

At one point while fighting Rex and the clone troopers, Krell deliberately puts away his lightsabers in favor of killing several clones with his bare hands. Blood Knight: His tactics are extremely aggressive.Beard of Evil: He has a beard, and proves to be quite evil.Stopping the Republic from capturing Umbara would've been his ticket. Bastard Understudy: He wanted to become Count Dooku's apprentice once he defected to the Separatists.However, after acknowledging the clone's opinion, he immediately dismisses it, and later turns out to be a traitorous Dark Side acolyte. Bait the Dog: Krell appears to show some respect for Rex after he stands up to him, and even comes close to complimenting him.Ax-Crazy: It really shows once he reveals his true colors, taking pleasure in killing many clones up close and personal, both to help the Separatists and for his own sadistic amusement.Although, this is at least partially because he's a traitor and so trying to screw things up for the Republic. Attack! Attack! Attack!: An accurate summary of his strategy.However, it does catch everyone off guard. Asshole Victim: No one objects to Dogma's shooting of him.He has been secretly working to undermine the Republic's effort to take back the planet the entire time. Arc Villain: Krell is the main antagonist of the Umbara arc.Literally only one clone is genuinely loyal to him, and Krell loses Dogma, that one genuine follower, when he laughs at him for being an easily-manipulated boob.

0% Approval Rating: The clone troopers that Krell commands hate him for being a terrible commander and a colossal asshole, and that hatred is so strong that they refuse to comply with his orders to execute Jesse and Fives for insubordination.The clone troopers soon discovered that he was trying to lose the battle, having fallen to the Dark Side and planning on defecting to the Separatists. As the battle progressed, his reckless tactics led to ever-escalating conflicts between him and the clone troopers under his command. During the Clone Wars, Krell held the rank of Jedi General in the Grand Army of the Republic and took over leading the 501 st Legion after Anakin Skywalker was called away during the Battle of Umbara. Pong Krell was a Besalisk Jedi Master during the final years of the Galactic Republic. "I will not be undermined by creatures bred in some laboratory!"
