Slamworm

This article belongs to the Classic Continuity

Slamworm is the Nemetrix's DNA sample of an unnamed species from the planet Terraexcava.

Slamworm's species is the predatory species of Talpaedans.

Appearance

Slamworm is a giant worm-like alien with sharp teeth, a wide beak-like mouth, and a tail ending in a pincer like set of spikes. Slamworm possesses a lavender and orange hide, a white underbelly, grey spikes running down her back, and four red insectoid legs on each side near the front.

As with all of Zed's transformations, Slamworm wears a red spiked collar with the Nemetrix on it.

Powers and Abilities

Like the Talpaedans it feeds on, Slamworm is a skilled burrower, able to tunnel through almost any surface at remarkable speed and can sprout anywhere she wants at a fast rate.

Slamworm can spit multiple balls of acid from her mouth at a rapid pace.

Slamworm possesses sharp teeth as well as enhanced strength and durability.

Weaknesses

The inside of Slamworm's mouth is sensitive to damage, as shown when Diamondhead and Armodrillo attacked the inside of her mouth to escape his attack.

History

Omniverse

Zed

• Slamworm first appeared in It Was Them. Slamworm attacked Ben outside of the Burger Shack. Her tunneling ability confused Diamondhead, and it managed to get him in a rather helpless position. Diamondhead managed to escape and trap her, at which point Khyber then recalled Slamworm.
• In Of Predators and Prey: Part 1, when Ben became Armodrillo to battle Mucilator, Zed transformed into Slamworm to counterattack, sending him flying through the air.
• In Of Predators and Prey: Part 2, Crabdozer turned into Slamworm to battle Armodrillo.
• In Outbreak, Zed turned into Slamworm when the Nemetrix started malfunctioning and attacked Khyber.
• In Malefactor, Crabdozer turned into Slamworm to battle Armodrillo until he turned into Big Chill, at which point Slamworm transformed into Hypnotick.

Khyber's Panuncian

• In A Fistful of Brains, one of the Panuncian's clones used its Nemetrix to transform into Slamworm after the Panuncian cornered Ben.

Appearances

Naming and Translations

Etymology

Slamworm's name is a play on the words slam and worm.

Trivia

• Slamworm strongly resembles the Graboids from the Tremors movie and television series, being a massive, monstrous worm that burrows underground and has an armored "beak".
• Slamworm's name is revealed by Ben in It Was Them.
• Slamworm is the only known Nemetrix alien to come from the Andromeda Galaxy.
• It is unknown why Malware and Khyber went after the natural predator of the Talpaedan when its DNA wasn't added to the Codon Stream until after Ben scanned Andreas.