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Zombozo's Traveling Circus of Laughs was Zombozo's circus.
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Ben 10[]
In Last Laugh, Gwen noticed an advertisement for a travelling circus; she and Max were excited to go, but Ben seemed to have an aversion to it. They ended up going, as did the rest of the town. Ben tried to come up with excuses to leave, but a barker interrupted him. He introduced a trio of circus freaks: Thumbskull, the archetypal circus strong man so named for the toenail on his forehead, Frightwig, a woman named for her equally strong prehensile tentacles for hair, and Acid Breath, so named for his ability to breathe or spit acid capable of melting any substance it comes in contact with. Ben wandered off and caught a peek at the star of the show, Zombozo, privately rehearsing. He frightened Ben, who bumped into Gwen. She confronted him about acting weirder than normal and asked what he's so afraid of, but Ben denied being scared of anything. The show began and Zombozo appeared behind a giant machine. Everyone laughed and enjoyed his act, except Ben, who excused himself and ran out of the tent.
Later, Max remembered energy somehow being leeched from the audience and Zombozo saying something about "Laughter feeding his soul." He came to the conclusion that Zombozo was more than a typical underhanded jewel thief, but rather, an emotional vampire who steals people's joy until there's nothing left. That's when Ben realized just the kind of trouble they were both in if he had Gwen as a hostage.
Ben snuck onto the circus grounds while the Circus Freaks were loading boxes. When Ben knocked over some, he alerted the Freaks and they all unleashed their strength and power on one, reducing it to corroded rubble hoping to vanquish their intruder. Thankfully, they destroyed the wrong crate and Ben was able to transform into Upgrade and possess a baseball launcher. Now armed as a baseball cannon, Ben easily subdued all of them with a baseball barrage at the trio: knocking out Thumbskull, wrapping Frightwig up in her own hair, and gagging Acid Breath. Upgrade abandoned ship and moved forward into a house of mirrors, preparing for battle and psyching himself up to face Zombozo. However, the Omnitrix timed out and Ben had to undertake this challenge without his powers. Once inside, Zombozo taunted and tormented Ben with his voice and illusions of himself in various forms, effectively turning the hall of mirrors into a house of nightmares. After a horrendous gauntlet of surreal tricks and traps, Ben eventually found himself in the center ring of the tent, and the real Zombozo standing before him. Still unable to face a clown head on, Ben stayed on the ground with his head down while the clown revealed his evil plan. The enormous machine used to suck the happiness out of his audience from before was an apparatus of his own design, dubbed the Psyclown, to continue going from city to city, exsanguinating the joy out of millions of people to feed his insatiable appetite. Ben demanded to have Gwen back and Zombozo showed him Gwen just next to them on a platform, wrinkly and frail, barely alive. Furious, Ben stood up to Zombozo and transformed into Ghostfreak to end his reign of terror once and for all.
Ghostfreak pummeled Zombozo senseless, realizing the fear of losing his family to some creepy emotional vampire easily trumped his fear of clowns. He beat Zombozo while invisible with a wooden plank and knocked him back into a glass capsule in his machine, making it explode and all the joy that Zombozo stole returned to the rightful bodies, including Gwen. When Zombozo refused to admit defeat, Ghostfreak pulled out the showstopper by drawing back his skin to reveal what lay underneath, terrifying Zombozo. He begged for mercy, and Ghostfreak scared him away by making him teleport himself out of there, defeating him. As the Omnitrix timed out, Ben admitted that even he was a little freaked out by his actions as Ghostfreak. With her joy restored, Gwen awakened and asks Ben where she can find popcorn.
Known Employees[]
- Zombozo (formerly)
- Barker
- Thumbskull
- Frightwig
- Acid Breath
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Appearances[]
Ben 10[]
Season 1[]
- Last Laugh (first appearance)
Books[]
Cartoon Network Action Packs[]
Ultimate Alien[]
- Christmas Clown (flashback)
Graphic Novels[]
Omniverse[]
- Down in the Dumps (flashback)