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This article is regarding the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles supervillain. For the band Krang, see Krang (band) . Krang is a Supervillain in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles universe. He appeared in the 1987 TMNT Cartoon and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures comic book, as well as most of the classic TMNT Video Games . BIOGRAPHY Krang is an extremely intelligent warlord from Dimension X . He somehow took command of an army of Rock Soldiers under the leadership of General Traag , and stole the Technodrome , a powerful battle fortress, from its creator Drakus. Something then happened, that caused Krang to be stripped of his body and confined to a brain-like form, and to be exiled from Dimension X to Earth, along with his army and the Technodrome. While on Earth, Krang allied himself with the in which they never lived, and Shredder had no problem taking over the world. In this world, Shredder abandoned Krang after his conquest was complete, leaving him with no body and a heavily-damaged Technodrome. Krang's ultimate goal is to take over the Earth; it probably only became his objective after he was exiled there, 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; while Shredder sees them as mortal enemies, Krang seems to regard them more like annoyances to be destroyed when they interfere in his plans. Counting from the first meeting between the Turtles and Shredder and Krang, Krang spent eight years in his Technodrome, either somewhere on Earth or in Dimension X, scheming to power up his battle fortress and take over the Earth. In the season 8 episode Turtle Trek , the Turtles destroy the engines of the Technodrome, trapping it and its inhabitants in Dimension X for good and putting an end to Krang's plans. Krang spent the next two years in Dimension X, until he was contacted by Dregg ( The Power of Three ). Dregg arranged for him and Shredder to come back to Earth, to help him fight the Turtles. However, Dregg betrays them, and drains Krang's intelligence. Shredder escapes and restores Krang ( A Turtle in Time ), but Dregg captures them again. Finally, the Turtles spoil his plan and transport Shredder and Krang back to Dimension X ( Turtles to the Second Power ). In the series finale Divide and Conquer , the Turtles return to the Technodrome to take Krang's exosuit, which they need to fight Dregg. Krang is nowhere to be seen. He is assumed to still be somewhere in Dimension X. As evil as Krang was in the animated series, his character in the Archie Comics series was even worse, said to have the blood of whole races on his hands. It should be noted that the Shredder character from the 2003 Animated Series (an evil Utrom warlord in a powerful robotic body) is markedly similar to the Krang of the Archie Comics series. KRANG AND THE UTROMS Krang's physical appearance was inspired by the Utrom s from the original TMNT Comic Book . However, Krang is ''not'' an Utrom. There are several important differences:
The Utroms were not in any way part of the 1987 cartoon, in which Krang appeared. Nevertheless, Krang made a comedic Cameo appearance in the 2003 TMNT series in the episode, ''Secret Origins Part 3''. As the Utroms are walking to the transmat to go home one of them complains, "I hate walking on my tentacles". Then, another Utrom replies "Oh, shut up, Krang!" Aside from the Krang clones, other members of Krang's race are only seen once in the 1987 cartoon, in a flashback in the episode ''Four Musketurtles''. They are depicted as brain-shaped creatures like Krang, and use bubble-walkers to move. This is considered a mistake of the series, and has been contradicted many times on the show. EXTERNAL LINKS
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