KRAKOA, THE LIVING ISLAND
Created By: Len Wein & Dave Cockrum
First Appearance: Giant-Size X-Men #360 (May 1975)
Group Affiliations: The Jean Grey School For Higher Learning
Role: One-Shot Character
PL 14 (296)
STRENGTH 20 STAMINA 18 AGILITY -1
FIGHTING 8 DEXTERITY 0
INTELLIGENCE 3 AWARENESS 1 PRESENCE -2
Skills:
Intimidation 10 (+8, +18 Size)
Perception 4 (+5)
Insight 4 (+5)
Advantages:
None
Powers:
"Mutant Powers: Living Island"
"Is an Island"
Growth 20 (Str & Sta +20, +20 Mass, +10 Intimidation, -10 Dodge/Parry, +2 Speed, -20 Stealth) -- (192 feet) (Feats: Innate) (Extras: Permanent +0) [41]
Growth +16 (+32 Mass, -32 Stealth) -- (3,072 feet) (Extras: Permanent +0) (Flaws: Limited to Non-STR & STA Gains) [5]
"Mind Shield" Enhanced Will Save 6 (Flaws: Limited to vs. Mental Attacks) [3]
Protection 3 [3]
Immunity 3 (Pressure, Drowning, Suffocation) [3]
Senses 1 (Radius Sight) [1]
"Subtle Manipulation" Mind Control 12 (Feats: Subtle) [49]
Summon Krakoan Monster 7 (Feats: Mental Link) (Extras: Heroic +2, Controlled) [36]
"Vary His Appearance" Morph 4 (Any Object's Appearance- Paradises, Trees, etc.) [20]
"Ecosystem Control"
Mind Control 10 (Extras: Area- 2,000 ft. Burst +x7) (Flaws: Touch Range -2, Limited to Animals) (80) -- [85]
- AE: "Plant Control" Move Object 14 (Extras: Perception Range) (Flaws: Limited to Plants) (28)
- AE: Vine Snare 12 (Feats: Reach 4) (Extras: Multiattack) (Flaws: Touch Range) (40)
- AE: "Giant Body Attacks" Damage 14 (Extras: Area- 30ft. Burst) (28)
- AE: "Earthquake" Affliction 14 (Dodge; Hindered/Prone) (Extras: Area- 250ft. Burst +4) (Flaws: Limited Degree, Instant Recovery, Limited to Grounded Targets) Linked to Damage 10 (Extras: Area- 250ft. Burst +4) (Flaws: Limited to Grounded Targets) (68)
- AE: "Topographical Features" Environment 7 (Impede Movement 2, Visibility) (2,000 feet) (21)
Unarmed +8 (+20 Damage, DC 35)
Anmal Control +10 Area (+10 Affliction, DC 20)
Subtle Manipulation -- (+12 Perception-Ranged Affliction, DC 22)
Giant Area Attacks +14 (+14 Damage, DC 29)
Vine Snare +8 (+12 Affliction, DC 22)
Initiative -1
Defenses:
Dodge +6 (DC 16), Parry +6 (DC 16), Toughness +21, Fortitude +18, Will +7 (+13 vs. Mental Attacks)
Complications:
Addiction (Mutants)- Krakoa now feeds upon the energies of mutants, requiring more to sate his thirst.
Total: Abilities: 10 / Skills: 18--9 / Advantages: 0 / Powers: 246 / Defenses: 31 (296)
-Krakoa's pretty famous for a monster that only showed up like twice for decades. But that'll happen when you're the super-villain monster at the end of the story that kicked off the most popular team in comics (at least until The Avengers made a billion-plus at the box office)... but the main "daddy" of the team didn't create you and obviously didn't feel like going back to that well for additional stories. Krakoa is of course a giant mutant monster that came about when atomic testing converted an actual island to a life-sustaining beast from hell, and he went as far as to kidnap the original X-Men, then brainwash Cyclops & Professor X into sending MORE mutants to him, setting off the Giant-Size team.
