[2] Krang made his first live action appearance in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, which was a sequel to the 2014 film, with his voice provided by Brad Garrett.

In the final season of the 1987 animated series,[5] Krang showed signs of psychic powers when he hypnotized one of Lord Dregg's soldiers into obeying his and Shredder's commands, saying it would only work on weak-willed people.

Throughout the rest of the show, as well as most other appearances, Krang's most notable combat ability is weaponry which he can switch his android bodies hands out for - his most commonly seen weapons are swords, maces, and blasters.

He does have his own "version" of the turtles, however—a rebellious group of teens from Dimension X named the Neutrinos, who seem to have a very similar relationship to Krang as Shredder has to the TMNT.

In the series finale, "Divide and Conquer", the Turtles return to the Technodrome to take Krang's android body, which they need to fight Dregg.

However, his megalomanic expansion drive both deprived his home planet of its most essential natural resource, the Ooze, and incited rebellion among the subjugated people of Dimension X, eventually leading to the destruction of Utrominon.

[7] In order to augment his troops, Krang, initially disguised as a despotic human warlord, forms a business relationship with Baxter Stockman, head of the genetics research institute Stock Gen,[8] and supplies him with Ooze, which could be used as a natural mutagen on Earth's organisms.

However, Leatherhead, one of his former victims[12] and a key witness in the trial, refuses to accept the mild verdict and kills Krang by devouring him.

[14] He later joins Baxter Stockman and Madame Null in their alliance with the Rat King to bring about the demigod's "Armageddon Game", and receives a restored Metalhead as a new exobody.

[15] He stil continues to work on his own schemes, but his leadership of the Utroms is usurped by his former subordinate Ch'rell, and he is executed by King Zenter before he can destroy the Earth out of spite.

Given the series introduces the 1987 show as an alternate universe, the original Krang makes an appearance, still voiced by Pat Fraley, being said to be a cousin of Kraang Sub-Prime who wound up exiled to that dimension because he was a screw-up.

During the series finale, Shredder unearths the remains of a Krang inside a buried ship while looking for Empyrean to fulfill his goals.

By the time the Foot opens the portal to set them free, only three of them have survived their exile, they then possess the members of the Foot Clan and turn them into monstrous minions (with the same fate later befalling Raph, until Leo snaps him out of it) and proceed to take over the highest building of the city in order to open a portal big enough for their ship Technodrome to crossover.

Their method of mutation also greatly differs from prior incarnations in that they utilise a form of bio-growth that usually takes over or otherwise transmutates anything it touches, to the point that it can puppeteer inorganic matter.

Brad Garrett voices Krang in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, where it was the first official live-action appearance of the character.

[24] In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up, one of the players is a Utrominator drone, a Utrom enslaved by Shredder in the 2003 series, despite not actually being Krang, he acts as a stand-in for him.