Tyler Steele

Tyler Steele is Ryan Steele's father. In the middle of season one, in the four-part "Defending Dark Heart" series, it was revealed that Grimlord's warrior Dark Heart is actually Tyler himself, after being captured and brainwashed. When Ryan brought Dark Heart to the lab in part 2, the Troopers decided to transfer memories (mostly of Ryan's childhood and the VR Trooper project with the Professor) from the lab's computer and their VR Visors to Dark Heart to get him to remember. The transfer was successful and Dark Heart had become Tyler Steele in mind, but not yet body. But even after that, Dark Heart decided to return to Grimlord's dungeon. In part 3, after attacking the lab, Grimlord sent Ryan an invitation to rescue his father without the aid of his two fellow Troopers, and Ryan accepted knowing it was a trap. In part 4, he successfully rescued Tyler on his VR Turbo Cycle and, as Grimlord's forces continued the attack on the Professor's lab, the two headed to a long and forgotten secret lab in the mountains to restore him to human form. Grimlord's forces attack that lab, so they headed to the Virtual Dungeon, with Grimlord threatening to self-destruct the dungeon and replace the oxygen with poison in an attempt to destroy the Steeles. Tyler was successfully restored to his human form but was recaptured by Grimlord and taken back to virtual reality. During the time that followed, Ryan fought for video footage and the proof that his father was still alive in the episode "Message from Space". Ryan saw his father in the episode "Trooper Out of Time" when he traveled to the past and saved his younger half from Strickland in a Skug fight but had to return to the present before having a chance to speak to him. In the five-part "Quest for Power" mini-series, Grimlord transferred all of Tyler's knowledge of virtual reality into a green energy prism to upgrade to the Virtual Dark Fortress and build a new army; Ryan attempts to rescue him as Grimlord successfully self-destructs the Virtual Dungeon but gets trapped in the explosion and eventually survives. When Tyler was held prisoner with the other two Troopers in a cavernous temporary dungeon in reality, Ryan, knowing his powers were almost gone, went against Professor Hart's advice and headed to the cave to battle Grimlord's remaining old army to rescue all three of them. The rescue was successful, but even though the Professor recharged Ryan's powers before sending him to battle, the battle itself ultimately resulted in the loss of his powers and the melting of his Virtualizer. The Troopers then turned to Tao to revive Tyler, who then began work on Ryan's new powers, which required a perfectly-structured crystal for Ryan's new Virtualizer. Tyler also gave JB and Kaitlin a power boost to fight Grimlord's new breed of monsters, the power boost allowing JB's Laser Lance to have enough power to cut through the new monsters and the Troopers to have enough durability to withstand the monsters' new powers. In the episode "The Negative Factor", he would appear on the lab's screens to inform Ryan about the new VR Troopertron, a robot created using the Skybase. Ryan would later see his father again in the episode "The Disk" featuring a scientist and his daughter who brought a computer program that, while programmed to destroy Grimlord's world, also contained glitches in the Troopers' powers; the reunion was short-lived as Tyler had to travel with the scientist to Norway to work on a new computer program designed to destroy Grimlord's world. His final appearance since his rescue was in the Christmas episode "Santa's Secret Trooper", in which he got to ride in Santa Claus' sleigh. All appearances of him thereafter were in flashbacks.
== Dark Heart ==
Dark Heart was the fiercest of the mutants (aside from General Ivar) in Grimlord's army as well as a key lieutenant. He retains some of his human traits such as a belief in fair play. His battle with Ryan resulted in failure, however. With Grimlord disappointed, he arranged for Dark Heart's execution. Dark Heart escaped with Ryan's help and joined him in assaulting the Virtual Dungeon. Both of them managed to escape before the Virtual Dungeon self-destructed and Dark Heart was eventually restored to human form after being wounded by Decimator. However, his freedom was short lived as Grimlord transported him back to Virtual Reality as Grimlord still needed Tyler Steele for his next plot. Outside of that, Dark Heart fits the category of Zelton's army.
Appearances: VR Troopers Episode 31-34
==We Are VR Troopers!==
Thankfully, he never became Dark Heart again in the Virtual Reality War, only as himself. He returned to Cross World City, at Prof. Hart's lab, and attained vast knowledge of virtual reality technology from several places including Maine, Canada, and even Japan! With his and the professor's skills, they developed a new VR armor design, Virtualizer, and VR-VT for Chita!! This was only experimental, as her VR powers respond automatically, without command, and are based on a cheetah's abilities. Tyler did visit virtual reality without armor and rendezvoused with the Mutant infantry instructing them and Chita to use their super speed to distract Air Stryker and Fighterbot in order to be vulnerable from the wired kicked footballs! It was successful, and Scary Ice noticed him at the other side of the covering only it was Doom Master in disguise! The war wasn't turning in his favor, though he advised to never destroy Trans Shooter as it can reprogram the hacked Techies. He escaped along with Galileo, Chita and Ryan only to find Hart and his lab in shambles! Ryan was so infuriated and refused to take Tyler's advice and wound-up decimating Tran Shooter!
Moments later, he was captured by the Techies to the Dark Fortress where he met his son face off Grimlord! He begged him to return to his senses and remember his humanity lesson, that the past makes people who they are; it worked, restoring Ryan's senses, though he was vulnerable to Grimlord's onslaughts, even losing their powers! Ryan offered to sacrifice himself first as Karl aimed a pistol, but Razor Kidd averted their deaths as he shot open the Fortress, and the evil lord, with the Blue Hawk! They escaped, only to have Ryan fall out of the Fortress! Tyler watched Kidd escort him to a rip in the Reality Barrier, and he eventually spotted his location outside another Buddhist temple. He advised it was a sacred place and he shouldn't be bothered. Though he was glad Ryan recovered within a week! He was grateful for him, and his feelings for Ling, and he must never be afraid to use his heart. He said he had the same feelings as he did with his late mom. And he can never be more proud of his son by vanquishing his inner demons that were once inherited by Tyler, including PTSD.
Several years later, he rebuilt Prof. Hart's lab, only as his own. He also ran Tao's Dojo along with Ryan and Chao, in honor of Tao's untimely passing. He also lost Jeb and adopted his son, Jeb Jr. although having him talk wasn't on the agenda yet. He did become the future Troopers' and Chita's own mentor and helped the Mutants' special team on achieving the Mayhem Bowl!
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