Krang

Krang is a warlord who has been stripped of his body and banished for horrible crimes. Now he is only a brain. He is from Dimension X, a world of continuous war. Krang is the designer of the war fortress the Technodrome with help from Drakus.

1987 Series
In the 1987 series, Krang is a character loosely based on the Utrom race from the original comic, and is an ally of Shredder. In Dimension X he was a powerful dictator/warlord who led brutal campaigns of Rock Soldiers, with fanatically loyal-to-Krang General Traag as his direct subordinate.

After he was banished from his original dimension, along with his operative fortress the Technodrome, they somehow found their way into the hands of Oroku Saki.

Krang pleaded for a new body in exchange for his developed technology and help in conquering the world. Shredder resisted, fearing that his ally could come to rival him; however he finally submitted once he lost hope for defeating TMNT himself and he finally constructed the android body from Krang's own blueprints. Krang returned to his megalomaniac personality as he dreamed to bring an army of Rock soldiers to Earth and rule it alongside (or maybe without) The Shredder.

Krang rarely joined in actual combat with the turtles. Usually the only times he was directly involved with a fight was when the Technodrome was fully up and running. For seven years he organized the plots of the Foot Clan to conquer earth, mostly involving re-powering the Technodrome.

Eventually the Turtles managed to banish the Technodrome back to Dimension X without Krang and Shredder. At that point they began opperating out of an old science building. Due to damage to Krang's android body, he was forced to use his bubble walker while on earth. Krang and Shredder eventually returned to the Technodrome, only to see it into it's final battle, where it was destroyed. Krang's Android body was left in the remains of the Technodrome when it was abandoned.

Krang was only seen once again, when he and Shredder were briefly transported to earth by Lord Dregg.

Archie Comics
In the Archie comics series, there was a much bigger accent on his sadistic side of warlord demonstrated on Wingnut and Screwloose, who were determined to find him and punish him for massacre on their homeworld. As interesting as it sounds, Krang soon disappeared from the comic story. In the audio tape version of the comics, he possessed a much throatier voice than in the original cartoon.

Krang is also a nemesis of the Malignoid queen, Maligna.

2003 Series
Krang makes a cameo appearance in the 2003 series episode, Secret Origins, Part 3, only this time as an Utrom which he was originally inspired by. His cameo consist of one scene.
 * Utrom 1: "I hate walking on my tentacles."
 * Utrom 2: "Oh, shut up, Krang."

Turtles Forever


Krang is a major character in the special Turtles Forever. He appears alongside Shredder and is present when he resurrects the Utrom Shredder. At first Krang thinks Ch'rell Shredder isn't that bad, since he physically resembles Krang himself. However, Krang quickly becomes annoyed after Ch'rell takes over the Technodrome and won't allow anyone else to use the Trans-Dimensional portal. Karai quickly pulls Krang from his android body and orders him to not bother Ch'rell Shredder again.

When Ch'rell completely turns on Krang and the 1987 Shredder, they both join forces with the Turtles once Karai frees them and Splinter. Ch'rell, using the same technology Krang designed for his android body, grows to an immense size. So Krang does the same with his android body, and attempts to fight Ch'rell, but is quickly defeated. This is only the third time Krang takes his android body into battle.

At the end of the story, after Ch'rell is defeated, Shredder and Krang say they are going to use a new Giggle ray Krang invented on the Turtles once they return to their own universe.

Personality
Krang is a genius of unchallengeable caliber and knows it, this results in a deep rooted belief that he is superior to all others. This arrogance leads him to see the turtles as minor setbacks unlike Shredder who consider them mortal enemies. A total lack of empathy grants him the luxury of being able to recklessly endanger his "allies" He greatly enjoys the suffering of other living creatures making him a sadist.

He also suffers from low selfesteem (Having his very powerful reptilian body ripped apart and turned into a small brain may be the reason for this) as evident by his highly submissive behavior pre android body. He returned to megalomania and arrogance after gaining his new body, using it to become bigger and therefore better.

Powers & Abilities
A genius of unrivaled caliber, laser beams, shrink-boomerangs, doomsday devices, goobly doodads, sun draining energy rays, you name it and he makes a better one with missile launchers. With an IQ twenty times that of any human being Krang can concoct machevillian schemes and think nine steps ahead of most others. (Unfortunately his arrogance and incompetent helpers can be crippling)

Though physically the frailest of all characters in the series he is capable of slithering at aproximately, 3 miles per hour.... And might give you a nasty slap with one of his meaty lumps, or even bite with his tiny fangs. (Those are sharp so watch out) But in his androide body its a whole other story, though he rarely engages in combat with the turtles he has proven more than a match for them.

Video games
Krang frequently appears in the classic TMNT games as one of the later bosses, and sometimes as the final boss of the game.


 * In the first arcade game, he is one of the bosses of the final Technodrome stage. He is the penultimate boss of the game, followed only by Shredder.


 * In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan, he is the final boss, rather than Shredder.


 * In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project, he is once again the penultimate boss and precedes Shredder.


 * In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back from the Sewers, he has two boss battles. The first is at the end of the third level, where he fights in his walker. He is also the final boss, and fights in his exosuit.


 * In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, he has two boss battles. The Turtles face him first at the end of "Neon Night Riders", and destroy his exosuit, but Krang escapes. The Turtles face him again in "Starbase: Where No Turtle Has Gone Before". With his exosuit destroyed, Krang now flies an archetypal flying saucer.


 * In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist, he is the mid-level boss of the final stage.


 * In the Sega Genesis version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters, Krang appears as a non-playable boss.


 * In the handheld game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Shredder's Last Stand Krang appears as a regular enemy and as the final boss where he fights in his exosuit.


 * The developers of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Smash-Up indicated that the Utrominator was a spiritual successor to Krang.

Mirage Comics
Krang appears in Tales of the TMNT Volume 2 Issue #58.

Trivia

 * It is suggested that Krang had some kind of body before his exile from Dimension X. Although it can be assumed that this body also had his brain-like form exposed since General Traag was able to recognise him, although not well, in his bodyless form in his first appearence in the TV Series. In a later episode of the animated series called "Invasion of the Krangazoids", Krang clones himself. The clones have his brain like appearance. As the show progresses the clones regrow their bodies, with their brain part as the head. They grow to around 10 to 12 feet tall and have large, scally bodies. This is the original appearance of Krang.
 * The Dan Berger run on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles newspaper strip in the mid-1990s indicated that Krang was indeed an Utrom criminal.
 * In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, there was a scene where Dr. Jordan Perry was revealed to be a Utrom. The scene was deleted because the studio feared the Utrom would be mistaken for Krang.
 * Krang has been confirmed to appear in 4Kids' 25th anniversary direct-to-DVD special, Turtles Forever.