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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, and grey skin with black lines running all over him. His skin is removable with black and white striped tentacles underneath it, and if his skin gets ripped off, his true form will unveil.

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

In Alien Force, Ghostfreak looked exactly like Zs'Skayr, except his eye was green and the original 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 a black pupil, and the spikes on his elbows were gone. Ghostfreak wore the Ultimatrix symbol on his chest.

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, his skin is now a greenish-white, and he 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. His tentacles are now black and purple striped.

Bad Ben as Bad Ghostfreak

Bad Ben's Ghostfreak looks similar to Ben Prime's Ghostfreak in Omniverse, except the green parts of Bad Ben's version's body are colored mint green and his chains are colored blue-green.

Personality

During the original series, Ghostfreak originally shares the same personality as Zs'Skayr, making himself a dangerous alien to use.[1] This was proven in Alien Force, when Zs'Skayr completely took over Ben when he turned into Ghostfreak.[2]

During Ultimate Alien, however, Ghostfreak began to exist as a separate individual whose character was independent from Zs'Skayr's.[3] As of Omniverse, Ghostfreak now shares the same personality as Ben. Therefore, his connection to Zs'Skayr is no longer an issue.[4]

Powers and Abilities

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.[4]

Ghostfreak can make himself intangible and invisible as both a powerful defense and infiltrating high-security locations.[5] He is also capable of making other objects or people intangible and transparent through physical contact.[4]

Ghostfreak can use the tentacles under his protective skin as a means of scaring his enemies into submission.[6] These tentacles can grow sharp thorns that can be used as lethal weapons.[7]

Ghostfreak has a movable eye, which is especially seen when he wears his outer skin.[8] Although his outer skin protects him from burning in the sunlight, his tentacles appear to be resistant towards sunlight.[9]

Ghostfreak possesses enhanced strength, as shown when he used his tentacles to grab a bus full of people.[9]

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.[4]

Ghostfreak has sharp claws, which can easily tear through Vilgax's Drones.[10] When he sticks his claws into a person's head, this can either cause them pain or knock them unconscious.[1]

Ghostfreak can make people feel deathly cold by simply moving right through them.[8]

Ghostfreak can alter his shape and deform like gas by making himself into a grey, somewhat transparent smoke-like wispy form.[8]

Although he has never trained himself to do so, Zs'Skayr can survive in the vacuum of space due to being alive in a rather unconventional sense.[11]

True Form

Ghostfreak's true form has an inverted skull with sharp teeth.[2] While he has never trained himself to do so, he can rotate his skull much like Zs'Skayr.[12][DJW 1]

Though he has never formally done so on his own accord, Ghostfreak is capable of telekinesis and can project energy beams. These abilities were displayed when Zs'Skayr took over Ben's body.[2]

Weaknesses

Ghostfreak's intangibility is useless when faced by another being that can go intangible, as it will cancel out their ability to do so.[13] Certain substances can also neutralize his intangibility and invisibility, such as a special orange liquid used by Kraab.[8]

Ghostfreak's second skin inhibits many of his powers, but removing it makes him vulnerable to sunlight.[1]

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.

Ghostfreak's intangibility seems to require conscious thought to activate, so opponents will be able to hit him if he is caught off guard, as seen when he got hit by a punching bag that Thumbskull threw at him while he was distracted.[1]

There are certain beings Ghostfreak cannot possess. For example, he cannot possess zombies due to them lacking minds of their own.[14] He is also unable to possess the Sentient Ultimate forms, though the reason why remains unclear.[3]

Magic can harm Ghostfreak, as shown when he was incapacitated by Charmcaster's spells.[15]

Like the rest of his kind, Ghostfreak cannot survive on Anur Vladias.[DJW 2]

History

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

  • 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, however, Ghostfreak was able to revert to Ben.

