Charmcaster (Classic)

Charmcaster (voiced by Kari Wahlgren) is one of the Ben 10 villains, the niece and apprentice Gwen's nemesis Hex. Like her uncle, she relies on magic to fight. Though like most villains she despises Ben, her hate is mostly turned toward Gwen for their shared affinity in magic, mirroring Ben's and Kevin's rivalry in the original series. Charmcaster played a key role in the series, as it was by stealing her magic book Gwen learnt using her powers.

Dwayne McDuffie have revealed that Charmcaster and Hex are actually humans from another dimension, thus explaining their powers. Charmcaster is voiced again in Alien Force by Kari Wahlgreen.

Original series
In her debut appearance, Tough Luck, she busts her uncle out of prison and assists him in trying to steal the Keystone of Bezel. She manages to trick Gwen by putting on an act about hating her uncle, only to swipe the Keystone while hugging Gwen. She then gives Hex the Keystone. In the end it's revealed that Hex needs the Keystone to recreate the Charms of Bezel, and that she is manipulating her uncle into doing it so that she can take their power for herself. In the end, her powers, like Hex's, seem to be absorbed by the Keystone.

Charmcaster returns in A Change of Face, her powers having regenerated since her recent encounter with the Tennysons. She attempts a body swap spell with Ben, hoping to take advantage of the Omnitrix to boost her spells. Her efforts fail, however, as her three attempts end in swapping with Gwen, being returned to her normal body while Ben and Gwen are swapped, and returning Ben and Gwen to their normal bodies respectively. She is arrested at the end of the episode, and her bag is tossed into the sea. She is last seen in a juvenile detention ward, where she is about to be beaten up by two female inmates whom Gwen spurned while she was in Charmcaster's body. Gwen procures her spellbook during this period, and keeps the item as a souvenir, eventually learning to use it.

Charmcaster makes a small cameo at the end of Don't Drink the Water, where she is seen taunting her uncle (who has been reduced to an infant by the Fountain of Youth) and saying that she's giving the orders now.

She appears in Ben 10 vs. the Negative 10 as part of the Negative 10. Unlike her partners, however, Charmcaster is mainly focused on defeating Gwen (as opposed to Ben). She also is shown to have a slight rivalry with fellow female teammate Rojo.

Alien Force
In the episode In Charm's Way, Charmcaster sends one of her rock monsters to attack Ben, Kevin and Gwen while the trio were relaxing at the beach, the rock creature appeared to be immune to Gwen's energy attacks and proceeded to oust Kevin. Just as Ben was about to take down the rock monster, a magical portal opens up and sucks it away. It was later shown that Charmcaster was hiding in a nearby cave watching the events unfold. After voicing her deep hatred for Gwen and her plan to take something precious from her (which was Kevin, since Gwen stole her spellbook) transforming into a beautiful blonde haired girl named Caroline and attemted to seduce Kevin.

Charmcaster set her plan into motion after saving a child from being knocked down by a truck, she and Kevin journey to the beach where she revealed a partially false life story while removing his ID mask which concealed his mutant form and clearly growing jealous when Kevin says "you think you've got magic, she's made of magic". She then kisses him, putting him under a spell and ordered him to bring Gwen to the Planetarium before midnight where she can drain Gwen's powers. After a skirmish with Ben and Gwen, Kevin was broken free from Charmcaster's spell. After the trio arrives at the Planetarium at Gwen's request, Charmcaster sends her rock monsters to deal with Ben and Kevin while she dealt with Gwen herself. Upon meeting, Charmcaster gloats sarcastically at Gwen's hairdo then engaging her in a short magical duel, in which Gwen was led to stand upon some runes while directly under the sky-panel which then opens up, exposing Gwen to the full blaze of the moon light. Charmcaster then drains Gwen of all her magic. Confident that she had won, Charmcaster retreats with her two rock minions.

