Dr. Krankcase

Dr. Krankcase
Element:	Tech
Species:	Unknown
Gender:	Male
Role:	Doom Raider Ally
World:	Skylands
Attacks:	Spin Slide Goo Spray Lightning Hand
Appears in:	Skylanders: Trap Team Skylanders: Lost Islands Light in the Dark Skylanders Issue 12 Skylanders: SuperChargers Skylanders: Battlecast
English Voice Actor:	Quinton Flynn

“Not the healing kind of doctor.”

– Villain Vault

Dr. Krankcase is a mad scientist who is one of the playable Tech villains in Skylanders: Trap Team. He is part of a group of the most notorious villains called the Doom Raiders.

Personality

Dr. Krankcase is polite and has a friendly disposition towards his enemies, even striking up small exchanges before and during a battle. He is still however a maniacal mad scientist who enjoys creating evil inventions and won't hesitate on unleashing them and his own abilities upon those who oppose him and the Doom Raiders.

Abilities

Dr. Krankcase can fire a spray of green goo from his small gun. He can also rotate his spider legs like a buzzsaw and slide them against enemies. As demonstrated during his boss fight, Dr. Krankcase can create Woodensteins in a matter of seconds from a wooden box, green goo and materials.

In Skylanders: Battlecast, his abilities are augmented with a mechanic to gradually worsen an enemy's health. His green goo now prevents healing, his Woodstein seeks out weak enemies, and he can create a Smog Machine relic whose intoxicating fumes gradually decrease max health on the enemy side. He can also drop a Barrel o' Laughs on enemies to release a Tech spell's energy as damage. Jawbreaker, also in the card game, has the ability to summon him from a trap Relic, allowing Krankcase to attack enemies for as many ranks they have.

Story

History

No one is really quite sure exactly what Dr. Krankcase is a doctor of... but his technical engineering achievements are legendary. The secret to his success lies in his modified concoction of glowing green goo, which causes wooden objects to come to life and turn evil. His unique skillset makes him a valuable asset to the Doom Raiders, who have plenty of nefarious uses for evil wooden creatures called Evilikins. It is also commonly known that Dr. Krankcase served as an evil inspiration to Kaos once upon a time, who had figured out how to make his own wooden creatures, the Wilikin, come to life after reading about the doctor's exploits in the Minion Monthly Catalog. Kaos also respected Dr. K's interest in world domination and doom engineering, not to mention his well-documented love of pickles.

Skylanders: Trap Team

Dr. Krankcase as seen in Skylanders Issue 12

Dr. Krankcase, and the other Doom Raiders, were freed from Cloudcracker Prison by Kaos who attempted to assume leadership over the villainous group. However the villains were more willing to follow the orders of their original leader, the Golden Queen. Dr. Krankcase created an Ultimate Weapon to harness the power of Traptanium for the Doom Raiders to use for their evil ends. When the Skylanders shut off the supply of goo needed the power the weapon, Dr. Krankcase quickly found a solution to the problem to avoid the Golden Queen's wrath. The mad scientist explained that by burying a slice of cheese, it can grow incredibly stinky 10,000 years in the future where the Doom Raiders can retrieve it and bring it back to the present.

Since a Portal Master was needed to travel through time, Dr. Krankcase and Wolfgang were assigned to retrieve Kaos. The Skylanders confronted Dr. Krankcase in his workshop and he engaged them in battle, capturing Kaos in the process. During the fight, Wolfgang arrived, and the mad scientist was left on his own when the werewolf only came to collect Kaos and take him to Time Town. Dr. Krankcase was eventually defeated despite the best of his abilities, and was captured shortly afterwards.

Light in the Dark

During the Annual Mabu Meander, Dr. Krankcase attempted to enter the race and win despite being in a clear advantage over the Mabu children. Knight Mare quickly entered the race as well and chased after the villain. Despite his efforts to slow the Dark Trap Master down, Dr. Krankcase was knocked into a tree by Knight Mare, allowing the Mabu to race fairly.

Skylanders Issue #12 (Graduation Day)

Dr. Krankcase and the other Doom Raides infiltrated Skylanders Academy by posing as a music band called "The Evil Imposters". Once they ambushed the school staff and scared off the guests, Krankcase began looking through the diplomas of the Skylander students, remarking that they don't have what it took to be evil. He was suddenly sprayed with a blast of water by the Minis, Gill Runt, Terrabite, and Thumpling, and chased after them in a fit of rage. Unknowingly, Dr. Krankcase was led into a trap set by the Minis and wound up getting himself knocked unconscious along with Wolfgang.

