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KraangSubprimeTheShining

"Here's Kraangy"

So remember when I teased in the proposal for... da Fraud that I have a potential candidate from the TMNT brand. Having refreshed on the episodes from what was a childhood classic of mine (legit the primary reason I stayed tune to Nickelodeon) and guys... lemme be the first to announce, the late legend Gilbert Gottfried now has a PE candidate. We live in such a world now... now I'm just waiting for the inevitable Adam Sandler PE. Let the trial commence.

What is the Work?[]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a 2012 CGI-aniamted series by Nickelodeon that serves as the fourth cartoon based on the (not kid-friendly) 80s comics, and personally a major childhood classic that hooked to the Turtles. It as usual, follows 4 mutant brothers, Leonardo, Raphael, Donnatello and Michelangelo, who go and venture to the surface during their 15th mutation day anniversary. Trained by the original heir to the Hamato Clan, Hamato Yoshi, who became a mutant human-rat hybrid, the Turtles get into trouble with a race of alien conquerors and scientists called the Kraang, to which their presence attracted the attention of Yoshi's adoptive brother and arch-rival, Oroku Saki who is best known as the Shredder.

Now, when it comes to this series, the Greater-Scope Villain, Kraang Prime is proposed, and he is a comically easy keeper. However, I think I can make a big case for his right-hand, Kraang Subprime, voiced delightfully by the late legend, Gilbert Gottfried.

Who is the Kraang known as Kraang Subprime? What has he who is known as Kraang Subprime Done?[]

Originally the greatest Utrom hero, "Knight" and brother-in-arms (or maybe actual brother) of Agent Bishop, when Kraang Prime rose to brainwash majority of the Utrom race to be his like-minded slaves to conquer all the 10 dimensions. Knowing the mere power benefits that shall occur, Knight betrayed the Utrom race to Kraang Prime and became his sole willing servant. His right-hand man, Kraang Subprime and Prime co-lead the Kraang's horrifying operations, with Subprime being the on-the-grounds operator while Prime restricts himself to behind-the-scenes, invading countless planets and terraforming them in expense of the lives of all it's inhabitants as they either get painfully and permanently mutated to be their slaves, or destroy all those that cannot be destroyed. The Earth itself is their biggest petri dish to stabilize the mutation on it's dimension, in which humanity itself stemmed from the primates being mutated through said substances, and then across the eras, humans of all kind, even children and pregnant women, are kidnapped for horrendous experimentation.

Meanwhile the Utroms that rebel the Kraang Hivemind, Subprime leads a major crackdown upon them and driving them to near extinction, with only less than 100 remaining. Then eventually, Kraang Subprime heard about Professor Zayton Honeycutt's new energy generating device... the Blackhole Generator. Subprime bought it from Honeycutt for one intention only, to convert it into the most deadly weapon in the entire universe and destroy entire planets that the Kraang could not rule. This helped in dealing with the Kraang's rivals for controlling Dimension X, the Triceraton Empire. The BHG is used on the Triceraton homeworld, swallowing the entire planet and leaving only one mothership left as the species' sole survivors.

While a variety of operations are supervised by Subprime, his biggest contribution is as a spy, in which he steals the Rook's body, Irma, and bastardizes it for his own ends and disguise himself as the staple TMNT character, Irma Langinstein, one of the show's more controversial creative choices. Under the Irma disguise, Subprime pretends to be April O'Neil's best friend for an entire year, using her intel to get knowledge on the Turtles and further the Kraang's upcoming invasion. When a deal with the Shredder forces April to bring Irma to the Turtles' lair, Subprime reveals himself and has the entire lair decimated as he uses this as the call to begin the wide-scale invasion of New York City, which sees the entire city laid to waste and countless lives put in jeopardy until millions of it's populations are mutated to become mindless slaves to mine energy crystals in Dimension X.

Now, it seemed that Kraang Subprime is seemingly crushed to death... but turns out he survived (this is gonna happen a lot, don't worry), Kraang Subprime is now overseeing the very construction of a mutagen missile, with enough payload to mutate the entire Earth and nearly all life on it into a new Dimension X, seeing all humanity become the same monstrous slaves like the New Yorkers (and if some survive, don't worry, Dimension X's atmosphere is lethal to Earth-based life). Annoyed by the 3 month delay, when a Kraangdroid's broken English gets on Subprime's nerves, he nearly vaporizes said droid until the Mighty Mutanimals arrive to which even in the ambush, he manages to launch the missile while boasting "For the glory of Kraang." Fortunately the Turtles divert the missile to the Sun. They then head to Dimension X to free the enslaved New Yorkers and reverse their mutation. However, Subprime follows them and tries to ensure they fail, promising he will come after their shells when he breaks in. Fortunately the Turtles save the day, escape, and Subprime is left on a Technodrome that is gonna crash and explode...

