Kron (Don’t ask me either)

Spoiler warning ahead for anyone who hasn’t watched the movie yet [OVERVIEW] Kron is the main antagonist of Disney's 39th full-length animated feature film Dinosaur. He was Neera's cruel older brother and the former Iguanodon leader of a herd of dinosaur survivors. He behaves as a social darwinist, only concerned about the "fit"/"strong" dinosaurs and his own former position as leader. He is also the arch-nemesis of Aladar, as well as the former boss of Bruton.

                     [APPEARANCE]

Kron is a large, slender, muscular, fierce-looking, middle-aged lavender Iguanodon with blue eyes, purple spikes, teal stripes, a nasal crest and a tan underbelly.

                    [PERSONALITY]

Kron is the self-proclaimed oppressive leader of the herd of dinosaurs who try to survive after a meteor wipes out part of Earth. And in absolute chief, Kron, who promises to guide them to a better future, demands in return total devotion, great zeal and blind obedience. No one, therefore, can derogate from his rules and challenge his orders.

Kron has a brutal behavior allowing him to impose respect and obedience to the smallest species but also to the giants of prehistory, in particular Baylene and Eema, respectively Brachiosaurus and Styracosaurus who, despite their large size, fail to discuss with their leader. Distraught after the destruction of their habitat, all the surviving animals offered themselves to the one who managed to convince them to follow him to a new land. And despite the disappointments of the trip, some specimens dying of fatigue on the road, no one dares to fight the sometimes stupid orders of the leader.

It must be said that Kron has a shocking argument to keep everyone in their place. Allowing anyone to leave the herd if they wish, he promises to the more reckless a certain death if they stray from the group. In close ranks, those who have already lost everything therefore remain behind him. And Kron has no mercy on latecomers and slower little animals. He refuses to slow down the pace of the march to help those he considers to be the weak. He also considers this exodus as a good way to strengthen the new blood and eliminate those he sees as parasites. In his remarks, Kron is explicitly racist (if indeed a dinosaur responding to his instincts can be) and he seems to hope without batting an eyelid that this catastrophe will make it possible to sort out the species, the strongest surviving the weakest.

Brutal, with only the slightest sense of compassion for anyone, including his allies, Kron is mostly a stubborn and grumpy leader. Considering his word as the only truth, he does not really think and balances his orders. When Bruton advises him on a better protected place for the group's rest, Kron categorically refuses. When the water runs out, he doesn't even consider digging. At the risk of losing part of his herd, he orders to resume walking. And when he finds himself blocked in front of a scree preventing entry into the Land of Nests, he imagines he can climb the place, again at the risk of his life. He refuses to listen to Aladar who recommends going through a safer passage. Leader since the beginning of the adventure, Kron does not accept being wrong. And when the herd abandons him, he wants to show everyone that he is right by starting to climb the rock pile. This stubbornness costs him his life when, chased by a Carnotaurus, he still decides to climb the rock, ignoring he makes himself an easy prey for the predator and causing, despite Aladar's help, his own downfall.

Despite his cruel behavior, Kron certainly remains the closest-to-reality movie dinosaur. By sacrificing the weakest for the survival of the strongest, he behaves in effect like any wild animal. He also genuinely and really cares for his sister Neera despite refusing to follow her advices. When she leaves him for Aladar, having enough of him, Kron is really distraught though he later abandons her with Aladar when he sees that she stays with the hero.