Why wasn't Krang an utrom?

[Jester]

According to the daily strips, Krang WAS a rogue Utrom.

[Leo656]

And I bet it made perfect sense, too. People over-think things sometimes, and I think the writers of the OT were guily of that in Krang's case.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by Stingray69

When I was little I always thought of krang as a alien. And when he said they took my body I just thought he meant robot body and that's why shedder built him a new one. But then you got that whole clone episode where the krang clones grow body's and are some kind of lizard dinosaur mix.

Of course he's an extraterrestrial. And remember that the clones develop independent of Krang.

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by Jester

According to the daily strips, Krang WAS a rogue Utrom.

That's just Dan Berger's comedic daily strips though, I wouldn't consider them canon.

The IDW comics could very well say Krang is an Utrom, but until they do, I'll think of him the way I do Fred Wolf/Archie Krang.

[Xav]

Originally Posted by Hermano Dyvas

I refuse to see Ch'rell and Krang as the same character though. Granted they're both pink slugs (easter egg alert), but their characters are pretty damn different. Krang has a sarcastic wit, Ch'rell completely lacks that.

Ch'rell wasn't actually pink he was red.

[Jester]

Originally Posted by Leo656

And I bet it made perfect sense, too. People over-think things sometimes, and I think the writers of the OT were guily of that in Krang's case.

It was awesome.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

That's just Dan Berger's comedic daily strips though, I wouldn't consider them canon.

The IDW comics could very well say Krang is an Utrom, but until they do, I'll think of him the way I do Fred Wolf/Archie Krang.

Yeah, it's like the Bebop and Rocksteady gang could be refered to as Purple Dragons.

[Hermano Dyvas]

Originally Posted by Xav

Ch'rell wasn't actually pink he was red.

True but OT Shredder still called him a pink slug in turtles forever

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by stormbringer

Not to mention that Ch'rell is far more convincing as an evil tyrant. Kraang like most of the OT characters,was more of a comical character.

Archie Krang is more brutal. He kills off everybody on entire planets in Dimension X.

[neatoman]

Sorry for the necroposting but I think it's better than just making a new thread on this subject.

Anyway, uh, yeah. I Don't see the point of making Krang the disembodied head of a lizard monster in the first place when the Utroms were right there. Given that just about every version of Krang is either an Utrom from the start or has been retconned into being an Utrom, Krang's original origin story is probably the most ignored aspect of this character. Even the the depictions of him in the 2012 show and SMA, which are meant to be FW Krang or at least ones closely based on him, just ignore it in favor of simply making him an Utrom.

Now... If we could only let the the ideas of Splinter being Hamato Yoshi, April as a news reporter and Baxter Stockman turning into a fly monster all get tossed into the latrine as well...

[CyberCubed]

My guess is Krang was indeed a Utrom, but used mutagen to mutate himself a body that you see in Season 7's ep, "Invasion of the Krangezoids," which somehow gets destroyed when he gets banished from Dimension X. You can say Krang growing a body was a result of him using mutagen on himself.

[ToTheNines]

That makes sense. Kraang Prime also mutated himself and that’s why he looked different from all the other Kraangs/Utroms.

[Boco]

He's an Utrom in Saturday Morning Adventures. Good luck figuring THAT out.

[Heyowakka]

My headcanon is that Krang never had an actual body. We see in a flashback, when he’s among his own kind, they’re all Utrom-esque beings in bubble walkers too.
There’s also the fact that Traag immediately recognized Krang in Hot Rodding Teenagers from Dimension X.
This works best if Krang isn’t a brain ripped out of an organic body, but rather when Krang says he lost his body, he’s being literal. The robot body he used to possess was lost when he was banished from Dimension X.
Krang also had blueprints for a new body handy, as if it wasn’t the first time.
This just leaves the Krangizoids, which, since cloning was involved isn’t too far-fetched. The simplest explanation is always the easiest one. The clones simply mutated (or perhaps evolved backwards) into a more bestial form. They don’t necessarily have to be what Krang used to look like, but perhaps it’s a form his species evolved from? Or just a crazy genetic mutation.

Originally Posted by Boco

He's an Utrom in Saturday Morning Adventures. Good luck figuring THAT out.

Saturday Morning Adventures refers to Krang as an Utrom because it considers the 2012 crossover canonical in the comic’s future.