And he still survives. Subprime personally repairs the Technodrome that was sued to nearly terraform Earth in the Season 1 finale, for the intention of using it to lay waste to Earth and terraform it into their domain again. However, the Triceratons found them. Obviously wanting long desired vengeance for the destruction of their homeworld, the Triceratons blow up the Technodrome, destroying Subprime and Prime. They eventually destroy the whole Earth too but the Fugitoid (Zayton Honeycutt in a robotic body) rescue the Turtles and travels back in time to reset everything to when the Earth remained. So you guessed it... Subprime is back again.

When Commander G'Throkka/Sal Commander and Y'Gythgba/Mona Lisa come to the Kraang for an alliance. Subprime refuses because he is a dirty coward who balks at honor, and then captures them when he realizes they are allied with the Turtles. Using the Turtles, he discovers the Utrom rebellion's secret base and seeks to wipe out the rest of the Utroms. Kidnapping the Queen, Subprime boasts about how awesome the Krang is and the Utrom are nearly extinct, while seeking to subject her to cold-blooded torture to acquire information on where the BHG is and reassemble it. However, the Turtles and allies attack, rescue the Queen and Bishop faces Subprime, despairing at how his brother has fallen. Subprime mocks him for such sentiments and his heroic past and seeks to kill Bishop. But he lodges a crystal shard on his robot body's knee which blows up... but he still survives, on a stealth ship but that is sent crashing down and exploding.

So he survives... again, when his cousin Krang, who he banished to the two-dimensional reality where the '87 show takes place ages back for his incompetence, contacts him for a plot that shall wipe out every Turtle all across the entire multiverse. Subprime... happily supports the plot and provides him the resources to do what he needs, even hacking the '87 Turtles' dimension portal to transport them to the Technodrome, and ensure the Prime dimension gets bombed and those Turtles killed. The Donnatellos stop it, all dimensions are saved, and then the Turtles reveal that 87 Krang's plot was to destroy their realities to ensure the Turtles go as well. Subprime does not take this revelation well as he beats him down for his stupid evil plot to destroy the dimensions his forces had been trying to mutate and conquer for thousands of years and then Sparta Kicks him back the the '87 dimension. Subprime then tries to make a final attempt to kill all the Turtles, but is then thrown out of his suit and then banished to the Turtle Prime dimension. Whether he gets killed in the brutal Prime dimension or he found a way back to repair the Technodrome (which is likely since that is how the events later play out) and then be killed eitherway from the Triceraton attack, one thing is for certain, Subprime's Joker Immunity has run out.

Does he have the factors known as the Mitigating Factors?[]

Okay, when it comes to redeeming qualities, no, literally nothing. He isn't even brainwashed to Kraang Prime's hive mind like the rest of the Kraang, he willingly betrayed his race to join him only for the sake of power and nothing more and finds the good faction of Utroms who are rebelling against the Kraang as lame for doing so and how awesome he is to join the Kraang, and balks at the though of honor.

Now... if there was an issue that made me pause for a long time...Subprime is incredibly and delightfully laughably evil across his appearances, one incredibly hilarious bit being his completely relatable annoyance with the Kraang-droids' general broken English, he makes an over-the-top reference to The Shining, and ends up making another joke to throw shade at Bay-produced movies by sarcastically saying he's Megan Fox to Mickey. And is also on the brunt of many slapstick comedy to his name as a defeat in nearly all his episodes where the fact that he always gets to seemingly fatal defeats whiche he just returns as if he didn't get blown up or crushed is basically a running gag. It's particularly the latter that made me pause...

But then... when the chips are down... none of it truly detracts from Kraang Subprime's threat. The reveal he was Irma kickstarts the devastating invasion of New York that ends Season 2 in a dire The Bad Guys Win scenario, he was such a major threat he was worth being the main villain for a two-part episode where he nearly manages to terraform all of Earth or nearly stop the Turtles from freeing New York City's inhabitants from the Kraang enslavement, he nearly wipes out the Utrom rebellion, and even if not an omnicidal maniac like he was, due to him being smarter, he was portrayed as even more dangerous and serious a threat compared to the goofy 80's Krang and be the final boss of the crossover, and the revelation that he bought the Heart of Darkness from Professor Honeycutt is much of the tension of Season 4's mid-season episode. Like whenever Subprime would suffer a hilarious slapstick defeat, he'd come back more dangerous than ever and the last we see of him show wise is a dramatic, serious flashback that put Fugitoid/Honeycutt's nature and intentions to doubt. Like... I can't see it as any different from say Katz or my own Tarantulas & Prime and Animated Starscream, villains who get goofy defeats frequently but have spent most of their appearances committing horrifying crimes across their tenure.

