Terraspin

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Terraspin
General Information
Species	Geochelone Aerio
Home World	Aldabra
DNA source	Galapagus
Body	Bipedal Tortoise
Powers and Abilities
Abilities	Shell Flight Aerokinesis Aerokinetic-Enhanced Combat Tornado Generation Air Suction Levitation Rapid Spinning Wind Blasts Enhanced Strength Enhanced Durability Enhanced Dexterity Enhanced Agility (via Shell Flight) Enhanced Speed (via Shell Flight) Tough Shell Sharp Spinning Arms Sharp Retractable Claws Sharp Teeth Sharp Toes (Omniverse only) Retractable Head and Limbs Mouth Expansion Object Redirection (via Wind Blasts) Fire Suppression (via Wind Blasts) Poisonous Gas Immunity Selective Mana Immunity Selective Magic Immunity
Details
Voice Actor	Dee Bradley Baker (Ultimate Alien) Bumper Robinson (Omniverse)
First Appearance	Reflected Glory
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Terraspin is the Omnitrix's DNA sample of a Geochelone Aerio from the planet Aldabra in the Andromeda Galaxy.

Appearance

Terraspin is a green, turtle-like alien with eight holes in his shell, large flipper-like arms, and stumpy legs. The tips of his arms also have three holes each, which can extend finger-like claws to use as fingers.

In Omniverse, Terraspin looked the same as he did in Ultimate Alien, except he now has six holes instead of eight, has brown spots on his upper legs, toes, and shoulders, and has a hexagonal body shape rather than circular. The black stripes under his eyes are thicker, his body is slightly larger, his legs are shorter, and his feet have each gained three toes.

Terraspin wears the Ultimatrix/Omnitrix symbol on his chest.

Powers and Abilities

• Aerokinesis/Levitation
• Aerokinetic Suction
• Shell Flight/Sharp Spinning Arms
• Enhanced Durability
• Wind Blasts
• Poisonous Gas Immunity
• Enhanced Dexterity
• Sharp Teeth
• Mouth Expansion
• Sharp Retractable Claws
• Tough Shell
• Retractable Head
• Tornado Generation
• Fire Suppression
• Enhanced Strength
• Aerokinetic-Enhanced Combat

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Terraspin can create devastating wind blasts and tornados. When doing so, he retracts his head into his shell, opens a hatch to see, his fins become triangular, and his legs combine into a similar shape. His shell stays static and suspended while his limbs rotate at high speeds.

The holes in Terraspin's shell eject powerful winds, as well as the reverse, creating strong vacuums. He can use his winds to fly, blowing air to hover over a surface and using his rotating limbs as propellers.

Terraspin's wind blasts are powerful enough to put out fires and redirect objects. He is also capable of creating devastating tornadoes.

Terraspin possesses enhanced strength, as he was able to hold a giant robot with his bare hands while spinning, charge into a building by busting down a door, and punch a mutant seagull.

Even though Terraspin has flippers rather than hands, he has enhanced dexterity as he can hold poles without fingers.

Terraspin’s arms become very sharp while spinning.

Terraspin is immune to poisonous gas, and is selectively immune to both spells and mana.

Terraspin possesses enhanced durability when he is completely withdrawn into his shell, as demonstrated by Galapagus.

Terraspin can extend the black holes at the tips of his flippers into finger-like claws; this feat was also exclusively demonstrated by Galapagus.

Although Terraspin has never trained himself to do so, other Geochelone Aerios, including Addwaitya, are capable of using magic.

Weaknesses

• Enemies Riding/Unsteady Flight
• Blind from Behind
• Vulnerable Head
• Vulnerability to Magic
• Slippery Surfaces
• Dizziness After Too Much Spinning

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If he gets stuck to something and cannot spin his arms and legs, or if any the holes on his chest get blocked, Terraspin's wind powers will decrease.

If enemies jump onto Terraspin while he attempts to fly, he has to attempt to shake them off, making his flight unsteady.

Also while flying, Terraspin’s arms become very sharp while spinning, making him essentially a spinning blade, which may cause unintentional damage.

Unless he is flying, Terraspin's body is cumbersome and not very agile. The position of his face also gives him a very big blind spot and he has to turn his entire body around to see behind him.

If a small object is jammed in Terraspin's shell, it can cause him to stop in order to remove the obstruction. This also appears to cause him great discomfort, as he describes the ordeal to be "really not comfortable".

Terraspin can be affected by magic if he is not using his magic immunity.

Terraspin can easily slip on certain surfaces, such as water.

If Terraspin spins his whole body while holding onto something at high speed, it would leave Ben very dizzy as a result when he reverts back to human.

