Kronis is one of the main antagonists in Netflix's He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, and the alter ego of Trap Jaw.
Appearance[]
As Kronis[]
Kronis is a green-skinned humanoid, bulky and muscular in build, with black facial hair, wears a dark muscle shirt, trousers, and carries tools and weapons on his belt. He also has some kind of facial tattoo over his left eye.
As Trap Jaw[]
He looks very similar to his orginal counterpart except he has multiple rows of rotating sharp metal teeth and his cybernetic arm resmbles his 2002 counterpart's, and appears to have cables running through parts of his body
Personality[]
Kronis is cruel and power-hungry, and he has no qualms with hurting or even killing in order to get what he wants, such as attacking and burning an innocent village just to flush out a target. He is quite a bully, pushing his (former) apprentice, Duncan around and treating him more like a lackey and with no respect. He's not dramatic, loud or flamboyant like Evelyn or Keldor-turned-Skeletor, but is no less sinister and ruthless.
As Trapjaw, he becomes more monstrous and vicious.
Biography[]
Kronis was the royal Man-At-Arms at the palace of Eternos and in the employ of King Randor. He struck a bargain with Prince Keldor to overthow the King, Keldor's own brother. Together with the Word Witch, Evelyn, they staged a coup and engaged the royal guards. However, Keldor had not informed his accomplices that he also planned to kidnap his young nephew, Prince Adam, and take him to Castle Grayskull to take all the power of Grayskull for himself. Both Keldor and Adam were thought to have perished at Grayskull, and Kronis and Evelyn were defeated and exiled from the Kingdom.
Ten years later, Kronis and Evelyn planned to take their revenge on Randor. Kronis had taken on an apprentice named Duncan, who piloted their vehicle, the Wind Raider, while Evelyn had hired the young Hand Witch Teela to seek out various magical objects associated with Grayskull. Teela managed to steal the Sword of Grayskull from the Royal Armory, but refused to hand it over to Evelyn. Instead, she made a run for it.
They managed to locate her in the Jungle of the Tiger Tribe. On their way to the village of the Tiger Tribe, Evelyn, Kronis and Duncan came upon a crashed Poacher Ship and various damaged Poacher Bots. Kronis ordered Duncan to repair them, and by the time they reached the village, they had gathered a substancial swarm of these Bots. Evelyn told Duncan to have the robots burn the entire village, but he refused, leading Kronis to grab the Bot's controling device and do it himself.
During the battle, Kronis faced a clawless tiger named Cringer and a young girl named Krass. From a distance, he also witnessed a young boy use the Sword of Grayskull to call upon it's power and transform into a muscular hero. His new powers were soon depleted in battle, but Adam, Teela and several of their friends were rescued by Duncan, who had changed sides, and escaped aboard the Wind Raider. [1]
Now without transporation, Kronis and Evelyn came upon a Royal Checkpoint, and decided to steal some Sky-Sleds there. To their surprise, they found all the Royal Guards at the station had been drained of their life essence by Dark Magic. The one who had performed this dark deed turned out to be their old partner in crime Keldor, whom they had believed to be dead for ten years. Keldor told them what happened that fateful night at Grayskull, when he had chosen a Havoc scepter and lost all of the flesh on his left hand. Evelyn revealed to Keldor that Adam had also survived the night of the coup. [2]
The next morning, Keldor had caught up with young Adam and introduced himself to him as his uncle, while Kronis and Evelyn watched from a safe distance. When Keldor learned that the power of the sword had been depleted and that Adam was unable to transform at this time, he grabbed the sword, blasted his nephew and told Kronis to kill the others with a rocket. After that, Keldor, Evelyn and Kronis resumed their way to Grayskull on Sky-Sleds.
The young heroes arrived soon after them, and Keldor allowed Adam to find the sword and transform into He-Man, as he was unable to call upon the power himself. Kronis and Evelyn swiftly captured Adam's friends, so that Keldor could threaten He-Man into helping him cure his affliction with the power of Grayskull. He-Man decided to share the power sith his friends instead, and Kronis ended up fighting his former apprentice in his new form as Man-At-Arms, during which Kronis' jaw was broken. Keldor pulled both of his accomplices into a shaft of energy, leading the children to think that they had been vaporized, while in reality they had teleported to Snake Mountain. There, Keldor revealed his new form and renamed himself Skeletor. [3] Kronis fashioned a brace for himself to secure his injured jaw.
