Victor Validus

Victor Emilio Validus is the father of Elena Validus, and appears in the movie Ben 10: Alien Swarm. Validus is a human and a Plumber. He is the former pupil of Max Tennyson, who planned on passing command of the Plumbers to Validus and retire. However, Validus was discovered stealing alien technology (a serious violation of Plumber regulations). Feeling deeply betrayed by Validus, Max did not believe him when he explained that the alien technology he stole was in reality an alien species known as the Hive. Validus was expelled from the Plumbers in shame.

Ben 10 Alien Swarm
Prior to the movie Validus was studying the chips to find a weakness during his studies he became host to the Queen of the hive, using his plumber knowledge the queen upgraded the chips and later used his body to mass produce the chips. When the team arrived to destroy the queen they discovered that he was host to her, While Gwen and Kevin insisted on killing Validus and with him the queen Ben decided to use his latest transformation, Nanomech to go into Validus body and fight the queen head on.

With The Queen gone, Validus reunites with his daughter, and Max apologizes for not believing him. Validus admits he was wrong to have tried to do it alone, and realizes he should have gone to Max for help in the first place. It will likely take time to rectify the mistakes of what of really happened and for his reputation to salvage as a plumber which could take years.

Ben 10: Ultimate Alien
Victor reappears in Revenge of the Swarm. He was presume dead, which ended up being true when Gwen sensed him underground in the cemetery. His daughter, Elena, found some of the Nanochips and studied them. It turned out that she was being controlled by them, and could make them shapeshift into anything. the chips rendered the form of Victor and attacked Gwen and Kevin.

Ben 10: Alien Force /Ben 10: Alien Swarm

 * 4 inch Alien Collection Ben 10: Alien Swarm set #1(Nanomech, The Queen, Validus)

Ben 10: Alien Force

 * Ben 10: Alien Swarm

Ben 10: Ultimate Alien

 * Revenge of the Swarm (clone made by nanochips)