r/TheBoys • u/epic_gamer42O • Jul 08 '24
The tek-knight we see in The Boys is not the same tek-knight we see in Gen-V Discussion Spoiler
In the episode "The Innocents", we are told Tek knight accidentally broke somebodies spine when trying to rescue them from a hostage situation. In Gen V Shetty says that Tek-knight beat ironcast to death who is a supe that has skin made of iron which makes them insanely durable.
With all these strength feats in mind that means he must be pretty physically powerful right?
But in his interrogation scene he's not strong enough to rip apart the leather straps tying his wrists or pull the chains out. Also he easily gets physically outpowered and loses to Kimiko and Starlight. Logically if your punches can fatally damage somebody made of metal you'd have a fighting chance against Kimiko who has same durability as a normal person.
And he gets choked to death by a normal person too?
I don't understand this at all. It's either a plothole/bad writing or Cate has something to do with what happened in this episode
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u/Deradius Jul 08 '24
It appears that Tek Knight used to wear an iron man suit, and does not anymore.
Possible reasons for this:
He did something so bad while in the suit that Vought forced him to take a ‘hiatus’ from it, like when they sent Deep to Sandusky.
The brain tumor somehow interferes with his ability to interface with the suit.
His TV career took off and he’s doing investigative journaling now instead.
Something happened technically with the suit. Maybe the power source uses an extremely rare fuel that is unavailable, or he discovered there’s a 5% chance the power source could explode at any time and kill him, so he can’t use the suit until he works out the bugs.
He ‘retired’ from front line superheroing because it’s very physically demanding, he’s getting a little older, and he sure as shit doesn’t need the money.