Kron

Kron is a leader of the herd and the secondary antagonist of Disney's 2000 animated feature film Dinosaur. He is the leader of the herd that he is taking to the Nesting Grounds. He is stubborn, imperialistic, selfish, and a bully. He believes in survival of the fittest, regardless of whether it's a nameless member of the herd or his own right-hand dinosaur Bruton.
==Personality==
Kron is a hardline, no-nonsense leader, believing heavily in survival of the fittest. He feels no pity for members of the herd who die along the way to the Nesting Grounds, with the exception of his sister, whom he genuinely cares for. However, even with her, he can be hardheaded and callous. While he seems cruel, he is actually the closest to real animal behavior of all the speaking dinosaurs in the movie. Most herds will willingly let the sick, old and weakened be taken out by predators; this will both save the healthy members from injury and will help the species as a whole.
As well as being a social Darwinist, Kron exhibits many of the traits of an alpha male, using visual threats and even violent outrages to his fellow dinosaurs, all to maintain sub-ordinance among the herd, and, being stingy, as he insisted on taking dibs on any resources the herd encounters, as he roared at his fellows dinosaurs if they approached the watering hole before he had finished drinking. It is entirely possible that Kron and Bruton are two different subspecies of Iguanodons. They both possess very different physical traits compared to other Iguanodons, such as being larger, looking much more different and having different skin color patterns.
==Role in the film==
In the movie, when Aladar and his lemur family have just escaped from a pack of hungry Velociraptors, Aladar looks up and sees Kron leading the dinosaur herd to which Kron knocks him down and shouts, "STAY OUT OF MY WAY!", when the herd stops soon after to rest, Aladar meets two old dinosaurs named Baylene, Url, and Eema who say that Kron the leader is driving them unmercifully to the Nesting Grounds so when Kron walks by Aladar asks her, "What's his problem?" Strangely enough here, despite having met before, Aladar cannot remember who Kron is until Eema refreshes him. Aladar soon stops him and asks him if he could slow it down a bit for the old dinosaurs who are having trouble keeping up, to which Kron replies sarcastically, "Let the weak set the pace? Now there's an idea." He then tells Aladar to let him (Kron) do the thinking and to watch himself, to which Kron's sister (Neera) replies to Aladar, "Don't worry, that's how my brother treats newcomers, no matter how charming they are."
The next day as the herd is traveling to get to the lake, Kron tells his second-in-command, Bruton, to give orders that the herd must keep up because if a predator catches anyone, they're on their own. Kron drives the herd unmercifully across the hot sunny desert, losing a couple of members in the process, until they finally reach the lake. However, when Kron reaches the top, he and the rest of the herd are shocked to see that the lake is a dry bed caused by the fireball earlier in the film. Bruton appears by his side and tells him the rain might be collected somewhere else, and asks him "What do you want us to do?" Kron tells Bruton to take a scout and check the perimeter, and he orders the herd to keep moving. Neera tells Kron that if they keep moving like this they'll lose half of the herd, to which Kron replies. "Then we'll save the half that deserves to live." Luckily, Aladar finds water by Baylene pressing down on her foot, causing water to come out of the ground. Far from grateful, Kron pushes his way into it and drinks the water for himself showing no mercy for the herd. Soon after, the herd rests for the night.
In the meantime, Bruton and his scout are accosted by two Carnotaurs during their search, and only Bruton escapes with severe wounds. As Kron watches the herd sleep (and eyes Aladar and Neera becoming closer) Bruton returns, telling him that Carnotaurs are coming, but Kron promptly berates him for leading them to their location. As Kron moves the herd Neera and Aladar approach and ask what was going on, to which Kron says that the Carnotaurs are coming and if they don't move, they'll catch up to them. Aladar tells Kron that the old ones won't make it to which Kron says they'll slow down the predators. Against this, Aladar tries to stop the herd but Kron pushes him down and tells him that if he ever interferes again he will kill him. Kron then pushes Neera, refusing to let her help him as he sees him as a hinderance, along with the herd while Aladar (starting to hate Kron for his selfishness) stays behind with his family, Eema, Baylene, and Url.
Kron continues to push the herd on unmercifully until they reach the rocky hill entrance into the Nesting Grounds, and discover to their horror that it has been blocked by a landslide. The following morning, Kron orders the herd to start climbing up the hill to which they do until Aladar returns, telling Kron to get the herd out of there because a Carnotaur is coming and that he knows a safer way to the Nesting Grounds. He also tells him that the herd can't get over the rocks because there's a sheer drop on the other side. Despite Aladar and Neera’s pleas, Kron stubbornly refuses to listen, and Aladar eventually yells that Kron is going to kill the herd, and attempts to lead the herd out of the canyon himself. Enraged, Kron violently fights Aladar for dominance over the herd and almost wins until Neera pushes her brother away from him, having grown tried of Kron's cruelty. Before Kron's eyes, she proceeds to follow Aladar out of the canyon. Shocked by Kron's actions, the rest of the herd abandon their leader and do the same. Having lost control of the herd, Kron starts to climb the cliff alone, refusing to submit to the leadership of another.
