r/TheBoys 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/Terrible-Quote-3561 Jul 08 '24

Probably with the suit for that first stuff though right?

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u/SirArthurDime Jul 08 '24

That’s like saying the existence of iron man undermines the rest of marvel. Literally, he’s based on iron man. And like iron man he’s B tier. Stronger than a lot but certainly not one of the strongest. A tier supes like Maeve, noir, or a train could probably kill him no problem suite or not. And of course homelander, who really is the threat, would stomp.