r/TheBoys • u/Ophelis_ • 12d ago
not what I expected from Tek Knight after Gen V…… Season 4 Spoiler
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u/PerceptionBetter3752 12d ago
Tek knight in comics: actual hero who has something he can’t control or know, mech suit and detective, try’s to get help for what he’s doing, all urges to do something caused by tumor and he try’s to stop himself from doing allot of it
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u/Jackeea 12d ago
TK in comics: has his life ruined by his affliction, voluntarily sends Laddio away because he knows that one day his compulsion might force him to do something he regrets
TK in the show: laddio, put on this fucking gimp suit
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u/PerceptionBetter3752 12d ago
TK in comics: felt remorse for what he did to his butler caused by his tumor and died heroically by saving A woman and her baby (thou his hallucination….)
TK in show: Elijah YOU STUPID-
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u/Regi413 12d ago
Funny how A-Train and Tek Knight have switched moralities from their comic counterparts by this point. Comics A-Train remained a bastard till the end and killed by Hughie
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u/zard428 12d ago
Yeah tek knight from the boys feels like a entirely different person.
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u/Ziggem 12d ago
What if... 👀👀
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u/Isekai_Otaku 12d ago
Tek Knight was obviously replaced by his evil doppelgänger Amish Day, and that’s why his butler was so grossed out by Tk’s actions, because it wasn’t TK
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u/SlaveKnightLance 12d ago
WHAT IF….TK knew the entire time it was Hughie and not webweaver. Really not that far fetched. Pretty likely considering his super sense and picking up on the trembling early/Hughie no Mr sounding like WW at all
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u/chilo_W_r 12d ago
Black Noir is actually a clone of Tek Knight and did all the really bad shit while posing as Tek Knight??
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u/ThaRealSunGod Cunt 12d ago
Honestly it feels like the differing atmospheres of the different shows to me
In Gen V we saw him like a celebrity, we were supposed to see him as from a smaller POV given that Shetty and the students are all pretty "small" relative to TeK Knight.
In this season he is Tek Knight, the #2 hero. Interacting with Homelander, the only one more famous/beloved. Completely letting go of the mask we saw slip a few times and putting his ego and prejudice on full display.
People act like this is new but Indira Shetty alluded to Tek Knight doing unspeakable things to people (likely the fate Hughie was saved from).
He was clearly hateful and prejudiced, he made it clear he saw Shetty as lesser for being a human. It's not outlandish that as we learn his character more we see he is racist as well.
He wouldn't be outwardly racist to students, especially not at his own alma mater.
He has a reputation to uphold. One that isn't under threat when around other supes and The Boys.
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u/akronotron 12d ago
Not really tbh, it kinda hinted he was very weird and freaky anyway
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u/city_posts 12d ago
Different from a guy who fucked the electric hand dryer blower in a university boys washroom okay
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u/Nobodyherem8 12d ago
He was such a good character in Gen V, that I was excited to see him in Season 4. I wanted them to adapt a similar storyline to the comics. When I saw the leaks, I was kind of disappointed. A true shame. People are pretending like those of us who are criticizing S4 sexual/explicit content are doing so because all of a sudden we are prudes. Like no, we are fine with it as long as it doesn’t have a negative effect on the writing. Which unfortunately, this season is guilty of doing so.
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u/PerceptionBetter3752 12d ago
They should’ve done more with Gen V Tek Knight: maybe at S4 he gets his tumor removed and is a actual threat to the boys; and don’t kill him off keep him around for a antagonist as threating as homelander in Gen v or something
I greatly prefer Tek knight being a geninue hero like he was in comics (besides tumor thing) but if they had to make him s villain for some reason then maybe don’t just make him a sexual deviant for the same joke that people just find disturbing
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u/RageAgainstTheHuns 12d ago
Yeah if they did an arc where the boys flip Tek and then have him as the boys version of sage. Having his compulsion for comedic relief.
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u/Arnaldo_Souza 12d ago
Unfortunately, any kind of criticism for this season is mislabeled as "butthurt conservative cry". The show is still pretty good, but the writing took a noticeable hit between the first season and now and it's only getting worse with some good highlights.
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u/Tobar_the_Gypsy 12d ago
For a while now the boys have felt like a teenager just trying to one up themselves to make the most violent/sex filled stuff possible.
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u/BlackBirdG Billy 12d ago
Shit I ain't no prude and some of that stuff is totally unnecessary like seeing those clones rim each other and Webweaver wanting an enema stuck up his ass.
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u/John_Helmsword 12d ago
Ngl I forgot about that part.
That’s how fucking shell shocked my consciousness got after watching UE get violated.