At that moment, the Carnotaur appears. Kron begins climbing the hill and in a last attempt to regain leadership, urges the herd to do the same, accusing Aladar of leading the Carnotaur to them. However, Aladar convinces the herd to stand together and force the predator to back down. Meanwhile, Kron foolishly continues up the slope, determined to prove Aladar wrong. Though foiled by the herd, the Carnotaur spots Kron climbing on his own and takes off after him, prompting Neera and Aladar to attempt a rescue. Kron notices the Carnotaurus pursuing him and quickens his pace, only to discover that Aladar was right about the sheer drop all along. Trapped, Kron tries to fight off the Carnotaur, but the beast sinks its teeth into his back and hurls him against a rock, mortally wounding him. Before it can finish him off, Neera and Aladar arrive and fight it until it falls off the cliff. Kron dies of his injuries during the battle, leaving his sister grief-stricken. Neera is deeply saddened by her brother's death and is comforted by Aladar before they depart for the Nesting Grounds.
==Trivia==
*Kron's voice actor, Samuel E. Wright, was the same actor who voiced Sebastian in The Little Mermaid.
**The difference is that whereas Wright voiced Sebastian with a high, Jamaican tone, he voiced Kron with a lower, menacing, Nigerian accent.
*Although Kron is an Iguanodon, the shape of his nose is more like an Altirhinus. Though, of course, Kron and Bruton's designs may be based off the earlier models of Iguanodon by paleontologist Gideon Mantel, who originally discovered Iguanodon. However, the original reconstruction of Iguanodon had a distinctive nose horn much like Triceratops, unlike Kron and Bruton, who both have "inflated" noses.
*Interestingly Altirhinus was originally considered to be an Asian species of Iguanodon.
**Also in 2018, an ornithopod called Choyrodon was described and lived in the same time and place as Altirhinus.
*One sound that Kron makes is the Jurassic Park T.Rex. He makes that once when he almost kills Aladar before Neera stopped him.
==Gallery==
===Screenshots===
Dinosaur - Kron tells Aladar to stay out of his way.jpg|"Stay out of my way!"
Dinosaur - Aladar with Kron and Bruton.jpg
Dinosaur - Kron leading herd to Nesting Grounds.jpg
Dinosaur - Kron and Bruton searching for water.jpg
Dinosaur - Kron with Bruton.jpg|Kron with Bruton
Dinosaur - Kron notices there's no water.jpg
Dinosaur - Aladar tells Kron they found water.jpg
Dinosaur - Kron notices the water.jpg
Dinosaur - Kron drinking water.jpg|Kron pushes to be first to drink
Dinosaur - Kron furious at Aladar's friends.jpg
Dinosaur - Kron notices a wounded Bruton.jpg
Dinosaur - Wounded Bruton tells Kron about the Carnotaurs.jpg
Dinosaur - Kron threatening Aladar.jpg|"If you ever interfere again...I'll kill you!"
Dinosaur - Kron angry.jpg
Dinosaur - Neera with her brother Kron.jpg
Dinosaur - Aladar fighting Kron.jpg
Dinosaur - Aladar vs Kron.jpg|Aladar vs. Kron
Dinosaur - Kron preparing to kill Aladar.jpg|Kron prepares to kill Aladar...
Dinosaur - Neera stops Kron from killing Aladar.jpg|...but Neera stops him.
Dinosaur - Kron looks at Neera in confusion.jpg
Dinosaur - Kron calls out to Neera.jpg|"NEERA!"
Dinosaur - Kron notices Carnotaur.jpg
Dinosaur - Carnotaur sees Kron trying to escape.jpg|The Carnotaur spots Kron
Dinosaur - Kron foolishly trying to climb cliff.jpg|Kron foolishly trying to climb the cliff with the Carnotaur close behind
Dinosaur - Kron at the edge of cliff.jpg|Kron sees in horror that Aladar was right about the sheer drop
Dinosaur - Kron vs Carnotaur.jpg
Dinosaur - Kron's last movements.jpg|Kron's final moments before his death
Dinosaur - Kron gets killed by Carnotaur.jpg|Kron after being thrown against a boulder by the Carnotaur
Dinosaur - Kron deceased.jpg|Kron's death
===Miscellaneous===
 
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Kron.gif|Kron clipart
Game Kron and Neera.jpg|Kron in Disney's Dinosaur game
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