| “ | April O' Neil. Kraang has waited a long time. | „ |
| ~ Kraang Prime to April O' Neil. |
| “ | All of you will die here! | „ |
| ~ Kraang Prime to April and the Turtles in one of the Technodromes. |
| “ | Lowly insects! Do you think Kraang can be stopped!? It was Kraang who found your planet millions of years ago! It was Kraang who used mutagen on the monkeys, turning them into lowly humans! And it is Kraang who now transforms your world! | „ |
| ~ Kraang Prime to the turtles and April as he is about to fight them in their turtlemech. |
Kraang Prime, formerly known as simply Kraang, is the overarching antagonist of the 2012 Nickelodeon animated TV series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
He is a corrupt, mutated Utrom and the leader of the Kraang, who is bent on both taking over and enslaving the multiverse. He is also a long time political rival of Emperor Zanmoran, whose forces battled to gain contol of Dimension X, ending with Kraang Prime ordering the destruction of the Triceraton homeworld. He later starts holding a grudge against the Turtles for beating him the first time.
He was voiced by Roseanne Barr in Season 1 and 2 and by Rachel Butera in Season 3.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
In General[]
- He makes a big impact on the show despite only appearing in 8 episodes (which exclude the second parts of Showdown and Invasion, 9 if we count the flashback of Beyond the Known Universe), with only about 3 episodes in which he makes major appearances, and that too with the effects of his crimes are shown onscreen in other episodes even though he doesn't appear in them.
- Although he may have some comedic moments, they don't detract from his heinousness and his actions are still played completely seriously, with his slightly redundant speech pattern not even used for jokes unlike what it was for the normal Kraang members, and ends Season 2 in a bleak tone where he successfully takes over New York City.
- While he was driven mad after he was mutated, it should be noted it wasn't due to the mutagen's influence since it is stable in Dimension X, only giving him a large size and psychic powers. He was only driven mad by the amount of power he had got to his head, thus proving he indeed has complete moral agency and knows exactly what he's doing, so all of his crimes are in his violation.
- He seeks to conquer and mutate all life in the entire 10 Dimensions and make them his mindless, monstrous slaves.
- This is taken with enough gravity as even under stabilized mutagen, the process is still very painful and tortures the victims while they are mutating, with the creation of retromutagen to reverse the process being hard to make, so the mutation is near always permanent.
- He is behind millions of years of mass experimentation, abducting numerous lifeforms, including children and pregnant women, and subjecting them to torturous experiments that mutate them.
- When mutated by unstable mutagen, its negative influence warp the victims' minds and drive them even more down the slippery slope as seen with Shredder, Slash and the Rat King, and even drive them feral and insane as seen what Splinter had to struggle when mutated into a rat or the original state of Dr. Rockwell.
- Also, Kraang Prime had subjected thousands of humans and animals to experiments of this substance across the thousands of years, even children and baby animals like Takeshi, his sister and a baby alligator, who as a result of these experiments, had their lives ruined and became Tiger Claw, Alopex and Leatherhead, or pregnant women like April's mother.
- When mutated by unstable mutagen, its negative influence warp the victims' minds and drive them even more down the slippery slope as seen with Shredder, Slash and the Rat King, and even drive them feral and insane as seen what Splinter had to struggle when mutated into a rat or the original state of Dr. Rockwell.
- While he notes that he will hold his end of the bargain in his deal with Shredder by mutating Karai to normal, considering his plan to mutate everyone on Earth with a missile, it is obvious Kraang Prime is going to betray him anyway. Shredder himself knows that this is a certainty and plots to do the same in return.
- He is indirectly responsible for many villains becoming evil through the Kraang/unstable mutagen, which to tell warps the victim's mind and drives them insane, Tiger Claw, Pizza Face, Slash) or just becoming worse than they already were (Shredder, the Rat King and Newtralizer).
- He is overall indirectly responsible for most of the series' events.
Background[]
- After testing the mutagen on himself, he used his psychic powers to brainwash many Utroms and turn them into mindless copies of himself. Due to this, every crime they did as the Kraang is tied to him.
- To make it even worse, due to his actions, many other races view all Utroms to be evil, and no good ones exist, considering a majority of them were brainwashed into becoming his slaves, and Bishop lied about the Utroms being Kraang who broke off from the hive mind.
