User blog comment:Ms.HamatoAlexander/Classic TMNT characters in Rise?/@comment-995426-20190331021942/@comment-995426-20190331053151

Yes, he's an Utrom, but he's not "(the) Kra(a)ng," if that makes sense. If Utroms are primarily villains as they were in the 2012 TV series, there'd be little point. Obligado is an Utrom, formerly an elite military commando, who afterwards became a scientist, university academic and archaeologist who keeps getting himself into interesting trouble&mdash;basically sort of an Utrom version of Henry Jones, Jr. And while he doesn't necessarily live in peacetime, he does live in a cosmopolitan society of multiple space-faring states with multiple species. He dies in the very first story he appears in, reduced to getting high in an illegal parlor for Utrom expatriates in New York City. Introduced as a character who dies, most of the rest of the stories are about his extraordinary life before his death.

Obviously, if Obligado is adapted to other TMNT continuities, he may not be introduced with a story where he's killed, and he may not be portrayed as a junkie, either, especially in a show for younger audiences. But some of his most interesting stories were of him as an adventuring scientist anyway, and there's certainly room for that sort of thing. If Rise ends up not having a version of Fugitoid, characters could have a deep space adventure with Obligado instead.