00:00The Boys series finale! What happened to Homelander, who dies and survives?
00:04The Boys has ended with one last Billy Joel needle drop.
00:08After five seasons, the glass half-empty approach to a world run by superheroes
00:13answered a question seven years in the making.
00:15Can Homelander, Anthony Starr, actually be killed?
00:19Turns out, the show's nightmare fuel stand-in for Superman,
00:23complete with deadly abandonment issues and a lethal narcissist complex,
00:27was not, in fact, immortal.
00:29Hughie, Jack Quaid, Butcher, Carl Urban, and Kimiko, Karen Fukuara,
00:35brought down Homelander during a super-powered melee.
00:38The Oval Office rumble came after the deep, Chase Crawford.
00:42Likewise met his end courtesy of Annie, Aaron Moriarty, and the fish friends he had betrayed,
00:48including Episode 7's Xander, in a voice cameo from Samuel L. Jackson.
00:53Following the death of Frenchie, Tomer Capone,
00:56no character seemed safe ahead of the last episode,
00:59which also saw the demise of O' Father, Davey Diggs,
01:02and an impeachment for Vought Industries' long-suffering PR rep-turned-youted-us,
01:07President Ashley, Colby Minify.
01:09With Homelander's crowbar scalping coming mid-episode,
01:12the back half was left for the biggest death,
01:15Huey Mercy killing a revenge-blinded butcher
01:17before he could obliterate every guilty and innocent alike soup on the planet.
01:22Tying up multiple loose ends was no easy feat, thankfully.
01:26The show's producers began and ended with a handy roadmap courtesy of Garth Ennis
01:31and Derek Robertson's Dynamite Entertainment Comics in the writer's room.
01:35It's helpful that we do have brilliant source material that you can use,
01:38or not use, or riff off of or extrapolate.
01:42Showrunner Eric Kripko explained to SYFY wire ahead of the May 20th episode.
01:47We had a pretty good guide heading into the finale.
01:50The finale, titled Blood and Bone,
01:53also highlighted a few happy endings for the infamously miserable ensemble.
01:58Kamiko, in her grief,
01:59traveled to her late love's native France to enjoy an incredible-looking Madeleine pastry,
02:04as mother's milk, Liza Lonzo,
02:06found a happily ever after by patching things up with ex-wife.
02:10Meanwhile, a pregnant Annie hasn't abandoned starlight as heroin pursuits,
02:15even while carrying her and Huey's daughter Robin,
02:18named for his ex-girlfriend,
02:20whose death was catalyst for Huey joining the fight way back in the series premiere.
02:24While franchise spinoff Vought Rising is expected to do,
02:27debut next year,
02:28this moment has allowed Kripko to reflect on the flagship show's
02:31years-long commentary surrounding the genre.
02:34The boys present superheroes as complicated and confused,
02:37and very human, he noted,
02:40citing the show's ability to showcase,
02:42tonal irreverence,
02:43and have shocking, insane things happen.
02:46As for what the MCU and DCU could glean from the boys,
02:50it would be great if superhero stuff moving forward
02:52had that kind of irreverence
02:54and embrace their heroes as potentially darker and more complicated,
02:58Kripko shared.
02:59Batman does,
03:00but Batman seems to hold all the cards for the complicated,
03:03F-ket-up characters.
03:05It'd be great to see more of those characters out there.
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