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Gyrus Krinkle is one of the antagonists of Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!. He is one of the few enemies of the Monkey Team to lack affiliation with the Skeleton King or the Dark Ones. What at first appears to be an obsessive and lonely, albeit benign man ultimately turns out to be an extremely intelligent and dangerous lunatic. Krinkle antagonizes the Hyperforce on two occasions, ultimately leading to his assumed destruction.
Appearance
Krinkle is an extremely thin, gangly man who appears to be somewhere in his thirties. His skin is dank, and a greyish pale. He has short blue hair, and beady black eyes.
Personality
Krinkle is generally a happy man, unless his deluded fantasies get interrupted, insulted, or he's mocked. Then he becomes moody and irritable, prone to psychotic fits of rage. He lives in his own fantasy world, where he's beloved and adored by thousands of people, proving that he suffers from a pathological need for approval, love and affection, probably derived from living with a highly intelligent but uncaring robotic mother and no father. While an impressive technical genius and painter, he's also mentally unstable, and according to Antauri, "extremely dangerous." He's also in great fear of his robot mom, whom he addresses as "mother."
Synopsis
A Man Called Krinkle
Krinkle first appears in episode ten of season one, A Man Called Krinkle, as Tech Number 06751 of the CleanOps crew, an organization that cleans up after the Hyperforce's "rubble-enducing battles." He's completely enamoured of the Hyperforce. He has learned their cheer, built small robots honoring the individual monkeys, and spends his time gazing out his window at the Super Robot. He even goes so far as to ask Chiro for an application for membership to the team. However, Chiro turns him down politely, and Krinkle decides on more drastic measures. Not taking "no, thank you" for an answer in the slightest. A technical genius and mastermind, he builds a model robot Tekroid 8-88, and leaves it outside the Super Robot, where Sparx discovers it and brings it inside as a present for Chiro. He also builds the Mechaspider, a giant robot arachnid that the Hyperforce must destroy, "just so [he] could see them." With each rejection, Krinkle becomes more desperate, until finally he activates the Tekroid8-88 robot, deciding that in order to induct into the Monkey Team, he would have Chiro eliminated. The Tekroid takes over Chiro, wrapping itself around him to make him appear to be a giant version of the robot toy. Krinkle then hypnotizes the monkeys, and, dressed in a Chiro costume, commands them to destroy the Chiro-Tekroid. When even that plan fails, Krinkle activates a Quark Detonator, which would "incinerate the entire park." He's talked out of his suicidal plan by Chiro, who convinces him to deactivate the bomb. Krinkle's taken to the Moonbase Theta Prison Complex, Shuggazoom's moon prison on Ranger 7, where he's locked in a padded cell of a mental ward, happily chattering to himself about his great adventures, only to be silenced by a robot guard.
Incident on Ranger 7
Krinkle does not appear again until Incident on Ranger 7, episode three of season four, or episode forty-two. Krinkle has grown inside the prison into an evil genius, reprogramming the prison guards and building a machine (which Otto identifies as a neuro-matter reconfigutron), that transforms matter into thought waves. It is using this machine that Krinkle kidnaps Chiro and beams him directly into his mind, where Krinkle has created a Shuggazoom of his own design in which he is an honored hero. Krinkle is eventually defeated when the Monkey Team joins Chiro inside Krinkle's mind, and cause him to lose his temper, creating huge fissures in the streets of the world. The Hyperforce attacks the fissures, resulting in the destruction of Krinkle's world and make their way back to the real world, whereas Krinkle vanished forever after the neuro-matter reconfigutron machine sucked him in and exploded.
Relationships
Mrs. Krinkle
Gyrus's unnamed mother is a mechanical being of unknown origin. It's speculated by most people that Gyrus was an orphan, and had either built her himself, or had been assigned her as his maternal unit. At any case, their relationship is one of coldness and ambivalence.
When he gone bonkers enough to threaten suicide bombing, and thus ended up in a padded room in the prison on Ranger 7, one of the robotic guards overhears Gyrus talking to himself and threatens to put him into stasis if he doesn't quiet down, prompting him to respond "Sorry mother" despite the fact it was a different robot altogether.
When Gyrus Krinkle uses a machine to trap the entire monkey team inside the world in his head (literally), he used memories of his mother's abuse to explain his behavior to Chiro in an attempt to get the boy hero to sympathize enough to relinquish his leadership role, albeit the fact they are all to be remain contained in "his world" of "Krinklezoom". Another memory of his mother-- the one of him begging her to let him go to the zoo to see the monkeys-- surfaced when Antauri tried to mind merge with Gyrus to find an exit, and seeing the less gentle version of his twisted past and his mother's role in it causes Gyrus Krinkle to "crack up" and want to destroy the ones he once worshiped, only to end up creating an opening for his own undoing.
Chiro
While the rest of the monkey team took the Clean-Ops for granted (mostly because the translator wasn't perfected yet), Chiro noticed Gyrus Krinkle lingering close to the Super Robot and went down to talk to him. Gyrus quickly shakes Chiro's hand while introducing himself, and asks if there's an application for membership to the team, but the boy hero politely turned him down right before the creep got himself fired for his "unhealthy obsession" with the hyperforce. While Chiro, being the kindhearted leader that he is, tried to be patient with Gyrus Krinkle in an attempt to make the guy listen to reason, Gyrus' efforts to impress the team constantly crossed the line between being their biggest fan and being an all out stalker (such as the fact he knew everything about them, including their cheer "Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!" which-- in canon-- nobody else outside the team is even aware of), making Gyrus less and less likable to Chiro every time they encounter each other. However, seeing there's no other way to even come close to reasoning with him, Chiro always tends to humor Gyrus on two occasions in an attempt to keep the guy's temper under control before his creepy obsession could lead to actual harm, and always uses whatever resulting openings to escape the team's "biggest fan" and his delusions before getting rid of him, though nobody on the team, Chiro especially, intended on ending his life on purpose. In fact, it was a sad shock when the team, upon escaping Gyrus Krinkle's mind, had discovered the guy's body "mysteriously" disappeared when his invention blew up.
