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Tyler Steele is Ryan Steele's father. In the middle of season one, in the four-part Defending Dark Heart series, it was revealed that Grimlord's warrior Dark Heart is actually Tyler himself, after being captured and brainwashed. When Ryan brought Dark Heart to the lab in Part 2, the Troopers decided to transfer memories (mostly of Ryan's childhood & the VR Trooper project with the Professor) from the lab's computer & their VR Visors to Dark Heart to get him to remember. The transfer was successful & Dark Heart had become Tyler Steele in mind, but not yet body. But even after that, Dark Heart decided to return to Grimlord's dungeon. In Part 3, after attacking the lab, Grimlord sent Ryan an invitation to rescue his father without the aide of his two fellow Troopers, and Ryan accepted, knowing it was a trap. In Part 4, he successfully rescued Tyler on his VR Turbo Cycle &, as Grimlord's forces continued the attack on the Professor's lab, the two headed to a long and forgotten secret lab in the mountains to restore him to human form. Grimlord's forces attacked that lab, so they headed to the Virtual Dungeon, with Grimlord threatening to self-destruct the dungeon & replace the oxygen with poison in an attempt to destroy the Steeles. Tyler was successfully restored to his human form, but was recaptured by Grimlord and taken back to virtual reality. During the time that followed, Ryan fought for video footage and the proof that his father was still alive in the episode Message from Space. Ryan saw his father in the episode Trooper Out of Time when he traveled to the past & saved his younger half from Strickland in a Skug fight, but had to return to the present before having a chance to speak to him. In the five-part Quest for Power mini-series, Grimlord transferred all of Tyler's knowledge of virtual reality into a green energy prism to upgrade to the Virtual Dark Fortress & build a new army; Ryan attempts to rescue him as Grimlord successfully self-destructs the Virtual Dungeon, but gets trapped in the explosion yet eventually survives. When Tyler was held prisoner with the other two Troopers in a cavernous temporary dungeon in reality, Ryan, knowing his powers were almost gone, went against Professor Hart's advice and headed to the cave to battle Grimlord's remaining old army to rescue all three of them. The rescue was successful, but even though the Professor recharged Ryan's powers before sending him to battle, the battle itself ultimately resulted in the loss of his powers and the melting of his Virtualizer. The Troopers then turned to Tao to revive Tyler, who then began work on Ryan's new powers, which required a perfectly-structured crystal for Ryan's new Virtualizer. Tyler also gave JB and Kaitlin a power boost to fight Grimlord's new breed of monsters, the power boost allowing JB's Laser Lance to have enough power to cut through the new monsters and the Troopers to have enough durability to withstand the monsters' new powers. In the episode The Negative Factor, he would appear on the lab's screens to inform Ryan about the new VR Troopertron, a robot created using the Skybase. Ryan would later see his father again in the episode The Disk, featuring a scientist and his daughter who brought a computer program that, while programmed to destroy Grimlord's world, also contained glitches in the Troopers' powers; the reunion was short-lived as Tyler had to travel with the scientist to Norway to work on a new computer program designed to destroy Grimlord's world. His final appearance since his rescue was in the Christmas episode Santa's Secret Trooper, in which he got to ride in Santa Claus' sleigh. All appearances of him thereafter were in flashbacks.
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Darkheart is a playable character in the VR Troopers video game. His special moves are Blast, Cloak, & Shield.
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Dark Heart
Dark Heart was the fiercest of the mutants (aside from General Ivar) in Grimlord's army as well as a key lieutenant. He retains some of his human traits such as a belief in fair play. His battle with Ryan resulted in failure however. With Grimlord disappointed, he arranged for Dark Heart's execution. Dark Heart escaped with Ryan's help and joined him in assaulting the Virtual Dungeon. Both of them managed to escape before the Virtual Dungeon self-destructed and Dark Heart was eventually restored to human form after being wounded by Decimator. However, his freedom was short lived as Grimlord transported him back to Virtual Reality as Grimlord still needed Tyler Steele for his next plot. Outside of that, Dark Heart fits the category of Zelton's army.