After a short argument with Gwen, Kevin tricks Charmcaster into meeting him on top of a tall building where he lured her with a lie about his loyalty to Ben and that Gwen still had power left, angering Charmcaster even further. The duo later shows up at a fast food joint where Ben and Gwen are having smoothies. After scanning Gwen and realizing that she had no power left and that Kevin tricked her, she uses her magic to bring a Mr Smoothie sign to life as well as controlling a parked van to kill Kevin and Ben, while her rock monsters attempted to annihilate Gwen who mocks Charmcaster saying "you're the one who's useless Charmcaster, can't take on one powerless girl" and proceeds to challenge her to a one-on-one fist fight which Charmcaster nonchalantly turned down, opting to kill Gwen with a bolt of magical energy. However, Gwen turns the tables on Charmcaster by reciting one of her spells and re-absorbing her powers which Charmcaster stole earlier, much to Charmcaster's horror. Charmcaster was later defeated after Gwen summoned a mystical vortex which sucked her and her rock monsters away.

She reappeared in Time Heals alongside her uncle, Hex. When Gwen travels back in time in order to stop Kevin's mutation, the duo appeared and because Kevin was weak the trio was unable to win. Charmcaster forced Kevin to absorb one of her rock monsters and then she used a spell on him to put him in a trance. She also killed Gwen during the battle and weakned Ben for Hex. When Gwen freed Ben from the pits of Hex castle, Ben fights off Charmcaster so Gwen can repair the damage she had done in the past.

Appears that work with her uncle made her feel uneasy as shown in various scenes.

Ultimate Alien
Charmcaster reappeared in Hit 'Em Where They Live, where teamed-up with Zombozo, Sevenseven and Vulkanus to get revenge on Ben and his friends and family. She was also seen having a staff somewhat similar to hex's staff to summon rock creatures and shoots bolts of purple energy beams.

Powers and abilities
Like Hex, Charmcaster uses magic, but instead of using a staff, she has a bag from which she can draw all manner of items, such as magical explosives, throwing blades, or even a variety of clay animals which she can enlarge and animate to do her bidding. Although small, the bag seems to have something of a pocket dimension inside (basically a magic satchel), allowing Charmcaster to store things within it that logically should not fit (at one point, she produces Hex's magic staff, an item that is at least four feet tall). The bag also appears to have some degree of sentience, as it found its way back to Charmcaster under its own power. She is also skilled in various magical spells, although it's clear that because of her inexperience, she isn't as powerful as her uncle.

In Ben 10: Alien Force, Charmcaster doesn't use her bag anymore, relying instead mainly on mana-manipulation powers similar to Gwen's. However, she's still seen using various powerful spells, including water-manipulation, shapeshifting, bringing inanimate objects to life, teleportation and opening portals toward other dimensions. She also uses some kind of upgraded version of her clay animals, who now look like golems and are far more powerful than before. Her special powers are very similar even compared to Verdona: Transform mana into elements, alter her appearance and transfer her energy to inanimate things, however she thinks it's only magic.

Appearances

 * Ben 10
 * Season Two
 * Tough Luck (Debut appareance)
 * Season Three
 * A Change of Face
 * Season Four
 * Don't Drink the Water
 * Ben 10 vs. the Negative 10 (Part 1)
 * Ben 10 vs. the Negative 10 (Part 2)
 * Ben 10: Alien Force
 * Season Three
 * In Charm's Way
 * Time Heals
 * Ben 10: Ultimate Alien
 * Season One
 * Hit 'Em Where They Live

Trivia

 * Charmcaster appears as a boss in Vilgax Attacks in the level Terradino (Humungousaur's homeplanet).


 * Charmcaster's appearance in Alien Force resembles the Enchantress, a supervillain from Marvel Comics.
 * It is confirmed by Dwayne McDuffie that Charmcaster was raised by Hex.
 * Charmcaster looks thiner, taller and more serious of her act in Alien Force.
 * She is the only female villain to reappear in every series.