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* FlawExploitation: Michael engages KARR in a game of "chicken", banking on the fact that KARR's programming would cause him to chicken out to save his own skin.
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* FlawExploitation: Michael engages KARR in a game of "chicken", GameOfChicken, banking on the fact that KARR's programming would cause him to chicken out to save his own skin.
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* ThreeLawsCompliant: ... KARR? [[SubvertedTrope FORGET IT!]]
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* ThreeLawsCompliant: ... KARR? [[SubvertedTrope ''' ''[[SubvertedTrope FORGET IT!]]IT!]]'' '''
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* ThreeLawsCompliant: ... KARR? [[SubvertedTrope FORGET IT!]]
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: It is revealed that the cars' front LED scanbar, while still protected by the same armor as the rest of the car, is a significant weak point. Bonnie puts together a [[FrickinLaserBeams concentrated laser blaster]] to punch through KARR's scanner and destroy the circuitry within.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** The paradox concerning [[UnstoppableForceMeetsImmovableObject the irresistible force and the immovable object]] crops up early in the episode. Michael mentions it again at the climax as the two cars are charging at each other.
** A subtle, yet more pertinent one: When Michael and KITT crash through the wall in their BigDamnHeroes moment, they nearly ram KARR head-on, and KARR can briefly but clearly be seen backing frantically out of harm's way before fleeing. This foreshadows his ultimate reaction to playing chicken with KITT.
* ItOnlyWorksOnce: Bonnie's laser cannon can only be used twice before it burns out. Unfortunately, KARR manages to dodge the shot both times, requiring Michael to [[IndyPloy improvise]] the final confrontation.
** The paradox concerning [[UnstoppableForceMeetsImmovableObject the irresistible force and the immovable object]] crops up early in the episode. Michael mentions it again at the climax as the two cars are charging at each other.
** A subtle, yet more pertinent one: When Michael and KITT crash through the wall in their BigDamnHeroes moment, they nearly ram KARR head-on, and KARR can briefly but clearly be seen backing frantically out of harm's way before fleeing. This foreshadows his ultimate reaction to playing chicken with KITT.
* ItOnlyWorksOnce: Bonnie's laser cannon can only be used twice before it burns out. Unfortunately, KARR manages to dodge the shot both times, requiring Michael to [[IndyPloy improvise]] the final confrontation.
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* BigDamnHeroes: How Michael and KITT save Bonnie near the end of the episode.
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* BigDamnHeroes: How Michael and KITT save Bonnie near the end of the episode. Bonnie momentarily evades her captors, and before Tony can catch up to her Michael and KITT [[BarrierBustingBlow come crashing through the wall]], very nearly [[DynamicEntry ramming KARR head-on]] in the process.
* BigNo: KARR lets go a couple as he flies over the cliff.
* BlatantLies: PlayedForLaughs. As the two supercars are about to collide head on, Michael and Bonnie take a moment to make peace and apologize for the way they've treated each other up to now. KITT wonders why they're lying to each other.
* BigNo: KARR lets go a couple as he flies over the cliff.
* BlatantLies: PlayedForLaughs. As the two supercars are about to collide head on, Michael and Bonnie take a moment to make peace and apologize for the way they've treated each other up to now. KITT wonders why they're lying to each other.
* RammingAlwaysWorks: Played straight for the most part (as normal for this show); but subverted at the end, where the ultimate victory arises from counting on KARR '''not''' to invoke this trope (see Flaw Exploitation).
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* VillainousBreakdown: KARR, as he veers off at the last moment during his game of chicken and falls to his "presumed" demise.
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* UnstoppableForceMeetsImmovableObject: Discussed, {{foreshadowing}} the climax.
-->'''Michael:''' [''as KITT and KARR are charging each other at top speed''] You remember [[BuffySpeak that thing]] about the immovable object? We're about to find out the answer.
* VillainousBreakdown: KARR, as he veers off at the last moment during his game of chicken and falls to his"presumed" [[Recap/KnightriderS3E5KITTVsKARR (presumed)]] demise.
-->'''Michael:''' [''as KITT and KARR are charging each other at top speed''] You remember [[BuffySpeak that thing]] about the immovable object? We're about to find out the answer.
* VillainousBreakdown: KARR, as he veers off at the last moment during his game of chicken and falls to his
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* DisneyVillainDeath: KARR accidentally jumps off a cliff by the end of the episode]].