-Krakoa was defeated only thanks to a massive effort involving everyone using their powers to maximum effectiveness, and was blown into the atmosphere. Only a few more in-continuity appearances (a collected monster in Quasar, one time) were there for him, but he shows up a LOT in "what ifs", and story-retconning has him killing entire swaths of other mutants in the meantime (such as Vulcan's team).
-Various "Spawn" of Krakoa, formed in that Quasar story actually, showed up over the years but were mostly quickly defeated by teams like the Young X-Men. A spore calling himself "Vega Superior" creates a band of X-Men lookalikes out of natural materials and fights Nightcrawler, but he easily defeats them all- Vega Superior chases him into the ocean, but discovers it cannot swim- it sinks to the ocean floor. In modern times, a new spawn showed up as sort of a Protector of Logan's "Jean Grey School", swimming around the grounds of the new school and engaging in whacky antics. Here, Krakoa is forced to fight the X-Men by the new Hellfire Club, but apologizes and begins protecting the school grounds, even forming diamonds from trees to allow the school to stay open. The Hellfire Club created many clones, but they were all killed fighting the X-Men.
-Finally, in the Hickman House of X run, Krakoa has returned to Earth, absorbing its spawns and forming an alliance with Professor X and the X-Men. He reveals his backstory- once an island called "Okkara", which was then split into Krakoa & Arakko- a yin & yang that created a portal to a Demonic dimension. Arrako was sealed away along with Apocalypse's "First Horsemen", leading to a sorrowful Krakoa becoming inert until awakening in the present, where history went as we understand it. Finally, in the Hickman run, Krakoa becomes the "Sovereign nation for mutants", taking them on while splintering himself across the world. This is... weird, but thankfully more of a "hidden history" than an "EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG" situation (we really didn't know Krakoa's origins at all). The nation has undergone several attacks, and it seems things are building up.
-A PL 14 super-monster, Krakoa is Part Kaiju/Part Base, as he just sits there and lets minions and various traps on him do his dirty work, but he CAN come to life and start laying a whupping on the heroes if need be. He's virtually impossible to injure (Toughness +23!), and it'll take an entire team of... say, thirteen super-heroes to end his threat. Years later, we'd discover a retcon that said he was little more than an animal, and that his psionic powers were part of a lie created by Charles Xavier to hide the deaths of Vulcan's X-team. So this build basically represents the smarter, original version.
KRAKOAN MONSTER
Created By: Len Wein & Dave Cockrum
First Appearance: Giant-Size X-Men #360 (May 1975)
Group Affiliations: The Jean Grey School For Higher Learning
Role: One-Shot Character
PL 12 (100)
STRENGTH 15 STAMINA 15 AGILITY -1
FIGHTING 8 DEXTERITY 0
INTELLIGENCE 3 AWARENESS 1 PRESENCE -2
Skills:
Intimidation 10 (+8, +15 Size)
Perception 4 (+5)
Insight 4 (+5)
Advantages:
None
Powers:
"Mutant Powers: Living Island"
"Natural Size" Growth 14 (Str & Sta +14, +14 Mass, +7 Intimidation, -7 Dodge/Parry, +1 Speed, -14 Stealth) -- (72 feet) (Feats: Innate) (Extras: Permanent +0) [29]
"Mind Shield" Enhanced Will Save 6 (Flaws: Limited to vs. Mental Attacks) [3]
Immunity 3 (Pressure, Drowning, Suffocation) [3]
Impervious Toughness 9 [9]
Offense:
Unarmed +8 (+15 Damage, DC 30)
Initiative -1
Defenses:
Dodge +6 (DC 16), Parry +6 (DC 16), Toughness +15, Fortitude +15, Will +7 (+13 vs. Mental Attacks)
Complications:
None
Total: Abilities: 22 / Skills: 18--9 / Advantages: 0 / Powers: 44 / Defenses: 25 (100)
-This is the Monster Form Krakoa forms to fight the X-Men- it's smaller, but still a PL 12 fighter against a whole team of weakened Original X-Men & the Giant-Size Team in their rookiest state.