Kranix (G1)

This article is about the Lithone who escaped being eaten to... get eaten. For the giant Fracas, see Krunix (G1).

Kranix is a Lithone from the Generation 1 continuity family.

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Kranix is the last survivor of the consumed planet Lithone. Well-versed in the art of combat, the friar warrior Kranix has an advanced artificial intelligence, possessing a full range of emotion. But unlike his companion Arblus, this emotion does not cripple him with fear. Rather, he's friendly and polite, seeming almost human.

That is, until his present situation, which has carved a faultline in his chivalrous exterior.

Fiction

The Transformers cartoon

Voice actor: Norman Alden (English), Toshio Ishii (Japanese)

Kranix is the one carrying the flasks.

On the planet Lithone, Arblus and Kranix were either friends with or the assistants to a scientist. The pair brought the scientist a couple of fluid-filled vials while he worked, although Kranix was the only one to do any carrying (lazy Arblus). Unfortunately, the building shook, sending the chemicals to the floor.

It wasn't seismic activity, however — running to a nearby window, the Lithones saw it was the menace they knew as Unicron! Kranix compelled his companions to get to the escape ships, but only the one he and Arblus were on managed to escape the pull of Unicron's gravity. After Lithone was destroyed, Kranix and Arblus somehow became prisoners on Quintessa, the home of the dreaded Quintessons and Sharkticons. Arblus was the first to receive his death sentence from the Quintesson judge, leaving Kranix as the last survivor of Lithone (so far as he knew).

Not long afterward, the Autobots Kup and Hot Rod were placed in the cell next to Kranix. Kranix told them of the Quintessons and his planet's demise, but would not enjoy their company long, for Quintesson guards soon came to take Kranix to his fate. Over the plank above the Sharkticon pit, Kranix protested the mockery of justice that the Quintessons represented. He was then fed to the Sharkticons and eaten. The Transformers: The Movie

In the Marvel Comics adaptation of the movie, Kranix and Arblus were running from mysterious acid mist that is eclipsing their planet, when Arblus is overtaken and devoured by the mist. Fearing for his life, Kranix transformed into his spaceship mode and fled Lithone as it dissolved.

Toys

Transformers (2010)

• Unicron (Supreme, 2011)
  • Accessories: 6 missiles, giant chest-missile

A redeco of the original Dead End figure, coming with Unicron(!) and coloured in homage of his original form.[1]

Notes

• In a very early draft of The Transformers: The Movie, Lithone was a planet of living rock creatures, and Kranix was named Granix (from "granite", you get it?). Although this was amended for later drafts, one or two instances of this original spelling made it through the spell-check, into a much later version of the script, puzzling fans for over a decade.
• It is never revealed within the film how Kranix ended up on Quintessa after escaping Unicron. A deleted line of dialogue explained that the Quintessons hunted down those who escaped the wrath of Unicron and put them on trial, with the sentence always being the same—death! In the same draft that had the Lithones as rock creatures, meanwhile, Kranix had actually come to Quintessa on a scientific expedition.

External links

• Kranix's Universe profile at NTFA.net