Evelyn proposed that Skeletor might use his Havoc Staff to share his power with her and Kronis the same way He-Man had shared his power with his friends. But Skeletor realized that the sword was made of Kirbinite, and the staff was not. Kronis knew where to find some more Kirbinite at the palace. Skeletor reanimted the bones of several dead creatures and turned theim into Battle Bones tp attack a transport carrying Royal Guardsmen. One of the Battle Bones brought back General Dolos to Snake Mountain, and Kronis used his technology to scan Dolos' image so he could pass as the General himself.[4]
Kronis infiltrated the Royal Armory disguised as Dolos and was able to grab the Kirbinite without any oposition. He then created a diversion by using the command Maker Override on a RK unit that thought he was the legendary Orko the Great and made his escape from Eternos on a stolen SKy-Sled.[5]
Evelyn and Kronis planned to use R'Qazz in their plan to overthrow Skeletor. But first they introduced the hunter to Skeletor as his newest henchman. Skeletor took R'Qazz's whip, Evelyn's wand and Kronis' jaw brace and began to merge them with a stolen piece of Kirbinite. The forging of the Kirbinite caused a Havoc storm to form over Eternos as a by-product.. When he finished, Skeletor handed the three items back to his henchmen. The glove on top of Evelyn's wand began flashing, indicating the Masters of the Universe had found their location and were on their way. Skeletor was not surprised, saying they were walking right into his trap.[6]
Skeletor welcomed the young Masters as they approached Snake Mountain.After revealing his new form and introducing himself as "Skeletor" instead of Keldor, he shared his Havoc power with his henchmen, transforming Evelyn into Evil-Lyn, Kronis into Trap Jaw and R'Qazz into Beast Man for the first time. Trap Jaw introduced himself as "Dark Master of Weaponry" to Duncan/Man-At-Arms and used his "Mecha Maw" attack against his former apprentice to counter his "Speed Built" strike.
However, when Skeletor Havoc Power broke He-Man's Sword, all the Masters of the Universe immediately reverted to their normal selves and were captured and chained. At that moment the Red Legion of Eternos commanded by General Dolos arrived at Snake Mountain, but Dolos was under Skeletor's command and informed his master that the Legion had been upgraded to Trap Jaw and Beast Man's specificiations. Skeletor took command of the Royal Guardsmen with his Havoc Staff, and told the captive Masters to join him or drown in Havoc matter.[7]
After leaving the young Masters to drown, Skeletor and his new "Dark Masters" left Snake Mountain and headed towards Eternos. Before they got their, Evil-Lyn, Trap Jaw and Beast Man tried to overpower Skeletor, but he had seen their betrayal coming and explained to them that he didn't need the Kirbinite to share his Havoc power with them, but rather to be able to control them, just as it lets him control the Red Legion. The three "Dark Masters" would now only be able to access their new Havoc powers when Skeletor wanted them to.
Using the same kind of red Sky-Sleds as those used by the Red Legion, Skeletor and his Dark Masters entered Eternos. The new shield King Randor had ordered to be raised posed no threat for Skeletor's Havoc Staff. Inside the palace, Skeletor and Randor were finally reunited, and Skeletor was somewhat disappointed by Randor's unenthousiastic response to Skeletor's new face. When he heard Battle Cat roaring and realized the young Masters had survived and were on their way, Skeletor exclaimed that he wanted to have a Battle Cat of his own. He then forced Randor to watch the fight between good and evil as he and the Dark Masters headed into the street below to confront the Masters of the Universe.
The Masters of the Universe attempted to grab Skeletor's Havoc Staff away from him, and although the weapon changed hands several times during the battle, it ended up right back in Skeletor's boney hands. Skeletor then revealed that by now, all of the Royal Guards were under his Havoc spell, and that he had ordered the Red Legion to attack Castle Grayskull. Ork-O made the heroes, including King Randor disappear before Skeletor's eyes. Skeletor shouted that he could still track He-Man by the power of Grayskull, so, He-Man decided to de-power himself and his friends.
Shortly after this, Skeletor entered the Royal throne room where all of the Red Legion and the Dark Masters bowed down to him as he took his place on Randor's throne.[8]
Powers & Abilities[]
Master Engineer
Kronis formerly served Eternos as King Randor's Man-at-Arms, indicating his skill and knowledge in engineering machines, weapons and technology. He used this knowledge to program maker overides in security robots to turn them against Randor and Eternos.
Havoc-infused Cybernetics and Weapons
After being infused with Havoc and becoming Trap Jaw, he gains cybernetics in the form of his mechanized mouth and his right arm, which sports several configurations, such as a mechanical claw, grenade lancher, and more.
Mecha Maw
Trap Jaw's strongest attack, allowing him to suck up matter into his mouth. After which the dark master of weaponry can repurpose consumed materials through his chest core and channel it into his bionic arm. Transmorphing it into any/all manner of deadly armaments he can concieve of with a thought.
Trivia[]
Gallery[]
Appearances[]
Netflix series[]
- The Sword of Grayskull
- The Power of Grayskull
- The Heirs of Grayskull
- The Champions of Grayskull
- We Have the Power
- Orko the Great
- He-Man, the Hunted
- The Calm Before the Storm
- Cry Havoc, Part 1
- Cry Havoc, Part 2