Krok (G1)

Krok is a Decepticon Action Master from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Howard Stern all morning, classic rock all day.

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?

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

Krok: Legend of the Gobbos

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 part of Starscream's Predacon faction during his encounter with Grimlock's Lightning Strike Coalition on Moon Alpha. Fragmentation

2005 IDW continuity

First appearance: More than Meets the Eye #7

"This doesn't seem physically possible!"

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 both enlisted with the Decepticons. Some Of My Best Friends Are Autobots Like many Decepticons, he developed prejudice against organic species, including 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 memento, 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" in its honor. 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 (which he passed off as a "communicator") 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

Around 2008, he became friends with two other Decepticons named Spinister and Thundersaur. 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 energon 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, they stumbled across 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

"I remember when this was all fields... Thank Mortilus we came along!"

Over the next four years, the team became known as the "Scavengers" and accepted their former prisoner Crankcase as a full-fledged member of the group; when 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. Making a stopover on the dead planet for another salvage run, they recruited the defective K-Class bomber Fulcrum, built a fire out of a wounded Autobot and updated Fulcrum on the war's end, then executed the Autobot when they were done. The next morning, 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. Rules of Disengagement

Krok decided to stay behind and battle the DJD 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 DJD revealed they were actually after Fulcrum; before Fulcrum could explain, the DJD arrived and Krok sprang his trap. Krok attempted to fight Kaon in the ensuing battle, but was pinned down and tortured by Vos and his detachable mask, and was further wounded by Misfire's legendarily poor aim. When the DJD retreated to pursue a higher-priority target, Crankcase recovered Krok, who was still functioning despite his injuries. The other Scavengers agreed to repair their leader and then set a course for Cybertron, using a brain-damaged Grimlock as a bargaining chip when they got there. Who's Afraid of the DJD?

During a subsequent 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

Ultimately, the Scavengers never made it back to Cybertron: after learning that Starscream had seized power, and wouldn't be pleased to see Grimlock, they abandoned their plans to return home. A few months later, word reached them that Megatron had publicly defected to the Autobots, and the news sent them into a spiral of boredom and depression: vandalising Autopedia, playing "Shoot Shoot Bang Bang" and drifting aimlessly from one mishap to the next. Despite their madcap adventures, Krok grew increasingly resentful of their situation, believing that, while many Decepticons had found wealth and fame, they'd done nothing with their lives since the end of the war. Around this time, he was contacted by fellow monoformer 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.

After crash-landing on the planet, Krok awoke hours later to find Crankcase and Fulcrum lounging around watching Skullcruncher, who had reinvented himself as a stand-up comedian. 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. Some Of My Best Friends Are Autobots

Demus—unbeknownst to Krok, an employee of the mysterious Grand Architect—Animals offered the Scavengers half a billion Shanix each in exchange for Grimlock. The Decepticons opted to put it to a vote: Krok, Crankcase, and Spinister elected to sell him, carrying it by three votes to two. However, they wouldn't get the chance to make the deal, as Demus was summarily executed by the Duly Appointed Enforcer of the Tyrest Accord, Fortress Maximus. Some Of My Best Friends Are Autobots

Krok is just all thumbs today.

On the run from Fortress Maximus in Demus's warehouse of toy "Roboids," Krok's incessant "clicking" prompted a frustrated Misfire to finally reveal the truth about Krok's past to the other Scavengers. Krok admitted as much, but pointed out that Radar's finger was also a spark detector, and that they were surrounded by hundreds of Decepticon sparks: the Roboids were really "domesticated" Transformers, stuck in their beast modes. 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

Krok and the other Scavengers touched down in New Mexico, unaware of Earth's burgeoning Ore-13 crisis, so that Crankcase could meet with his online flame "CONS4EVA." While Misfire and Spinister headed off to recapture a runaway Grimlock, Krok and Fulcrum accompanied Crankcase to meet "CONS4EVA"... who, after briefly manifesting as Thunderwing, revealed himself as a Dire Wraith. "CONS4EVA" informed the Decepticons that he wanted their help to participate in a Temptorian religious ceremony known as the "Crossover;" with the help of G.I. Joe washout MP3, they attempted to open a portal to a new life, but were disappointed by the result. Krok offered them a spot aboard the Weak Anthropic Principle, and while the Wraith merely accepted a lift to the nearest starhub, MP3 chose to join the Scavengers on their adventure... but Fulcrum, disgusted by humans, flew off before MP3 could board. Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again!

