Krang is an Utrom criminal who appears in the TMNT comic strip. He is an ally of Oroku Saki, the Shredder, and co-leader of the Foot Clan.
History[]
The Rat King Gambit[]
Krang supplies Rat King with a mind-bending flute, which hypnotizes anyone who hears the music. Rat King uses the television to reach as many people as possible and lures them to an abandoned cheese factory warehouse. Splinter and April O'Neil fall victim to the plot. Just as Rat King is about to poison everyone, the Turtles arrive and knock out Rat King.
Their first plot spoiled, Shredder gets on television and challenges the Turtles to a fight. In preparation for their final battle, Krang decides that it might be worth having a negotiation with the Turtles and literally just asking them to let the Foot Clan take over the world. Shredder finds this a ridiculous idea, but Krang counters with an even more ridiculous idea - he claims that a turtle's natural enemy is the "pre-historic, duck-billed platypus" and forces Shredder to dress up as one to frighten the Turtles.
Before Shredder even leaves, Krang sends out a giant Foot Soldier to attack the Turtles. The Foot Soldier gets stuck in a tunnel and other Foot Soldiers have to try and push it loose. When the giant Foot Soldier escapes, he begins to destroy all the other Foot Soldiers, much to Krang's dismay.
Off-World Odyssey[]
When the warehouse they are on blows up, the Turtles and Splinter grab onto a passing flying saucer and pry open the hatch to get inside. The spaceship turns out to belong to Krang, who isn't pleased with his visitors. They go on an adventure which takes them to different galaxies as the Turtles strive to get back to Earth, and Krang plots to try and get rid of them.
Magic Turnstone[]
In order to get the Turtles to do his dirty work, Krang steals the remote control for the TV from the Utroms on the Planet Utr. He then blackmails them into teleporting the Turtles to their planet. When Donatello asks the Turnstone to search its files for references to "Krang", the device informs him that Krang was banished from the Utrom Empire on 3874.7.024 for criminal activity.
Trivia[]
- This was the first incarnation of Krang to be labeled an Utrom officially, whereas all previous versions had him as the disembodied head/brain of a Dimension X warlord. Some later incarnations would also utilize the Utrom origin for Krang.