Who Is Kro? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Kro is a Marvel comic book character, with over 136 comic issue appearances. Kro is a well-known shape-shifting Deviant and love-interest to the Eternal known as Thena. Because of his love for her, Kro sometimes became a relunctant ally of the Eternals.

Who is Kro?

Origin Kro was born to the race of Deviants , an evolutionary offshoot of humanity, which is cursed with an unstable genetic code causing random physical characteristics to crop up in each newborn child in the race. Kro was born with a number of traits which appear to be unique among the Deviant race and which are beneficial in nature. Chief among these mutations are those granting Kro his longevity and near-indestructibility, both similar to those of another evolutionary offshoot of humanity, the Eternals . Kro was alive around 20,000 years ago at the time that the Second Host of the extraterrestrial Celestials destroyed the Deviant Empire in the Great Cataclysm . Kro has carefully guarded the secret of his longevity by assuming a series of different identities among the Deviants over the course of his extraordinarily long life, using his powers to alter his facial features to complete his disguises. Kro fears that if he allowed the other Deviants to know that he was virtually immortal, they would subject him to genetic experimentation in order to try to learn how to duplicate the mutations that gave him his near-immortality in themselves. Kro has studied the arts of warfare throu.

Key facts

Kro is of other origin and first appeared in "The Origin of the Red Raven". The character is published by Marvel. With 136 recorded issue appearances, Kro ranks among the most featured characters in comics.