Hi, going to be making a removal on a character I actually proposed, and the reason I'm doing this isn't actually to do with his heinousness interestingly enough. Thank you, RhinoBeloved, for giving me permission to make this.
What is the Work?
Copy-pasted from my older proposal because I'm lazy
The Boys (based on the comic of the same name) is a satirical take on superheroes where the vast majority of them are either scumbags, corporate stooges, or both. A company called Vought creates superheroes by pumping a drug called compound V into them (usually at birth), then grooming them into superheroes to match their marketing. Tek Knight is one of these superheroes.
Who is the Character and What Has He Done?
Again, copy-pasted from my proposal on him. Was under a different account at the time, but admins will testify it was me.
Tek Knight in the show is clearly a homage/parody of Batman. He was born from old money; he was raised in a mansion by a Butler and he's a world-class detective. The only difference is that while Batman obtained his intelligence through hard work and discipline, Tek Knight gets his from powers like any other Vought Superhero. Oh, and I guess Batman is a paragon of morality and justice while Tek Knight is a total POS who got rich from his family's money from the slave trade and privatized prisons.
He was introduced in Gen V as a TV personality looking to solve a case for his Vought show on why the young Godolkin student Golden Boy killed his teacher and committed suicide. As a demonstration for the school, he interrogated the student Marie and forced her to confess that she lied about being the one to calm Golden Boy. However, it soon becomes clear that Tek Knight only cares about getting satisfying answers for his show without regard for whether they're true, so he attempts to push blame on Dean Indrina Shetty. However, this is stopped when Shetty blackmails him with videos of his sexual perversion with inanimate objects.
In the latest season of The Boys he returns worse than ever. It is there he meets Hughie disguised as Webweaver for him to become his new "sidekick". Unfortunately for Hughie, becoming Tek Kight's sidekick is probably the worst thing that could happen to you as he is forced to perform multiple fetish-inducing acts along with being sexually assaulted by Tek Knight. We actually see his previous sidekick chained up in the corner, left in a weak and passive state from so much sexual abuse.
When discovering Webweaver was actually Hughie (something he suspected already) he says he'll tell Homelander about it, leading the Hughie's death. Before that though, he tries to cut holes into Hughie's body to stick his ahem "Little Knight" inside. Fortunately, he's captured by Annie and Kimiko first. They interrogate him and find out he's planning to give Homelander his prisons to use as camps for non-supes. This disgusts his butler so much that he kills him.
Why Doesn't He Count?
When I originally proposed this character, the rules on comedy were a lot stricter, where if a character's criminal activity in and of itself is played for laughs in its entirety, they can't be Pure Evil or Near Pure Evil. On paper, Tek Knight doesn't fit this, considering the horrible nature of his sex crimes, but thanks to an incredibly poor-taste WoG comment claiming said sex crimes were supposed to be funny, he qualified for here based on a technicality.
However, since then, rules have changed. Now, a character can qualify for PE/NPE if they have enough consistently laughable evil moments alongside all the ridiculous stuff to count. Tek Knight seems to fall into that bracket as of now, with the majority of his comedy coming from his weird paraphilias, which in turn, all have connections to his horrific sex crimes. As his sex crimes are what are consistently played for laughs, he falls under the silly PE/NPE bracket and isn't Inconsistent enough to count here now
In case you're curious, the reason I've opted to make a removal on Tek Knight here as opposed to proposing him for NPE or PE is because he's currently stuck in moral scaling limbo. We know he definitely counts for NPE or PE, but we're unsure whether he's a straight example or a silly example since he intended to introduce internment camps, which will be used in the next Boys season. Currently, he's a silly PE, but that could change to him being a straight PE or NPE if his camps are taken more seriously. However, one thing that's generally accepted is that he no longer belongs here.
Verdict
Cut, him.