History

Ultimate Alien

• In Escape from Aggregor, Terraspin's DNA was sampled and put in the Codon Stream when the Ultimatrix scanned Galapagus' DNA.
• Terraspin first appeared in Reflected Glory, where he fought and destroyed a giant robot created by the Forever Knights.
• In The Forge of Creation, Terraspin defeated some Aggrebots on the Rust Bucket 3.
• In Absolute Power: Part 1, Terraspin blew Gwen into a wall, but she used a spell to slow him down, making him powerless and forcing him to switch into NRG.
• In Revenge of the Swarm, Terraspin, Gwen, and Kevin charged into Victor's old lab and met Egor.
• In Basic Training, Terraspin put out a fire in Magister Hulka's barracks.
• In Simian Says, Terraspin briefly battled some DNAlien Arachnichimps until he reverted.
• In The Widening Gyre, Terraspin fought some mutated seagulls.
• In Inspector 13, Terraspin blew all of Inspector 13's bombs away to get Julie to safety.

Omniverse

• In The More Things Change: Part 2, Terraspin and Rook chased after Bubble Helmet.
• In Many Happy Returns, Terraspin was defeated by Princess Looma.
• In T.G.I.S., Terraspin battled some Chupacabras.
• In Vilgax Must Croak, Terraspin blew away Attea and EightEight.
• In While You Were Away, Terraspin helped land the ship Young One was piloting.
• In The Ultimate Heist, Terraspin battled Negative Goop and tried to get the Polymorphic Crystal, but failed when Albedo threw an object that jammed his shell.
• In For a Few Brains More, Terraspin rescued Azmuth and his brain.
• In Catfight, Terraspin battled Princess Looma until Attea used the Omnitrix Remote Control to change him into Bullfrag.
• In Universe vs. Tennyson, Terraspin defeated Fistina.
• In Rook Tales, Terraspin failed to take off Young One's tail.
• In A New Dawn, Terraspin appeared for a short time when Ben was cycling through his aliens.

Appearances

• Ultimate Alien
• Omniverse
• Online Games

Ben

Season 2

• Reflected Glory (first appearance)
• The Forge of Creation
• Absolute Power: Part 1

Season 3

• Revenge of the Swarm
• Basic Training
• Simian Says
• The Widening Gyre
• Inspector 13

Ben

Season 1

• The More Things Change: Part 2 (first reappearance)

Season 2

• Many Happy Returns (accidental transformation)

Season 3

• T.G.I.S.
• Vilgax Must Croak
• While You Were Away

Season 4

• The Ultimate Heist
• For a Few Brains More

Season 6

• Catfight
• Universe vs. Tennyson (cameo)

Season 7

• Rook Tales

Season 8

• A New Dawn (cameo)

Galactic Challenge

Game Creator

Omniverse Collection

Video Games

Ben 10 Ultimate Alien: Cosmic Destruction

Terraspin in Cosmic Destruction

Terraspin is one of the Andromeda Galaxy aliens playable in the game.

Terraspin is able to use his powers to blast himself forward and up ramps.

Terraspin is vital for progression on The Catacombs and The Colosseum levels of the game.

Naming and Translations

Language	Name	Origin
Bulgarian	Тайфун	From тайфун, typhoon
Chinese	旋风神龟	From 旋风 (Xuàn Fēng), tornado, and 神龟 (Shén Guī), turtle
Croatian	Teraspin	From the original English name
Dutch	Cyclospin	From cyclone and spin
French	Tornade	From tornade, tornado
German	Turbostürmer	From turbo and sturm, storm
Greek	Κινητή Γη	From κινητή, spin, and γη, terra
Hungarian	Búgócsiga	From bugócsiga, humming top
Italian	Vortice	From vortice, vortex
Polish	Terrawiatr	From terra and wiatr, wind
Portuguese (Br)	Tartagira	From tartaruga, turtle, and girar, spin.
Romanian	Rotorterra	From rotor, rotor, and terra, earth
Russian	Черепаха Ураган	From черепаха, turtle From ураган, hurricane
Spanish (HA)	Tortutornado	From tortuga, turtle, and tornado
Spanish (Spain)	Torbellino	From torbellino, twister
Turkish	Terraspin	From the original English name

Etymology

Terraspin's name is a portmanteau of terrapin, which is a turtle or tortoise, as well as "spin," which alludes to his ability to do so.

Trivia

• Terraspin and the other Andromeda aliens have their powers related to a certain element; for Terraspin, it is wind.
• Terraspin was the Alien of the Month in March 2011.
• Terraspin went through many name changes during development, but the early names were all shut down by the writer's legal team.
  • Eventually, however, Terraspin was named by Kathleen David, the wife of writer Peter David.
• Terraspin resembles the Japanese monster Gamera. Both were turtle-like in appearance, both could fly, both look roughly similar, both could draw into their shells and both could spin while in their shells either as an attack or a form of flight.
• Terraspin did not appear in Where the Magic Happens because Ben simply did not know said transformation would have been particularly useful in the magical environment of Ledgerdomain at the time.