Now for anything else... okay, he was against 80s Krang's plot to simply obliterate the 3 Turtle dimensions, but it's not due to standards, it's mere pragmatism because the Kraang have been out to terraform these dimensions and enslave them for thousands of years and finds the decision to literally undo all of such hard work just to destroy the Turtles incredibly stupid. It's not a moral standard. And he hates Krang, despite being his cousin, because he is annoyed by his moments of stupidity and while willing to welcome him back, is incredibly quick to beat him down and banish him when he realized his dangerously stupid plot.

Does he pass the standards known as the Heinous Standards?[]

Okay, when it comes to the heinous standard... it's freaking high. The 2k3 show is darker, but the villains in here kick up to even nastier schemes where outwardly threats frequently scheme to destroy Earth and some other random planet/race (and Overmind scheming organic genocide across the entire universe or even the '87 Krang seeking the annihilation of the 3 Turtle dimensions, easily his nastiest outing in general), and then on the basis of human villains we get the Rat King or Shredder frequently scheming against humanity with plenty of atrocious acts of sadism and personal cruelty by the spades with the two of them putting a stranglehold on the Earth-based villains' heinousness, and then Tiger Claw is all but explicitly stated to have even murdered his own parents which caused his sister to turn against him, and there are guys like Don Visiozo seeking genocide against mutant-kind in New York, Stockman personally kidnapping and mutating innocents to be weapons in his most horrifying outing yet in Season 4, Pizza Face brainwashing dozens to hundreds people to turn themselves into pizzas or calzones and devour them. The standard is really high that guys like Kavaxas and Newtralizer were deemed to have failed the standards despite scheming planetary genocide, or Jei even though he was introduced murdering an entire family and then brainwashing a peaceful monk to wipe out a village... Yikes.

But when it comes to the series, the Kraang are by far the absolute worst in the show. For millions of years they have been running horrifying experiments where they kidnap people and subject them to horrifying experiments that have them mutate into creatures (children and even pregnant women not spared), which the process is presented at it's very worst here in the franchise's history being a painful and sometimes corruptive process and permanent and life altering, tries to poison NYC's water supply to breed an entire city of mutants, while overall scheming to subject the entire multiverse to hostile terraforming to convert as much as they can to slave, and all the planets they can't conquer and mutate they wipe out as they do with the Tricerators and repeatedly tries to do to Earth using the Technodrome.

Now, Kraang Prime definitely is heinous enough because the rest of the Kraang are brainwashed to be extensions of him... but he is ultimately behind-the-scenes. Kraang Subprime is the one doing the actual heavy lifting for the Kraang's apocalyptic plots to decimate free will across the 10 dimensions and rule all, he is the one that launches the invasion upon discovering the Turtles that leaves New York in ruins and millions subjected to horrific mutation, he is the one that is organizing the plot to mutate all of humanity into monstrous Kraang slaves using Dimension X, he is the one that repairs the Technodrome to use it to lay waste to Earth, he is the one that leads the campaign that nearly exterminating the small remaining pockets of Utrom that either couldn't be brainwashed or were freed from Prime's hive mind, or then try exterminating the Turtles across every dimension to ensure the Kraang can mutate them to his domain. Like more often than not, post Season 2, the Turtles deal with him to thwart the Kraang's various depraved schemes more than they did with Kraang Prime who after Season 2 took a backseat. And here is a big kicker... he personally bought the Heart of Darkness from Professor Honeycutt, for the sake of weaponizing it to destroy all dissenting planets that they couldn't conquer and all life on it, such as that of the Triceratons which wiped out 95% of their race. And I'll also add in how he cruelly manipulated April on being her best friend for over a year just to use her to find the Turtles and then try to kill and dispose of her or use her for experiments. I don't have an issue here.

What is the verdict which is final that is known as the Final Verdict?[]

I think the one known as Kraang Subprime is this person known as a keeper who is simple that is known as a simple keeper.