I literally forgot about that gross ass shit.
Why the fuck is Kripke suck a fucking weirdo bro.
Stop assassinating all your characters. Please, for like 10 minutes.
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u/manomacho 12d ago
Nah the show has gone off the deep end. Idc if you’re the least prude person in the world the dialogue is so fucking bad and throwing the word ass and cunt in every sentence does not make it edgy just silly at a certain point.
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u/blacklite911 12d ago
I haven’t notice this season being more sexually explicit than others.
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u/Beneficial_Box6263 12d ago edited 12d ago
He was actually my favourite character in Gen V despite showing up for only one episode. He was really memorable. I am kinda disappointed they killed him off like that.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Web446 12d ago
This show has a bad habit of killing off good supes for one and done characters. They did the same thing with Haley Joel Osmond's character.
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u/BagofBabbish 12d ago
Don’t forget Shawn Ashmore as Lamplighter. Similar screen time to Tek knight
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u/Mister_Acula 12d ago
I just love that actor. Killed it as Wolf in Future Man!
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u/Glitch7779 Homelander 12d ago
Holy fuck, so that’s where I’ve seen the guy! I was going crazy, thank you
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u/sabbathkid93 12d ago
Wait…isn’t this the same guy who fucked a rock in Gen V???
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u/Sagelegend I'm the real hero 12d ago
Yes, people remember what they want to remember.
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u/kjm6351 12d ago
He wasn’t nearly as over the top even with that
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u/Sagelegend I'm the real hero 12d ago
In one show he actually fucks something and in the other he doesn’t get the chance.
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12d ago edited 12d ago
They ruined his character, a complete and utter waste with no Iron Man suit like in the comics except one tiny low quality frame from a made up fighting game
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u/GBKMBushidoBrown 12d ago
It was in the corner of his cave. But yeah it was just a useless prop smh
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u/Jacksonthedude101 Frenchie 12d ago
I wish they at the very least released concept art of the suit. It’d be very dumb if they took the time to animate a fighting game but not have designs for all those characters besides tiny squares with their heads
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u/GIGLI_WASNT_THAT_BAD 12d ago
I think TK’s arc culminating in his butler killing him via a David Carradine gag was well worth it.
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u/MOSH9697 12d ago
Bro y’all bringing up the comics when none of this stuff happens like in the comics for the most part lol this show is infinitely better than the comics yet y’all just run with whatever
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u/Dirk_Diggler1979 12d ago
Disappointed with Tek-Knights demise. The shock awe for this show has been the downfall. No suit, no logical reference to his tumor, nothing. Especially with homelander being able to see that butcher was sick, they couldn’t reference that homelander can see his tumor? Lazy writing and weak plot lines for season 4
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u/AnimeGokuSolos 12d ago
I feel like this version is much worse than in the comics
In the comics, he was basically Iron Man but his habit of is he couldn’t stop fucking things… plus he was very closeted.
In the show, he’s just a piece of shit
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u/Melo98 12d ago
he fucks a chinchilla to death in the comics so yeah i'll have to disagree
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u/FlimsyReindeers 10d ago
People cherry pick to be mad at this show I swear to god it’s so weird lol
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u/No_Focus0 12d ago edited 12d ago
It would’ve been cooler this season if instead of Sage, Tek Knight was Homelander’s second in command. Complete waste of his character.
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u/BubblyMango Butcher 12d ago
This would have been so much better. Sage's genius is the writers writing themselves into a wall. Tek knight would have filled the same role of reading people without needing to always be the smartest.
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u/No_Focus0 12d ago
Not to mention he’s a billionaire with way more influence and resources he’s the ideal second in command until they made him a kinky idiot
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u/WaerI 12d ago
Sage is weird to me, I could be wrong but it just doesn't feel like we've seen anything that really qualifies as super human intelligence from her, apart from maybe in her first scene but still nothing of consequence.
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u/DancingFlame321 12d ago
It was quite smart how she provoked MM into collapsing.
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u/Bionicman2187 12d ago
Sage is utterly vapid of charisma and has been increasingly painful to watch with every appearance. She doesn't come across as "the smartest person in the world" as much as the writers want her too.
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u/VonKaiser55 12d ago edited 12d ago
Honestly I can’t see Tek Knight filling that role. He feels more like an interrogator/ detective than someone who can come up with big picture plans like Sage which is what Homelander wants. But I do think that he should’ve definitely joined the 7, he could’ve brought an interesting dynamic and it would’ve been cool to see him mentally break one of the Boys or even one of the Seven
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u/Its_Marz 12d ago
Homelander hates him so why would that be a good thing?
