Kreb
- Kreb is a Decepticon-allied Nebulan Headmaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Kreb is an obnoxious former talk show host who revels in the disgusting and rude. (Like there's any other kind of talk show host?)
He transforms into the head of Horri-Bull.
Fiction
Marvel The Transformers comics
Kreb was recruited into the Decepticons on Nebulos and paired with Horri-Bull in the Headmaster process. After arriving on Earth, he helped Zarak set up the Z Foundation, a front company for the Decepticons on Earth. He went under the alias "Mr. K," and alongside "Mr. B" and "Mr. L," hired four of the best bounty-hunters in America to hunt down Autobots, offering them $50,000 per capture. Burn-Out, Randy Horton, Skunge, and Felix readily accepted the job.
The Decepticons provided the bounty-hunters with three jammers to aid them in their hunt, and pointed them towards the Shawungunk Mountains, where a trio of Autobot war prisoners were being sent over from Cybertron to test out the effectiveness of said jammers. The "Roadjammers," as Kreb dubbed the group, returned in due course, their mission a complete success. But along the way, they had learned of the Decepticons' involvement with the Z Foundation, and broke into their garage, hoping of capturing additional Transformers. Kreb and his fellow Headmasters caught the Roadjammers in the act, and combined with their bodies to form Horri-Bull, Fangry, and Squeezeplay. Unbeknownst to the Decepticons, Felix had rewired the jammers to also ensnare them in its power, and took control of the trio. Horri-Bull was forced to fight against Scorponok once the Decepticon leader deemed it necessary to intervene personally. Ultimately, Zarak was forced to use an anti-jammer to release his troops from the human's control, which allowed the Autobots to escape. Ca$h and Car-nage!
Toys
Generation 1
- Horri-Bull (Headmaster, 1988)
- Kreb is the Headmaster unit of Horri-Bull, forming the larger robot's head when in its humanoid mode. Plugging him (or any other Headmaster unit) into Horri-Bull's neck will activate a spring-loaded mini-Tech Spec meter which gives readouts for Speed, Strength and Intelligence. Though all Headmaster heads plugged into Horri-Bull will display Kreb's Speed, Strength, and Intelligence readings due to them being on one large sliding plate, plugging Kreb into any 1987-release Headmaster is designed to still activate individual tumblers in the older toys.
- Like all of the 1988 Headmaster partners, Kreb has Horri-Bull's face plainly visible on his back, lacking the face-obscuring flip-down panel of the larger 1987 Headmasters.
- Horri-Bull and Kreb were released in Japan as Super-God Masterforce Bullhorn.
Generations
Merchandise
Transformers Trading Card Game
- Kreb (2020)
- Wave 5: Titan Masters Attack
- Rarity: UT
- Card Number: T26/T46
- Stars: 1
- Kreb is one of forty-six double sided character cards included in Wave 5 of the Transformers Trading Card Game, Titan Masters Attack. As a Titan Master, Kreb begins play in head mode on a character with a body mode. When that character is KO'd, Kreb is deployed in bot mode. In order to represent Kreb's size as a Titan Master, the card is the size of a battle card, about half the size of a normal character card.
- Kreb features original art for both modes, with bot mode lines by Dan Khanna and head mode lines by Sara Pitre-Durocher.
- This card's set was originally set for an April 2020 release, however due to the global COVID-19 pandemic the release was pushed back to May 29, 2020.
