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Teamwork may be strong, But I have the power to be stronger. I will save the entire plaza all by myself! It's time to go Turbo.

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Turbo K.O. (full name Turbo Kaio Kincaid), or T.K.O. for short, was a manifestation of K.O.'s negative emotions and feelings of powerlessness. T.K.O. first appeared in "Face Your Fears" as a version of K.O. seemingly made out of a dark-colored slime, but after help from Shadowy Figure, his true form manifested in "T.K.O.". He, alongside with Shadowy Venomous, acted as the main antagonist towards the end of Season 3.

In "Let's Fight to the End", K.O. accepts himself and permanently becomes one ego with T.K.O within their psyche.

Physical Appearance[]

When he first appeared as K.O.'s fear, and before he was unleashed, T.K.O. had a near identical shape to his good half, except for having a blank white eyes, being purple-colored, and a glowing mouth, as well as a rippling liquid consistency. In his physical form after being released in K.O.'s mental plane of existence, T.K.O. once again took on a relatively similar appearance to K.O., with a few key differences. He lacks K.O.'s notable red headband, causing his hair to flow over his back, and purple spiked wristbands take the place of his regular red wristbands. He also has two fangs and other sharp teeth which are almost always visible, and a single snaggle-tooth when his mouth is closed. Additionally, he had dark purple eyeshadow when he started wearing Carol's eyeliner in the second part of his debut episode, and wearing black nail polish during the Plaza Tournament.

In "T.K.O.'s House", inside K.O.'s mindspace, he also wore a black nail polish, and he was wore a black pentagram shirt (in "Dark Plaza", his shirt was no longer had a Pentagram symbol, due to the religion sensitivity of that symbol), making him more of a Goth kid.

But in "Carl", he returned to the usual K.O.'s regular outfit from his debut and Season 1 finale.

In OK K.O.! Let's Play Heroes game, T.K.O. is K.O.’s 'Powie Zowie', and is shown for the first time coexisting alongside K.O. in the physical world. His outfit is nearly similar to K.O.'s regular outfit (still without his headband) with black and gray color schemes, but he is no longer wearing a tank top and albeit his wristbands have no spikes, only seemingly possessing his leg warmers during the peak of his anger, unlike his appearance in the series.

Personality[]

T.K.O. is the exact opposite of K.O., a bitter, ruthless, and dangerous person, and when K.O. shifted into T.K.O., he became angsty and bad. 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, approval for success 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, not even his own friends and family; he even insulted them his friends and boss brazenly, as he sassed them sarcastically throughout their battle, 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, possibly preparing to finish Carol, only stopping when K.O. tried to reassert control.

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

T.K.O. could have simply wanted an outlet for his aggression which made sense, as he was K.O.'s anger, fear, and sense of inferiority rolled into a massively powerful entity.

From the events of "T.K.O.'s House", T.K.O. has been questioning his existence, and detesting the fact that he was forced to simply live in K.O.'s mind. He was determined to find Shadowy Figure, and interrogate him on the matter.

He's shown to be somewhat nicer to K.O. and even combined with him in perfect togetherness. Also in the same episode, it appears that his intellect may be greater than K.O.'s as he was able to deduce that Shadowy Figure was lying to them about just wanting glorbs.

In the Dark Plaza, he does his best to keep K.O. focused, and helps defeat Foxtail.

However, after "TKO Rules!", they lost their sibling-like relationship when K.O. abandoned him back to his subconscious, a punishment for his wrong-doings in the house while K.O. was cleaning T.K.O.'s house.

In "Carl", T.K.O., fueled by pure fury, escapes and pushes K.O. into his own subconscious as revenge, taking over yet again, and teams up with Shadowy Figure/Shadowy Venomous. The two proceed to terrorize everything, as father and son, following through with Shadowy's plan to destroy the world. Upon discovering that all Shadowy cared about was his power, T.K.O. turned on him, draining him, before siphoning the power from everyone.

When K.O. found T.K.O.'s hidden box in his subconscious, he revealed a tape recorder from his childhood. On it, there was a song, sung by Carol, that allowed K.O. to rein T.K.O.'s fury. As K.O. realized the truth of their existence, and accepted T.K.O. as his other half, they merged back into one entity.

Abilities and Powers[]

The exact villain-or-hero power level of T.K.O. is unknown, but so far he is shown to be extremely powerful and was described as this by both himself and his normal side. He easily destroyed a powerful dark version of Laserblast by simply flying into him, took down Mega Darrell with a brutal bisection, and sent Rad flying into orbit with a single punch. He was even able to break out of Rad's levitation beam and use it against him with relative ease.

He is also able to float, teleport, fire energy blasts from his fists, and can use the Power-Fist ability similar to K.O. and move with super-speed. His power is so great that he destroyed Lakewood Plaza Turbo with ease.

It appears that T.K.O.'s power is linked directly to his anger, something 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. This power seems to be inherited from his father, Laserblast, now Professor Venomous.

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. In the "Big Reveal", onwards, K.O. emits purple sparks sometimes when he was worried that he had villain blood in him and about T.K.O. existing within his body (an obviously example is when 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 instability and emotional loss of control 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. He also hit Shadowy Figure to snap his dad out of his possession, with the help of Fink's own Turbo powers as a boost to K.O.'s Power-fist.

As shown in "Let's Fight to the End", T.K.O. was able to, after absorbing power from the Glorb tree, take out everyone in Lakewood Plaza Turbo, and possibly beyond.

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Trivia[]

  • 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), Vanitas (Kingdom Hearts), Dark Samus (Metroid), Dark Pit (Kid Icarus), Devil Jin (Tekken), Wario and Waluigi (Super Mario), Dark Sonic and Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog), etc.
  • The relationship between K.O. and T.K.O. is a reference to the relationship between Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde, two separate individuals who share the same body but have different personalities with one being good and the other evil, the transformations between the two even resulting in physical as well as mental changes.
  • K.O.'s anger being contained in a cage within himself could be a reference to Naruto, where the nine-tailed fox sealed within Naruto was also in a cage.
  • T.K.O. can be a reference to all anger-based transformations that can be seen in media such as anime, TV shows and video games including Super Saiyan from Dragon Ball Z (1989-1996), Specifically the third Super Saiyan transformation, due to the spiky longer hair and purple electricity that constantly surrounds him.
  • Similar to how K.O.'s name is a reference to the phrase "Knock Out", T.K.O.'s name is a reference to the similar phrase "Technical Knock Out".
    • Their names, K.O. and T.K.O., could also be a reference to their personalities. Since a K.O. can be seen as a way to end a fight without overly hurting the other person, while a T.K.O. is when a person injures the opponent to the point they can't fight back safely anymore. This is shown clearly, as T.K.O. is more violent than K.O.
  • When K.O. was beaten by Big Darrell in "You're Level 100!", there was a brief glimpse that he was close to becoming T.K.O.
    • He has been the reason for the Pow Card glitch. It is possible that it was T.K.O who had a power level of 100.
  • The K.O. and T.K.O. storyline is inspired by Ian Jones-Quartey's childhood as a hyperactive kid, who had temper tantrums, and kids' "complicated inner life that adults don't always get."[1]
  • T.K.O. appears to share similarities with Dark Mousy from D.N.Angel; their theme color is purple in contrast to Daisuke and K.O.'s red, they both can interact with their other selves mentally, they are capable of taking control of their counterparts bodies and both have been causing trouble for the main protagonists in personal matters.
  • According to Ian Jones-Quartey, T.K.O. does not seem like the singing type.[2]

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