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* DisneyVillainDeath: KARR accidentally jumps off a cliff by the end of the episode]].episode.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: It's ''painfully'' obvious that a Trans Am was ''not'' what went over the cliff.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: KARR accidentally jumps off a cliff by the end of the episode]].
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* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: KARR accidentally jumps off a cliff by the end of the episode]].
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* FlawExploitation: Michael engages KARR in a game of "chicken", banking on the fact that [[spoiler:KARR's programming would cause him to chicken out to save his own skin]].
* SpecialEffectsFailure: It's ''painfully'' obvious that a Trans Am was ''not'' [[spoiler: what went over the cliff]].
* SpecialEffectsFailure: It's ''painfully'' obvious that a Trans Am was ''not'' [[spoiler: what went over the cliff]].
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* FlawExploitation: Michael engages KARR in a game of "chicken", banking on the fact that [[spoiler:KARR's KARR's programming would cause him to chicken out to save his own skin]].
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: It's ''painfully'' obvious that a Trans Am was ''not''
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* VillainousBreakdown: KARR, as he veers off at the last moment during his game of chicken [[spoiler: and falls to his "presumed" demise]].
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* VillainousBreakdown: KARR, as he veers off at the last moment during his game of chicken [[spoiler: and falls to his "presumed" demise]].demise.
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* ArcWelding: The [[Recap/KnightriderS1E1KnightOfThePhoenix pilot episode]] stated that Wilton Knight's tech company had been the victim of industrial espionage in the past; this episode finally establishes explicitly that the industrial spy villains from the pilot were the culprits of said espionage (the novelization of both episodes also states this outright).
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Two bums, Tony and "The Rev", break into a Foundation warehouse and unwittingly reactivate a car that looks remarkably like KITT. Michael and KITT arrive in time to see the two make a getaway in KITT's twin. Later the car introduces itself to the pair as KARR, (the Knight Automated Roving Robot). After Michael learns of KARR's origins as the KITT's predecessor and prototype, programmed with self preservation, he goes after the vehicle which the two thieves. Michael and KITT try to disable KARR using a laser. When that fails, Michael sets KITT on a direct collision course with KARR, who's own self preservation defeats him when he pulls away at the last moment and falls off a cliff.
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Two bums, Tony and "The Rev", break into a Foundation warehouse and unwittingly reactivate a car that looks remarkably like KITT. Michael and KITT arrive in time to see the two make a getaway in KITT's twin. Later the car introduces itself to the pair as KARR, (the Knight Automated Roving Robot). After Michael learns of KARR's origins as the KITT's predecessor and prototype, programmed with self preservation, preservation at all cost, he goes after the vehicle which the two thieves.thieves are using for a crime spree. Michael and KITT try to disable KARR using a laser. When that fails, Michael sets KITT on a direct collision course with KARR, who's whose own self preservation defeats him when he pulls away at the last moment and falls off a cliff.
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* ColorCodedCharacters: Not the cars themselves (both are black Tran Am's), KITT's LED lights up red, while KARR's is yellow.
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* ColorCodedCharacters: Not the cars themselves (both are black Tran Am's), Ams), KITT's LED lights up red, while KARR's is yellow.
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* FlawedPrototype: KARR, the Foundations first attempt at a super car. Though he firmly believes himself to be a SuperPrototype.
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* EvilerThanThou: Tony to Rev. The latter is perfectly okay with using KARR to steal money and baubles, so long as no one's getting hurt, but he draws the line at kidnapping a mechanic for KARR's maintenance; Tony has no such compunctions.
* FlawedPrototype: KARR, theFoundations Foundation's first attempt at a super car. Though he firmly believes himself to be a SuperPrototype.SuperPrototype.
* FlawExploitation: Michael engages KARR in a game of "chicken", banking on the fact that [[spoiler:KARR's programming would cause him to chicken out to save his own skin]].
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* FlawExploitation: Michael engages KARR in a game of "chicken", banking on the fact that [[spoiler:KARR's programming would cause him to chicken out to save his own skin]].
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* VillainousBreakdown: KARR, as he verse off at the last moment during his game of chicken [[spoiler: and falls to his "presumed" demise]].
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* VillainousBreakdown: KARR, as he verse veers off at the last moment during his game of chicken [[spoiler: and falls to his "presumed" demise]].
