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Ben 10
characters
Zs'Skayr (Ghostfreak)
Zs'Skayr (voiced by Steven Blum) was trapped as one of
Ben's forms, Ghostfreak, but escaped from the Omnitrix.
His evil personality was trapped within the Omnitrix when
his DNA was sampled. He finally manages to force his way
out of the Omnitrix in "Ghostfreaked Out". For
some reason, Ghostfreak goes by the name Ben gives him,
and does not mention having a real name. After peeling
off the protective layer of skin that normally covers him,
he tries to take over Ben's body in order to become whole
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 After a failed attempt to possess Ben, he coerces Acid Breath,
Thumbskull, and Frightwig to help him by taking over Thumbskull
and tossing him about the room in a show of force. However they
failed and Ben opened a curtain exposing Ghostfreak to sunlight,
thus killing him. After this episode, Ben is unable to transform
into Ghostfreak. Ghostfreak is later replaced by Cannonbolt in
the opening credits at the start of the third season.
Zs'Skayr is the main antagonist in the third season, returning
in the two-part episode "The Return"/"Be Afraid
of the Dark", where he is resurrected by an alien scientist
named Dr. Vicktor. Gathering a group of horror-themed aliens
as minions, Vicktor enacted a plan to resurrect Zs'Skayr, whose
master plan was to plunge the Earth into darkness, just like
his actual home world. Zs'Skayr himself is still intent on gaining
control of the Omnitrix. Using corrodium retrieved by the mummy
alien in "Under Wraps", they set up a corrodium beam
that will block out light from the sun, allowing Zs'Skayr to
exist in eternal darkness. Zs'Skayr succeeds in doing so, allowing
him to reach his full potential, but only for a while before
Doctor Vicktor accidentally rammed Max into the corrodium projector
during a dogfight. In the end, Ben kills him once again on board
a space shuttle, when Max opens the shuttle's roof and exposes
him directly to the sun. Ben regains use of the form during this
time, except in Ghostfreak's natural state, indicating a possible
return.
Zs'Skayr appears in Ben 10: Protector of Earth as the main boss
of the North East, and is fought in Gold Coast Theater or Effigy
Mounds in Hex's body. While not the main villain, he is the one
who frees Vilgax from the Null Void and instigates the plot.
He appears similar to his form in "Be Afraid of the Dark",
having shoulder spikes and more detailed features.
During the Ben 10 Week event on April 13, 2008, revealed his
real name and that he was High Ecto-Lord of Anur Phaetos. He
learned about the Omnitrix when one of Vilgax's data probes crash
landed and he read its data files. Not long after, he met up
with Myaxx when she was scouting the planet for DNA samples and
aided her in acquiring samples from the nearby planet of Flors
Verdance. However, Zs'Skayr possessed the Florauna Myaxx was
sampling and used his powers to allow his DNA to enter the Omnitrix
along with the sample.
Zs'Skayr's (Ghostfreak's) Minions
These three aliens appeared in separate episodes during the third
season. It is later revealed that they were working together
on a complex scheme of Zs'Skayr's design. It is explained that
back when Ghostfreak was still inside the Omnitrix, Ben used
him to sneak into a horror movie, at which point he was overtaken
by the alien, who contacted Doctor Vicktor with his plans.
Zs'Skayr and his minions are all based on horror monsters (Frankenstein's
monster, a mummy, a werewolf, and a ghost), and all come from
the Anur system.
- Doctor Vicktor is a Transylian from
Anur Transyl (an alien resembling Frankenstein's monster) who
works at NASA, disguised as a human scientist as a means to
hijack a space shuttle. Despite his size, he possesses excellent
reflexes, able to quickly spin around and backhand a super-speeding
XLR8 when the latter attempted a sneak attack on him. He is
intelligent, and working for Zs'Skayr; his immediate plan was
to resurrect his master, whose ultimate plan was to prevent
the sun's light from reaching the earth using various satellites
(therefore meaning that Zs'Skayr would be at full power all
of the time). He is not treated with respect after Zs'Skayr
is resurrected. After he asks why they need Ben, Zs'Skayr takes
control of his body and throws him around. He serves as the
unofficial leader of the three horror-themed aliens. The purple
lightning that the previous two horror aliens appeared in was
generated by a teleportation machine that he uses. His name
is derived from the name of Victor Frankenstein from the Mary
Shelley novel. His first appearance is in "The Return",
where he succeeds in resurrecting Zs'Skayr. In the next episode "Be
Afraid of the Dark",
Ben fights Doctor Vicktor and Zs'Skayr on Earth. Ben accidentally
gains use of Doctor Vicktor's form when Vicktor finds Ben and
grabs him by the wrist, unintentionally adding his DNA to the
Omnitrix. Vicktor essentially defeats himself near the end
of the episode. In an attempt to teleport Ben to an unspecified
location, he and the mummy alien are tossed into the portal
he created. Ben 10: Protector of Earth features "Vicktors" as
enemies on Zs'Skayr's planet.
- Mummy: The mummy appeared in "Under Wraps", a Thep
Khufan from the planet Anur Khufos, was sent by Doctor Vicktor
to find a dangerous element called corrodium that crashed on
Earth millions of years ago. Grandpa Max explains that the crystals
are a potent but unstable power source, and the radiation emitted
by the crystals causes almost instant mutation in humans and
other Earth-born creatures. Todd Maplewood, a boy Ben and Gwen
met, said it arrived in purple lightning, which is the same way
the Yenaldooshi arrived in "Benwolf". Max states there
may be a connection between the werewolf and the mummy, which
is proven in "The Return". During Ben's battle with
the creature, its DNA is absorbed by the Omnitrix, giving Ben
access to the form. The mummy is frozen solid by Upgrade, who
merges with a liquid oxygen device, and buried, along with its
corrodium, under a thick bed of concrete. It was released by
the werewolf in "The Return", and assists in Dr. Vicktor's
plan to plunge the earth into eternal darkness. When Ben is fighting
Ghostfreak, Doctor Vicktor, and the mummy in "Be Afraid
of the Dark", Doctor Vicktor inadvertently sends both himself
and the mummy to an unspecified location, most likely the Null
Void, through an ill-timed use of his teleportation device. Ben's
version of the mummy is named Benmummy. The mummy appears as
an enemy in the game "Ben 10: Protector of Earth" as
two enemies: Mummy and Cyclone Mummy.
- Yenaldooshi: This alien werewolf - his actual racial name
is Loboan - was sent by Doctor Vicktor to steal communication
equipment from a reservation that Ben, Gwen, and Grandpa Max
were visiting in "Benwolf". Ben first fights against the Loboan as
Wildvine. When Ben is transformed back to his normal self by
the Omnitrix, the Loboan slashes the Omnitrix's faceplate, causing
the device to download his DNA (signified by its face turning
yellow) and gradually change Ben into the form. In their second
battle, the Loboan appears to be killed by a cave-in, though
it is not actually shown dead. The device that it was building
is shown coming online at the episode's end, its purpose left
unrevealed. The Loboan is revealed to have survived in "The
Return", and its device is used as part of Ghostfreak's
plan to block out the sun. In the next episode "Be Afraid
of the Dark", the Loboan's transmitter explodes when Grandpa
Max rams a space shuttle into Ghostfreak's corrodium projector.
It is unknown whether or not the Loboan survived the explosion
of the corrodium transmitter.
The Loboan appears as an enemy in Ben 10: Protector of Earth
in two variants: Fangface and Fangface Howler.
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