Team Knight Rider: Vehicles
Dante | Domino
| Beast | Kat | Plato
Dante
Dante is a modified sport utility
vehicle large enough to hold the entire TKR team. He's the traveling command
post. Fast, versatile, rugged, and his personality is Kyle to the extreme.
Whereas Kyle will sometimes keep his opinions to himself for the sake fo
peace and harmony, Dante will confidently express his opinions in his haughty
british manner. And he loves ribbing Kyle about his obvious attraction
to Jenny. He loves making his passengers feel uncomfortable. And he never
hesitates to deflate his driver.
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Domino
Jenny's car is a modified Mustang
with a seductive power and an exotic voice of experience. She's the counterpoint
to Jenny -- fast, sleek and sexy. She loves to flirt, and constantly tempts
Jenny into taking more risks, especially in her personal life. Domino loves
to gossip which often leads to conflicts with the other car personalities.
Jenny takes it all in stride. Even though Domino is the opposite of her
own shy, reseved self, she has a bond with her car. They're girlfriends
in a way. It's just a little strange to see a car telling a woman that
she should act more feminine and to be more open to a man's interest.
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Attack Beast
Duke's car is part all-terrain
vehicle, part tank. It's loaded with a succession of winches, cranes and
a laser cannon. The Beast is stubborn. He has a mind of his own. He doesn't
like taking orders from Duke, and feels free to talk back to him. He also
growls a lot. It's just part of his charm. He also has a crush on Jenny.
He's always asking why she can't be assigned to him. Whenever Jenny's a
passenger in the Beast, he's a pussycat, doing everything to make sure
her ride is comfortable and enjoyable. The Beast is the only one who can
come close to breaking Duke's cool. They have a love-hate relationship.
But at the end of the day, you know the Beast is fiercely loyal to Duke,
and would do anything to protect him.
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Kat
Erica can't understand how she
wound up with Kat as her primary vehicle. Kat is one half of a hybrid motorcycle
and sidecar that joins together with another to form a high pursuit vehicle.
She's the polar oposite of her dark side, mysterious driver. Kat is a "goody
two-shoes" who's overly concerned with rules and regulations. She's got
a strong moral compass, a very clear and traditional idea of right and
wrong, that often gets in the way of how Erica wants to do things. When
Erica dresses in a revealing gown to infiltrate an important affair, Kat
can't help but point out, "Erica, this is a funeral." And yet, if the cars
are supposedly a computer-simulated extension of their driver's personality,
then Kat just adds to the mystery of Erica. How could this be even a small
part of Erica's character? It implies that Erica's seemingly amoral traits
are nothing but a facade.
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Plato
Trek's half of the high-pursuit
vehicle he shares with Erica has the voice of a brainiac, the nerd who
is totally consumed with facts, figures and data. Plato and Trek have a
unique relationship. Plato is the only one who understands Trek, and Trek
is the only one who understands Plato. It's like Trek created his own best
friend. The computer-human symbiosis is at its most efficient with these
two personalities, and no one else can figure it out. Plato talks in a
shorthand that only Trek, the consumer of all information, can seem to
comprehend. In analyzing a situation, Plato may recite a line of poetry,
or use a line of dialogue from an obscure television show. From this, without
missing a beat, Trek will extrapolate what Plato means. So for instance,
faced with jumping a ravine, Plato will cryptically respond "Evil." Trek
will interpret this as "Not evil as in bad, but Evel, as in Knevil, and
his failed attempt to jump the Snake River Canyon because he hit his rocket
booster too soon." Unfortuantely, for the other team members, Plato doesn't
like talking to anyone else. So this invariably leaves the other TKR members
to solve the puzzle of what Plato means when Trek isn't around.
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