Slamworm

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Slamworm
General Information
Species	Slammoid
Home World	Poiana Lüncas
DNA source	Wild Slamworm
Body	Worm-like
Powers and Abilities
Abilities	Enhanced Digging Acid Spit Enhanced Durability Enhanced Strength Sharp Teeth Enhanced Speed Sharp Back Spikes Sharp Pincer Tail
Details
First Appearance	It Was Them
Gallery

Slamworm is the Nemetrix's DNA sample of a Slammoid from the planet Poiana Lüncas.

Slamworm's species is the predatory species of Talpaedans.

Appearance

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

Slamworm wears a red spiked collar with the Nemetrix on it.

Powers and Abilities

• Acid Spit
• Enhanced Digging
• Enhanced Durability
• Enhanced Strength

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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 to dissolve the metal bodies of Talpaedans so that they are easier to consume.

Slamworm's beak is able to find the joints in a Talpaedan's armor where it can be pried open.

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

Weaknesses

Vulnerable Mouth

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

History

Omniverse

• Slamworm first appeared in It Was Them, where she attacked Ben outside of the Burger Shack only to be defeated by Diamondhead and was recalled by Khyber.
• In Of Predators and Prey: Part 1, Slamworm counterattacked Armodrillo and sent him flying through the air.
• In Of Predators and Prey: Part 2, Slamworm battled Armodrillo before switching into Buglizard.
• In Outbreak, Slamworm appeared because of a malfunction with the Nemetrix and attacked Khyber.
• In Malefactor, Slamworm battled Armodrillo before switching into Hypnotick once Ben turned into Big Chill.
• In A Fistful of Brains, one of the Panuncian's clones used its Nemetrix to transform into Slamworm after the Panuncian cornered Ben.

Appearances

• Omniverse
• Books

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Season 1

• It Was Them (first appearance)
• Of Predators and Prey: Part 1
• Of Predators and Prey: Part 2

Season 2

• Outbreak
• Malefactor

Khyber's Panuncian

Season 4

• A Fistful of Brains

Ben 10: Omniverse

• Ghost Ship

Naming and Translations

Language	Name	Origin
French	Slamworm	From the original English name
Hungarian	Pondró	From pondró, maggot
Italian	Vermone	From vermone, big worm
Polish	Grzmotorobak	From grzmot, slam and robak, worm
Portuguese (Br)	Vermônico	From "Verme" (maggot) and the suffix "Ico", which means "similar to"
Romanian	Vermix	From vierme, worm
Russian	Боевой Червь	From боевой, combat and червь, worm
Spanish (HA)	Slamworm	From the original English name

Etymology

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

Trivia

• Slamworm is based off the Sandworm from Dune.
  • Slamworm also 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 is one of three Nemetrix aliens who do not use the name their species as their own, the other two being Tyrannopede and Hypnotick.
• Slamworm is the only known Nemetrix alien to come from the Andromeda Galaxy.
• It is unknown why Slamworm's DNA was added to the Nemetrix when it was created, as Talpaedan DNA had not been added to the Codon Stream until after Ben scanned Andreas.