{"id":31,"date":"2026-05-26T16:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2026-05-26T16:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:42:11","slug":"the-boys-bids-a-grim-farewell-to-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Boys\u201d bids a grim farewell to America"},"content":{"rendered":"<section><p>When last I spoke to Eric Kripke about \u201cThe Boys,\u201d Donald Trump had just been re-elected. This followed a fourth season, filmed in 2023, that closed with a politician\u2019s murder. That finale debuted days after Trump survived an attempt on his life.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=26\">Trump, nearing 80, faces renewed health scrutiny<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kripke told me what he\u2019d told many other journalists: the rule guiding him and his writers is that what\u2019s bad for the world is good for the show. The creator and showrunner then warned that the events of his superhero satire\u2019s fifth and final season would be, in his words, \u201cpretty bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even so, he held on to a glimmer of optimism. \u201cI\u2019m really hopeful that we are not prescient about some of these events,\u201d Kripke told me. \u201cI would love to be accused of being an alarmist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two years into Trump\u2019s second term, we now know that Kripke was not being alarmist. On the contrary, in some ways, \u201cThe Boys\u201d version of present-day America looks more humane than ours.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28\" height=\"692\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2fec664bd8d25c645dd0456effbf4d1e-1024x692.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2fec664bd8d25c645dd0456effbf4d1e-1024x692.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2fec664bd8d25c645dd0456effbf4d1e-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2fec664bd8d25c645dd0456effbf4d1e-768x519.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2fec664bd8d25c645dd0456effbf4d1e-1536x1038.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2fec664bd8d25c645dd0456effbf4d1e.jpg 1692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><span>(Courtesy of Prime \u00a9 Amazon Content Services LLC)<\/span> Erin Moriarty in \u201cThe Boys.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Take its Freedom Camps, prisons for political dissidents where three of the story\u2019s namesake heroes, Hughie (Jack Quaid), Marvin Milk (Laz Alonso) and Frenchie (Tomer Capone), were taken. They\u2019re terrible places, but they don\u2019t seem overcrowded. Each detainee has their own bunk. Fresh water is available. Virtual paradises, from the look of them, compared to the squalid conditions of ICE\u2019s migrant detention facilities, as described by former inmates.<\/p>\n<p>That said, Trump\u2019s war on science guarantees that he and his cabinet will never have access to serum like Compound V, \u00a0a concoction created by the mega-conglomerate Vought International that confers superhuman abilities to normal people.<\/p>\n<p>However, Trump did tweet out a meme depicting himself as Jesus on Easter in the same year that we saw the show\u2019s villainous superhero Homelander (Antony Starr), a lab-created human made immortal by Nazi-derived science, designate himself America\u2019s one true god.<\/p>\n<p>Homelander also scheduled his divine ascent to coincide with Easter and planned to purge all non-believers to launch his new world order. Trump also loves purges, although everyone and everything he\u2019s tossed aside has survived. He\u2019s also as mortal as the rest of us.<\/p>\n<p>When a superhero satire\u2019s guesses about how bad life could get are outdone by reality, then the fiction has lost its escapist function. Still, the show\u2019s dark, gruesome conclusion, one that might have been seen as controversial in a MAGA-free timeline, is worth digesting.<\/p>\n<p>It holds that saving our country requires killing our populist gods. Figuratively speaking, I should say.<\/p>\n<p>The entire Marvel and D.C. Universe conditioned us to worship such false idols, portraying wealthy, aristocratic heroes as our greatest defense against alien threats and vigilantes working beyond the reach of the law as the true keepers of justice. When \u201cThe Boys\u201d launched in 2019, it seemed as if we\u2019d reached our saturation point. That was before the pandemic brought Marvel\u2019s timelines to our television screens and \u201cThe Boys\u201d to what is now called Prime Video. It was also before Amazon founder Jeff Bezos began conspicuously flaunting his oligarch status and stroking Trump\u2019s ego.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In some ways, \u201cThe Boys\u201d version of present-day America looks more humane than ours.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe Boys\u201d literalized Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign brag that he could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue and not lose any votes by showing Homelander murdering a man in public, after which his polling soared. He turned his followers on their neighbors and hunted his former teammate, Annie \u201cStarlight\u201d January (Erin Moriarty), when she decided to use her abilities as Vought advertised, protecting the weak and defending what\u2019s morally right.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=24\">Everlane was never your friend<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the series finale episode, Vought\u2019s America was saved from destruction not by the leader of The Boys, Billy Butcher (Karl Urban), or any man, but by Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara), a super who developed the ability to negate Homelander\u2019s powers. Stripped of his invulnerability, Homelander wilts into a bawling wimp, begging for his life on his knees. Instead, Butcher beats the Man of Squeal to death on live TV, prying open his skull like a walnut for good measure. Not long after that, Hughie realizes Butcher also needs to be laid low to prevent more suffering. The icons of a dark age must be culled for the light to return. All of them.<\/p>\n<p>This is a recap, not a suggestion. (When people drop veiled hints about their party plans for when \u201cIt\u201d happens, that needs to be specified.) It\u2019s not even a full summary of Season 5 highlights or a complete list of major character deaths. Better to preserve some mysteries in case you haven\u2019t watched.