Homelander's Fate in THE BOYS Finale Has Fans Completely Divided

After five seasons of chaos, exploding bodies, political insanity, and some of the most unhinged superhero moments ever put on TV, The Boys delivered the moment fans have been waiting for since 2019, the fate of Homelander.

Spoilers ahead! But, you clicked on the article, so you knew that was coming.

Homlander is dead, and the internet has a lot to say about how it all went down.

The final episode, “Blood and Bone,” wrapped up the series in brutal fashion and brought the long-running war between Antony Starr’s Homelander and Karl Urban’s Butcher to its bloody conclusion.

The episode wastes absolutely none of its runtime building toward the inevitable collision between the two enemies, but the path there took a few surprising turns.

Following Frenchie’s experiments on Kimiko in the previous episode, she emerges as something far more dangerous than before. Kimiko now has the ability to depower Supes using a chest blast, essentially turning her into the ultimate anti-Supe weapon.

After testing the ability on Sister Sage, the Boys move in on Homelander during his Easter speech at the White House.

What follows is a chaotic fight inside the Oval Office, with Ryan eventually joining the battle. In a key moment, Kimiko channels her new power and strips Homelander of his abilities. Ryan and Butcher lose theirs in the process too, suddenly leveling the playing field.

With Homelander reduced to an ordinary human being, Butcher finally gets his revenge. And it’s ugly.

Homelander immediately shifts from arrogant god-mode confidence to terrified desperation, begging Butcher to spare him and promising he’d do anything.

Butcher doesn’t blink. He tells Homelander this is for “his Becca” before driving a crowbar through his skull. The show leaves absolutely no room for debate either. Butcher twists the weapon and Homelander’s brains spill onto the Oval Office carpet.

The Boys definitely committed to the bit and fans immediately flooded social media with reactions, and plenty of viewers thought the death scene landed perfectly.

“Homelander went like he should, I would love to see him live life without powers and being miserable, but death was what needed to happen,” one fan wrote on X.

Another added: “Homelander's death has to be the most satisfying ever, after Joffrey Baratheon’s death in Game of Thrones.”

Some viewers were especially impressed with Antony Starr’s performance during the final moments.

“Obviously it'll come as no surprise given my account, but I'll admit I cried at Homelander's death,” another fan shared. “The whole scene was very emotional. The switch up from being cocky when immortal to whimpering and terrified when human, Antony Starr gave his all right until the end.”

One more viewer wrote: “As much as I disliked the ending, this is truly an amazing scene. I knew we were gonna get pathetic Homelander begging for his life but it was way better than anything I could've imagined.”

Still, not everyone walked away satisfied. A lot of fans expected the final showdown between Butcher and Homelander to feel much bigger in scale, especially after years of build-up teasing an all-out war between two unstoppable monsters.

“Never in my wildest dreams (even after that s2 laser sequence) did I think the "scorched earth" showdown would happen exclusively inside the Oval Office resulting in just some burned carpet and broken furniture,” one Reddit user complained.

Another fan wrote: “So Black Noir II went more crazy than the fish genocide than anything Homelander remotely did in the whole show.”

A third added: “You have two people with Homelander's powers, and two other Supes all fighting in the final battle, you could've had them flying through the skies, city, really demonstrating their powers in an all out brawl. But the whole fight just happens in one room…really?”

That divide feels fitting for The Boys. The series has always thrived on making viewers uncomfortable, angry, entertained, and occasionally horrified all at once. Some fans wanted a massive city-destroying super battle. Others loved that Homelander’s ending came down to something smaller, uglier, and deeply personal.

Either way, the show finally answered the question it’s been building toward for years: how do you kill a man who thinks he’s a god?

Turns out you make him human first.