Krank

From Multiversal Omnipedia

Krank was a brilliant scientist who lived in an offshore oilrig converted into a laboratory. He had been created by the Inventor to be his son, but a genetic flaw prevented Krank from dreaming, causing him to rapidly age. After throwing the Inventor into the sea and apparently killing him, Krank invented a machine that would allow him to share the dreams of others, and believing that children were the most "potent" of dreamers, he had the Cyclopes kidnap children from the local city. However the experience of being abducted was so traumatizing for the children that all Krank was able to extract from them were nightmares.

He eventually found one boy who was not afraid of him, Denree, the adopted younger brother of One. Although he planned to extract Denree's dreams, an impromptu rescue attempt by One and the orphan girl Miette prevented this. Miette offered to allow herself to be hooked up to the dream machine in Denree's place, and Krank accept. She turned the dreamworld against the evil scientist however, causing him to have a nightmare wherein he regressed in age and was kidnapped and hooked up to the dream machine just as the kidnapped children had been, causing him to suffer a heart attack and die.