Krang

Not to be confused withKrang (Marvel Comics).

For other uses, seeKrang (disambiguation).

Krang(also spelledKraang) is asupervillainappearing inTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-related media, most frequently in the1987 animated seriesand its associated merchandise, such as theTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventurescomic book and manyTMNTvideo games.The character has endured as one of the franchise's most prominent antagonists and a major foe of the Ninja Turtles.

Krang
Krang, as he appeared on the variant cover ofTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles#73 (August 2017 IDW). Art byKevin Eastman.
Publication information
Publisher	Archie Comics IDW Publishing
First appearance	"Enter The Shredder" (1987)
Created by	David Wise Patti Howeth
In-story information
Species	Utromor Alien Brain
Place of origin	Dimension X
Notable aliases	Lord Krang (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(1987 TV series)) Kraang Prime (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(2012 TV series)) General Krang (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(IDW Publishing)andTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan) Krang Leader (Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie)

Krang's first comics appearance was inTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventuresvol. 1, #1, published byArchie Comicsin August 1988. In the 1987 TV series, Krang was voiced byPat Fraley.He also appeared as General Krang in the2012 IDW comic publication.Krang made his first live action appearance inTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows,which was a sequel to the 2014 film, with his voice provided byBrad Garrett.

Krang was created byDavid Wise,with inspirations from the Utroms, to supplythe Shredderwith extraterrestrial technology.

In the2012 series,Krang is referred to asKraang Prime,and is a deranged Utrom who had mind-controlled most of the Utrom populace into becoming a subservient, rogue hive mind faction known as "the Kraang".

InRise of the TMNT: The Movie,Krang is referred to asKrang Leader(credited asKrang One), who leads his siblings,Krang Sister(credited asKrang Two) andKrang Brother(credited asKrang Three).

Abilities

In the final season of the 1987 animated series,Krang showed signs of psychic powers when he hypnotized one of Lord Dregg's soldiers into obeying his and Shredder's commands, saying it would only work on weak-willed people.

Throughout the rest of the show, as well as most other appearances, Krang's most notable combat ability is weaponry which he can switch his android bodies hands out for - his most commonly seen weapons are swords, maces, and blasters.

Relating to the Utroms

Krang's physical appearance was inspired by the Utroms from the originalTMNTcomic book.In several subsequent series, such as the 2012 IDW comic series, he is himself a member of the Utrom species.

1987 series

Krang, as he appeared in the 1987 animated seriesTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Prior to the start of the1987 cartoon,Krang was a reptilian creature in command of an army ofRock Soldiersunder the leadership of General Traag, and took the completed station called theTechnodrome,a powerful mobile battle fortress, and banished Von Drakus, who helped Krang build it, to Earth. When he was banished fromDimension X,Krang was stripped of his body and reduced to a brain-like form forced to use small android walkers and/or small platforms to move.

While on Earth, Krang allied himself with theShredder,who, along with his roboticFoot Soldierarmy, moved into the Technodrome. In exchange, the Shredder had to design and build a new body for Krang, a human-shaped exo-suit referred to as his "android body", which he eventually turns giant and uses to attack the turtles. Shredder lived up to his part of the bargain in the season 1 episode "Shredder & Splintered", in no small part because he was unable to deal with the Turtles and needed Krang's help. In the season 3 episode "Shredderville", the Turtles have a dream of aparallel worldin which they never lived, and Shredder had no problem taking over the world; in that world, Shredder abandoned Krang after his conquest was complete, leaving him with no body and a heavily-damaged Technodrome.

Krang's ultimate goal is to take over the Earth; it probably only became his objective after he was exiled on the Earth, but this point is never made clear. Every plan Krang conceives is either aimed at that goal, or towards the short-term objective of powering-up the Technodrome. He does not share Shredder's obsession with the Turtles and Splinter; while Shredder sees them as mortal enemies, Krang seems to regard them more like annoyances to be destroyed when they interfere in his plans. He does have his own "version" of the turtles, however- a rebellious group of teens from Dimension X named the neutrinos seem to have a very similar relationship to Krang as Shredder has to the TMNT.

Counting from the first meeting between the Turtles and Shredder and Krang, Krang spent seven seasons in the Technodrome, either somewhere on Earth or in Dimension X, scheming to power up his battle fortress and take over the Earth. Eventually the Turtles managed to banish the Technodrome back to Dimension X without Krang and Shredder. At that point they began operating out of an old science building. Krang and Shredder eventually returned to the Technodrome in the season 8 episode Turtle Trek, but the Turtles destroy the engines of the Technodrome, trapping it and its inhabitants in Dimension X and putting an end to Krang's plans.