Abilities
Mechanical Engineering
Gyrus Krinkle is a gifted inventor, as he is always building things as a "hobby" to channel his obsession with the hyperforce and his desire to be one of them, even if he has destroy them and himself to at least share the same grave at them. In his calmer moods, he tends to build toys, such as the wind-up models he built of the monkeys of the monkey team, or an exact replica of a Techroid A-88 for Chiro's birthday (albeit one rigged with a hypnotic booby-trap in case the team don't let him join them willingly), but with an underlying darkness beneath the child-like wonder, Gyrus had built a variety of dangerous weapons and even a giant mechanical spider designed to attack the Super Robot just so he can see the team in action and get their attention.
While in prison, Gyrus Krinkle reprogrammed the robotic guards to see things his way while still doing their job properly with the other prisoners, allowing him enough tech access to build a machine that turns physical matter into thought waves in a master plan to literally trap the monkey team in the world in his own head, where it is hinted in his own memories that he had repaired and rebuilt his mother several times growing up, albeit in a rather slapdash manner that simulates aging (When he was a small child, she was hinted to be quite the looker due to having lifelike mechanical legs that resemble those of a supermodel, but when Gyrus was an adult, his mother had tank wheels instead of legs and resembles a hideous, cranky old woman in both physical appearance and jerky movements).
Acting
Gyrus Krinkle, constantly living in a world all his own, has an overactive imagination that often runs away with him (such as his delusion of the toy monkeys saying that it's time to lead the team), but as a result of basically living in la-la land he is great at pretending to be what he is not. His acting even convinced the team the mechanical spider they were fighting came out of nowhere and that it was by happenstance he had the right gadget at the time to cancel out the webs, when in truth he set the whole thing up just to see them up close. Using a large-headed "Chiro" costume and hypnosis technology, he was able to temporarily convince the monkeys that HE was their leader and the real Chiro-- forced into Techroid armor-- is the enemy. Gyrus' acting skills came into play again when the team visited him in prison (albeit while looking for Chiro, who mysteriously disappeared), and he pretended to be almost cured of his insanity and obsession with them all to stall for time while his invention intended to trap them (and his own brain, which is a key element in that trap) was recharging.
Mind Games
Though not his most used skill, it is clear that Gyrus Krinkle is able to grasp the basics of mental manipulation, as he was able to arrange a method to hypnotize the monkey team into putting him in charge in a manner that renders them unable to resist... after all, destroying the hypnotic screen in the Techroid trap would've meant taking the risk of hurting Chiro. His one weakness in this particular ability, however, is that he doesn't think things all the way through, as turning the monkeys against their real leader indirectly gave Chiro the means to free himself and snap his teammates out of it. Gyrus even tried to force the team to do things his way by literally locking them inside his own head, where he controls everything, even the outcome of battle, just by thinking about it, and making him mad causes "earthquakes" that shatter his world and... for a short time... scared Chiro into compliance before the boy hero realized those very cracks he tried to prevent were fundamental to their escape.
Home Economics
There's no way Clean-Ops would hire someone as unstable as Gyrus Krinkle to begin with unless he was extremely good at cleaning to begin with. It was strongly implied that his robotic mother's strict methods-- in addition to teaching him math and science-- included drilling him on the ability to cook and clean in an ineffective attempt to help him "grow up" and prepare for the day he "gets a real life". Along with having enough cleaning skills to keep his job for a while before he got fired, Gyrus apparently is a skilled chef-- at least in his own head-- and knows how to make pancakes, though whether or not they ever tasted good in the real world has never been revealed.
Painting
Gyrus Krinkle spent most of his "spare time" in prison as an artist, and is practically the closest thing Shuggazoom might ever get to Margret Keane on account that most of his paintings are of kittens and big sad eyes. It is revealed that, just before trapping the team inside of "(his) world" he did a creepy self portrait with him dressed in Chiro's clothes and surrounded by the monkeys in the monkey team.
Trivia
- Krinkle grew up with a robotic mother, who, while being excellent at differential equations, lacked the warmth he felt was necessary for a growing young boy.
- According to Krinkle's own memories, the biggest impact his mother's lack of warmth had on him was not allowing him to go to the city zoo to see the monkeys that lived there, no matter how much he begged, when he was a small child, and so when the monkey team started their work as the new local superheroes, he became obsessed with becoming a superhero himself just to spend time with them, but his inability to build muscle in his scrawny body forced him into working with the CleanOps as a backup plan, and even then he could only get so close to the Super Robot before his boss starts yelling at him.
- Krinkle's fired from the CleanOps on the grounds of "excessive creepiness."
- When Krinkle was incarcerated in the Ranger-7 Prison, he spent his time painting portraits, several of which featured cats, and all of which featured sad and crying eyes.
- Gyrus Krinkle likes to delude himself into thinking he's the pilot of the Super Robot's ears, even though the Super Robot technically never had any, even with his insistence on building them. In fact, being a single pilot for two ears only makes Gyrus' offer all the more absurd.
- Due to all the repairs he gave her (slapdash as they were) Gyrus Krinkle clearly loves his mother, even though he's afraid of her and never seems to confide in her what's really going on inside his head.
- His Clean-Ops ID number (before he was fired) is 06751.
- Gyrus, in his Clean-Ops uniform, makes a brief cameo in the episode Wonder Fun Meat World, this is in spite of him being canonically incarcerated at the time the episode takes place.
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