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KO’s cruel punishment and why he did it

So… Season 3 of “OK KO, Let’s Be Heroes” sure was something.

We start of with some cute episodes, and then it got dark as hell.

In “TKO Rules”, KO decides to let his violent and moody monster that lives in his brain take the driver’s seat of the body they share. The result is catastrophic as TKO wrecks the whole house just so he can spite Carol who is technically his mom as well. The episode ends with KO deciding to lock TKO away inside his sub-conscience.

This leads to two questions: 1, why would KO let TKO take command over the body? 2, why would KO do something so cruel to TKO?

KO knows TKO, knows that he is not just his anger, but every single one of his less than happy emotions combined into one really negative one AKA feeling powerless. TKO is not just an angry little bugger. He is unstable as heck, moody one moment, then furious on the drop of a hat. But KO still trusted TKO enough to let him come out of his mind and be in his house.

It has been a point since the episode “TKO’s House” that KO just doesn’t GET TKO. He gave him a neat house and fill it with a ton of cool and nice stuff, hoping that TKO would be happy. But as we saw in “KO VS Fink”, presents are not enough to make someone happy. TKO is depressed since he is bottled up in a world that essentially is KO’s and he is lonely and confused, wanting to know why he exist. He is only somewhat happy when he fights and cause destruction(something that makes him feel control over his life), which is why he agreed to make a deal with KO to begin with.

But KO doesn’t UNDERSTAND that. And how could he, he is just a kid who has to handle TKO alone. He thinks that TKO can be reasoned with the same way he does with Rad, Enid and Dendy.

TKO is not evil as such, he is confused. He believed he did KO a favor by wrecking the house and breaking all of Carol’s rules. Seriously, TKO looked sad when he got scolded by KO. In other words, KO shouldn’t trust TKO with that much freedom because TKO can’t HANDLE that much freedom. Like you can’t leave a dog alone in a room with stakes.

But why would KO be so cruel to TKO? After all, he is an extremely nice kid.

KO IS a nice kid, but he is also a very disciplined one. In fact, he is a bit TOO disciplined.

KO has been raised by a very kind but also very strict mother. Sometimes, she can be too strict, she even admits that the one-cookie rule isn’t that important, it was just a rule for the sake of being a rule.

KO feels comfortable with structure and with being led. He thinks it is a good thing to follow rules and thinking about what he can do to be of service to others. In season one, he does more or less nothing but to seek out people who can tell him what to do. And he doesn’t sulk about it when he gets disciplined since he believes that it is for his own good.

So there it is. KO is a lowkey control freak. He has no problem with others “controlling” him and he sees no problem with controlling TKO. He has been raised to think discipline is a good thing, but he is too young to understand where the line is when YOU are the one who discipline someone else. We kinda see a side of control freak KO in the health week episode where he flipped out on Darrell who made an implication of doing something else than what KO had planned.