Jack Knight

## Background

### 1984 - 2007: Jack Knight

Jack Knight is the younger son of Opal City natives Ted Knight & Adele Drew. The two got married much later in Ted's life after he had been Starman for many years.

At a young age, Jack showed a love for the arts. His mother nourished his young mind by getting him supplies to constantly paint & bought him various collectibles & antiques began. After losing his mother at the age of eleven, Jack grew up in the shadow of his legendary father, a member of the Justice Society. As a boy, Jack idolized his father, keeping a scrapbook of his exploits. In time, their relationship began to sour as Jack grew older. He not only disliked his father's career as Starman, but found it embarrassing & rather silly. Jack began to rebel, giving up his passion of painting & began partying.

In 2007, his father decided to officially retire as Starman & passed on the mantle to Jack's older brother David. While many believed Ted favored David, he truly wanted Jack to take on the mantle one day. But Jack was fine with being passed over for the job, much rather to continue running his antiques shop in Opal City.

Not long after his father's announcement, Ted's archenemy Mist, who was rapidly descending into senility, decided to finally enact his revenge plan. He recruited his daughter Andrea to trash the family's lab to distract them while his son Kyle was to go after both David & Jack. The two happened to be out that night, having dinner & some drinks. As they walked to the car, they were confronted by Kyle. Unfortunately, David was killed in battle but Kyle would soon follow as Jack savagely attacked him in his devastation. He stayed at the scene until the police arrived, who then informed him that his father had been killed by the Mist.

Afterwards, Jack swore he would not take another life. Andrea was arrested along with her father, but the death of her brother had a profound change upon her. She admitted to everything & was sent to Arkham Asylum for psychiatric help. Feeling sorry for the girl, Jack would write her many letters for the following years.

### 2007 - 2011: Starman

Recognizing that Opal City needed a hero, Jack agreed to fulfill that role & began using his father's science to help both humanity & superheroics. He initially refused to adopt the Starman costume & fashioned a custom-made one from his junk shop that was more like street clothes. He even refitted the Cosmic Staff into a staff to better suit him.

At the same time, Jack had met & fallen in love with a woman named Jayne Payton. She soon gives birth to their daughter Danielle, prompting Jack to retire from the heroics & handing the Cosmic Staff to his father's friend Pat Dugan. The three of them eventually moved to Coast City for Jayne's new job. Unfortunately, their relationship ended shortly after the move, leading to Jack getting his own place on the other side of town.

### 2011 - Present: Jack Knight

Jack constantly debated on moving back to Opal City to be back around his extended family but decided it was more important to be closer to his daughter. Jack still frequently saw his family, flying across the country multiple times during the year. The family also held a huge Knight-Pratt-Tyler family reunion every year at his aunt Sandra & uncle Al's house. Jack always brought along Danielle so she could play with the kids while Jack caught up his cousins Kate, Grant, Thomas & Rick.

In the year of 2014, Jack ran into a familiar face that he thought he would never see again. His aunt Sandra informed him that she spotted her going into the local motel & sent him over to reacquaint himself. Going up to the motel, Jack was then face to face with none other than Andrea Nash (now going by Andrea Smythe). The two caught up on their current whereabouts, in addition to Jack confronting her on not sending a forwarding address following her release from Arkham. Though she was adamant on no longer being associated with her past, Jack insisted they should reconnect & invited her out later to some hole in the wall bar. The two bonded over many things, mostly being the last remaining members of their immediate families. At the end of the night, Andrea & Jack found themselves in the guest room of the Knight-Pratt household he was staying in while in town.

Jack returned to Coast City with Danielle while Andrea went back to her apartment in Taos, New Mexico. They kept in contact after their run-in, leading to the two taking weekend trips to see the other. Things didn't become official for another two years when she discovered she was pregnant. After giving birth to their son, Kyle Theodore Knight, he convinced Andrea to move in with him in Coast City. She was able to work out an arrangement for her job so that she continue working long distance. The coupling isn't one that his family was expecting from him but it's one he made them accept.

## Romantic Relationships

* Jayne Dayton: Girlfriend (2008 - 2011)
* Andrea Nash: On & Off (2014 - 2016); Girlfriend (2016 - )

## Powers & Abilities

* **Historiography**: He is very knowledgeable about antiques & collectibles.
* **Jujutsu**: Jack is trained in jujutsu to an above-average degree, though he is nowhere near master level.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** Unknown
* **Strength:** Unknown
* **Speed:** Unknown
* **Occult:** Unknown
* **Weapons:** Unknown
* **Range:** Unknown
* **Strategy:** Unknown
* **Combat:** Unknown
* **TOTAL:** Unknown

## Trivia

* He killed Kyle Nash after he killed Jack's brother David as Starman.
* He kept in contact with Andrea Nash after she willingly went to Arkham Asylum. He regularly wrote her letters but that ended when she was released & didn't send a following address. The two wouldn't speak again for another three years.
* Technically, him & Rick are not related. They both are cousins with Knight-Pratt family, with Jack being her Sandra's paternal cousin & Rick being her maternal. Nonetheless, they still call each other cousins. In addition, their fathers were good friends & both part of the Justice Society.
* His ex, Jayne Dayton, is the sister of Steve & William Dayton.
* He is good friends with Mason O'Dare.

## Notes

* In the comics, he stopped being Starman after the birth of his son, not his daughter.
* He did not have a formal relationship with Mist in the comics, Instead, they just had a son together.