Appearances: VR Troopers Episode 31-34
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- Tyler Steele is portrayed by David Carr. As Darkheart, he's voiced by Kerrigan Mahan (1st voice) and Richard Epcar (2nd voice) respectfully.
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Cybertron
- Cybertron Pilot
VR Troopers Season 1
- Episode 1: The Battle Begins, Part 1
- Episode 2: The Battle Begins, Part 2
- Episode 3: Error in the System
- Episode 4: Lost Memories
- Episode 5: Battle for the Books
- Episode 6: Oh Brother
- Episode 7: Grimlord's Challenge
- Episode 8: Computer Captive
- Episode 9: Kaitlin's Little Helper
- Episode 10: The Virtual Spy
- Episode 12: No One's Friend
- Episode 14: Searching for Tyler Steele
- Episode 17: Kaitlin's Front Page
- Episode 18: The Dognapping
- Episode 19: My Dog's Girlfriend
- Episode 22: The Dojo Plot
- Episode 24: The Disappearance
- Episode 25: Nightmares
- Episode 26: Secret Admirer
- Episode 27: Grimlord's House of Fear
- Episode 28: Three Strikes
- Episode 29: Danger in the Deep
- Episode 30: Small but Mighty
- Episode 31: Defending Dark Heart, Part 1
- Episode 32: Defending Dark Heart, Part 2
- Episode 33: Defending Dark Heart, Part 3
- Episode 34: Defending Dark Heart, Part 4
- Episode 35: Ghost Biker
- Episode 36: Endangered Species
- Episode 37: Field Goal
- Episode 38: The Littlest Trooper
- Episode 39: The Reality Virus
- Episode 40: Friends in Need
- Episode 41: Good Trooper, Bad Trooper
- Episode 43: Who's King of the Mountain?
- Episode 44: The Couch Potato Kid
- Episode 45: The Old Switcheroo
- Episode 46: Race to the Rescue
- Episode 47: Fiddler on the Loose
- Episode 48: Virtually Powerless
- Episode 49: New Kids on the Planet
- Episode 50: Message from Space
VR Troopers Season 2
- Episode 1: Mutant Mutiny
- Episode 2: Trooper Out of Time
- Episode 3: Secret Power
- Episode 4: Quest For Power, Part 1
- Episode 5: Quest For Power, Part 2
- Episode 6: Quest For Power, Part 3
- Episode 7: Quest For Power, Part 4
- Episode 8: Quest For Power, Part 5
- Episode 9: Fashion Victims
- Episode 10: Game Over
- Episode 11: Watered Down
- Episode 12: The Negative Factor
- Episode 15: Kaitlin Goes Hollywood
- Episode 16: Grimlord Takes Root
- Episode 17: The Disk
- Episode 19: New World Order
- Episode 20: Grimlord's Children
- Episode 21: The Millennium Sabre
- Episode 22: Grimlord's Dark Secret, Part 1
- Episode 23: Grimlord's Dark Secret, Part 2
- Episode 24: On the Wrong Track
- Episode 25: Forward into the Past
- Episode 26: Into Oraclon's Web
- Episode 27: Santa's Secret Trooper
- Episode 28: The Charmeeka Invasion
- Episode 29: Dream Battle
- Episode 30: A Hard Day's Mutant
- Episode 31: Magnetic Attraction
- Episode 32: Get Me to the Lab on Time
- Episode 33: Grimlord's Big Breakout
- Episode 34: Field and Scream
- Episode 35: The Duplitron Dilemma
- Episode 36: Despera Strikes Back
- Episode 37: The Ghost of Cross World Forest
- Episode 38: Grimlord's Dummy
- Episode 39: Time Out
See Also[]
- Topgunder - counterpart in Choujinki Metalder. See comparison page. (primary counterpart)
- Doctor:Ben - counterpart in Zikusensi Spielban. See comparison page. (secondary counterpart, former villain role)
- Shingo Ougi - counterpart in Choujinki Metalder. See comparison page. (tertiary counterpart)
- Dr. Ryuichiro Koga - counterpart in Choujinki Metalder. See comparison page. (creation of VR powers)