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, you may never get around to that, and that\u2019s fair. \u201cThe Boys,\u201d through no fault of its own, became an example of TV history repeating. Like \u201cThe Man in the High Castle\u201d and \u201cThe Handmaid\u2019s Tale\u201d before it, our depressing reality erased the distance between us and its fantasy. It was all such a good time until we noticed how closely its plots resembled the news.<\/p>\n<p>That we\u2019re saying this about a show with people who stroll around in capes and latex, fly, read minds, run at bullet speeds and sport mega genitalia \u2013 Love Sausage was not unique, it turns out \u2013 adds a note of risible humiliation to it all. Historians warned us that America was slipping into authoritarianism, but did any of them predict we\u2019d look stupid enough to make a gory comic book\u2019s spoof of our decline and fall seem kinda lame?<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29\" height=\"691\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/07c3d17be258f9f8b81aeda580dffcc8-1024x691.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/07c3d17be258f9f8b81aeda580dffcc8-1024x691.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/07c3d17be258f9f8b81aeda580dffcc8-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/07c3d17be258f9f8b81aeda580dffcc8-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/07c3d17be258f9f8b81aeda580dffcc8-1536x1037.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/07c3d17be258f9f8b81aeda580dffcc8.jpg 1692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><span>(Credit: Jasper Savage\/Prime. \u00a9 Amazon Content Services LLC)<\/span> Jack Quaid and Karl Urban in \u201cThe Boys.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Not everything about the post-strongman world envisioned by \u201cThe Boys\u201d is dim. Annie\u2019s finale triumph shows her sending her rapist, The Deep (Chace Crawford), to the deep, permanently, torn apart by the ocean creatures he betrayed. (Another parallel between Kripke\u2019s America and ours is that Homelander eventually turns on all his allies, if they don\u2019t turn on each other first.)<\/p>\n<p>Where her victory is personal, Kimiko\u2019s is symbolic. Behind all his hypermasculine posturing and mindless violence, Homelander\u2019s psychological instability stems from being a mama\u2019s boy who was never suckled. Once he claims godhood, he accepts tributes of breast milk from his followers \u2013 this, after all but banishing his personal propagandist, Firecracker (Valorie Curry), who ruins her health to pharmaceutically induce lactation for his pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>That it\u2019s a woman who ultimately neutralizes Homelander shielding is a kind of poetic justice. Maybe that message arrives too late. Our country is being led to its ruin by an unpopular political party operating in lock step with Christian Nationalists. The Voting Rights Act is no more, and attacks on our civil rights are accelerating, all in the name of restoring a patriarchal white supremacist hierarchy.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, women are the vanguard of all movements that shift societies \u2014 that\u2019s why right-wing men are desperate to bring them to heel. When male politicians want to claim allyship with women, they find a female running partner or candidate who will do their bidding and quickly get rid of them when they\u2019ve served their purpose. \u201cThe Boys\u201d has its own versions of Tulsi Gabbard, Pam Bondi, Kristi Noem and Lori Chavez-DeRemer, especially within the Vought corporate structure. Most are dead. The wasted potential known as Sister Sage (Susan Heyward) traded her genius for a lifetime of anonymous stupidity. All-purpose lickspittle Ashley Barrett (Colby Minifie) disfigures herself by growing a sentient, psychic tumor on the back of her head. She fails all the way up to the vice presidency before, at last, taking the fall for all her bosses\u2019 sins. After all that, business as usual continues at Vought International.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30\" height=\"691\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/60a230befd53dca36f37f337546b8d7c-1024x691.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/60a230befd53dca36f37f337546b8d7c-1024x691.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/60a230befd53dca36f37f337546b8d7c-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/60a230befd53dca36f37f337546b8d7c-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/60a230befd53dca36f37f337546b8d7c-1536x1037.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/60a230befd53dca36f37f337546b8d7c.jpg 1692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><span>(Jasper Savage\/Prime  \u00a9 Amazon Content Services LLC)<\/span> Karen Fukuhara in \u201cThe Boys.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Kimiko\u2019s superpower, meanwhile, is spontaneous regeneration. For five seasons, the audience watched her be torn to pieces, blown apart, shot and stabbed. To become capable of destroying a false god, she subjects herself to massive doses of radiation. Normalcy\u2019s triumph is only possible because a stubborn survivor refuses to accept that fascism can\u2019t be defeated.<\/p>\n<p>Our last glimpse of Annie and Hughie shows that they\u2019re pregnant and out of the world-saving business, while Marvin also recommits to his family. Kimiko, however, leaves America behind for a new beginning in a new country. One day, we may get there, too.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=22\">Trump\u2019s Cabinet dramatically changed American foreign policy while the president made noise<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>All episodes of \u201cThe Boys\u201d are streaming on Prime Video.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Kripke&#8217;s gory superhero satire concludes that the only way to save ourselves is to kill our gods<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[51,52,53,4,54,55,56,57,58],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-amazon","tag-american-superhero","tag-antony-starr","tag-commentary","tag-eric-kripke","tag-karl-urban","tag-superheroes","tag-the-boys","tag-tv"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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