Tek Knight’s death in The Boys season 4 creates a major plot hole in the fourth generation

Warning! Contains spoilers for season 4 of The Boys.

The young Season 4 creates a major storyline with Tek-Knight’s death, as the ease with which he dies does not align with his previously established lore. Like most live-action adaptations of superheroes The young has had a number of inconsistencies in power scaling from the start. However, none of them were so glaring that they significantly disturbed the viewer’s skepticism.

Unfortunately, this cannot be said about The young‘ Representation of Tek-Knight’s power scales. Tek-Knight was not part of The young‘ first seasons, but the show has been preparing for his arrival from the beginning by dropping subtle hints about his powers and abilities. Even his portrayal in Generation V reveals a lot about what he can and cannot do as a superhero. Strangely, however, none of these previously revealed details about his superpowers match what The young Season 4, Episode 6 shows.

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Tek-Knight’s death in The Boys season 4 makes no sense

In The young In Season 1, a woman at the Association of Collateral Damage Survivors meeting says that Tek-Knight accidentally broke her spine while rescuing her. This shows that he is much stronger than the average human. The same is true in Generation VDean Shetty remembers that Tek-Knight beat Ironcast to death, who is said to be a superhero with almost indestructible metallic skin. The fact that Tek-Knight was able to overpower Ironcast and beat him to death again proves that he is incredibly strong. Nevertheless, Kimiko and Starlight easily tie him up with leather straps and chains in The young Season 4.

Although Tek-Knight enjoys being tortured because he is a masochist, it just seems strange that a superhero who had previously performed so many incredible feats of strength could be subdued so easily. When Starlight and the crew start raiding his bank account, he can’t even free himself from regular leather straps, despite being considered a super-strong superhero. The sequence then ends with Tek-Knight’s butler, who is not a superhero, choking him to death with another leather strap, which again doesn’t fit too well with his previously implied power levels.

Tek-Knight’s comic suit can close the plot hole

Tek-Knight wears an Iron Man suit in the comics

Since Tek-Knight is meant to be a parody of Batman and Iron Man, he even has an Iron Man-like suit in the comics. Considering that Marvel’s Iron Man is a normal human with no innate superpowers in the original comics and movies, but gains incredible superhero abilities when he puts on his suit, It seems possible that Tek-Knight performed his previous feats of strength while wearing his suitThis would explain why he seemed powerless against Starlight and Kimiko in The young Scene from season 4.

Interestingly, while the series has never explicitly shown his suit, it has subtly hinted that its version of Tek-Knight has one. For example, there is a scene in an earlier season where Ryan is playing a super-fighting game. In the game’s character selection menu, Tek-Knight has a blue mechanical suit. The Deep also mentions that Tek-Knight’s suit is environmentally friendly in a commercial where he brags about how he saves the environment. Although the explanation about the suit fixes the plot hole from season four, it is inconsistent with a detail from Generation V.

A fourth generation scene makes Tek-Knight’s powers even more confusing

Gen V suggests that Tek-Knight is strong even without a suit

After the death of Golden Boy in Generation VTek-Knight shows up at Godolkin University to investigate what happened, even questioning several students. During his interview with Cate, he realizes that she might be using her “touch” abilities on him to control him, so he warns her that if she even tries to take off her glove, he will break her arm. Cate immediately retreats after hearing Tek-Knight’s warning, even though he is not wearing his suitwhich proves that he has superpowers even without a suit.

Even in The young In the dungeon sequence of the fourth season, Kimiko kicks Tek-Knight, causing him to fly across the room. Any other person than a superhuman would have died from this one kick from Kimiko, but Tek-Knight appears unharmedBut moments later in The young Season 4, Episode 6, Tek-Knight is murdered by his butler, who isn’t even a superhero.

The young

The Boys is a superhero/black comedy satire series created by Eric Kripke and based on the comic book series of the same name. It is set in a “what if” world where superheroes are worshipped as celebrities and gods who face minimal consequences for their actions. However, a group of vigilantes led by a vengeful man named Billy Butcher will fight back against these superpowered “heroes” to expose them for what they are.

Pour

Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capone, Karen Fukuhara

Characters)

Billy Butcher, Hughie Campbell, Homelander, Annie January, A-Train, Mother’s Milk, Kevin Moskowitz, Frenchie, Kimiko Miyashiro

Release date

26 July 2019

Seasons

4

Franchise(s)

The young

Authors

Eric Kripke

Directors

Erin Moriarty, Karen Fukuhara, Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Eric Kripke

Showrunner

Eric Kripke

Creator

Eric Kripke

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