    Ben

    Ben
    • In Mystery, Incorporeal, Ghostfreak saved Professor Xagliv from Michael Morningstar, then possessed the latter and made him stop the spell in order to save Gwen. Ben has now gotten over his fear of using Ghostfreak 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 searched 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 fought off Vilgax's fleet.
    • In A New Dawn, Ghostfreak unsuccessfully tried to possess the zombie red coat. Later, Ghostfreak appeared for a short time when Ben was cycling through his aliens.
    Bad Ben

    Appearances

    Ben
    Season 1
    Season 2
    Dream
    Season 2
    Shorts
    • Ben in the Camp

    Ben
    Season 3

    Ben
    Season 3

    Ben
    Season 5
    Season 7
    Season 8
    Bad Ben
    Season 5

    Cartoon Network Action Packs

    Video Games

    SA6EG9-72

    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 (Gúi), ghost and (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

    Etymology

    His name is a combination of the words "ghost" and "freak".

    Trivia

    • "Ben's not here", a line said by Ghostfreak in Ghostfreaked Out, was used in auditions for the role.[AC 1]
    • 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 like Zs'Skayr.
      • In Omniverse, his voice has returned to the faint and whispery way it was in the original series, albeit it was higher pitched.
      • In And Then There Were None, 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.[pop-up 2][8] After he reverted, Ben even stated that it felt "even weirder" than when he is normally Ghostfreak.
    • Ghostfreak replaces Shocksquatch in the intro for Omniverse's Arc 5, specifically in the part where the latter normally appears alongside Toepick, Astrodactyl, and Bullfrag as of Arc 4.
    • Ghostfreak's powers of invisibility, intangibility, and body possession are similar to the DC Comics character, Deadman.
    • Ghostfreak is one of 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.[pop-up 3][16]
    • Despite using him at least once to terrorize a city when he was 11,[17][18] Kevin has never liked Ghostfreak.[19]
    • 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 Zs'Skayr successfully escapes the Omnitrix and thus removing Ghostfreak from it, he is replaced with Cannonbolt in the intro for the third and fourth seasons.
    • In The Alliance, Ben wanted to use Ghostfreak to try and help an injured Max at the hospital by "melding" with him. This indicates that Ben already knew about Ghostfreak's ability to possess people, even though he never does this until Ghostfreaked Out.

    References

    Crew Statements

    Derrick J. Wyatt

    Pop-ups

    Audio Commentary

    Transformations
    Introduced in Ben 10 ArctiguanaBlitzwolferBuzzshockCannonboltDiamondheadDittoEvil Way Big (Destroy All Aliens)Eye GuyFour ArmsFrankenstrikeGhostfreakGrey MatterHeatblastRipjawsSnare-ohSpitterStinkflyUpchuckUpgradeWay BigWildmuttWildvineXLR8
    Introduced in Alien Force Alien XBig ChillBrainstormChromastoneEcho EchoGoopHumungousaurJetrayLodestarNanomechRathSpidermonkeySwampfire
    Introduced in Ultimate Alien AmpfibianArmodrilloChamalienClockworkEatleFasttrackJuryriggNRGShocksquatchTerraspinWater Hazard
    Introduced in Omniverse AstrodactylAtomixBall WeevilBloxxBullfragCrashhopperFeedbackGravattackGutrotKickin HawkMole-StachePesky DustThe WorstToepickWalkatroutWhampire
    Future Aliens SandboxShellheadSnakepit
    Ultimate Aliens AlbedoArctiguanaBenBig ChillCannonboltEcho EchoGravattackHumungousaurRathSpidermonkeySwampfireWay BigWildmutt
    Fusion Aliens Atomic-XBig ChuckCrashockerDiamond MatterFourmungousaurHeat JawsHumungoopsaurStink ArmsUprigg
    Concept Fusion Aliens GravadactylXLRG
    Non-Canon
    Competition Winners Alien Maker Contest WinnerMoyoInvinciblePortalerShadowmanStretcheleo
    MAD ChromastoneFour ArmsHumungousaurJetrayNRGSwampfire
    Total Access AntigraviteslaBob the BlobPlantapocalypse
    Ben 10: Science Hero CaetSektoid TransformationShafarnianSteeler
    Tim 10 BloxxFour ArmsHeatblastSkateasaurusUpchuckXLR8
    Other Bird AlienCartoon Network AlienEon (retconned)Evil Way Big (Cosmic Destruction)Fuel Run AlienGrendene's AlienRobot AlienRocksSquidstrictor
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