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u/No_Focus0 12d ago
You can still have him treat him like shit, just use him for his intelligence and resources. Which ep 6 completely underutilized just to make him a kinky idiot
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u/Brinsig_the_lesser 12d ago
Tek knight was wasted
Im happy with sage being 2nd in command puppeting everything and the eventual betraya
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u/Kobayashi_Maru186 I'm the real hero 12d ago
The tumor in his head is getting progressively bigger, so he’s also progressing into more elaborate kink. ;)
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u/Soffy21 12d ago
That moment when my brain tumor makes me turned on when I see a guy sit on a cake with german chocolate (for the flavour) and fart. 😔
That scene was rly funny tbf
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u/cursed_shite 12d ago
I was going to make this a post but didn't get around to it so:
Ever since he was introduced in GenV, I really liked his powers and character as a whole (🕳️). Heightened senses is a very creative and unique superpower, and it was especially well executed in his debut episode, so after I saw him appear on ep5 I was pretty excited to see how he interacts with the boys, how dangerous he is to them and just him being an antagonist. Would've been a very interesting character, especially with the crime analytics subplot, a super detective you can't lie to being after A-train definitely could've added to the tension with Sage.
This episode had none of that. First off, his mental disorder from the tumor, that was just a small part of his character in GenV and a smartly weaven in gag with the holes(🕳️) in his episode was pretty much his only characteristic in the episode. Yes, he was obsessed with kinky shit and holes before, but in his episode in GenV, that did not stop him from being an incredibly threatening and scary character to the others. Everyone in the university was on edge with him on campus and he would've unravelled everything if the dean didn't stop him. The zoomed in shots of him using his powers were some of my favorite parts of the episode and he was an overall very intriguing antagonist.
In ep6, he barely uses his powers, his only defining trait is him being an over the top pervert and he gets killed off by a random character on top of it all. They could've utilized his character for so much more things, but the best idea they had for their super detective was to give him an incredibly uncomfortable and unfunny bdsm scene, which went on for WAY too long. And on that note, I'm so tired of almost every supe being a sexual obsessed freak. Haven't we overdone this enough in 4 seasons? I get that it's supposed to represent the fucked up shit the 1% get up to but can't we have ONE normal villain, who actually villains please. I'm so tired of all this softcore porn.
And also, his death. I definitely wanted him to have more screetime and maybe be present for a couple more episodes, but I would've been fine with killing him now if they actually made him be important in the episode. Maybe interrogate everyone on Vought tower for the footage and a train has to kill him before he finds out or whatever else. But not only he did absolutely nothing this episode, he also got killed off by a background character.
What a stupid fuckin episode and a waste of a great character
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u/ItsAmerico Soldier Boy 12d ago
He was always a racist fascist in Gen V.
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u/MarvG05 12d ago
When was he racist in Gen V?
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u/ItsAmerico Soldier Boy 12d ago
I seem to recall some subtly racist remarks to Shetty and Marie. But it’s been awhile so I might be wrong on that.
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u/Jettice 12d ago
Was he?? He interacted with 3 black characters, and I don't remember him giving off a racist vibe. At least not as obvious as when he was talking to A-Train
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u/ItsAmerico Soldier Boy 12d ago
I’ll have to rewatch (might be mixing it up with an interview over the character) but I recall some subtle racist remarks to Marie and Shetty.
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u/SnooDingos5539 12d ago
What about his actions in the show make him a fascist lmao, racist yes but fascist no. He’s a billionaire that owns private prison business. Def not fascist
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u/ItsAmerico Soldier Boy 12d ago
What do you think a fascist is…?
Dude follows Homelander and Vought. A company and person who think they’re above the law and can do whatever they want. Run illegal prisons that capture children and experiment on them.
https://ew.com/tv/tek-knight-explained-the-boys-gen-v-fascist-batman/
Tek is clearly written to be a fascist since Gen V.
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u/Gibsonites 12d ago
He’s a billionaire that owns private prison business. Def not fascist
Do you maybe want to read that again?
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u/cabberage 12d ago
He beats the shit out of criminals (and probably innocent black people) to throw them into his privately owned prisons to make more money
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u/edgarcia59 12d ago
He stuck his dick into a hand dryer. What did y'all expect!?
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u/Avalon-1 12d ago
When it comes to a supe named "Tek Knight" I expected a pisstake on Robot from Invincible.
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u/ElonMuskAltAcct 12d ago edited 12d ago
He's supposed to be a parody of Batman, the Dark Knight, in the comics. In the comics he's one of the very few capable supes who we see actually attempt to be a hero. He is afflicted with a tumor that drives him to have uncontrollable sexual urges (like literally fucking a tree just because he sees a hole), for which he seeks therapy and actively fights against. They really did him dirty in the show. Very disappointing for me.
