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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB
"Show, don't tell," is the adage. What did we ever see him do in real-time on the show, even if "off camera"? To establish him as this big threat?
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The Neutrinos in season One did tell the turtles about how Krang had billions of Rock soldiers and was a feared warlord across Dimension X. They looked miserable as their home planet was nothing but pure war and waste.
The Rock soldiers were shown to be fanatically loyal to him and the episode "Shredder and Splintered" showed a lot of them ready to attack from Dimension X in the hundreds, if not thousands. The turtles had enough trouble defeating Traag alone, so imagine Traag times a billion.
He and the other characters acknowledged how his body was practically invincible when it was enlarged to the size of Godzilla, towering over skyscrapers and destroying them with ease. Infact, this stayed true till the very last episode, where Krang's android body defeated Giant Lord Dregg with his powerful exoskeleton and the power of five of the galaxy's most powerful aliens multiplied a hundred fold.
The technodrome, when it moved, was a giant threat that could destroy skyscrapers/bridges and do other things like not be phased by hundreds of rockets from army tanks. It also survived extremely rough conditions like the Arctic and the Earth's core and the turtles were aware that not stopping it would result in the destruction of the entire city and the conquering of the entire planet whose combined armies would stand no chance.
Albeit offscreen, Krang did destroy Beserko's entire home planet, slaughtering all of his relatives ruthlessly.
In "Wrath of the Rat King", we see how Krang's weapon by divine right, the shockwave, was capable of destroying entire buildings in a single blast.
Krang almost had Baxter killed on-screen, if it wasn't for the fly mutating him instead. Baxter's screams and Krang's intent speaks for itself.
In "Shredder Triumphant", Krang swapped his android body's hands for an axe and threatened to butcher Splinter.