After parting ways with "CONS4EVA", the Scavengers landed on the planet Frayus in the hopes of recovering a rumored cache of ununtrium from an abandoned Decepticon base. Emerging from the ruins of Camp Conclave empty-handed, they discovered that while they were underground the planet had become a three-way battlefield between the Galactic Council, the Black Block Consortia, and Deathsaurus's contingent of Decepticon deserters for control of the rare metals in the system. Unable to teleport back to their ship, Journey's End they were rescued by Agonizer, who transported them to his antique shop on Troja Major.

"Quick! Play some Electric Light Orchestra!"

Agonizer requested their help—along with ex-DJD member Nickel, who had been accidentally thrown into the portal—in retrieving the mythical artifact known as the Magnificence from Flame. The group portalled to its last known location, Confluence, discovering another Worldsweeper-class ship being guarded by more of the wooden Transformers. Though Grimlock was able to dispatch the "Treecons," the group was taken prisoner by Scorponok, who explained his history with Grimlock and the Magnificence to the group before leaving them to be torn apart by the enraged Dinobot. The Ties That Bind

Thanks to Nickel's medical knowledge and Spinister's surgeon skills, the quick-thinking Scavengers were able to reverse Grimlock's brain damage; in order to sneak out of their cell, they disassembled their bodies to look as though Grimlock had disemembered them, putting themselves back together once Grimlock requested an audience with Scorponok. Arming themselves, they stormed the bridge of the ship, whereupon Fulcurm used the Magnificence to deduce the learn that Scorponok had tapped its knowledge to create a genetically engineered lifeform he called "The Firstborn" designed to repopulate the dying Decepticon race by biologically producing Sparks. Rejecting his offer to kill Grimlock in exchange for their lives, the Scavenger's Sparks were nearly extracted before Nickel managed to paralyze Scorponok. Absconding with the Magnificence and the Firstborn, the Scavengers planned to use a transmat portal to head to Garrus-9 in the hopes of returning the Firstborn to normal; on learning that teleportation would be fatal to the infant, Grimlock took the infant into his chest cavity and shoved the Decepticons into the portal.

Krok, Nickel, and the other Scavengers arrived on Garrus-9... but discovered that they had teleported directly into Grimlock's old cell, which was still locked from the outside. With the Magnificence no longer responding to their queries, the group was left without any apparent means of escape... Kill All 'Cons ...until Nautica opened their cell from inside a room in the Afterspark. The God War Exchanging stories, Krok learned how Nautica and her crew believed they were dead, and had passed on to the Afterspark. Recognizing they couldn't be on Garrus-9 AND dead, they quickly saw the illusion dissolve around them, revealing to everyone they were actually on the medical hub Mederi. It turned out Mederi was actually the fabled Cyberutopia. A euthanasia clinic that produced soothing imagery to guide the terminally ill into the next life, it was mistaken for the real thing by the Knights of Cybertron. As the Scavengers and Crusadercons compared notes, they were suddenly attacked by a swarm of Sparkeaters. You Are Here

Former members of the Lost Light's crew had been transformed into these Sparkeaters by Scorponok, in league with the Crusadercons' nemesis Getaway and the mysterious Grand Architect. Grimlock managed to arrive from Troja Major with reinforcements, but the group was still on the verge of being overrun with Krok being forced to kill the Sparkeater Slapdash to protect Rodimus. Eventually, Krok and some others barricaded themselves inside a medical center while a small crew flew up to the Lost Light itself. A Dance Before Dying Krok's group was saved from the Sparkeaters when First Aid and Nickel cured them with a dose of concussive medicine. Lūstrāre Once the Lost Light was secured, Krok and the Scavengers joined the Crusadercons on board as they made contact with the Grand Architect. Farsickness

Everyone watched in amazement as Megatron's ship the Last Light emerged from a portal being created by the Grand Architect, followed closely by what appeared to be the robot mode of Primus himself. Megatron had just arrived from the dystopian Functionist Universe, where said Functionists had converted their Cybertron into a giant avatar of Primus. Intent on conquering another universe, the Functionist Council and their fake Primus quickly entered combat with the Grand Architect's fleet. Megatron rescued most of the Lost Light's crew from the Grand Architect and was elated to see Krok and the Scavengers in particular, not having been in the presence of actual Decepticons in centuries. The Scavengers were equally awed that Megatron even knew their names, and Krok could only gape as Megatron shook his hand. The Return of the King

