Richard Knottley

First appears in S5E6 — American Amphibian — King Man Frog Bofus v Richard Knottley. Appears in 7 episodes.

Deathmatch record

Episode	Played by	Result
S5E6 — American Amphibian — King Man Frog Bofus v Richard Knottley	RealLifeFakeWizard	none. Both die: Richard of a “coronary” after his Peloton lightning, and Bofus to fatigue (Dr. Bees in Dried Blood: “not killed me regarding fatigue”)
S5E9 — Patriotic Punch Up — Bob the Barbarian v Richard Knottley (Dick Twist)	Prototopics	Bob the Barbarian (a stacked Denim Gator on a nat 20)
S6 Ep4 — Tip to Tip - Part 1 (TTRPG One Shot)	RealLifeFakeWizard	no deathmatch. The party (“Team B”, later “Team 3D”) defeats Skelman’s lich grandfather and finds Thea. Skelman v Richard Knottley is set for next week.
S6E5, Tip to Tip - Part 2 (Richard Knottley v Richard S. Skelman, the leadership Deathmatch)	RealLifeFakeWizard	Richard S. Skelman. Knottley fades away (“ascends”) on his fifth fatigue. Skelman becomes leader and names the team “Team D”.

Appearances

S5E6 — American Amphibian — King Man Frog Bofus v Richard Knottley

(guest, unnamed in metadata).

• Former Peloton instructor, banned from a couple of counties, from Denny’s (where the Peloton instructors meet with non-stationary bikes) and from Zumba; “the IHOP saw me coming.”
• Online name Dick Twist, after his dance (also his signature move).
• Wears a tinfoil hat (against Wi-Fi radiation), sunglasses, fake mustaches (he carries spares), American flag pants, later a fake beard and reading glasses.
• Runs the conspiracy webinar/podcast “Knottley’s Real World”. Conspiracies: the Chinchillian government, the chinchilla/vole/mole cabal, the Nintendo Switch, lunar moths eating the ozone, eating our neighbors.
• Financial advisor: Cricket, an old guy in Montana.
• Claims six foot; actually 5’10½. Afraid of heights. Says he’s “very clearly a hot dog.”
• Drove to the arena on his Peloton bike.
• Rejected the blue pill (“I only take red pills”). Wore the Arbiter’s blue ring wrapped in a mustache.
• Died of a “coronary”/“pulmonary” after his Peloton lightning heroic surge. Left a dead man’s switch recording.

S5E9 — Patriotic Punch Up — Bob the Barbarian v Richard Knottley (Dick Twist)

(Prototopics). An old man, “87” by his own claim and “98” by Thea’s.

• Back from death: he died last time of a heart attack on his Peloton after 45 cheeseburgers, “about three weeks ago.”
• Look: a removable, lopsided “real” mustache (Hercule Poirot style), an aluminum foil hat and sunglasses.
• Running for president on the “Peloton party”:
  • Platform: dismantle a government of chinchillas wearing human skin, and stop the lunar moths eating the ozone layer.
  • Backers: a Big Peloton super PAC, Adidas, Payless, KB Toys and Toys R Us.
• Peloton: describes his tie to the company as a Scientology-like lifetime job.
• Powers:
  • Lightning from his Peloton, and “bolts of Wi-Fi” through his foil hat.
  • The Dick Twist special ability: a tuxedo-pants dance-off (crop circle clarification, chinchilla cha-cha, Bigfoot Boogie).
• Frogs: a frog trapped in his orifice, “a gift from God King Bofidis / King Bulfus” (spelling uncertain). He hates King Bulfus and is “still traumatized from the frogs.”
• Other details: colorblind for 42 years, tried keto. Has children (his own claim, in his death monologue).
• Robbie: had Robbie imprisoned with a remnant of the Hunger, which ate Robbie on his death. He blames “guys who work for other guys who work for some black suits.”
• This episode: killed by Bob. His ghost was netted by Thea and is being sewn back into his body by mages.

S5E10 — BoneBound Brawl — King Bofus v Bone Daddy (and Darcy)

(ghost). Bofus’s previous opponent: the Peloton thrower, a conspiracy theorist about the chinchilla government, wearing a tin hat and a tiny mustache. He left a “Kill Switch video.” His ghost appears through Bofus.

S5E14 — Froggy Style — Kyle Stoddard v King MAN FROG Bofus

Bofus’s late friend/enemy, already resurrected again per the Lord of Fate. His name triggers the tattoo’s heart-attack sound. That Dick Twist and Richard Knottley are the same person is inferred, from 0:56:18 “Is Richard Knottley having a coronary?” right after the Dick Twist heart-attack gag.

S5E16, Chaos Royal (Season 5 finale), the first Chaos Royale (four-way)

(guest).

• Body and gear:
  • Revived so many times his body is now held together by Peloton parts, with a Peloton core as his heart.
  • A tattoo of his new name.
  • A port in his chest and a tinfoil/aluminum hat (now holding Copycat’s SIM card).
  • Peloton electricity and a chest “unibeam.”
  • Chinchillas live inside him.
• Lore:
  • A conspiracy podcaster with an internet business, lost after Big Tuna; his commercial broke FCC rules.
  • In lawsuits with the FDA, with pending arrest charges and negative $13.
  • Believes in the Chinchilla government. Has a friend King Pophos in the afterlife.
  • Claims this was his third time in the arena and third consecutive death.
• Consumed by the Hunger.

S6 Ep4 — Tip to Tip - Part 1 (TTRPG One Shot)

(RealLifeFakeWizard).

• Conspiracy theorist. Believes the government is run by chinchillas, voles and small mammals; birds are government cameras; trees talk on the internet; Shakespeare was a time traveler.
• Wears an aluminum foil hat (blown off by his own lightning). Carries a mason jar of body-warm pickle juice, poured out on the statue’s ankle monitor. Wears holey slippers.
• Ex-Peloton instructor, fired over complaints. Plans the radio show After Dark with Dick Twist.
• “Peloton powers”: friction electricity through his feet and hands.
• Has nightmares of being controlled by chinchillas and of a frog creature spitting frogs.
• Befriended the angel statue and promised to meet it at the third full moon of the year. Voted Killy leader.

S6E5, Tip to Tip - Part 2 (Richard Knottley v Richard S. Skelman, the leadership Deathmatch)

(special move “the Dick Twist”; the Arbiter calls him “Dick Twist”).

• Character:
  • A conspiracy-minded man who “breaks boundaries and uncovers secret truths”: “Chinchillas run the government,” “taxation is theft.”
  • Says he dodges process servers. Has a glued-on fake mustache and a “hormone problem” (his complaint about the shirt).
  • Claims a “connection” with Peloton; he stole a prototype arc bike reactor from their factory.
• Transformations this episode:
  • Lost his left arm, which Thea tore off and threw to Cookie Monster Steve. Its bones flew back to give him one regular arm and one bony arm.
  • The Peloton reactor melted away his flesh, leaving a Peloton-coated skeleton with the core as his heart.
  • Collapsed to a pile of bones, then re-formed as a ghost specter (losing his mustache and, as ghosts do, some memory).
  • Possessed Skelman briefly.
  • Was vacuumed up, thrown into the ether, merged into the statue, and called down a Peloton storm.
• Faded/“ascended” into the universe on his fifth fatigue. Per the GM he returns “in his fleshy state next time around.”