Krok (G1)
| This article is about the Decepticon Action Master. For his mirror universe counterpart, see Krok (SG). |
- Krok is a Decepticon Action Master from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Krok is Cybertron's star soc-... football player. This position isn't undeserved, as centuries of playing all-star mecha-soccer has given Krok the ability to cause earthquakes with his steps. His partner, Gatoraider, finishes off the unlucky fools caught in the aftershocks. Krok's sports career also gifted him with leadership experience, and he often finds himself in a high-ranking position just by virtue of his notable captaining skills.
Fiction
Marvel Comics continuity
Marvel The Transformers comics
After the climactic battle with Unicron, Krok turned up out of nowhere on Cybertron, working as Bludgeon's right hand 'bot and aide-de-camp. Still Life! He even got to sit at the Big Boys' Table with Bludgeon, Prowl, and Grimlock during the united Autobot/Decepticon council meetings. He and Bludgeon both still had the urge to conquer in their circuitry, but were worried that after the war, their fellow Decepticons might actually prefer to remain in alliance with the Autobots. Fortunately for them, Grimlock engaged in a very public and very brutal beating of the Decepticon Fangry, quickly turning sentiment against the alliance. Krok and Bludgeon led the Decepticons in abandoning the Autobots on Cybertron and left for a new world to conquer: Klo. Exodus! Serving as site-to-site coordinator, Krok kept Bludgeon apprised of troop advancement across the planet's surface. He also uncovered an Autobot homing beacon on one of their ships during a security sweep and was able to warn Bludgeon ahead of time that they should expect company. The Last Autobot? After the Autobots did arrive, however, Krok was not visibly present among the Decepticon troops.
Classics
Krok continued to serve with Bludgeon over the subsequent fifteen years. He was ready and waiting to repel an attack from Megatron's faction when Bludgeon was executed by the treacherous Piranacon. Krok apparently chose to cut his losses, as Bludgeon's faction surrendered almost immediately thereafter, without a fight. At Fight's End
Regeneration One
More than twenty years after the final battle on Klo, Krok continued to serve in his role as Bludgeon's adviser as the Decepticon leader led his troops in an assault on Cybertron. After unleashing their Blitz Engines upon Cybertron's Autobots, Krok suggested using the Warworld's powerful weaponry but Bludgeon was not keen to devastate the very planet that he wanted to take back and instead decided on a single, symbolic strike—centred on Ultra Magnus and Galvatron! Destiny, Part Four As Bludgeon monologued about the battle unfolding below them, Krok requested assurance that they were actually going to win. Fangry suggested that he and Krok repair to the planet's surface along with Weirdwolf, Octopunch, Skullcruncher, Horri-Bull, and Stranglehold in an attempt to tip the scales in the Decepticons' balance but the arrival of the Dinobots and Demons made short work of their Blitz Engines. When Rodimus Prime defeated Bludgeon aboard the Warworld, Blaster incapacitated Soundwave and Omega Supreme took out Monstructor, the Decepticons soon found themselves on the back foot and the Autobots declared victory. Destiny, Part Five
Not long afterwards, Krok was apprehended by Streetwise and Siren and taken into custody. The War to End All Wars, Part 1 He was then most likely converted into a shadow-leech by the Dark Matrix creature, along with (almost) the entire population of Cybertron, while Rodimus Prime and his Autobots were off-planet fighting Jhiaxus at the Hub Network.
Dreamwave Generation One continuity
Krok was briefly seen as a part of Starscream's Predacon faction during his encounter with Grimlock's Lightning Strike Coalition on Moon Alpha. Fragmentation
IDW Generation 1 continuity
The 'bot who would become known as "Krok" was constructed cold Arm the Lonely at the same time as Agonizer. He would go to join the Militant Monoform Movement and became a Monoformer; during the Great War he and Agonizer enlisted with the Decepticons. Some Of My Best Friends Are Autobots Like many Decepticons, he developed prejudice against organic species, developing a particular disgust for the shapeshifting Dire Wraiths. Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again!