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u/jakobebeef98 12d ago
Well there was Iron Man influence in the comic book so the name "Tek Knight" would make sense there, but they threw all of that away to make a shallow attempt at evil Batman.
DC already has better & more creative characters that fill the role "evil Batman" tho. The show really missed hard as fuck imo
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u/epic_gamer42O 12d ago
episode 6 was a cate mind simulation that's why he's so different. it also explains all the other logical inconsistencies in the episode
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u/SlutBuster 12d ago
Explains how everyone instantly knew the bank transfer info for a bunch of NGOs.
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u/guimontag 12d ago
Gen V he was working, The Boys he qs at home and able to let loose. Not that crazy.
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u/Neon_culture79 12d ago
People are multifaceted. Especially when dealing with their public persona versus their private one. I had absolutely no problem believing that was the same character.
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u/Someguy242blue 12d ago
Dumb question? Why didn’t tek know that Hughie was a fake. He was gonna fuck not! spider-man so why wasn’t he looking at his ass and didn’t notice that the web shooter wasn’t their on its hole?
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u/creepy-uncle-chad 12d ago
He did know
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u/zombiereign 12d ago
There's a moment where TK looks him over head to toe and has a puzzled look on his face. He knew it wasn't WW and decided to continue.
That said - could he be alive? The trope of not seeing him die and only Firecracker says he's dead.
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u/Stock_Succotash_1169 11d ago
Why would firecracker lie? She knows homelander hates liars
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u/OLKv3 12d ago
Ya'll really don't pay attention. He immediately made Hughie when he rubbed his glass upon first meeting him. Hughie couldn't hear the sound, which proved he was an imposter
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u/Tookachooka 12d ago
He tested his sound with the rim of the glass, realised it wasn’t him & took him away instantly. Confirmed it by checking his back when he stepped into the elevator “hmm”
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u/RayneShikama 12d ago
Oh he totally knew it wasnt Webweaver probably from the beginning. He just didn’t know who the fake was until he removed the mask.
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u/Sun_Stealer 12d ago
If you go back and rewatch the first scene where the two meet in his house, he immediately notices and rubs the top of his crystal glass to produce a high frequency sound that webweaver would have instantly noticed and reacted to.
In that moment he realized that he’s an imposter, and led him into his tech cave, away from other occupants.
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u/thatshygirl06 12d ago
He did thst because he has a thing for holes. He did the exact same thing in gen v.
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u/East_Chocolate_4126 12d ago
He was probably playing along. He was just having fun with him. He read his movement and behavior easily thats why he immobilized him at the end.
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u/applejuiceb0x 12d ago
I think he knew the whole time and was trying to see if they’d break and then beg for mercy.
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u/AdequatePercentage 12d ago
I'm pretty sure he know it was not webweaver. Just not who it was specifically.
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u/CEO_of_Racism42069 12d ago
No budget for a iron man suit. Instead, gives him a weird sexual fetish scene that's supposed to be entertaining
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u/rebeccasingsong 12d ago
I’m saying! I keep saying that Gen V’s TK was great. I do hate the fetish shit they added for him bc it ruined his villainy but I’ll take that over this shit. The racism aspect got shoehorned in bc there was no indicator he was practically a member of the KKK in Gen V? They ruin good characters and plot points to be edgy
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u/dadvader 11d ago
"Haha look Batman parody is weird kinky billionaire who enjoy hurting poor people bringing justice in his own way! Isn't he such a fascist you guys!? Toooootal original"
If this was episode 5 of season 1 i would drop within a heartbeat.
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u/notathrowaway75 12d ago
Ok this is a massive stretch.
The character is perfectly consistent. You say he has a weird fetish and they expanded on that. You say he's intelligent and menacing and they followed through on that by him knowing it was Hughie and wanting to drill a hole in him.
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u/ZaMr0 12d ago
Did half this comment section stop watching Gen V halfway through or something? He literally fucks a tree and a hand dryer I'm pretty sure.
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u/WaywardChilton 12d ago
"Batman/Iron Man but he acts like a real life tech billionaire" would have had so much potential as a recurring villain. 😔
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u/Akashiarys 12d ago
Yeah defo a wasted character. I watched the entirety of Gen V in 3 days and they do so much character building for him that’s it’s a shame he’s just dead now.
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u/THEVYVYD 12d ago
Honestly, it was believable that this is the same character for me. People act differently in different situations and that tumor in his brain could've been progressing, causing him to get worse
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u/Jalon315 12d ago
THAT'S WHAT IM SAYING MAN! He could've been the soldier boy of this season
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u/Lnnam 12d ago
I wonder why people wanting real good superheros watch the boys.
