Karl Ruprect Kroenen Tribute

Let’s move on with one of my favorite villains of all time, Kroenen, both versions, besides in comics he’s a scientist with mysophobia and in search of the immortality, Guillermo del Toro took the design of the character and made him better (in my opinion of course), Kroenen was an opera prodigy with angelic features and blonde hair who toured the capitals of Europe until his career ended once his voice deepened with the onset of puberty. Kroenen demonstrated symptoms of masochism at a very early age, which combined with his perfectionism into an extreme form of “surgical addiction“ out of self-loathing in his teenage years that led to him conducting brutal experiments on himself: Surgically removing his own eyelids, lips, and his toe- and finger nails. He also designed a tight-fitting gas mask to filter out germs, which he wore almost permanently. He also became quite adept with mechanical devices, believing that fusing mechanical constructs with living bodies would help create perfection.