Elon Musk Criticizes The Boys Series Finale on X
Series creator Eric Kripke responded on X after Elon Musk posted multiple times about the Prime Video show's ending. Musk called the finale fake and gay and said it was pathetic.
nypost.comElon Musk posted multiple times on X about the series finale of The Boys on Prime Video. He described the ending as fake and gay and called it pathetic. Series creator Eric Kripke shared screenshots of the posts and wrote that he would never get a better review.
The episode shows a character named Günter Van Ellis, described as the world's richest man and an amateur astronaut with 17 children. The figure discusses white fertility rates with Homelander before being abandoned in space. Kripke told Deadline the show needed one last satirical target before the end.
Musk also wrote that Kripke probably got flack from his wife's boyfriend for Homelander being used in based memes and had to write the ending as a groveling apology. Kripke posted that Musk was posting multiple times and added that he had notes on his joke writing.
In a recent interview with Decider, Kripke said the death scene was satisfying and cathartic after so much time. He added that there is historical precedent that when seemingly terrifying and powerful autocrats lose their power they are blubbering pussies. The Boys is streaming on Prime Video.
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Lede and title center on Musk's criticism and Kripke's reaction rather than the substance of the finale itself; heavy inherited valence from sources.
Lede misdirection: headline foregrounds Musk's tweets over the actual content and satirical targets of the finale
The same facts could be read as a smug showrunner using his platform to publicly dunk on and humiliate a private citizen who criticized clumsy, politically motivated writing in the show's finale.
2 independent outlets report the same core facts. This score blends how many outlets corroborate, their editorial tier, and how closely their facts agree — it measures corroboration, not proof.
Sources framed at 68 → our rewrite 65. We stripped 3 points of framing the sources carried in.
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