Neo-Knights
- The Neo-Knights are a group of superheroes from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Assembled by industrialist G.B. Blackrock to use their powers to make a difference in the Transformer war on Earth, the Neo-Knights are:
- Circuit Breaker/Josie Beller
- Dynamo/Hector Dialonzo
- Thunderpunch/Lee Gruber
- Rapture/Katrina Vesotsky
Fiction
Marvel Comics continuity
The Neo-Knights were assembled by G.B. Blackrock to combat the Decepticon threat to Earth, and had the official backing of the United States government to replace the defunct RAAT. Thunderpunch and Rapture were the initial members, with their first mission to hire Dynamo; on the way, they picked up Circuit-Breaker. The Human Factor!
The President of the United States ordered them to intervene in a Decepticon Civil War that threatened New York City, which accidentally caused them to be warped with the Transformers to Cybertron... just in time for the attack by Unicron! At Thunderpunch's urging, they helped battle Unicron... well, tried to and sucked at it. Circuit-Breaker, however, saved the planet by electrocuting the Chaos-Bringer for a brief few seconds.
After the battle, the Transformers basically ignored them. Unnoticed, they helped Hi-Q/Optimus Prime awaken the Last Autobot and thus helped save Cybertron.
They kind of disappeared after that, and never appeared for Generation 2.
Notes
- In 1991, in the letters page at the end of the final issue of the G1 comic, Simon Furman sorrowfully reveals that this will almost certainly mark the end of Transformers storytelling forever, but that he wants to work on a dedicated Neo-Knights series at Marvel. Funny how things work out, huh?
- The Furman/Wildman plan was to rework the Neo-Knights into a team called Techno-X, who would serve not only as a team but a base of operation for every mechanical or cyborg superhero in the Marvel universe who could make a cameo. The art accompanying the pitch showed Circuit-Breaker and Thunderpunch would be getting redesigned costumes to better fit the early-90s "shoulderpads and guns" aesthetic, Rapture would now be wearing a coat, and some dude in a tux and a metal helmet was with the team (either a redesigned Blackrock replacing Dynamo or a very reworked Dynamo). [1] We're not sure what the "X" signified, except maybe "hey, the X-Men are popular".