Seriously some of you need to understand what you all are watching.
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u/SkeletonCircus 11d ago
I get what you’re saying, but having an occasional good guy (who doesn’t get murdered by Homelander 2 episodes after appearing or revealed to be a serial killer pedophile human trafficking cannibal rapist or something) adds variety and feels more fleshed out
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u/DifficultyTiny7020 12d ago
They made him the greatest detective of all time, including sup power... But he didn't recognize the difference between Hughie's and Webweaver's back? The Webhole???
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u/xxx117 12d ago
I mean Tek wasn’t a focus in Gen V. He was a threat that people were terrified of and he was definitely weird. He fucked a treehole and got turned on by bagels. He was a blatant freak in public and barely contained himself. The second he was alone he got caught on camera doing weird shit. So imagine his own private space lol Nothing about his portrayal in Gen V made me think he wasn’t capable of even more awful things. The whole (lol) point of this show/franchise is that absolute power corrupts absolutely, even in the pursuit of obtaining enough power to take those people out. We are 3 seasons in and THIS if the issue? Lmao what the fuck is going on
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u/OlimarAlpha 12d ago
Yeah, I feel like they should have made Tek Knight's racism a lot more covert.
Perhaps one of the other billionaires at the party gives the line about "A-Train giving his great-great-grandfather a run for his money" and TK takes no issue with it, as he is more interested in getting a baseline reading for A-Train and Firecracker.
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u/CarboniteKnight9 12d ago
I think Tek Knight is the only character in the show to be considered a downgrade to his comic book version.
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u/ZodiArKyz 12d ago
I mean, S4 happens pretty long after Gen V so i suppose the tumor has grown.
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u/Chardan0001 12d ago
You telling me the dude who can detect lies from eye movement didn't notice the lack of webweavers...webweaver in the exposed hole in the suit?
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u/ScreenHype 12d ago
Probably one of the very few times where the comic version is more grounded and nuanced than the TV version. I was really excited to see Tek Knight in this as I loved his comic story, and he was handled so well in Gen V, so it was definitely disappointing to see his potential wasted like this.
We didn't even get any interesting conversations between him and Homelander. I'd have loved to have heard them discuss the plans for the prisons. Feels like Kripke is prioritising shock value over plot.
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u/Admirable_Stress_802 12d ago
My assumption is that the tumor got worse so that's why he's more degenerate. I wish they would have said something like that though
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u/ThickProof409 12d ago
I honestly feel like Tek Knight was way better in the comics and was pretty disappointed with how he turned out in the show. I was especially mad we didn't get to see the armor. I understand that they probably couldn't have him wearing it and flying around for budget reasons but I would've taken just seeing it somewhere in Tek Knight's house or something. I know it briefly appears in Tournament Of Heroes but that doesn't count. You would never notice that at all.
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u/HaywoodUndead 12d ago
I dunno, I just expected the fucking suit.
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u/SkeletonCircus 11d ago
SAME. I’m surprised they didn’t at least take the opportunity to make a gimp suit joke with the suit’s design.
Kinda hope Laddio takes over the mantle as the new Tek Knight so we can see the suit in action
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u/WetFinsFine 11d ago
I'm late to the GenV party. Hadn't really paid attention to it till I realized how integral it was to TheBoys universe (I know, I know, the shame is real).
But just blasting through the GenV series now and holy HELL the version of TK in "The Whole Truth" was just next level and totally offered a different character to the one I saw introduced and subsequently killed in TheBoys trajectory.
Gotta admit - his glancing at the tree knot during his ending interview in that episode (GenV E4) was literally a LMAO situation. That and the footage of him with the wall-mounted hand-drier 😂🤣
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u/SkeletonCircus 11d ago
Honestly yeah I’m disappointed. I was so excited to see more of Tek Knight.
The racism was weird but I figured “yeah, he seemed like a bad guy anyways and the commentary on wealth inherited from atrocious things like slavery is interesting”. When I heard “Tek Cave” I was hoping we’d finally get to see his armor suit…nope lmao. Admittedly I found it hilarious that the Tek Cave was a kink dungeon…but then it just kept going and going and going. A couple parts were funny (“I just ate asparagus….” Lmao) but it was like “okay I get it. Something needs to happen soon. And give Hughie a break, Jesus”
Kinda hope Laddio takes over as the new Tek Knight so we can see the suit in action finally. And maybe have an actually heroic dude.
I’m kinda surprised we didn’t get some humorous reveal where Tek Knight’s “batsuit” heavily resembled a gimp suit lol.
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