Ghostfreak

This article belongs to the Classic Continuity

Ghostfreak
General Information
Species	Ectonurite
Home World	Anur Phaetos
DNA source	Zs'Skayr
Body	Ghost
Powers and Abilities
Abilities	Flight Deformation Density Shifting Smoke-like Form Intangibility Invisibility Space Survivability Tentacles Body Possession Movable Eye Sharp Teeth Sharp Claws Enhanced Strength Enhanced Durability Mana Absorption Immunity True Form Only Skull Rotation Telekinesis Energy Beams
Details
Voice Actor	Steve Blum (Original Series and Omniverse) Jeff Bennett (Alien Force and Ultimate Alien)
First Appearance	Permanent Retirement
Gallery

Ghostfreak is the Omnitrix's DNA sample of an Ectonurite from the planet Anur Phaetos in the Anur System.

Appearance

Ben as Ghostfreak

Ghostfreak is a phantom/ghost-like alien with a gaseous appearance and claw-like hands. He has grey skin with black lines running all over him. His skin is removable and he has tentacles underneath it. If his skin gets ripped off, his true form will unveil. He could deform his shape to appear like wisps of grey, somewhat transparent flame.

In the original series, Ghostfreak's Omnitrix symbol peeked out of his skin on his lower left chest and he had a purple eye.

In Alien Force, Ghostfreak looked exactly like Zs'Skayr, except his eye was green and the Omnitrix symbol was on his chest.

In Ultimate Alien, Ghostfreak looked like the enslaved Chimera Sui Generi from Ghost Town, but was more muscular. His eye was bigger and green with black pupils, and the spikes on his elbows were gone. Ghostfreak wore the Ultimatrix symbol on his chest instead of inside his skin.

In Omniverse, Ghostfreak now has green chains all over his front side which lead to his neck, waist, and center/chest - giving him the appearance of being contained in a straitjacket, but with his arms out freely. The spikes on his elbows have returned and his skin is now a greenish-white. He also has two cuffs on each of his arms. The Omnitrix symbol is located at the center of his chains. When possessing someone, he has a green glow.

Bad Ben as Ghostfreak

Bad Ben's Ghostfreak is similar to 16-year-old Ghostfreak, except the green parts of Ghostfreak are colored mint green.

Bad Ben as Ghostfreak

Powers and Abilities

• Tentacles
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  Body Possession
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  Invisibility
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  Intangibility
• Sharp Claws
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  Enhanced Strength
• Energy Beam
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  Telekinesis

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Ghostfreak's powers are composed of several aspects of traditional ghosts from myths and lore such as flight, levitation, phasing through solid matter, intangibility, invisibility, and body possession.

Ghostfreak is able to possess the bodies of his enemies and control their movements to the point where he can cause them to fly like himself, allowing him to freely slam them against walls or hit themselves. He can also access the abilities of other beings that possess superpowers. In the case of Darkstar, he also had access to his powers once he possessed him.

Ghostfreak can make himself intangible and invisible as both a powerful defense and infiltrating high-security locations. He is also capable of making other objects or people intangible and transparent through physical contact.

Ghostfreak can use the tentacles under his protective skin as a means of scaring his enemies into submission. These tentacles can grow sharp thorns that can be used as lethal weapons.

Ghostfreak has a movable eye, which is especially seen when he wears his outer skin. Although his outer skin protects him from burning in the sunlight, his tentacles appear to be resistant towards sunlight.

Because he is alive in a rather unconventional sense, Ghostfreak can survive in space.

Ghostfreak possesses enhanced strength, as shown when he used his tentacles to grab a bus full of people.

Ghostfreak is capable of telekinesis and projecting energy beams, though these are only seen when he is in his true form and they have never been shown when he is wearing his second skin.

Ghostfreak is immune to Darkstar's energy absorption ability, as he does not have Mana in him. That is because Mana is life energy, and Ectonurites are not alive in the same conventional way that most other life forms are.

Ghostfreak's true form has an inverted skull with sharp teeth, which he can rotate much like Zs'Skayr.

Ghostfreak has sharp claws, which can easily tear through Vilgax's Drones. When he sticks his claws into a person's head, this can either cause them pain or knock them unconscious.

Ghostfreak can make people feel deathly cold by simply moving through them.

Ghostfreak can alter his shape and deform like gas by making himself into a smoke-like wispy form.

