The Boys has beforehand joked about Elon Musk on a number of events, nevertheless it exhibits no qualms about taking issues even additional in Gen V season 2.
Since season 1, The Boys has drawn many hilarious references to the true world and subtly poked enjoyable at the whole lot from company greed to movie star tradition. In its opening installment, the present’s spin-off, Gen V, did one thing comparable by satirizing influencer tradition and the issues in fashionable highschool schooling.
One determine that The Boys has virtually constantly mocked with its satire is Elon Musk. Though the present by no means explicitly name-called him, it has usually in contrast considered one of its fundamental characters with the tech billionaire both by way of story beats or by way of memes on social media. Gen V has now formally picked up on the identical pattern and brought The Boys‘ Elon Musk mockery even additional.
The Boys Has Mocked Elon Musk On Extra Than One Event
Quickly after Donald Trump’s presidential victory in 2024, Elon Musk was appointed to run a short lived authorities group known as Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE). The Boys‘ official social media deal with made enjoyable of this in a put up the place it introduced that Vought was making The Deep the pinnacle of a brand new company: Division of Preserving Earth (DOPE).
Similar to DOGE was liable for lowering US authorities spending and slicing jobs, The Deep was employed underneath Homelander’s rule “to make our oceans a bit of extra Tremendous.” Take a look at the put up beneath:
Elon Musk’s run because the de facto head of DOGE was short-lived, as he quickly ended up backing off from his place. The Boys didn’t maintain itself from taking a jab at this as effectively by making a social media put up that exposed how The Deep, too, was wrapping up his work on the Division of Preserving Earth (DOPE).The put up even justified his actions by claiming that the gig was at all times alleged to final for simply six months as a result of The Deep was caught up with a number of different missions. These social media posts on The Boys‘ Vought International deal with stored issues a bit of cryptic with out explicitly mentioning real-world names, however the parallels have been at all times fairly evident.
Gen V Takes The Mockery To A Complete One other Degree By Immediately Naming Musk
Gen V season 2 surprisingly takes issues up a notch by immediately name-calling Elon Musk in a sequence. There’s a scene within the present’s episode 4 the place Godolkin College’s new dean, Cipher, helps Marie hone her blood-curdling talents. He brings her a goat named Elon and asks her to make the animal transfer from one place to a different utilizing her powers.
Marie is initially hesitant about following Cipher’s orders as a result of she fears she may kill the goat. Nevertheless, Cipher assures her that they’ve purposefully named their goats “for a**holes.” Gen V season 2’s mockery appears ranges above The Boys as a result of it goes so far as immediately naming Elon Musk a number of occasions in a sequence.
