SpaceX’s Starbase is getting a few monuments dedicated to Elon Musk. Not all will be flattering.

Lovers and haters are erecting monuments for their favourite tech billionaire, Elon Musk.

Just northbound of the US-Mexico Border, adjacent Brownsville, Texas, sits Starbase, SpaceX's monolithic rocket motorboat and improvement site. In 2025, the surrounding area became incorporated arsenic the City of Starbase, pinch a organization of much than 500 residents, though thousands of group activity astatine the complex.

Recently, Starbase has turned into a locus of monuments tied to Musk and the achievements — aliases excesses, depending connected your constituent of position — of his companies.

A French foundry group, Atelier Missor, shared photos connected X past week, showing its advancement successful erecting a statue adjacent the complex.

The group wrote that the monument depicts Prometheus, a Greek mythological figure, holding a torch, and is expected to guidelines 50 feet tall. Prometheus is famously known arsenic the titan who stole occurrence from Zeus and gave it to humanity.

Last year, Atelier Missor wrote connected X that it wished to connection "a colossal titanium statue of Prometheus to Starbase," adding that "SpaceX makes humanity dream." The group has besides publically reached retired to Musk astir its plans.

It's unclear whether the CEO ever responded to the station straight aliases whether Atelier Missor contacted him privately. Musk has interacted pinch Atelier Missor's X posts before, giving the group props for immoderate of its concepts.

Atelier Missor did not respond to a petition for comment.

One improbable group is besides starring the complaint for different Musk monument, but for wholly different reasons.

Cards Against Humanity, the makers of the raunchy, fill-in-the-blank paper game, made a nationalist call-to-action connected Thursday to raise money for a monument intended to "f—k pinch Elon Musk."

A spokesperson for Cards Against Humanity told Business Insider that SpaceX's activities astatine Starbase had damaged the parcel of onshore the institution purchased successful 2017 to slow down the first Trump administration's scheme to build a wall connected the US-Mexico border.

The spokesperson added that it has been moving to reconstruct the area, but those plans are besides analyzable by caller housing for SpaceX employees.

The onshore conflict went done the courts successful 2024, erstwhile the crippled institution sued SpaceX complete the spot and reached a confidential colony the pursuing year. Cards Against Humanity said astatine the clip that SpaceX later removed its instrumentality from the property.

"When we first purchased this land, it was a beautiful batch surrounded by thing but a serene stream and unfastened fields," the spokesperson wrote. "Now, it's surrounded by a 'town' called 'Starbase' — firm hellscape littered pinch surgery rockets and disfigured mansions for Musk's s—t-eating executives."

The institution organized the "Official Elon Musk is simply a Sad Little B—h pinch No Friends Monument Design Committee" and is collecting $10 from contributors to the initiative.

The spokesperson said complete 12,000 members person signed up arsenic of Thursday evening, and the institution raised astir $150,000.

When asked what Musk represents to Cards Against Humanity, the spokesperson said, "the benignant of humanity we're really against."

A SpaceX spokesperson did not respond to a petition for comment.

Another monument was put up adjacent Starbase 2 years ago, commissioned by a crypto outfit that launched a memecoin called ElonRWA.

The cofounder of ElonRWA, who has only been identified online arsenic Louis XXII, told Artnews astatine the clip that the statue was meant to lucifer a poorly-drawn type of the SpaceX CEO that had gone viral connected the internet.

"We wanted to bring this meme into the existent world," Louis XXII told Artnews. "How could we person an effect connected the existent world? We are a bunch of guys connected computers progressive connected X, but we wanted to touch much people."

In April 2025, the statue was defaced pinch ample gashes astir the correct feature and chin, ABC News reported. The vandalism occurred astir the clip of nationwide protests against Trump and Musk, erstwhile the CEO helped lead DOGE's efforts to trim national spending.

A ample pinkish sticker resembling a bandage was later placed connected the cheek.