Late in the war, the Decepticon would rise to command his own squad, a feat of which he was quite proud. When he and his squad went up against the Wreckers, however, the Autobot commandos massacred his unit: Roadbuster, high on Syk, tore out his buddy Radar's spine and made him eat it. In his grief, he gathered up Radar's remains and kept his severed finger as a momento, discovering that it could also function as an ad-hoc communicator and a Decepticon spark detector. Animals It seems the Wreckers also killed his pet, and he named himself "Krok" after it. Some Of My Best Friends Are Autobots Unable to come to grips with the death of his squad, Krok convinced himself that he had simply lost contact with them, and developed a nervous tic of "clicking" Radar's thumb when anxious. Animals
Following the loss of his squad, Krok served on a Warworld as a military strategist, though he was regarded as "incompetent" by his shipmate Skullcruncher. Some Of My Best Friends Are Autobots At some point around this time, he became friends with two other Decepticons named Spinister and Thundersaur. Kill All 'Cons When Thundersaur died, his last request was for Krok and Spinister to find and rescue another friend of his named Flyhigh, who had been tried and incarcerated. The pair deserted the Decepticon command to repay this debt; catching up with the prison ship Weak Anthropic Principle, they hijacked the vessel, locked its pilot Crankcase in the brig, and sprang Flyhigh, who was now going by the name "Misfire." The three of them became known as the "Foragers," gathering up things that others had overlooked — though in practice this mostly meant that they scrounged fuel and spare parts off old battlefields. Kill All 'Cons
As the highest-ranking Decepticon in the unit, Krok became the leader of the motley group and convinced them that he needed to find his old squad.Rules of Disengagement Setting off aboard their commandeered ship around 2008, they stumbled on Flywheels, who had been drifting in deep space following his escape from the Decepticon Justice Division. The Foragers welcomed him aboard, though Misfire was of the opinion that they would need a snappier name. Kill All 'Cons
Over the next four years, the team became known as the "Scavengers," accepting their former prisoner Crankcase as a full-fledged member of the team. By the time the Great War ended in 2012, the Scavengers glumly assumed that the Autobots had won, and their aimless planet-hopping led them to the planet Clemency. Stopping off to scavenge energon and spare parts from Decepticon corpses on the planet Clemency on the way, they recruited the not-dead-after-all Fulcrum, stopping to build a fire out of a wounded Autobot and update Fulcrum on the war's end, then executing the Autobot when they were done. Shortly thereafter Misfire spotted an abandoned P-6 Worldsweeper ship and the crew decided to investigate. If the contents of the ship, including lots of brain modules, aborted protoforms, a wooden robot, bleeding skin-covered rooms and Grimlock in a stasis pod weren't unsettling enough, Krok picked up a message from the Decepticon Justice Division informing them that one of their number was scheduled to be killed and if they turned him over the others could watch. Rules of Disengagement
Krok decided to stay behind and battle the D.J.D. by pumping Grimlock full of circuit speeders, putting him out in the open and releasing him from his pod when the D.J.D. got close. At the last moment, the D.J.D. revealed they were actually after Fulcrum but before the Decepticon could explain, the D.J.D. arrived. Krok released Grimlock anyways and the fight began. Krok decided to fight Kaon but got elbowed in the face. Kaon took advantage of this by restraining Krok as Vos removed his mask, which was covered in drills, and put it on Krok's face. Misfire attempted to save Krok but only managed to damage him more through his horrible aim. After a failed explosion made by Fulcrum, the D.J.D. left for another target. Fulcrum then explained to them that the reason why the D.J.D. had been after him was for committing an act of cowardice during the war and Crankcase recovered Krok, who was still functioning despite his injuries. The group decided to fix Krok, set off for Cybertron, and use Grimlock, who was revealed to be almost brain-dead, as a bargaining chip when they got there. Before they left, they scavenged parts from Flywheels, who had been killed during the fight. Who's Afraid of the DJD?
