Turbo K.O.

“Teamwork may be strong, but I have the power to be stronger”

## T.K.O.

T.K.O./TKO is the Turbo version of the protagonist Kaio Kincaid/K.O. from the series *OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes*.

He made his debut in Season 1 Episode 25 Titled "T.K.O."

## Background

T.K.O. is the ultimate fighter and the physical manifestation of K.O.'s anger. Birthed from K.O.’s strength and thirst for power after meeting a hooded figure who guided him to use this kind of power.

T.K.O. enters the real world whenever K.O. feels utterly powerless(although, K.O. can voluntarily allow T.K.O. to transfer consciousness with him). Once this happens, T.K.O. comes out and unleashes his anger. However, he can be controlled, and, in the canon OK KO universe, K.O. works things out with T.K.O so he wouldn't lose control over him. But in his timeline, T.K.O. is out permanently and this is no longer K.O.

## Appearance

Just like K.O., he wears a white shirt, dark blue shorts, and a blue vest. But unlike K.O., he wears spiked arm wrist bands and doesn't have his headband, making his hair loose and unkempt. He also has bags under his eyes and a single fang showing. His skin tone is also described to be more greyish. Additionally, he later had dark purple eyeshadow and started wearing his mom's eyeliner.

In "T.K.O.'s House", inside K.O.'s mind-space, he had black nail polish on his hands, and also he was wearing a black Pentagram shirt, making him more of a Goth kid.

## Personality

T.K.O. is the exact opposite of K.O. he is a bitter, selfish, and violent person, and when K.O. turned into T.K.O., he became angsty and mean. He was contemptuous at best of others around him when in a better mood to the point where even Enid disliked his attitude and Rad referred to him as "*lame*". T.K.O. showed a desire not for friendship or family, but pure destruction, chaos, and power. He tends to ignore others when they're trying to talk to him and showed no care when damaging physical property. T.K.O. was shown to hate compliments and affection, seeing it as people pitying him and looking at him as a weakling.

Unlike K.O., T.K.O. showed no mercy to anyone when fighting, especially his own friends and family; he even acted this way towards his friends and boss as he sassed them sarcastically, especially while casually destroying the plaza. T.K.O. has shown himself to have no qualms about attacking those his regular form considers close to him, in which it was K.O. as his other side taking back control that stopped him from hurting and possibly nearly killing his own mom.

As revealed in the episode "You're in Control", T.K.O. wants to fight. He hates being in the mental prison that K.O. has him in when he is inactive, but with the recent deal he has made with K.O., they have reached a sort of compromise, which T.K.O. seems to be accepting of, to which he sternly replies "NO TAKE BACKS".

T.K.O. could have simply wanted an outlet for his aggression which makes sense as he is K.O.'s anger, fear,

and inferiority rolled into a massively powerful entity.

## Abilities

It appears that T.K.O.'s power is linked directly to his anger which the Shadowy Figure hypothesized and T.K.O. later confirmed as he tried to attack Enid: as he chased her his power, strength, and speed appeared to increase. At the peak of his anger during his proper debut episode, T.K.O. was able to create energy waves that easily blasted through solid objects by simply waving his hand and during a tantrum created a dome-shaped field of energy that was even able to inflict damage on heroes with levels in the double digits such as his mother and employer, who usually are seemingly invincible in a fight. The disempowerment dome has the power to enervate its victims and nullify their powers.

It was later revealed in "Mystery Science Fair 201X" that T.K.O. can be unleashed when K.O. feels powerless, and during any direct situations in which K.O. feels devastated, triggering his Turbo transformation. And eventually in "Big Reveal", K.O. emits purple sparks sometimes when he was worrying that he had villain blood in him, and also T.K.O. tried to control half of K.O. body (which obviously one of his wristbands turned into T.K.O.'s) to reach his dad. In "Let's Get Shadowy" and "Carl", K.O. implied that he doesn't want to go Turbo because of the insanity brought by T.K.O. when his powers weren't enough to defeat Carl, but with the help of Rad and Enid, they managed to destroy him, and also Shadowy Figure to snap his dad out with the help of Fink's Turbo powers as a boost to K.O.'s Power-fist.

## Trivia

* Credit to Gomoku1 on twitter for creating the art used in the infobox.
* T.K.O. can canonically branch off into a "Bad Ending" as long as it takes place anywhere in between Season 1 Episode 25 to Season 3 Episode 18
* The K.O. and T.K.O. storyline is inspired by series creator, Ian Jones-Quartey's childhood as a hyperactive kid, who had temper tantrums, and kids' "complicated inner life that adults don't always get.
* T.K.O. being the dark side of K.O. could be a reference to various video game heroes possessing evil counterparts/rivals such as Evil Ryu (*Street Fighter*), Dark Link (*The Legend of Zelda*), Dark Samus (*Metroid*), Dark Pit (*Kid Icarus*), Devil Jin (*Tekken*), Wario and Waluigi (*Super Mario*), Fleetway Sonic and Shadow the Hedgehog (*Sonic the Hedgehog*), etc.