Antony Starr has a brutal answer for anyone who thinks Homelander deserves a second chance. The Boys ended in May, yet the debate over its most terrifying resident refuses to leave the building. Fans have been treating the actor like a therapist for a fictional tyrant, and the man behind the cape has now reached his limit. His reaction came at a recent public event, and it was not gentle.

As fans hunt for a soft side in Homelander, Starr is ready to close the search with one grim sentence.

Antony Starr told fans that Homelander is beyond redemption, and he did it with visible recoil. The moment came at a Sony Pictures Television For Your Consideration panel in Los Angeles in mid-October, about five months after the finale. Fans keep approaching him in person to argue the character can still be saved.

“F****** h*** man... Eeeck,” Starr responds to people who tell him Homelander is redeemable.

He then adds, “Hope you don’t have kids…don’t breed.”

The account @dawnyb captured the moment and shared four clips from the panel on October 15. Eric Kripke, Jack Quaid, Chace Crawford, and director Phil Sgriccia shared the stage for the awards season event. Starr has long held this stance, comparing a Homelander redemption arc to the shark from Jaws going vegan. He also wants viewers to understand the trauma and isolation behind the character without ever cheering for him.

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While Antony Starr rests his case on Homelander, the final season faces a tougher jury, and its verdict arrives as numbers.

Season 5 became the most-watched season of The Boys, averaging 57 million viewers per episode worldwide in its first 39 days, per Prime Video. The full series reached about 69 million viewers in the same window. In the United States, Nielsen showed roughly 968 million minutes per episode, about 19% below Season 4. Finale week hit a season high of 1.07 billion minutes, so people kept watching while complaining.

Critics were kinder, with Rotten Tomatoes scores landing in the low to mid-90s, but audiences cooled fast. The finale, B**** and Bone, now sits at 5.6 on IMDb from roughly 133,000 ratings, the lowest in the series, down from about 6.7 in May. Viewers pointed to rushed pacing and a few minutes of Gen V crossover screen time, which left many feeling the finale hurried through its own funeral. Homelander still got the one thing Antony Starr ever asked for, which is a villain who stays villainous until the very end.

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