cape and the laser vision and the god complex, there's nothing. He's a scared, broken man who needs to be worshipped to function and stripping him of his powers and watching him crumble was the point. Anyone who expected a different ending either wasn't paying attention or was rooting for the wrong guy.


Stay tuned to SoapCentral for more updates on The Boys!

Edited by Nibir Konwar