During an attempt to spring Misfire from the Galactic Council's death row on the planet Constancy, Krok was rendered inactive by the effects of Tyrest's universal killswitch. Arm the Lonely He recovered when the killswitch was neutralised by Rodimus and Perceptor. This Calamitous Life
Krok and the Scavengers went on to have a series of adventures involving—amongst other things—Shockwave's gun hand coming alive out of a data pad, using holomatter avatars to blend in with the natives on Magisteria VI, saving the universe through a game of Jenga, finding themselves caught in a perspective trap and somehow getting turned into toys. During this time Krok grew increasingly resentful of their situation, comparing himself to more successful Decepticons like Agonizer, Biteback, and Demus, who had all grown rich in the post-war era while he had to write his name on cans of cheap Engex as the Scavengers amused themselves by vandalising Autopedia, playing "Shoot Shoot Bang Bang" and drifting aimlessly from one mishap to the next. Around this time, he was contacted by Demus through a Triple-M subgroup on The Big Conversation with the offer of earning some easy Shanix and so Krok had Crankcase pilot the Weak Anthropic Principle to Tebris VII.
Once they had 'gracefully' landed, Krok picked himself up off the floor to find Crankcase and Fulcrum lounging around watching "The Self-Hating Decepticon", a.k.a. Skullcruncher. The discovery that yet another of his former comrades had made himself rich—and by making fun of Krok, to boot—drove Krok to frustration beyond measure and he smashed the TV screen with their No Hard Feelings tour merchandise before being smashed into a wall himself by Grimlock, having another of his "fits". An argument with Misfire over keeping his "pet" locked up only narrowly avoided becoming a full-blown row by Demus making contact and inviting the Scavengers to come and meet him at his scrapyard to discuss the deal.
Demus revealed that he wanted to offer the Scavengers half a billion Shanix each in exchange for Grimlock. When Misfire objected, it was put to the vote in a rare display of Decepticon democracy and Krok elected to sell him along with Crankcase and Spinister, carrying it by three votes to two. However, they wouldn't get the chance to make the deal as Demus was then summarily executed by the Duly Appointed Enforcer of the Tyrest Accord, Fortress Maximus. Some Of My Best Friends Are Autobots
On the run from Fortress Maximus in a warehouse full of Demus's toy pet Roboids, Krok revealed the truth to the other Scavengers about the nature of the "communicator" he was always clicking in times of stress, showing them that they were surrounded by hundreds of Decepticon sparks and confirming Fortress Maximus's assertion that the "Roboids" were really lobotomised Transformers, stuck in beast mode. Horrified at such needless cruelty, Krok came to realise that he had been treating Grimlock in much the same way and resolved to make things right. With Maximus now after Grimlock on the W.A.P. a hundred miles away and Spinister and Misfire mode locked thanks to Demus's extreme transformation phobia, the Scavengers were forced to unbox six Equinoids on which to ride to the rescue.
Having convinced Fortress Maximus that the other Roboids' lives were in danger thanks to a fake bomb they had planted, the Scavengers escaped Tebris VII in the Weak Anthropic Principle, where Krok announced to the other Scavengers that he had a new plan: to find and help all the other Decepticons out there who had been damaged by the war. They agreed that it was a good idea, but reasoned that they had time for another game of "Shoot Shoot Bang Bang" first, which Krok won. Animals
Later aboard the Weak Anthropic Principle, the Scavengers watched a video that was being broadcast to the galaxy at large of Lost Light crewmembers apparently counting down the time to their deaths, which even they found a bit dark. How Bright Their Frail Deeds
Eventually the Weak Anthropic Principle landed on Earth so Crankcase could meet his friend "CONS4EVA". While Misfire and Spinster went to chase Grimlock, Krok and Fulcrum accompanied Crankcase to meet CONS4EVA...who turned out to be Thunderwing! The trio retreated to their ship where "Thunderwing" revealed himself to be a Dire Wraith to Krok's immediate alarm and suspicion. Along with CONS4EVA, he explained the Wraiths' history to his crew before the Wraith explained to Crankcase he wanted his help to perform "the Crossover", a Temptorian religious ceremony that the Dire Wraiths had adopted. When that proved an exercise in futility, Krok offered the human MP3 and CONS4EVA a spot aboard the Weak Anthropic Principle. The Wraith declined while the human accepted but Fulcrum, hating organics with a passion, flew off before MP3 could board. Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again!