Quotes

• "Oh splendidly, my Queen. I have constructed a weapon so it can harness the ginormous energy of Traptanium. Soon, I will have it up and running, then..."
• "Problem, my Queen. The Skylanders have cut off our supply of glowing green goo!"
• "Don't you see? All we need to do is bury this now and go to the future to get it. A-And by then, the stinkocity factor will be off the charts! But, uh, naturally, to travel through time... we're gonna need a Portal Master."
• "Well hello there! My name is Dr. Krankcase, and you, you must the Skylanders I've heard so much about, yes? No really, I'm asking. Just wanna make sure I'm talking to the right guy here. Oh great great, alright! Well let's do this then." - Before fighting the Skylander
• "Let's see what you got, pal! In terms of combat skill."
• "Filling the vats with goo~! Filling the vats with goo~! I'm filling the vats with goo~!"
• "Hey I hate having to do this to ya. I really do. But I'm a pretty bad guy so uh... you know."
• "Well if you can't trust an undead werewolf, who can you trust, right?"

Trap Quotes

• "Well I know you have a tough decision to make here, so I'll just leave you to your thoughts."
• "A vortex! I've really been trying to stay out of those things lately!"
• "Oh that hat only had two weeks 'till retiremeeeennnnnttt....!!"
• "Captured?? Me?? That doesn't sound like something that would happen to me! Although that would explain the vortex."
• "Okay okay I see, do good stuff instead of bad stuff. Got it."
• "HERE WE GOO-OOOOOOOO!!!" - entering the game
• "I'm Dr. Krankcase. Who are you?"
• "Nice to meet goo!"
• "Wow. This situation sure escalated fast!" -When something bad in game happens
• "May the goo be with you!"
• "Peek a goo!"
• "Paging Dr. Krankcase!"
• "(laughs) That's rich!"
• "That seems like a pretty good Skylander, if you want my professional opinion." - After collecting a Skylander's Soul Gem.
• "Do you guys need any professors at this academy? 'Cause, I am a doctor, you know. Though I can't remember exactly what I'm a doctor of..."
• "Well, it looks like duty calls Portal Master. I think you know what to do." - Quest

Trailer Quotes

• "I am a maker of mayhem, an engineer of fear, an inventor of... uh... whatever rhymes with inventor." - Meet the Villains: Dr. Krankcase Trailer
• "They call me Dr. Krankcase. 'Cause I got a PHD in B-A-D!"
• "When I was just a boy I loved to make things... evil!"
• "Uh-oh, a trap?! Wish I invented that! NOOOOOOO!!!!!"
• "Let me out! Doctor's orders!"

Battlecast Quotes

• "The Doctor is in!" - Battle Introduction/ Swapping in
• "Ha ha! Time for a professional opinion!"
• "I will return!" - swapping out
• "Goodbye for now!"
• "K-ranking it up!" - rank up
• "My genious grows!"
• "True genius, I must say!" - Smog Machine
• "A barrel of laughs! And pain!" - Barrel o' Laughs
• "Is there a doctor in the house...?" - when defeated

Villain Theme ♫

Character Trailer

File:Official Skylanders Trap Team- "Meet the Villains- Dr. Krankcase" Trailer

 

Gallery

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  Dr. Krankcase taking on Jet-Vac
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  Chompy Mage and Dr. Krankcase
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  Dr. Krankcase prepares to battle the Skylanders at the Wilikin Workshop

Trivia

• Despite being shown as white in his art and clips, his eyes are yellow in-game.
• The official Skylanders website originally misspelt his name as "Dr. Crankcase." This has since been changed.
• Dr. Krankcase is similar to Spy Rise in the following ways.
  • Both are tech elemental characters:
  • Both have spider-like legs.
  • Both have goggles on their heads.
  • Both used range weapons.
    • Because of this, there have been rumors of Dr. Krankcase being Spy Rise's father. Of course, this was never mentioned or finalized by any Skylanders creator, making the theory irrelevant over time.
• According to one of his trap quotes, he and Mags went to the same adventure school together.
  • Another one is a reference of the Star Wars quote, "May the force be with you."
• After losing his legs in his usual habit of misplacing things, Dr. Krankcase attempted in building a new set of legs. Eventually after designing badly-springed legs that caused him to get a serious concussion and ruined his hat, the mad doctor went back to the drawing board and built the wooden, spiderlike legs that he now scuttles around to this day.
• Dr Krankcase replaces the Dragon Hunter in Skylanders: SuperChargers Racing.
• Like Pop Fizz, it is possible the green goo affects him, as seen with his green skin and being susceptible to his own Smog Machine in Battlecast.
• Krankcase is the only character to jump from frontline to the back manually, using a grappling hook instead of portalling out.
• Dr. Krankcase is voiced by Quinton Flynn, best known as the voice of Sheldon Lee from My Life as a Teenage Robot and the second voice of Timon from the Timon and Pumbaa TV series.
  • Quinton Flynn is the one of the two voice actors of Timon to have a role in Skylanders (another being Kevin Schon who also voices Lob-Star).