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.

1987 Series
In the 1987 series, Krang, character loosely based on the Utrom race from the original comic, and is a ally of Shredder. In Dimension X he was 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 he and his operative fortress Technodrome somehow found their way into hands of Oroku Saki whom 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.

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 a Utrom which he was originally inspired by. His cameo consist of a one scene.
 * Utrom 1: "I hate walking on my tentacles."
 * Utrom 2: "Oh Shut up Krang."

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.

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.