Weaknesses

Ghostfreak's intangibility is useless when faced by another being that can go intangible. Certain substances can also neutralize his intangibility and invisibility, including a special, orange liquid used by Kraab.

Ghostfreak's second skin inhibits many of his powers, but removing it makes him vulnerable to sunlight.

Though he is able to fly, he is not very fast in the air, and therefore must rely on his intangibility and invisibility to evade attacks.

His intangibility seems to require conscious thought to activate, so opponents will be able to hit him if he's caught off guard, such as he got hit by a punching bag that Thumbskull threw at him while he was distracted.

Ghostfreak's DNA was originally linked to the conscious, memories, and personality of Zs'Skayr, who took over Ben and freed himself after the Omnitrix timed out, making Ghostfreak a dangerous alien to use. However, Ghostfreak now exists independently from Zs'Skayr, complete with Ben's personality, so this is no longer an issue.

Magic can harm Ghostfreak.

Ghostfreak cannot possess beings who have no mind, like a zombie.

History

• Ben 10
• Prior to Alien Force
• Alien Force
• Ultimate Alien
• Omniverse

Ben

• Ghostfreak first appeared in Permanent Retirement, where he escaped Vera's house, was about to steal an apple pie before being disgusted by a Limax, and then followed another Limax.
• In Hunted, Ghostfreak scared Gwen and battled Kraab.
• In Kevin 11, Ghostfreak snuck into a game room and played a Sumo Slammers video game.
• In Last Laugh, Ghostfreak scared and defeated Zombozo.
• In Secrets, Ghostfreak appeared briefly in the middle of a fight. Later, Ghostfreak escaped Vilgax.
• In The Big Tick, Ghostfreak failed to defeat the Great One.
• In Ghostfreaked Out, Ghostfreak battled the Circus Freaks, but was taken over by Zs'Skayr. When the Omnitrix timed out, Zs'Skayr escaped the Omnitrix, removing Ghostfreak from it.
• In Be Afraid of the Dark, The Omnitrix scanned Zs'Skayr again, putting Ghostfreak back in the Omnitrix.

Kevin

• In Framed, Gwen mentioned Ghostfreak was used by Kevin to terrorize Barstow, California.

Ghostfreak was removed from the Codon Stream.

Ben

• In Ghost Town, Ben scanned Zs'Skayr again and transformed into Ghostfreak, but Zs'Skayr quickly regained control. With the "help" of Vilgax, Ghostfreak was able to revert to Ben.

Ben

• In The Ultimate Sacrifice, Ghostfreak escaped Sentient Ultimate Spidermonkey's web and failed to possess Sentient Ultimate Humungousaur before being frozen by Sentient Ultimate Big Chill.

Ben

• In Mystery, Incorporeal, Ghostfreak saved Helena Xagliv from Michael Morningstar, then possessed Michael Morningstar and made him stop the spell in order to save Gwen. Ben reveals that he was still scared of transforming into Ghostfreak, but got over it quickly because he has complete control over him now.
• In Bengeance Is Mine, Ghostfreak battled Psyphon and saved a busload of people.
• In Charm School, Ghostfreak was searching for Charmcaster in Friedkin University and lured her into the library before she defeated him.
• In Vreedlemania, Ghostfreak possessed Ma Vreedle and ordered the Pretty Boys to stop causing destruction, but Ma fought him out of her body once the Vreedles found out that it wasn't her speaking.
• In Malgax Attacks, Ghostfreak fights off Vilgax's fleet.
• In A New Dawn, Ghostfreak was used to battle the zombie red coat. Later, Ghostfreak appeared for a short time when Ben was cycling through his aliens.

Bad Ben

• In And Then There Were None, Ghostfreak failed to capture No Watch Ben.

Appearances

• Ben 10
• Ben 10: Alien Force
• Ben 10: Ultimate Alien
• Ben 10: Omniverse
• Comics
• Online Games

Ben

Season 1

• Permanent Retirement (first appearance)
• Hunted
• Kevin 11
• Last Laugh
• Secrets (2x, first time was accidental transformation)

Season 2

• The Big Tick (cameo)
• Ghostfreaked Out (selected alien was Heatblast; escaped)

Ben

Season 3

• Ghost Town (first reappearance)

Ben

Season 3

• The Ultimate Sacrifice (first reappearance)

Ben

Season 5

• Mystery, Incorporeal (first reappearance)
• Bengeance Is Mine

Season 7

• Charm School
• Vreedlemania

Season 8

• Malgax Attacks
• A New Dawn (x2; second time was a cameo)

Bad Ben

Season 5

• And Then There Were None

Cartoon Network Action Packs

• Fast Lane

Battle Ready

Cavern Run

Critical Impact

Video Games

Ghostfreak in Galactic Racing

Ben 10

Ghostfreak is a playable alien in the game.

