{"id":1964139,"date":"2025-08-16T16:04:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T16:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1964139"},"modified":"2025-08-16T16:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T16:04:15","slug":"the-boys-villain-we-love-to-hate-gets-emotional-in-final-season-send-off-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-boys-villain-we-love-to-hate-gets-emotional-in-final-season-send-off-message\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Boys\u2019 Villain We Love to Hate Gets Emotional in Final Season Send-Off Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Antony Starr isn\u2019t exactly known for softness as Homelander on <em>The Boys<\/em>, but his new Instagram farewell hits like a superpowered punch right to the gut. In a long, Instagram post, he called the series \u201cthe highlight of my career,\u201d and shouts out the Canadian crew, Amazon, Sony, and his \u201cco-parent\u201d in crafting the character, Showrunner Eric Kripke. \u201cWe created a monster, sir,&#8221; he noted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Castmates chimed in fast: Karen Fukuhara (Kimiko) wrote, \u201cWhat a f\u2014ing time we had\u2026 miss it already,\u201d Jessie T. Usher (A-Train) added, \u201cYou did a damn good job as Homelander,\u201d and Erin Moriarty (Starlight) called working with him \u201ca masterclass.\u201d Starr\u2019s sign-off was the emotional note <em>The Boys<\/em>\u00a0fans have been dreading: \u201cWe cooked for the last time\u2026 Homelander, signing off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>View the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mensjournal.com\/entertainment\/antony-starr-the-boys-homelander-goodbye-final-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:original article;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">original article<\/a> to see embedded media.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">Where did we last leave Homelander in Season 4?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Season 4 ended with Homelander tightening his grip on the country. After publicly exposing Vice President-elect Victoria Neuman as a supe on live TV (and proving it with a heat-vision blast), chaos erupted. By episode\u2019s end, both President-elect Robert Singer and Neuman were out, and martial law put every supe under Homelander\u2019s command. His goal of becoming America\u2019s strongman had come to fruition. The Boys scattered (or were captured) and Butcher seized the sole remaining vial of the supe-killing virus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/articles\/doctor-strange-star-reportedly-back-140525446.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Related: 'Doctor Strange' Star Reportedly Back for Pivotal Avengers Role. Here's What It Could Mean for the Film;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Related: &#8216;Doctor Strange&#8217; Star Reportedly Back for Pivotal Avengers Role. Here&#8217;s What It Could Mean for the Film<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">How will\u00a0<em>The Boys<\/em> wrap Homelander\u2019s story?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The final run of eight episodes has finished shooting and is slated for 2026. Expect the endgame to play out directly from that Season 4 power grab ending: Homelander ruling through fear and optics and The Boys trying to break his chokehold through whatever means possible\u2014even if it means dying in the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Though <em>The Boys<\/em>\u00a0will end, Prime Video\u2019s universe will keep spinning with <em>Gen V<\/em> Season 2 and the 1950s prequel <em>Vought Rising<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Starr\u2019s note makes clear he knows what this character has meant both on screen and online. For four seasons, Homelander was the smile you couldn\u2019t trust. Now, the actor behind him leaves fans with gratitude, and the promise that the last flight will be the wildest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mensjournal.com\/entertainment\/antony-starr-the-boys-homelander-goodbye-final-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u2018The Boys\u2019 Villain We Love to Hate Gets Emotional in Final Season Send-Off Message;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u2018The Boys\u2019 Villain We Love to Hate Gets Emotional in Final Season Send-Off Message<\/a> first appeared on Men&#8217;s Journal on Aug 13, 2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antony Starr isn\u2019t exactly known for softness as Homelander on The Boys, but his new Instagram farewell hits like a superpowered punch right to the gut. In a long, Instagram post, he called the series \u201cthe highlight of my career,\u201d and shouts out the Canadian crew, Amazon, Sony, and his \u201cco-parent\u201d in crafting the character, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1964140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[344142,346932,346933,53779],"class_list":["post-1964139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-antony-starr","tag-erin-moriarty","tag-homelander","tag-instagram-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/\u2018The-Boys-Villain-We-Love-to-Hate-Gets-Emotional-in.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1964139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1964140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1964139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1964139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1964139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}