After Rung was revealed to be the real Primus, a plan was hatched to overload Functionist Primus' hot spots using multiple Matrices that Rung could produce. Before any specifics were hashed out, Functionist Primus attacked the artificial planet the Lost Light was currently sitting on and Krok urged Crankcase to quickly get the ship back into the sky. They narrowly escaped the destruction of the planet and Megatron ordered the Lost Light to swing around and face the false Primus head-on. The Unremembering After Functionist Primus was forcibly converted to planet mode and Rung sacrificed himself to create the multiple Matrices, the plan to overload the hot spots was put into action. First, it had to be decided who could actually open a Matrix, and Krok was fairly doubtful when Misfire ventured himself as a prospect. Krok was sent to the Eugenesis hot spot to protect Velocity as she attempted to open her Matrix. They were set upon by Functionist soldiers, but everyone eventually managed to open their Matrix and defeat the Functionists once and for all. A Spark Among Embers

Krok and the Scavengers went along on the Lost Light's final "lap of honor" before the ship was to be decommissioned. The crew voted on a risky gambit to attempt a quantum duplication on their jump back to Cybertron, possibly allowing one version of the ship and its crew to continue their adventures in another universe. Upon returning to Cybertron, the Scavengers attended a farewell party in Swerve's, where Krok accepted an apology from Fortress Maximus for the Autobot's attempt to kill them back on Tebris VII. The Scavengers left the party together and headed for Troja Major, with Krok ordering Misfire to calm down as the rowdy Decepticon bade farewell to their new friends.

In another universe, the quantum duplication of the Lost Light and its crew arrived, with Krok and the others prepared for some further wacky adventures. How To Say Goodbye And Mean It: Part 2

Wings Universe

Before joining the Decepticons, Krok was a mecha-soccer player who led Polyhex City in many a championship. Krok's Wings Universe profile

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

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Toys

The Transformers

Futbol Cybertrono

• Krok with Gatoraider (Action Master, 1990)

• Accessories: "Electro pulsator" gun, "Gatoraider" partner
• Known designers: Masakatsu Saito (concept artist)

Part of the second series of individually-carded Action Masters sold in the seventh and final year of the original US Transformers toyline, Krok is a non-transforming 3¾-inch action figure of a robot with an indeterminate vehicular alternate mode; 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. His construction is broadly similar to that used by the G.I. Joe figures of the time, having a swivel neck, shoulders and knees, plus ball-jointed hips attached via a steel rod internally secured by a rubber "o-ring". His hands have standard 3 mm holes which allow him to hold any other accessory in the Action Master line, plus his feet have holes in the bottom to secure him to larger vehicles. On top of that, the hole in his back is compatible with 5 mm posts.

He comes with his alligator partner, Gatoraider, who transforms into a giant cannon Krok can hold.

• More information on Krok at TFU.info

Timelines

This offends my religious sensibilities!

• Krok (Deluxe, 2015)

• Accessories: Left & right wingtips (combine to form cannon)

Part of the Figure Subscription Service 3.0, Krok is a redeco and retool of Generations: Thrilling 30 Deluxe Class Megatron with a new head, transforming into a "flying wing" stealth bomber which resembles a Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit. In robot mode, his wingtips detach to combine and transform into a large cannon that can peg into 5 mm ports on his hands and forearms.

He comes with a new version of his Action Master partner Gatoraider. As he was the sixth and final paid figure in the service, he also comes with the "bonus" seventh figure(s) included in his box, Nightracer and Shakar.

This mold was also retooled into Thrilling 30 Dreadwing, and retooled again into The Last Knight "Mission to Cybertron" Megatron.

• More information on Timelines Krok at TFU.info

Titans Return

The Football star of Destiny.

• Gatorface & Decepticon Krok (Deluxe Class, 2017)

• Accessories: "Gatorface" Titan Master, rifle, tail/blaster
• Known designers: John Warden (Hasbro)

Released in the fourth wave of Titans Return Deluxes, "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; aside from the cross-compatibility with other Titan Masters in head mode, his tail separates to form a large cannon that can seat any Titan Master/Prime Master figure.

Like Skullsmasher, his crocodile head is detached in-package and must be manually attached. Also 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. Krok's teeth are also made of transparent yellow rubbery plastic. Similar to Fire Blast effects, this plastic can bond to the paint covering the lower jaw, causing it to fuse together and become difficult to open.

Hasbro officially revealed Krok alongside Quake and Topspin at Toy Fair 2017.

Notes

Life's a me, and then you die.

• Krok's original toy had a grey color scheme in the preproduction phase, on display in various catalogs, the 1990 boxback mural, and his Power Plans. This coloration seems to have been used for his appearances in the Marvel comics, as he was colored closer to medium grey than black in their limited palette.
• An old fan theory held that Krok's vehicle mode was a UFO. Decades later, Shattered Glass Cosmos would be given Krok's color scheme as a nod to this idea.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Krok (クロック Kurokku)