Elon Musk went on an angry online rant about the series finale of ‘The Boys,’ the hit superhero satire. He posted more than a dozen times on X to call the ending “pathetic” and “fake and gay.” The tech billionaire suddenly became obsessed with the Prime Video show after the final episode introduced a character who is clearly meant to be a parody of Musk. The character is a clueless “world’s richest man” with way too many kids, and he gets brutally murdered by the superhero Homelander.
Even after posting several angry messages, Musk insisted he wasn’t actually upset. “I’m not upset, just remarking that the ending sounds fake and gay,” he wrote on Friday. He tried to sound casual even while spending a lot of time attacking the showrunner, Eric Kripke.
Showrunner Eric Kripke celebrates Musk’s review of Homelander
The whole thing started when Musk replied to a viewer who disliked the way the finale made Homelander look bad. The showrunner has openly said Homelander is a metaphor for Donald Trump. Musk’s review of the ending was short and harsh. He simply wrote, “Pathetic.”
Instead of ignoring Musk, Kripke took a screenshot of his reaction and celebrated it. He wrote, “OMG this is his review of what [The Boys TV] did to Homelander, I’ll never get a better review ever.“
Parody of Musk as Günter Van Ellis with 17 children
The reason Musk suddenly cares about the show is pretty obvious. The finale, called ‘Blood and Bone,’ has a character named Günter Van Ellis. The show calls him the “world’s richest man” and an “amateur astronaut” with 17 children. Musk has 14 kids. Günter wears a black baseball cap that says “We believe in Homelander,” which looks a lot like Musk’s dark “Make America Great Again” cap.
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In the scene, Günter tries to warn Homelander about falling “white fertility rates.” Homelander pretends to agree, grabs the billionaire, flies him into space, and comes back alone. “He’s an astronaut, I took him to space,” Homelander jokes.
Musk didn’t directly mention the parody character in his rants, but the timing makes it clear the show got under his skin. Instead of talking about Günter, Musk attacked Kripke personally. He suggested in one post that Kripke “probably got flack from his wife’s bf for Homelander being used in based memes and had to write that ending as a groveling apology.”
Musk Claims He Didn’t Watch ‘The Boys’ Despite Posting Multiple Rants
Musk tried to act like he hadn’t even watched the show. After Kripke made fun of him for the reviews, Musk replied, “I didn’t watch the show tbh.” People immediately pointed out the problem: If Musk didn’t watch the show, how did he know the ending was “fake and gay” or that Homelander had been written into a “groveling apology” story?
Kripke kept having fun with the whole thing. He posted “HAHAHAHAH. He’s posting. MULTIPLE TIMES. Also, I have notes on his joke writing.”
When asked why they put the character in the show, Kripke said they needed “one last satirical target before the end of the show.” He also said the scene was meant to show how Homelander sees even the most powerful billionaires as just disposable bugs to a real authoritarian.
As of Friday, Musk’s posts were still up on X. So he basically wrote a bunch of bad reviews for a show he says he never watched, and in doing so proved exactly the point the show was trying to make about fragile tech egos.
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