- He used the black hole generator to destroy the home planet of the Triceratons just to make sure he can still be in control of Dimension X. Considering his plan to wipe out everyone in Earth in the Season 1 finale, this proves that he has wiped out entire planets of those who didn't accept his rule.
- This gives him the highest permanent kill count in the show just by the destruction of majority of the Triceraton population alone. Also, considering his shocked reaction when he saw the Triceratons, proves the fact that he had conflicts with them.
- Because he destroyed the Triceratons' home planet, this caused the Triceratons to further despise the Kraang to the point where they were willing to destroy the Earth simply to get rid of them, despite knowing that they'll also kill many innocents as well, therefore, making him responsible for the destruction of Earth too. That's because they wouldn't have even attacked Earth had the Kraang not been there and destroyed their home planet.
- This gives him the highest permanent kill count in the show just by the destruction of majority of the Triceraton population alone. Also, considering his shocked reaction when he saw the Triceratons, proves the fact that he had conflicts with them.
- He mutated April O' Neil's mother while she was pregnant, which resulted in April being a half-Kraang and half-human hybrid.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)[]
- He has the Kraang do many vile schemes across the first and second seasons, which include:
- Trying to drill into the Earth's core to cause lava to spew across New York City.
- Trying to poison New York's water supply to turn the entire city into a breeding ground for mutants.
- Setting up a mutagen bomb in Manhattan, which would spread the mutagen across the city, and what was eventually depicted in the "Raphael: Apocalypse" arc, would've actually rendered the entire planet an apocalyptic wasteland.
- Setting up a milking facility for the Kraathatrogon worms beneath Manhattan, causing progressively more dangerous earthquakes to occur across the city.
- In the episode "Plan 10", he plans on swapping minds with human leaders by using a device they created in order to simulate another invasion. He even has them test said device on innocent civilians. This also indirectly caused Raphael to switch minds with one of the Kraang members.
- Allowed the Kraang to torture Leatherhead for sabotaging their plans.
- He plans on using April's psychic abilities to stabilize the terraforming process to turn the entire Earth into a new Dimension X, which has an atmosphere toxic to all life on Earth.
- Considering the look in April's face, she was under severe psychological pain while Kraang Prime simply laughs sadistically at her expense while boasting about how she will witness the end of her kind. He also had many innocent people abducted while doing so for further experiments.
- He attempts to kill the Turtles when they rescue April and nearly causes Leonardo to sacrifice his life to defeat him.
- He has multiple mutants imprisoned and brainwashed, as shown with Spider Bytez and Snakeweed.
- He sends Kraang Subprime to find the Turtles under the disguise of a girl named Irma.
- He organizes a second invasion of New York that sees the entire city laid to waste and descend to chaos as everyone runs for their lives before millions of people, including April's father, Kirby are personally mutated to be monstrous slaves who he would transport into Dimension X to mine energy crystals against their will.
- Under his takeover, he has any and all remaining humans tracked down and be mutated to increase his labor.
- He orders the construction of a mutagen missile and have it fired onto the Earth's surface, mutating the planet and all life and turning it into a second Dimension X.
- Using the Technodrome, he attempts to once again make efforts to conquer the universe, beginning with mutating the entire planet before being killed by the Triceratons.
Trivia[]
- Considering that the 1987 Krang is Kraang Subprime's cousin, he likely brainwashed him like he did with all the other Utroms. If this is true, then this makes him indirectly responsible for all the terrible things he did in the 1987 series and the 2003 series finale film Turtles Forever, including him releasing the Utrom Shredder from his exile and nearly getting the entire multiverse destroyed.
- However, it's possible that he wasn't brainwashed by Kraang Prime considering he shows a clear personality (unlike the other brainwashed Kraang) and was willing to destroy worlds to help them defeat the Turtles in his debut in the 2012 series. Not to mention, we don't know when Kraang Subprime banished his cousin, so maybe 1987 Krang was banished long before Kraang Prime acquired his psychic powers. He also still remains evil even after Kraang Prime's death, making this even more ambiguous.
External Links[]
- Kraang Prime on the Villains Wiki
- Kraang Prime on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Wiki
- Kraang Prime on the Ultimate Evil Wiki
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