Terraspin

Terraspin is a new alien that appeared in Ben 10: Ultimate Alien. He is a Geochelone Aerio from the peaceful planet Aldabra. Terraspin's DNA sample was scanned from Galapagus in the episode, Escape From Aggregor . Like Water Hazard, Armodrillo, NRG, and AmpFibian, his species is from the Andromeda Galaxy. Ben first used this form in Reflected Glory.

Appearance
Terraspin is an alien from the planet Aldabra. He is a green turtle-like alien with several holes in his shell who has the ability of flight, along with producing strong winds, by withdrawing his head and arranging his limbs like a fan. He also has large, flipper-like arms and small stumpy legs. He also has retractable claws to use as fingers. His name is a combination of terrapin, which is a type of turtle, Terra, latin for earth and spin. On the home planet of his species the people are peaceful. Terraspin appears as a playable character in Ben 10: Game Creator. The Ultimatrix scanned Galapagus (one of the aliens that Aggregor kidnapped from the Andromeda galaxy) in "Escape From Aggregor" and added his DNA. He resembles the Japanese monster Gamera. Both were turtle like in appearance, both could fly, both look roughly similar, both could draw into their shells and both could spin while in their shells either as an attack or a form of flight.

Abilities
His powers are aerokinetic, meaning the basic element he controls is wind. He can retract into his shell and blow wind out of the holes on his front side. He can also use his flat hands like fans to blow wind. He can even fly by pulling into his shell and blowing wind out to push himself along. When flying or creating a galestorm, Terraspin retracts his head into his body, his fins become triangular and his feet combine into a similar triangular shape. he rotate on the shell while it stays static and suspended. As revealed in Map Of Infinity, his species is impervious to mana. He can curl into his shell, which is hard enough to protect him from most attacks. He can also spin at high speeds to throw things around.

Ultimate Alien
He first appeared in Reflected Glory where he was used to fight the giant robot that Cash activated. The robot was no match for Terraspin. He was also able to spin the entire robot around once it stepped on him.

Appearances

 * Reflected Glory


 * Forge of Creation

Translations

 * Portuguese: Tartagira (from turtle and spin)
 * Spanish(Latin America): Tortutornado from Tortuga(Turtle) and Tornado.
 * Polish: Terrawiatr (Terra + Air)

Trivia

 * Galapagus' name might be a reference to a turtle, called a Galápagos Giant Tortoise.
 * Terraspin's name might be a reference to a turtle, called a terrapin.
 * Terraspin is the second alien to be absorbed into the Ultimatrix and not have Ben transform into him during that episode. Water Hazard was the first, and Terraspin was the second. He's also the first one who let Ben absorb their DNA willingly.
 * There may have already been DNA from the species in the Ultimatrix, because it only scanned Galapagus at Ben's command, unlike Bivalvan, who was scanned immediately once in range.
 * Since Terraspin looks like a giant sea turtle, is a possibility that Terraspin can also swim underwater..
 * He is the only one the five new aliens in Ben 10: Ultimate Alien who has movable or visible lips (with an exception of NRG without his suit.)
 * When Terraspin does a wind attack, he looks like a giant fan.
 * The fact that Terraspin is a turtle and has wind powers may be a reference to Gamera.

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