Tek Knight

*For the Dynamite version of the character, see Tek Knight/Comics.*

―Tek Knight to Indira Shetty.[src]

**Robert Vernon**, better known as **Tek Knight**, is an upcoming character in Season Four of the Amazon series *The Boys*, and a minor antagonist in *Gen V*, where he served as the primary antagonist of "The Whole Truth."

The renowned superhero-detective, Tek Knight, is a Godolkin University alumnus and is well-known for both mentoring his sidekick, Laddio, and utilizing his suit of armor.

## Background

Shortly after Robert's birth, his parents accepted Vought's offer to inject him with Compound V, subsequently transforming him into a Supe and granting him superhuman powers and abilities.

Robert would later attend and graduate from Godolkin University, becoming the famous superhero known as Tek Knight. After this, he would eventually mentor Laddio, his sidekick.

At an unknown time and date, Tek Knight arrived to handle a hostage situation. Tek Knight quickly defused the situation; however, in the process of saving the hostage, Sheila, he inadvertently broke her spine, turning her into a paraplegic. The accident would later be put in the newspaper.

## *The Boys* Series

### The Boys: Season 1

#### "The Innocents"

―Sheila regarding Tek Knight.[src]

In a group meeting of the Association of Collateral Damage Survivors, Sheila, the hostage Tek Knight had saved, would go on to express her feelings regarding her accident involving Tek Knight that left her paraplegic.

During The Deep's commercial for "Super in America," he mentions how Tek Knight's Knightracer emitted a carbon footprint similar to that of a 737, but with The Deep's help, Tek Knight was able to turn it into a hybrid.

### The Boys: Season 2

#### "The Big Ride"

―Stan Edgar to Homelander.[src]

Before Homelander is dismissed by Stan Edgar, he is reminded by the latter to attend the premiere of "Tek Knight Lives," a superhero movie starring Tek Knight.

### The Boys: Season 3

#### "Payback"

―A newspaper headline regarding Tek Knight.[src]

A newspaper clipping of Tek Knight's hostage accident can be seen inside of M.M's closet, along with the crimes and malfeasances of multiple Supes.

### Gen V: Season 1

#### "The Whole Truth"

Tek Knight first appears as the celebrity host of the Vought+ true crime series *The Whole Truth,* returning to his alma mater Godolkin University to "investigate" the recent suicide bombing of Golden Boy. He reveals to Dean Indira Shetty that his true goal is to help Vought cover up the truth behind "The Woods" by framing one of the students. Tek Knight then conducts interrogation interviews with students close to Golden Boy including Jordan Li, Cate Dunlap, and Andre Anderson. Using leading questions and his enhanced senses, he is able to deduce that Andre is sleeping with Cate among other things. Tek Knight later comes to Shetty's class to question Marie Moreau about her involvement with both Golden Boy and Richard Brinkerhoff. He uses his enhanced senses to recognize her lies and ultimately forces Marie to reveal that Jordan was the one who stopped Golden Boy, not her. After the class ends, Tek Knight tells Shetty that none of the students are suitable patsies and that he will instead blame Shetty herself for Golden Boy's suicide, deducing from a prior meeting that she had failed to prevent Golden Boy's brother Sam from escaping "The Woods". Later that day, the two meet in a secluded area in the forest and Shetty blackmails Tek Knight into dropping his investigation by threatening to leak security footage of him sticking his member into various holed objects. He subsequently records a segment for *The Whole Truth* stating that there was no conspiracy behind Golden Boy's suicide. During the recording, he becomes distracted by a hole on a nearby tree, and uses it to pleasure himself after finishing the segment.

## Personality

Tek-Knight is a selfish, clever and threatening person. He cares only for himself, his reputation and his fame not caring that the people who's lives he destroys and he frames for crimes kill themselves due to his actions.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Superhuman Deduction**: Tek Knight possesses unspecified superhuman deduction powers. This, combined with his heightened senses that seemingly enables him to perceive all the way to the microscopic level, makes it virtually impossible for falsehood and duplicity to occur or be uttered in his presence without Tek Knight's notice.
	+ **Superhuman Senses**: Tek Knight has great superhuman senses. He is able to sense if a person is lying by their sweat, breath, and adrenaline, as he did with Indira Shetty. He also noticed that Indira was ovulating.
	+ **Superhuman Vision**: Tek Knight has extremely sharp vision, capable of seeing much better than regular humans; he saw Indira's sweat from afar, indicating her tension.
	+ **Superhuman Smell**: Tek Knight has a very advanced sense of smell: he was able to smell Cate Dunlap on Andre Anderson's lips.
	+ **Superhuman Hearing:** Tek Knight, being a supe, has better hearing beyond that of ordinary humans, capable of hearing certain frequencies.
* **Superhuman Strength**: Tek Knight possesses superhuman strength, which makes him stronger than humans and some Supes. Tek Knight has a reputation for beating his subjects into comas and even killing them, one of them being Ironcast, a Supe with superhuman durability.

### Abilities

* **Acting**: As an actor, Tek Knight has participated in the production of many films, such as *Tek Knight Lives*.
* **Expert Pilot**: Tek Knight presumably has a strong understanding of aerodynamics, allowing him to utilize the Tek Knight armor with incredible ease while in the air.

## Weaknesses

### Biological

* **Brain Tumor**: Tek Knight has an inoperable tumor in his brain. At the moment, the tumor stands small; Dean Shetty, after discreetly researching Tek Knight's medical records, notes that it shall eventually become terminal.

### Psychological

* **Paraphilia**: As a result of Tek Knight's brain tumor, he has developed an intense sexual compulsion towards any object with a hole in it.

## Equipment

* **Tek Knight Armor**: Tek Knight dons a high-tech suit of armor, allowing him to fight crime.
* **Knightracer**: The Knightracer is Tek Knight's personal automobile and one of his many means of transportation.

## Trivia

* Tek Knight is a parody of Marvel's Iron Man and DC's Batman.
* In the episode, "The Last Time to Look on This World of Lies," Steel Knight is mentioned, he is the predecessor to Tek Knight in the comics.
	+ While not confirmed, it may be possible that Steel Knight and Tek Knight are both related, or that Steel Knight might be the predecessor to Tek Knight.