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* FlawedPrototype: KARR, the Foundations first attempt at a super car. Though he firmly believes himself to be a SuperPrototype.
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* SpotTheImposter: The police have a hard time telling KITT and KARR apart, this gets Michael arrested at one point.
* SuperPrototype: In The Foundation's first attempt at building the "car of the future", they successfully built one before KITT, that just happened to go a little AxeCrazy.
* SuperPrototype: In The Foundation's first attempt at building the "car of the future", they successfully built one before KITT, that just happened to go a little AxeCrazy.
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* SpotTheImposter: The police have a hard time telling KITT and KARR apart, this gets Michael arrested at one point.
* SuperPrototype: In The Foundation's first attempt at building the "car of the future", they successfully built one before KITT, that just happened to go a little AxeCrazy.point.
* SuperPrototype: In The Foundation's first attempt at building the "car of the future", they successfully built one before KITT, that just happened to go a little AxeCrazy.
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Two bums, Tony and "The Rev", break into a Foundation warehouse and unwittingly reactivate a car that looks remarkably like KITT. Michael and KITT arrive in time to see the two make a getaway in KITT's twin. Later the car introduces itself to the pair as KARR, (the Knight Automated Roving Robot). After Michael learns of KARR's origins as the KITT's predecessor and prototype, programmed with self preservation, he goes after the vehicle which the two thieves. Michael and KITT try to disable KARR using a laser. When that fails, Michael sets KITT on a direct collision course with KARR, KARR's own self preservation to defeats him when he pulls away at the last moment and falls off a cliff.
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Two bums, Tony and "The Rev", break into a Foundation warehouse and unwittingly reactivate a car that looks remarkably like KITT. Michael and KITT arrive in time to see the two make a getaway in KITT's twin. Later the car introduces itself to the pair as KARR, (the Knight Automated Roving Robot). After Michael learns of KARR's origins as the KITT's predecessor and prototype, programmed with self preservation, he goes after the vehicle which the two thieves. Michael and KITT try to disable KARR using a laser. When that fails, Michael sets KITT on a direct collision course with KARR, KARR's who's own self preservation to defeats him when he pulls away at the last moment and falls off a cliff.
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Two bums, Tony and "The Rev", break into a Foundation warehouse and unwittingly reactivate a car that looks remarkably like KITT. Michael and KITT arrive in time to see the two make a getaway in KITT's twin. Later the car introduces itself to the pair as KARR, (the Knight Automated Roving Robot). After Michael learns of KARR's origins as the KITT's predecessor and prototype, programmed with self preservation, he goes after the vehicle which the two thieves. Michael and KITT try to disable KARR using a laser. When that fails, Michael sets KITT on a direct collision course with KARR, KARR's own self preservation to defeats him when he pulls away at the last moment and falls off a cliff.
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* BigDamnHeroes: How Michael and KITT save Bonnie near the end of the episode.
* ColorCodedCharacters: Not the cars themselves (both are black Tran Am's), KITT's LED lights up red, while KARR's is yellow.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: KARR accidentally jumps off a cliff by the end of the episode]].
* SpecialEffectsFailure: It's ''painfully'' obvious that a Trans Am was ''not'' [[spoiler: what went over the cliff]].
* SpotTheImposter: The police have a hard time telling KITT and KARR apart, this gets Michael arrested at one point.
* SuperPrototype: In The Foundation's first attempt at building the "car of the future", they successfully built one before KITT, that just happened to go a little AxeCrazy.
* VillainousBreakdown: KARR, as he verse off at the last moment during his game of chicken [[spoiler: and falls to his "presumed" demise]].
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* BigDamnHeroes: How Michael and KITT save Bonnie near the end of the episode.
* ColorCodedCharacters: Not the cars themselves (both are black Tran Am's), KITT's LED lights up red, while KARR's is yellow.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: KARR accidentally jumps off a cliff by the end of the episode]].
* SpecialEffectsFailure: It's ''painfully'' obvious that a Trans Am was ''not'' [[spoiler: what went over the cliff]].
* SpotTheImposter: The police have a hard time telling KITT and KARR apart, this gets Michael arrested at one point.
* SuperPrototype: In The Foundation's first attempt at building the "car of the future", they successfully built one before KITT, that just happened to go a little AxeCrazy.
* VillainousBreakdown: KARR, as he verse off at the last moment during his game of chicken [[spoiler: and falls to his "presumed" demise]].
