Elon Musk Fires Back At The Boys Showrunner Eric Kripke After Finale Reaction

Elon Musk isn’t done with The Boys.

After calling the series finale “pathetic,” Musk has now fired back at showrunner Eric Kripke, who responded by saying Musk’s reaction was the best review the show could get.

The back-and-forth comes after The Boys and its spinoff Gen V have repeatedly taken shots at Musk, including killing an “Elon” goat in Gen V and then killing off a Musk-like figure in The Boys series finale.

The Boys First Took Aim At Elon Musk In Gen V

The weird back-and-forth didn’t start with the finale.

In Gen V Season 2, Episode 4, the villain Dean Cipher brings a goat named “Elon” on stage during a training exercise and tells Marie to use her blood-manipulation powers on it.

Marie questions him about killing the goat and asks, “What if I kill Elon?”

Cipher responds, “That’s why we name them a–holes.”

The goat is then levitated and violently explodes on camera.

Musk later caught wind of the scene and joked about it on X.

“That’s fine, I blew up a small hotdog called Jeff Bezos, so I guess we’re even,” Musk posted.

The Boys Finale Kills Off Musk-Like Billionaire

The Boys then went even further in the series finale.

The show kills off a Musk-like billionaire, continuing the Eric Kripke brand of political satire that has dominated the later seasons of the series.

Musk reacted to the finale on X by replying to a post about the ending with one word:

“Pathetic.”

That quickly got Kripke’s attention.

Eric Kripke Responds To Musk Calling Finale Pathetic

Kripke responded to Musk’s reaction by quote-posting Musk’s “Pathetic” comment.

“OMG this is his review of what @TheBoysTV did to Homelander, I’ll never get a better review ever. #TheBoys,” Kripke posted.

Kripke seemed to take Musk’s insult as a badge of honor, framing it as proof the finale landed exactly the way he wanted.

The problem is that a lot of fans don’t agree.

As previously reported, the final two episodes of The Boys are now the lowest-rated episodes of the series on IMDb, with scores of 6.2 and 6.4. Fans have been ripping the finale as lazy, predictable, and lacking closure.

Musk Fires Back At Kripke

Musk has now fired back again.

A user on X posted a clip from the finale showing Homelander looking powerless, along with a quote attributed to Kripke about why the scene mattered.

“Yeah, it was really important to us for Homelander to at least experience a little bit of time powerless,” Kripke says in the clip.

Another X user responded: “And he’s so cowardly and blubbering and pathetic, as are most strong men when you remove their power and they’re there they’re faced with their imminent death, they rarely handle it bravely.”

The user then added: “can anyone think of an example of this?”

Musk replied: “Kripke is simply projecting his own cowardice.”

The Boys Finale Backlash Keeps Growing

The Musk/Kripke feud is now adding fuel to the larger backlash against The Boys finale.

Kripke clearly wanted Homelander’s ending to play as a takedown of a powerful, cowardly figure who falls apart when stripped of power. He also clearly enjoyed Musk reacting negatively to the finale.

Musk, on the other hand, is now accusing Kripke of projecting.

The bigger problem for The Boys is that the reaction from fans hasn’t been great either. The final episodes are sitting at series-low IMDb scores, and a lot of viewers are saying the same thing: the finale didn’t feel big enough, didn’t close enough storylines, and didn’t pay off the years of buildup.

Soldier Boy is still frozen. Supes still have powers. Vought is still around. Hughie and Annie’s ending confused people. Homelander’s final fight felt underwhelming.

The finale also doubled down on the politics at a time when many viewers already felt the show had become too obvious.