Krang could be the new Chrell!
 

Hey guys, I was thinking. What If IDW took The Idea on Chrell, but instead made him krang. Heres what I mean.

I don't actually mean he is chrell, but that he has a similar back story to him.

This is pretty simple: Krang could come from the Utrom home world, he could also be a villain from their world, just like chrell was. They could take a different take on the 4kids show, and mix it around alittle more, to make their own version of them. This would also be interesting to see the utroms try to take down Krang too! (Or mabey some even side with him!) And who knows we might be able to see the Guardians again. (Who for some reason I loved, mainly because of what the wore, and how they dissapered soo good!)

What do you guys think?

The main point of Ch'rell is he took over the Shredder's identity and became head of the Foot Clan.

Krang, as far as know, isn't going to become the Shredder. Krang also has a Rock Warrior army and may be from Dimension X. He's at war with the Neutrinos, not the Utroms.

They're fairly different.

Ch'rell took on the mantle of the Shredder and pretented to be Oroku Saki , Krang isn't pretented to be human like Ch'rell was. They're both different characters

I've been saying that since the beginning. That would seem the most amicable solution to me... and also wouldn't preclude a Ch'rell Utrom showing up later on (though I would hope not as the Shredder).

I think this is where some Nick influence will come into play. Krang will be from "The Kraang" race while the Utroms will be a separate species that evolved from a common ancestor.

People need to remember that Krang's design is actually different than an Utrom. Krang has much longer tentacles and is much more round like a ball.

IDW TMNT and Nick TMNT were developed separately with only sparing notes/suggestions given here and there at IDW TMNT along the way (or so we've been told), so I don't think that's too likely.

But this is IDW TMNT, a brand new universe. If IDW TMNT tells us that Krang is what an IDW Utrom looks like, then they could all look like that.

The Utrom Shredder was nothing more than a hybrid of the Mirage Shredder and the concept of Krang from the original cartoon anyway. So to say "maybe they'll make Krang an Utrom like Ch'rell" is kind of ridiculous. There is still quite a bit of mystery surrounding IDW's Shredder-- but does anyone else think it odd that his "competitor" would be a small alien from another dimension? Thinking he is going to turn up being the Utrom reincarnation of the Oroku Saki who killed Hamato Yoshi, Shen, and their sons in the first place isn't farfetched considering that Yoshi and his sons were reincarnated as a rat and four pet store turtles.

I get it, By Krang is Ch'rll you just mean krang is an utrom villain who came to earth. Hmmm I've been thinking the French Savate guy was an utrom guardian for awhile now, like they recruit people from all over the place. I'd actually like that better than Krangs original backstory.

Krang and Ch'rell are very different characters. The only things they have in common is they're small brain-like creatures.

Krang is not the head of the Foot Clan, he has his own army. Krang specializes in creating mutagen, whereas the ooze was a byproduct of the Utroms' transmat.

Krang is not going to take over the mantle of the Shredder. Ch'rell took in Karai as his adoptive daughter, Krang has nothing to do with Karai.

Lastly, although this may be different in IDW, Krang has always been more sarcastic and humorous than Ch'rell. Even in Archie he's portrayed with humor moments. In IDW he already called Baxter a baffoon, so we'll see more of that I'm sure.

He's just saying krang might be an Utrom in this universe..I don't know why he brought up Ch'rell.

I can see where this idea is going. Not saying that he will BE Ch'rell but their characters could be very simular. As in Krang might be an outcast Utrom warlord. And I would actually be okay with that. So if your talking about they will have simular story arch I could see that.

Yea that is what I meant.

Despite being the same individual Ch'rell and Shredder were very different characters. This Krang may end up resembling Ch'rell prior to his shredder days more than he resembles Krang. However he doesn't appear to be the main villain in this arc so we will have to see. I must say the serious take on humorous characters is fantastic, Which brings me back to bebop and rocksteady....for which we all wait patiently.

I think I just got a headache trying to make sense out of this dumb thread.

Both Fred Wolf cartoon Krang and 4Kids cartoon Ch'rell are cackling evil, brain-like, exiled alien (former) warlords living on Earth marshalling their forces, utilizing the native Foot Clan, planning a planetary takeover, and walking around via a humanoid robot body.

Sounds pretty damn similar to me.

By that logic, Ch'rell was Krang....or as many said back in the day, SHREDDER IS KRANG!

In his "General Krang" getup he kind of is, though.

Touche... :P

Most of these differences are pretty thin. The only main difference is that Ch'rell was the Shredder, so it would naturally follow that Karai's story is more tied to the Shredder's. As others have pointed out, the similarities far outweigh the differences.