Neo-Knights

The Neo-Knights are fictional characters, a team of superheroes in the Marvel Transformers comics.^[1]

Fictional character background

Managed by G. B. Blackrock. The team includes the following members:

• Circuit Breaker (Josie Beller). Invented a kind of bodysuit with imbedded circuits that allowed her to move her body after a spinal cord injury, disrupt the circuits of electronic devices and Transformers, and fly.
• Thunderpunch (Lee Gruber). Has tremendous strength.
• Rapture (Katrina Vesotzky). Can project images into a person's or other animal's or even a robot's mind, causing him/her to dream and forget the real situation.
• Dynamo (Hector Dialonzo). Can channel the force of the Earth itself and use it to his advantage.

Circuit Breaker predates the introduction of the Neo-Knights. Unlike the other three members, and Blackrock, she does not distinguish between Autobots and Decepticons but instead treats all robots as her enemies. The other three members first appeared in the same issue as the team was formed.

Unlike Circuit Breaker, the remaining Neo-Knights seem to have been born with their abilities, making them closer in nature to Marvel's mutants.

G. B. Blackrock and the Neo-Knights were accidentally transported to Cybertron along with the Transformers when Primus sought to unite all his children against the dark god Unicron. Upon first contact with Unicron, Circuit Breaker fainted because of his sheer size and complexity, and Dynamo was unable to fight because Cybertron's nature was too unlike Earth. However, Rapture did manage to briefly convince Unicron that he had succeeded in destroying the universe.

Issue #68, where the Neo-Knights first appeared, was the only issue in the entire series drawn by Dwayne Turner, whose dark-shaded drawing style was noticeably different from other artists in the comic.^[2]

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