Krang spent the next two years in Dimension X, until he was contacted by Dregg. Dregg arranged for him and Shredder to come back to Earth, to help him fight the Turtles. However, Dregg betrays them, and drains Krang's intelligence. Shredder escapes and restores Krang, but Dregg captures them again. Finally, the Turtles spoil his plan and transport Shredder and Krang back to Dimension X.

In the series finale, Divide and Conquer, the Turtles return to the Technodrome to take Krang's android body, which they need to fight Dregg. Krang is nowhere to be seen, but it is assumed that he is still somewhere in Dimension X.

IDW Comics

In theIDW Comics,Krang is both an Utrom and a denizen of Dimension X. He is the heir of Quanin, the former Prime Minister of the Utroms' ruling council who appointed himself Emperor and aggressively expanded the Utrom domain into anempire.However, his megalomanic expansion drive both deprived his home planet of its most essential natural resource, the Ooze, and incited rebellion among the subjugated people of Dimension X, eventually leading to the destruction of Utrominon. Krang, who was as brutal as his father but opposed his uncautious politics, fled with a few survivors of his people through an interdimensional portal to Burnow Island on Earth, where he established a base from which he intended toterraformthis world into a new home for his people, which he calls "new Utrominon".

In order to augment his troops, Krang, initially disguised as a despotic human warlord, forms a business relationship withBaxter Stockman,head of the genetics research institute Stock Gen,and supplies him with Ooze, which could be used as a natural mutagen on Earth's organisms. Krang seeks this mutagen to use in healing the surviving utroms he took with him from Utrominon. It is through Stockman's experiments that theTeenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesandSplinterevolve into intelligent, humanoid mutants.When the Turtles learn of Krang's genocidal plans thanks to their human friendApril O'Neil,a former intern at Stock Gen, they, together with their ally, theFugitoid(a formerNeutrinoscientist whose mind is trapped in a robot body and who was forcibly conscripted by Krang to complete his terraforming machine, the Technodrome), and theFoot Clanstop Krang from destroying the Earth, and the Utrom warlord is surrendered to the Neutrinos for trial for his numerous war crimes.

While imprisoned on Neutrino, Kraang hires the bounty hunter Hakk-R to eliminate several material witnesses in order to get the trial cancelled, but Hakk-R fails thanks to the efforts of the Turtles.Eventually, Krang is found guilty and sentenced to permanent exile from Dimension X on Earth. However,Leatherhead,one of his former victimsand a key witness in the trial, refuses to accept the mild verdict and kills Krang by devouring him.However, as the Fugitoid belatedly realizes, the Utroms possess a natural parasitic physiology, enabling Krang to regenerate himself and take possession of Leatherhead's body.He later joinsBaxter StockmanandMadame Nullin their alliance with theRat Kingto bring about the demigod's "Armageddon Game", and receives a restoredMetalheadas a new exobody.He stil continues to work on his own schemes, but his leadership of the Utroms is usurped by his former subordinateCh'rell,and he is executed by King Zenter before he can destroy the Earth out of spite.

2003 series

Krang makes a small cameo appearance in the episode "Secret Origins Part 3"of the 2003 series. As the Utroms are all walking to the transmat to go back home, one of them complains," I hate walking on my tentacles, "to which another Utrom replies," Oh, shut up, Krang! ". This Krang was voiced byWayne Grayson.Ch'rellthe evil Utrom serves as a sole heartless version of Krang and Oroku Saki.

Krang also appears in the 2009 crossover film,Turtles Forever,in which he, Shredder and the Turtles from the 1987 show end up in the 2003 universe. Although Shredder was able to find his 2003 counterpart, he was unable to find Krang's, even though he exists in this universe (albeit as a regular, non-evil Utrom). Krang is voiced here by Bradford Cameron.

2012 series

An alien species based on both Krang and the Utroms appear in the2012 Nickelodeon show,namedThe Kraang.Kraang Prime is the leader of the hive mind and was a normal Utrom scientist until he made the mutagen, which he used to mutate himself into Kraang Prime. He then used his powers to enslave most of the Utroms into becoming hive-mind slaves. In the 40th Anniversary Comics Celebration, it is revealed that after his final defeat, Kraang prime's cells survived and began to absorb every living being it came across, eventually developing a consciousness and taking a humanoid form, renaming itself Kraang Primordius with the intent to consume everything.

