Elon Musk Doesn’t Realize That He’s Part of What ‘The Boys’ Is Mocking

Another day, another instance of Elon Musk’s tweets going viral… this time, about the recent series finale of The Boys. On Thursday, Musk took to Twitter to reply to one tweet about The Boys‘ ending, and particularly the fate of Homelander (Antony Starr). The tweet, from @kangminlee, referred to Homelander’s ending as “a deranged sexual humiliation fantasy projected onto Trump,” which Musk responded to with a simple “Pathetic.”

This got a response from The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke, who quote-tweeted it with: “OMG this is his review of what @TheBoysTV did to Homelander, I’ll never get a better review ever.” Musk, of course, couldn’t leave well enough alone, firing off multiple tweets continuing to criticize the ending… even though he didn’t even watch the show.

“I didn’t watch the show tbh, here’s the second best review… 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,” one of Musk’s tweets reads, before adding, “I’m not upset, just remarking that the ending sounds fake and gay.”

Kripke took these new tweets in stride, replying: “HAHAHAHAH. He’s posting. MULTIPLE TIMES. Also I have notes on his joke writing.”

Kripke has repeatedly spoken about the weird cultural transmutation of The Boys across its multi-season run, and the ways that Homelander has been embraced by MAGA viewers while also clearly being a scathing parody of Trump. Hell, he even went viral earlier this season for acknowledging that our real world has gotten even stranger than fiction, after Trump’s AI-generated photo of himself as Jesus ruined a similar Homelander joke on the show.

“This is the episode where Homelander decides he’s going to be God and 48 hours before it, Trump releases an image of himself as God,” Kripke explained in an interview with Polygon. “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 and here we are. It’s just really hard to out-satire this world.”

How Did The Boys Parody Elon Musk?

In a lot of ways, Musk’s reaction to The Boys finale is unsurprising. The man is no stranger to wading into (and being ragebaited into) weighing in on popular culture, whether it’s endorsing the racism around Lupita Nyong’o’s casting in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey, or agreeing with a post arguing that… women only find Henry Cavill unattractive because they’re on birth control. He’s also no stranger to being incredibly wishy-washy in his defenses of Trump, and to responding to any sort of criticism with jokes about other men getting cucked. But it’s also worth acknowledging that the “fake and gay” ending Musk has issue with… does have roots in the canonical ending of The Boys comic, albeit with some narrative or satirical updates.

One of those updates actually concerns Musk himself, which makes it even funnier that he hasn’t (at the time of this writing) directly addressed it in his string of tweets. The series finale episode introduced the character of Günter Van Ellis (played by Ivan Sherry), a very clear parody of Musk’s public persona. Described as the “world’s richest man” in the universe of the show and clad in a monochromatic version of a “We Believe in Homelander” hat (just like the all-black MAGA hat that Musk wore while working for the Trump White House). To hammer it home even further, Günter spends the scene talking about the fertility rates of white people, his seventeen children, the opportunity to get more “non-compensated employees” for his factories, and his amateur efforts at going into space.

Cue up the “is this fucking play about us” scene from Euphoria. Even then, Günter’s very brief appearance on the show quickly ventures into stranger-than-fiction territory. He engages in a conversation with Oh Father (Daveed Diggs) at the White House, before Homelander arrives on the scene and seems pretty disinterested in him. By the end of the scene, Homelander helps Ellis “go to space” by quickly flying him up into the atmosphere. This, understandably, kills him… and technically makes him the final victim of Homelander’s in the entire run of the show. Honestly, it’s only a matter of time until Musk tweets about that, too.

(featured image: Prime Video)

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