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Krang is a supervillain appearing in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-related media, most frequently in the 1987 animated series and its associated merchandise, such as the Teenage Mu…
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Investigate this subjectKrang (also spelled Kraang) is a supervillain appearing in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-related media, most frequently in the 1987 animated series and its associated merchandise, such as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures comic book and many TMNT video games. The character has endured as one of the franchise's most prominent antagonists and a major foe of the Ninja Turtles.
Krang is a supervillain appearing in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-related media, most frequently in the 1987 animated series and its associated merchandise, such as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures comic book and many TMNT video games. The character has endured as one of the franchise's most prominent antagonists and a major foe of the Ninja Turtles.
Krang (also spelled Kraang) is a supervillain appearing in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-related media, most frequently in the 1987 animated series and its associated merchandise, such as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures comic book and many TMNT video games. The character has endured as one of the franchise's most prominent antagonists and a major foe of the Ninja Turtles.
Krang's first comics appearance was in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures #1, published by Archie Comics in August 1988. In the 1987 TV series, Krang was voiced by Pat Fraley. He also appeared as General Krang in the 2012 IDW comic publication. Krang made his first live action appearance in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, which was a sequel to the 2014 film, with his voice provided by Brad Garrett.
Krang was created by David Wise, with inspirations from the Utroms - a species who appeared in the original Mirage Studios continuity.
In the 2012 series, Krang is referred to as Kraang Prime, and is a deranged Utrom who mind-controlled most of the Utrom populace into becoming a subservient, rogue hive mind faction known as the Kraang.
In Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie, Krang is referred to as Krang Leader (credited as Krang One), who leads his siblings, Krang Sister (credited as Krang Two) and Krang Brother (credited as Krang Three).
Krang's physical appearance was inspired by the Utroms from the original TMNT comic book. In several subsequent series, such as the 2012 IDW comic series, he is an Utrom himself.
Prior to the start of the 1987 series, Krang was a reptilian creature in command of an army of Rock Soldiers under the leadership of General Traag. He took command of the Technodrome, a powerful mobile battle fortress, and banished Von Drakus, who helped Krang build it, to Earth. When he was banished from Dimension X, Krang was stripped of his body and reduced to a brain-like form forced to use small android walkers or small platforms to move. His android bodies are equipped with a variety of weapons.
While on Earth, Krang allies with Shredder, who, along with his Foot Soldier army, moves into the Technodrome. In exchange, Shredder had to design and build a new body for Krang, a human-shaped exo-suit referred to as his "android body".
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.
The Turtles eventually transport the Technodrome back to Dimension X. At that point, Krang and Shredder begin operating out of an old science building. Krang and Shredder eventually return 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.
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. In the film, Krang is voiced by Bradford Cameron.
Krang appears in the 2012 animated series, with Pat Fraley reprising the role. Krang is said to be a cousin of Kraang Sub-Prime who wound up exiled to that dimension because he was a screw-up. He attempts 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.
Krang returns in the three-part episode "Wanted: Bebop and Rocksteady". where he and the 80s Shredder escape to the 2012 dimension and made use of its Bebop and Rocksteady. Both Turtle groups as well as Bebop and Rocksteady thwart Krang and 80s Shredder's plot.
In the IDW 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 an empire. However, his megalomaniacal 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 to xenoform Earth 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 with Baxter 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 the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Splinter evolve into intelligent, humanoid mutants. When the Turtles learn of Krang's genocidal plans thanks to their human friend April O'Neil, a former intern at Stock Gen, they, together with their ally, the Fugitoid (a former Neutrino scientist who was forcibly conscripted by Krang to complete his xenoforming machine, the Technodrome), and the Foot Clan stop Krang from destroying the Earth. Krang is surrendered to the Neutrinos for trial for his numerous war crimes.
While imprisoned on Neutrino, Krang 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 t
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