Given the series introduces the 1987 show as an alternate universe, the original Krang makes an appearance, still voiced by Pat Fraley, being said to be a cousin of Kraang Sub-Prime who wound up exiled to that dimension because he was a screw-up. He attempted to destroy the Mirage, 1987, and 2012 universes, the latter of which the Kraang had especially been trying to conquer, using Sub-Prime's desire to "wipe out the Turtles at any cost" as leverage. Sub-Prime banishes him back to the 1987-universe once this is revealed, as this incompetence was why Krang was banished in the first place (the fact about the 1987 Krang being a cousin and his exile is non-canon to the 1987 series).

The Kraang are voiced byNolan North,who had previously voiced Raphael in the2007 TMNTfilm, and Kraang Prime was initially voiced byRoseanne Barrand later by Rachael Butera. Kraang Sub-Prime is voiced byGilbert GottfriedandPatrick Fraleyreprises his role of Krang from the 1987 series.

2018 series

Krang Leader inRise of the TMNT: The Movie.

In the seriesRise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesand itsNetflixfilm sequelRise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie,the Krang is analien species that landed on ancient Earthbringing with them a mutagen known as Empyrean, which created the Yōkai race. During feudal times in Japan, the Krang gifted Oroku Saki, leader of the Foot Clan, with the dark armor Kuroi Yōroi, which allowed Saki to defeat the Foot's enemies, but ended up possessing and transforming him into the evil Shredder and leading the Foot clan into worshiping them. Eventually a group of warriors who created the mystic weapon key and used it to banish them into another realm for a thousand years. During the series finale, Shredder unearths the remains of a Krang inside a buried ship while looking for Empyrean to fulfill his goals. By the time the Foot opens the portal to set them free, only three of them have survived their exile, they then possess the members of the Foot Clan and turn them into monstrous minions (with the same fate later befalling Raph, until Leo snaps him out of it) and proceed to take over the highest building of the city in order to open a portal big enough for their ship Technodrome to crossover.

Unlike the previous versions of the Krang who mostly relied on their intellect, this version is more powerful and deadly and is capable of fighting without the use of any kind of tech and are virtually unstoppable in their suits. Their method of mutation also greatly differs from prior incarnations in that they utilise a form of bio-growth that usually takes over or otherwise transmutates anything it touches, to the point that it can puppeteer inorganic matter. Their members include the mastermind behind their plan who leads the other two, a female Krang who leads the possessed slaves into battle and has a temper, and a silent one who is in charge of spreading the bio-growth, creating the portal and piloting theTechnodrome(Which in this series is techno-organic). The female one lost her right eye at the hands of April and was defeated by her, Splinter and Casey Jones and later captured by humans, the silent one was restrained byDonatellowhen he seized control of Technodrome and presumably destroyed with the ship and the leader was exiled again at the hands ofLeonardo.

Krang Leader is voiced byJim Pirriand Krang Two is voiced byToks Olagundoye.

Film

Brad Garrettvoices Krang inTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows,where it was the first official live-action appearance of the character. This version looks accurate to his comics version in terms of him being a large brain with facial features, though his robot is more gray and robotic. It also has thin strips of plating that look like skin, a reference to the extremely humanoid design employed by the comics version.Fred Armisenwas originally going to voice the character, but scheduling conflicts made him unavailable.

Video games

InTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up,one of the players is a Utrominator drone, a Utrom enslaved by Shredder in the2003 series,despite not actually being Krang, he acts as a stand-in for him.

The Kraang are one of the enemies inTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows,where the Turtles infiltrate the TCRI building in search for the Shredder, who has been stealing their technology for Baxter Stockman to invent him a telepathic helmet as a way to defeat the Turtles.

General Krang is the secondary antagonist inTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan,where he teams up with Shredder to distract the Turtles so his Foot Soldiers and mutant allies can collect alien parts to construct a giant portal to Dimension X, to which Krang will initiate a invasion against Earth.

InTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge,Krang's android body parts are scattered for the villains try to repair, however this was actually a distraction to where he is actually turning theStatue of Libertyinto a new body called the "Statue of Tyranny".

External links

• Kranag's profile at the Nickelodeon website(in English)
• Krang's Android Bodyon X-Entertainment.(in English)
• Krang - A Tributeon The Rubber Chicken.(in English)