Krona is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by DC Comics. The character first appeared in Green Lantern #40 (Oct. 1965), and was created by writer John Broome and artist Gil Kane.

Fictional character biography

Born on Maltus, Krona is an Oan scientist who became obsessed with observing the origins of the universe itself, despite an ancient legend that said discovering that secret would cause a great calamity. Krona constructs a machine that pierces the temporal barrier and views the beginnings of time itself. Krona catches a glimpse of the hand of creation depositing the speck that would become the entire cosmos. His machine explodes at that instant, and the universe is shattered causing the creation of the Multiverse as the universe replicates into an infinite number of parallel universes. At this same moment, the Anti-Matter Universe is created, unleashing evil into the cosmos; thus, the Monitor and the Anti-Monitor are born. As punishment for this act, Krona is transformed into pure energy by his fellow Oans and is sent to forever wander the cosmos. Krona's actions are what caused the Oans to become the Guardians of the Universe.

Krona returns to a physical state using the energies of Alan Scott's mysical power ring, but is again turned into his energy form by the Guardians. Krona is finally restored to his original form thanks to Nekron and attempts to kill all of the Guardians.

Krona later resurfaces as the manifestation of Entropy itself and battles the New Guardians. While trying to discover the secret of universal creation, Krona is destroying entire universes and arrives in the Marvel Universe, where he agrees to a cosmic game with the Grandmaster; two teams, one from each universe, seeks out items of great power. Should Krona's team (the Avengers) win, Grandmaster will give the knowledge Krona seeks in return for not destroying his universe. But when Grandmaster's team (the Justice League) wins, Krona in fury strikes down the latter, and then continues his onslaught to destroy both the Marvel and DC universes in order to create a new one, so that he could watch creation first-hand. In the end, thanks to the joint actions of both teams, Krona is imprisoned into a "cosmic egg", from which a universe eventually will be born.

The Cosmic Egg is taken by Despero in the Trinity series. It is used by Despero, Morgaine le Fey and Enigma to create powerful monsters.

Powers and abilities

Krona possesses a supreme genius-level intellect, but his arrogance, lack of patience, and short temper has gotten the better of him.

Like the rest of his species, Krona possesses enhanced physical abilities; vast psionic powers, telepathy and telekinesis; and virtual immortality; does not need to breathe, eat or sleep, and can regenerate health at an accelerated rate. His powers were later increased by Nekron, making him more powerful than any of the Guardians.

As Entropy, Krona was composed of anti-energy, could absorb others into his body, converting them into more anti-energy, and was able to create an army composed of anti-energy that were completely under his control. During the JLA/Avengers miniseries, where he wielded the power of all the universes he had previously destroyed, Krona proved able to easily defeat both the Grandmaster and Galactus.

References

External links

• DCU Guide: Krona (Entropy)