Ben 10: Galactic Racing

Ghostfreak is a playable racer in the game. He has his Alien Force appearance because the game was released before his Ultimate Alien appearance was introduced in the show.

Naming and Translations

Language	Name	Origin
Albanian	Fantazma	From fantazma, meaning ghost, phantom
Arabic	جوست فريك (Just Frik)	From the original English name
Bulgarian	Чудодух (Čudoduh) (OV & AF) Призрака (Prizraka) (UA & OV) || From чудо (čudo), miracle and дух (duh), ghost From призрака, the ghost
Burmese	The White Smoke Ghost Genie
Chinese	鬼影	From 鬼 (Gúi), ghost and 影 (Yǐng), shadow
Croatian	Prikaza	From prikaza, apparition or ghost
Dutch	Spokie	From spook, ghost
Finnish	Oikkuaave	From oikkuaave, freakghost
French	Spectral	From spectral, spectre
German	Schattenmonster	From schatten, shadow and monster, monster
Greek	Φάντασμα (Fádasma)	From φάντασμα, phantasm
Hebrew	רוח פחד	From רוח, ghost and פחד, fear
Hungarian	Szellem	From szellem, ghost
Italian	Pelle d'oca	From pelle d'oca, goosebumps
Japanese	ゴーストフリーク	From ゴースト (gōsuto), ghost and フリーク (furīku), freak
Korean	섀도우	From 섀도우, shadow
Norwegian	Ånden	From ånden, ghost/spirit/genie
Polish	Fantom	From fantom, phantom
Portuguese (Br)	Fantasmático	From fantasma, which means ghost, and the sufix "ático", which means "relational", "similar to".
Romanian	Stafia	From stafia, ghost
Russian	Призрак (Prizrak) Урод	From призрак (prizrak), ghost From урод, freak
Serbian	Утвара (Utvara)	From утвара (utvara), spectre
Spanish (HA)	Fantasmático	From fantasma.
Spanish (Spain)	Espectral	From espectral, spectre
Swedish	Skuggan	From skuggan, shadow
Turkish	Gölge Hayalet	From gölge, shadow and hayalet, ghost

Trivia

• "Ben's not here", a line said by Ghostfreak in Ghostfreaked Out, was used in auditions for the role.
• According to himself in the original series, Ben was always creeped out when he was Ghostfreak and was still scared to transform into him 6 years later (especially after the Zs'Skayr incident), but when he transforms into Ghostfreak in Mystery, Incorporeal, he states that he feels like himself, suggesting that he is no longer in danger of being taken over by Zs'Skayr.
  • As such, in the original series, Ghostfreak was the least used out of all the original ten aliens Ben had access to, only appearing in 7 episodes and being used a total of 8 times.
• Ghostfreak's voice has changed over the course of his appearances:
  • In the original series, he spoke with a faint and whispery voice.
  • In Alien Force and Ultimate Alien, his voice was considerably deeper and raspy.
  • In Omniverse, his voice has returned to the faint and whispery way it was in the original series, albeit higher pitched.
  • Bad Ben's Ghostfreak sounded more like Zs'Skayr compared to his main counterpart.
• When Ghostfreak was taunting Kraab in Hunted, Ben may not have been the one in control.
• He replaces Shocksquatch in the intro for Omniverse's Arc 5.
• Ghostfreak's powers of invisibility, intangibility, and body possession are similar to the DC Comics character, Deadman.
• Ghostfreak is one of only five aliens to appear in each series of the Classic Continuity, the other four being Cannonbolt, Upchuck, Way Big, and Diamondhead.
• Ghostfreak is also one of the only five aliens who escaped from the Omnitrix; the others being Chromastone, Spidermonkey, Goop, and Way Big.
• Ghostfreak is the first alien form that has managed to repress Ben's personality. Eon followed this trend prior to being retconned.
• In the intro for the first two seasons of the original series, Ghostfreak's eye is red instead of purple.
  • It is also worth noting that after Season 2, when Ghostfreak escapes from the Omnitrix, he is replaced with Cannonbolt in the intro for the third and fourth seasons.