Wings Universe
During Jhiaxus’s invasion of Cybertron, Krok stood by at the ready as part of a joint team of Autobots and Decepticons, awaiting Obsidian’s signal for their time to fight back. Once the signal came, they space bridged to Cybertron and started beating on some drones. In the heat of the battle, Krok blasted the Soundwave clone’s head off, much to the disappointment of Serpentor, who had wanted to question him. Thankfully, Eagle Eye spotted Jhiaxus on the battlefield shortly thereafter, and Krok and his allies attempted to converge on the enemy’s coordinates, only to be blocked off by Jhiaxus’s clone army. Nacelle led Serpentor and Krok to an old sealed-off passage to circumvent the enemy forces. Though the tunnel turned out to be much too small for their use as it was, thanks to Gatoraider, it proved useful nonetheless. They managed to get in position directly behind Jhiaxus, and Krok took care of both of the Prowl drones acting as Jhiaxus’s bodyguards. He was shoved out of the way when Megaplex enacted his vengeance against Jhiaxus, killing the Cybertronian leader. He then helped restrain Megaplex. Krok was later present at the signing of the Pax Cybertronia. A Common Foe
TransTech
In Axiom Nexus, Krok was the owner of the Granaught Gatoraiders and was interviewed by Rook about the mecha-soccer draft. Rook - Axiom Nexus News, 2015/05/01
Commercial appearances
Krok, Megatron, and Treadshot blasted through a wall together to steal the power behind becoming Action Masters. Action Masters commercial
Games
Transformers: Battle Tactics
Krok participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! Transformers: Battle Tactics
Toys
Generation 1
- Krok (Action Master, 1990)
- Accessories: "Electro Pulsator" gun
- Part of the second series of individually-carded Action Masters, Krok is a non-transforming G.I. Joe-scale action figure. His chest design hints that he was once some kind of flying craft thanks to something that looks like a cockpit, though this is the only pseudo-reliable clue we get as to what his former vehicle mode might be. As with all Action Masters, he had a good range of articulation, though he has trouble holding his partner's weapon mode and keeping balance. He comes with his alligator partner, Gatoraider, who transforms into a giant cannon Krok can hold.
Timelines
- Krok (Deluxe, 2015)
- Accessories: 2 wingtips (combine to form cannon)
- Part of the Transformers Figure Subscription Service 3.0, Krok is a redeco and retool of Generations Thrilling 30 Megatron with a new head. As such, he transforms into a "flying wing" stealth bomber. He includes the fusion cannon standard to the figure, but also includes a new version of his Action Master partner Gatoraider redecoed from Arms Micron Dai. As he was the sixth and final paid figure in the service, he comes with the "bonus" 7th figure included in his box, Nightracer, a redeco of the Generations Tailgate figure and her similarly recolored partner, Shakar.
- This mold was also retooled into Generations Dreadwing and retooled again into Premier Edition Megatron.
Generations
- Gatorface & Decepticon Krok (Deluxe Class, 2017)
- Accessories: "Gatorface" Titan Master, rifle, tail/blaster
- Titans Return "Decepticon Krok" is a retool of Skullsmasher, transforming into a robotic crocodile. He comes with his Titan Master partner Gatorface, who can fit inside a compartment in Krok's beast mode back or transform into his robot mode head (with new tooling for his face). As with other Titans Return toys, Krok can accommodate any compatible Titan Master figure.
- Like Skullsmasher, his crocodile head is detached in-package and must be manually attached.
- Like the previous uses of this mold, his hips are relatively loose—but unlike Hasbro's Skullsmasher, they are not excessively so. The CG mockup art included in the packaging depicts Gatorface with his legs attached backwards, though the actual toy is constructed correctly.
- His Titan Master door on his beast mode back (which is made of rubbery plastic) and his chest in robot mode oddly have Movieverse styled Decepticon insignias.
